Despite being completely blind since the age of 12, opera tenor Andrea Bocelli cycles with the guiding hand of his partner, Veronica Berti Happy #BicycleBirthday, Andrea! Born September 22, 1958

Stands on rooftops: 📣 🗣️ 🗣️THERE IS NO LINK BTW ACETAMINOPHEN & AUTISM. IT HAS BEEN STUDIED FOR MANY YEARS IN MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. 🗣️THE ONLY REASON THEY ARE TALKING ABT THIS IS THAT THEY DO NOT WANT AUTISTIC PEOPLE TO EXIST. 🗣️IT IS EUGENICS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS MATTER. -EmilyPhD

the Brazilian right is attempting to pass measures through the legislature to shield Bolsonaro and other legislators from the legal consequences of the failed coup, for which Bolsonaro was recently sentenced to 27 years. these photos are of the massive protests in response.

You want to click through and read it all the way through to the last sentence. Especially the last sentence

So, how now do we reduce dust, using little water? I’d bet solar farms could help. Or remediation using native plants?

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

I grew an onion! Ok, it was supposed to be scallions but the green tops looked too tough so I ignored it until now

I dunno. The videos and photos posted seen to have more than 40,000 people protesting in the streets. 👏 for the people of Brasil

My local bookstore loaned me an advance reader copy of a novel that doesn't come out until November. I cannot wait until everyone else can read it so we can discuss it. So much to think about.

One of me

Mineral Belt Trail, Leadville Colorado. E-biking and leaf peeping at 10,000 ft

🚍🚲 South Bay Transit Summit 2025 📅 Sat, Oct 4 | 10am–1pm 📍 Torrance Transit Center Hear from LA Metro & Torrance Transit, explore big projects like the C Line Extension & Redondo Beach Blvd Bike Corridor, and connect with advocates shaping the future of South Bay transit. RSVP: zurl.co/RGyCG

Sharing this really moving, beautifully written piece by Annie Lowery about her very difficult pregnancies and why no woman should be forced to endure what she has gone through. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Some people would rather bring back acid rain and disrupt global wind/weather patterns instead of installing protected bike lanes & bus priority lanes/signals so we drive less and emit less CO2. This is why I fight so hard for bike lanes and transit

A piece in the New York Times brings up a “zombie” proposal to combat climate change — basically using smoke & mirrors to cool the planet. No matter how many times people kill the idea, it seems to come back to the headlines. Don’t let it. It’s not a good idea. globalecoguy.org/solar-geoeng...

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I’d never seen this one.

RSVP to join us on the bus to @metrolosangeles.bsky.social to support the C (K) Line Extension to Torrance at the (most likely) October Board Meeting. See you there! #SouthBayOnBoard actionnetwork.org/events/free-...

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

My mother in law rode my ebike to our youngest’s birthday party today. It was her first time on a bike in 25 years! The last time she was on a bike she had a really bad crash. I’m very proud of her. @nissamitchell.com was so great at supporting her through the scary moments.

Most Americans don’t know that the U.S. violently colonized the Philippines in 1898, through 1946. An estimated 600k Filipinos were killed in the years after U.S. annexation, to crush resistance to colonial rule.

The national network of Climate Adaptation Science Centers met this week in Juneau, AK. Our visit coincided with a glacial outburst flood, atmospheric river and landslide - hazards becoming more frequent and severe as climate warms. CASC science addresses these risks & more, but is under threat.

In the white culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.

We drove to Chichen Itza for lunch today (they have their own habenero sauce) and ate next to a group of 8 wearing matching La Defensa black Tshirts w/ a number to call if you see ICE. A child was selling flowers at the freeway offramp, probably because his parents needed to stay indoors. Insanity

This is also the case in DC for some reason. Buildings with four or more units have to pay for their own private trash collection.

Just like NOAA provides weather info for communities, NOAA should provide free, credible, & actionable information about a range climate impacts. For some climate hazards, they do. But not yet for future rainfall. Our new paper provides a workaround until they do. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Proud of my son's contribution here.

To put a point on this. A business that wishes to hire (let's say 100) H1-B visa holders can negotiate a discount off the $10 million fee by stroking Donald's ego.

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

Heritage Foundation has released an absolutely insane policy proposal to label all trans people as domestic terrorists. It uses completely made up instances of terrorism and made up statistics but facts don't matter to them. They want us all eradicated.

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again. Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads. It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

"In Kansas, they’ve been employed at Russell Stover chocolates and Cal-Maine Foods, the country’s largest egg producer. Though the company has since stopped using them, in recent years they were hired in Arizona by Taylor Farms, which sells salad kits for restaurants like Chipotle Mexican Grill."

Here's what we know as of Saturday morning. If White House figures are to be believed, the U.S. has killed 17 people on ships in the Caribbean this month.

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

lol in case folks haven't noticed, every political and economic attack in this country is perfected on minorities FIRST and then scaled. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Just throw the majority of Democratic voters who are women (and others who believe women are people endowed with certain inalienable rights) under the bus = lose all principle in order to pursue a losing winning strategy?

Out of curiosity, does anyone know of numbers on how many doctors in rural hospitals are on H1B visas?

A lot of people are also missing the students here on F-1 visas that traditionally go the path of: F-1 to H-1B to permanent residency.

I don’t think South Korean workers will come back. Trump now demands $100K per year per high tech worker H-B1 visa. After arresting & detaining 316 Korean engineers & technicians, this move further destabilizes US-ROK relations, obstructs factory construction. m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...

They're going to destroy the economy instead of going to therapy.

—The COVID vax will continue to be covered by payers; —Despite CDC's ACIP taking a vote on requiring an Rx for the vax, CDC has no legal authority to require an Rx; —MAHA is trying to create friction to drive down vax rates, we have to be the anti-MAHA antibodies www.patreon.com/posts/139300...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

wait until you hear where we get a lot of doctors every year

Charlie Kirk said Joe Biden should be executed. When Democrats defend their vote for a resolution honoring this man, just remember that this is what they voted to honor.