The world travels by horse. It did when my great grandparents were born and it did when they were my age and it did when they died … oh wait no. They had a car by the time they were my age.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

My pal, Melody needs help. She deserves better than the situation she’s in. If you knew the details, you’d be so pissed off on her behalf. Help if you can.

One more thought: what if the internet-fueled participatory propaganda cycles — and those who know how to exploit them — are really good at garnering attention, harnessing grievance, and tearing down things (trust, institutions, USAID, the WH's east wing, etc.) but really bad at actually governing?

In my world all burritos are

this is a hideously awful justification for immoral policy

With the missing alt-text: Two stacked photos with the same energy. The top one is from Star Wars. It shows Princess Leia in a white dress staring down Grand Moff Tarkin. The bottom photo is from real life. It shows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez staring down RFK Jr in the House of Representatives.

Here's the absolute version of the chart (gigawatts instead of percentages).

Here in Wisconsin, we're working to build the clean energy future our state deserves, and that includes our work to expand the use of nuclear energy, which is clean, reliable, and safe.

For this Trans Music Tuesday, another electronic music visionary! Glenn Copeland (he/him, also Beverly Glenn-Copeland) is a singer, songwriter, and pianist. After starting his career in jazz and folk, Copeland brought his sound to electronica in 1986 with self-produced album Keyboard Fantasies.

lol the shooter has a BLUE SKY ACCOUNT, well here’s one excuse that won’t work:

Bad draft is a lot easier to fix than a blank page

HORMUZ BACK OPEN? OR STILL NO FREIGHT? WITH TRUMP IN CHARGE HARD TO KEEP STRAIT ~ BURMA-GRAM

Hello! Does anyone in my network have expertise on Puerto Rico (esp. historical expertise on Puerto Rican culture circa 1959)? My friend is a producer and is putting on a musical about a family in this time period. Please share in your networks!

Thorium MSRs, benefit and hype

Still the defining paragraph of America’s elites 😐

Today is National Pet Day. Cats throughout the land can barely contain their indifference.

Kruschev in The Death of Stalin saying “The only choice we have is between his death and his revenge” is the point we are reaching quickly if not past

END IS NEARING HOW TO TELL? TRUMP IS GOING 'STRAIT' TO HELL ~ BURMA-GRAM

Sorry I will not be doing any work in the next ten days I will be watching the Artemis II livestream

Happy trans day of visibility, here is a wrasse design I made awhile ago because all wrasses change sexes as they age.

Seriously, this is a Biden era "I've got your back"-esque statement. Use the powers you have at your disposal like you promised.

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

Many countries, states, provinces, municipalities and cities continue to espouse 'austerity budgets' based on a paper which has since been absolutely disproven - because of an Excel speadsheet coding error. Austerity economics do NOT work!!!!!!!!!! #HaliSky #Canada #NovaScotia #CdnPoli #TimHouston

I have a podcaster joke but first let me tell you about AG1.

Tonight’s other dumb napkin cartoon…

This is the ad that won the Senate race

This article by @bencollins.bsky.social is as good as everyone's saying it is (very!). But in an effort to draw more attention to it, please enjoy this GIF I made like 6 years ago of Ben's face in Dana Perino's Super Bowl queso

The truth can be harsh. That doesn’t mean that anything harsh is the truth.

Worth remembering

Let's be clear about what the "SAVE Act" is all about, another phase of the "rigged election" strategy. Trump is exploiting the voter fraud myth he created to pass laws and enact policies that will make it harder to vote, suppress votes, cause confusion, & sow distrust democracy. Rinse. Repeat.

I am a single issue voter and my issue is joining the ICC and turning over all senior members of the current administration to sit trial in The Hague. @markwarner.bsky.social your move sir.

Congress failed to pass the War Powers Resolution, leaving the door open for a prolonged war with Iran. Now Washington is already floating billions more in military spending. Democratic leadership needs to decide: are you funding this war, or will you oppose it at every turn?

friendsofdamonlynch.com/donate Democrats who voted for war should lose their job. Greg Landsman (OH-1) has a primary opponent that deserves support. I donated. I hope you will too.

Huge congratulations to TerraPower. Consistent, steady engagement with the regulator has paid off with this milestone achievement in the process. We can now say the US is officially building a commercial advanced nuclear reactor right now.

US health officials are trying to delay a regional World Health Organization meeting that would confirm the loss of its measles elimination status until after the midterm elections in November. This is a reckless, accountability-dodging move that puts politics over public health.

Trump just heard the idea of "Escort Service" and jumped at it.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights. Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers. Speak up before it's too late

Dearest people who don’t read or remember history: The reason Iran is ruled by Ayatollahs now is because the U.S. overthrew the democratically-elected Iranian President in 1953 to help American oil interests.

I haven't seen this circulating on Bluesky yet- vetted GoFundMe for the family of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, the Rohingya refugee who was killed by CBP and state violence in Buffalo. Funds will help with immediate expenses and to reunite with their sons. Donate and share. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.