Excited to be part of the Made by History launch with the long history of weather gambling, featuring rain betting, illegal "weather pools," and attempted bribery. TY @carlygoodman.bsky.social for terrific editing and @jmburns.bsky.social for reading and our many prediction market conversations!

My latest on catastrophe markets and the long history of weather gambling in @aeon.co aeon.co/essays/what-... Grateful for feedback from terrific readers along the way: Jackson Lears, Ann Fabian, Meagan Wierda, @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social & @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social, & editor Sam Haselby. 1/2

Can’t listen to this anymore. Don’t need to sit here listening to lies from a pedophile.

Mamdani is going to implement Shire law. Everyone will be required to live underground, with round doors, in comfort. This will solve the housing crisis.

Ahhh, makes so much more sense now

Grok finally spits out something that’s not full of lies and misinformation, and NOW he wants to fix it?!? It is so tiring

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

Hamburg’s football team - “no person is illegal”

Spotted on the streets of Hamburg

Instead of Elf on the Shelf…

What We do in the Shadows. Just, wow. Can’t believe it’s over, but what a show. Doesn’t get any better than that!

Duo is getting a bit cheeky

My wife said something like, “I can’t believe they’re putting a rapist there” and I legit didn’t know which R she meant. Trump? Gaetz? Hegseth? So many possible fits.

Keep seeing lots of heron pics here, so here’s my buddy who lives in the river across the road.

At school pickup today, my son’s guidance counselor said he’s “nauseously optimistic” about tomorrow and that is just the perfect way to state how I feel right now.

Northern lights in NJ

Thanks @tmbg.bsky.social !

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,369,468!

Snapper and box turtle (I think)

Stretchles time

Expect to see this headline any day now from the NYT: “Showing a unity that the Democrats lack, GOP seamlessly pivots from ageism to sexism and racism”