The epstein photo they're trying to hide:

My favorite sign from No Kings:

I try to watch this video from 1945 at least once a year. What stood out on this watch (besides too many parallels) was: "There was still not enough food in his house. And when Hitler decided the time was right, Germany went to war, not by declaring war, but by sneak attack." youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

At a time when the last shitty Republican President told Americans and the world a bunch of lies to justify a bullshit invasion and occupation, we asked our allies to stand with us. We recognize it as shitty, now, but at the time it was still scary and raw. Denmark stood with us.

From this loser and sucker, on our anniversary, I just want to say one thing: "Go fuck yourself, traitor."

Over the weekend I was at a bookstore and spotted a fancy looking book about Solarpunk. For a 2024 publishing date it seemed pretty optimistic on the "anticapitalist" potential of blockchain and AI.

Do you think dogs dream about flying?

Normally when I see negative pricing in ERCOT it's because energy is trapped behind some transmission bottleneck. Right now the whole state has $2.74/MWh pricing. Watching price patterns change over the last several years has been interesting, and I'm excited to see where they go in 2026.

ah yes a true holiday classic

Collecting into a thread for my own reference bsky.app/profile/robe...

I keep having exactly this conversation with AI proponents: “I need it to be accurate.” “How accurate?” “100%” “Uh. How about 85%? Good enough?” “No, 100%.” “Well, we can’t do that because [reason of the week].” “Okay, talk to me when you can, then.”

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Steve Miller (the bad one) claiming immigrants bring test scores down.

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

What if women are valuable in their own right, and not just for the babies they might produce?

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

On these platforms we hear a lot from people with strong opinions about housing, but a lot of that boils down to "I've lived in housing for most of my life, so I'm an expert." Instead, we should be listening to the people that are actually out there trying to build things:

The bad guys of my midlife are a bad combination of Nazis, Cobra, and Slytherin. And not the "Saving Private Ryan" Nazis - some how we got the Hogan's Hero Nazis, and despite their utter incompetence, they're managing to ruin (and end) so many lives.

@arcraiders.bsky.social unplug it and plug it back in.

Good news! It's not a reboot but a "brand new chapter of the Stargate universe".

We can make things better - let's kick some fascists' asses and then get back to making things better.

I'm a little bummed out with the timing of the Epstein e-mail dump. I wish it had happened earlier, because there are some consequences going on, but also, if it had been a month earlier, we could have gotten some great couples costumes.

Idiocracy was a fun watch at first. Then I got worried about the eugenics implication of the intro. Now I just think Mike Judge came from the future to warn us all. bsky.app/profile/zach...

I need a pick me up. Are there any other instruments made from exotic materials that Lizzo can play? Like a guitar forged from a meteor, or a harp made from energon?

Happy Birthday, Marines.

I wasn't around for Carter's presidency, but as I've learned more (after leaving high school), I've had a growing respect for Carter, and a waning respect for most of the presidents since. This is another new thing I'm learning.

Yesterday, between 9:30 AM and 5 PM, solar provided more than 50% of the energy in ERCOT. It's a low load, sunny, cool day, but we're getting there.

@erikloomis.bsky.social What's labor historians take on this diversity claim?

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Load is low because it's too cold for AC, but >80% of load in ERCOT getting met with zero-carbon energy, nuke+solar+wind

Steve Bannon has confirmed that there is a secret plot afoot to end our democracy and install Trump as a permanent dictator. If this were untrue, he’d be getting a visit from the FBI, as what he’s describing is a criminal conspiracy. He won’t get an FBI visit.

wow, which common vaccine was it?

When I read self help books, by the time I'm at the end, I've forgotten to keep implementing the stuff from the beginning because life is happening and I'm pretty busy. I'm trying to solve that by writing something to remind me of the most important things. Anyway, RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

@theonion.com Are you going to rehash this little guy: theonion.com/taylor-swift...

I am four episodes into the @netflix.com show Boots, and it has done the best job capturing my experience in boot camp. After one episode I shared it with my wife, and now she has a better understanding of why I am the way I am.

This Day in Labor History: October 22, 1945. Workers in the Charleston, South Carolina tobacco factories walked off the job. Let's talk about this multiracial strike in a time and place when that was not so expected!

New scene from Stranger Things Season 5 just dropped:

Thinking to Founders, Framers, so much against any established religion, representing numerous views & beliefs w/little unity. Thus, examples like Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (1797): "As the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion"🗃️

This is a correct use of the National Guard.

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again. Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden. Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

If you see me at the next “No Kings” protest in Albuquerque hit me up for a free button. New Mexico style

@kissphoria.bsky.social I know this isn't your beat, but there were a couple emissions events reported to TCEQ in the last couple days that show ~400,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide getting blasted into the atmosphere, including 162k at this event. It seems large to me. You hear anything?

Awesome! but is there going to be any weird fallout from billions of dollars of stranded assets?

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.