The fertility rates I'm concerned about. In order of how soon they'll be an issue: Salmonberrys - looking good so far Thimbleberries - seem busy with bugs Black cap raspberries - on track Dew berries - gotta check the patches Various strawberries Apple trees

Evergreen

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

"zomg California is spending $20 million on diapers!!!" Washington State is spending $7 million repainting a highway bridge in Mount Vernon but I don't see Epstein-class leashed pundits snarling about it.

This might be the most brutal ratio I’ve ever seen on Bluesky.

Seeing complaints about the constant hum of data centers, yet I dont know if Ive ever seen nor heard a complaint about freeway noise. I can hear I-35 which is a mile, A MILE, from my house.

What a neat thing to do!

Out here brainmaxxing on main

This is a great idea, if you want to make insurance incredibly expensive and put taxpayers on the hook for rich suburbanites who foolishly decide to build homes in wildfire zones.

Conservatives just love killing ( people

"you need to embrace AI because it's here and it's inevitable"

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Agricultural expenses were already high in the state, and further increases are hard to pass on to consumers. (Donna Gordon Blankinship / Washington State Standard)

The single-most dangerous thing firefighters do is respond to crashes on the interstate highway system. Absolutely zero traffic control out here for these folks responding to an emergency.

The Republican sales pitch: "What if nothing worked, everything sucked, and you were paying buttloads for it? Also, you get to be scared all the time"

Thread!

Bee ungovernable

the new PDX is so good that it could only be improved with bidets

This chart is helpful is highlighting the universality of declines across states red and blue, union and nonunion, more urban and more rural, etc. The exceptions, important to look at for possible solutions, were starting from low points.

Well, I think Elon and Trump have been on the same flight logs before

This is all true but it's a little Hot Dog Guy coming from AAA

For 45 years, Berkeley built virtually no new housing. By the mid-2010s, it was one of the most expensive college towns in America. Around that time, YIMBYs took over and kicked off a building boom. Today, rents are below 2018 levels in nominal terms—a remarkable case of progress on affordability.

HEGSETH CAUGHT IN $1.5 TRILLION PENTAGON SCANDAL WHILE TOP TRANSGENDER TROOPS ARE BANNED FROM DEFENDING FREEDOM. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE? KIDS CAUGHT IN POLLUTION GHETTO -- BUT ELON MUSK DATA CENTER DRIVE MARCHES ON. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE?

Across the road from this bust stop, the owners of this bluff-top water-view mansion who are irrigating their lawn in the rain have post BS signs claiming the public right-of-way: NO PARKING WITHOUT PROPERTY OWNER'S PERMISSION some people just take and take and take and TAKE

Across the road from this bust stop, the owners of this bluff-top water-view mansion who are irrigating their lawn in the rain have post BS signs claiming the public right-of-way: NO PARKING WITHOUT PROPERTY OWNER'S PERMISSION some people just take and take and take and TAKE

Just a perfect day

Can't spell "pro-transit" without "pro-trans"

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

Oh, we are having A Discourse. Kids want to eat easy starches and sugar more than bitter vegetables. JUST LIKE ADULTS. To the point where their health is harmed! JUST LIKE ADULTS! Caring for kids means making sure they eat a varied and healthy diet, even, get this, if they don't want to.

Get stuffed, Howard

I can confirm. I've used this very bike rack to buy art supplies.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

Non-alcoholic sipping options in NW Washington featured:

I have *cough* requested the local library purchase so many books on the basis of Bluesky. I get to read them, and so do other people!

IMO, if you want to protect "the children," you should do something about the two leading causes of death for US children. (Guess which party works relentlessly to prevent any progress on this score.)

Downtown resident population change since 1960, 2000, 2022:

It’s a big deal that the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org is going directly after the Highway Lobby for the unprecedented damage they’ve done to cities and transportation. Spread the word. #UrbanTruth

“The road lobby is the most powerful political lobby … today. It is immensely rich and is backed by some of the biggest businesses ... Its target is to control the country's transport policy.“ @urbantruth.bsky.social @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @davidzipper.bsky.social

And frequent, reliable transit so they don’t have to spend so much of their time chauffeuring kids around!

There are some tentative IDs of the marine-mammal-molesting moron... but nothing from the authorities yet

Oh, I get it now! You can redistrict, as long as you do it *racistly*

The golden calf is a binary concept. It either is or it isn’t. There is no middle ground here. There is no fuzzy, thin line. There is no nuance. If you have to take the time to insist that it’s not a golden calf you’re worshipping, it’s definitely a golden calf.

DING DING DING

I've been on a mission to find the route of the Anacortes Electric Railway (doomed-by-financial-panic rail system) built in 1890. I stooped by the Anacortes Museum, and there was a display up about it! The museum aide said they had a 70-year-old article from Electric Traction Quarterly...

*CONTENT WARNING* Dammit kids get off YouTube and go outside and play! When I was your age we were outside the whole day! Outside: 🎥Adam Cohen

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...