Oh, @driftglass.bsky.social! "Here, in Mountain View Cemetery, lie the bones of Octavia Butler, the famed science-fiction writer who spent her life in Pasadena and Altadena, both of which had burned. Trinkets offered by fans often decorate Butler’s unassuming grave..."

Pretending* Autocorrect is a vandal.

This is a really brilliant animation, showing how global warming has increased the probabilities of extreme heat. Note how it's not just a matter of a shift in the mean -- the distribution has gotten broader. Probably not enough data yet to tell if the tails have gotten fatter.

"FEMA and the FDA and NHS and the CDC are so understaffed that avoiding catastrophes will be like dancing between raindrops." Lovely piece of writing about tge Washington Generals of US politics. davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

To me, this cave has a lot to do with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. Democratic leadership and their donors are more afraid of Democratic Socialists than they are of National ones.

In Congress, I’ll never abandon my constituents or take Republicans at their word when they say they won’t do the thing that they clearly plan on doing. But first I have to get there: Katforillinois.com/donate

Yes. A common thing that speculative assets do, before they go down.

Dear Senator Schumer- Go fuck yourself.

the shoe is on the other foot. but the idea that the whole thing was simply fake didn't bear scrutiny eighteen months ago either. purchasing power for lower deciles has been falling for decades. there WAS a big inflationary shock. Yr analysis wld be better if you didn't pretend those don't exist.

Hey, @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social, heads up. Both @thejuicemedia.com and @the-goose-media.bsky.social are talking about BC LNG, specifically the Ksi Lisims project. (KSI is a youtuber who's into gas and the Paul brothers? I don't keep up with that nonsense): youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI

Well, the loan sharks come in when you are trying to fund those heavy expenses. Don't do drugs and gamble, kids. But one thing we can see is how US economy evolved, from the 70's, finding ways to maintain consumer demand while forces acted upon it to cheapen labor.

Where I and @whstancil.bsky.social differ is that I believe that people had a right to be angry, but that anger was misdirected. @whstancil.bsky.social doesn't believe they had that right to their anger, and that it was the result of misdirection. Rant OVA.

Mamdani got 1,036,051 votes and had 108,000 volunteers. One out of ten people who voted for him also built the campaign. Amazing. All of us olds live in constant PTSD about Obama's campaign purposefully unwinding its volunteer army in 2009. Good news: Mamdani's team says it's doing the opposite.

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours

New: The current “AI race” media frenzy, whether framed as productivity revolution, Chinese competition, or AGI salvation, is either largely myth-making or missing the most crucial point. So let me challenge that frenzy with a different story. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

A rallying cry for my fellow journalists to put their boots on and grow a backbone. drilled.media/news/media-b...

"Power protects itself not through crude censorship, but through relationships, by making you feel that asking the question would be a betrayal of someone who trusted you, who opened doors for you, and who would now suffer consequences." By @antelava.bsky.social www.codastory.com/authoritaria...

Anyone that's raised cattle knows this, and it ain't just JBS. If Trump follows through and hobbles those motherfuckers, it might be the only good thing he accidentally stumbles into doing right. JBS and Friends fuck ranchers one way, the consumers the other and suck up 80% of the money both ways.

Ayn Rand blamed an economy founded on collective principles from her totalitarian experiences, and she came to America to idolize a psychotic who represented pure individualism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_... Look under the section for media representations.

Patterns of November temperatures in the #Antarctic when averaged by decade... There is a warming trend. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

🚨 Last month observed the highest average temperature for the month of October across the #Antarctic Circle, with clearly 2025 well above any prior year in the satellite era. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Before the pandemic, 57% of 10-year-olds in LMICs could not read and understand a simple story—a condition called ‘Learning Poverty.’ The pandemic worsened this to an estimated 70% (World Bank et al., 2022)

Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the… braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...

The guy's a mob boss. That's his ethic, that's his personality, that's his value system.

But windfall profits flow upward: in 2022, half of record fossil-fuel profits went to the richest 1%; only 1% reached the bottom half. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A petroleum price shock hits the poorest Americans with a 54% higher inflation impact than the richest decile. For food, the gap is even greater at 126%.

Essentials like housing, food, energy, & childcare are not ordinary commodities. When their prices surge, they trigger redistribution shocks. Our research identifies these sectors as key drivers of inequality. Link: scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵

Guterres is right. Even a temporary overshoot could unleash far greater destruction and costs for every nation. It could push ecosystems past catastrophic and irreversible tipping points. Fossil fuel companies are deceiving the public and obstructing progress. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Doesn't excuse the sanewashing, the constant badgering over the economy, the refusal to hold republicans accountable for obstruction and the expiry of popular programs, or the fact that this isn't the first, second, or third rotation on this merry-go-round.

Had voters been informed and held price inflation as their top priority, they would have seen the Trump campaign promises to mass deport cheap labor and put tarriffs on cheap goods as policies that would greatly magnify their anti-incumbancy pain.

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵

I posted the original of that article. web.archive.org/web/20100509...

The One Big Beautiful Bill dedicates $170 billion to immigration enforcement, or $12,142 per unauthorized immigrant. By comparison, the federal government spends $8,990 per child each year. Money talks; Congress is saying kids aren't as important. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

On my x, I wrote on the subject of money creation. x.com/Thimble27968...

The damning story by @timdickinson.bsky.social on how OFA was DOAed by the Obama campaign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Didn't help that you had Rahm Emanuel calling Obama supporters "f**king ret**ded"

Comparing the two most active natural cycles in the Atlantic (NOAA AMO chart at top) and the most recent period (now) still produces 2X more extreme hurricanes!! 1940-1970 vs 1995-2025 But wait. It’s not a fair comparison! Why?? … 1/

This is a useful piece on the Royal Society's solar geoengineering report, indicating that the report contains enough caveats that press can pick up on the dangers. One wonders, though, if there are any "right hands" that a technology like SRM can be put into.

'we have lost young men' was pushed by Shor, and his source was 'i made it up'

I just did a couple of posts on the subject of the ol' Atlas Network and it's work down in Argentina translating Fred Singer's climate denial kink into Spanish, which was likely why Javier Milei turned out the way he did. No one should be exposed to Fred Singer kink. bsky.app/profile/thim...

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Really can't be exaggerated how poisonous it is that @mattyglesias.bsky.social has taken up the "climate vs material prosperity" framing. It's empirically false. It's straightforwardly right-wing. It's going to make it harder to pass good policies. It's going to set that whole debate back.

The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list.

Along with cuts to climate action cuts and vague regulatory commitments, the government is extending renewed support for liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget did not deliver new investments on climate or clean tech. In fact, some experts say it takes a step backwards.