The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

The hair cells inside my cochlea living in a coastal city when supersonic domestic travel comes back

Me when I accidentally drink an unflavored la croix

The spread of disease has never once weakened the warfighting capacity of an otherwise-superior army. Trust me, I studied history.

This gets an apgar score of 10

Tail gunner

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

They fear Gender Studies because it unapologetically exposes the real reasons why all of these middle-aged men would indignantly wear clown shoes solely for the approval of other men.

Trans people are the first domino because our existence hinges on bodily autonomy. Groups that want to walk back everything from abortion access to women's suffrage to the social, legal, and political equality of women to men are all openly transphobic and it's not an accident it's a longform plan.

HR Geiger was right for Alien, but Chris Foss is far too underused in film

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

I am once again asking

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

AI transhumance is when you take your computer to its summer pasture in the mountains

My wife: Not to be all @varsha.bsky.social -pilled, but I find water rights to be very interesting

@repricklarsen.bsky.social where are you bud

I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.

just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him

I don’t want to hear about brave and conflicted service members I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers to do the right thing

Tbf a 1:1 scale load-bearing crucifix really does make the home harder to sell

This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things: - The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only). - AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery <more>

Again this supports the theory that the mission is to conventionally bombard civilian targets. Be skeptical of anyone alarming over nuclear stuff (yours truly included; it's hard to provide what is inherently alarming info without giving undue credence)

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I’m an expert on teleportation. We spent 18 million in DoD grant money to send two quantum-entangled electrons a distance of eight micrometers and it took so much power it caused a blackout in San Francisco. Mr Phillips’s claim raised my eyebrows, and its implications, if true, could be staggering

Remember: logging is expensive and time consuming. The more expensive and time consuming you make it, the more trees you save. Forest defense tactics are EXTREMELY well developed for half a century, and if you live in an area with lots of forest, you have community members that can teach it to you

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

Without 20-episode seasons of prestige dramas we would never have gotten the episode of lost where they play golf and drive a Volkswagen Bus

Seattle Seasonal Update

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Okay I know it’s just how legal documents work but saying “President Trump (‘the President’)” is extremely funny to me

Leo XIV reaching up into heaven, grabbing Urban II by the ankle, and yanking his ass straight into hell

I’m here to tell you The Martian isn’t as good as you remember it being. It’s le epic bacon era AO3 fiction and it shows, even in the movie.

More than 90 years later, WA finally has an income tax again. You absolutely love to see it!

V disturbing to continue to see politicians and regular ppl try to play the “I’m a good person except I’m willing to sacrifice this one group” card. Little reminder: someone who is willing to throw away one group of ppl is someone who will throw ANYONE away. All they need is the right incentive

Manifesting for my flight tomorrow

when someone calls themselves a "creator" its fuckin sad. have some respect for yourself! say you make videos or art or write or whatever! "creator" means "i produce chum for platforms in the way they require for better engagement" it means you "chase the meta" and this makes you Not Artistic !!!

And you should. Lynnwood is at least a million times better than Redmond get out of there.

The "wine mom" thing is a rhetorical cudgel used to reinforce patriarchy and delegitimize groups of women making a difference in their communities.

Oh no he said in earnest the joke I made several days ago. This feels bad.

Esoteric Toledo War Knowledge Activate

No one in the entire history of humanity has ever transitioned just to win a sporting event. It has never happened. It will never happen.

As Clausewitz said: War is a continuation of negotiations by other means (bombs)

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

Consider this in conjunction with their refusal to properly fund the post office

everything being done now was test run by Republicans on the Humanities for decades and many of our STEM colleagues were silent