Instead of billions of $ being spent on useless data centers and electricity infrastructure for them, that economic investment could be used to build community safety and disaster centers in every census tract and zip code with union jobs. Large, air conditioned, beautiful, welcoming facilities.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

Utterly adorable tiny bob cat kittens in our back yard being watched very closely by indoor cats who are Not Pleased By The Visitors

at public notice, wrote about the president's renewed threats against Greenland, and how they are incredibly damaging—to Greenland, to Europe, to the US, and to the world. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-gree...

How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

Tuon tempauksen taustalla on tää projekti: globalextremism.org/post/the-sec...

See thats not something you want your TV to tell you youtu.be/Q9uefFYe6bM

Another one of these abstract views of the One Park Drive building in Canary Wharf which would make a nice scarf or jigsaw. #abstract #CanaryWharf #CanonR5markII

Look if I want to eat a pasty in the nude whilst wearing a beret in the middle of the river surrounded by other nude people, I think that’s my choice.

6/ A source told ProPublica that there is political pressure to find evidence of fraud. “Everyone is of the opinion that, whether they find anything or not, they are going to continue” to pursue this, the source said.

1/ Wondering what the FBI has been doing with 2020 election materials it seized in a raid earlier this year, and how it figures into Trump’s plans for the midterm elections? Well, @ProPublica has been working to find out. 🧵👇

what if we as a society stopped humoring insane people

man the sun looks freaking wild through all this wildfire smoke

Maybe they could ask the man who wants to be Attorney General how he thinks the Department of Justice would prosecute someone who repeatedly lied under oath to a Senate committee in a confirmation hearing?

When guys are like “that’s not rape, all my friends have done that,” that’s exactly what we’re talking about. That’s the problem. Rape is so common and unpunished that a guy could casually reveal all his friends are rapists and not see it as a problem.

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

This dirty fascist racist liar says "We very much believe in the constitutional protections afforded American citizens. The same protections are not afforded to people who are here illegally." That's a goddman lie. EVERYONE in this country is protected by the 14th Amendment.

These senators need to call this fascist liar a fascist liar to his face. It's intolerable that this man gets to lie before Congress and advocate for the death of civil rights and democracy and people don't excoriate him with everything they have.

"Everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes" In my experience lots of people are ok to do the dishes and they're heroes and usually they are women, because women don't see that work as shameful. But men do not see that leadership as leadership and so women get fed up and leave.

Other countries can do it apnews.com/article/sout...

Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Views from my exhibition Tulvavesi (Floodwater) at Café Bar No. 9 (Uudenmaankatu 9) in Helsinki, open until 31.7.26. #art #painting #ArtExhibition #taidenäyttely #Helsinki

Jutussa tarkemmin vaikuttamistavoitteista: "Powerful American groups linked to the Trump administration are expanding across the Atlantic, opening up offices in the U.K. and Europe, fighting climate action, waging religious right culture wars and aligning with far-right political movements."

Toisin sanoen: ajatukseen siitä, että Amerikka olisi "lähin liittolaisemme" tai Suomen tuki ja turva, etenkin kriisissä, on syytä suhtautua vähintään mietteliäästi ja kysyä: "Mihin Suomen olisi siksi suostuttava? Horjuttamaan EU:ta?" ja lisäksi: kuka Suomessa tästä hyötyisi?

"Just negotiate with russia," they said. ​In the 1990s, the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria made multiple "peace" deals with russia. Each time, russia used the lull to prepare its next devastating military offensive while covertly destabilizing the fledgling nation. 🧵 1/12

"My journey into anarchism did not start with textbooks or academic theories. It started with the heavy, suffocating weight of patriarchy" Worth reading this interview with Amora, an anarchist feminist fighter with a small local defence force in Myanmar. 1/

This. Assessment design is just one of multiple factors in the approach to AI, but we keep focusing on it, at the expense of class size, faculty workload, one-on-one contact, exam committee response, in person teaching.

The richest university in Scotland, hoarder of hundreds of millions of HE money, an institution at no risk at all has now joined the sector's race to self immolation.

The fact that the company can only supply an AI-generated image of the robot in class is also a big tell. Also interesting that we've seen a few of these stories emerge in the US of late ... is this a last ditch effort to keep the AI hype going? voiceofsandiego.org/2026/06/24/a...

They’ll really do anything but pay teachers what they’re worth

OMFG

Time for all my friends to be spammed with this again.

1980s: Iran is a thorn in our side but it’s not worth putting the Strait of Hormuz at risk. 1990s: same 2000s: same 2010s: same Trump 2026: No one could have guessed attacking Iran might put the Strait of Hormuz at risk.

"First one is free" is always the sign of an ethical business model.

Not the biggest issue with mainstream media coverage but not the smallest: There was no plan. There never was a plan. Trump just says shit. An unbiased headline would read, “Trump’s Hormuz Bluster Turns Out to Be Total Nonsense, As Usual.”

roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism*

number of gas-burning, polluting turbines Elon Musk's company xAI has installed in Black neighborhoods around Memphis: 57 (at least) number of legally-required EPA permits he has gotten for those turbines: 0 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

This is AMAZING

“Europe is struggling through climate breakdown. France’s heatwave shut schools and stretched hospitals past their limits, with so many people dying in their apartments that morgues have run out of space. Outdoor workers have faced conditions beyond what the human body can safely withstand.”

It shouldn’t matter that the people ICE killed weren’t “intended targets” They shouldn’t be killing ANYONE, undocumented or otherwise. They’re thugs who cover their faces and shoot people with no concern for consequences and no respect for life. They’re a danger to everyone.

The meta glasses have no socially justifiable purpose to exist. They only exist for Mark Zuckerberg's purposes and they can only sell outside of a novelty capacity to people who want to use them for socially hostile purposes. 5/x

All of the offered use cases (see bsky.app/profile/fast...) are uncompelling, unfocused, and inferior to existing devices that do not go on your face, while meta is not accountable for any use cases found by people using the device. 3/x

"design" is interesting here. They have designers working on parts at a time, UX, hardware, software, aesthetics, but these groups are not united by an overarching (marketable) purpose, they are detached from the bigger picture and designing for their domain purposes 1/x

it’s been fascinating watching a certain segment of the userbase here extravagantly melt down over having it pointed out to them that an enormous number of vulnerable people are going to die in the immediate future if they don’t get access to air conditioning

note how the anti-AC contingent usually try to change the subject when you point out how massively popular air conditioning is in tropical Asia

I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics.

Every elderly Republican senator's wiki bio is like: Famed for bipartisanship, he co-sponsored the Expand Education (1977) and Anti-Radio Monopoly (1986) acts. His later career was more controversal, with the Legalize Puppy Murder (2021) and Sex Island Tax Relief (2023) acts drawing some criticism

It quenches thirst, this can of Quirst, A squirt is best, it’s never worst, Unless the can of Quirst is Qurst