Reporting in from threads. Happy Recall Thursday.

Universities aren't keeping up with the demands of our economy. They should be teaching things like Scams 101. Swindles. Advanced flimflam.

Number of measles cases in Virginia surpasses 100: https://mrf.lu/yKtN

The real time effects of climate breakdown are already here. The water will never be the same in years ahead based on what we’ve done to the planet and it’s earth systems…unreal to think we’re going to put even more stress on our water with all the data centers around here. ☠️

El Niño has been formally declared for 2026 by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Find out more in our latest blog

Did you know? No hurricane has ever crossed the equator, due to the Coriolis force. [🎞️ Robert Rohde] Original post

Another infosec banger from Flock Safety as reported by @404media.co Some simple custom searches in Bing or Duckduckgo provide scraped private search data by police. This could have been easily prevented by correctly editing robots.txt, but what do I know? I'm just a "lawless activist"!

Yes, Virginia, we’re still in a drought: 7.5 inches of rain behind, with summer heat upon us augustafreepress.com/news/yes-vir...

sewer socialism might wind up being a popular mode of local governance because nobody else wants to /govern/, just rule

Rebellion.

pokemon go to the drones

I think you need Mamdani levels of optimism about government to rebuild everything these assholes have broken but not necessarily his sunny disposition. Let's get some grumps in there too. Curmudgeons who are mad all the time but at the right people

"People in the US are poised to endure another summer of unusually ferocious heat and there will be little respite in the years ahead, with a new study finding that the coming 15 years could see a doubling in hospitalizations due to heat-related illnesses."

You all need to get some hobbies.

A C30J military aircraft has just departed Harlingen, TX for Honduras. This flight is likely carrying third country nationals as well as Hondurans, and marks the 3rd deportation on a U.S. military plane since Sept. 2025, following 2 such flights on June 4 & 6.

The marketized hamster suffrage of the paleocon paradigm is nothing but manspreading and an endless implosion into the out of pocket image of the self.

I always see people saying “this will make a great ad for the Democrats“ but I never see those ads.

For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal #Climate

I always post the beauty & joy of being Irish but today isn't one of those days. We've seen a horrifically violent act be used by the far right to drum up racist hate which has accumulated in people houses being burned down & masked men searching for immigrants. Devastated doesn't begin to cover it.

MAHA!

give the Geico land to the descendants of the Belmont Syndicate, who were run out of Chevy Chase for trying to build a neighborhood for Black people in 1906, and as reparations, let them build as tall as they want wtop.com/montgomery-c...

Two high-profile properties changed hands in Charlottesville late last May. Details in one of my two stories for C-Ville Weekly this week. c-ville.com/woodard-prop...

i don't think we've really, seriously grappled with the fact there is an anti-epistemological movement that has fully penetrated our society to the point that it's undermined some of our most basic functions

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

"Social Media seriously harms your mental health" Sticker spotted in Vienna

"today's news" on X

This is the "real-time information, entertainment, and free speech platform, which serves as a foundational distribution and data engine for our AI ecosystem" at the heart of the largest IPO in history later this week.

Americans are getting left behind. The renewable energy revolution is going turbo almost everywhere else: the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, all across Europe, all across Africa. In the US we're blocking RE projects & throwing billions at coal. COAL ffs!

This is a highly informative series by @cvilletomorrow.bsky.social reporter Erin O'Hare on the challenges faced by people in the area living in rental housing. Virginia needs to do far to provide legal protections and financial support for renters

DAMB IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades

Bro sent this photo of a green anole that just wandered up to him, and I'm sharing with you because there isn't enough lizardposting.

Ticketmaster needs to be brought down…

Also since I’m up, it’s a good time to remind folks that corporations aren’t people. Data centers don’t need charity - they need to pay their fair share.

Opinion: So You’re Gonna Judge a Guy Solely by What He Says and Also Does and Thinks? thehardtimes.net/blog/opinion...

i am once again asking if anyone i'm connected with knows anyone else with career/education backgrounds in organic chemistry, mineralization, thermodynamics, or electrochemistry

“Among households with transit options, monthly gas consumption falls from about 59 gallons in the lowest-access neighborhoods to 37.6 in the densest.” open.substack.com/pub/liquidci...

Shout out to Charlie Kirk. His first pride month without saying anything homophobic. Proud of him.

You expect white people to care about cultural fascism?

Nelson County approves $8.9M purchase of property: A data center in the offing? augustafreepress.com/news/nelson-...

burning the forests to own the lungs

NO NO NO NO NO NO - dashare.zone ADMIN

They assaulted a CNN crew, breaking the wrist of a producer. A couple of weeks later, they detained another CNN crew, putting one of them in a chokehold and breaking his camera. This IDF reserve unit underwent an education seminar and additional training and are back in the field now. No worries!

“we need a real member of the working class to bring real change for regular people to this country!” okay then back latina nurses instead of white dude ex-mercs

i wonder if the vra rollbacks, designating environmentalists and antifascists as terrorists, cutting woke/science funding ,etc. is related to the AI bubble. in that the oligarchs know AI isn't going to pan out, so they want an underclass available and compliant/crushed after the bubble bursts

"It offers a set of bold policy proposals, including hefty wealth taxes on billionaires, sharp reductions in working hours, a change in diets and a shift of investment from materially intense sectors, such as industry and mining, to education and health." lolsob

There is something brutally psychically injurious to being constantly told "just do good work and you'll be successful" while watching people who do the most dogshit work possible do all the succeeding.

Year after year, we'll be seeing our weather made chaotic, the systems we depend rendered brittle, our homes threatened and the capacities for change in our communities tested by urgent problems — and often depleted. This is not the future. We're seeing it happen all around us, now.