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Shane Mulligan

@shanem-editor.bsky.social

Editor, writer. Fond of wild spaces, dogs, evolution, asters, moss, compassion, books, genuine intelligence. #Free 🇵🇸 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🌈

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 3h ago

One thing to mention here, and why we are transitioning to use the relative index RONI, is because the oceans are warming so fast it’s much easier to reach these huge anomalies these days. This shows the warming in the ENSO 3.4 region. Thanks Brian McNoldy for the graph. @bmcnoldy.bsky.social

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 8h ago

*2026 El Niño Ahead by a Mile* It’s remarkable for us scientists to witness El Niño’s evolution. If you had asked us if something like this was possible a year ago, it would have been a definitive no. But here we are… already more than 1C (& 3 months) ahead of the next strongest episode in 1997… 1/

Historica Canada@historicacanada.bsky.social · yesterday

#OTD in 1914, Canada entered the First World War. While serving a Dispatch Carrier during the First World War, long distance runner Tom Longboat was escorting an officer who struggled to keep up and complained "Who do you think I am? Tom Longboat?" buff.ly/EE1V9cK

Heritage Minute: Tom Longboat

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

Dr. Erika Graham-Goering@jeanneologist.bsky.social · yesterday

In 1392, a man filing some paperwork with the royal government claimed that many parts of his property 'are at present worth nothing because of the king's hunting grounds, which are full of rabbits'. I know he's probably talking about crop destruction, but I prefer to imagine this problem:

Rabbits capture, try and execute a hunter. The Smithfield Decretals, decorated in London, England, in the 1340s: Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v; image and description from https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/medieval-killer-rabbits-when-bunnies-strike-back
Andy Rowell@andy-rowell.bsky.social · yesterday

Back on here to thank @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social "It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

July was driest month in southern England since records began

July was driest month in southern England since records began

England and Wales provisionally record driest July in nearly 200 years, Met Office says July 2026 was the driest month in southern England since records began nearly 200 years ago, the Met Office has said. England and Wales also provisionally recorded their driest July since records began in 1836. Wales had its joint warmest July on record for mean temperature, and England recorded its second warmest July. Continue reading...

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Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 4d ago

Today I learned that baby cranes are called "colts" because their legs are so long and they can run around like idiots shortly after hatching. This is delightful, I enjoy knowing this.

photo of two sandhill crane colts that are about 50% leg and 50% neck and head and taking some big steppies.
Christina Wolbrecht@cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 3d ago

I read this 30 years ago and it rewired my brain. A must read on the ways the auto industry undermined mass transit in the US. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

Shane Mulligan@shanem-editor.bsky.social · 4d ago

Look, we 🇨🇦 sympathize, but we'd point out a lot of your smoke appears to be drifting across the 49th and, well... we're real sorry for your troubles. 😢🦆🌲🦝🐺🦋

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · 4d ago

In addition to the potential unfolding WUI wildfire disaster in Spokane, WA, numerous other large & fast-moving fires (existing & new) are blowing up under extremely critical fire weather conditions & severe drought conditions from eastern slopes of Cascades eastward into ID/MT.

Snapshot from NOAA Wildland Fire Data Portal depicting numerous large smoke plumes and fire heat signatures (red, orange, and pink pixels) across eastern WA/OR, ID, MT, and southern British Columbia.
Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 5d ago

The UK gov is almost able to make protest untenable now. You can only protest if you are invisible. UK has made political prisoners of Grannies and church folk holding signs. The UK’s slide to illiberalism is better dressed than the US version, but it’s the same trajectory.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d ago

In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.