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Tonti Riyad
is 45% done
The pain of having to translate something almost sacred into a language that was never built to hold it. Like taking a living, breathing species, with all its quiet complexity and the impossible evolutionary history, its very right to just exist, and compress it into numbers on a balance sheet, hoping that will make someone care.
— Mar 17, 2026 11:19PM
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Tonti Riyad
is 60% done
I’m so enjoying all the details and thoughtfulness that’s gone into the world building that’s so eerily familiar. Like the extinction credit hack with COX region manipulation to feign new species in assessments (and then using the money for conservation as a way of having the free market work in your favor). Genius!
— Mar 19, 2026 12:59AM
Tonti Riyad
is 45% done
“The biodiversity enthusiasts were trying to talk to capitalists in the language of capitalism, but they knew as well as the capitalists did that it just wasn’t a strong pitch.”
The way mine and (& every other biologist I’ve met) can feel their soul leave the body every time we’re made to reduce a species to just a monetary value.
— Mar 17, 2026 11:15PM
The way mine and (& every other biologist I’ve met) can feel their soul leave the body every time we’re made to reduce a species to just a monetary value.
Tonti Riyad
is 30% done
When Karin talks about how she’s nevertheless part of the apparatus that legitimized the extinction of her beloved fish I felt that lol I carry so much weight for the shit that happens in the govt beyond my control 😮💨
— Mar 13, 2026 12:03PM
Tonti Riyad
is 20% done
Ok but why’s this book so fun to read 😭 like I see it. 100% this is the future
— Mar 06, 2026 06:07AM
