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Joined March 2009

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The tragedy in Pakistan is a stark reminder of climate injustice. The top map shows which nations are most responsible for excess emissions. The bottom map shows which nations are most impacted by it. Climate breakdown is playing out along colonial lines.
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After suffering career burnout for the past 4-5 years, here's how I've come to understand its cause: Burnout is a response to repeated attempts to make meaningful change while lacking the agency to do so. See problems > try to fix them > get shot down or ignored.
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This piece by is a smart, nuanced look at how SF managed Covid better than any large city in the U.S. tinyurl.com/y59fr8gx Accurately highlights the unique partnership between , & . Lots of inspiring stories, including decision...(1/2)
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Fantastic afternoon of motorcycling. 120 miles through nature on the coastal twisties north of SF. Lots of other motorcycles out today. Lost 1.5 litres of water in this heat, so recovering and celebrating still being alive with drinks, ice cream, and Netflix 🏍️ 🍻 🍦 🎥
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Hmmm this sounds so familiar. Can't quite put my finger on which other country has been doing this for the last 75 years 🤔
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FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich describes how "China uses its economic influence to pressure" other countries to "silence any country that would dare challenge their illegal actions"
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Time for some forgotten history. *Twenty two* African Americans served in Congress during the 1800s after the Civil War. Right before Southern racists took voting rights away from black people again. Since many people don't learn this in schools, let's do an important thread:
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1) In 2008 I observed something extraordinary, which totally changed my perception of all life. I observed hoverflies carefully and deliberately opening up the anthers of a flower and scooping the pollens grains out of the anthers to their mouthparts with their front feet.
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Angola is the longest running slave plantation in the United States. It is also the nation’s largest maximum-security prison.
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Every inmate at Angola is sentenced to hard labor. These men, like hundreds of others, worked in the fields. While picking carrots on the former slave plantation, we discussed the cycle of incarceration and prison labor. #Dateline #JusticeForAll
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