@esgnet.bsky.social Post-war life is a battlefield of its own. Where every meal, every blanket, every drop of water is a victory. ✅ Read more on my page.

Utterly chilling reporting from the Prospect and NY times on trumps war in the Caribbean www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/w...

Climate change is forcing migration and deepening inequality across Indonesia, displacing rural residents, Indigenous peoples and those with disabilities — groups least responsible for the crisis.

The history of the FDA is fascinating and frightening. I wrote a post on what we covered today in my Historical Determinants of Public Health class. Read it if you’re interested in why Coca Cola exists, how we used to give kids cocaine and morphine, and the like. open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...

There's a huge effort to get anti-science bills passed into law because anti-vaccine advocates and wellness grifters selling potentially harmful goods greatly profit from the undermining of public health.

A beautiful male Atlas moth on the edge of the Singapore suburbs. This male is starting to look a little worn out. The largest moth in the world burns brightly but the brightest flames burn fast. A male has about 2 weeks of life to pass on his genes.

pushing back against AI by not changing the way I work at all and refusing to cede any ground to it

response from a cop who barked at someone darting across the street, to the woman who asked if he was "going to do anything to him": "not with 1500 people here".

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

Trump wants to increase ER visits.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand. Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR

I made this video 4 days ago. As of today, Elfashir has completely run out of food, and the earthen barriers RSF have been building around the city are now complete. Oh, and RSF drones struck a town in Khartoum State and another in Northern State. In case anyone gaf. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Waiting for Catholic churches in the US to borrow an old world tradition and invoke sanctuary to protect people from ICE. C'mon guys that history and symbol is RIGHT THERE. Force ICE to have to breach hallowed ground.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted: When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

helping my friend Mohammed raise money for food and other expenses during the ceasefire ❤️ he's only $45 away from reaching 50% of his goal

Never forget.

Those estimates match up well with the separate, independent estimates of @charlesjkenny.bsky.social and @justsand.bsky.social at @cgdev.org They estimate closer to three million per year —>

That impact analysis has been done, by leading independent experts. Here it is, open-access in the @thelancet.com —> doi.org/10.1016/S014... "The complete defunding of USAID would cause an estimated 2,450,000 all-age deaths annually." Two. And a half. Million. Deaths. Each year.

Former USAID official here. The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world. It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation. The facts, below. 🧵

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, has issued a report on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The report highlights the catastrophic impact of the ongoing genocide on healthcare, with hospitals under siege, clinicians working without basic supplies or power, and at least 772

Location: Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh Date: October 6 Traffic police fined a Muslim youth for placing an “I Love Mohammad” sticker on his bike. When the youth asked the officer what the offense was based on, the officer responded that the sticker was “objectionable.”

Calling all nature people and orgs, please consider adding your name to Naturalists for Palestine. It's essential we recognise that ecocide and genocide are two sides of the same coin, and resist both. share.google/gLPRtQzDGC3v...

Nobel Week is once again upon us! How many women and how many scientists from the Global South will be awarded Prizes this year? Remember that this is typically a set of Prizes dominated by white men from North America (some Europe, some Asia). The first announcement was today: Medicine. 🧵 1/

Suspending Erin Biba, a Jewish woman for this skeet is nasty work. Between this and intentionally misreading Link’s use of a meme as a threat, bsky mods are more than willing to ban based on the Spirit Of The Law for *some* posters but never Jesse Singal. bsky.app/profile/aman...

“Even today, when the planet is dark, there still is hope. Don’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing” Don't lose hope. Also, send Musk and Trump into space on a one-way ticket. 😍

Greta, tillsammans med 160 andra hjältar har anlänt till Grekland.

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one. A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.

ope stage 5

As someone very into the technical side I can get into it. Bluesky the social network was never supposed to be the product. This was a prototype/proof of concept for the underlying tech (atproto). It blew up past their intentions and so they've been trying to stick the landing since.

Two hide hammerhead flatworms in their native Singapore. I’m not sure if they are fighting, eating, mating or all of the above. I thought it was one snake at first glance.

A few hundred people here in protest of the detention center now. A coalition of Jewish orgs have just arrived and are singing and praying outside the industrial park.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

Jane Goodall was one of perhaps a handful of people I've ever heard speak, like the Dalai Lama, who you just feel their presence and aura as someone truly special. Truly was glad I got to be around her in person, once - something I won't ever forget. 🙏 news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

A giant passed today. RIP Jane Goodall.