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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

submitted 20 days ago • 637 comments

Recovering from a cold with a little more #photography. Anyone recognize this building?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I have a slightly old robot vacuum that I run daily in the morning, and instead of happily cleaning the apartment it beelines for my bedroom, locks itself inside and bangs around under my bed for 30 minutes until it dies.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

ok, so basically I'm trying to make this post go viral.

submitted 26 days ago • 508 comments

Here are the updated "daily color stripes" with data through from January 1, 1940 to January 28, 2025. For anyone paying attention, the current 30-day global surface temperature anomaly is 1.76°C above the pre-industrial baseline.

submitted 31 days ago • 14 comments

OpenAI right now

submitted 32 days ago • 303 comments

And here we are. The disdain for education in this country—from underpaid teachers, to underfunded public schools, to book bans, to universities and professors maligned as the enemy—creates a population complacent to the dissolution of democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/u...

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

Wouldn’t it be wild to tax larger vehicles more rather than less?

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Thick flakes in Boulder today

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Your 'doom quote' for today: "Beyond destabilizing the climate, humans are unraveling the web of life on Earth; we are the asteroid currently set on a collision course."

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

I love buildings #photography #architecture #ricohgriiix

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Your 'doom quote' for today: "The problem is that nature, the independent force that has surrounded us since our earliest days, cannot coexist with our numbers and our habits."

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

Some of my favorite shots from last week. Look at those magpies! #photography #birds #ricohgriiix

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

New year, new camera, deleted instagram

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

How are we eating the rich? does anybody have a big BBQ or something I can borrow?

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🌍🌡📈 Update: "If the 15-year warming trend leading up to Dec 2024 continued, global warming would reach 1.5°C by December 2025" That implies a warming rate of about 0.4°C per decade! Thanks to @tugberksamur.bsky.social for changing the 30-year extrapolation to 15-year.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Sunset #skyscape #nature #sunset #clouds #light #sky #photography #pink #color #orange

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

Trump transition team wants to kneecap EVs: 🔹 Eliminate $7,500 tax credit 🔹 End public charging expansion 🔹 Place tariffs on imported battery materials Also, relax car fuel economy rules by 15% and emissions by 25%. Carmakers don't want this. It's all Trump. www.reuters.com/business/aut...

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Some absolute bangers recently

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fighting the consumerist urges today, had to shut down my browser and talk a walk

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The production and VFX teams on Rings of Power went crazy hard www.outpost-vfx.com/en/work/the-...

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This website has a real-time tracker of fossil fuel industry profits -->> energy-profits.org

submitted 100 days ago • 7 comments

This hit my weak point for massive damage

submitted 101 days ago • 160 comments

I get excited every time clouds get this color

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“I mean, we could do things to totally eliminate traffic deaths. What’s going to eliminate traffic and pedestrian deaths is moving cities away from being dependent on cars—and autonomous vehicles do exactly the opposite, by definition.” www.wired.com/story/waymo-...

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Just got out of a meeting with @climatedefiance.bsky.social and Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on how we tackle this next stage of the climate crisis. Energized to fight for the future 🌎

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

being in Colorado after living in the PNW is like rediscovering you own overhead lighting

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