If you have a substack I will not subscribe. I will definitely not pay. If you have a not-substack, I am much more likely to subscribe AND pay. This is just the way of things. I understand why people use substack, but I’m out.

Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."

I have become completely obsessed with growing algae for indoor CO2 mitigation. Ideally, I'd also like to be able to eat the algae, but I'm currently not as fussed about that part.

I like when one rando says a thing to someone on this site and then a bunch of people will derisively claim it’s “the social norms of blue sky” and then some basically-always-white-cis-dude that likes whining will get lots of content about it and how mean people are to him and his big account.

Sometimes I wish I knew less about what authours thought about things - it occasionally taints my enjoyment of their books. But sometimes I think it makes me enjoy their books more. Depending on what those shared thoughts are. Alas. 🫠

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

🇵🇱 🌬️ ⚡ Polish miners train to embrace energy transition Once the country's black gold, Poland's coal mining sector is now surviving on life support as a transition to cleaner energy sources takes place. Miners are taking part in a training programme to help them transition to the wind industry

"Last year was the most successful period for new business wins in our company's history, and we expect 2026 to be a very active year as well," GEO Group CEO George Zoley said on the company's most recent earnings call in May.

Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.

Just want to remind all y'all that there is a Bsky starter pack of the 2026 Hugo Award finalists so you can follow them all with relative ease. Handy tool that I hope @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social and @brisbane28.org will emulate.

Me to Me (and maybe you too): you can always doom scroll tomorrow. Good night.

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

i feel bad and not good.

Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

Another day, another thank goodness for the heat pump & solar energy kind of day. I’m tired of governments being inefficient with photons. Such a waste.

If you’re looking for other baby wizard books, especially for middle schoolers or your own inner child, can I enthusiastically recommend Nevermore by Jessica Townsend? It’s not written by a bigot and it’s also really really great. There are already four big books in the series.

Every elderly Republican senator's wiki bio is like: Famed for bipartisanship, he co-sponsored the Expand Education (1977) and Anti-Radio Monopoly (1986) acts. His later career was more controversal, with the Legalize Puppy Murder (2021) and Sex Island Tax Relief (2023) acts drawing some criticism

People really do not appreciate the importance of the "do nothing" phase in the creative process. We are all about the kinetic energy, and forget its duality with potential energy.

If you’re looking for other baby wizard books, especially for middle schoolers or your own inner child, can I enthusiastically recommend Nevermore by Jessica Townsend? It’s not written by a bigot and it’s also really really great. There are already four big books in the series.

Even ancient Greece had ramps, dammit! www.science.org/content/arti...

This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.

I’m in an online group focused on sharing stories about wholesome masculinity. As a result, this morning I was reading about Mohamed Bzeek, a foster parent who cares for terminally ill children. He’s in his 70s now and still doing the thing. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

“Verify your age” I used a blink tag on my angelfire website, and it still worked.

The “left wing” pro-ai pro-harry potter group I almost joined was an interesting mix. Glad I read the group rules because wtf man.

Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣

I am currently worried I'm signing up to do too many things next semester and when the inevitable labour of it all catches up with me, it will be very stressful and I wont enjoy it. But I also want to do the things because they might be fun and good.

So let your trans characters refuse to forgive. Let them tell off their abusers and shitty parents. Let them disembowel their oppressors. Fuck these "the best revenge is forgiving and moving on" narratives. You're writing the story, the best revenge can be revenge.

I'm sorry, but this is mind-boggling even for someone who looks at solar numbers all the time.

Will the Facebook University Science Experts™️ read this one? Alas, they do not read.

Note to self

If being hard on yourself worked it would have worked by now.

I've noticed this as well. Quote from the piece that I especially enjoyed: "If you have a sign out in bright red letters saying you sell peppers that burn my tongue off, I will be confused and a little sad if the only thing you actually have in stock is jalapeños."

100%. Can't take people seriously when they say "virtual signaling" as a pejorative. Vice signalling always seems fine to those folks tho? GTFO.

Osmotically indoctrinating our kid with Ryan Holiday books. Courage is Calling is almost done.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

Good Monday morning, friends!! Today's giggle is brought to us by the Weather Machine. 🌥🌧⛈️❄️ You know the machine Dems be using to mess up donsnorleones nazi speeches.🤭🤭 Have a day, y'all!! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

There are a lot of locals that just keep saying “its hot, just like every other normal summer” and I wonder how long they’ll keep that up. Probably until they die of heat stroke I guess.

I feel a lot of similar things here. No one remembers that the same thing happened to Ronaldo because no cares about qualifying. The Balogun interference has similar far-reaching ripples as the Bosman Rule. This sucks for Balogun more than anything else and he doesn’t deserve this curse.

When outdoor workers experience prolonged exposure to temperatures above 40°C day after day, their bodies are forced to prioritize cooling through perspiration over virtually every other function. This leads to fluid being diverted away from salivary glands and toward sweat production

I know I keep going on about this, but Canada attempting to increase surveillance powers at the same time that it's obvious there will be increased civil disobedience and resistance to "critical infrastructure" projects is noteworthy, yet no one mentions it in their analysis bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Looking forward to teaching The Youth about logical fallacies next term so they can argue with their adults more effectively.

A vital piece of trans allyship is actually in supporting children's rights to bodily autonomy from the out. Someone is complaining their child wants to cut their hair short or grow it long? Point out that it's the child's hair. Why shouldn't they have it how they want it? Why is that parent upset?

If you need something to read over the long, gross weekend, my next novel is now up on Edelweiss (for librarians/booksellers) and NetGalley (for everyone else). Edelweiss: www.edelweiss.plus?sku=12507915... NetGalley: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I have weird gardening questions like the safety of watering tomatoes and other edible plants with stream water that has cicuta maculata growing in it. Especially if I’m regularly removing new plants and disturbing the roots. People just say „don’t use the stream” That’s boring. I want answers!

dreamcast forever 🌀

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Do you want to give $20 to voting rights organizations AND hear about why Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby, with reasons that range from legal discussion to him lacking basic home training? Well. Starting tomorrow, you'll get that option.

OK, so just as I have to yell at my fellow Americans "air conditioners *are* heat pumps!" to combat basic ignorance of what the tech actually is, Europeans need to hear "heat pumps *are* air conditioners" because y'all are making arguments which don't make sense if you see why heat pumps are good.

It’s always interesting when I get to explain to a cis person that the current anti-trans hysteria is not only 100% astroturfed, it’s 180° opposite of the initial popular reaction to public medical transition. People thought it was cool! Look what modern medicine can do! She’s a bombshell!