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The planet exeded the plastic pollution limit
Countries can't agree on how to stop plastic crisis
After limits on production and regulating chemicals prevented agreement at UN talks in Geneva, where to next for the fight against plastic pollution?Tim Schauenberg (Deutsche Welle)
Decadal trends in August sea ice thickness across the #Arctic Ocean, where red shading corresponds to areas of thinning ice. The largest declines are north of Greenland and in the East Siberian, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas.
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Global plastic talks collapse as countries remain deeply divided
The latest round of UN-led talks have ended in deadlock, with disputes over plastic production and recycling.Esme Stallard and Mark Poynting (BBC News)
They say, 'Do not idle the engine.' Oh, please—cancel all roadworks, make public transport free all day, and allow people to take paid days off work. You greedy, short-sighted bureaucrats have completely lost the plot—who you are, how you got here, and where you’re even headed.
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High pollution warning issued for London by City Hall
City Hall says strong sunshine and hot weather are expected to trigger high ozone levels.James W Kelly (BBC News)
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Extreme heat is driving dramatic declines in tropical birds
The numbers of many tropical birds are plummeting, and now it has been shown that heat extremes intensified by global warming are the biggest factor driving these declinesMichael Le Page (New Scientist)
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Record warm seas help to bring extraordinary species to UK waters
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I'm Exhausted By My Own Cynicism.
A thread. 🧵
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It started as self preservation.
After enough disappointments, enough promises broken, enough grand plans that fizzled into nothing, I developed a knee-jerk cynicism that felt like wisdom.
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The ability to spot the flaws before anyone else. To see why things wouldn't work before they even launched.
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To be the voice of reason in rooms full of dreamers.
But somewhere along the way, that voice got too loud.
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Lately, I've caught myself rolling my eyes at enthusiasm. I watch someone get excited about their new idea and my first instinct is to catalog the ways it will fail. Not maliciously - I tell myself I'm being helpful, realistic, saving them from future pain. But the truth is uglier than that.
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Cynicism feels sophisticated. It makes me feel like I understand how the world really works while others are stuck in naive fantasies. There's a certain pride in predicting failure, in being the one who saw it coming when everyone else was caught off guard.
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But I'm tired of it. I'm tired of the weight of always expecting the worst. I'm tired of the way cynicism closes doors before I even know what's behind them. I'm tired of how it makes me a spectator to other folks' hope instead of actively participating in my own.
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What if I'm wrong about being right all the time? What if my cynicism is laziness - a way to avoid the vulnerable work of believing in something that might not work out? It's much easier to be skeptical than to be invested. Much safer to predict failure than to risk disappointment.
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The optimist in me used to see possibility everywhere. Yes, that led to some spectacular failures and embarrassing miscalculations. But it also led to the best things I've ever done, the most meaningful connections I've made, the work I'm most proud of.
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None of that happened because I was realistic about the odds.
I'm starting to think that cynicism isn't the opposite of naivety; it's just naivety in a different direction. The naive optimist believes everything will work out. The naive cynic believes nothing will.
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Both avoid the harder work of engaging with reality as it actually unfolds, messy and unpredictable and occasionally miraculous.
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I want to get back to building things instead of just critiquing them. I want to be surprised by success instead of satisfied by failure. I want to care about the outcome more than I care about being right.
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Most of all, I want to remember what it feels like to hope for something without immediately calculating the probability of disappointment.
The world has enough people explaining why things won't work. What it needs are people willing to be wrong about the possibility that they might.
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I'm in this thread and I don't like it
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I've been feeling burnt out recently - I'm actually still on a camping holiday to get away from things - and it hit me. This really isn't work stress.I'm fucking angry at the entire industry I've spent my whole working life in - watching idiots put productivity as life, 10x engineering and now AI bullshit.
The second reason for this trip is to find a remote enough area of Brittany, France to move to in the next 5 years before the collapse comes.
