On the 12 days of Solstice, #Baltimore gave to me... 12 mini liquors 11 chewed up straws 10 chip bags 9 fast food wrappers 80 cigarette butts 7 plastic bags 6 coffee cups ✨✨5 bandit signs ✨✨ 4 asbestos tiles 3 pee bottles 2 condoms And a diaper a-swollen with pee!!!

This is the quote the @nytimes.com chose for its morning newsletter to explain @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's appeal to "young people". Imagine if we talked about "old people" like this...

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

I fucking knew it.

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

Nature (trail) cameras 'can greatly inflate nest predation rates' especially with canny curious corvids in open landscapes wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #wildlife #conservation #ornithology 🧪

Such a strange feeling to know the US is ceding the future (such as it may be) to the rest of the world, all so a handful of tech barons and oil-igarchs can plunder our stinky, poisonous antediluvian carbon stores a little longer. God help us all.

My oldest turned 10 yesterday, and we've been fighting to stop this gas station being built across from our library and near a preK-8th school his whole damn life. Please share to help us end this idiocy.

While we gape in horror at the battle of the micro penises, remember how we’ve been told women are too emotional to be leaders.

On June 27, 2024, Joe Biden gave the worst debate performance in history. And then it became my job, as a DC reporter, to foster conventional wisdom that a feeble president with sane policies was surely worse than an energetic president with racist, economically incompetent, kleptocratic policies.

Really enlightening BBC article today. This guy was able to get into a position of power and get US agents killed without having any redeeming qualities, just by failing upwards as a white man. Dumbasses like this are who anyone who is against "DEI" is fighting to protect www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

Newsletter: Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it. www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

/short thread with statistics for the 3rd aniversary of the start of the war/ Russian and Ukrainian visually-confirmed equipment losses since the start of the Russian 2022 invasion of Ukraine by category UA list: www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta... RU list: www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/atta...

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

The edge of a retention pond where mostly bottles, not silt, form the layered deposits of the pond bed. Adjacent to Baltimore's Gwynn's Falls, this captures just some of the trash that flows into our stream. Night herons nest here. We desperately need a #mdbottlebill @bluewaterbaltimore.bsky.social

Thread Please repost, everyone should know about this. We need to impose even more sanctions against Russia to deprive it of money to wage war! Since the new year, Russia has increased one-time payments to new soldiers to 4 million rubles ($ 38,835) 1/