A take on Maine: As a wise sage once said, "Don't you ever for a second get to thinking you're irreplaceable."

Turns out it was Swalwell 2 but close www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/08/n...

"When white moderates complained in similar fashion about the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King criticized their 'mythical concept of time' in Why We Can’t Wait. We can’t wait when it comes to climate change, either."

The fact that RCP8.5 is no longer credible gives climate dismissives the opportunity to claim that the worst impacts of climate change are no longer possible. The problem with this argument is that emissions does not equal impacts.

Frog tied some string around the box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can cut the string and open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

We are surrounded by data. Most of it can be used to misinform people, while very little of it can be used to inform. The data that *can* be used to inform is usually generated through a protocol designed to inform specific questions, and under what assumptions. That's what a study design is imo. 2c

Admitting you were wrong about someone, or admitting you yourself made mistakes, that is hard and deeply uncomfortable. But if you cannot embrace the “cringe” involved in having standards or unfucking a situation, at the very least, stay out of the way of the people willing to do that work.

This is why your politics have to be intersectional. There is more to the world than white working class.

RSS is a secret trick to making the internet more usable. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

One of my hardest-won political lessons is that it’s never, ever worth it to treat ppl as ~indispensable no matter what they do~ —bc we *see* the contributions & potential of the abusive men & we don’t get to see that in the women they drive out. We never actually get to know what we’ve squandered

Bluesky might be getting *too* sporty

The made up numbers are now being imagined to 3 significant figures and compared to a non-existent historical time series.

Reasons I love Brooklyn, #1553: The Mexican cashier at my local food store telling her Arab manager “Inshallah México!”

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

…not because it is not American, but merely because this nation goes insane, & by the help of noise & fire turns into an odious pandemonium. The nation calls it by all sorts of pet names, but if I had the naming of it I would throw poetry aside & call it Hell's Delight." 5/9

Mark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

Me watching Cuti Romero score against Cabo Verde

Ugh of course Romero scores from a corner

Some of you are still posting about politics and I need you to understand that Bluesky is now a Cabo Verde stan platform thank you for your attention

shut the fuck up Argentina bench I swear to God

Cabo Verde are legends, the story of this World Cup, no matter what else happens 🇨🇻🇨🇻

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the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/

explaining vim as "what if the Backrooms was a text editor"

Climate.us exists because the team behind Climate.gov refused to let years of trusted public climate information simply disappear. Science belongs to everyone, not to any government of the day.

Why the Viral Video You Just Watched Was Probably an Advertisement slate.com/technology/2...

Every Sub-Saharan team is going through. Just phenomenal.

the way these fucking football associations routinely mistreat national team players will be remembered when the revolution comes sports.yahoo.com/articles/uru...

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Because apparently this needs to be said: don‘t take research $ from an oil company, and if you do definitely don’t let them write your papers

This, from @masnick.com, is excellent.

I especially love this diagram.

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

Spoken like a true elder millennial.

The writers are just lazy

I feel a great deal of resentment toward Peter Thiel, Amy Chua and Rod Dreher for a lot of reasons but also for introducing me and everyone else to the dull mind and duller heart of JD Vance

the 16 year old nazis running these accounts are all emulating their leader and waving the white flag of surrender

When the Dems get back into power, they need to massively crack down on these scam artists out of general principle, primarily; however, this is an opportunity to go after conservatives, a lot of whom are powered by fraud.

jeez mfer just came out and said the perfect metaphor

“In retrospect, then, Suez did not quite mark the end of an era. Rather, it was the moment when the transition from sterling to dollar hegemony first became visible. Much the same is true of Hormuz. The question is: what is the next order going to look like?” @mona-ali.bsky.social

genuinely incredible watching Dort not know who Gerry Adams is

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

lol what an image

Identification strategies based on spatially allocated resources / outcomes usually aren't actually isolating random or chance patterns. Very little is actually random when it comes to the spatial distribution of goods / services / people / outcomes.

I agree w/ @shobitap.org that lamenting the politicization of "science" and the health professions is both nonsensical and strategically problematic. The enterprise of science -- basic, clinical, and any other variety -- is fundamentally political in +++ ways. I've written about this here: 1/