Alright, fuck it. I'm starting on here again. The #BigBalls discourse got me moving.

No. 2 Republican Senator holds up lump of black "clean" coal on Senate floor. Calls for burning more of it "far into the future."

Iconic.

"Florida's legislature on Tuesday is set to debate a bill that would loosen child labor laws, allowing children as young as 14 years old to work overnight shifts. If passed, teenagers would be able to work overnight jobs on school days."

She's still standing.

The UK tabloids this morning after Vice President JD Vance says of the UK that it is a "random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years". After 9/11, the UK — in solidarity with the U.S. — joined the international coalition in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 636 British soldiers lost.

Our latest episode of 'Winging It' from @blueowlgroup.bsky.social is live. I chat with the Head of Trust & Safety at @bsky.app, my friend & former colleague @aaron.bsky.team Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts 🔵🦉🎙️⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/0EtW...

Our latest "Winging It" episode is out! This week our Senior Advisor Ian Plunkett chats with Bluesky Social's Head of Trust & Safety Aaron Rodericks about trust, tech, and building tomorrow's social web. Give it a listen! 🔵🦉🎙️ @plumps.bsky.social @aaron.bsky.team open.spotify.com/episode/0EtW...

Our latest episode of 'Winging It' from @blueowlgroup.bsky.social is live. I chat with the Head of Trust & Safety at @bsky.app, my friend & former colleague @aaron.bsky.team Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts 🔵🦉🎙️⬇️ open.spotify.com/episode/0EtW...

Here are the leaders of Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway having dinner tonight. No pomp, no pageantry. Just respect and solidarity in the face of unprecedented threats from an ally. Developing a collaborative strategy is one thing, threatening invasion is another. 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇬🇱 🇳🇴 🇸🇪

Excellent reporting. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

What a beauty!

First up is our very own @ColinCrowell speaking to Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant. open.spotify.com/episode/0Poc...

We’re launching a podcast. Yes, the world needs another podcast like it needs a hole in the head. But hear us out — we're doing something different.

How to lose friends & alienate people.

Amazing to see the new Notre Dame up close. Such an inspiring testament to the potential of human coordination, ingenuity, & collective spirit. We should never let political rhetoric and those that profiteer from our division to define the limits of our potential, our empathy, and our ambition.

Strict diet. open.spotify.com/track/3cfgis...

Astonishing.

“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism” – Hannah Arendt

“I cannot remember a comparable case of interference in the election campaign of a friendly country in the history of Western democracies.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Bad VCs of 🇺🇸 : Europe is dead, it's a museum piece. No economic growth, no work ethic. No unicorns. Good people of 🇪🇺 : We like museums. We also like personal growth. And life. And starting companies that aren't compared to magical animals 🦄

American elected officials: weaponizing bathroom access Chinese non-elected officials: ceaselessly building new things We must demand better.

Hello, I'm "cosmopolitanism/globalization" to "economic populism/trade wars" years of age. apnews.com/article/trum...

Remember when cigarette companies used to host cancer conferences with oncologists who were on the payroll? That's what #COP29 has become for the fossil industry. Reform needed now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“He judged everything from the perspective of the property entrepreneur he had been before politics,” she wrote of Trump. “Each property could only be allocated once. If he didn’t get it, someone else did. That was also how he looked at the world.” www.politico.eu/article/ange...

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Great to be in India with @blueowlgroup.bsky.social and the Twitter 1.0 crew. The @bsky.app values were discussed in depth. Good time to get the band back together...💪

Hello from smoggy New Delhi 🇮🇳 AQI of 350 and another reminder that climate action isn't esoteric. It's about basic human dignity. #COP29

So we're all on here then. 👋 💙

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Another year & another incredible validation of what we already know from Yale's Climate Communications initiative. The majority of Americans feel the extremes of Mother Nature at their door. And they are going to demand change. Climate change is rapidly becoming a consensus election issue.

Welcome to the new Twitter, less insane than the old Twitter.

Majority of replies I've seen to Tweets from New York representatives say the following: ➡️ The fires are a false flag operation ➡️ Liberal arsonists are to blame ➡️ Fires always happen, so don't overreact ➡️ Bill Gates is spraying dust into the atmosphere Choosing your own reality is dangerous.

2pm in New York City, which has the worst air quality of any city on earth right now. The climate crisis is here. Write your representatives, make the changes you've been putting off, and get organized.