Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Weather-related disasters have forced a quarter of a billion people to flee in the last decade, says UNHCR.

Architects have expressed optimism over the recent election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City, citing his campaign's focus on housing and the environment. https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/07/architects-zohran-mamdanis-new-york-mayoral-election/

Read the letter:

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

Even though it means I'll have to pause my Spinozathon, I'm super excited to read A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by @marcuschown.bsky.social after listening to this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview.

Lest we forget as COP30 begins in the Amazon that just over a week ago tech behemoth Nvidia was selling AI for oil and gas expansion to Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras....

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

How do stars generate their magnetic fields? 🧲 Using the ESO 3.6 m telescope, for the first time astronomers have reconstructed the migration of magnetic regions on the surface of a star other than the Sun. 🔭🧪 Learn more: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/magnetic-butterflies/ 📷 NASA/SDO/AIA/LMSAL

Icône de la contre-culture, écrivain et manipulateur, il a transformé ses récits en instruments de fascination et d’emprise, laissant derrière lui un héritage littéraire et mystique profondément ambigu. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Xrh

Renault’s Mobilize brand has launched another collaboration with creative agency TheArsenale, fitting out the diminutive Duo with fresh colours and graphics https://www.wallpaper.com/transportation/mobilize-duo-x-ta-limited-edition-electric-microcar

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

New in PN: The softest Nazis you ever did see "Call it tough guy in the streets and widdle guy in the sheets (of paper for court filings). Truly, nothing revealed this better than the DC Sandwich Guy, Sean Dunn, who a jury found not guilty yesterday."

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

Lol holy shit it's all so bad

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company. Utterly despicable.

I also really like my video on Faust and hope you watch it if you are also into books:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren joins us for our ongoing series breaking down the US Constitution. We unpack everything from the Commerce Clause to the taxing and spending powers, and even a few long-forgotten quirks. Listen now on the 99% Invisible feed 👉 https://bit.ly/3LBs5xY

OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! Sarah Marshall (of @yourewrongabout.bsky.social & @youaregood.bsky.social podcasts) HAS A SATANIC PANIC PODCAST SERIES RIGHT NOW! Perfect timing spooky time yeah! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

New episode with @wendyorent.bsky.social on the drama of our inept medical establishment and their embrace of Trump Based Medicine. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Mindscape 334 | Daniel Whiteson @danielwhiteson.bsky.social on the Physics of and by Aliens. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...

NEW IDSG News Roundup: Graham Platner, Kenneth Leland Morgan, Chris Booth, etc. @danielharper.bsky.social and I take a look at some recent events amidst the maelstrom and try to both shed a little light and cast a little shade on them. idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/news-roundup...

Episode 133: The Fabulist (George Santos) // A newly elected congressman is expelled and prosecuted for financial crimes after his elaborate web of personal and professional lies unravels. LISTEN: swindledpodcast.com/podcast/133-th

my latest episode with @goodlawproject.org on the state on trans rights in the UK www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/trans-uk

Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon - our latest Philosophy Bites interview philosophybites.com/podcast/lewi...

Steffen Seitz (@aaldp-du.bsky.social) explains why activists need lawyers: "Activism has been growing, and there's a need for lawyers to step in when activists clash with the forces that protect the status quo." Full episode on your fav podcatcher, on our YouTube, and at ourhenhouse.org/ep866

Silicon Valley wants to make cities more efficient by taking away anything that makes them enjoyable. This week @jomc.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss why robotaxis and delivery bots aren’t solving any real problems with transport and cities. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/299_...

The Animal Ag industry has worked hard to ensure that its climate impacts fly under the radar This @drilledmedia.bsky.social episode tackles the sacred cow of agricultural exceptionalism & I bet it really gets up the nose of the powerful animal ag industry - give it a listen❗ 👀 also @cssn.org📗👇

The media has been one of the channels through which climate disinformation has flowed as part of coordinated and well-funded campaigns from the fossil-fuel industry, writes @amywestervelt.bsky.social.

And now, Chapter 3. Gear gets available for the whole family articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/gear-chapt...

After a screening of the powerful new doc HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY, Amy Goodman, LaVerne Cox, and Planned Parenthood prez Alexis McGill Johnson draw the connections between trans rights and reproductive freedom.

Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Politicians actually taking action’: six world mayors defying climate-sceptic populist leaders

Not now, carnivorous death ball

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Boston/Cambridge film buffs, "Every Noirvember at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge and the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, it’s a month for floozies, flophouses and hard-drinking private dicks played for patsies." #FilmSky 🎬 brattlefilm.org/film-series/... coolidge.org/programs/noi...

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows. Does this sound familiar? Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy

Animal advocate Zoe Rosenberg has been convicted of felony conspiracy & 3 misdemeanours for rescuing 4 sick chickens from a CA slaughterhouse. This unfortunate verdict is yet another example of how the legal system protects abusive industries & often punishes those who try to help. #PerdueTrial

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

When you're a sociopath and get angry that someone else's medical emergency, just four feet away, drew focus from your gloating and you forget which lie you were on.

AASA is very excited to announce that the winner of the inaugural round of the Siobhan O' Book Prize is Yamini Narayanan for the incredible book Mother Cow Mother India (Stanford UP, 2023)! url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/GCu8CL7EwM...

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"'Climate change isn’t at the forefront of every election, but at this point, every election is a climate election,' [Dan] Jasper of Project Drawdown said. '"Climate action equals affordability" seems to be the winning message of the day.'"

It would be SO interesting to do one of those "what you think everyone else believes" type surveys on fatalism specifically. I bet people massively over-estimate the amount of 'it's too late', in the same way they also overestimate the amount of 'don't want to do anything on climate'

Sick.

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...