I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

NYC is opening city grocery stores in every borough — and we need the right spaces to make it happen. If you own or know of a site in Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island, submit to the NYC Groceries Sites Portal by June 30: grocery.nyc/portal

Minnesota is swapping comfortable summer weather for several days of dangerous heat and humidity. Even after the sun goes down, temperatures will remain unusually warm overnight, offering little relief and allowing heat stress to build from one day to the next.

Dangerous heat is expected to blanket much of the Upper Midwest this afternoon, with heat index values climbing as high as 110 degrees. Extreme heat warnings and heat advisories are in effect as one of the hottest days of the summer arrives.

How is it the power grid couldn’t handle electric cars but it will be fine with all these data centers?

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft.

Remember the scene in LOTR where Saruman tears up Isengard to support the Mordor war machine? Thats what a fuckin data center construction site feels like.

As convention season gets underway, a reminder that we have an ongoing masking initiative pushing to make all comic events safer for all of us! 🧵1/3 ( art by @orchiscribbles.bsky.social )

Has anyone seen an Environmental Impact Assessment for these data centers? Wonder why?

It's official - 500 reviews, 98% thumbs up, so we are officially Overwhelmingly Positive in both recent reviews and all time reviews. I'm going to celebrate by going to bed early. Rock and roll!

Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been detected in the Twin Cities, and experts say hotter, more humid weather could increase the risk of mosquito bites across Minnesota.

Didn't pick up Schrodinger's Cat Burglar at launch? Pick it up now in the Steam Summer Sale! 😱 -20% 9/10 @checkpointau.bsky.social 9/10 tryhardguides.com 9.5/10 games-mag.de Play Now 👉 s.team/a/2111550/

Minneapolis has moved to end its decades-old bathhouse ban after a 9–2 council vote. It now heads to Mayor Jacob Frey for approval.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Twitch Preroll Ads may now be up to 90 seconds long, instead of 30. Midroll Ads may now stretch to up to 4 minutes (even if the streamer sets them to 3 minutes). via Twitch Support

Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them

To quote Scott Seiss:

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Never did I think I would see a cure for sickle cell in my lifetime. A friend of mine in fifth grade died from this disease. My parents kept me home from the funeral because they thought I was too young to handle it. Modern science is a miracle. www.wafb.com/2026/06/23/n...

Remember all the banks who financed the American concentration camps. They will pretend they just slipped into providing billions to put kids in cages otherwise.

You can pet the dragon in my goblin game

Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is rated overwhelmingly positive! Thank you for all the reviews! store.steampowered.com/app/2111550/...

With the newly released AI warning for Steam v1.1.0 you can turn the AI disclosure on Steam store pages into an unmissable popup and blur or hide games with an AI disclosure in the search results! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa... addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addo... chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-wa...

If your NextFest game has literally any AI elements, I ain't playin' it. Yes, even "just the logo." I'd literally rather you draw it yourself on college-lined school paper in ballpoint pen, take a photo with your phone, and upload that than use AI.

There's plenty to love about Gooseberry Falls. Park supervisor Nate Springer spoke with MPR News host @claymasters.bsky.social about why USA Today readers voted it the best state park in the nation.

the world falling apart sucks real bad, but it's amazing that New York somehow slipped into an Disney Channel Original Movie alternate reality where our problems are fixed by Mayor Socialism and the Power of Friendship wins basketball championships.

The #SpecialOlympics kick off in Minneapolis this Saturday with the Opening Ceremony at Huntington Bank Stadium, featuring performances from Demi Lovato and Jon Batiste. Here's everything you need to know how and where to watch, and how to volunteer.

PSA for streamers who don't want stupid AI shit forced on their content, you can turn off the new "AI summary" thing that's been popping up in your dashboard under settings.

Potentially up to 15 legal observers in Minneapolis have been arrested so far today. 06.16.2026 PLEASE SEND THIS TO YOUR COMRADES DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR

America is ☠️ This is bullshit. Everyone should be standing up against this. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

the feds are coming in hard in Minneapolis today it looks like, targeting legal observers. I heard this from a friend there: "An alert was just posted to lock your doors and don’t open them for ICE/officials without a signed warrant. Twin Cities Legal observers’ homes are being raided... [cont'd]

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Thanks, Thinky! Thanky! Thinks! Thinky thanky thonk.

One thing that's expected to stay consistently cool no matter the weather is groundwater, but geologist Greg Brick found an anomaly. He fears an increase in temperature below the surface could have rippling affects above.

Promising new treatment for pancreatic cancer doubles survival rates

We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Morning, morning (ghostpup) teaser! ✨ Support the creation of this short on the link below! On a routine job, a jaded young witch encounters the ghost of a dog that is mysteriously immune to her anti-ghost spells.

The Superior Hiking Trail, which stretches about 300 miles along the rugged ridgeline on the North Shore of Lake Superior, is celebrating its 40th birthday this weekend.

Hey #PitchYaGame! Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is a puzzle adventure starring a cat that can be in two places at once! Solve puzzles, knock things off desks, collapse your superposition and lick your own bum - it's the game that has it all! #IndieGame #FollowFriday #catsofbluesky

you said it snufkin #sketchbook

I own this shirt and every time I wear it in public I get a sincere "awesome shirt!" from strangers half my age (or younger). If you want to be a cool old person and support literacy: BUY THIS SHIRT.

Happy pride! 🏳️‍🌈🌈✨ #pixelart #ドット絵

happy *quiet, chill* pride

You just voted two weeks ago to ban any mention of LGBTQ people from federally funded schools and to forcibly out trans kids. Don't you dare come here and say happy pride.

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

"You’re going to get left behind if you don’t use AI.” Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long-form, and books without needing AI summaries.

In the fight against toxic algae blooms, researchers are giving natural and synthetic clay a shot. The results will help inform scientists about whether the treatment methods could be used on a larger scale, such as Lake Erie, where harmful algal blooms are a costly annual problem.