Catherine McMullen
@allophilia.bsky.social
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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You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
September 8, 2026 at 11:12 PM
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
@boccaletti.bsky.social Any non-US source to but The Environmental Republic? Asking for Canadians...and others maybe?
September 5, 2026 at 7:21 PM
@boccaletti.bsky.social Any non-US source to but The Environmental Republic? Asking for Canadians...and others maybe?
Highlight: "For Canada, the choice came down to either severe but temporary economic instability or binding itself to a pseudodemocratic fiscal basket case of a nation, whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity."
Opinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders. (Gift Article)
Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.
www.nytimes.com
August 24, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Highlight: "For Canada, the choice came down to either severe but temporary economic instability or binding itself to a pseudodemocratic fiscal basket case of a nation, whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity."
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"Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Greece and Ireland spent €9.9 billion on energy crisis relief, 85% of the total across all EU countries, and most of this on supports that benefitted the fossil fuel industry instead of targeting at-risk people."
what a waste of public money
what a waste of public money
Ordinary people are hugely exposed to skyrocketing energy bills because their governments and the EU have developed serious dependencies on oil and gas
The government response to the Hormuz energy crisis has been mostly to dig these dependencies deeper, so the next shock will hurt more
The government response to the Hormuz energy crisis has been mostly to dig these dependencies deeper, so the next shock will hurt more
€9.9 billion Hormuz energy crisis relief mostly supported fossil fuels - Greenpeace European Unit
Brussels – Seven EU countries overwhelmingly deepened their fossil fuel dependence with their energy crisis response measures following the US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran, according to new res...
www.greenpeace.org
July 14, 2026 at 9:58 AM
"Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Greece and Ireland spent €9.9 billion on energy crisis relief, 85% of the total across all EU countries, and most of this on supports that benefitted the fossil fuel industry instead of targeting at-risk people."
what a waste of public money
what a waste of public money
@theguardian.com Have you just stopped using copyeditors and proofreaders?
July 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
@theguardian.com Have you just stopped using copyeditors and proofreaders?
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Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wicked of men will do the most wicked of things for the greatest good of everyone."
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Maynard Keynes
June 27, 2026 at 2:50 PM
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wicked of men will do the most wicked of things for the greatest good of everyone."
- John Maynard Keynes
- John Maynard Keynes
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I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
April 1, 2026 at 1:38 PM
I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
Wow. 19 hour days here in western Ireland, so far.
June 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Wow. 19 hour days here in western Ireland, so far.
Great time to have just arrived in Paris!!!
May 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Great time to have just arrived in Paris!!!
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FYI ! Thanks, Andrea.......
May 26, 2026 at 9:32 PM
FYI ! Thanks, Andrea.......
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Benefit facts:
Most people who receive benefits are in work.
Taxpayers support employers who don’t pay decent wages.
The welfare system was not set up to benefit employers who don’t pay decent wages.
Most people who receive benefits are in work.
Taxpayers support employers who don’t pay decent wages.
The welfare system was not set up to benefit employers who don’t pay decent wages.
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Benefit facts:
Most people who receive benefits are in work.
Taxpayers support employers who don’t pay decent wages.
The welfare system was not set up to benefit employers who don’t pay decent wages.
Most people who receive benefits are in work.
Taxpayers support employers who don’t pay decent wages.
The welfare system was not set up to benefit employers who don’t pay decent wages.
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When considering that the United States is no longer the leader of the free world, it is important to remember that it is not solely because of the Donald Trump administration. The systemic rot in the governing of that country is significant, as is the ignorance of millions of voters.
May 20, 2026 at 7:20 PM
When considering that the United States is no longer the leader of the free world, it is important to remember that it is not solely because of the Donald Trump administration. The systemic rot in the governing of that country is significant, as is the ignorance of millions of voters.
Hear! Hear!
“To be called ‘woke’ in a world that sleeps through suffering is no insult.”
~ Pope Leo XIV
~ Pope Leo XIV
May 16, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Hear! Hear!
In fact, we have multiple working hypotheses.
Actually, we do.
May 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
In fact, we have multiple working hypotheses.
Why does Trump's patient (or resurrectee?) look like Jeffery Epstein?
And Trump posted an image of himself as some sort of American Jesus healing people.
April 13, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Why does Trump's patient (or resurrectee?) look like Jeffery Epstein?
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"In all of this emptiness — this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe — you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist in together.” — Astronaut Victor Glover
April 11, 2026 at 2:34 AM
"In all of this emptiness — this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe — you have this oasis, this beautiful place that we get to exist in together.” — Astronaut Victor Glover
For some reason, when discussing current affairs, I keep saying ‘Pig Hetseth’ as the Secretary of US Defense. It’s like a speech impediment or something 😳.
April 9, 2026 at 4:47 PM
For some reason, when discussing current affairs, I keep saying ‘Pig Hetseth’ as the Secretary of US Defense. It’s like a speech impediment or something 😳.
And he is not a good man, in any way.
For how how long have we been told that the US has this fabulous written Constition whereas we do not?
But the US Constitution has been shown to be the emperor with no clothes
It might as well be a blank sheet of paper
It might as well not exist
The US is acting entirely on the whim of one man
But the US Constitution has been shown to be the emperor with no clothes
It might as well be a blank sheet of paper
It might as well not exist
The US is acting entirely on the whim of one man
April 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM
And he is not a good man, in any way.
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Wow!!!
As a historian, you might appreciate this one somebody sent me from LA.
March 28, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Wow!!!
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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.
March 3, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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.
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Reminder to journalists: American judicial orders stop at the US border.
NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon permanently forbids the Department of Justice from releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report on his prosecution of Trump. Also bars DOJ from sharing "any information or conclusions" from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Upon review of the unopposed Motions, and consistent with the Court’s authority to
enforce its own orders and control the dissemination of discovery materials generated in this case,
the Court agrees with the parties’ uniform view. Release of Volume II outside the Department of
Justice would plainly offend the Court’s Dismissal Order [ECF No. 672] and the Rule 16
Protective Order [ECF No. 27], both of which remain in force; it would cause irreparable damage
to former defendants from disclosure of non-public discovery material implicating still-contested
grand jury and privilege concerns; and it would contravene basic notions of fairness and justice in
the process, where no adjudication of guilt has been reached following initiation of criminal
charges. The Court reasons as follows.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreidqneftxkqpwkturvqq4yrycpwb2beok2wkkkjguvxjjdpf45deyq)
February 24, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Reminder to journalists: American judicial orders stop at the US border.
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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 “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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 “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”