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and the truth is that the cynicism of those calling you childish is what is childish
or rather, blind idealism is childish, cynicism is teenagerish, and realistic optimism is maturity
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the mindless cynicism of the teenager is as foolish as the naive idealism of the child
any adult who carries either into chronological maturity is lacking in cognitive maturity
which is not a judgment nor condemnation: we all mature at different rates, and everyone deserves a helping hand
the judgment or condemnation comes when the adult doubles down in stubborn clinging to cynicism or idealism when met with the patient helping hand
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Build small things that work, which it seems to be to be what you have already started doing with theindex.
no need to jump back. You did long way. Because you has a reason. Now you see issues. Amazing! Get the new ideas to go further!
Naivety to start, cynism to prepare plan, new hope to build.
Cynism is still useful in small doses, sometimes enough just to have possibility to be cynic.
And don't listen to internet strangers like me 🫡
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well said
cynicism in and of itself is not wrong per se
it's very useful to use it to look at the other side of a thought
then we can accept the cynical analysis and try a different thought, reject the cynical analysis, or alter the original thought to incorporate the cynical observation
what we can't do is make cynicism our entire personality, the beginning and ending of our entire thought processes
that's pretty much the death of {gestures broadly}
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exactly
1. #idealism is a form of failure. which is not a condemnation of idealistic people. we all start out as idealists in life
2. #cynicism, as idealism's mirror image, is also a failure. it's what naturally follows from step 1 because of inevitable adversity
3. maturity is using idealistic thoughts to guide you, but filtering it through what cynicism teaches:
the problem is people stuck on step 1/ 2
all of us should strive to reach step 3
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idealism is a stage in development towards maturity
it's not so much a failure mode as a premature mode that we all pass through
although you can call it a failure mode for some people who cling to idealism stubbornly, to their own detriment (and our collective detriment if they convince others to cling to idealism)
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i think #realism can be defined as nothing more than #idealism shaped by experience
you still aim to the good goal
but now you know the road is not simple
so you continue towards the good goal, but you get there with the tools that adversity taught you, which can be called #cynicism
cynicism (as a personality, not as a tool as you say and i agree) is sitting down on the side of the road and giving up. cynicism as a personality is giving in to adversity, a failure mode
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I am very surprised by this definition of cynicism.
Cynicism, in the classical, Greek philosophical sense, is simply stating that nothing should be held sacred and beyond the inquiry of an honest mind. Cynics were willing to examine the "sacred cows" of their day.
What most people call cynicism these days is simply radical pessimism or nihilism. Or even the kind of stupid provocation that passes for intellectual discourse these days ("let's own the libs!").
yes, absolutely correct
the problem is that there is #cynicism as defined in philosophy, scholarly discipline
and cynicism as defined loosely in every day use
this is always a problem with broadly defined words with overlapping meanings depending upon context
example:
in the 1800s sense, it is defined as social freedom
but today, at least in the usa, libertarianism is kissing plutocrat ass and asking them to take more money from you
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"but today, at least in the usa, libertarianism is kissing plutocrat ass and asking them to take more money from you"
Complete lie, but maybe you'll follow your usual practice of going back to alter your comment while making no mention of it. Or of attacking people for the horrific crime of disagreeing with you.
@AlexanderKingsbury @ParadeGrotesque @mcSlibinas @Gustodon
disagreement with me is fine
disagreement with reality is stupidity
libertarianism is a con, a grift:
plutocrats: "regulations hurt you"
morons: "yeah!"
{morons elect a corrupt idiot who changes the laws, plutocrats make more money and further abuse the morons}
as for editing my comment:
this is normal behavior
no change in meaning, merely clarification
not normal behavior is carrying some hilarious grudge about it
are you ok?
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@benroyce @ParadeGrotesque @mcSlibinas @Gustodon
Yes, sadly, lying is normal. Particularly when you tell lies like "Oh, I never changed my meaning!!!!"
Hardly a grudge. Just an understanding that you are either incapable of or unwilling to have an honest conversation. Which isn't surprising, given your attitudes towards anyone who disagrees with you.
"Oh, it's fine, they're just all morons and bootlickers and grifters!!!!!!"
Please.
Well, have a nice day.
"Hardly a grudge"
this is what, the 3rd or 4th time you come obediently loping along to reply guy to me about this moronic spat from ages ago?
you are very definitely carrying a grudge
and i clarified i did not change meaning
...on this utterly forgettable pathetic flamewar from ages ago
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why are you so weak? do you understand the brittle cringe weakness you are asserting about your character here with this nonsense?
