I hate every bot I see. From gpa to gpt

We’re in big trouble.

Latest from me: for my newsletter I write about Joe Rigney, the pastor who warned of the "Sin of Empathy, and his example of what Christian nationalism will look like as Christian Zionism dies as is replaced by flagrant bigotry and cruelty. maiseh-review.ghost.io/post-zionist...

TIMBERS! that goal was unstoppable.

this is the thing about data center water usage—it's not about the sum total of water used but the localized impacts to ecosystems and availability/quantity in light of already over-allocated streams where in-stream habitat is always on the chopping block. these are difficult problems.

interesting piece. the thing is that nobody's rewarded for using a lot less water and a lot less space to grow produce in our agricultural system. pesticides and chemical fertilizers are factored into a cost/price system that relies on absurdly cheap and increasingly scarce water.

Lest you hold out any hope, the #2 party here, A Just Russia, is basically Putinism with social democratic characteristics. They endorsed Putin in 2018 and supported the invasion of Ukraine four years later.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Yeah because I tried Mastodon in good faith and it was the social media experience of eating bran flakes while being glowered at by an angry German

Just had this from Planet Labs, the US government have asked satellite imagery providers for "voluntarily" restrictions on access to satellite imagery. Given a lot of them provide satellite imagery to the USG we can probably guess the outcome of not acquiescing to that request.

To measure CO₂ in water, we need to get it into the gas phase with a device called an equilibrator. My equilibrator is made from a Bubba Keg (the thing in lime green). I’m actually unsure how people normally use the keg.

People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced

While you slept last night: ~100 million birds took to the skies 🐦 The Mid-Atlantic saw heavy traffic moving north/northeast, with migration hotspots from the Southeast to Ohio Valley and Southern Plains. The overnight rush continues this weekend. Details at cwg.live

recently learned that being labelled a "scold" in medieval and Renaissance England earned a woman an actual punishment, like being half-drowned or forced to wear a horrifying iron muzzle called a "scold's bridle" in public... sorta opened my eyes about the long roots of the "woke scold" accusation.

Scones are the highest-variance baked good in existence A terrible scone is just a doorstop But I still think about this one scone I had with fresh jam and clotted cream in the UK sometimes…

Black beans are the best beans, with pinquito beans a close second. We should have dinner parties more often. Well, maybe you already do. I got out of the habit during the pandemic and need to get back into it!

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

Kremlin hotline: Hungary colluded with Russia to delist sanctioned oligarchs, companies and banks A new investigation with @vsquare.bsky.social, Delfi Estonia, FRONTSTORY.PL and ICJK.

what is very amusing is that Kustov is dril-posting on X re the response to his Atlantic piece How the man believes he can tell us he writes with LLMs, and thinks AI can do social science research better than human profs and then expects us to read his work.

No group has moved leftward faster politically in the past 20 years than U.S. Latter-day Saints. They're still solidly Republican but less so. A few theories on why, and whether the trend will continue.

almost all denominations, no matter how zealously they guard their borders, fade into the US political religion. it's like overdetermination by nationalism in the last instance or something.

not sure ur supposed to do the phallus like this tho

u say tomato, I say tomahto u say anti-corruption, i say tikkun olam tomato, tomahto anti-corruption, tikkun olam let's call the whole thing off

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Señora de Sorolla in Black, 1906 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), a portrait of the artist’s wife, Clotilde García del Castillo (1865–1929)

"the visions that I see believe in me" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Researchers spent years interviewing 160 Bigfoot hunters - this is what they learnt. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PSU's financial picture looks bleak these days. The institution has been dipping into reserves since 2022 and now faces a projected $35 million budget gap. Trustees will vote today on a 5% student tuition increase. Meanwhile, anxiety remains as talk continues of reductions to academic programs.

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

This excellent piece from @madisoncondon.bsky.social shows why (nerd alert!)—even if the scenario underlying RCP 8.5 is implausible, RCP 8.5 serves an important role in our understanding of and planning for climate change, and is therefore not misleading. progressivereform.org/publications...

ok who is the Sailor Moon funny person nerd that brought Artemis to Artemis II

genuinely impressed at how many people understand the ins and outs of the Red Lobster's bankruptcy and the relative significance of private equity and shrimp. really a Bluesky sweet spot. more context here: www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

beautiful jrue three. just an absolute rainbow.

not great

Hydrologists working high in the Rocky Mountains have measured what they say is Colorado’s driest winter of snow moisture on record.

#Artemis II - Has completed a successful Translunar Injection burn Orion spacecraft is on its way, for the first time in over 50 years astronauts are on their way to the moon! 🌕 Mission Control confirms good burn! View from Orion looking back at earth 🚀

so one interpretation, albeit simplistic, is that each of these men is attracted to the man they see in the image, and in repressing that attraction, they identify the object of their erotic desire as gay(/blockage) rather than themselves.

Someone sent me this.

this could be the subject of a dissertation

yall what am I gonna do about these squirrels? they tear my stuff up, and it's just April. 😭

I was wrong about this. this was a mistake.

avacado on pizza is good? avocado on pizza is good!

2/ The Kremlin's aggrandized claims about the seizure of Luhansk Oblast are part of a wider coordinated information campaign that aims to create a false sense of urgency to force Ukraine to cede unoccupied parts of Donetsk Oblast.

Here’s the part that Sauer highlighted, to make it look like contemporaries understood Wong Kim Ark to contain a domicile requirement. Note the “however“ at the beginning of the next sentence…

me when Russia's defense ministry says something

had a wonderful time chatting with Jasmeet about her work on Parler and the weird, slightly-marginal but also liminal relevance of alt-tech in today's world

This GWOT generation stabbed-in-the-back-narrative guy is just totally garbling the Vietnam generation’s stabbed-in-the-back narrative

🚨🚨🚨 March 2026 was the warmest March on record according to Prism climate data (1895-present). Previously, 2012 was far and away the warmest March, but this March beat 2012 by about half a degree Fahrenheit. This map shows how March temperatures ranked compared to all other Marches.🔥🔥🔥

I love proxy data

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.