Needed a reminder? There's still time to apply 😀

Great One Ring campaign idea. Hobbits vs the Scouring.

A year apart.

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

That was a real good jolt there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6913...

🟡 M4.8 #earthquake detected 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

just 4.7 apparently but really close.

Yowza that was a big earthquake.

“Lee, 39, is one of L.A.’s most prolific builders of new apartments, especially in Koreatown, where her family firm has been based since 1994…She’s frustrated that Los Angeles falls woefully short every year at building enough housing to meet demand, driving up the cost of housing.”

For every season - Turn, turn, turn!

picked this book again. when Phil Burton was in a USC frat, the brothers disliked his intense personality (and demand for allowing Blacks and Jews into the frat) so much they once locked him in a freight boxcar and shipped him out from LA. he was boxed for two days and found by police 100 miles away

It doesn’t matter if the state passes middle housing reform. All you have to do is fight back with tree protection bills designed to ban middle housing growth. The defiance is republican level sabotage

GOLDMAN: “.. During the last 40 years, there have been eight episodes where the Fed cut after being on hold for 6 or more months. In half of those episodes the economy subsequently entered recession.”

New blog: The number of speeding tickets issued by Princeton Police has dropped by 85% since 2019. Have drivers in Princeton really stopped speeding? 🤔 walkableprinceton.com/2025/09/21/p...

oh this gonna be good.

aoc should simply eat the smaller, less popular representatives and absorb their power

Well, obviously Jimmy Kimmel was wrong to suggest that MAGA World was making a spectacle out of Charlie Kirk's death.

“Jimmy Wales rebuilt the library of Alexandria using nothing more than nerds’ need to correct one another”

someone said of Wikipedia: “it is a thing that does not work in theory but turned out to work in practice”

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

It was a blast. Thanks to everyone who came and thanks especially to everyone who helped keep the riders safe!

And a 3rd reminder that a transition to 100% WindWaterSolar across the US reduces land use due to energy from 2.4% of US land (1.16% occupied by the fossil-fuel industry and 1.24% occupied by the corn-ethanol industry) to ~0.85% of U.S. land, with most of this being open space between wind turbines

People like Lori Brooke have shaped our neighborhoods for decades and we have seen the results, spiraling unaffordability and homelessness. People like her have shaped our neighborhoods for decades to the detriment of all www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic...

this overcompensating little insecure man.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Very recent paper detailing how damaging "Buy American" clauses have been to public transit in the US. It recommends rolling them back in a targeted way to convince more international companies to build buses in the US. www.brookings.edu/articles/pay...

No please, leave leftist icon Bill Maher alone, I would be so owned and triggered

Last day of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival Portland! Excited to see Crispin Glover be a weird weirdo in A Blind Bargain, which reimagines a lost Lon Chaney movie.

Sen. Murphy: "Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, literally accepted a bag of cash—$50,000—and the investigation was dropped when Trump became president. There are two standards of justice now in this country. If you are a friend of the president...you can get away with anything."

the fact they're out here running "abigail spanberger will trans your kids" against one of the most conservative candidates out of the Democratic Party is a great example of why actually standing up for trans people, especially kids, is the only way to go

i don't think there's anything more to this than an ignorant and adolescent need to destroy but to the extent that there is, it's that a closed-off country of poor, low-wage workers is easier to control with imposed hierarchies (see: the american south, 1890 to 1965)

This is @andrewhickey.500songs.com probably looks after exhaustively tracing the influences that go into a Monkees song

whoa headed to the gender/sexuality singularity.

So this sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. It seems this is the first confirmed proof of cats arriving in Japan! The best info I could find is that people claim that cats arrived with Chinese Buddhist monks in the 6th century. But that sounds like a “just so story”.

In-state tuition at NC State university is $8,895 USD per year. A four-year degree costs ~$36k. That is cheaper than a Ford F-150 pickup truck.

Elon Musk did this

The three things that give me the most hope for the future of climate are Caltrain electrification, NYC congestion pricing, and the economics of solar + battery.

One year of electrified @caltrain.com service 🚂⚡️ It’s pretty incredible what can happen when leaders believe in an idea and never give up ❤️

Happy Caltrain Electrification Day! Here's to one year of 25% faster local trips and 15 minute peak, 30 min weekend service! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Today at 12:30p in Berkeley, at Willard Park, East Bay Kidical Mass is hosting our September ride. You should come! For me personally today is an especially meaningful event. luma.com/8a10kimt

I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter

Electing antitrust politicians, like most good policy, is downstream of density and housing affordability. As the great progressive political strategist Jesse Helms once said, apartments create democrats.

I’m going to assume that mathematically this means that more than 100% of Gen Z women identify as bi/pan.

There's more queer American kids (22.2% of gen z) than Catholic kids (14%) and Protestant kids (22%) and fuck is that funny news.gallup.com/poll/611864/...

It strikes me that quite a lot of people knew for the last year that the guy running our horrific deportation squads took a bag with $50k in cash from undercover FBI agents investigating corruption, and it didn’t get out until now.

But one big place where everyone is that's vaguely free, like twitter used to be? Not happening. And in many ways, that's probably a good thing. As someone who has previously put a lot of effort into it, playing this game too much is definitely bad for your brain.

truly what the fuck is this deal

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Imagine what the national political landscape would be like if the Bay Area rivaled NYC in population and people from red states were all moving to CA.