Jon Gorey
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Writer, musician, dad, giver of shits, fan of preindustrial climate
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I made a StoryMap about native plants, Miyawaki forests, and how a homegrown conservation effort is creating crucial wildlife habitat for our threatened birds and insects. TL;DR: Birds and butterflies need native flowers, shrubs, and trees to survive ā BUTā¦
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Grassroots Conservation (Minus the Grass) - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
A growing movement is inviting nature back into the cities and towns from which it was once expelled, planting native pollinator gardens and Miyawaki microforests in front yards, schoolyards, parks, a...
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/grassroots-conservation-minus-grass/storymap
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The way things are going right now, Iāll be sending this zine from
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as our family holiday card and everyoneās gonna be getting āSeparation of Church and Hateā by
@johnfugelsang.bsky.social
for Christmas.
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Beyond the fact that most AI is trained on the stolen intellectual property of millions of writers, journalists, photographers, and artists, the data centers that power AI are devouring our finite landscapes, water, and electricity at an unthinkable, unsustainable scale.
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Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers/
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But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities are not fully accounting for or prepared to meet.
@jongorey.bsky.social
explores their challenges and possible solutions:
go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/land-water-impacts-data-centers
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr
3 months ago
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
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Kevin J. Kircher
4 months ago
"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning
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Wonder why thereās microplastic in our brains? On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our
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cleanup this morningānot even counting fragments and water bottles. Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
4 months ago
Happy
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! Today we're profiling Fernando E. Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and the 2020 recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship (now known as the Kingsbury Browne Distinguished Practitioner program).
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Bill Kole
5 months ago
This essay I wrote for
@bostonglobe.com
(in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via
@broadleafbooks.bsky.social
. Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
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Guns made me leave the evangelical church. When will the church leave guns? - The Boston Globe
A bewildering marriage of faith and firearms is fueling our uniquely American gun scourge.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/magazine/evangelical-church-guns/
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A quote from the article, and a quote from Socrates via Shakespeare: "The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess." "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
5 months ago
Urban green space filters and cools the air, absorbs stormwater, and improves health. But it also increases property values, which can pose a risk to longtime residents without thoughtful anti-displacement approaches.
@jongorey.bsky.social
investigates:
go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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Alt-weeklies āgave voice to and helped shape a way of thinking about cities: messy, thrilling, sad, funny, queer, glorious, pompous, comically crooked and endlessly fascinating.ā
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"Short of burning a cross in front of the Lincoln Monument, there is little that the White House could do to more clearly signal its unapologetic racist nature... The more goading and horrific the racism of our government becomes, the more urgent the need to speak and act against it."
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Today's
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
is a bookmark-it, all-time great chronology & overview of movement conservatism and our path from deregulation and racism to Trump fascism. It will make you want to go flip a car, but still, it's an excellent read:
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...
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August 23, 2025
āIt is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,ā President Donald Trump wr...
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-2025
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! ⦠It's All For You!
5 months ago
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
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La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Metaās AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergyās three new gas plants to power Metaās largest-ever data center.
https://www.kplctv.com/2025/08/21/entergy-la-gets-green-light-plant-power-metas-ai-data-center/
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Trying to re-liquify the honey with hot water and this honey bear hot tub situation has me dying š
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Made this cool record player stand over the weekend, and it was mercifully simple to do!
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DIY record player stand and using relative measurements | House and Hammer
This mid-century modern record player stand is a super simple DIY project. Read on for the tutorial and one of my favorite woodworking tips.
https://www.houseandhammer.com/diy-record-player-stand-and-using-relative-measurements/
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Yes, this. Unless youāre planning to sell the place, you donāt generally do major renovations on a house you will be leaving in just a couple of years⦠which makes me very worried that he has no intention of leaving
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Love this. Iāve been using
@ecosiasearch.bsky.social
for a while *specifically for its environmental impact* and yet recently they introduced an idiotic beta AI search summary. Thankfully you can disable it, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
6 months ago
A recent convening explored the land policy solutions that can help address tangled titles and other heirs property challenges.
@jongorey.bsky.social
investigates for the latest issue of Land Lines:
go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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Understanding Heirs Property - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Hundreds of thousands of people in the US own inherited property that lacks the legal protections of homeownership. Land policy can help address the challenges of such heirs property situations.
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/understanding-heirs-property
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I enjoy cooking on the grill but not the macho charade associated with it. Like why are all grill spatulas 4 feet long? Iām not roasting dinosaur legs over a bonfire, Iām literally just flipping turkey burgers 9 inches away. This thing is UNWIELDY
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This is very bad. Millions of Americans will be impacted by Congress defunding public media, and especially by the decision to claw back already appropriated funding. But despite the challenges we face, we are still here, and are committed as ever to our mission and to you.
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In 5 mos. Trump and his GOP toadies have: - burned food meant for starving children - declared war on science & research - reversed what little climate action weāve taken - killed funding for PBS and NPR šæ ā¦all to pay for - mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force - more š° for billionaires
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Roughly one in every three Facebook users is now a man aged 18-34 ...which would explain so much about Facebook, or young men, or both.
