here are this morning's thoughts

Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.

i’ve been thinking about this quote a lot lately.

Coming soon! Inspired by that dude you'll meet at any seafood festival on the Chesapeake. Like the one-legged guy selling alligator nuggets who told twelve-year-old me, 'it counts cuz they're coming on up. give it a hundred years.'

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Coming soon! Inspired by that dude you'll meet at any seafood festival on the Chesapeake. Like the one-legged guy selling alligator nuggets who told twelve-year-old me, 'it counts cuz they're coming on up. give it a hundred years.'

Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:

There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.

Really feels like non-grass-touching Bluesky thinks these events are a lot more centrist than they actually are

Baltimore

Massive lines snaked outside BWI airport for the third time this week as travelers continue to arrive three hours ahead their departure. buff.ly/U79Ni0U

Once we had five dollar foot longs

I wrote about a camp, 27 girls who drowned due to astonishing failures to plan, and hundreds of families going back anyway. nymag.com/intelligence...

Golden hour Ruthie Rolling

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

March brings the desnowing of my gardens, and also my most anticipated collection of the year: Gore Poetics by the unmatched @spicycloaca.bsky.social. Samir Sirk Morató is the most important thing happening in horror right now. Morató and nothing else.

GET OUTTA MY SWAMP!!!!!!!!

glad i take 5 minute showers instead of ten minute showers to save the planet

A controversial statue of Christoper Columbus Baltimoreans dumped into the Inner Harbor in 2020 has found a home on White House grounds. www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

The novel is drafted 🌲

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

Just a year ago, we heard reducing the deficit was so important Elon Musk had to fire as many scientists, forest rangers and Black women on the government’s payroll that he could find. Now? 🤷🏾‍♂️

When I give her her wet food, I like to say, “fancy feast for a fancy beast!”

billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago? interviewer: this is really interesting

It’s my birthday! it would mean so much to me if everyone who sees this could send me their social security number 🥹☘️🎉

All this. Yes.

Really grateful they closed schools early cuz of these storms so that every kid on my block can be safe and sound on the basketball court across the street right now

Late to post but this beautiful issue of @remainsmagazine.bsky.social landed in my mailbox! Pick it up at remains.uk/products/iss...

Don’t carry wine in plastic bag!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello I have a novelette set in space it has vampires and big beautiful bugs does anyone want to buy it

One time I was in a situationship with a real jocky guy and I posted a picture of Ruthie on my Instagram and he messaged me “whoaaaa what kind of animal is that”

we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.” Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.

Pre-orders open for Vol. 2! Link in bio! Featuring work by @kayv.bsky.social @dreadwrites.bsky.social @jakeiswriting.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social @innatelywriting.bsky.social @beardedbetts.bsky.social and others!

time of year where i really miss swimmin around and being submerged

once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling

The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Such a cool story by @spicycloaca.bsky.social! I read it when the issue came out last month and I’m still thinking about it when I look up at night 🪐☄️

“The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems, subtle declines in functional capacity, and lost independence”

These LLM tools are an enemy to science, in the broadest and deepest sense. Scientists need to be resisting them at every turn, because whatever niche positive uses have been found in no way compensate the net assault on collective epistemic and cognitive stability #refuseresist

John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

This isn’t a departure, tech has always been against women. Facebook started as a woman-rating app

“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

THREAD: In AZ, a cancer patient was told to treat his symptoms with an energy drink. A MS inmate broke his arm and later needed to have his broken arm amputated. In CO, a 22-year-old died from treatable infections after he was ignored by prison staff for a month. www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

TEN DAYS! until Agita Magazine opens for its very first open submission period. The theme is "Bad Science." The length is flash. The genre is horror or dark sci-fi. The co-editor is Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social). The guidelines is at agitamag.com/submissions