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Writer. Learning to die in the Anthropocene. Teaches @notredame. RT=schizoid howl.

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IMPASSE out now! https://t.co/ATkBH6Mvxz

[erika @yeeeerika]

the human spirit was not designed for this many passwords

[Emmett Stinson @EmmettStinson]

Fascinating to see people complain about New Yorker short stories being bad. Yes, that’s what makes them New Yorker stories.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Val @VK_HM]

Well, he has tenure

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

If ever a lede were buried:

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

We often think of climate change as a gradual process, but climate-driven shifts in global ecosystems are often sudden. Many ecosystems are fairly stable until major disturbances occur--like high severity wildfire or record-breaking drought. https://t.co/XKM3zNNc8L

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@chris_lewis_ I don't think it will.

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And it still produces less than 10% of total electrical power

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Solar in 2025 grew 19x faster than experts at the International Energy Agency predicted in 2015.

Solar is now the fastest growing electricity source in human history.

[Rebecca @brintypears]

Not convinced reading is good for you based on people who read all the time

[Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darren_cullen]

I'm being left behind by the AI revolution in the same way I was left behind when Heaven's Gate ascended to join the spaceship that was hiding behind a comet.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

The American West just saw its earliest snow meltout in the modern record (since ~1980).

In California, the average snow-monitoring site melted out 43 days earlier than normal.

A brutal year for a region already stuck in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

A UCLA-led study by Williams et al. (2022) found 2000–2021 was the driest 22-year period in southwestern North America since at least 800 CE. Since then, the region has seen intense drought, with conditions expected to worsen dramatically this summer. https://t.co/Wi3F82XxVP

[Prof. Jason Box ⚡️ @climate_ice]

lack of post glacial rebound plus so-called gravitational fingerprints from polar ice reduction means it’s the tropics (where most people live) that will endure the highest rates of sea level rise.🌊 https://t.co/fL3vC0QcRY

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

thinking about tainter on diminishing returns of knowledge production under conditions of civilizational complexity, evans on third reich disinvestment in basic science, and the bitterness of former dialectics professors after the fall of communism. what if all that but this

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Still think we’re understating the impact of AI on university degrees. A growing numbers of students don’t just lack the inclination to read but the *capacity*. Literally unable to read and absorb difficult sentences for an extended period. Same goes for writing.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Comparing the devastating 1877 El Niño that killed millions with where we’re headed in 2026 is like comparing 2 different planets.

We should be worried.
But we should also be furious.

Decades & decades have been squandered, & now we’re on track to lose everything.

[Prof. Ryan Katz-Rosene @ryankatzrosene]

"Here we show that extreme global climate outcomes may occur even under moderate 2 °C warming for several sectors. For droughts in global key breadbasket regions, precipitation extremes over highly populated areas and fire weather extremes across forests, global climatic impact-drivers at 2 °C of global warming may turn out to be much more extreme than model-averaged projections at 3 °C or 4 °C warming."

[Lurker_6969 @lurker_6969]

@Merridew__ Impasse by Roy Scranton is what I’m currently reading. Non fiction, one of the most necessary books I’ve read in awhile.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

@TankTastick I'm really not convinced that's true, but I'm willing to accept that it might be.

Nobody has worked out how to communicate well the fact that a sixth mass extinction is occuring whilst the rate of climate change is about to become quicker than anything seen in 65 million years.