*now on edit 9 🤣🤣🤣
It sounds like there's some background to this I'm not aware of, but I was hoping you could clarify what parts of that operational definition of "libertarian" that you disagree with?
Are you in the USA? Because I can say here (in the USA) I've only ever seen the term "libertarian" used by people who now support Trump. Some passionately, and some more reluctantly, but all at least MAGA-adjacent.
you should know the character you are replying to always reply guys to me when i mention libertarianism
we don't have any other interactions
they're a fucking shill, here on mastodon
they're not interested in honesty, which you are accurately speaking to
they will reply to you with deflection topic change and whataboutism and not directly address your accurate observations
Yes, I'm in the USA. And I believe you that that's what you see; it's also an extremely myopic view. Just as one example (well, a set of examples), probably the most popular libertarian publication in the US is Reason magazine. You can easily read their work or listen to their podcasts, and you will see far, FAR more criticism of trump than praise.
"...but stay in the GOP tent because universal healthcare bad"
you fucking shill, pushing right wing media on mastodon
keep kissing plutocrat ass, they'll give you a nice pat on the head as you fatten their bank accounts. completely clueless that that is the only effect and purpose of your "ideology". subservience of the poor, destruction of the middle class, through economic deregulation dressed up as "freedom" as an idiotic sales pitch for morons
absolutely. my reaction was based on how succinctly you summarized the topic
you didn’t ask for advice. I have no expectation of you, so no pressure.
A _possible_ way to break the addiction is to find a non-profit you can support and go volunteer. If it’s a pet shelter, go. If it’s packing bags of food at a food bank, go. Whatever cause floats your boat, go.
not every pet gets adopted, but some do. There will always be hungry people in the world, but you’ll have a part of feeding some of them. Even though successes won’t be 100%, you’ll know that you’ve had a part in making the world a better place and you’ll be able to focus on successes rather than the failures of the world.
again, I have no expectation that you’ll do this, but that might be a way to lift you out of your cynicism. Regardless of what path you take or don’t, I wish you the best.
Thank you.
Cynicism is the death of passion. It kills joy. I try to be on guard for it.
It feels like the next-door neighbor of despair.
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That’s the part that gives me hope, brings me back to earth. Gives me hope that someone I admire has some clues to share, will help me focus on my own cynicism and ways to push through it.
Thank you.
Well told.
Better naive and curious than stuck in a predictable cell.
Let's go, as long our energy isn't drained.
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the worst is #cynicism about #politics
cynicism is acceptance, #prematureCapitulation
cynicism is malice and abuse that you've internalized
it doesn't mean you try the same crap that didn't work before
but it means you try something
always, forever
that's not crazy
that's just life
there is always adversity
you must always deal with it
the worst you can do is shrink from it and yield to it
be a happy warrior
10,000 arrows incoming?
smile and move forward
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Thank you for sharing this. I struggle with cynicism at times. It's an impulse that becomes more strong with experience. If you are good at patterns and systems it's easy to become cynical.
But cynicism lacks cognitive humility, works against my openness and risks my ability to grow. I treasure my curiosity and my sense of wonder about the world and its people.
I sat down to write this poem a few months ago to dispel the darkness and winter and my fears for today.
I think the "change your profile pic to Clippy" thing actually works really well here. As the guy in the video says, Clippy might have been annoying, but it just wanted to help. That's all. It didn't want to sell you anything, it just genuinely and innocently wanted to make your life better.
As a revolutionary symbol, I really can't think of anything better.
Most importantly, believing in hope and success is a necessary condition for productive creativity. You *must* believe that whatever you want to try can work, otherwise, why even try?
Also, framing. If you are so certain that some things fail, identify the problem, prevent it next time and try again. (If being a cynic had made anyone smart or wise, that should be easy).
You're not failing, you're gathering data.
right!
Cory Doctorow a while back was elaborating on his approach to optimism/pessimism vs. hope which is somewhat similar.
What stuck with me there was that he considered both optimism/pessimism as two sides of the same coin of not engaging with the actual future/idea.
