The billionaires have a vision of the future, and in it, many of us are dead. Not because they all want to kill us (some of them want to kill some of us), but because we are simply surplus and expendable in their eyes.

Our built world is not designed for these changing temperatures and sprawling catastrophes, and there is no plan or budget in place to address this. To make what's ahead more bearable and survivable, we will need transformative change and radical redistribution—not fucking data centers.

Yikes, my building just levied a $200/month assessment because of rising fuel costs 😓

Land fucking back. Indigenous sovereignty now. And support Indigenous communities affected by climate disasters: bsky.app/profile/kate...

every day

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

We do not have to live this way. The billionaires think they own all land. All air. All water. All thought. They don’t.

Everything is connected. The people suffering the most from wildfire smoke are homeless. Next, still housed people who can't afford to weatherize. In the heat, people without or who can't afford to run AC so they simply keep the windows open and pray. Universal and free electricity is a necessity.

I swear to god ConEd is tripping.

“Over time, she noted, smoke-hazed air can make you depressed. It can make you mean. It can make you irritable.” www.wired.com/story/wildfi...

Theatrical corruption.

It’s almost nine. Should I watch this thing? 😬

meanwhile, the chamber of commerce wants to make sure no data center company ever feels unwelcome! meanwhile, the nighthawk and the kestrel meanwhile, the dark of night during the day in Toronto

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

Il pleure dans mon cœur / Comme il pleut sur la ville… —Verlaine

If the pathetic fallacy is us mistakenly attributing human emotion to the natural world, what is it when the natural world is absolutely screaming in our ears, whamming us over the head, begging us to reflect on extremely heavy-handed metaphors.

Also, issues with smoke exposure aren't always respiratory. You might notice brain fog, irritability, fatigue, and feeling just overall prickly and gross. Stay inside as much as possible, stay hydrated, and support mutual aid orgs serving unhoused people and outdoor workers!

A face mask for Covid A face mask for ICE pepper spray A face mask for air that you can chew it’s so thick with wildfire smoke

#NowPlaying Restaurant signs are ubiquitous across New York City, but who’s behind all the iconic lettering? A 26-minute documentary about Noble Signs, a Brooklyn-based design studio that specializes in custom hand-painted and neon signs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAt...

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

we are watching our treasures burn down and still having to convince people that now is the time to take climate action

😢

Also no Wimbledon

Ideally I don’t think politicians need to be emphasizing how masculine or feminine they are. This obsession with asserting traditional gender roles is a very clear conservative agenda and it’s a bunch of made up bullshit anyways

"They took him to an alleyway and beat him until he lost consciousness." When I read about the horrifying abuses at the hands of ICE agents, I'm reminded of this quote from our reporting in ON COURAGE, from the human rights statistician Patrick Ball. They will not be anonymous. We will find them.

I don’t stan politicians, but I’m not mad about living in New York City under the best mayor it has ever had.

Free healthcare would solve so many problems for people in this country. So many.

I almost said, “My candidate won.” Er, Sinner won. Yay! 🎉

Live your life in such a way that no one you are close to mourns the death of fascists.

A ruling elite fraternity. This is a statement of class solidarity.

"'And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale — with its $44 billion endowment — does not,' she continued."

“What I loved about Senator Lindsey Graham is that we belonged to the same social class”

An hour and a half later, the second column is now headed "World Leaders Remember Graham," but it's still blank.

Whoever in the neighborhood said ‘woooooo!’ a few minutes ago should have been more specific

i stand corrected

I am interested in stories about personal refusals, collective agreements, campaigns, classroom practices, labor organizing, creative communities, and other efforts to protect and strengthen human capacities.

“He dedicated his life in the United States to giving his family the American dream,” Ronaldo said. "He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”

the bread is $13.50 and all the circuses are subscription based

ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

it's always a good time to remind people that you can get a free copy of "Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men" by Lundy Bancroft via Archive.org and this book should be essential reading for everyone

I just had a horrifying realization. It seems like the new test to prove you didn't use "AI" to write a story is gonna be sharing all your notes and drafts with editors. Which means all my frantic all-caps "WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING WHY HAVE I FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE" might become evidence. Fuck.

If we are to stop technofascism and precent its future rise, we need a better tech press. No more naivety about wunderkind and cool stuff. Tech is about wealth concentration, abuse of externalities, regulatory capture, ethical immaturity, and private implementations of authoritarianism.

I feel like I need to remind people that part of the original me too movement was to emphasize the simple fact that most women, at some point in their lives, have been the victim of sexual harassment, assault, rape or other types of gender-based violence. Hence, the “me too” part.

When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

I really think this is on the mark. There is a libidinal attachment to these men that allows them to slip through / fail up unchecked.

The very things he said in his defense told you who he was. The "can't people change" crowd never really addressed why he wasn't acting like someone who was ashamed of his actions, and instead was trying to imply that everyone else needed to be ashamed for asking the question.

I have spent literally all day today swearing.

I also think it’s well beyond time to start considering these men are not, in any true or meaningful way, on the left

The ‘we told you so’s are less about Being Right than hoping to be listened to next time & reaffirming that ourselves that we were being gaslit & should continue trusting our judgment. But being right? Every time we’re right about this stuff our lives get worse. Nobody would sign up for that deal.