this glacier plaque plus all the poetry on the skyline reminds me of this poem

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Just so I can be sure what the @nytimes.com is telling me: Free buses in Iowa City: popular, successful, easily affordable Free buses in New York City: pie-in-the-sky socialist nightmare Thanks for clearing it up for me, King Arthur XVI! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits. Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?

The 31st Street ruling killing the bike lane might be one of the dumbest ever, because it's not just an error of judgement, it's an error of geometry!

Se dette! Menneskeskapte klimaendringer gir enorme og raske endringer i havets økosystemer. De vipper i store regioner. Arter flytter seg. Sargassohavet tømmes for sin "gylne havets regnskog", flytetangen der ålen fødes før den kommer til oss med Golfstrømmen. Tropiske Atlanterhavet fylles av tang.

If only American journalists had the same amount of integrity, or ANY integrity.

Jasmine Crockett: “To every politician celebrating this decision, let me offer a word of caution — Don't get too comfortable — When you push district lines this far, you risk losing the very seats you thought you locked in“ I think we can turn Texas blue—

More of this nationwide please!

Is it any wonder why so many think the system is rigged against them?

The UK's 156 billionaires own £772 billion. That's more than the GDP of Switzerland. Meanwhile, 14 million people live in poverty. Will taxing billionaires help reduce poverty? Yes. Will the government listen? No, because the billionaires are paying them not to. Sign up: takebackpower.net

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

Kristi Noem came to Chicago for a Christmas propaganda video at Navy Pier. We were ready with our signs and our chants and our own special carols! 🎵❌️🧊

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In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

"Man trenger ikke være verken «selvopptatt» eller fanatiker for å spørre seg hva alle de store flotte ordene om klimakutt og en utslippsfri framtid betyr om det faktisk er helt umulig å snakke om å slutte å lete etter olje" www.dagsavisen.no/kommentar/de...

We The People have gone from ObamaCare to TrumpDontCare. TEN YEARS going on eleven that Trump claimed to have a HealthCare plan better than ObamaCare. Now the plan is, "you pay with money you don't have cuz we billionaires took it all," that's been the plan all along. youtube.com/shorts/pKWwm...

The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Å forakte NRK er nå objektivt sett et tegn på vilje til rettferdighet, og på politisk sunne instinkter. Så ikke helt det komme da dette året meldte sin ankomst, for nå snart 12 måneder siden.

NRKs dekning av egen skandaløs opptreden i Eurovisjons-saken er preget av pusete intervjuer og forståelsesfulle kommentarer. Triste saker.

If the bike lane requires you to be at "peak human" performance to survive, it's a failed design.

Thinking this is wrong isn’t radical. Thinking it isn’t is.

Thorazine shuffle.

Himes: "What I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I've seen in my time in public service ... any American who sees the video that I saw will see the US military attacking shipwrecked sailors."

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

A UN Environment Programme satellite watches for super-emitter events of methane (the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent greenhouse gas) and alerts the people responsible. Out of 3,500+ alerts since 2022, UNEP "documented 25 cases of mitigation action." That's a 0.7% action rate. 🤦

We have raised $3,315 toward our $20k goal for the 2026 #BikeBus Mini Grants. These grants go directly to existing Bike Buses, helping parent leaders cover costs, strengthen their routes, & keep the joy and consistency going for their communities. Can you help?? give.communityin.org/BikeBusWorld...

Veldig fint å høre Stavanger-rektor Klaus Mohn @mohnitor.bsky.social forklare i dagens #polkvart hvordan oljeskattepakka og presset i oljenæringa skviser andre næringer, men trist at sunn fornuft nok en gang blir overkjørt av politiske talepunkter uten substans. Men stadig flere fatter problemet.

er så ekstremt naivt at det nesten bare bli dumt når folk i toppstillinger i norge later som om internasjonale giga-arrangement er politisk nøytrale greier

Deflect and Distract volume 47

No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again

Da får vi som eier NRK sørge for at det blir uten norsk deltakelse.

Se også: Eurovision

Facial recognition technology = mass human rights violations. Again and again, this technology has been proven to be discriminatory against racialised communities. Make no mistake: this is a decision to further entrench racism within policing.

Skal vi få tryggheten opp må farta ned I Norge er standard fart i tettbebygde strøk 50 km/t, det tilsvarer nesten 14 meter i sekundet. I gater med barn, eldre, syklister og gående er det altfor høy fart.

Bare minner om at det fremdeles er budsjettkaos i Oslo, lite tyder på at Høyre og Venstre er styringsdyktige