I like hope as replacement 😅
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@dvzrv me too. I can be concerned about all the things that can and probably will go wrong, or I can hang onto hope.
My claws are pretty tired of clinging onto the shreds of hope, but I REFUSE to let go. If I let the hope slip, I collapse into a big puddle of tears and depression, and am of no use - to myself or anyone who depends on me.
you are so brave for realizing this and moving away from it. Many intelligent people fall into this pit because they are good at seeing patterns and they understand that sometimes the odds are not in favour of the dreamers.
But here's the deal: the optimists know it too. Hope is a choice - of trying something that feels right in your heart, even when the probability is not great. Welcome back.
This is a highly useful tool skill for an engineer. Find all the failure modes and try to fix them.
Many of us on the Fediverse are engineers.
"Ever tried. Ever failed.
No Matter. Try again.
Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett
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Phoenix, Arizona set a new all-time August high temperature earlier this week, with a clear climate change connection as our Climate Shift Index (CSI) system reached level 5 across nearly the entire Southwest.
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The Climate Shift Index® (CSI) Global Map shows the influence of climate change on local daily temperatures around the world.Climate Central
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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) averaged about 428 ppm in July 2025
10 years ago July averaged about 401 ppm
Preliminary data from NOAA at gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
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what I want to know is how total air composition has changed over the years.
Is there less oxygen % ?
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I suppose there’s earthlight—or more accurately, earthshine—but you can’t see it in this image. As you know, the Moon is illuminated by sunlight. When it’s a crescent, you can sometimes make out the faint outline of the dark portion. That subtle glow is called earthshine, caused by sunlight reflecting off Earth and softly lighting the Moon’s night side.
Plastic crisis
#plasticcrisis
#conference
#news
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Summit opens in final push for plastics treaty to tackle crisis
The world's nations are hoping to sign the first global plastic treaty to limit plastic pollution.Esme Stallard (BBC News)
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Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use #RSS.
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Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already readMolly White (Citation Needed)
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But the explosion in newsletters is overwhelming as a reader. Instead of one paper with a dozen writers, you’ve got a dozen newsletters scattered across your inbox.
What if you could curate your own custom newspaper? All your favorite writers, no spam, no surveillance.
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Although I regularly read about “the death of RSS”, RSS is still alive and well, and I’ve been using it for more than a decade. Here’s how you can too.
#RSS
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1. Choose an RSS reader. I use Inoreader, but there are a bunch of options out there (free and paid, mobile/web/desktop). Switching between them is pretty easy, so you don’t have to agonize over this too much.
#RSS
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2. Add your sites. Try searching for feeds on the newsletters/blogs/websites you read the most (like Citation Needed!) You can even put in YouTube channels, or Mastodon or BlueSky feeds.
If you need ideas, I publish some of my blogroll: mollywhite.net/blogroll/
#RSS
![Add your sites
Once you select a feed reader, add the feeds you wish to follow. Most feed readers let you paste a website’s URL to find available RSS feeds. Some websites have multiple RSS feeds, like Wired, which allows you to subscribe to a firehose of all articles or trim things down by subscribing separately to specific topic feeds like science or cybersecurity.
[Image: Inoreader feed results for wired.com, showing an all posts feed and a feed called “Science latest”]](https://social.trom.tf/photo/preview/640/30543543 "Add your sites
Once you select a feed reader, add the feeds you wish to follow. Most feed readers let you paste a website’s URL to find available RSS feeds. Some websites have multiple RSS feeds, like Wired, which allows you to subscribe to a firehose of all articles or trim things down by subscribing separately to specific topic feeds like science or cybersecurity.
[Image: Inoreader feed results for wired.com, showing an all posts feed and a feed called “Science latest”]")
RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.
#RSS
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Citation Needed has a full-text RSS feed regardless of whether you subscribe, so consider adding it to your feed reader! citationneeded.news/rss/
And consider signing up for a pay-what-you-want subscription to help me continue this work. citationneeded.news/signup/
#RSS
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So, here's what I've been looking for ever since ditching Opera 12 as e-mail/RSS client:
A local RSS client (easy, most e-mail clients will do, plus a lot of browser extensions) which stores its data on what's been read or not in one handy directory that can be easily synced across all my devices (using e.g. syncthing, which I have going), in such a way that it works on bith Linux and Android.
