Climate 3/3: Right now, the best way to reduce/eliminate burning fossil fuels is to electrify everything and use solar/wind powered electricity, supplemented with nuclear power.

Here's a more technical yet still quite accessible overview of the climate. Of particular note that even though we set a record for solar/wind last year, we also set the record for burning fossil fuels. Which we need to stop immediately, yet keep doing anyway. Which is Very Bad.

ICYMI, here's the unlocked link to a nice overview of where we stand climate-wise, in 10 easy to read charts. There's been some progress, but not nearly enough, and we need to start taking things a LOT more seriously than we have been.

Can we move the remaining polar bears to Antarctica where there's still some ice left for them?

Anyone who didn’t cast a vote for Kamala Harris absolutely did unequivocally vote for war with Venezuela.

No, he’s doing it to further muddy the waters of judicial process, so that when he gets prosecuted after leaving office his supporters can claim that Democrats are just doing the same kind of partisan targeting of a former president.

Spatchcock or die trying

quote from an interview i did that perfectly sums up the yiddish reading expierence: "You know in America you read a children's story where they catch a bird and the bird has a broken leg, and they heal the bird, happy bird flies away. In Yiddish the bird has a broken leg and then the bird dies."

A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.

With a mixed-results at COP30 - i.e. good intentions but no concrete plans for the “transition away from fossil fuels” - don’t give up. Let’s remember the progress made since the Paris Agreement and the options ahead of us. That’s the message of the image below

I really don't like this framing, as it presents NYC Jews with the false choice of white nationalist antisemitism or anti-Zionist antisemitism. Personally I choose to embrace neither, and would hope that even non-Jews and people who don't live here would similarly reject these options.

Birb people are hilarious. They'll wake up at 5am to sit and watch a dead tree for 6 hours in the hopes of catching a glimpse at the elusive Western nut gargler, then rave exuberantly at the sighting, and after all that you look at the picture and it's just a normal-ass looking sparrow.

stop whatever you are doing and tune in, there is a pile of warm sleepy babby cheetah kittens!

Maybe it's time to question our military posturing when an unrepentant Al-Qaeda terrorist is a huge fan...

The NYTimes is far from perfect, but I don't understand the need to make shit up. In this case complaining that they aren't covering a story, when it's the second thing on the screen. And items 1, 3, 4, 5, & 6 are all also highly critical of the president. It's literally every top story.

Extraordinarily weak (but very on brand) statement from Mamdani. The organizers of this protest call every Israeli a settler and a legitimate target of violence. We don't need to pretend this was about anything else, we just need to listen to what the organizers of this event are actually saying.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

This is what happens when democratic norms erode and bigotry becomes mainstream. And when swastikas and nooses are reduced to “divisive” symbols, it is a reminder that every community targeted by hate is in this together.

This lesson — that nearly everyone acts in a self-interested manner and would gladly sacrifice a best friend if it helped them or their children — is useful. It impels me to act in manners that increase the odds of people not having to make these choices. Because I know the choices that they'd make

A reminder:

Today is Səgd (ስግድ), an ancient holy day for the Ethiopian Jewish community. Read this lovely article about it, which includes memory, theological reflection, and a recipe.

i think we should know more about meat and bread than wars and kings personally

I have to disagree on this approach, which I've seen advocated in multiple posts today. The SA is NOT a beneficent organisation, they take the "army" part seriously, it's a charity the same way that Hamas is. People openly and publicly fund-raising for them deserve to be called out and ostracized.

I would extend this to posting reskeets, tweets, and TV interviews. All it does is expose their terribleness to more people while simultaneously training the algorithms that this is what people want to see more of. STOP MAKING AWFUL PEOPLE FAMOUS!

50501 is hiding the replies that are pointing out that this is an antisemitic conspiracy theory. What's being described here is the exact same type of donation ask I get from Democratic electeds and groups like EMILY'S List, SPLC, and ACLU multiple times a day. It's not shady. It's typical.

