"If the future is to be made from stories, our task is ensuring those stories are worthy of the people who will live within them. That means recognising the selective deployment of science fiction as a political tactic." #uspol #ai aeon.co/essays/silic...

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves.

Old lady reads on plane #books

Good morning cardinal directions.🧭

“Like Yoko, I like the place that my heart’s at now, which is maybe closer to holding the duality of anger and love,” MPA says. “A score like this gives you the opportunity to do both.” #performance #losangeles #art www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

"Researchers claimed to find signs of consciousness emerging within its inner workings. They didn’t claim that Claude is actually conscious in the same way that humans are, but the findings certainly upped the ante on the possibility of consciousness." #ai www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"When I first began research for this article, many of the available written accounts of lucid episodes seemed like chapters from a book of lost fables." #dementia #science #health www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m...

"The promise of synthetic torpor extends far beyond making space travel safer. Scientists are studying it as a treatment for a wide range of diseases, including cancer and Alzheimer’s disease." #science #space #hibernation www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

"Now they are claiming the power simply to start the clock again. On Friday, Trump formally notified Congress that the U.S. has resumed strikes on Iran, claiming the Pentagon has another 60 days to strike Iran before the timeline runs out." #uspol #iran open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Good morning 🌞 🐍🌵🦂

Ryan Smith! I am a fan! #pagan #platner wildhunt.org/2026/07/opin...

"The government wants to close Bantar Gebang to general waste by the end of 2027, by gradually moving away from open dumping, the Jakarta environmental agency says, starting with orders this year for residents to separate organic waste." #environment #plastic www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

"I’ve always, always taken so much pride in the organization that I’ve worked for all these years, and just to be treated this way,..It’s disrespectful, and it’s very disheartening, and my colleagues feel the same way as well.” #health #ai www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

COVFEFE #parrotsky

"Our phones and tablets and laptops are so light because they contain little more than a screen, a battery and an antenna. Their powers are merely borrowed, at up to 1,000 megabits per second, from data centers." #datacenters www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/m...

"The 12,000-line poem that is the Odyssey endures – like any rich and multilayered text – not because it is perfect, but because it flexes and bends into different shapes when it is reread; the light that glints off it always looks different." #pagan www.theguardian.com/culture/ng-i...

"Issuing subpoenas to U.S. journalists, who are protected from government interference by the First Amendment, is a huge red flag." #uspol #nyt #media open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

WANT WANT WANT #parrotsky

“We had large team meetings where people were crying,...People were sharing suicide prevention resources because they were worried about everyone’s mental health during such a massive change.” #uspol #dhs www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"We are certain that global warming is caused by human activities, primarily burning fossil fuels such as gas, oil and coal. Every heatwave and every summer is hotter than it would otherwise have been." #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"One primary school teacher said: 'Everyone was lying or sitting on the floor with their water bottles, sweating, moaning and feeling tired, [complaining of] headaches and nausea.'" #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"As the Lincoln Project summed it up, the Republican Party’s message four months before the midterms appears to be, 'You’re not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights.'" #uspol #voting open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I feel sick. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

"British museums and officials have repeatedly asked to borrow the tapestry since the 1950s, but French officials have rebuffed those requests. Then, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced during an Anglo-French political summit that a loan would occur." #pagan www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/a...

"It feels like a contradiction at the center of modern life: we experience profound environmental loss and largely pretend nothing is happening." #environment #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #pagan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“It is ⁠irresponsible and dangerous that this Administration remains dead set on ​causing chaos for ​our election officials across this ​country...This ‌move undermines the integrity ​of nonpartisan ​election administration.” #uspol #voting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

listen closely to what I tell you

Good morning smoke tree #desert 🌞🌵🦂🐍

"Kirk’s acolytes believed they had been marginalized in a culture that had deprioritized white men. They saw him 'as brave and willing to say what others won’t...though they rarely realized that Kirk was basically making it up for clicks and views'." #uspol www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"We cannot leave the fate of the United States or the world in the hands of somebody who is completely irrational, who is making demands and believing himself to have powers that he does not." #uspol #iran open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

"The legal questions before the Court closely resemble how many contemporary Pagan communities regularly gather for worship in private residences rather than dedicated temples or churches." #pagan wildhunt.org/2026/07/supr...

"Two things can be true at once: the Revolution was deeply compromised, and the language of the Revolution has always been the most effective instrument the American left has ever wielded." #uspol #july4 jacobin.com/2026/07/inde...

#uspol #july4 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

"I’ll tell you Friend…so far as we approve of monarchy…in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other." - Thomas Paine #uspol

"The relentless assault by the president on the electoral process — both administratively and rhetorically — is likely to sow doubt and lay groundwork for extensive challenges to election results." #uspol #voting www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"A woman known as Jane Doe 4 in the Jeffrey Epstein files is 'staying off the grid' and lives in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration amid an escalating controversy over its handling of her case, according to a family member." #uspol #epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"[T]he Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches." #uspol #scotus open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Trump has redirected taxpayer money from national parks around the country to his own projects, leaving the parks unable to make needed repairs or hire staff." #uspol #nationalparks open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Therein lies the frustration for this administration: even as it seeks to rewrite the rules on who can and can’t be an American, diversity remains inseparable from national identity." #uspol #worldcup www.theguardian.com/football/202...

"The turmoil in Washington, D.C., reflects the changing world of American politics as the Republicans become a far-right party that embraces white nationalism." #uspol open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Dr Julie Elie at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2026 Coller-Dolittle prize for two-way interspecies communication after working out the 11 core calls in the zebra finch vocabulary and their meanings." #bird #birds #california www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Sorry not sorry for sharing the bloody obvious: #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Since industry groups were part of the law’s creation, it’s ironic that they are now suing...The industry negotiated this bill, and yet they’re trying to undercut it with this lawsuit." #california #environment #plastic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Sanchez-Estrada’s sentence in particular has been condemned by first amendment advocates, who say that it sends a chilling message about the kind of ideological material people are allowed to possess." #uspol #ice #antifa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"Since retaking office in 2025, Trump has used official emergency declarations at an unprecedented rate in order to claim emergency powers under which he can ignore laws.'" #uspol #iran #voting open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

"Landor’s dreadlocks were cut off after he presented officers with a copy of the federal appeals court ruling affirming his right to keep them. According to court filings, guards handcuffed Landor to a chair, ignored the order, and shaved his head bald." #pagan #uspol wildhunt.org/2026/06/fait...

"Peat bogs are one of the most important carbon sinks on the planet." #pagan #climate #climatechange #environment www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...