We've lost the insects, too I was walking my dog the other night and saw one lonesome lightning bug flashing in the darkness. There used to be a symphony of lights Growing up, removing splattered bugs from the car was a chore we had. Now, I rarely even hit a bug while driving Kids won't even know

I had my undergrads do weekly reflection questions & I asked them to pick a cognitive bias and tell a story of how they were impacted by it I was shocked by how many young men chose escalation of commitment and told gambling addiction stories Several groups chose online gambling for their projects

There are two East Belfast UDA paramilitary flags on lamp posts either side of the entrace to Garnerville Rd in East Belfast. Garnerville is where the PSNI training college is. The paramilitaries are showing everyone who is in charge. Policing is severerly compromised. How did we get to this? [1/n]

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RIP to my electricty bill The sun is set and the feels-like temp is still triple digits in Chicago I have my AC set to 79 - my dog starts plotting my demise if I let it hit 80 - and it has been running nonstop for hours

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

Betting is so unregulated & growing so fast in the US that it's creating a growing population of problem gamblers—Researchers at the New York Fed looked at millions of credit reports to show that debt delinquency jumps in states that legalized sports betting (and their neighbors)

Facts! Black men were banned from being jockeys because they were winning so much. The same is true for bicycle races. Google "Major Taylor" aka "The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World," the title of his autobiography.

Got the text about "retiring" my plan yesterday. The plan that T-Mobile promised would never see a price increase. Guess they got around that by eliminating the plan. Shady AF And now I get to waste time trying to talk to a human because T-Mobile's contact options all start with "AI" agents

The fever swamps are cooking up mandatory surveillance of every woman for signs of pregnancy to enforce immigration law.

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.

Really not looking forward to tomorrow's SCOTUS decisions on trans rights, which are ostensibly about sports (but depending on the ruling, will affect far, far more than that, and not likely in a good way).

this whole online ID verification push stuff is turning me into a weird crank at rapid speed because I've never seen such an unpopular policy forced through with such speed in so many countries simultaneously with basically zero real consent from any population, just pure elite collusion

The heatwave in Europe has caused at least 1,300 excessive deaths. Albania, Germany, Greece, Spain, & France are battling wildfires Deadly flash floods in KY & TN. Wildfires in UT/CO and WA. Midwest & Eastern US trapped in a heat dome Climate change is now - why don't half of Americans believe it?

This is how easy it is to poison Google's AI search with Reddit comments Watch here and subscribe for more of this every single week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8...

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

BREAKING: States are allowed to count ballots mailed by Election Day but received after Election Day, Supreme Court rules. Barrett has the 5-4 opinion for the court, holding that federal law does NOT preempt the state laws. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Mandating age verification "effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms," FPF's @caitlinvogus.bsky.social and @aliyabhatia.bsky.social write in @theintercept.com.

Absolutely dreading the next few days. It's going to be especially rough because we're just coming out of temps in the 60s You'd think that so much of the world suffering extreme heatwaves would be a wakeup call, but I'm not going to hold my breath. Because it will be too hot to Stay safe, Chicago

Europe’s record heatwave has killed more than 1,300 people since June 21, with fires ignited by the extreme heat in Germany burning through forests contaminated with unexploded World War II ordnance, forcing firefighters to withdraw as munitions detonated in the blaze.

The Texas Declaration of Independence signatories also approved the Constitution of the Republic of Texas in 1836 That document made slavery legal in Texas - it had been outlawed under Mexican law On the heels of Juneteenth, invoking his ancestor's words while ignoring his deeds is a choice

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

What is the EU city with most heat-related deaths doing? Turning into Singapore! "Our first line of defense is massively plant..best natural air-conditioners in Paris are trees” cooling community shelters in schools,etc 'Paris braces for summer of paralysing heat' www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Americans can't take on board high temperatures in Celsius. 44ºC = So what? 112ºF = OMiG! in Paris? If you're stating temperatures, pls consider 44ºC / 112ºF If Americans can't viscerally imagine heat, it's bad for all of us. I know. It sounds like I'm demanding people use English. Sorry!

