‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...

What gets me is how often basic decency gets dismissed as some elite obsession. You don’t have to be rich, educated, religious, or secular to recognize cruelty when you see it. Most ordinary people do it every day.

sick of corporate consolidation and greatly exaggerated reports of the death of movie theaters? want to see some lovable scamps figure out if america's indie movie theaters can save cinema? consider throwing us a couple bucks!

The Lonely Race to Save Ukraine’s Past In a country ravaged by war, Ukraine’s conservators are torn between protecting the country’s past and fighting for its future. by Gina Errico www.biographic.com/the-lonely-r...

did you know that ocelot cubs sound like donald duck?

We don't ask for much. All we really want is a good book, a freshly-baked pastry, a pet sleeping at our feet, and some precedented times.

BREAKING: San Marcos just voted to prohibit data centers across the entire city. This is what happens when regular people stand up to the biggest corporations on earth. These corrupt bigshots may have money, but Texans still have the final say.

If you are looking for a way to help the folks in Minneapolis, a member of the National Lawyer's Guild passed along this fundraiser for legal costs for those arrested yesterday: chuffed.org/project/1865... You can also donate directly to the NLG: www.paypal.com/donate?token...

Millions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

A couple new fires popped up too close to home. One in South Tacoma and another outside of Graham. Unknown size and containment for both. #wawx #fire

Remembering my first boss and pal ever since. share.google/VPXvpbtTJMwo...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Playing Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" on the Late Show finale, and making CBS pay is a Colbert power move for the ages. We stan WCK in these parts, because when you're a humanitarian social scientist married to a chef who is the lead at the local soup kitchen, it's illegal not to.

When will my ability to sing note perfect to every word of ABC's 'The Lexicon Of Love' album finally be recognised as the valuable and important life skill that it is?

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

familiar ghosts

In case anyone would like to read about the magical place where this tree lives: www.tom-cox.com/the-lion-the...

One month ago I went to my barre class and a dentist appointment and picked up my kitty from the cardiologist. That night we were back at the emergency vet saying goodbye to him. It feels like I wrote that yesterday. Or ten years ago, or fifty. Time is curious when your heart breaks.

A vendor was going car-to-car in my ferry line today for petition signatures to “repeal the income tax.” (WA does not have a conventional income tax, but a new law imposes a tax on 7-figure annual income.) I asked if I could sign one INCREASING millionaire taxes but he didn’t have one of those.

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Studio Ghibli turns 41 today!

Fitting

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

The Little Writer (1913)

Avocados. Just *shudder.*

This painting is "Quietest Evening" by the Ukrainian artist Olga Kvasha.

This is an goode idea to keep our ferroll frends coole in tha summertime

Once again, Democrats can use policy to surgically target the economic base of the Republican party AND THEY SHOULD DO SO. This is made easier by the fact that people *hate* the sort of bloodsucking pretty small-business tyrant that constitutes the economic base of the Republican party.

I feel it’s sort of underrated the extent to which a Dem Congress and/or states could (1) absolutely destroy car dealerships as a business, and (2) this would cripple a lot of GOP state and local parties

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

This morning I am on @askhistorians.bsky.social on Reddit! I'm here to do an AMA or Ask Me Anything relating to my new book or other topics! Thanks @dhowlett1692.bsky.social for getting me set up here! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744 – 1818) was an 18th-century French painter best known for her still lifes. #CelebratingWomen

Concordia cemetery in El Paso is the final resting place of 60,000 people. John Wesley Hardin, the deadliest gunslinger in the Old West, is one of the folks buried there. This is how the cemetery looked in 1940.

This experiment is very good at explaining what does it mean a bubble ring spins «poloidally» as it travels through the water: much like a flexible bracelet might spin when it is rolled on to a person's arm. Original post

Happy Monday 🐾🤍

This is great. New research indicates that middle age is now a time of increased depression and anxiety and general mental dismay. But! ONLY FOR AMERICANS. In other countries, things actually get better. The reason? I invite you to open your eyes and look around. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

I would like to amend my earlier advocacy for reparations to include the need for reparations for this specifically

If you want to protect Medicaid, SNAP, and other vital parts of our collective lives, look at this and *weigh in* with comments before 7/13. I've worked with legislative affairs in the past and know for a fact that public pushback throws sand in these gears and can force policy reassessment.

I've heard of Suzie Homemaker, but what's the gardening version--Sandy? Eartha? Rosie? Anyway, that was my weekend, with above-and-beyond assistance from Mr. Semiferal. (Rock? Leif?) @darkmane.bsky.social

My problem with the White House thunderdome isn’t that it’s “vulgar,” or “tacky,” qualities I often enjoy & terms which are often crudely classist when used pejoratively. My problem, as always, is the fascism. Don’t get distracted by taste, which is deeply subjective; it’s the fascism.

no rain yet but quite a picture innit

"Blackbird Chicks" by A.L. West. 1910.

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‘Our research shows that Musk used the Belfast tragedy to amplify anti-migrant narratives to millions of users, prompting endless calls for violence’ www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

I would like to stop stress shedding while I still have some hair left, please.

Wait, em-dashes are now seen as an AI thing? I was using them before AI was a glimmer in Satan's eye and I'm not stopping now. I love them; they can represent a shift in tone, a raised eyebrow, a leaning-forward, a tiny jolt of midsentence caffeine. It was all I could do not to use one in this post.