A useful reminder that much of US truck culture is performative masculinity, not utility.

American higher Ed is a golden goose that’s delivered medical, tech, and science innovations, bolstered soft power internationally, and is one of the largest employers in every state. This admin is doing everything it can to kill it.

"Today, Detroit doesn’t need the average American to buy a car; better to sell affluent households their second S.U.V."

So far in 2026, 80% of big tech's power procurement has been fossil gas (a bit more if you go by gen) Desperation, ideology and material, deepening relationships between big tech and fossil fuels gets you the exact situation we have been warning about for years.

the evil emperor cozying up to the pope’s idiot brother is so fucking renaissance, man. it’s so funny. the emperor is forming an alliance against the papal states and there is war in the holy land. there are rumors of plague.

Let's test the hypothesis that he is Jesus by putting him in a cave with a big stone over its entrance and check back in three days

Also Hungary's next Eurovision contestant

If you’re using Generative AI for work of any value, you're wasting your time.

“We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain and ultimately remove them.”

The leaders of the fascist Republican party failed, as we all knew they would, to negotiate any kind of ceasefire or agreement. It's because they treat everyone like they treat the women they abuse. They make demands, threaten, don't accept any answer they don't like, use violence.

How many genocides will the world allow Israel to carry out?

For those who are interested: over five years ago I wrote this piece about what it’s like to be someone victimized by an older man. It’s one of my most read essays ever. The victims, the nameless ones, are the ones who deserve your support. newsletterwithecm.substack.com/p/gaetz-of-h...

For a long long time, I thought about what my life would have been like if I had stayed silent. Family members even told me I should have. I did it because I didn’t want him to be able to do it to anyone else. And then you know what? He got off easy. And he did it again, many many times.

"France will double state support to 10 billion euros ($12 billion) a year through to 2030 to help its switch to electricity from oil and gas and their derivative ​fuels [...] Measures including boosting the use of ​electric vehicles and modernising home heating..."

While we are dumping shitty men, can we maybe

women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?

Almost freakish soundscape at Tinker Park this afternoon. American Toads trilling, Leopard Frogs snoring

Sometimes leadership (and excuses) can be found in just one word. #NoUrbanExcuses #UrbanTruth

Imagine you are old enough to work, but too young to drive. There's a cheap, efficient alternative you have access to, but only if you accept injury/death as an outcome, b/c politicians rank your needs & human rights as less important than driver convenience or traffic flow. This is #RoadViolence.

Beware of the coherence fallacy. We are not witnessing the early stages of a sophisticated scheme to erect dictatorship, but the horrifying result of fusing ideological bloodlust, religious zealotry, and a violent obsession with projecting “alpha-male” dominance.

This makes me unbelievably angry. We were so close to prevention and cures for so many things. Case in point: Individualized cancer treatments that reduced deaths & recurrence by half! mRNA cancer vaccines were doing well in trials to teach immune systems to recognize & attack cancer cells.

This is a reminder that there are many pigs out there we don't know about, because the women who they attacked or harassed are still terrified or too isolated to come forward

The @gothamist.com makes the math clear: global conflict + fossil fuel dependence = higher costs. Still, @governor.ny.gov is pushing delays to NY’s climate law instead of accelerating it. 🧵➡️

Commentary: Climate change doesn’t care about your bandwidth

“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...

For @roccycling.bsky.social The answer here seems to privilege "traffic flow" over pedestrian safety and right of way. A pedestrian shouldn't have to wait for the "don't worry I won't kill you" wave. A driver seeing a crosswalk sign has lots of time to see if someone is waiting there.

"Even if all war spending were to stop immediately, interest payments on the $2 trillion of existing war debt would rise to over $2 trillion by 2030 and to $6.5 trillion by 2050."

I wonder where there is a ready and willing population of experienced construction workers

"there are crazy, dangerous people on public transit!" lol, have you ever been on a highway in the US? I'd much rather hear some guy shouting conspiracy theories than get killed by someone in a giant pickup who was doing 20 over the speed limit while watching tiktok

This is catastrophic.

A message of "we will manage the decline slightly better than the other guys" simply does not inspire the kind of massive, grassroots mobilization required to overcome deeply entrenched, aggressive opposition from the billionaire interests in both parties.

I'm in a chat with a bunch of wind and solar industry insiders and they're telling me they expect the price of sun and wind to climb to at least $0 per babbrel in the coming weeks

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

Live look at me paying my tax bill

Truly wild research on the change in bike mode share in NYC, London, Paris and Berlin. Between 2000 and 2023, Paris went from 1 out of every 100 trips being on a bike to *one out of 9!* Many people, including credible researchers, would have told you that that *could not* happen.

The costs of high oil prices are widely distributed, while the benefits are concentrated among a few. In fact, you can think of high oil prices as a redistributor of wealth, away from the American consumer and toward people who work for, and invest in, the oil industry."

like when we talk about "Adult Convert Energy" it's not gonna reflect most of the people at your neighborhood church who got baptized last weekend at the Easter Vigil Mass it's the kind of guys who are like "hello, I'm here to join your 2000-year-old institution and improve it with my genius"

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

Every day we wonder whether we will live or die all because of the whims of an idiotic, incompetent, incoherent, incontinent pedoph*ile whose best quality is that he is a coward.

Call @governor.ny.gov today and tell her to do the right thing. "What Governor Hochul should show New Yorkers and current or prospective Democratic party voters nationwide is the determination, grit, and radical optimism needed to advance real and lasting climate solutions..."

In general I think we need climate journalists to talk about how far we are from meaningful decarbonization. I get why people have been in the habit of claiming any win as a win, but we're in it so deep now. We need serious reporting on how insufficient token corporate gestures are, not PR for them.

Really feel like I shouldn't have to call my federal reps' offices to beg them to push back hard on the President's threats of civilizational erasure

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

YOU ARE NOT A SITTING SENATOR Comparing US to someone who LITERALLY took an OATH OF OFFICE to defend this country WE ARE NOT THE SAME

Fuckin' impeach/remove this crazy bastard

Will Trump try to commit genocide? Won't he? Apparently "we will find out tonight". It's war as US reality TV (to a degree beyond anything Baudrillard imagined). Every hour Trump is allowed to go on posting this stuff while being president does further irreparable harm to the US.

was the truck driving itself

“.. As of March 31, the last date for which data is available, nearly 60 percent of the U.S. was in drought .. “.. it could have ripple effects through the nation’s food supply, with some products, like beef, already projected to see prices surge ..” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money. Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas. EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers. That's it. That's all you really need to know.