Quaker could be nonbinary though en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...

Read up & down the thread. It's important to address the ecological & political problems associated with the green energy transition or it won't be green, it'll be more of the same, & we can't afford that.

Geology in the 19th and 20th centuries wedded itself to empire and exploitation. Can the 21st century break this pattern? doi.org/10.1080/0308...

One of the many problems the regime has on this is most Americans know how to drive and they know when you turn the wheel all the way to the right you aren’t trying to go left

Not saying "God is dead, and the Geologists have killed Him," but that was very much our field's reputation for a significant part of the 19th Century. It's why the Creationists want to destroy us.

@hoonofthe.day oh no www.delish.com/food-news/a6...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

States. Need. To. Withhold. Our. Taxes. Minnesota: call your state reps.

I say this not to say I’m unique but obviously I’m having feelings about it But that when this happens to others it is happening to us too. Sometimes more obviously others less so But an injury to one is an injury to all Every worker is our family and they are attacking our family

It doesn't have to be like this.

Anyone who 1) likes Gavin Newsom 2) said it was “too early to worry” about who’s running 3) believes, like Gavin suggests, that the Democrats lost the election for being “too woke” Is: wrong

In any event: remember that the real race in NY-12 is the primary, because whoever is the Democrat on the ballot is the one who will win. Conway is running to push out Democrats, not to beat a Republican.

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

My So-Called Life, which ended on a note that coukd be a cliffhanger if they didn't get canceled but also was a great ending when they did.

Reading All Us Murderers by K J Charles. Following are not spoilers, but predictions ⅓ of the way in (you can mute this thread if this is too close to spoilers for you)

Some people demean ‘to ax’ as a variant of ‘to ask’, but it’s at least 1200 years old. It stems from Old English ‘ācsian’ with /ks/, a variant of ‘āscian’ with /sk/. Later, Chaucer used both ‘axen’ and ‘asken’. Swapping two sounds is called metathesis. More examples from English and its sisters:

I'll always remember Doug as the guy who, as the camp fire destroyed a whole town full of his constituents, remained laser focused on his twin priorities of banning trans women from sports and delisting wolves from the endangered species list. Rest in piss bozo

Try bringing coal-fired power to your village by boat or donkey #coal owned by companies #solar belongs to the peeps

I'm posting this for no other reason than goats Well, solar's a pretty good reason, too And also, solar is the GOAT

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

If you won't listen to us, maybe you'll listen to this horse.

Gorgeous

"What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/we-are-the...

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Replying to boost (not that this really works, on Bluesky); the &udm=14 disenshittification Konami code is a lifesaver.

My mother taught me about plate tectonics by 1960 at the latest. She wasn't a lone wolf famous geologist, she was a scientific illustrator specialising in maps & graphs & diagrams when those things were made by hand, but she read all the geology papers. It wasn't lone wolves making theory.

Ernie Bushmiller, 1947

Last week we discovered that many towns have hungry bridges.

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 02,1953

I really really hate that otherwise reasonable people are saying "data center water use is no big deal, all you should care about is CSAM now" Dear hearts, it's all that and a plagiarism machine and a disinformation machine and an amplifier of racism and an attack on creative workers and more

billboard view 2, reptile gardens, i-90, south dakota, 1980

These poor kids had no chance. You can't expect everyone to be a fire hazards safety expert at all times. That's why we have building and safety codes. 😞 Foam acoustic paneling is basically petrol in solid form.

Civilization begins w/ the discovery of honey, a sweet myth of origin. Bacchus & Ariadne leading the way. From Piero di Cosimo, whose day is today.

We actually have a web page dedicated to explaining what does and does not fall under CPSC jurisdiction. Learn something about government today! www.cpsc.gov/Regulations-...

Whale songs from the western Pacific spread eastward like a platinum radio hit and all the whales start singing it. The new hit can spread as far as Ecuador. The songs are changed up each year. All the cool kids sing it royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

I look like an apple

Hello, I'm on the teensy narrow edge between pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, followed by a uterine infection.

Living rivers in Africa, eating rocks.

Can’t stop watching! These kids are so talented. Blessings to them & their families!

Also evergreen

"ok but its not like they spend a lot of time talking about children's genitals, right?" "well, actually..."

Like the way forward here is not to oppose the fascist vision of "Real America" with a differing one but to assert that there is no "Real America" in any meaningful way because this country is too socially diverse for us to reify any one experience as the only "Real" one.

Happy 2026! To start the year, here's a tree ring chiton, a 5cm ocean mollusk that sticks to rocks. Instead of having obvious eyes on a head, it's got 100s of tiny eyes embedded in the hard plates on its back, each with a rock crystal to focus light. Its top is one big eye spying on the world above

State regulators announce that after killing 20 people, SoCal Edison must do an extra-serious pinkie swear that they super definitely need those fraying old lines that haven't been used in 50 years. www.latimes.com/environment/...

We can "agree to disagree" when we're talking about details* of policy. Not when we're talking about whether some people are human or whether the earth is worth saving. *K-4-4 vs elementary-middle school. Tram emphasis vs bus emphasis. At-large vs district voting. That kind of thing.