This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*. Yes: free. If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

come now, how have I *yet* to see Mandick, the Titty Smithy

There’s a reason we use plant metaphors for activism. In this day and age, I try to remember that there is enormous value in being a weed.

Guys, US per capita carbon emissions are down 30% from peak! 30%! We’re doing it! All the little steps (and big) are paying off! 🚉⚡️☀️💨🚲🌳🚶🌱🌎

I love that the comments are balanced between "Jesus, is that a mummified foot?!?" and "What gas station did you find that at? It's really fancy." Yes, I grew up eating these. Another favorite: "Why is the burrito wearing a straitjacket?"

I mean, being able to talk to y'all for free, but I do appreciate his point.

“The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings….The post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were over 44 and 90% of whom were men.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: Maryland just issued a standing order for anyone to get the Covid vaccines, and they also announced they'll be joining the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

Remember the LEVERAGE episode where the mark was offered money laundering via gym subscriptions that folks were too distracted to cancel?

"I can't believe Brazil of all places managed to do this while the US couldn't" My brother in Christ, what do you mean by "of all places"? We have public healthcare, actual vaccination policies and advanced electronic voting. Your prejudice against South Americans is showing

The appropriate expression with which to meet sort of 90% of the news right now. …Maybe more.

Logan Square Family Turns Run-Down Spot Under The 'L' Into A Community Garden A local civil engineer hopes his guerrilla gardening inspires others to feel ownership of their neighborhoods. via Lauren Dixon/ @blockclubchi.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/l...

You can download books directly to your phone or computer, wherever you are. The BARD program allows you to get braille and audio titles from the National Library Service at no cost and with no waitlists.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.

Bill McKibben says it's down to 18 hours, thanks to China. Sun Day is coming. Sept. 21. sunday.earth

I want a t-shirt that says “burner of bridges”

Do not put your name on a website to register for a rally in this political climate. What the fuck's wrong with y'all. Are there any people of color that work at this org who might knock some sense into your peach colored heads.

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Imagine being so ludicrously hot, that moustache works on you. (God that's a good film. Redford, refusing to jump off a cliff: "I can't swim!" Newman: "Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill you!")

It's Baby Safety Month.

Stephen Colbert needs no Paramount. He has the people. ❤️

Today’s arts & crafts entry: a Murderbot. I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315... When it’s dry, it goes on my desk. Cc @marthawells.com :)

Nope. We're done. We are going to back to a text only internet. Y'all had images and sounds and fucked it up too bad. We're going gopher mode. We're getting gemini pilled. You're going to learn to use telnet and like it. You have one movie, it's pretty good.

For my grumpy naysayers: Tasmanian devil face cancer wasn’t our fault, was not because of anything humans did, has had horrendous effects on the population, but because of mRNA vaccine technology developed for Covid, we may be able to save them. Put that in your doom and smoke it.

You can do things that help create the world you want to live in.

....okay I already watch his stuff but I might need to start rewatching regularly in a prophylactic manner.

I love old-timey cocktail recipe books, they'll go "here's a light and refreshing drink, perfect for a summer afternoon" and then list off ingredients for a concoction that could melt clean through the hull of an ocean liner

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

@wordslingeuse.bsky.social I made some of the decaf masala chai from Arbor Teas into a latte this morning and girl, you need to get you some. OMG SO GOOD

@r-emrys.bsky.social explores the nuances and applications of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis and its influence on speculative fiction, from Orwell's 1984 to works by Samuel R. Delany, Suzette Elgin Haden, and Ted Chiang reactormag.com/the-perils-o...

Cat: MEOW Me: You have a cat flap. Use it. Cat: MEOW Me: Cat flap. We cut a hole in the bloody wall. You've been using it for a decade. Cat: MEOW Me: Oh for Christ's sake. /opens door /cat leaves /shuts door /seven seconds pass /cat flap clicks Cat: MEOW

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

'Seen & Heard' examines Black TV history, shining light on its successes and struggles

This is the mission, this is the work, this is what's left to us. Instead of building a finer world, together, we work and struggle in the mud to survive this one, and to protect and uplift as many people as we can, for as long as we can, before eventually it is our turn to become mud, too.

One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

Macy's email: "4 Months till Christmas!" Me, despite absolutely being a Christmas Girlie: NO :sprays with water bottle as with a misbehaving cat: It. Is. September. I'm not even a huge Halloween person but SERIOUSLY this is RIDICULOUS.

Even in death, the rich cannot give up their grand houses, cannot stop playing their hierarchical games. Ostentation unto the tomb seems terribly tawdry. No part of my imagined afterlife involves having to remind people of any wealth or status I enjoyed in life. – #CLNolan

Just received my first PR email informing me that "The Holidays Are Just Around the Corner," and Jesus Honking Christ, let me enjoy my pumpkin spice for a single goddamn month before hitting me with holidays, would you, please and thank you

Okay, the community pharmacy in Coupeville does take my insurance and had appointments this week. I am going to Little Red Hen bakery and getting a treat while I'm up there.

Hey, TIL that CVS is not contracted with Apple Health in Washington State to administer vaccines. Wanna guess how I found that out? There is no other pharmacy on the south end of Whidbey Island. This is a problem.

An opportunity to think about and discuss Joanna Russ' challenging, radical feminist SF novel The Female Man (1975).

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

What we can learn from a mother lode of Mexican mammoths w/ @rpocisv.bsky.social this week on the @science.org podcast Listen here 🎧 www.science.org/content/podc...

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Limited edition bubblegum pink version of the infamous WPA-inspired "always carry a book" tote designed by Shelby Rodeffer is here! It has a zipper 😎 : pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/iQd_fL9...

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For those of you in Massachusetts! Ages 5 and up can get a COVID vaccine! No prescription required. • www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/m...