Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…

Bruce Springsteen has always been a folks hero

Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas and reversing a decade-long trend of population decline between 2010 and 2020. @dailyyonder.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/24/m...

Preliminary data suggests that the global average increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2024 will be a record. Not just a little record, but 25% higher than the previous record. (This is the global average, as opposed to Moana Loa) gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/... 1/

If science is magic, am I a witch?

Remembering to be here now

This is a good synopsis for those of us in rural America.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Banksy

astronaut don pettit’s new image made my jaw drop. it’s SO beautiful!!!

So many ways to lose a House majority

🧪 The colon cancer reduction benefit was observed with two servings of yogurt per week.

Some positive news: Researchers have developed a simple blood test that can detect pancreatic cancer early, and save lives. Find out how it works @nature.com 🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00438-z

"The fact that you can't raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place." quasi-normalcy (tumblr)

The idea of renaming "Greenland" to "Red, White and Blueland" must have come from our 2020 Science paper where we (Ben Smith and 14 others) used NASA's ICESat and ICESat-2 laser altimetry to show how much the ice sheet surface went up or down in 16 years.

Here’s what we did today

👋 My first post on @bsky.app and more to come 💯

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The US economy has grown tremendously simce 1990. But on nearly every other quality of life measure, we’re falling behind… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/b...

I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that. The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct. What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.

Finally

Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight.

The Trump administration is considering challenging the constitutionality of a 50-year-old law limiting the president's control over federal spending, civil servants, curbing pay and independent agencies

Oh no, the Chinese version of the shitty plagiarism machine is better than the domestic one we also never wanted!

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨 The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected]. Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

Word of the day….

We're at the top of this Rollercoaster into the abyss

Wow we are only 10 days into January and everyone is COOKED

Batman gave me unrealistic expectations of a billionaire working to make things better for the common man.

A graphic showing the change in temperature since 1850 in Seattle. You can look up your own location here: showyourstripes.info/c/northameri...

As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚

Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.

I, like many of you, have been contemplating our predicament since election night. We are in a losing war for our democracy and I'm not sure we collectively know who our true adversary is. It's not the voting blocks...white women, Latinos, Gen X. It's not MAGA. It's not even Trump. 🧵