Onyx Turtle

Onyx Turtle

@onyxturnerturtle.bsky.social

Just a human hoping for a better future. These are terrifying times. Hopefully, with enough community and empathy, we can build a better, more sustainable world.

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A massive diesel spill at a New Jersey data center has dumped roughly 5,000 gallons of fuel into wetlands connected to the Meadowlands. Local officials say a “computer glitch” caused the backup generator system to keep calling for fuel. The diesel entered Anderson Creek,

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A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?

*sigh* I'm dissapointed, but not surprised. They've been downplaying polluting side effects for decades already (9/11, the train derailment in Ohio, ect)

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Reform UK wants Trump-style deregulation in the UK putting billionaire profiteering over children's lives "The Environmental Protection Agency is about to argue, in a legal filing, that the pollution from power plants doesn't endanger anyone. What the f*ck? " via Feminist News

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Replying to @altnps.bsky.social

They filter drinking water, reduce flooding, and provide critical habitat for birds, fish, and wildlife. Destroying these protections won’t just erase wetlands it will leave communities paying the price in dirtier water!

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If we, the people of the United States, can ever have a shot of a better government setup, I hope we prioritize having people educated in their respective fields related to their line of work. We also need to get rid of lobbying, and have bills cover just one issue at a time. Just as a start

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It is SO blatantly obvious everything that’s happening is because both parties are owned almost entirely by AIPAC. They don’t actually believe in anything. They’re just in it for the money. They will fritter and fetterman away your whole country.

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A huge win! Now that USPS finalized its rule and created actual harm, a federal judge tonight blocked the Postal Service regulation that would have given the agency new control over mail-in ballots.

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Replying to @leftistlawyer.com

I believe over 14 million people are now displaced, fleeing the massacres 💔 The evidence of mass killing El Fasher could be seen from space, barricades built over months in advance El Obied is now being trapped the same way and its not being widely reported #Sudan

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For those of you that haven't read it, Chapter 10 of Project 2025 was literally about creating food insecurity by cutting safety nets and slashing regulations and restrictions on food production. No, we weren't overreacting to Project 2025.

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Denver metro and most of eastern Colorado under a level 2 severe weather risk tomorrow for both hail and wind. Best odds for a nasty one tomorrow will be south + east of Denver, but risk includes most of the metro. Keep an eye on tomorrow in particular... #COwx

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Replying to @bastetshuman.bsky.social

Yeah they have plenty of active measures in place too. It’s a broad spectrum strategy to destabilize and ultimately collapse the US. I can’t make it make sense any other way. Like, yes, Trump is an idiot, but Putin, Netanyahu, Vought, and Miller are weaponizing his stupidity against the US.

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🚨 OCEAN HEAT: We are entering uncharted territory. Record-breaking ocean temperatures are pushing ecosystems closer to dangerous tipping points. Fossil fuel corporations and big polluters are gambling with a liveable planet for profit.

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SUMMER OF SMOKE 💨 Stunning NASA Animation shows #smoke blanketing the US and #Canada over the past 3 weeks. Summer is only half done and we’re already near record smoke emissions in WA & OR in NASA’s database since 2003, a feedback to warming. And unfortunately many more fires continue to rage. 1/

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We are on the verge of a climatic upheaval greater than any of us can imagine. Global leaders and media aren't paying attention. They are focused on a series of self-inflicted crises that have left us dangerously vulnerable and totally unprepared. My latest. charlieangus.substack.com/p/what-keeps...

charlieangus.substack.comWhat Keeps Me Up at NightRising temperatures in the Pacific will blow away any previous “Super” El Niño by a “truly mind-blowing margin.” - Zeke Hausfather

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Big money spent $70 million to try and defeat Abdul El-Sayed and it didn't work! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

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Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

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Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency

vox.comDavid Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.

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🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

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Shout out to Colorado Springs residents pushing back at a 16 hr plg commission hearing on a new AI data center near the Garden of the Gods. Despite the backlash, the commission upheld the previous approval of the plan. The fight isn’t over - residents have 10 days to appeal to the City Council.