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Eryn Cangi, PhD

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planetary atmospheric scientist studying Mars, Venus, + @ CU Boulder. From PDX πŸ’š cats, plants, dnd, climate, outdoor stuff, Star Trek πŸ––, bothering geologists about rocks, NPs geek

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12.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 296 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1
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If most Americans care about the climate, why is the US clawing back protections? | Colorado Public Radio Two thirds of Americans say they are concerned about climate change. Asked whether they are directly affected, and the percentage plummets. Asked what they should do about it, and it shrinks further. ...

I was unaware how much tobacco marketers went on to influence our perceptions of climate change.

It's always eye-opening -- and inspiring -- to speak with atmospheric scientist and educator @katharinehayhoe.com:

11.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

09.03.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 2456 πŸ” 691 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 41

Some not great news out of Portland State University. www.oregonlive.com/education/20...

09.03.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

05.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 17433 πŸ” 5766 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 101

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

04.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 1487 πŸ” 546 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7
Rocks! On Maaaaaaaaaars!

Rocks! On Maaaaaaaaaars!

Here are some rocks on Mars, photographed Sunday.

03.03.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Star Trek fans: buy physical media of everything

27.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 520 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 22

Esto es algo que digo ya abiertamente: creo que la IA es un paywall del conocimiento. Ahora estamos en la fase de enganche (si, como la droga), accesible y a precios razonables o gratis. En poco tiempo se tirarΓ‘ la carta de los rentabilidad y empezarΓ‘ la enshitificacion. Precios πŸ”Ί, prestaciones πŸ”»πŸ”»πŸ”»

27.02.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 178 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7
The "espresso martini" brunette hair color trend feels rich, picture of a pretty lady (gracie abrams?) with such hair

The "espresso martini" brunette hair color trend feels rich, picture of a pretty lady (gracie abrams?) with such hair

Hearing about this new trend. It's called brown hair

27.02.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 5165 πŸ” 476 πŸ’¬ 166 πŸ“Œ 130
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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

26.02.2026 01:43 πŸ‘ 9401 πŸ” 4616 πŸ’¬ 233 πŸ“Œ 672
MeidasTouch x MoveOn: People’s State of the Union
MeidasTouch x MoveOn: People’s State of the Union YouTube video by MoveOn

You can watch The People's State of the Union live on YouTube now:

25.02.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

22.02.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 3577 πŸ” 2754 πŸ’¬ 125 πŸ“Œ 424
Your news media, AI, and personal data all belong to Trump's billionaire allies.

Trump and friends cash in while we can't even afford groceries.

(around an image of Trump) Conservative media moguls
MURDOCHS
FOX CHANNELS
FOX NEWS
NEW YORK POST
WALL STREET JOURNAL
TUBI

ELLISONS
CBS NEWS
PARAMOUNT+
TIKTOK
PLUTO TV

SINCLAIRS
185+ LOCAL NEWS AFFILIATES (CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, ABC)
THE BALTIMORE SUN

MUSK
$266 million donated
TWITTER/X
GROK

ALTMAN & BROCKMAN
$31 million donated
OPEN Al
CHAT GPT

ZUCKERBERG
$3.7 million donated
FACEBOOK 
INSTAGRAM 
WHATSAPP 
MESSENGER
METAQUEST
THREADS

BEZOS
$2.1 million donated
WASHINGTON POST
PRIME VIDEO
TWITCH
WONDERY

PICHAI
$1.2 million donated
GOOGLE
YOUTUBE
ANDROID
GOOGLE PLAY
GEMINI
BLOGGER

COOK
$1 million donated
APPLE
APPLE TV
iTUNES
APPLE INTELLIGENCE

Your news media, AI, and personal data all belong to Trump's billionaire allies. Trump and friends cash in while we can't even afford groceries. (around an image of Trump) Conservative media moguls MURDOCHS FOX CHANNELS FOX NEWS NEW YORK POST WALL STREET JOURNAL TUBI ELLISONS CBS NEWS PARAMOUNT+ TIKTOK PLUTO TV SINCLAIRS 185+ LOCAL NEWS AFFILIATES (CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, ABC) THE BALTIMORE SUN MUSK $266 million donated TWITTER/X GROK ALTMAN & BROCKMAN $31 million donated OPEN Al CHAT GPT ZUCKERBERG $3.7 million donated FACEBOOK INSTAGRAM WHATSAPP MESSENGER METAQUEST THREADS BEZOS $2.1 million donated WASHINGTON POST PRIME VIDEO TWITCH WONDERY PICHAI $1.2 million donated GOOGLE YOUTUBE ANDROID GOOGLE PLAY GEMINI BLOGGER COOK $1 million donated APPLE APPLE TV iTUNES APPLE INTELLIGENCE

