And here’s another guide focused specifically on safeguarding your digital privacy at protests: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Tomorrow (3/4) will be the biggest @50501movement.bsky.social protests we’ve seen! See you there! 🗽 March For Democracy 💙

IMTs are quietly talking about what the current political environment means for this year's wildland fire suppression efforts, but it deserves a larger and more public consideration. 1/

Whenever anyone laments the state we’re in, they’re met with a chorus of “but what do we do?” As plenty of good options are available, this response might often be wilful impotence*. I invite you all to nominate in this thread the best proposals and practices, around which we should gather. Thanks

The criminal oligarch class and their greedy minions are basically doing to the United States what they’ve done to many other countries over the years, often in our name. I have to say it very much sucks.

The Extreme Weather Report, January 23, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels.

Bluesky is so nice, ya’ll. This is my first major disaster where fellow posters haven’t told me that they hope California burns!

I live in SoCal but for some reason have read a lot more about how king tides are affecting Florida than I have read about king tides on the west coast. The California King Tides Project on blue sky is helping me rectify that. :). This is from yesterday:

Ya’ll, my kid just informed me that there are no female peacocks and it turns out she was totally right.

Volcaholic is one of the best sources that is out there on extreme weather news. An excellent account to follow.

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago. They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.

Bluesky Tutorial Lesson #2 A lot of aspects about your account, including what lists you're on, are public and can be checked using ClearSky by typing in your username A couple folks have asked me to add them to the MENA list when they were already on it, and this is a good way to check

Interesting thread on california king tides

Newskies: When you use a red push pin emoji as a bookmark (see how below), add a few words about what you’re bookmarking. Otherwise you’ll go to your bookmark feed, see a bunch of pins, and have no idea what content they’re related to without clicking through. (Learned this the hard way, lol.)

One of my fave writers through these times:

if u are wondering about that red pin emoji here 📌 if u find a post u want to return to u can stick a pin in it by replying with the red pin emoji then use @jaz.bsky.social's red pin feed which keeps track of your red pins

So happy to see yellow dot studios posting here now. One of my faves from the old place:

something I find fascinating is how mad (and surprisingly invested?) normal people will get if you explain chevron and the fall of chevron to them. normal people love the admin state. it's wild stuff