Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

But I confess my first instinct was that of @robertsaunders.bsky.social : I was annoyed at the criticism. And I fear that annoyance then leads us to enlarge the impact of voices that don’t merit that. So I try to take another tack here.

You make a great point here. My own first instinct was to focus on those who are raging about his appointment, which makes this a bad-news story about bigotry. But we shouldn't put those people centre-stage. This is a good news story, and we should put the man himself, not his trolls, at its heart.

I am aware that this has been criticised on Twitter. I share the news as what it is: good news for an open, tolerant, successful U.K.

Some good news: a former refugee from Somalia who made Bristol his home 15 years ago, studied in the U.K. and represents his ward since 2021, pushing for improving local conditions, now fills the ceremonial role of Lord Mayor of Bristol.

Florida is a deeply segregated place, with a land-owning class that still wields disproportionate political power. tallahassee is still a white men's boy's club. there are massive immigrant communities, descendents of slavery, native american tribes, and queer enclaves living under that boot.

as always, let us remember that the asshole state of Florida is a separate entity to Floridians, some of whom are assholes but many of whom are disenfranchised. Diss one, not the latter.

Finally the Moon dial… LOOK AT THE MOON PHASE CHANGING AAHHHH. Place the needle on the lunar day to see what phase it will be, or vice-versa. All this with just ink on paper 😭 19/21

‼️ North Carolina GOP officials are pressuring local election boards to reject early voting sites on college campuses before the midterms. It’s not the only way they’re working to restrict early voting for the November elections. https://bit.ly/4aycTvo

Hi @senadorajulie.bsky.social -- you ran an incredible race, and the shrinking margins tell a tale of coming extremely close. If you're up for the Bennet 2028 fight, your name will be on everyone's lips--and I'd love to hear you announce soon.

Baltic amber made it as far away as Syria during the Iron Age! It was likely highly valued as a material from ‘a distant foreign land’ and beads found in Hama, western Syria expand our knowledge of the extent of the Amber Road networks. Learn more (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

My husband and I ask this every time we drive past expansive parking lots here in Texas. Folks in the 18th and 19th century knew to make the most of natural shade and to build shade and breezeways. We could add solar energy to that, but we don’t even build the shaded cover in the first place!

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We all know by now that this isn’t even hyperbole. It’s exactly the kind of chaos they’ll deliberately cause.

First they ban abortions, then go after birth control, but want tell any women or married couples on a work visa to not get pregnant or they’ll deport them. Legal resident? Green card cancelled, you’re booted out and away from your OBGYN. Just look brown or vaguely not white and pregnant? ICEnapped.

If y’all can help out, this is a kid from my homeroom who needs an immigration attorney. He’s a great kid. www.gofundme.com/f/jonathan-o...

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

There are. Lightning bugs. Here. HOW IS THE WHOLE STATE NOT OUTSIDE IN AWE-FILLED WONDER?!

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

I just want to reiterate how bonkers it is that in Alito's view, whether you get birthright citizenship in the United States depends entirely on the laws of other countries.

"The states and federal government accused Cal-Maine Foods, Versova and Hickman’s Egg Ranch of a behind-the-scenes arrangement to “artificially inflate the daily price quotations for eggs” between June 2022 and March 2025" so basically most of the biden presidency how weird

Re-upping this:

I would like to live in an era of expanding rights, not contracting rights, and any political party that wants my support must make this the whole of their mission from top to bottom.

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And a lest we forget Justice Kavanaugh writes separately because while he agrees with the judgment in this case that Trump cannot change birthright citizenship by EO, he believes that Congress can by statute create exceptions to birthright citizenship that would mirror the provisions of Trump’s EO.

This has been apparent from this Court’s decisions dismantling the power of the 14th Amendment (see e.g., Calláis & Milligan), but it’s sobering to have the confirmation in a case that should have been a lay-up.

Second apparently this was a close case for this Court. As it stands the decision is 6-3. In 1898 the Court’s decision protecting birthright citizenship, Won Kim Ark v. U.S., was 6-2. That means this SCOTUS is either on par w/or to the right of the 1898 Court - the same SCOTUS that decided Plessy!

It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.

Clarence Thomas actually wrote the words "the sad history of the Fourteenth Amendment" and uh excuse me gotta go scream

The Fourteenth Amendment is not a suggestion, it is a guarantee, and no president has the power to erase constitutional rights with the stroke of a pen. Swipe through to read our statement on the Supreme Court's decision.

That’s enough for today. I’m going to touch grass and look at a mushroom. Be good to each other.

As the Supreme Court says states can be cruel to trans kids, my message is clear: Here in Minnesota, we stand with and value our trans neighbors and youth.

Today is a day not to celebrate the court affirming what we all already knew was the law, but a day to think about what damage this case has done to our democracy & what we are going to do to fight back. ImmDef responds: https://www.immdef.org/blog/scotus-brc

Trans rights are human rights.

5-4, to reiterate the most milquetoast meaning of a Constitutional amendment that was win soaked in blood, tells us we have to figure out how we are going to get to impeachment. No other remedy will do.

really tired of Schumer et al acting like Trump is the only bad republican.

Also they are not being bullied. They believe in the Cause because they are republicans.

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

Today, the US Supreme Court allowed states to deny transgender girls and women the right to participate in school sports. Read full statement: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/supreme-court-upholds-state-laws-barring-transgender-girls-school-athletics

NEW: It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River. With @kjzz.org

Good morning!

“Transgender Americans are patriots, family members, volunteers, historians, and descendants of Revolutionary War ancestors just like anyone else. Excluding or targeting people because of their gender identity contradicts the values of respect, service, and sisterhood that the DAR claims to uphold.”

Hey Zoom! WTF! I have a paid personal account and I can't get into it, nor can I get any support. Your AI sucks and I can't get a real person. Somebody get in touch or I'm yanking my credit card and reporting to the BBB.

This is the kind of work we'll have ahead of us, to clean up after the GOP's fundamentalist, white supremacist, anti-democratic, authoritarian rampage. But only if the rest of us have power! Encourage those you know to run for office. Support them. Talk, talk, talk to your communities. Educate.

Sí, se puede! But only if we all hustle. Start small: talk to your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers. Get active in your community. “Every single person has got to commit between now and Election Day in November that we’re going to have to work very hard and just organize, organize, organize.”

Because we'd tell them "no". Let's vote them out of office, and not just for this coming election. Or the next one! The GOP has now proven it doesn't care for democracy so let's boot them out of power, for the next century, for the next generation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Seriously bleak images out of Venezuela. Side note: It is so gross how the United States has just declined to lead on humanitarian aid and is instead handing that leadership role over to *spins globe* anyone, really. www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

Londoners send truckload of food, supplies to Venezuela after deadly earthquakes #London #Ontario Latin community members gathered supplies and other essentials to help people affected by disaster www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...