the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

As kids, we were told the American dream was to be rich and famous. A superstar. A millionaire. What if I want a different dream, though. One where we have vibrant communities full of joy and life and love. Where we know our neighbors and help each other out. What would you dream of?

The perfect 7 minutes of Anime. Cowbow Bebop, the Ballad of Fallen Angels Animation, imagery, music… (also I have Rain stuck on repeat in my head and I am not complaining). www.reddit.com/r/retroanime...

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Ahh, such a nice summer day! Should hit 86F+ today! <insert girl licking ice cream nice day meme here> #climateemergency

Tired if getting jolted by a random Elon rocket putting more space junk up there.

This statement is GOLD!!!

Prop 50 passes! Huge difference between CA and TX: The voters in CA wanted this.The people consented.

Zohran Mamdani: We have toppled a political dynasty. I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the final time I utter his name.

They aren't afraid of Mamdani, they are worried about what he would unleash among VOTERS. That those voters would say: "actually, we're not buying this centrist bullshit you've been shoveling for decades, we want something else." That's what's being litigated in these Dem elites are worried essays.

If the response to a lousy technology flooding the zone is going to be to use it more, even when people admit they don’t want to, we’ve already lost.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

War is the worst of all crimes, because war IS all crimes.

Not that it's our job to feed people when the Federal Government and our leaders are derelict in their duty to the People, but threw in some dollars to the local food bank to help them, as they're going to need it this next week. #snap

Today’s earworm courtesy of Trader Joe’s card reader chimes: Bach’s Toccata & Fugue

🌱Natural chemicals aren’t inherently safe. 🧪Synthetic chemicals aren’t inherently dangerous. 💡Your body *literally* cannot tell the source of a chemical. Some of the most toxic chemicals are ALL NATURAL. Botulinum toxin, abrin, ricin, arsenic, cyanide. 1/

I was interviewed by @reemasabrina.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart. "Fight for what is sacred to you. And if you don’t know what’s sacred to you yet, I suggest you get out there, amongst other people fighting the good fight, and I suspect you’ll find it."

Catastrophic rainfall and landslides likely, 40 inches+ of rainfall predicted for parts of Jamaica and Haiti due to Hurricane Melissa. If you have a favorite deity, now is the time to hope they exist and can intercede... this is going to be bad. #hurricanemelissa #hurricane #disaster

Catastrophic disaster about to happen in Jamaica, Dominican Republic, and Haiti due to Melissa (catastrophic rainfall for sure, and maybe the wind). GTFO kind of thing... though folks living there cannot GTFO. #disasters #climatedisaster #hurricanemelissa

Perennial cry over new technology

i'm going "crochet mode". they're calling me Hooks. i'm yarnpilled & amigurumimaxxing

This was awesome youtu.be/YH04fTL7ZXI?...

Today in inconsequential thoughts: Is my love for polished concrete and organic architecture based solely on having played the Neverhood on repeat in my early teens? Do I want to live in an Earthship or just chill with Klayman?

So we’re now paying federal taxes so Donald Trump can withdraw them from the Treasury like it’s his own personal bank account? Really?

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

New paper on AM fungi in a prairie restoration experiment planted with community members back in 2021! Beyond the cool results we found, this was such a fun day where so many of my labmates and volunteers supported my first field experiment as a grad student. Feeling so grateful! ☺️

Once again, one reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is bc every societal institution, including the media, has totally normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

I’d take this a step further and say that forced and required car ownership is one of the central problems. People’s ability to afford housing now is directly tied to those households needing to own 2-3 personal vehicles per household. That’s 10s of thousands of $$$ a year

LA Times: Wild bear breaks into California zoo, is found communing with the captive bears https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-21/wild-bear-visits-bear-exhibit-sequoia-park-zoo-eureka #bears

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

It’s so easy to pat ourselves on the back when we “save” a patient in the #ICU, but the reality is this is only the beginning for so many patients. #PostIntensiveCareSyndrome #Chest2025 #ChestSoMe @accpchest.bsky.social

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

@zapier.bsky.social (one of my favorite tools of all time!) seems to be using AWS. check your integrations today everyone!

As I’ve lived here for nearly five years, it dawned on me that the most American thing is to optimize in order to maximize the potential to monetize. The whole country is “optimized” for this, you have to hustle because everything is monetized and because you have to hustle you must monetize.

Yes, this! “Our tool can design whole curriculum for you” - no, thank you, that’s the part of my job I enjoy the most.

The US is really good at marketing. On all levels. It’s also one of the most conformist places I’ve seen even though it’s a blind spot for many as there are distinct groups of people and interests. But once you are in a group, you are expected to conform within it.

I lost my why.

A robbery? At the Louvre?

Batteries. Won’t solve oceanic shipping or long-haul flights, but can solve pretty much everything else (and has already solved intermittency issues for solar and wind). With big impacts on grid mix to go with it (and - potentially - consumers as your capital investors for grid-level storage).

If the powerful ppl behind the politicians wanted to create something that would channel anti-fascist, anti-capitalist energy into a "movement" that made no demands, did not disrupt their systems of profit, but still made ppl FEEL like they took action, "no kings" is perfect. It worked.

Head's up folks, heck for watermarks on any videos... THIS IS AI GENERATED (Sora)- OpenAI Sora. It's tough to tell. it's currently watermarked, but God help us when they stop watermarking this stuff.

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Ridiculous

TAKE THAT, BLUE GREEN ALGAE! CO2 in the atmosphere has reached highest level in 800,000 years: WMO report https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/co2-climate-emissions-cop30-9.6939220 #climateemergency

The Conversation: Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience https://theconversation.com/typhoon-leaves-flooded-alaska-villages-facing-a-storm-recovery-far-tougher-than-most-americans-will-ever-experience-267423 #akwx […]