Reposting this meme (with alt text) as a stand alone for any future usage needs where someone might prefer it not being already part of a thread:

Both changes to food production AND food consumption are necessary to end deforestation and stabilize the climate

The "wine mom" thing is a rhetorical cudgel used to reinforce patriarchy and delegitimize groups of women making a difference in their communities.

I’m a white female college grad and I think that I am as legitimately and importantly American as a white male who flunked out of trade school and listens to podcasts at the gym.

Eric Hoffer points this out in his book The True Believer: most effective mass movements are started and sustained by large groups of women. This is true across time and cultures. And they always do this dismissal in response. It may work in the short term, but with persistence, the activists win.

when is the general strike? one man has the answer:

Simultaneously, they mock & degrade women athletes for not being athletic enough, and then when a few of us are that athletic, they say we must not be real women. The end state of this reasoning is a world where “real” women don’t — and then can’t — play sports. Policing gender hurts women athletes.

pay women more

I see ClimateSky is doing another round of “does focusing on reducing methane emissions distract from reducing CO2 emissions” and I would just like to say emissions of both gases are still going up and emissions of both gases urgently need to come down

#NoKings Sacramento is lit

When every university follows the same bad advice from the same consultants with agendas separate from their institutional mission ... they lose their identity as well as their independence. They lose the ability to play to their own strengths when the consultants' agenda causes systemic failure.

"In other words, the perceived worth of higher education has waned just as women have begun to outnumber men within it. Is it really a coincidence?"

Stanford has put out a great explainer website about oil markets. Every journalist covering the issue (and anyone else interested in oil markets) should read this. understand-energy.stanford.edu/news/underst...

I LANDED AN INTERVIEW FOR A DREAM JOB PROGRESS

They're telling on themselves again!

Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

Best money I spend every month

Emma Wiesner: “Do I understand you correctly that we’re in a situation where oil & gas prices are skyrocketing bc of the war in Iran & the Middle East right now, & you want to remove climate policies meant to take us out of fossil fuel dependence — then continue using oil, gas & coal?”

This. Is. Murder. Even. If. No. One. Calls. It. That.

We don’t use the word “Procrustean” enough to describe authoritarianism

an adult who needs this much external validation is not normal and yet we made him president

The ancient scrolls tell us that, in the Before Time, a president's admission that his administration had not considered the obvious likelihood of the war widening when they first attacked Iran would lead to immediate congressional hearings.

Yesterday, California Sen. Henry Stern struck every single Endangerment Finding provision from SB 1266 and turned it into a theft bill. What's going on? #CAleg #GreenSky leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNa...

an entire rogues' gallery of people who you can stat as various subclasses of D&D bards

this gives me flashbacks to grad school when I knew chemical and materials engineers working on bio-inspired structural color

The crusades took place about five hundred years before the US was founded, and they were brutal and unsuccessful. The United States was not founded on Christian principles.

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

virgin HDPE [read: all of it, plastic recycling is a myth] is like, 50c a pound, this is a 60% increase in the price of plastic

If you can only speak with conviction in private, you are not, in fact, a good person.

environmental economics has a big big problem with underweighting the actual science

The gender friendship gap turns out to be driven almost entirely by white men's uniquely low levels of friendship closeness. And among white men, higher socioeconomic class predicted even lower closeness. The most privileged group has the least close friendships. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

oh no there is a LinkedIn translator translate.kagi.com?from=en&to=l...

It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.

Let's take a look at the empirical political record of the right-wing men who think women shouldn't vote in the United States, shall we? Started a war with no plan for the Strait of Hormuz. No plan for the succession after killing the supreme leader.

This was an unforced error by the fiscally irresponsible and incompetent administration. fortune.com/2026/03/23/u...

this is not going to work, these whole organ systems need... a nervous system, to coordinate them

Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, the rest of the manosphere, Christian nationalists, and the misogynist wing of MAGA are essentially pushing for the degradation of the male gene pool. Unwittingly, perhaps, but that is what they are doing.

Patriarchy is bad for the sperm-producing gene pool and we do not talk enough about this. The traits sexual selection would naturally select for under conditions of genuine autonomy aren't just socially constructed preferences.

Life is friction. That's the whole joke. They want frictionless capital transfer. Mostly to them. And then they themselves don't want to live. They want to exist and be told they're very smart and special little boys.

I think it is the funniest thing how Shinto encoded "the competent woman who holds everything together eventually hits a wall and the solution everyone picks is to lure her back to work rather than fix the underlying problem" INTO ITS CREATION MYTHOLOGY

The progressive movements that have been most effective historically have often operated by exploiting the miscalibrated risk assessment of wealthy opponents rather than by direct confrontation.

The wealthy are worse at thinking things through. Structurally. Thinking things through requires feedback. You need to be wrong about something and experience the consequences of being wrong in a way that's direct and unavoidable and proportionate to the wrongness.

This is how you know they’re not planning as much as you think they are.

"The good news is that going green no longer necessarily involves financial sacrifice. The five best-selling electric vehicles in the United States all cost less than the national average for a new car," writes @mikegrunwald.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/o...

The most important story of our time is not what Donald Trump wants to do, but what the people of this country allow him to do.

So, the easiest way to achieve the main goal of the war would have been not to start the war

This would be a war crime.

Hi, political scientist here. Did you know we have an extensive body of research and theory that says if people believe you will violently betray them, they are less likely to enter into an agreement with you? I swear to God I have a real, non-bullshit job.