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Global Facebook user age & gender distribution 2025| Statista
As of April 2024, men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-user-age-distribution/
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Jim Aloisi
6 months ago
Josh Kraftās pandering plan will make Bostonās streets less safe & less fairly shared among all residents. Heās stoking division rather than finding a solution that works for everyone. Kraft: uninformed & unfit for
#bospoli
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#mapoli
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Brent Toderian
7 months ago
āOne mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.ā āWhich means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.ā
grist.org/biking/one-m...
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One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
https://grist.org/biking/one-mile-on-a-bike-is-a-42-economic-gain-to-society-one-mile-driving-is-a-20-loss/
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one dozen rats at a keyboard
7 months ago
āThe New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit pieceā is a way bigger story than ā18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked āAfrican Americanā on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Ugandaā
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James Bennett
7 months ago
The Democratic majorities of the 1960s delivered the "Great Society" programs. They also delivered the Civil Rights Acts and the Voting Rights Act. And white voters abandoned Democrats like they'd flipped a switch. Sixty straight years voting Republican. It's not "economic anxiety" and never was.
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Susan Rinkunas
7 months ago
GOP budget bill in a nutshell: "we have to kick millions of people off health insurance and close hospitals and reproductive health clinics so we can give $150 billion to the secret police to terrorize non-white people and cut taxes for richest Americans"
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"America is about to fund and build a huge secret police force that will, I promise you, be used to attack, imprison and exile the presidentās enemies, of all sorts... Getting through the period of American history that is now descending upon us will require all of us to practice radical empathy."
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Hamilton Nolan
7 months ago
or a moderate size country I guess
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āAre you willing to be killed for your governmentās sins? Are you willing to have your house destroyed and your child hit by shrapnel and your elderly parents lose access to medicine because of the policies of the latest president? If that seems unfair for you, it is unfair for anyone, anywhere.ā
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Nations Are People
Do you deserve to die for your own bad government?
https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-are-people?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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More middle fingers than youād like to see (3-4 dozen over 3 hrs, including a double birdie from the guy in the Hummer) but they paled in comparison to the *thousands* of waves and honks in solidarity with
#NoKings
Milton. Felt good to see all these friends of democracy on Bostonās South Shore.
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Look for us on the East Milton overpass above I-93 today.
#nokings
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jamelle
8 months ago
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: āEither he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebelānot indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanityās God.ā
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An excellent 1-2 punch in the timeline, courtesy of
@jesseduquette.bsky.social
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@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
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Doug Mack
8 months ago
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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Charles Soule
8 months ago
I was an immigration lawyer for about fifteen years. The people I met⦠the way they wanted to give their absolute best to this country, and then DID. Skills, ideas, beauty, culture⦠thatās what they bring. America is a nation of immigrants, and immigration is what made America.
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
8 months ago
Check out
@jongorey.bsky.social
's StoryMap to learn how individuals and municipalities are creating and protecting habitat at the local level:
go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
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I made a StoryMap about native plants, Miyawaki forests, and how a homegrown conservation effort is creating crucial wildlife habitat for our threatened birds and insects. TL;DR: Birds and butterflies need native flowers, shrubs, and trees to survive ā BUTā¦
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Grassroots Conservation (Minus the Grass) - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
A growing movement is inviting nature back into the cities and towns from which it was once expelled, planting native pollinator gardens and Miyawaki microforests in front yards, schoolyards, parks, a...
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/grassroots-conservation-minus-grass/storymap
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Important message spotted in Harvard Square today after commencement - congrats to the Harvard class of 2025!
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Federal support for conservation is waning, to put it mildly. But by planting the native flowers, shrubs, and trees that are so crucial to our birds and butterflies in your yard, you (yes, YOU!) can help createĀ as much valuable new wildlife habitat as exists in most of our National Parks combined:
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Grassroots Conservation (Minus the Grass) - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
A growing movement is inviting nature back into the cities and towns from which it was once expelled, planting native pollinator gardens and Miyawaki microforests in front yards, schoolyards, parks, a...
https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/land-lines-magazine/articles/grassroots-conservation-minus-grass/storymap
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Yonah Freemark
9 months ago
NYCās congestion pricing is a policy miracle: Less traffic, less noise, faster transit, more business sales, more transit revenue. And it hasnāt produced the negative effects outside the cordon zone we were afraid of.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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In Harvard Square even the sidewalk trash is poetic metaphor
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Brandon Friedman
9 months ago
These headlines related to U.S. military aviation have all appeared in the last 11 days. There is a major problem at the Defense Department.
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Malevolent idiocy.
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Gintautas Dumcius
9 months ago
The same day she's getting endorsed by David Ortiz, Mayor Wu throws a heater of a statement at challenger Josh Kraft
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I am pleading with you, greedy companies and numb consumers alike: Stop with the AI. It DEVOURS electricity, natural resources, art, and real jobsāDuolingo today announced it will start replacing human contractors with AI. 𤮠Weāre trading our planet and our humanity for cheaper, faster mediocrity.
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