Kyle Copas
@kylecopas.bsky.social
Head of comms @GBIF.org, writer, poet, communicator, producer, husband, father. 💩posting about literature, music, biodiversity, sustainability, design, #biodiversity. Decolonization begins at home (and abroad), restoring Indigenous roots.
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
Ich have a wagon as large as leviathan And we wende ower way nowe to the Shack of Love - Drawn by fyne palfreyes, it seateth wel twentye So make haste and bringe thy bagpipe moneye
Running the country like a business seems to be playing out exactly as predicted. Next, we'll have venture capital buying up individual federal agencies and running them into the ground for tax write-offs.
Corey Johnson@coreygjohnson.bsky.social · 2d ago🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.
Going to use this to find a way to blame the generic ass RIFC branding on Kawhi
Eli Sherman@elisherman.bsky.social · 7d agoTARGET 12: A 10-month investigation done in collaboration with @pablotorrefindsout.bsky.social and @truth.bsky.social has revealed NBA superstar Kawhi Leonard is one of the long-hidden investors in Rhode Island FC. Full investigation w/ @timwhiteri.bsky.social 👇 www.wpri.com/target-12/nb...
Very happy to see this landmark achievement in the #landBack movement, both as a long-time resident of the Commonwealth and a distant descendant of Mamanatowick Wahunsenecawh Powhatan: wapo.st/4yKMKnw
Their land was taken centuries ago. Now the Pamunkey tribe is getting it back.
The Native American tribe regained a piece of its ancestral homeland in $1.9 million deal.
wapo.st
“What are you without racism? Are you any good? Are you still strong? You still smart? You still like yourself?”- Toni Morrison
Written from my perspective about the Summer I worked at Monticello. “How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.” prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...
What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
prospect.org
If Mike Pence does the right thing, Argentina could still get a shot on goal.
Did not think that my first @inaturalist.bsky.social observation of kudzu would be in Kyushu: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #GNPS2026
kudzu (Pueraria montana)
kudzu from Ryohei, Minamiaso, Kumamoto, JP on July 11, 2026 at 03:14 PM by Kyle Copas
inaturalist.org
The second Global Nature Positive Summit takes place next week. The Summit will see thousands visiting Kumamoto city in Japan. 🎌 Marco Lambertini, Hirotaka Ishihara, Kazufumi Onishi, Tetsuya Iguchi and Toshiyuki Tsuchiya, share their views on the Summit. 👇 #GNPS2026 #NaturePositive
If I were Nigel Farage, I’d dip into that £5 million crypto gift just to fund a video that can compete with this! 🤣 HILARIOUS ⬇️
Honored to join my esteemed colleagues this Wednesday in Kumamoto to discuss how businesses are using biodiversity data from the @gbif.org network—whether they know it or not—in nature footprint-based life cycle assessment. #GPNS2026 @npinitiative.bsky.social : events.nikkeibp.co.jp/event/2026/G...
Program | GLOBAL NATURE POSITIVE SUMMIT 2026
The 2030 deadline to halt and reverse nature loss is fast approaching.The Summit will showcase bold examples from around the world, charting a path toward a nature-positive future in business, finance...
events.nikkeibp.co.jp
Nature Positive Initiative@npinitiative.bsky.social · last mo.The Global Nature Positive Summit in Kumamoto, Japan begins next week. It will demonstrate the growing momentum behind nature-positive action. Check out the programme: www.canva.com/design/DAHG1... 📅 14–16 July 2026 📍 Kumamoto, Japan #GNPS2026 #NaturePositive #SustainableBusiness
Sobering to see in one chart how June temperature records have been broken this year in so many European countries www.ft.com/content/5f06...
…One man always low, in a grave or on the ground, the other up high, closer to heaven; one man always diseased, the other a body in service, plundered. —Natasha Trethewey, "The Miracle of the Black Leg: 3" voetica.com/poem/9236 #Lorenzo #Salgado #Araujo
Voetica Poetry Spoken
voetica.com
#5x5 five books you’ve read by five living writers Zadie Smith David Mitchell Salman Rushdie Amitav Ghosh Abdulrazak Gurnah Bonus rounds Claire Paul Muldoon David Quammen Javier Cercas Perceval Everett Louise Erdrich John McPhee Karl Ove Knausgaard Per Pettersen Kamila Shamsie Julián Barnes
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 4w agofive living writers that you've read five books by each Rita Dove Tasha Suri Courtney Milan Grant Morrison Tom Perrotta
While away from Copenhagen for work, I had the very same thought going through Busan train station—modern, efficient, highly functional…why can’t we get a majority in favor of these things? “I’m not gonna pay a lot for this country” is not a long-term strategy…
Alex@mplsalex.bsky.social · 4w agoI want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!
I want our next Dem president to bring back the WPA and just build infrastructure all across this country again. Build green energy, trains, housing, etc. We can have nice things (and nice bathrooms), but we have to invest in ourselves!
Vic Thorstenson@vthorstenson.bsky.social · 4w agoMan, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.
Insofar as US swing voters think the Democrats are "out of step" with them on climate change, the vast majority say that is because Democrats are "not fighting hard enough/need to do more." Yes, really. 5/n
Congratulations, Virginia wine country. 🍾 We are fortunate in Charlottesville to be surrounded by the Monticello AVA and its talented winemakers. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
Norway is richer than the US per capita; "workers are more productive than American workers ... Scandinavians live longer than Americans." Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden "all rank among the six happiest countries in the world in the World Happiness Report."
Opinion | What We Should Learn From Nordic Happiness
nytimes.com
