look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

MAMDANDATE

new york gets a good mayor, as a treat

you absolutely love to see it

setting a 72-hour timer. this is the NYC LIB OUT ZONE. everyone gets a free pass for expressing enthusiasm for electoral politics in this carefully delineated window. post about the power of voting!!! cry over a schmaltzy campaign video!!!! allow a brief flutter of hope in ur rotted soul!!!!

new yorkers plz go get your sticker today if you haven't already.

POLITICS MATTER TO YOUNG PEOPLE YOU LOSERS. Teen Vogue has been a constant light in the darkness of political reporting. This sucks.

getting halloween and marathon day in the same weekend is almost too much for my cold cynical heart to handle

All of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases, so be careful with differing stories about where things stand: - TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet. - Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).

new york has whimsy

Photos show Hurricane Melissa's impact on the Caribbean - AP News apnews.com/photo-galler...

apropos of nothing my partner's sister-in-law's sister's kid calls me aunt miriam

26 October 5PM EDT: Major Hurricane #Melissa is forecast to bring Life-threatening and Catastrophic flash flooding and landslides in portions of Jamaica and southern Hispaniola through mid-week. For the latest information visit hurricanes.gov

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

eager beaver over here

Hey reporters, have you dealt with an editor who is convinced of any of the following things?: - There are a LOT of climate deniers out there - People don’t care about climate change - Climate change is not a top issue for voters Would love to hear about it (even just via quick DM) for a story!

i'm just a seething pit of rage.

if you've got a nazi tattoo you're a nazi, it is that simple.

a few more photos from NYC's No Kings

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It would be useful if more of you realized hypermasculinity is smoke. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

there is lots to be scared about, no doubt, but "you should be scared" is not a call to action.

FUCK ICE FOREVER

is YouTube doing the AI-'enhancement' on regular videos now? because it seems like it and it is awful.

Amazon Prime Day hasn't been interesting or novel since 2005 or so, but that's not going to stop anybody from pretending otherwise so they can get their blogspam affiliate kickbacks

fun fact about cbs news, worst job i ever had.

They ruined Google search for nothing

⚠️new(-ish) paper in Journal of Climate⚠️ i evaluated CMIP6 models' Pacific decadal SST variability and teleconnections... big takeaway is that models under-simulate temporal PDO/IPO variability on decadal timescales, likely affecting precip trends in the Southwest journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

this can't be good right?

climate week event organizers, please have a box for me to return my lanyard. I do not want any lanyards!

Anyone know if ERA5 assimilates any satellite soil moisture observations? Finding some conflicting information online.

This year, may the shofar be a wake-up call for all. As we enter 5786, our commitment to justice is greater than ever.

my little monkey brain was not built for all this

some personal news

CVS confirms to me that New Yorkers will be able to walk into pharmacies and clinics to get Covid shots, adding: "Following regulatory action by the state of New York, we will ensure COVID-19 vaccinations are available as soon as possible at all New York CVS Pharmacy locations."

ah yes, Peridot198003 with their finger on the pulse of what those subscribed to a niche climate science youtube channel that hasn't posted a video in 5 months want.

might i suggest, not racing to the bottom?

"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Posting a reminder that no disasters are natural, & a certain one twenty years ago was especially not natural. So, you should not use the phrase. You can just say "disaster". (Although in this particular instance it was a catastrophe, not a disaster but... baby steps) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9-...

hi bluesky~ my name is tess, and i'm a climate scientist studying drought, fire, and climate variability and change! i recently defended my PhD on the climate dynamics that drive forest fire in the Western US at @lamont.columbia.edu and started as an NPP fellow at NASA GISS. excited to be here ❤

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes. If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I've heard lots claim this... and I have my suspicions myself. Climate bsky: Is there concrete evidence that fossil fuel lobby groups have pushed doom and despair based narratives?

Just 10 members of Congress have even dared to call Israel's mass murder in Gaza a genocide. Meanwhile, they're straight up murdering journalists. The gulf between what's happening and what most of our leaders will acknowledge is so remarkably vast.