We have to remember how aberrant and fucked up this sort of nakedly partisan, reactionary posting is from official government agencies. This is the erosion of professionalism.

This is how they act in broad daylight in front of large audience, with cameras live broadcasting on national TV. Imagine the outcome had this been late at night with the players out of uniform leaving a bar/club where they went to celebrate their win.

This entire thread is full of shiny and interesting things, well worth a leisurely perusal. But since it's #Caturday I'm sharing this one.

Anyone who genuinely cares about sexual assault and abuse survivors cares about them *regardless* of their age. There is no one who cares about abused children but not abused adults, only people who used feigned care for children to oppress adults.

You’re upset about how Trump treated teen girls? Imagine how many teen girls we could have protected if we’d said that someone who speaks publicly about women the way that Trump does has no place in polite society.

The problem with such a list is that he spent decades insinuating himself into the social, arts, and philanthropic scenes, and spent huge amounts of time, effort, and money in order to hobnob with the goobersmoochers.

I am dismayed but not surprised to see how many people are not satisfied by the actual conspiracies revealed today, and feel that it's their duty to engage in the vilest of QAnon style antisemitism to make sure everyone knows who is *really* at fault.

just when you thought chameleons couldn't possibly get any cooler. I mean, just look at those feets!

If we could stop driving every other species on the planet to the brink of extinction for like 5 minutes, that would be great.

I wasn't going to comment on the ongoing budget crisis, bc it's not my thing, and I rely on my generally competent elected reps to negotiate a good deal on my behalf. But since yesterday I've seen people frothing at the mouth, and a lot of it doesn't make sense to me and/or is dangerously wrong.

If you haven't read this essential book yet, it's not too late. Still highly relevant, arguably more so now than when it was written. #booksky

This is spot on

This op-ed by former PM Ehud Barak is paywalled, but the details aren't important outside of Israeli politics. What is relevant is his call for mass civil disobedience and for the heads of the opposition parties to unite in order to topple the terrible Netanyahu govt. Maybe we could do similar here?

I have MTG and her ilk keyword muted so miss most of her shenanigans and the outrage that follows, but this is too good a takedown to ignore. here's a small taste to whet your appetite: "a dumb stegosaurus-toed bleach blonde bad-built butch body bitch" Treat yourself, read the rest.

Sadly true, and 100% more accurate than the "this is not who we are" BS platitude that politicians love to throw around and makes me want to throw things every time I hear it. Because, yes, this is exactly who we are, and have been since approximately forever.

I have an honest answer. 4 of the 5 House office buildings are named after former Speakers (Cannon, Longworth, Rayburn, and O'Neill. The 5th is named after President Ford, who was never Speaker. I suggest the Ford building to be renamed as the Pelosi building.

True, but it's also important to understand the differences in order to effectively combat them. Treating white supremacist Christian nationalists the same as overzealous anti-Zionist BDS leftists is a recipe for making things worse. Both very bad, but different causes, hence different cures.

"WHY IS THE MEDIA NOT COVERING THIS?" followed by a screenshot of a New York Times article will never not be funny to me

a year ago we knew that things were going to get very bad very quickly, but it's still shocking to see how far we've fallen, how awful and dangerous but also so ridiculously silly. And most of all, how utterly unnecessary and self-inflicted the damage.

I was a bit nervous about my write-in vote for @bradlander.bsky.social the other day, because I Really Did Not want Cuomo to win, but after seeing this I feel a lot better about my decision. I hope that Mamdani starts to do better once in office, but so far he continues to disappoint and worry me.

I don't live in Maine or know anything about Favreau other than this, but right off the bat he seems infinitely better than the oyster guy. Hopefully people like Sanders will reconsider who they support.

People on Bluesky are so desperate to have something to complain about that they are dredging up tweets by completely irrelevant and infamously anti-NYC disgraced bigot John Rocker. How does spreading his vile filth help anyone aside from him?