where there's a will, there's a will !

@mrmarielda.bsky.social

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this sucks. nashville zoo is one of the most modern, humane, and accessible zoos in the country. if you care about conservation, critters, and science, go sign and go raise hell. nash zoo is also a bastion of science and equality as a southern workplace. please please protect it.

Adelaide 💎🌮@adelaidejewel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They’re trying to build a data center next to the Nashville Zoo Petition here, if you’re so inclined: c.org/KxhXznzBcD

Screenshot from facebook:

Nashville Zoo

We're asking our community to stand with us in protecting the animals, habitats, people and future of Nashville Zoo.
A proposed 69,000-square-foot data center is planned for property directly adjacent to the Zoo. While developers claim the facility will have no impact, no environmental studies or impact assessments have been conducted to evaluate potential effects on our animals, visitors, staff, or the surrounding community.
Data centers consume enormous amounts of electricity and water; straining power grids, depleting natural resources, and damaging our watershed. With nothing more than the word of a profit-seeking developer, how are we to know this new data center will not lead to irreversible damage to the animals we exist to protect?
We cannot afford to find out years from now how this facility has negatively impacted our 1.4 million annual visitors, our local community, or the 3,000 animals entrusting us with their care. We are calling on the Nashville community to join us in our fight to stop this data center from being built, now.
Please sign our petition and say yes to the Zoo by saying no to the new data center

Includes photos of a big cat at the zoo and a photo showing how close the data center would be to the zoo

One thing i learned in ireland, and have since asked other americans if they ever heard about (no), is famine walls. During the man-made famine, the british gov paid ppl a penny a day to build rock walls. The walls did nothing and served no purpose. They just didnt want to feed people for "nothing"

NPR@npr.org · 3mo ago

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. n.pr/3RK4U7X

Work requirements do not work. Work requirements have never worked. Work requirements will never work. And the people making these decisions know this because work requirements for essential care funding meets their goal of further restricting access while enriching only themselves.

NPR@npr.org · 3mo ago

Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules. n.pr/3RK4U7X

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

Alex Baumhardt@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Puget Sound Energy filed an interconnection request with BPA for a 958 MW data center at what appears to be the Goldendale site. If built, the data center could require ~80% of the 1,200 MW of energy the Goldendale pumped storage project could generate. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/25/g...