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Catherine McMullen

@allophilia

From a small CDN island in Lake Ontario: Earth Scientist / Multiple-working-hypotheses is my lifeway / born @ 311 ppm CO2: Now it's adaptation, adaptation, adaptation.

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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

03.03.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 3951 πŸ” 1274 πŸ’¬ 71 πŸ“Œ 131

Reminder to journalists: American judicial orders stop at the US border.

24.02.2026 13:15 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great coverage and very well explained. Too bad the headline writer emphasized a quote about coral reefs and that you used a picture of a reef in the Caribbean.

23.02.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My thoughts exactly.

10.02.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland.

They say they will provide Californians with β€œrule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

17.01.2026 17:36 πŸ‘ 18864 πŸ” 5034 πŸ’¬ 1262 πŸ“Œ 1246

Attributable to a CERN glitch in 2008. Or not?

23.12.2025 00:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Less than a month before Christmas, some local children sat down and wrote their letters to Robin Hood because they had a feeling Santa Claus wouldn't be visiting their homes this year and this was their only hope...
#ygk #TisTheSeason

29.11.2025 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch β€” we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! β€” was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.

04.11.2025 23:02 πŸ‘ 3718 πŸ” 654 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 29
The promise of 2026.

The promise of 2026.

β€œHello, operator? Get me 2026…I just want to tell her it’s finally looking better.”

05.11.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 404 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.

Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.

05.11.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 7234 πŸ” 1559 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 159

Worth the time for good perspectives...

31.10.2025 14:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hear! Hear! Laura, I was looking for the link…

04.10.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We should have the beatitudes in schools rather than the commandments. Sigh.

04.10.2025 17:38 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

1890s fancy French whorehouse

21.09.2025 02:03 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 0
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@mozilla.org Is this from you?

14.09.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Getting difficult to keep up with technological advances, eh?

04.09.2025 14:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mad that I got maybe halfway through Ian McDonald's Luna, and after tolerating how all the sons in the family are out to kill each other off, and then find out the top-lawyer daughter gets introduced via a description of her masturbation technique. Never going back. Yuck!

01.08.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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@aoc.bsky.social
No caption needed.

06.07.2025 03:35 πŸ‘ 2580 πŸ” 854 πŸ’¬ 97 πŸ“Œ 83
Rutger Bregman - β€œMoral Ambition” | The Daily Show
Rutger Bregman - β€œMoral Ambition” | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Very engaging:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=djKB...

29.06.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rutger Bregman - β€œMoral Ambition” | The Daily Show
Rutger Bregman - β€œMoral Ambition” | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Counter with pre-emptive 'moral ambition'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=djKB...

28.06.2025 23:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yup: Good summary.

22.06.2025 02:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I struggle to understand why exactly Congress decided to make itself irrelevant

22.06.2025 01:39 πŸ‘ 349 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than β€œthey were evil, stupid, and bored”

22.06.2025 00:18 πŸ‘ 16220 πŸ” 4695 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 95

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

14.06.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 4424 πŸ” 922 πŸ’¬ 42 πŸ“Œ 49
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Special Vermont Resistance edition Lucy Welch, a hero for the moment.

Move over Ethan Allen, here comes Lucy Welch

billmckibben.substack.com/p/special-ve...

01.03.2025 22:21 πŸ‘ 1825 πŸ” 407 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 80

What a time we are living in. This is the golden age of dumbfuckery.

02.03.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 364 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 1

1) Use systematic doubt and question everything
2) Learn the difference between statements of rational proof and those just of persuasion
3) Be precise in your use of words and expect precision from others
4) Watch for mistakes, even in Holy Scripture

– Peter Abelard (1079-1142 AD)

29.01.2025 23:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The end of a rainbow at Holy Hill, Co. Sligo, Ireland.

The end of a rainbow at Holy Hill, Co. Sligo, Ireland.

The end of a rainbow at Holy Hill, Co. Sligo, Ireland.

21.01.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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