The President of the United States and the dumbest motherfucker on Earth should be two different people.

‘dear rax, my writing group kicked me out for sending them my AI memoir’ www.patreon.com/posts/153531...

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.

It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

I can't compete with this.

Seems fitting that International Womens day in America is only allotted 95.8% as many hours as equivalent Mens Days (all the rest of the says)

the world is terrible. trying to fix one (1) small thing with my own hands

I can't fucking believe we're doing this again.

this seems like a good day to wake up, kinda squint at the news, and go back bed

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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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