#readandplay (518) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Patti Smith - People Have The Power

Patti Smith, Prolific Writer and “Accidental Rockstar,” Writes Most of Her Work By Hand

“We rescued one another. . . . He was the artist and I the storyteller.” In a new essay, Patti Smith reflects on her early days in New York and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/art-rats-in-new-york-city

Thanks to the legendary Patti Smith for her very beautiful and inspiring book reading and musical performance at NYC’s Town Hall last night.

The story behind Because The Night, written by Patti Smith about Fred “Sonic” Smith is one of my all time favs in music history.

people are saying "young Patti Smith," and they're saying it very strongly

Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith (1975) Robert Mapplethorpe November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989

Patti Smith on the balcony of the Chelsea Hotel, 1971 #PattiSmth #ChelseaHotel

TONIGHT: @normornstein.bsky.social talks to @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com on The #LastWord at 10pm ET.

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com: Trump looking away from a man in need should be the portrait for his second term youtu.be/vtP8GvdDzcE?...

No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse. An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.” grist.org/climate/no-d... #Hurricane #Weather #Climate

Our planet is on fire, and workers are being hit hard by the cost of living, but the super-rich couldn't care less. BP pocketed £1.7 billion in profit, whilst our energy bills are rising and climate chaos intensifies. It's time for climate action, it's time to tax the rich!

Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, Guterres tells Cop30 summit

As another UN climate conference begins, I'm seeing even fewer Americans than ever talking about climate change, which is what the fossil fuel companies want. News groups are firing climate reporters and that doesn't help. Don't stop bringing this up. It hasn't gone away www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

Judges keep BANNING climate activists from talking about the climate crisis in their evidence in court... Because they know that juries find them NOT GUILTY when they explain the JUSTIFICATION for their protests

Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe

building housing near where people work and hang out is climate action. helping people fix up their houses is climate action. deploying public transit is climate action. making downtowns more useful and accessible and fun is climate action. etc.

I disagree. Campaigning on bike lanes and free buses IS campaigning on climate. Real climate politics is about practical measures that change infrastructure, technologies, industries and practices. Not about paper targets or interminable pointless debates with denialists.

“Bill Gates Gave $3.5M to Think Tank Run by Climate Crisis Denier Bjorn Lomborg" by Rei Takver for @desmog.com: www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

KERNEN: I could see a Democratic president declaring a climate emergency to tax countries with high CO2 emissions. Does that concern you at all what Democrats might do with this type of tariff power? BESSENT: I would question whether there's a climate emergency. It's all been proven wrong.

Climate knowledge has now become legal evidence in the fight for climate justice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

None of the big Dem winners - Spanberger, Sherrill, even Mamdani - talked a lot about the climate. But their wins are all good for the climate! Maybe climate activists should think about this before yelling at Dems to talk a lot about the climate.

‘Trump is against humankind’: World leaders at climate summit take swipes at absent president

Still a chance to return to 1.5C climate goal, researchers say

Trump is refusing to send anyone to this important climate summit, because he doesn't acknowledge climate change. Gov. Newsome is going instead, maintaining his perfect score putting the real world in the forefront. #ProudBlue www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom...

‘New reality’: Hurricane Melissa strength multiplied by climate crisis, study says

U.N.: World Likely to Surpass 1.5 Degrees Celsius Climate Goal

CBS news just gutted its climate team.

Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it

🌎 Share the facts on climate change with a new slide deck from Climate Central, available in English and Spanish. 🌎 www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

No matter matter what individuals believe about climate change, one thing thats for certain is that their insurance company believes in it #climate thepoint.com.au/news/251106-...

Katyal (playing on right wing fears): If the govt wins, another govt could declare climate emergency and impose huge tariffs.

So many pro-climate candidates won their races last night across local and state elections, and hopefully that will force the DNC to stop dragging their feet on climate to appease corporate donors. We the people want climate action, and we want it now!!

Some good news: Brazil's fight against deforestation is paying climate dividends.

donald trump: climate change hero? My column:

Fresh off redistricting win, Newsom to head to climate talks in Brazil

The blueprint for winning big on climate also came out last night. No more technocratic, policy wonk approaches. People showed they care about utility bills, free buses, affordable housing, etc. These are all climate issues. Talk about climate in terms people understand and experience.

Dear Bill Gates, If Trump loves your climate statement and you say he misunderstood it, and if climate scientists don't like your climate statement and you say they also misunderstood it, maybe the problem is your #climate statement.

I am humbled beyond measure to be receiving the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Science Communication from Climate One this year. drawdown.org/news/climate...

Huge deal! Democrats—with strong climate credentials—edge toward control of Georgia’s giant energy system

For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate. Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.

Hey Bill Gates : Are you familiar with the logical fallacy known as "false dilemma"?

As Trump betrays people and the planet, I’m headed next week to the U.N.’s COP30 climate conference in Brazil. I’ll be joining our international partners to strengthen California’s climate commitments and showcase how our climate action is creating more jobs, cleaner air, and lower costs.

Filling him up with the juice from The Expanse every week until he hardens up like one of those embalmed rats they have you dissect in high school biology.

Can confirm. I was just past my 53rd birthday. And then going from knowing the biology of sex determination being a bit fuzzy (bimodal distribution, shared traits, no one single definition etc) to *living* with the fallout from it and forced to be conscious of it every day IS A COMPLETE HEADFUCK.

this is a good and maybe even holy tradition for all invertebrate paleontologists attending a biology conference

Remote sensing of lichens with drones for detecting dinosaur bones: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

As usual, the time shift is messing with my biology. But at least I can still feel cute

How scientists are shining light on the biology behind seasonal affective disorder