How could we have known!? It’s not like people haven’t been warning about this as a strategic imperative since the Carter administration.

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Timeline Cleanse

Sometimes I’m just really grateful I formed the core parts of my political consciousness before Reddit existed.

"My Angus—please stay," she said in code. And then Karen O generationally redefined crying. Maybe the best music video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIx...

*sigh*

The 1980s: a famously mellow, grounded decade

I don’t think enough attention has been put on how services for DC residents are going to be destroyed they have to find 1$ billion dollars in their budgets from schools, police, fire, parks etc

no one wants to spend time on z*ckerberg-owned platforms anymore, but neighborhood Buy Nothing groups are still struggling to find a workable alternative: nygroove.nyc/buy-nothing-...

This video has inspired me to go pick up a biography about Harriet Tubman. I had no idea how much she had done, the history I was taught made it sound like she was little more than a guide, but it turns out she was way more badass. youtu.be/iIcdk3NGjJA?...

Saying that something was "so betamax unicorn" simply meant that while it did have impossible beauty and innocence it would ultimately become obsolete for refusing to sacrifice quality in favor of improved data storage

Let’s talk a bit about what you, an average German newspaper reader in 1933, would have learned about Hitler’s rise to power. Let’s assume you read the “Vossische Zeitung”, a comparatively liberal middle-class newspaper. In modern times, the Berlin State Library library let’s you read it online: 1/

One of the greeting cards I made. This one is a Birthday card featuring the famous Ryu and Cyclops handshake. As you open the card they slide into place to grasp hands.

Every Dem president in my lifetime has been better than the last and also woefully inadequate.

The final piece of advice I would like to give to new folks tonight is that Bluesky will be what you make of it. When I came over from the former Twitter, I resolved to be more kind to others here than I was over there. That choice has made being here so much better. Keep it in mind for yourself.

"decimate" pedants, rejoice!

@reckless.bsky.social ’s endorsement of Harris is probably the best political endorsement I’ve read in at least a decade. Perfectly summarizes the stakes of the election on specific day-to-day challenges.

How come Kamala Harris never mentions that she used to star in the acclaimed 90s sitcom, Designing Women?

Y’all got anymore of that market volatility?

be patient with the zoomers. they are coming of age in a time when the glory days of posting have already passed. they watched the gold rush in full swing, but by the time they were old enough to type every post had already been written. they were born into the grave.

🌐 Bytes of an Internet Past ⌛ A look back at the hub for online Matrix movie hype and promotion in early 1999 - What is the Matrix? Fancy Flash menus, Shockwave games, and lots of juicy behind-the-scenes stuff and interviews.

This twitter ban in Brazil was the perfect opportunity for us, everyday users, to experience what a normal and healthy social network looks like, I'm definitely NOT coming back to that hellhole even if it comes back, which doesn't look like it's gonna happen anyways.

SNL needs to do an updated version of this sketch with JD Vance as the baker, but instead of women going to the bathroom it’s just couches.

When did it stop being cool to tuck your napkin into your shirt when you eat?

The WhatsApp Aunties have been activated

fascinating look into what might be going wrong with youth polling split-ticket.org/2024/04/15/c...

NO CRYING, NO FREAKING OUT, FROM NOW UNTIL NOVEMBER WE FUCKING SMASH THE FASH, IF THEY LOSE HERE, THEY LOSE EVERYWHERE, SO DO NOT LET THEM BREAK YOU, LET THEM FUCKING BREAK UPON YOU.

Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes