Solar power is expected to become the world's largest source of electricity by 2033. ☀️🔌💡

Our tiny friend Brachycephalus lulai was first described as a new species just this year! They are named after Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the President of Brazil! They live in highly preserved forests that are hard to access, which helps keep them safe! (photo by Luiz F. Ribeiro)

remember friends, as the holidays approach, that the best gift you can give anyone is to talk incessantly at them about heat pumps

A new project to digitize the complete works of Rudolf Carnap will be getting underway...

the proximate reason i post here — beyond the fact that i like a lot of you and enjoy reading your thoughts and jokes and observations — is that this is a non-algorithmic platform where people share lots of stuff and people read what is shared. that's still valuable even if it doesn't "influence!"

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

another and slightly less stupid reality is possible

My favourite music video… What’s yours? Butthole Surfers “Pepper”

entirely unforced and unnecessary trauma as cultural pedagogy and social reproduction www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

Renewables have now overtaken coal in global power generation. 🔌🧪💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Brown University is a beautiful place, where people come to work and learn. I am filled with horror by news of this tragedy.

I see we’re having another round of “is there any hope for the future” discourse so just leaving this here

These are arguments for breaking the law that would be widely recognized as psychotic if offered in any other context. But when we're drivers, we just feel entitled. I *wanna* go fast, so fuck you, fuck safety, fuck society. Cars make us terrible people.

At Brown: “confirmed reports of 2 deceased victims from the active shooting situation at the Barus & Holley engineering building. 8 additional victims in critical, but stable condition at the hospital. The shooter/shooters still are not in custody at this time. Law enforcement is active in the area”

In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...

mood

Hi hello the Venezuela stuff is entirely about oil, both in Venezuela and in Guyana (where Venezuela is laying claim to the oil in what is now Exxon’s largest oilfield, which Chevron has also bought into). It is the bidding of US oil majors and it’s not remotely subtle.

How much of the observed global warming was caused by humans? Science's best estimate: ALL OF IT

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

not only am I reposting this but I am doubling Tony's emphasis on "hard *cannot*"

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

every year, I compile the climate and environmental justice wins of that year. what victories did we manage in 2025 despite all the awful shit? i'd love to hear from my community. i'll be featuring the list in my newsletter next week xx here's last year's: www.possibilities.news/climate-just...

While this paper shows the viability of the Torment Nexus as a tool, one challenge we have not addressed is whether the construction of the such a device would be desirable. We invite further exploration into the ethical, practical, and strategic considerations inherent in leveraging such technology

The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.

Red Texas is a leader in renewable energy deployment. The state's solar surge proves that the energy transition defies politics.

The news is a torrent of horrors. Glee in domination and crimes against humanity. Dystopian tech and financialization. Antihuman futurism. All championed by sociopaths and raw id. We should be calling for humanistic moral revival, whether religious or secular.

A timeline of Earth’s average temperature since the last ice age. Spoiler alert: It’s definitely getting warmer. And it’s happening increasingly, scarily fast. xkcd.com/1732/

ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

The agonizing long tail of disaster recovery is underexplored. I think a lot about this 2024 study finding that when a hurricane hits somewhere in the U.S., the people there are more likely to die *for the next 15 years*. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ms. Rachel is a kind & humane teacher whose offense is speaking up against killing children in Gaza. Cynthia Nixon has Jewish kids, and has never said or done one antisemitic thing. This is not just gross & offensive – it trivializes real antisemitism. 🧵

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

California shut down its last coal plant last week and nobody even noticed, it made so little little difference. Meanwhile solar is up 17% and gas is down 17% from 2024. I have a few highlights... www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-...

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

PJM Interconnection has yet to vote on an official rules package due to conflicting concerns over power supply delegation between data centers and homes, as well as rising energy costs for customers. insideclimatenews.org/news/2611202... climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

I live sweat But I dream light years

Official data is in this week, and US solar continues to grow rapidly, with generation up 30% compared to last year!

Novels' sentences are much shorter than they used to be. Part of this is about punctuation: we use periods as people used to use semi-colons. And shorter sentences aren't necessarily simpler to read, since jargon can condense complicated ideas.

Great 20min documentary about early days of the amazing Minn hardcore band Husker Du. Grant Norton‘s (bass) Midwest nice mom invited stranger Bob Mould for Thanksgiving. The three jammed in the basement. Am giving thanks today for Mrs Norton changing musical history www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xNc...

Thankfulness to The Band and all the fellas

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

“The lifetime emissions generated by every 3.5 Americans today will kill one person by the end of the century.”https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/measure-climate-progress-in-lives-improved-by-gernot-wagner-2025-11?

Waste, fraud, and abuse

While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

🎵 I’ve got one hand in my pocket and the other one is giving a peace sign 🎵

Our friend Peracca's Plump Toad is a very rare species of toad who lives in the Andes of southern Colombia and northern Ecuador! They are one of a few toads who are born directly as small toads and do not have a tadpole stage! (photo by Augustin Bussac)

Dooming lets folks off the hook. It is a cynical fantasy of justified disengagement, since the alternative - taking your lumps and DOING THE WORK - requires actual strategy, sacrifice, and effort.