"Better is better than worse."

Okay this is a really funny way to describe … Bainbridge Island

One more relevant note on this as the heat event across the Western US continues: A major impetus for our work to help the Northwest prepare for the next extreme heat wave is that an event like the 2021 PNW heat dome is estimated to occur *every 5 to 10 years* with 2°C of global warming.

HIM: what are you thinking about ME: "Resting and grazing cattle and deer tend to align their body axes in the geomagnetic North-South direction. The mechanism(s) that underlie this behavior remain unknown." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New from @jeva.bsky.social: The Salt River Project utility board has started early voting, but what happens when voting rights are decided by land acreage, Turning Point enters the chat, and data centers could throw the balance of power on its head? heatmap.news/energy/salt-...

Is brontosaurus real is the white-gold/black-blue dress of is Pluto a planet

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

Okay apparently these are both good movies, I apologize for singling them out as random

For several years when I was the Culture Critic for The Week, I would watch every single movie nominated for any Oscar in a given year and rank them, and now I’m just sitting here imagining having seen movies like Song Sung Blue and Kokuho lol

looks like a big ol' el niño on its way. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

There’s nothing more pleasant than being 100% done with a piece except that you still have a last-minute chance to swap a few of the adjectives for superior adjectives

My dad is trying to eat a sandwich and my four-year-old nephew just roasted him by asking, “Do you just want to eat EVERY bread?”

Chotiner: So Friday Night Lights is your favorite tv show? Me: definitely. One of the best ever. Chotiner: So you’re a big fan of season two, i take it. Me: Well, I don’t know about that. Chotiner: But you think, and i’m quoting you here, it’s “one of the best ever”? Me. No, Isaac. No. Hang on.

I saw this right before going to bed and now I can’t sleep

This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.

Everyone keeps being like, “One day the baby will sleep through the night!” but what if they’re lying

I'm out of words here

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I got an Oura ring shortly after having a baby and it’s been great, I love the validation of checking it and seeing it be like, “oh my GOD you were up FIVE TIMES?! Take a NAP, babe.”

@jeva.bsky.social reports that, amid the DHS shutdown, "the Federal Emergency Management Agency has suspended all of its training and education programs for emergency managers across the country — except for those 'directly supporting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.'"

Not great!

This reminds me of when I was going to visit the Helsinki Museum of Natural History until I saw the "spider infestation" subhed on its Wikipedia page bsky.app/profile/jeva...

I once illegally entered Mexico on accident and then had to illegally reenter the U.S.

Eighty-seven dead means there are hundreds of people who are now mourning sons, husbands, brothers, best friends, and fathers and … why

What would we do without such essential tools

Yesterday my friend sent me a two-sentence message on Instagram and Meta asked me if I wanted AI to summarize it

Tell me where my five-month-old has been playing without telling me where my five-month-old has been playing

"It is difficult to imagine more arbitrary and capricious decisionmaking than that at issue here"

Hanging out with my brother and talking about old internet memes and my husband is on his phone just quietly laughing to himself and I looked at his phone at it’s just a picture of the o rly owl

Happy 30th birthday to Pokémon. Without it, the greatest Werner Herzog quote of all time would not exist.

The thing that always haunts me in moments like this is all the stories we will now never, ever hear about.

i'm a big fan of magazines, investigative reporting, and longform, all of which requires staff and institutions, but the really really dire thing that indie media can't replace? the fucking wire services

I was in a tea shop the other day where I overheard people trying to guess what Audubon means (bird in French?) and I deeply regret not going over to their table and saying “no, actually it’s ‘good bird’ in French”

Honestly still is

I love how for like, most of human history, the funniest thing in the world was someone getting bopped on the head

Trump: Mamdani 🫶

“Zero illegal aliens have been admitted.” Okay yeah, definitionally …

It’s been nine years since New York had a proper blizzard. Is that because of climate change? Nope, Penn State’s Colin Zarzycki told @jeva.bsky.social. If anything, blizzards are set to get worse as the world warms. Read their full conversation: heatmap.news/climate/nort...

Someone's got to send those calendar invites out......

I am having the worst NYC weather fomo!!! It’s 44 degrees here, there is no glory in 44 degrees!!! Never leave New York!!!

This is such a New England headline. But it very might well work, as @jeva.bsky.social indirectly explains: (TL;DR: if you make a giant pile of snow, melting reduces the air between individual snowflakes and the surface area, so you now have a dense and stable insulation layer)

My dear darling husband just “went down a rabbit hole” about the Colorado River and has come out radicalized

🚨 Astoria energy news 🚨

omg apparently even *baby chickens* think "bouba" is round and "kiki" is spiky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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We need a spoiler-free option in the NBC Olympics app, I want to watch the highlights to find out what happened but the thumbnails are, like, the podium lol

King County Metro on Routle let’s gooooooo www.routle.city/king_county_...