Meghan Houser: Not Dead Yet. America’s 250th is a day for celebrating the defiant pulse of the living. #america250 #USA #Democracy #resistance https://www.contrariannews.org/p/not-dead-yet

"Professor fired over #charliekirk post could receive $1.9M in settlement." https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5948386-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post-could-receive-1-9m-in-settlement This is just the latest in a series. Universities that disciplined professors for criticizing […]

One of my big pet peeves is when people say "people used to ..." and they describe something well-off or only wealthy people did in the past. "but nowadays people just..." and they describe something poor and broke people do today. We don't have as much documentation of how poor people lived in […]

A deafening roar of explosions, no possible choreography and hazardous air conditions. Sounds terrible. https://chadtopaz.com/essays/fireworks-per-second #fireworks #america250 #uspol #trumpregime

playing Spot the Poster in the Costco parking lot

An extremely talented graphic artist (who is here on the fediverse but wishes to remain anonymous, THANK YOU FRIEND) helped me put these space-junk-for-kids pamphlets together! Here's the version that shows the page order as you would read it

RE: https://mastodon.social/@effinbirds/116853048826280575 They really are pushing it these days...

you'll **never** guess how this rightmove listing ends. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/90003912#/?channel=RES_BUY

Britain is currently running on an electricity generation mix that is over 90% renewables. The amount generated is in fact 112% of demand and the rest is being exported. That means that, were it not for the need to currently keep gas running to provide frequency and voltage stability, the […]

𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗨𝗦 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗶𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 Go Spain! Go Spain!

At least the garden is enjoying the hot weather. It's full of tiny bees working hard this morning, and I even spied my dragonfly friend. #garden #gardening #bloomscrolling

I think all of us on Mastodon are surprised to hear of this. Oh my /s https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/02/ai-summaries-tripadvisor-hotel-reviews-downplay-serious-complaints #ai #aihustle #tripadvisor #tourism #technology

Hey Canadians. If you’re experiencing troublesome weather this Canada Day, you should sign this petition, and if you have already signed, thank you, please share it! Petition to the Government of Canada Whereas: Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) plays a critical role in protecting […]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@Kevin_Proulx/116847233632727368 Happy Climate Change Canada Day! It feels like 48°C in Toronto and Mark Carney and Doug Ford want to build pipelines and F150s because lowering emissions is “divisive”. Which would you prefer, division, or death? #canpoli #climatechange […]

How fitting that the day after Carney officially abandons the previous climate change policies, Canada Day celebrations are canceled in Ottawa due to flooding. It's almost like physics doesn't care how hard it is to address climate change. #cdnpoli #climatechange

I remember as a science-journalism student in London following the live stream from #cern when the #lhc had its first collisions in March 2010. I remember the glee during my first visit to the lab in June that year. I remember my first day working at CERN that September and my several visits […]

"People sometimes end up on obscure sites run by just... anyone. A page made by a local club is as easy to find as a corporate site." I didn't realize that the guy I was talking with about the internet in 1999 thought of this as a *problem* to be solved... not what made the internet awesome […]

@futurebird "Stop talking to each other and start buying things" https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

[Canadian politics 🇨🇦: Climate / Politique canadienne 🇨🇦: Climat] Canadian government admits that it gives up on its climate commitments https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trudeau-carbon-emissions-climate-change-9.7254619 - - - Le gouvernement canadien admet qu’il abandonne sur ses […]

Solidarity with the cockroaches! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly0ey5y10qo #IndiaNews #india #cjp

I am getting sick of this conflating of every case of "computer use algorithm" into the single gelid blob of "AI" making it impossible to have a productive conversation on the subject When people say they're "against AI", they usually mean certain specific things. "Image generators displacing […]

I think the plants that have impressed me the most in the garden are the violas and the marigolds. I've only ever seen either of them looking kind of sad and small before and didn't realize they could have just so many flowers or get so big. #bloomscrolling #gardening

It looks like our pollinator garden has attracted a predator! #dragonfly #bloomscrolling

