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Christmas Eve Eve

A lovely interview with Cheryl Rofer of her time at LANL

If you'd like personalized copies of the Southern Reach this holiday season and you live in the US, I've got you covered! booksandtaps.com/shop/jeff-va...

Im reading “Extreme Ownership” a management book based on seal team leadership , while watching this drama unfold and frequently find myself wondering “What would Jocko have to say about all this”

ok this is cool. dubai has 248 buildings >100m tall so a drone that can apply water at 200m is a pretty good idea. sorry about the burj khalifa tho

Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!

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With a “WOW!,” President Trump posts a claim about DOGE and “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a satirical website. That site’s own About section reads: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.”

nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary

shout out to craig beyler for helping debunk some fire forensics myths

I personally would not build a house of dynamite. It’s not up to code for one thing

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE’ is now on Netflix.

Just watched A House of Dynamite , I’m sure Ill sleep fine tonight

This video is one of my absolute favorites. I'm pointing this out not to diminish the cyclists in chicago (who are great) but these are likely learned tactics from each other (which is ALSO good). Sometimes I think some of the cynicism on here is b/c people aren't seeing the positive push backs

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

An Austrian adaptation of the Barcelona Superblock, Vienna is putting the finishing touches on its first Supergrätzl ("Super neighbourhood") in the tenth district, where through traffic is filtered out to regenerate an intersection into a liveable, climate-adapted, pedestrian-friendly public space.🧵

Being able to reason over things has *so* much value. www.anildash.com/2023/06/08/a...

Love this new report on buildings' relative fire safety from @alexhrwtz.bsky.social and Pew colleagues. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Every. Single. Time.

What a weird-ass Rapture. Only the Constitution disappeared.

shot www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

🧵 1/ What is this photograph? It's a custom-made mask fitted for a software engineer in northern Virginia who suffered third-degree burns on her face when the Tesla Model Y she was in crashed and caught on fire. A heroic crowd of bystanders could not open the doors

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

crazy how much this looks like my familys computer den in the mid 90s

Knowing it needed to adapt to survive the challenges of the 21st century, Alkmaar’s main shopping street of De Laat has undergone an extraordinary revitalisation; engaging the community in a reimagining process that introduced lush vegetation, water features, pedestrian priority, and ample seating.🧵

In recent years, the historic street was hampered by heavy vacancy and a monolithic, heat-intensive, heavily-paved streetscape. By 2021, weekend foot traffic had plummeted from 21,500 one decade earlier to just 7,900. Its limited permeability and aging drainage system made it vulnerable to flooding.

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Motherfucking wind farms…

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

After studiously avoiding news and articles I got caught up on a few days of Tour stages and then, as a treat, got to enjoy a lovely little article by @katewagner.bsky.social :) escapecollective.com/a-tour-of-tr...

I have a harrumph because I went to go search my archives and I *SWEAR* I have explained the non-proliferation definition of Intrinsically Safe before. I seem to have alluded to it but neve explained. So here goes, this one's for you @dankaszeta.bsky.social.

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

wait hang on after scrolling past this joke a dozen times do you mean to tell me those were his actual words

He's riffing on a specific poem with a very ugly history related to European colonialism in Africa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_g...

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects Ancient forests now "are more like a pristine greenhouse than a living ecosystem: a wilderness that has been fumigated and left sterile. Not a forest, but a museum" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What I appreciate here is that the FT scored a video interview with Sam Altman (a high profile get!) for a conceit where he makes lunch and then another FT writer just ruthlessly savages his kitchen appliances and cooking techniques. www.ft.com/content/b180...

The Trump administration’s cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.

"Wildfire Wednesdays" is a great bi-weekly product put out by Fire Adapted NM and the Forest Stewards Guild. Check out this week's edition, which features ways to get ready for Wildfire Preparedness Day on May 3 (among other interesting items). facnm.org/news/2025/4/...

Join us on Saturday May 3, 10am-3pm for Wildfire Community Preparedness Day at the Southside Library in Santa Fe!

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Here’s a great example of using comics to convey research from @trecpdx.bsky.social and @kellyjclifton.bsky.social trec.pdx.edu/news/moving-...