Midterm season is so serious that I'm evaluating differential equations in my dreams.

ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE TO BLACKSKY, RIGHT NOW!!!!

A honey bee visits a summer milkweed, pollinia hanging from her legs. Illinois.

i think the disconnect with the bluesky team and the userbase is that the userbase, the people who occupy this place, think of bluesky as purely a twitter alternative and the bluesky team thinks of it as purely a coding foundation for others build off of

Can y'all hire a CEO that actually gives a shit about running a social media platform?

Wildfires are getting deadlier and costing more. Experts warn they’re becoming unstoppable #Climate

Saw Avatar: The Way of Water again in IMAX 3D. James Cameron remains the GOAT and Fire and Ash looks awesome. My only disappointment is that they didn't play the HFR version at my theater—48 FPS, oh how I miss you.

the mods of this place will strangle it to death trying to avoid it having the reputation it already has and unavoidably will always have

Looks like the Mikeno (one of the ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to Gaza) might actually make it. Roughly half the ships have been intercepted by the Israeli military, but the rest are continuing toward Gaza. globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

Does anyone know the status of the Mikeno ship that's part of the Global Sumud Flotilla? It breached Gaza territorial waters as a historical first, but the tracker has its last known position updated as of 40 minutes ago.

Sometimes, the best you can do is to just not respond.

RIP DICE, Motive, Bioware, Maxis, Criterion...

One Battle After Another is good, but damn, the way it perpetuates certain stereotypes about Black women and has very little to chew on in regard to its revolutionary themes keeps it from reaching greater heights.

I always thought that the scariest part about eating a really hot pepper (e.g. ghost pepper) would be the heat. In actuality, it's how my stomach feels like it's about to explode. 0/10 - don't recommend.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Privatizing a vital public utility is never a good thing.

It's so funny when people say that Reddit is left-leaning. Have you read the comments under *any* post about Palestine?

It's been a good run for 7 years...

We can protect California's forests from megafires. Last month, I visited part of the Sierra Nevada that burned in 2021. In unmanaged areas, most trees died. But where land managers had thinned trees and conducted prescribed burns, nearly every tree survived. These photos show the difference.🧪🌿🌎

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Turns out privatizing what should be an essential public utility is a terrible idea.

if this shooter winds up being a red-pilled groyper the Kirk newscycle length will be mysteriously cut from two months to two days

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Making the transition to BlackSky after everything that's happened today was the best decision I've made in a while.

reminder that bsky.team only has jurisdiction over what happens on their servers. If you self-host or are hosted by blacksky.app they cannot remove your posts. they can hide it on bsky.app but it will still be up elsewhere. signups and migrations are open.

if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless

I decided to take a huge nap since I pulled an all-nighter for this Calc 2 exam only to wake up to Charlie Kirk being shot and killed. Crazy.

I know ppl say this a lot but I think it weirdly hasn't sunk in yet: once China's fossil fuel use starts to drop, our *entire species* usage of fossil fuels will mostly follow the same trajectory. Massive new @ember-energy.org report out today on China: ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

via Global Sumud Flotilla 'Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.'

Decision effectively allows immigration agents to use racial profiling to detain people, greenlighting sweeping raids.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

"Microsoft has extended its dominance of the market for carbon removals with a series of deals that involve direct air capture in North America and burning rubbish for energy in Oslo" www.ft.com/content/9ed5...

*dies from excitement*

Day 0!!!

Where the light gets through #forest #nature #peace

Secret spot in Beaver, Oregon #forest #creek #water #river #wanderlust #Oregon #relax

There is nothing inherently wrong with the Earth 400k years ago. The problem is that humans evolved to live in the climate we have today, and we built our infrastructure for today's climate. The same goes for the animals and plants that we love and love to eat. Climate change is pain for everyone.

This is not good news. We can't wait for a convenient moment before taking climate action. The time is now. "the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Breaking NYT: Federal prosecutors were unable to secure a felony assault indictment against the man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent on the streets of Washington this month, according to two people familiar with the matter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Deforestation kills more than trees.

Dividing the world into a bunch of segregated ethnostates is a terrible and bigoted idea. We don't need to be separated from each other. We need to embrace each other, accept each other, celebrate each other. Interfaith, interracial, and intercultural exchange make us better. They're the future.

Did u know? Wildlife friendly gardens have more....well, wildlife in them.....like the gift of sleeping bumblebees in punk rock Cardoon blooms. I never get tired of seeing these slumbering floof-balls. Go wild in your garden - get more snoozing insects in your outside space. #pesticidefree 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝

the dems backing newsom just want a trump of their own. their not-so-ironic worship of him is less a satire of trump & his followers and more an emulation. the glee taken in doing something naughty that you imagine will annoy your enemies is part of the original package too

this goes here right?

Scientists identify more than 800 new species in global Ocean Census

There's no way people are actually serious about Gavin Newsom, right? What is this obsession with curtailing legitimate material change in American politics?

The intro on Chance the Rapper's new album is heavenly. Man, I've missed this so much. lol

We spent the morning hanging out with the bison, herd in Riding Mountain National Park. These wild bison are pretty used to people and if you’re lucky, you can hang out with the herd for breakfast. The voice you hear in the background was the bison expert in the park for decades. 🦊🌿🦬

"Moon Night Street" - my oil painting