Off the top of my head, this is a plot point in Paradise, Battlestar Galactica (2000s), Designated Survivor, The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, Dr Strangelove, Doctor Who: Aliens of London…

Isn’t AI one of those things people do with electricity?

Greater Stitchwort… Top meadow World Bee Sanctuary this morning. #wildflowerhour #wildflowers #nature #spring #sunday

Via @onthemedia.bsky.social

@artandfeminism.bsky.social getting a 503 request error when I try to load your website. Something up?

In better news, it’s #Caturday.

Yeah, what a waste, considering that it’s a fraction of a percent of the billons of $$$ worth of weaponry used up while handing Iran the leverage to plunge the world into the worst global energy crisis ever. What will these well-meaning, quirky animal lover ladies think up next?

Another great thing about birds: They don't want your email address.

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India #WomensArt

‪A network of Facebook groups & accounts trying to discredit clean heating (some with AI-generated antisemitic graphics) appears to be the work of a single French PR exec with gas sector connections @desmog.com & @politico.eu report.

Damn, birds are cool.

“I still cannot understand that the world was so blind-sided, that the global economy can be held hostage to a 50km strait.” 🤣🤣🤣😂😆

reminder! There is a book about tigers that you can buy and read! My mom says it's really good! 🌍🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-iO...

Can wait to see what happens when the DOJ gets The Atlantic's discovery request.

“Faced with the rise of racism in our society, I felt a responsibility not to let this past be erased.”

Meanwhile Vance is accusing the EU of election interference. Hopefully enough Hungarians know how well Trump keeps his promises.

Imagine the peace and quiet if governments had been speedily electrifying transportation over the past decade since the Paris climate agreement. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Lawsuit to strip endangered species protections from #Florida scrub jays has national ramifications. My @floridaphoenix.com column, republished by @therevelator.org : therevelator.org/florida-scru...

See? This is why I still collect physical copies of the books, music and movies I like the most.

Brilliant sourcing.

NEW @desmog.com: JD Vance's schmoozing this week with PM Victor Orbán is part and parcel of how CPAC and the Trump administration are trying to get MAGA allies in other countries into power. By @geoffdembicki.bsky.social at @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/04/09/r...

Russian authorities detained a former Radio Free Europe freelancer on treason charges; security services also have searched Novaya Gazeta's newsroom in Moscow (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

Important context: politicians have been paid for decades by major delivery services to strangle USPS into oblivion. Bears more fruit every year. www.cbsnews.com/news/usps-pe... Why keep funding a public service when someone can profit instead?

Just recorded a great pod, and I gotta say ... solar and batteries are going to win. They are the main dish. Everything else is a side dish. In 10 years, you won't be able to find anyone who disagrees with this.

This is real.

The president found some time amid his diy war crisis to do another racist thing. www.ms.now/opinion/mich...

🔴 MAPPED: The Reform-Orbán Network Ahead of elections in both countries, DeSmog has catalogued the connections between Hungary’s autocratic government and Farage’s operation. 📝 @adambarnett.bsky.social

Timing!

The @apnews.com continues to approach this story head-on, rather than with euphemisms and sanewashing. apnews.com/article/trum...

Forum Communications, which owns newspapers and TV stations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and both Dakotas, parted ways last week with left-leaning columnists. In Fargo, protesters expressed their disappointment with the paper, which many of them had been reading their entire lives.

The best thing about used EVs these days? The price tag. Used EVs are more attractively priced than ever — and through-the-roof gas prices are pushing more and more buyers to snap them up.

donald trump, driver of the green revolution sorry folks fossil fuels are a national security risk, gotta go all in on renewables

Is it significant or coincidence that amid such a rich selection of unqualified cabinet officials , the only ones ousted so far are women? Real question.

Analilia Mejia Navigates NJ-11 Campaign After Stunning Primary Victory. Nice story by one of our Montclair State Students, David Bien-Aime villagegreennj.com/election/pop...

Gooooo Artemis II … “for all humanity”!

Analysis: Potentially devastating. See my replies…

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

Very informative, disturbing and plausible analysis.

The criticism of #NoKings is flowing in from left ("where are the clear demands?"), right ("it's a communist conspiracy!"), and center ("...suure, millions are turning out over and over and over again to march in the streets, but does that make it a MOVEMENT?") Gonna go bake some cookies.

Millions of liberals and progressives getting teary right now!

NK Jemisin to a room full of Wikipedians: "my grandmother would have baked you a cobbler." #wikipediadaynyc

#NoKings Brooklyn NY

Happy birthday Trout!

Thought experiment: What if Thomas Edsall and The NY Times had run a column like this 62 years ago that read, "Why don’t more Democrats explicitly moderate their stands on Black rights, immigration, and other issues? Those who maintain far-out positions are well to the left of the electorate..."

Not a lawyer, but Meta and YouTube being found liable for “failure to warn” sounds relevant to a lot of the climate lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

Meanwhile, in the other war… www.bbc.com/news/article...

Supreme Court rejects appeal from online citizen journalist over her arrest in Texas. #FirstAmendment apnews.com/article/supr...

It's all lies. All of it. And journalists need to stop hiding that from the readers and viewers. See: presswatchers.org/2026/03/can-...