David M. Frank 🌳🌹

environmental / philosophy tweets, posting nuance, jokes 🦦🌳🌹📖 opinions, mistakes mine, he/him

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

AND SHE SAID NO ONE HAD WRITTEN AN ANARCHIST UTOPIA SO SHE WROTE THE DISPOSSESSED ITS ABOUT A PHYSICIST WHO TRAVELS FROM THE DESOLATE ANARCHIST MOON TO THE HOME PLANET WHERE HALF OF THE PEOPLE LIVE UNDER STATE CAPITALISM AND HALF UNDER STATE SOCIALISM

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

Bye Twitter it’s been real

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starting April 15th, only verified accounts will be eligible to be in For You recommendations.

The is the only realistic way to address advanced AI bot swarms taking over. It is otherwise a hopeless losing battle.

Voting in polls will require verification for same reason.

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Howard Zinn: "To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. 1/

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

IPCC emissions scenarios are projections, not predictions. This means the future has not been written, and we get to decide what the world will look like in 2100.

[Josh Watson @JoshuaLWatson]

these rugs help me know where i am

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@JoshuaLWatson 🤣

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@Helenreflects 😍 also would love to see the syllabus!

[I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky @KetanJ0]

Every single piece of existing + planned fossil infrastructure **definitely** blows us past 1.5c, and almost certainly blows us past 2C.

****THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ANY NEW FOSSIL FUEL MACHINES****

****WE HAVE TO STOP BUILDING MACHINES THAT EXTRACT AND BURN COAL, OIL AND GAS*****

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

“What if the austerity is how we live now — and the abundance could be what is to come?” ⁦@RebeccaSolnit⁩ https://t.co/IBOFShs2Ln

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

Biodiversity is:

IPBES: The variability among living organisms. Includes variation in genetic, phenotypic, phylogenetic, & functional attributes,…changes in abundance & distribution over time & space within & among species, communities & ecosystems

Many authors: Species number

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

“What if the austerity is how we live now — and the abundance could be what is to come?”

[Emily Atkin @emorwee]

“What if we imagined ‘wealth’ consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor?” https://t.co/ZObbiSu0yI

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

Fare free works. In just the first year, @MayorWu’s fare free bus program is increasing ridership and saving riders money so they can spending it on food and other essentials instead of their ride to work. Let’s keep it up and make all transit fare free. https://t.co/AZUSAAEeR8

[Jan Dutkiewicz @jan_dutkiewicz]

Our anthropogenic, anthropocenic monsters aren't the irradiated beasts of sci-fi b-movies, but far more prosaic creatures, like seaweed fed too much nitrogen, or viruses allowed to escape from one species to another because of land-clearing.

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@BryanPickel Big “superautocomplete” energy on this one. Tbh the best thing ChatGPT has done for me this semester has been coming up with R code for data cleaning tasks and other stuff that would have otherwise taken me much longer to figure out. Feels like having a superpower

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@BryanPickel 🤖 👑 usually gives answers that I’d give my undergrads an A for

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@timoandres I believe it

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@MattNoahSmith Huge shortage of electricians too, if any smart practical minded kid asks me what they should do with their lives I’d tell them to become a union electrician

[Overthink Podcast @overthink_pod]

From Edward Said's 1994 book Representations of the Intellectual, this passage shows Said's standards for what an intellectual is and does. Do you have any favorite intellectuals who live up to these principles?

[David M. Frank 🌳🌹 @dmf0]

@kc_jpg Congrats!

[U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service @USFWS]

What's your favorite woodpecker?

Whether you like them small, like the downy woodpecker or huge, like the pileated woodpecker, with more than 20 different species throughout the country, there's something for everyone!

📷 USFWS