Time to secure your ticket(s). #btconf will be back in Berlin soon. beyondtellerrand.com/events/berli...

Osaka’s showpiece streetscape Midosuji Boulevard has undergone major changes. In the build-up to hosting the 2025 World Expo, the city began experimenting with reallocating parts of the road space: widening sidewalks, limiting car traffic, and creating continuous protected infrastructure for bikes.🧵

At the Sun Day Festival in NYC! @sundayofaction.bsky.social

TODAY is Sun Day! ✴️ Thousands of people are coming together at 469 events across the U.S. and beyond to celebrate the power of clean energy. Today shines a bright light on the future that we all want - a cleaner, fairer, future for all. ☀️ Join an event near you today: sunday.earth

It's our first @refactr.tech *404 Film Not Found* virtual movie night! Tomorrow @ 7p EDT, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of beloved cult classic, Hackers! Co-hosted by our hilarious friends @codetv.dev, @jason.energy & @marisamorby.com! RSVP for the Teleparty link here: bit.ly/404-film-night

I’m so excited for this! I’ve never seen Hackers and am ready to be impressed (or maybe incensed, we’ll see).

And so it begins

Bad news for cities. 🚨 Cars are parked 95% of the time, eating up valuable street space. Now, new research from Lisbon shows parked cars are also intensifying urban heat: by as much as +3.8°C. 🌡️ 🧵

August 30, 2025

I finished the first book in The Sparrow series yesterday. I've never felt so compelled to finish a story while simultaneously enraged and saddened. It was a fascinating blend of philosophy, science, religion, hubris, and humility. Just wonderful writing and holy shit I'm emotionally exhausted.

I've never cooked better eggs more consistently than on an induction stove top. And now I don't get a tight chest from an asthma flair up when I'm cooking for a long time!

This matters because "numerous studies have linked roads with the origin point of wildfires," and would decrease intact forests. You have until Sept. 19 to comment. Visit www.regulations.gov/document/FS-... and leave a comment (top left button) that you object to the rollback of the Roadless Rule.

Eventually we will get "the good bidet". Until then I feel wrong wiping my butt with old growth forest from Canada. Looking at you Charmin!

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

Practicing another bird sketch. This is a Eurasian blue tit (I don’t make the names, people).

My neighbor brought over a bunch (bushel?) of apples so I guess I’m going to be baking most of the weekend.

I have absolutely no idea what exactly is going to happen in the next six months, year, five years. But you can still support public media and help figure out what it’s going to look like. Again, don’t read me as not worried. LOL, I AM WORRIED. But I’m not done. (2/3)

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

One explanation for the rise in obesity in industrialized countries is that people burn fewer calories than people in countries where obesity is rare. A major study finds that's not the case.

How are Trump's economic policies impacting you? Let me give you a hard example. 🧵

Reparations for climate damages could move higher up on the global agenda after top court addresses the issue directly.

“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.” www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Hilma af Klint's botanical drawings / spirit diagrams at MoMA 🥰

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-m...

New Article: "Global evidence for a positive relationship between tree species richness and ecosystem photosynthesis" rdcu.be/evevg Forests with higher tree species richness show greater photosynthesis: essential role of biodiversity in enhancing carbon uptake.

Utrecht, Netherlands is about to build the largest Dutch “car-free” neighbourhood. 12K people 6K homes 1.8K social rental homes 1.5 mid-range rental & affordable owner-occupied homes 21.5K bike parking spaces 250 shared cars 2 parcel hubs Parking structures on the edge nltimes.nl/2025/02/25/u...

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Accidentally did a PR on my sumo deadlifts today because I can’t do math. What I’ve learned is that if you’re bad at math you’ll get stronger, faster.

This actually happened news.uga.edu/new-fungal-v...

Have we all contacted our reps yet? There's still time! It can be a quick phone call or even an email. Like Nicole says, this is unpopular with pretty much everyone except the people who want to buy the land.

I know everything is on fire but PLEASE contact your representatives about the selloff of public lands. It's a heartbreaking proposal that will destroy the soul of America.

Summer in the garden! I’m not done yet but it’s slowly coming together.

Cis friends in the US, please consider calling your senators. This amendment would strip health care coverage for so many trans people.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

There are two things you can do: 1. Call and/or email your senators telling them you don't want our public lands sold to the highest bidder. 2. If you know someone in the media, share this with them so we can get coverage on this out to more people. Public lands belong to us—the public!

There are two things you can do: 1. Call and/or email your senators telling them you don't want our public lands sold to the highest bidder. 2. If you know someone in the media, share this with them so we can get coverage on this out to more people. Public lands belong to us—the public!

This is one of the things preventing me from sleeping

New article is up for Design and Nature Reimagined; this time it's all about puffins! I guarantee you'll learn something new, and there are lots of cute pictures of these well-dressed birds. marisamorby.com/puffins/

I literally gave a talk two days ago about how germ theory started to gain traction in 1854 after Dr. John Snow created an epidemiological map after a cholera outbreak. He helped disprove the miasma theory for cholera in part because of that map.

@marisamorby.com talking about one of my favorite topics - lies, damned lies, and statistics at #RenderATL #RenderATL2025

Had a great time @renderatl.com again! I was so proud of @jason.energy for his @codetv.dev box and even helped run it! I was proud of my talk about data visualization, too. Saw old friends and made a couple new ones, and saw great talks by @ashley.dev, @sstew.art, and @angiejones.tech

@ashley.dev gave such a fun and joyful talk about putting more joy into our dev tools. I 100% agree!

I was a contributing author on the book "Usability for the World: Building Better Cities and Communities," and it's finally out on @springernature.com! My chapter with AJ Davis and Melanie Brewer focuses on Human Centered Design efforts that create more livable, equitable, and sustainable cities.

My Eden Climber has been generous with blooms this year, but I'm trying to not bring them *all* into the house.

Next round of flowers from the garden. A delphinium and a rose!

It is critical to keep reminding everyone that a better world is possible. Not magically easy, but possible, and worth it.

Working on the weird shape that California poppies make as they start blooming. I just keep drawing the same flower over and over again until I get it (sorta) right 🙃

Saw my first western tanager so basically it's been a pretty great day.

Attention Street Design Nerds! One of the most intriguing cities in recent years at reconsidering streets for people instead of just for cars, Oslo Norway, translated their great Street Design Manual into English and put it on-line. It’s worth digging into. #Oslo www.oslo.kommune.no/getfile.php/...