23.02.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 719 πŸ” 441 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 22
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Starting this Friday, four separate #JWST programmes will be exploring physical processes in Jupiter's atmosphere and ionosphere. We're asking amateur astronomers to help provide context imaging over the next few weeks to understand how the atmosphere is changing with time. #planetaryscience

17.02.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 132 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10

It’s 2026 right? Why are people posting about who I have to vote for in 2028 or else

13.02.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 1802 πŸ” 172 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 37

Was not expecting this on my lunchtime doomscroll

13.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
13.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 1268 πŸ” 290 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4
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House GOP pushes strict proof-of-citizenship requirement for voters ahead of midterm elections The bill passed Wednesday is a Trump administration priority aimed at scrutinizing ballot access. But it faces blowback in the Senate.

The SAVE America Act would require Americans to prove their citizenship when registering to vote, mostly through a valid passport or birth certificate. It would also require a valid photo identification before voters can cast ballots, which some states already demand. https://to.pbs.org/4qJLLPq

12.02.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 7

Relevant reading also for #PlanetaryScience folks

12.02.2026 22:01 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Russell Vought: The Shadow President
Russell Vought: The Shadow President YouTube video by ProPublica

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

12.02.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 1003 πŸ” 562 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 45
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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

10.02.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 8838 πŸ” 2740 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 242
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FDA refuses to review Moderna’s application for mRNA flu vaccine, company says | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has refused to accept an application from Moderna to review its first mRNA seasonal flu vaccine, the company said Tuesday, in another setback for the technology tha...

This is where my prediction comes true: the insane opposition to mRNA vaccines, without any scientific basis, is going to start killing people. Tip of the iceberg, and we’re all on the boat. πŸ§ͺ βš•οΈ #medsky

11.02.2026 00:53 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 5
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What Americans lose if their National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

What Americans lose if their National Center for Atmospheric Research is dismantled www.space.com/astronomy/ea...

08.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

From a Comrade
19h. C
One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin
Cities right now is that even the most long term
organizers who've been here for decades can't keep
track of all the resistance that is going on. There are
so many self-organized crews just doing work that in
any conversation with someone from another
neighborhood you might stumble over a whole
collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think
of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around
fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers
taking cars of detained people away for free. People
delivering food to families in hiding. So many local
rapid response groups that the number is uncertain
but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds-
especially when one considers that several
immigrant communities have their own non-English
rapid response networks usually uncounted in the
main English-language directories. People standing
watch outside daycares and schools.
This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative
and leadership, so many layers of self-organization,
that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to
repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or
movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of
course, that's built up through many years and
decades of organization, and not only through
explicitiv political campaigns or formations built
during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also
built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building,
workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic
relationship building among neighbors and
coworkers here.

From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.

message from MN

07.02.2026 06:19 πŸ‘ 1293 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 79

it's probably fine

04.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 3004 πŸ” 533 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 22
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ICE Agents Film Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Facial Recognition Push ICE and CBP are using facial recognition technology to facilitate President Trump’s mass deportation campaign. With a smartphone app, immigration officers can scan faces of people they encounter and q...

The right-wing push against the average citizen masking was never just about COVID19.

Masking was banned in several jurisdictions because it hampers facial recognition.

30.01.2026 15:26 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

wrong

03.02.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 2897 πŸ” 564 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 6
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What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."

But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalationβ€”and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

03.02.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 1198 πŸ” 346 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8
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Trump Is Breaking His Word on Credit Card Regulation Donald Trump has long claimed he wants to lower credit card interest rates. His regulators are intervening in a legal ba

Trump claims he wants to cap credit card interest rates.

But before his announcement, his own regulators filed a legal brief opposing a Colorado law that would do just that.

Don’t believe his fake populism for a second. He will always govern for the rich and powerful β€” not you.

03.02.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 2064 πŸ” 670 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 21