In the 2022 European heatwave it was estimated (in Nature) that there were 56% more heat-related deaths in women than men between May & September with a steep incline for women between 65 and 79, and a steeper one still for those over 80. Heat is a feminist issue.

Federal Case Unravels, Four Felony Charges on Minnesota Activist Are Turned Into One Misdemeanor Artist and activist Isabel “Isa” Lopez had five federal charges with a possibility of eight years in prison reduced to one misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served and a $25 fine.

“…several advertisers said Meta's AI tool had also generated bizarre or nonsensical ads for their products, and that some settings, like ‘test new creative features’ and ‘automatic adjustments,’ had automatically been toggled to ‘on.’”

There are over 300 data centers in France, placing a growing strain on the nation’s power grid even as they literally struggle to keep the lights on in the midst of increasingly frequent heat waves and corporate-fueled climate catastrophe.

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

It is silly to pretend like Palestine didn't animate anyone in these three races. Reynoso and Goldman called themselves progressives but opposed things like Block The Bombs, Valdez and Lander support things like this. Espaillat literally didn't even defend Mahmoud Khalil, which is why DAC ran.

Across NY & MD, I'm counting 12 Democratic incumbents who lost (or, in one case, are trailing) to a challenger to their left. —2 congressmembers (both NY) —4 state senators (2 in NY, 2 in MD) —6 state house members (5 in NY, 1 in MD) A thread to break this down.

Cool - do Chicago next "Last month, we brought together a group of fuel pricing and operations leaders in Chicago for a focused, in-person client meetup." Remember when the Sherman Antitrust Act forced price setters to meet in secret? Now they openly gather and blog about it. Thanks, Reagan!

Not beating the eugenicist allegations

The average sentence for providing material support to ISIS is a little over 13 years. The Prairieland defendants got between two and nearly eight times that. So, again, the government is saying that the crimes of “antifa” are somehow two to eight times worse than those supporting an FTO.

A travesty. Springer Nature offloads SciAm—the most storied science magazine in the US—onto a content mill consortium, LabX, during an almost certainly successful union vote. LabX now says it will lay off 15 people, over 1/3rd of the unit and 60% of the bargaining committee. Pure union busting.

Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

We could use more people DOING something about Elon Musk instead of just amplifying his Stürmerposting. You can dismiss the Tesla dealer protests as "shitlib" all you want but it's 1000x more effective than just soyjack pointing at the guy's tweets

Cool - do Chicago next "Last month, we brought together a group of fuel pricing and operations leaders in Chicago for a focused, in-person client meetup." Remember when the Sherman Antitrust Act forced price setters to meet in secret? Now they openly gather and blog about it. Thanks, Reagan!

_500_ infants and toddlers have been detained since last year while hundreds of sick children in Tennessee are facing losing lifesaving healthcare due to the Trump regime’s mass deportation obsessions. "Our immigration system is breaking children,” said pediatrics professor Marsha Griffin👇🏽

Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

I don't know what to do with the fact that so many of my all-time-favorite bands are on the original list Nor the fact that Kelsey's ongoing list has bands I don't know, but will probably be my new favorites Am I just a sad dad inside?

Better worlds are possible.

The "AI" propaganda machine never sleeps, and it really wants us to give up what little healthcare access we have This personal story - a thinly veiled self-promotion - is asinine 🚩 Went to a chiropractor instead of Dr. 🚩 Built "AI" tool instead of Dr. visit 🚩 Avoided all reputable info sources

The psychopaths are killing Al-Jazeera journalists again in Gaza and pretending they’re Hamas.

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

I simply do not understand how moving humanity to a planet that at a minimum doesn’t sustain any complex lifeforms would be an easier or better alternative than bringing the temperature back down slightly on ours

NEW poll shows a Democratic socialist born in 1997 leading against a veteran Democrat who first took office in 1997. The CO-1 Democratic primary poll shows 29-year-old Melat Kiros ahead of Diana DeGette, 41-36. *38-point-swing* toward Kiros since March.

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.