Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n

I have an entire PhD in political science and have never been sure what constitutes "The West" in a meaningful, consistent way. What is the term meant to include - or exclude? Are the differences between "the West" and other "civilizations" greater than the differences within the so-called "west"?

Duuuude. Someone else buy this fucking awesome mug from Dan so I don't have to try to fit it into my budget. 🤩💸😔

Happy Caturday to Sprite, who apparently is a bit of a fiber snob. #cats #catsky #yarn #fibersnob #RHSS #iykfk #crochet

Marwan Barghouti is the most popular Palestinian alive and has expressed support for a partition along the pre June 1967 borders into a separate state. Barghouti has been in Israeli jail for two decades and is routinely tortured and even threatened with murder by Israeli politicians and guards.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

"Space Spot" by Max Fatchen c/o "A Very First Poetry Book" compiled by John Foster (Oxford University Press, 1984). #DoctorWho

John Roberts is and always has been Sam Alito with better PR he has declared himself and his fellow republican justices the unelected rulers of America and they have wielded their power in favor of making Donald Trump of all people untouchable the court as it exists today must be broken

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

📌NPR has received two of the largest gifts in the public media network's existence, totaling $113 million. This is something called a "good news" story. I'd die without NPR, I really would.

I opened a can in the kitchen and it was cannellini beans. My cat may never forgive me.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

Happy Lynda Chapman Got Demoted Day to all who celebrate

Evening plans: 💭Pretend world isn't on fire for 6 hours or so 🎸Hard rock & heavy metal 🧀Cheese and veg with dip 📖Reading ridiculous but very entertaining fantasy isekai foodie "the secret to my success"-esque book 🌿Gardening 🐈‍⬛Pet kitty 🍵Tea 🫘Start beans soaking 💤Zonk out

With news of the new "Grazing Action Plan" created by the USDA to help the cattle industry, we wanted to remind everyone that wolves are not the problem. Wolves have killed 0.002% of cattle, yet hundreds of wolves were killed by government programs. Read more on our blog: https://bit.ly/4sBHT3F

I like to imagine that Zohran Mamdani, Socialist African-born Muslim, was literally willed into existence by the collective psychosis of the Tea Party GOP over Obama, like the ectoplasm under NYC in Ghostbusters II

Exactly one year ago today:

Or, how the prosperity gospel is destroying us.

This all makes sense once you realize they’re not trying to govern successfully. They’re trying to steal as much money as possible and damage our country so much we won’t be able to go after them. 🫩

So gatdahm oranj

"health insurance" companies don't actually provide care, and in some instances, expedite death. universal heath care NOW! www.yahoo.com/finance/sect...

whale head. raccoon penis. it's glaringly obvious that rfk jr is assembling some sort of Super Animal... and i fear he may soon acquire flamingo legs

This Tax Day, don't forget this: Donald Trump went out of his way to shut down the IRS' FREE and EASY tax filing program. But I have a bill to bring it back for good. Let's get it done.

Last month in The Onion:

Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the country’s rivers and streams—from extinction

The Bluesky algorithm is convinced I have a certain fetish. I do not have this fetish. I have nothing against it. It just isn't for me. And yet, I keep being shown ((technically) SFW) pics from accounts I don't follow. Many pics. Different accounts. I do not like or comment. Why. Why. Whyyyy. 😑

econ 101 guy: capitalism isn't perfect but it's the only system that ever worked! without incentive there's no innovation! capitalists: we're deliberately ending human civilization to protect the fossil fuel industry. we also hope to ban the research and development of competing energy technologies

Here, have some serotonin.

The first warm spring rain. Oh. It's glorious.

I'm at the deli. I'm at the central intelligence agency. I'm at the combination deli & cental intelligence agency.

I should get back into oil painting. My paintings weren't anything super special, but I need to do more creative stuff to stave off the brain weasels.

Ukraine becoming the world’s most effective military under Zelensky’s leadership — while the historically powerful US Armed Forces has its reputation decimated by Donald Trump — is exactly what this nation deserves for voters disrespecting it so much they twice gave Trump the White House.

This passage is specifically about the Iran war but it's remarkable how well this characterizes their attitude toward everything, the arrogance behind their assault on expertise and competence at all levels in every endeavor.

A recent study estimated that another 9 million-plus people, including 2.5 million children, could die as a result of cuts in aid.

Virginia! 👏👏👏 Virginia ups the National Popular Vote Compact to 222 votes www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...

One of the secrets to happiness and a successful life is to find the thing you're a total weird little goblin about and lean HARD into it.

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Holy shit, you have to be TRULY EVIL to make Switzerland get up off the neutral fence and call you out FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME SINCE 1815?!? trump MUST be removed from office. Same goes for his enablers in Congress.

A necessary 🧵

TOO GODDAM REAL

Bosses say AI boosts productivity – workers say they’re drowning in ‘workslop’

I blame Reagan for everything.

Buddy I’m crying www.rawstory.com/iran-war-267...

Today's exercise in being a human.

Also: there are dinosaurs!

😂

The horrors persist, but so do mushrooms