A handful of guys asserting the right to pillage all human knowledge and creative labor to sell it back to people they've convinced not to value human knowledge and creative labor in order to amass personal wealth and power is not only gross, it's profoundly uninteresting.

Messy

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

What Worries Me Most About This Wildfire Smoke

We didn’t know days like this could happen. Then we learned how bad they really are.

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Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

We need to prepare better for climate change or else we won't be ready when it comes...[taps earpiece]....Hang on, I'm getting news....

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 4w ago

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Reuters@reuters.com · 4w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

This isn’t about preferences, or ideologies. This is literally life or death. #VisionZero

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · last mo.

This morning a driver struck and killed Louisa Gag, a biking advocate and transportation planner. Gag had coauthored a Vision Zero Action plan: visionzeronetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Chicago and now Boston have lost members of their DOTs to their dangerous streets. I don't know what else wakes up mayors but this shouldn't be a necessary step.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · last mo.

Statement from @bikeboston.bsky.social, @streetsboston.bsky.social, and @walkmass.bsky.social about Louisa Gag, who was hit and killed by a driver today. Yet another life taken because our society and leaders refuse to address the destruction wrought by cars.

As far as I know, us climate scientists are not shocked by the global warming that we've been warning everyone about for decades and decades. I know that I, for one, am sure hoping that this hot year will be the wake-up call that finally convinces everyone to stop burning fossil fuels. 🔌💡

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · last mo.

Current El Nino, on top of human-caused climate change, could mean global avg temp could breach 2C of warming. While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. Excellent deep dive @eroston.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I think one of the most patriotic things you can do is hate this government and still love America

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

US heat wave ‘virtually impossible’ if not for fossil fuel pollution “[Climate change] will continue to get worse the longer we drag out inevitable transition to net zero emissions” UCL climate scientist @frediotto.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2026/07/03/...

This heat wave would be ‘virtually impossible’ if not for fossil fuel pollution, study says | CNN

A dangerous heat wave is tightening its grip on the East Coast, with the worst conditions underway as millions prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July outdoors.

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Re-upping the cry/consensus to name these violent heat domes after Big Oil co’s

This reads like the opening monologue to a 1997 dystopian point-and-click adventure game set in what was then the far future of 2026.

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

Remember when those grade school kids begged Dianne Feinstein to do something about climate change and she said condescendingly "we know what we're doing" and then fell over and died

evergreen skeet

Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2mo ago

if only people had been warning about this

This isn’t actually funny but I keep cackling to myself when people say we should pursue AI because it will tell us how to solve climate change. Like, we *know* how, we’re just not. ::burns so much fossil fuel to ask:: hey AI, what do? AI: “stop burning fossil fuel”

I do love that AI inadvertently confirms that our brains work like a muscle, too — use it or lose it. In this way relying on AI is like using a robot to lift weights, like running a marathon in a Honda Civic. You get nothing out of it.

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

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there you go, socialism works

Prophetic! Congrats New York, you earned it. At least we don’t have to watch Timothee Chalimet celebrate.

I hope DEMOCRATS are taking note of the absolute thirst for vengeance out here

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

GO USA AND THE RULE OF LAW

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

the trajectory of the 21st century feels like the writers of the 20th century were mad we missed what they thought was very obvious symbolism and morals and have decided to just go for it