H E L P U S !

I’m so excited!

Our first rotten leaf drops tomorrow. Keep your eyes on this space for “When the Ghosts Come Tumbling In” by @jsdouglas.bsky.social

Depends a lot on whether you let them get away with it. Organize.

This regime has never been so weak. Now is the time to act 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/how-to-org...

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

This regime has never been so weak. Now is the time to act 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/how-to-org...

The picket has now moved to directly outside of the One World Trade Center where Kristi Noem is currently giving a press conference on the 50th floor about ICE operations in NYC.

"This is not the first time federal agents have shot someone in recent months during immigration enforcement. The news outlet The Trace counted 14 shootings since late July."

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

Just in - "According to @climatecentral.org, 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters..." + Interactive graphics/data: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv... + Climate Matters article: www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

ICE behaved this way AFTER having shot and killed the woman in her car:

Fossil fuels are destroy in our planet, exacerbating wealth inequality, and instigating war. How do we get rid of them? Here’s some ideas 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/learning-f...

Publicly owned renewable power, adequate public transit, and the degrowth of harmful industries are how we can stop this kind of warmongering the Trump regime is engaged in. That’s how we crush the demand for oil and the despots it gives power to.

Screaming "wtf" and waiting for a spontaneous uprising is going to discourage you. There won't be a spontaneous uprising. That's just not where the people are at. Organize for the long term. Build community. Build resilience. Have a strategy for whatever corner of this thing you're working on.

Are you a photographer? We’re always looking for original nature photography to feature in our publications! Send submissions to editor[at]briefecology.com

So the regime is starting a war in hopes that it distracts you from rising prices, a slowing economy, rampant corruption, a pedophilic president, measles outbreaks, ballooning healthcare costs, fascist government kidnappings, cover ups, and on and on

“Masked shrews are one of our smallest mammals, tipping the scales at between 3 and 6 grams (one to two pennies), with a 2.5-inch-long body, and a 1.5-inch tail. They have a long, pointed snout full of sharp teeth, and a powerful nose surrounded by extremely sensitive whiskers.”

Did you know that some shrews can shrink? There's a lot more to these little creatures than meets the eye 🌎🧪🌐 www.briefecology.com/p/the-incred...

Talk about your books, and talk about the books you love. Almost all of the books I read now are from people posting about them on Bluesky. I'll also often pick something up after seeing it discussed on Reddit, and on rare occasions someone I know will rec a book to me privately.

Beginning of the year plea: I am always on the lookout for collections of weird fiction by nonwhite authors, especially those that will be published in 2026. If you wrote one or are publishing one or just know of one, please get in touch. doomsdayer.wordpress.com/contact

GenAI sits at the intersection of fascism, capitalism, labor, climate change, and environmental degradation. It is the quintessential technology of our time, the epitome of our current struggles. Defeating it is the key to defeating capital.

We're open for fiction submissions! We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it. No closing date, open indefinitely.

In 2026 I’m going to add even more books to my to-read list that I’ll never have time for. This will be the year of the unhinged reading list

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

For 2026 let’s remind ourselves what really matters: weird fiction

"One of my favorite pieces of craft advice is that anything you’re told you should not (or should) do should just be taken as a challenge rather than a rule." -interview with @aaronburch.bsky.social ivygrimes.substack.com/p/interview-...

We’re opening to submissions tonight at midnight, EST Send us your weirdest natures, your haunted life forms, your undead landscapes

Too much eggnog for this guy

I'm photographing and writing about the bark of every tree in the eastern US. My latest: silver maple 🍁

A quick update: Submissions to RLM will re-open on January 1st at midnight (EST), and our first piece will be published on January 10th! 👀

I'm photographing and writing about the bark of every tree in the eastern US. My latest: silver maple 🍁

3) What is your favorite comedic show and horror movie pairing? a. The Andy Griffith Show + Misery b. The Gilmore Girls + Amityville Horror c. The Golden Girls + Parasite d. The Simpsons + Wicker Man e. It’s Always Sunny + Saw (a quiz) ivygrimes.substack.com/p/which-book...

What if I told you that you have a large language model sitting right in your head that’s completely free to use, runs on renewable energy, has virtually infinite capacity, and actually improves the more you use it

Coming for north central, too—rivers still orange from mine drainage, fracking wells all over the place, and now getting eyed for data centers.

Hey Pennsylvania, there's a lot of bullshit going on around here

If you want *more* AI-free results (the cheat code doesn't give more than a page or so) - try DuckDuckGo, and turn off the AI: Start at the wheel control, then scroll to the bottom for "AI Features - Manage." It's not exactly intuitive or easy to find, but it's doable👍

If you're interested in a decent search engine experience with zero AI to clutter your results, allow me to recommend this: udm14.com - It's literally a cheat code for google without all the garbage.

In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest 🌎🧪🌐🏡 www.briefecology.com/p/data-cente...

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027. And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should. #climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

This issue of the Eco-Update also has a review of @hilaratzabi.bsky.social's eco-poetry collection, "There Are Still Woods" from @juneroadpress.bsky.social

Hey Pennsylvania, there's a lot of bullshit going on around here

"Pennhurst AI has proposed a 1.3 million square feet campus with multiple data center buildings and onsite power generation...its plans have ignited fierce opposition to the proposal amid increasingly tense townhalls over potential zoning and ordinance changes."

It was too cold to get a decent group selfie but our @demsocialists.bsky.social chapter spent the morning spreading the word about the @sbworkersunited.org strike No Contract, No Coffee ✊☕️

psa: when you're moving the goalposts be sure to lift with your knees

Lately I’ve been talking to organizers in AZ, PA, and GA who are mobilizing community members against the construction of local data centers. Nobody wants these things in their communities, and many projects are getting delayed or stopped altogether. We can and will win against these tech oligarchs.

ICYMI: there was a lovely review of Rebecca Campbell's THE OTHER SHORE in Brief Ecology, a newsletter focusing on environmental news. It's definitely worth checking out. Here's a link to Brief Ecology #22, where you can find more about THE OTHER SHORE: www.briefecology.com...

It was too cold to get a decent group selfie but our @demsocialists.bsky.social chapter spent the morning spreading the word about the @sbworkersunited.org strike No Contract, No Coffee ✊☕️

Kevin A. Young's new book, Abolishing Fossil Fuels from @pmpress.bsky.social, is an important read for the climate movement. It highlights the ways that economic disruption has historically been an incredibly effective tool to enact change. 🌎🧪🌐 My full review 👇 www.briefecology.com/p/learning-f...

"Abolishing Fossil Fuels is an important text for our current moment. It’s not just enlightening, it’s inspiring. In each case study, Young reveals how an organized minority can win important concessions against seemingly overwhelming odds." - On Abolishing Fossil Fuels from @pmpress.bsky.social