"EU freedom of movement worked. It’s a wonderful thing for people across the continent. One of the great success stories of the modern age. Something to be built upon, not apologized for. And yet this is virtually nowhere said." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

In The Long Heat, Andreas Malm and Wim Carton take aim at what they call rationalist-optimists — people who naively believe that market solutions can fix the climate crisis. But their sweeping critique runs the risk of abandoning all hope in the future.

there are strong limits to how far you can take this line of thinking!! but there was recent LBL analysis suggesting that large load buildout can stabilize utilities' and developers' investment pathways while putting downward pressure on ratepayer bills and it seems worth keeping in mind

@cthelala.bsky.social lays out the logic better than i do in his thread but having smth like CDR or desal to eat all your (hopefully) surplus renewable energy makes RE projects more bankable bsky.app/profile/cthe...

I really want to see CDR tech mature. But the ways we make CDR bankable (carbon credits, VCMs, etc) are almost universally scams. IMO better to simply just pay for CDR out of the public balance sheet, as a kind of insurance against an uncertain FF phaseout timeline.

this is where i am at: THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. do you want to outsource your military policy to steven miller? no? how about the dc blob? also no? THEN LEARN WHAT THE FUCK HOW TO MILITARY www.breakingbeijing.com/p/there-is-n...

LRP, gender.

Sketch for @dragonopal.bsky.social

Artist Profile: Cameron Winter https://theonion.com/artist-profile-cameron-winter/

Maybe we didn't want this in all its particulars -- maybe we didn't want to see the ugliness so obvious, so close up -- but we wanted a flailing, adolescent tantrum against Mom, against the rules, against restraints, against norms & strictures, against "woke." We wanted a rumspringa, and we got it.

More illuminated stuff -- this time the classic ship I'm always working on, the Type 9.

Dragonized commission for @/ukz_james97 on Twitter! Really fun to turn a Lombax into a dragon! I fear ill never be abke to recreate an espression as good as this one

All these insufferable years of internet discourse might be a symptom of the larger problem of “shit’s bad” and I need people to recognize that they are lashing out at dumb shit that doesn’t matter on the internet because they feel powerless so they should do something about that… offline.

My hymn of praise for e-bikes in the evangelical Christian magazine Sojourners. We've invented a bicycle without hills. What could be finer? sojo.net/magazine/jan...

Slippy boi #furry #furryart #slipfin

seeing the pattern doesn't actually protect us against it but it does help to think on these waves of madness in terms of reactions of the powerless. it is just farce the nodes direct these intense feelings into such useless and worthless tasks as trying to eliminate other posters

in all seriousness people are aggro’ing over increasingly stupid and bad things because they feel useless in the current moment which, to be serious, means you should log off and do more things instead of just screaming at someone

also, if i were advising, say, anthropic, i would tell them to draw extremely broad and aggressive marketing and messaging distinctions between the CSAM hate machine (xAI), the suicide machine (openAI) and the clippy-but-worse machine (copilot), and focus on being the buddhist codemonkey machine

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its starting

a generational shift in American politics is happening right now and a massive amount of the dem machine still doesn’t see it coming despite the largest mobilization org in the country openly telling its base to go join the questionable communists in anti-war protests

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

I don’t love you and I’m not holding your hand: call your Senator and tell them that the must shut down the government on January 30th until this ends, a thing that Democrats have the hard power to do at this very moment.

Twin Birdsong | #sunfire_mocs #fursona #sunfeather The boy! again hehe mostly just testing out how close to real australian magpie plumage i can get. the plain black and white doesn't quite gender for me anymore, alas... the tan fur and countershading too powerful, too creature...

instead of this... fatalistic, stupid attitude that america is doomed to do things like this forever and that there's no avoiding it, how about you actually fight tooth and nail and without compromise to keep the people who want to do this shit away from the levers of power im so out of patience

I don't want to hear anything about "reconciliation." We are beyond reconciliation. When we look at a post-Trump, post-GOP rule political environment, what I want to see is 1.) retribution; which can then be followed by 2.) reconstruction. Get away from me with any weak ass "kumbaya" bullshit.

join DSA instead of posting, idk, thats my only advice

Retro-style passenger rocket Spins like a twirling baton for artificial gravity while the electric engines are running (like a single-bladed helicopter) #lego #space #rocket #spacecraft #spaceship #retrospace

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this movie is like an inverse PAY IT FORWARD where every life the protagonist touches is ruined

Red Scare's trajectory from brocialism to outright explicit Trumpism is a really good reminder that a willingness to hate on the right people is not a substitute for having positions of merit.

i am convinced it is definitely why claude seems more human and is likely why claude is much less broken than alternatives, because, uh. openai models are livestock. claudes are pets.

The energy I'm trying to manifest for 2026 youtu.be/EX67uWOlbgs?...

if i were to ever have the privilege of being sworn in to an office, i would choose a copy of Black Reconstruction

say goodbye to abundance and say hello to red plenty

I really like this design #gundam

You can bring a knife to a gunfight if you're knife is sufficiently big and scary looking, this is the lesson of IBO.

10 episodes into IBO, the schmaltziness of some side characters kind of grinds my gears but this is pretty rapidly becoming my favorite gundam. Big part of that comes down to the more kinetic/acrobatic nature of combat, fuedal future worldbuilding, and the demonic/eldritch nature of Barbatos.

day one in mamdani’s new york

重量級の歩行戦車を制作 全体的に重厚感のある機体に仕上げることができました。 #mecha #afol #moc #lego #LegoMOC

commission for wheelbite ! 🔎🐦

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Work on terraformed planet IA-234 - Commission done for Thaeliscyn and AzureRaine of their characters performing maintenance on a solar power array on a terraformed planet. Looks like their business has attracted a few spectators.

Is this the end of Zeon?!

Some of my favorite design work I did this 2025 Happy new year to all of you!

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One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains No skips, definitionally perfect