Eric Roston
@eroston.bsky.social
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders. Signal: eroston.87 Bloomberg Green
Brazilian prosecutors are suing Shell over the 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods. It’s the first time globally that a national public prosecutor has sued an oil major for climate damages. www.afp.com/en/brazil-pr...
Brazil prosecutors sue Shell for $108 mn over deadly 2024 floods
Brazilian prosecutors on Friday filed an unprecedented lawsuit against oil giant Shell's subsidiary in the country, demanding $108 million in...
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Milton Keynes, a government-planned New Town once derided as bland, is getting recognition for its culture. But its economic success has long made it a humble model for city-building. Read more: bloom.bg/3VZvOdX 📷: Chunip Wong/iStockphoto
This is correct. In more years covering this topic than I am inclined to share, I have never answered a woman's question about what I do and had her say the topic doesn't exist, or worse. Men on the other hand... 🎁🔗 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Real men don’t do climate change
Research on the gender differences in how people think about global warming suggests campaigns and communications may need a rethink
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NEW: President Trump has cast doubt on U.S. elections at least once on 440 days of his second term, nearly three-quarters of his days in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
All the Ways Trump Has Attacked Elections In His Second Term (Gift Article)
President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making false claims. Here’s how he does it.
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Joe Romm gave one of the most memorable talks I’ve ever heard at Columbia many years ago. Among other things, he said, “Sustainable development is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are, and those who are doing it are doing it badly.” RIP legend.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w agoIt is with tremendous sadness and sense of loss that we regretfully share the news that @penncssm.bsky.social senior research fellow, and my close personal friend Joseph Romm has passed away unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed here. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...
Shocking and sad news. Joe Romm single-handedly powered US climate debates through the aughts and into the teens.
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w agoIt is with tremendous sadness and sense of loss that we regretfully share the news that @penncssm.bsky.social senior research fellow, and my close personal friend Joseph Romm has passed away unexpectedly. He will be sorely missed here. web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/news/r...
One interesting thing nobody talks about is, to a dog, you're the service animal.
idk I've personally been trying to reach recursive self-improvement for a long time.
If somebody asked you to "stay in your lane," what would that mean for you? Please provide the truest, most granular possible answer.
What's an example of perfect casting?
Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · last mo.What's an example of perfect casting?
If there's one thing about Washington consistent throughout time and party, it's the Friday news dump. Nothing gets past @zhirji.bsky.social tho ⤵️
Zahra Hirji@zhirji.bsky.social · last mo.The EPA announced an updated WOTUS rule proposal. “This is a humongous rollback and it’s a bigger rollback than their initial proposal,” said NRDC's Jon Devine. Gift link for my latest @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🏆 for real-life metaphor of the week
Dashiell Bennett@dashiell.bsky.social · last mo.Tourists are literally pissing away Mount Everest
how cool, they can now make clouds that look like real pollution.
New: With summer come monsoonal rains in Arizona, but climate-driven drought and wildfires are worsening the destruction from downpours like the deadly deluge that struck the Grand Canyon last weekend, according to experts. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How a Convergence of Climate Disasters Ushered the Grand Canyon Flood Tragedy
It’s an example of a compound event, when environmental-related catastrophes overlap or occur in quick succession.
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Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. “Nepal must hold its head high internationally and turn this into a matter of justice,” said Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.
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BREAKING: The House Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a stopgap funding bill to fund the government through Dec. 11. Notably, the bill delays any action on the controversial WH proposal to overhaul federal science funding to allow political oversight of grants www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Congress Sends Funding Bill to Avert US Shutdown to Trump
Congress cleared funding legislation to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, sidestepping, at least temporarily, the partisan warfare that led to repeated disruptions over the last year.
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What is that sound? It's the noise that of a million "what about" brains exploding. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:
What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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One astonishing thing about modern life is that 1 in 4 people worldwide still don't have access to safely managed drinking water, while 1 in 3 of us flush our toilets with drinking water.
Drinking-water
WHO fact sheet on water: key facts, access to water, water and health
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What's your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.) "Please don’t put your life in the hands "Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band "Who’ll throw it all away.
Liam Gallagher Oasis
Alt: Black and white gif of Oasis's Liam Gallagher wearing sunglasses in a record shop holds up a copy of Paul McCartney's album Red Rose Speedway, and turns to look at the camera.
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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat's your favorite bible verse? Wrong answers only.
Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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I found the Overton Window. It's in Norwalk. I've always heard about it but didn't know about the free ice cream with a lobster roll dinner.
Oh, and Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, turns 65 today. Enjoy your afternoon.
