The people yearn for trains. Give the people trains.

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Alle andre nyhetsmedier: Haaland avslører favoritthårstrikk mens brasilstjerne innrømmer å ha hørt om Norge Filter:

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

I’m finally reading this history of energy sources, published in English as More more more, and quite enjoying the takedown of Nordhaus that it starts out with. if only it were so simple…

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

Europe, the last few days: 🇫🇷 France: Hottest day ever — 43.8°C 🇪🇸 Spain: Hottest June day — 42.7°C 🇩🇪 Germany: Hottest day ever — 41.5°C 🇨🇿 Czechia: Hottest day ever — 40.9°C 🇨🇭 Switzerland: Hottest June day — 38.8°C 🇩🇰 Denmark: Hottest day ever — 37°C 🇬🇧 UK: Hottest June day — 36.7°C #climatecrisis

Oh man this thread.

As of today, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has gone on longer than the First World War.

Jeg er midt i målgruppa disse partiene kniver om. Middelklasselønn og småbarn. Jeg vil ikke ha skattelette. Jeg vil ha samfunn.

The US World Cup in one photograph 🙄😔

The money was always there for the good things.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

Fascinating!

Jeg mener egentlig at forskningsmidler burde fordeles ved lotteri etter en enkel forkvalifisering. Lurer på om NFR-søknadskaoset jeg observerer (søker takk og lov ikke i år) kan få oss dit, i en slags accelerationist reading?

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Spennende terrengsykkel-rute ved Domus

I forgot to make my very silly contribution to Helen DeWitt discourse, which is my migraine hat (unfortunately in heavy use at the moment). I had it made a few years ago when someone online made caps with a «female canon» without her in it; an outrage.

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

Every rich country politician who is subsidizing fossil fuel use (read: cutting fuel taxes) is maximizing the suffering of people in these countries. A spectacularly awful policy on every level.

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

This village was apparently a kind of Lebanese version of Oradour sur Glane, an important memory site. Tried to figure out wtf was up with the Wikipedia - then realized someone just did a replace all of “is“ to “was”, since the IDF just blew it all up.

Sunset from Place Rouville in Lyon on Easter Monday. One of my favorite views.

Converting to Catholicism and then threatening the Pope with military action because you don’t like that he uh, *checks notes* is following Catholic belief is absolutely insane behavior

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Every time I see a news post about this guy my brain supplies "vote for Pedro".

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

We live on this beautiful, bountiful earth. See the moon? No life is possible there. Rulers (capitalists and nation-states) are doing their damnedest to turn the earth into a lifeless planet.

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

Denne her har jeg tenkt på ofte siden han sa det. Når blir egentlig uenigheten stor nok, tenker vi?

you have to get him out of office and you have to do it today even if it gets blocked you force an impeachment vote right now how else can you live with yourself if he follows through with this and you didn’t do everything you could to stop it

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

That Trump post is a clear expression of genocidal intent. Clear cut case with zero caveats.

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

Whenever there was a US government shutdown I used to think it was a ridiculous way for a modern state to operate, but it turns out the alternative is much worse.

If you were reading a history of the Gilded Age and encountered a tycoon who kept pushing insane conspiracy theories about declining white birth rates and who used his vast influence to kill off nearly a million people in Africa, you'd very easily conclude that person was a white supremacist.

“we’re planning a heist of FORT KNOX” “sick, what’s the plan for our ill-gotten gains?” “it is, at long last, time for INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK”

Mépris total indeed.

So much shit happens these days that I feel a bit desensitized to the world, but this bit of news made me a very specific combination of horrified and infuriated and sad. Free Palestine. I don't even know what else to say.

Fascinating framing www.ft.com/content/aeb1...

I have a new favorite account on here and it’s @owls-in-towels.bsky.social

👀 Also, the experience related in the comments suggests it’s not so easy to avoid.