The beauty of RSS is that no 3rd party needs to know what I'm reading, and having an online RSS aggregator kind of defeats that purpose unless I self-host, which is a fairly high barrier to entry if you ask me. I could deal with it but I'd prefer not to.
@mwl
This was a terrific write-up. I read Cory's piece when it was published, and tried a reader. But it would just launch a web browser, which kind of defeats the point of a quick overview without surveillance. I didn't realize that wasn't the way they all worked, until I read your piece. Now I'm running Capy on my LineageOS phone, and it's working beautifully.
I run some servers, and I'm thinking I should have them publish to (a private) RSS feed instead of sending me email.
No, RSS isn’t dead!
Here's my take on why the much-maligned RSS feed is the technology we need for accessing the chaotic, confusing internet of 2025.Andrew Blackman
a few additions to your great thread.
1) one way I use (though not as much a I would like to) mastodon’s rss feeds is to subscribe to my “bookmarks” feed from my mastodon account in my rss feed. That lets me bookmark anything I find that I want to refer back to later while avoiding the many other posts in my feed less suited for an rss reader
2) I wonder if someone could add a “support your writers” feature to an rss reader that pulls out the support links from your specific feeds
@monospace hmm, just checked my YouTube channel and it’s still surfacing a feed: youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…
could it be an issue with your reader?
Don't need convincing. What I need is a list of reliable, reputable, preferably free RSS readers.
I do live by the reader I have now btw. Why anyone would not use one is beyond me.
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Also a mail/calendar client.
(no affiliation, except volunteering)
Vivaldi Feed Reader - Read feeds from the sources you choose
Skip the algorithms and create a private feed reading experience with RSS, Podcasts and more. Get Vivaldi Feed Reader here.Vivaldi Technologies
If one wants RSS (or Atom) feeds of sites that don't support feeds, they can be created using RSS Bridge. A very customizable way to create notifications about changes on pages. Something for the technically inclined to perhaps host on their own device or for public consumption
I love the newsletter format. It's not a neverending stream — you read to the bottom of the thing and you're done. I don't like them coming in email, though. Email is for other things. Also, some of my newsletters don't arrive. They get filtered as spam.
RSS is great for news, and I direct my newsletters to an RSS reader when I can. But that often does not work so well.
I wish more newsletter publishers made sure to have RSS feeds for their newsletters.
Is OpenRSS the only RSS provider with issues with Inoreader? I wonder if others have better experience than them (OpenRSS) or if it is specific to OpenRSS.
Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
Thank you for writing this, and especially for a general audience! Make RSS a norm again!
@FontsInUse has long provided RSS feeds for many aspects of our site. Not just the Blog and Uses, but also any typeface, designer, foundry, or tag. It’s a great way to get notified on stuff you care about.
very nice to see people getting behind feeds, and finally the journalists are realizing it was a mistake to let others do their distribution.
appologies if this is something that's already come up, but do you know if any readers are looking into integrations with things like webmentions or syndicating shares to the fediverse or similar?
One big thing that makes it harder for me as an artist to go all in on RSS is that community is 90% of what I do. Not just financials either - I rely on critters commenting on my pieces in public. It's both a huge motivator and a big part of why I think my work is valuable.
RSS on Mastodon and the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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Black August
Black August starts soon. Usually I have others to participate with me, but since I don’t, I’m calling on those of you out there to get together in your cohorts, do 100 of something everyday with me for the month of August, and tell me how its going for you. Burpees, push-ups, sit-ups, a mile run/walk, 100 of some exercise for 31 days with me, that’d be rad! The key is unity, solidarity, so try to do them at least with one other person. You can split things up and make 100 squats into 50, plus its more fun together, and that’s what its about, what we can do together!
Love, rage, and solidarity
— Malik
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For the next three years I'll have the (additional) post of Frank Jackson Professor of the Environment at Gresham College, giving a series of free public lectures on Earth and how it works. All will be freely available online. You can see their whole programme here:
gresham.ac.uk/whats-on?see-all
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I would say its more destroyed by greedy people and people craving for power.
Rich people deciding if a democratic nation survives.
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