"You see, once we call the issue something like, just shooting from the hip here, the 'houselessness crisis,' no one will technically be homeless anymore, because we won't use that word." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

Sunflower flour emerges as a sustainable, nutrient-packed, and surprisingly meat-like plant protein innovation.

Another way Covid mRNA vaccines can be life-saving.

I hope this important message doesn’t get lost in all the other news today

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it. grist.org/accountabili... #Oklahoma #OK #OklahomaCity #Tulsa #Oil #Water

Get ready for Vote Early Day on Tuesday, October 28. Check your state’s voter registration deadline and make sure you're registered. Then tell your friends and family to do the same. Make a plan to vote at vote.gov

Points of No Return “We are in a state of planetary emergency,” they wrote, departing from the usual sterility of scientific writing. “The stability and resilience of our planet is in peril.” grist.org/climate-tipp... #Climate #Amazon #Greenland #Science #Environment

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Thank you, Jane Goodall, for showing us a way.

"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."

Book stairs. Balamand University, Lebanon. (source: dreamstime.com/staircase-know…)

Christie's to auction calculating machine created by Blaise Pascal. Only nine original models of the Pascaline exist. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

69% percent of Democrats and 21% of Independents are either furious or angry.

Your guide to extreme weather preparation, relief, and recovery! grist.org/extreme-weat... #Hurricane #HurricaneErin #Erin #Weather #Storm #WeatherUpdate #Disaster

Glaciers in the Alps and Pyrenees have lost about 40% of their mass since 2000. www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Boo hoo.

This would mark an extraordinary, unprecedented, and alarming level of interference in what has historically been a fair and systematic process. The previous NCAs were authored by hundreds of scientists who were leading domain experts in their fields. www.cnn.com/2025/08/...

"A climate nonprofit is planning to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather disasters that the Trump administration formally stopped updating in May. The database - which was produced by NOAA - is set to return this fall as a product of @climatecentral.org."

Explore the exquisite food towers & cakes of early 19thC France. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/l...

Who is Mary Banning, the woman whose contributions to our understanding of mushrooms and fungi went largely unacknowledged, and what can we learn from her studies today?

PEN just messaged me about the new US Journalist Assistance Network resource; I think non-journos will find it helpful, too. Includes the Online Field Harassment Manual, safety advisories for US travel (visa holders, digital #security, etc), and more: cpj.org/us-journalis...

"More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system." It will use AI and "monitor wellness": apnews.com/article/trum...

Ceres on an A+ scooter pulled by dragons, off in search of Proserpina. As excellently imagined by Giorgio Vasari of Florence, who was born on this day in 1511.

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

NEW: Decades of NASA satellite data reveal how quickly the planet’s underground stores of fresh water have been depleted and how their use is contributing to rising sea levels. Here are the key takeaways.

USDA abruptly cancels rural energy grant application window. It’s the latest setback for the longstanding REAP program, casting uncertainty over the future of a resource that helps farmers save on energy and install solar. grist.org/food-and-agr... #rural #Energy #Food #Farms #Solar #agriculture

Currently ordering fall-planted bulbs like the world's not on fire.

Paris urban biking DOUBLED in just one year. “Cycling in Paris has transcended mere trendiness; it’s become a fundamental aspect of the city’s identity. Despite challenges like inclement weather, cyclists continue to flock to the streets, setting new records and reshaping the urban landscape.”

"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here."

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it.

More than 1.2 million people are covered by Medicaid in Colorado, about one-fifth of the state’s population coloradosun.com/2025/06/30/c...

Kansas rural hospitals brace for impact of $4 billion funding loss under mega-bill kansasreflector.com/2025/06/24/k...

The effects of the devastating cuts still in the bill will close rural hospitals, push elders and disabled people out of long-term-care services they need to survive, and make so many hard lives harder and more dangerous by shutting millions out of healthcare coverage. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

Lawmakers in at least 27 states have introduced bills that would require voters to provide citizenship documents like a birth certificate or passport to vote. Such rules would block huge numbers of American citizens from voting.

US #climate warming stripes (1895-2024) showyourstripes.info/s/northameri...

Despicable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

CU students are part of the largest #hail study in decades, dubbed ICECHIP. www.axios.com/local/denver... #climate #weather

The total amount of public land that Trump wants to make available for sale is equivalent to more than TWICE the size of CALIFORNIA. All to pay for tax cuts to some of the richest people in world history.

New figures from CBO about how Americans at different income levels are affected by the GOP's Big Beautiful Bill. Topline finding: Richest decile gets about 2% richer. Poorest decile gets about 4% poorer. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Scoop: NOAA's climate portal, climate.gov, will soon no longer publish new content after its staff were recently dismissed. Former staff fear that the website may become a mouthpiece for the administration's anti-science views. My latest for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Farewell to Sly Stone, one of the true musical giants of the 20th Century. variety.com/2025/music/n...

"The Trump administration has proposed cutting funding for tribal colleges and universities by nearly 90%, a move that would likely shut down most or all of the institutions created to serve students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities."

Some impressive bonsai on display at the Osaka Expo, many of which were shown at the 1970 Expo 55 years ago. 1st pic is the 350-year old Yoroi Kakenomatsu, which was cared for by Japan’s last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. www.sankei.com/article/2025...

everyone even mildly into polar exploration knows how badly vitamin A can fuck you up, and seeing the Health Secretary of the US recommend megadoses to measles patients made me so mad i wrote about it. im so angry at this malthusian ghoul buttondown.com/theswordandt...

"Fietsvlonders" are mobile bike platforms designed to turn a car parking spot into urban bike parking. They’re modular, moveable, and cheap, making it easy to test better use of public space. When car storage gets swapped for bikes, entire streets start to feel different.

The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security. NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats. By @abrahm.bsky.social

Out now @mitpress.bsky.social: The Invisible Hand by @mattlongo.bsky.social - our hands shaped evolution, but their real power lies in the brain. 🧠✋ Longo blends anatomy, neuroscience, archaeology & more into a unified story of how we sense, move, and even think of our hands.