Daybreak decisive victory! turn 3 drawdown, just two temperature bars - 1.4 degrees C. Europe zeroed out their factory emissions on the first turn. Thanks to Industrial Emissions Reductions Investments, China was able to immediately to the same. @mattleacock.bsky.social @baddeo.bsky.social

Compare these bakfiets to buying a used bicycle trailer for $100 off Facebook Marketplace and dumping groceries in it. 🧵...

Fact Check: MOSTLY FALSE Star Tribune posts headline that's basically a lie. I believe the article changed significantly once you click through - this less-false article isn't the one I read yesterday, but I don't see any acknowledgement on the current article that it's been edited.

Our third face-to-face game of Oath was such a banger! I'm still pretty new to playing Oath with experienced players, so I'm not sure if it'll always be this interesting. Prior games have been decided anticlimactically by lack of player board-sight. But not this one! 🧵

Operation: Epstein Fury

TIL @stlpublicradio.bsky.social

NO KINGS is a national day of action. We come together to march and collectively lift our signs and voices against fascism, authoritarianism, cruelty and hate We stand together against authoritarianism, corruption, and the growing threat of of violence to our neighbors and our city!

I accidentally bought onion flavored cheese and what I'm left wondering is: "why does this exist?"

Oath: New Foundations is an expansion for Oath due to hit late this year. But you can print'n'play it *today*, because of a little software side-project of mine. #boardgame boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42... drive.proton.me/urls/WA9T4HZ... github.com/dcmorse/oath...

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon https://theonion.com/iran-worried-u-s-might-be-building-8-500th-nuclear-wea-1819573283/

Wow.

Played boardgames with 9 people this weekend - 12 games: LotR:Duel for Middle Earth LotR:Fate of the Fellowship Magical Athlete Railroad Tiles (x4) Yokohama Res Arcana Azul (x2) Arcs

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

We're watching the theatrical Return of the King, and it's shocking to me how bad it is. Denethor feels random and slapstick, since they cut 80% of the palantir. Abruptly changing POV away from Theoden's death. They set up The Last Battle in about 100 seconds of dialogue. It all feels so amateur.

MO Sen Eric Schmitt ignoring NATO and Article 5 in his reply to me: > The only military that can adequately defend Greenland is that of the United States. For this reason, I commend and support President Trump’s diplomatic efforts with the Danish and Greenlandic governments to acquire Greenland.

Especially if you're headed to a protest. interc.pt/4q6pmLx

So chuffed for _Free Stars: Children of Infinity_! I have such fond memories of playing Star Control II with my cousins. Looking forward to playing this new chapter with my nerfs. @pistolshrimpgames.com

My block's sidewalk is shoveled. Greying men, FTW.

Restore a free and democratic society with this One Weird Trick: Meet with your friends every month to share information and coordinate your actions.

Well, hello! Nice to hear from you!

> 1877 - St Louis > In the midst of the first national strike of an entire industry, fought by railroad workers against employers pushing wages down to starvation levels ..., workers in St Louis ... walked out in solidarity with the railroad strike and on behalf of demands of their own. ...

Will FEMA be involved if we have an ice storm this weekend across 10 states? Shutting that down seems like a bad plan.

"vibe-economics"

I was today years old when I learned there's an alternate app store for Android. One where the apps aren't privacy-breaching or pay-for-suck. The 'F' is for 'Free'. f-droid.org

Sign of the times: the grocery bicycle rack had 3 electrics, a gas scooter, and just one bio bike.

Jefferson City rally today to demand the state legislature shape up.

Well, we Dems tried yelling our heads off about Fascism in 2020. How'd that work out for the world? Sorry our electorate is a bunch of morons, but we're under an obligation to win at any cost. So if you think less of us: fine. Think less of us. We gotta win.

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Regular reminder that anyone making confident predictions about anything is a fool. No one knows what's going to happen. Lean into uncertainty and get comfortable with it.

I'm in the airport and thus subjected to talking heads breathlessly covering SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS. Like there's not an authoritarian breakthrough going on.

Contra dances insist on live music even though in many ways recorded music would be better. In a sense, people on stage playing for dancing has been obsolete for decades, but we keep doing it because that's the culture we want. As AI progressively outpaces humans, I like this as a model to follow.

Register to save your spot on the bus here: bit.ly/jan21rally. Free lunch is included.

“People ask me to predict the future, but all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is too easy, anyway. You look around — the street you stand on, the air you breathe — and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.” - Ray Bradbury

'Clicktatorship'

@plainenglishsci.bsky.social this feels up your alley.

Attacking Greenland is the the smartest move since: - Japan attacking Pearl Harbor in 1941 - Nazi Germany invading the USSR in 1941 - Imperial Germany invading Belgium in 1914 You see that the officials from those governments had wonderful lives after making those very smart decisions!

The mayor says something really important about something that's bugged me for a long time: that we force grieving families to relive their trauma over and over again as they lobby elected officials asking them to do the right thing. I am so glad to hear him say those days are over.

Tonight - 4pm Forest Park - NE corner www.answercoalition.org/venezuela

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

Heading to Grand and Arsenal at about 11 with a sign. Gonna yell at the Criminal In Chief for a while.

Letter to my congressional delegation /1 "The president has taken military action against Venezuela without consulting congress. Whatever the current murky legality of that action under US Law, congress must see that this man does not have the capacity to lead the country in war.

As US citizens, what are our responsibilities today? Write congresscritters? Stand on a street corner with a sign? What else?

Wow. To be in the safe side, at a very minimum: tip in cash.

Get ready for Dave's 2025 human powered transportation stats! 1616 miles bicycling - 306 of it on a tandem 485 miles running - a record by 95 miles Photo: Katy trail during Geekway to the West