Marina Melanidis, MSc
@marinamelanidis.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Cambridge, studying conservation philanthropy, power, & justice 💰
youth4nature.org founder
@globalwitness.org board 🌿
horror movies, roller derby, & climate justice 🛼
she/her | ace 💜
youth4nature.org founder
@globalwitness.org board 🌿
horror movies, roller derby, & climate justice 🛼
she/her | ace 💜
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Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education
May 4, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education
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The people of Iran pose no threat to the United States — this has always been an oil war at the behest of the 1%.
Now, Trump is threatening genocide over it.
Where is the leadership from Carney to denounce this illegal war? Where is the pressure from provincial leaders?
Now, Trump is threatening genocide over it.
Where is the leadership from Carney to denounce this illegal war? Where is the pressure from provincial leaders?
April 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
The people of Iran pose no threat to the United States — this has always been an oil war at the behest of the 1%.
Now, Trump is threatening genocide over it.
Where is the leadership from Carney to denounce this illegal war? Where is the pressure from provincial leaders?
Now, Trump is threatening genocide over it.
Where is the leadership from Carney to denounce this illegal war? Where is the pressure from provincial leaders?
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![Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.
[alt text from NASA]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:62gdkmpwa7xme36getyqnem3/bafkreid6rp25tpuxaceaziwiduvtsnbystj5s542tlmuhcstyuxyfaj7ve)
April 7, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /
April 1, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /
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March 31, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Is this feeling … hope ???
BREAKING: Avi Lewis wins the NDP leadership with a commanding majority on the first ballot.
Avi Lewis is the new leader of the NDP.
Avi Lewis is the new leader of the NDP.
March 30, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Is this feeling … hope ???
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
buff.ly
March 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
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VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry
Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2026 at 7:01 AM
VICTORY! Government to open up the Land Registry - bringing to an end a thousand years of secrecy shrouding who owns England.
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I’ve been campaigning for this for ten years: the new Land Use Framework, published later today, makes it government policy. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2026 at 10:34 AM
It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.
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There is a version of this world that could exist where, at any given time, the majority of humans beings are just chillin’ and eating fruit.
February 26, 2026 at 2:24 AM
There is a version of this world that could exist where, at any given time, the majority of humans beings are just chillin’ and eating fruit.
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Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch
An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.
www.inquirer.com
February 22, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
I regret to inform you that, actually sitting down and finally doing the work does in fact reduce stress levels from weeks of procrastination. I'm as disappointed as you are.
February 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I regret to inform you that, actually sitting down and finally doing the work does in fact reduce stress levels from weeks of procrastination. I'm as disappointed as you are.
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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February 5, 2026 at 1:35 PM
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For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
Catherine O’Hara Could Do Anything
And she pretty much did everything. The only tragedy is that it feels like she was just beginning to get the recognition her decades-long career always deserved.
www.theringer.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:33 AM
For The Ringer, I wrote about how amazing it was that the brilliant Catherine O'Hara finally became a superstar in her 60s, and how sad it is that she was taken from us just when we had all finally begun to appreciate her:
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A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
A Canadian-made armoured vehicle was spotted on Minneapolis streets the day ICE murdered Alex Pretti.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
The company that sold ICE that monster as part of a $10 million deal? Roshel.
What’s more:
Canada’s government brought Roshel’s CEO on a trade mission SIX DAYS AFTER Renee Good was murdered.
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
Greenland is one of the most incredible places I’ve had the privilege of visiting. Greenlanders and Greenlanders only have the right to determine its future. We are all obligated to resist colonial imperialism and fascism, however we can, from Greenland to Venezuela to Palestine to the world.
January 21, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Greenland is one of the most incredible places I’ve had the privilege of visiting. Greenlanders and Greenlanders only have the right to determine its future. We are all obligated to resist colonial imperialism and fascism, however we can, from Greenland to Venezuela to Palestine to the world.
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hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.
January 20, 2026 at 8:54 PM
hey I like that we're all posting thru it but I also wanted to say, in case anybody else is feeling it, that I'm pretty scared and genuinely think that we've passed a real rubicon in the past week or so and that being at the mercy of a handful of dumbfuck lunatics really does a number on your soul.
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i wish mark carney would speak like this when he’s challenged about the latest aggressive action from the US instead of just in big speeches in front of international audiences
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
i wish mark carney would speak like this when he’s challenged about the latest aggressive action from the US instead of just in big speeches in front of international audiences
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mark carney gave a speech at davos about the end of "american hegemony" and disengaging from the "useful fiction" that "no longer works"
at davos?
.... davos???????????????????????
at davos?
.... davos???????????????????????
January 21, 2026 at 12:12 AM
mark carney gave a speech at davos about the end of "american hegemony" and disengaging from the "useful fiction" that "no longer works"
at davos?
.... davos???????????????????????
at davos?
.... davos???????????????????????
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I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.
January 20, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.