The problem with being xenophobic when you are an American is you have essentially decided to give yourself an autoimmune disease. Those are really nasty. Often deadly. "America 250" was meant to be a bit like the Chicago World's Fair... but the US is feeling too racist right now, so... can we […]

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Stoner Van Pin. All stoners are wizards, but not all wizards are stoners. Most are though. https://collabs.shop/imlygt

UK anti smart glasses petition one to publicise https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769206

I'm not reflected in either party, but I don't use "politically homeless" to describe me. I have a home. It's right here with my queers and leftists and anarchists. "Politically homeless" is something I usually see used by people who are conservative but dissatisfied with Trump. But they're […]

New rule: anyone who says "Israel has a right to exist" must explain what that means. A right to exist as an ethno-nationalist Jewish state? Or as a democratic state for all its citizens? Or as a binational federation? Or as something else? "Israel has a right […] [Original post on social.coop]

#storytelling #history #criticalthinking

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government to: 1. Cease all incentives, subsidies, and permit accelerations for AI data centres; 2. Revoke permits and supports for AI data centre projects that have not been rigorously and transparently vetted by the local […]

The big papers all ignored the Gillibrand story. Big mistake, since corrupting people through their family is an old trick that is very popular crypto strategy these days. Just ask the Trumps.

Well, this is big news!!! "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end" […]

Pokeweed or no? I didn't plant anything exactly here, but I accept some volunteers. It's crowding out some plants I do want and I don't think I want poisonous plants in my garden, even if they are native and beneficial otherwise because I have a child and it's […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

When you've Irished up your coffee too much. #coffee #whisky #humor #humour

'Two of China's best-known hedge fund managers are warning that the artificial intelligence boom in global stock markets has become an unsustainable bubble. Wealspring Asset said global AI stocks have become a "super bubble" and that the "collapse point may not be far away", while Shanghai […]

Can we all agree not to use this? (No, we probably can't... also I've already heard from people in the US that some carriers swap over to Starlink sometimes) The direct-to-cell satellites are the worst for light pollution (they're huge and on low orbits), likely sat working lifetimes will be […]

Hey private enterprise enthusiasts. You believe that the public sector can save money by handing over utilities to companies, which are inherently more efficient. Here's why this doesn't work. You have to pay someone to monitor the private companies. Because they have no incentive to deliver […]

Ron Wright: "Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number. When the United Nations replied saying $6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end famine for the year, Musk never responded, and a few months later […]

One more “Peoples of the North, hear my plea” for the Netherlands and friends today: If you leave your child or dog in the car today while you run into the grocery store, they will seriously actually literally be dead by the time you get back. When I lived in Virginia, they put signs up in […]

I have submitted my suggested storm names to the Met Office: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Gazprom. In "Reason for name choice(s) (optional)" I wrote: These are the corporations whose deliberate actions have caused the storms. They deserve credit. Make […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

He can erase people's memories as well...but only when he's drunk and it's late at night... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/gregg-phillips-teleport-waffle-house-employees-b2951959.html #greggphillips #fema #wafflehouse

" Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/23/israel-deliberately-targeting-gaza-children-to-commit-genocide-un-inquiry-finds #israel #netanyahu #gaza #genocide

Trump was accepted but didn't go because of his bone spurs.

The kid came home brain-dead. #ottowarmbier

The US used to require that corporations disclose the true identities of their beneficial owners (reducing the corrupt influence of shell companies) and kept a database of the info. Now the Trump admin is refusing to enforce the rule and deleting the data. "Republicans Are Dismantling a Key […]

It's about time we got serious about unfucking ourselves from Brexit, the World is changing and we're on the outside and vulnerable to predators. I guess we'll see if Andy Burnham is a serious contender or not […]

The word "eighth" is fucking insane. #writinggroup

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If you earned $1 million a day since Jesus was born, you’d still be $400bn poorer than Elon Musk #capitalism #trickledowneconomics

RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116770848187982155 This article is extremely good, but the real gem is the footnote to a McSweeny's article about "AI economics" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies