i miss waiting room magazines

"the parallels between speaking nonchalantly about Earth being done, but that's okay because we're on to the next thing, and the way evangelicals talk about the rapture, is uncanny." drilled.media/news/network...

"The whole industry is staked on a shaky metaphor." AI is a compression algorithm, not a learning one. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“If Americans increased their protein intake by just 25%…it would require about 100 million acres of additional ag land each year — an area larger than Michigan, Ohio & Pennsylvania combined — & increase annual emissions by 100s of millions of tons of CO2e, according to @worldresources.bsky.social.”

at the Grand Army of the Republic cemetery in Seattle, where veterans who fought to end slavery and preserve the Union are buried — including from the 6th Minnesota

i was reading through a short story i wrote 12 years ago and googled a phrase from it, because i couldn't recall whether it was an allusion or not. Google's AI explained that my phrase -- which does not appear in the Bible, or anywhere else that I can tell -- reflects Biblical sources.

we have a mid-season opening on an Ottoneu fantasy basketball team. - best fantasy platform with budget, auction, keepers - h2h categories with playoffs - jaylen brown, LBJ, curry top stars with surplus players like ausar thompson & kel'el ware - $20 renewal, no prize, very fun hmu if interested

my state rep responded to my venezuela letter saying he can't do anything because foreign affairs are federal territory. interestingly same rep said he can't push for fossil fuel divestment in the pension either.

favorite fiction read '25 Swann’s Way - Proust* The Ambassadors - James* Flight from Neveryon - Delany* The Door - Szabo* Sentimental Education - Flaubert Abigail - Szabo Pan - Clune Margo’s Got Money Troubles - Thorpe Creation Lake - Kushner Hurricane Season - Melchior The Wall - Haushofer

making sense of the world isn't getting any easier, so i asked some really thoughtful people to help us sort through what really mattered in 2025, and what didn't, for @themorningnews.org year 10 doing this!! themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

top concerts '25 boris patti smith wilco gang of four slowdive yhwh nailgun lcd sdsystm capn jazz nourished by time hon mention reg faves ylt, b2s, waxahatchee

airport sprint should be an olympic sport

tuneyards really saw that hip-hop in the taxi scene in THE COMEDY and thought, i'm gonna make a career out of that (i love tuneyards)

nootropic bros: i'm doing SUPERMAN SLEEP where you sleep in snippets throughout all 24 hours, invented by NAPOLEON for PRODUCTIVITY mothers since forever: 😕

caregiver and caretaker: almost the same thing. yet, to take and to give: opposite.

'If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a 'kill switch' for any reporting they find inconvenient."' view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/176...

The name "Millicent" goes so hard. Like wdym you're called "Thousandth Hundredth." Are you super potent or are you just tiny?

We helped build out the case that tripling adaptation finance is possible. In the end, developed countries agreed too, and it became a key outcome of COP30 and one that will surely catalyze projects that save lives and propel sustainable development. www.wri.org/insights/tri...

"Didion explained her quietism as her way of being true to herself, of honoring her lack of faith in collective action." www.dispatchesmag.com/stories/reap...

without GHGP -- recently partnered with the International Standards Organization -- we would not have a level understanding of different corporate emissions. it's a hugely important tool and one that the fossil fuel companies would love to undermine.

reading this fantastic essay about being a roman amongst american tourists and recalled this maddeningly stupid Google suggestion (I googled Puglia) no place is BETTER www.thedial.world/articles/new...

i had this stuck in my head ("That's all right, that's okay / I never loved you anyway") for like 25 years before i found it again via Nickelodeon's "Snow Day" soundtrack trying to figure out if it was The Las or Sixpence version of "There She Goes" in the movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7T...

the duality of humankind, the two genders, life in nonprofit communications, etc.

"By targeting diversity language, however, the administration has been able to make cuts to programs that benefit children with disabilities without specifically rolling back special education." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...

tired: Goldeneye (James Bond title) wired: goldeneye (duck)

We all know Clarke's "sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Well we have corollary:

In their latest installment, Robert Lewis and Lauren Hepler show that the officials with the power to do something about it — @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social, legislators, the courts, the Department of Motor Vehicles — have failed to act. calmatters.org/investigatio... 4/9

the thing is there really is a epochal tech revolution happening, it’s called renewables and green industry

An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living. The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options. humantransit.org/2025/12/many...

Our new analysis of Europe’s largest banks has found progress on climate has ground to a standstill, and in some cases, reversed As environmental and social risks rise, banks’ responses are still falling short: the average score across the 25 banks was 41%🔽 shareaction.org/reports/in-d... 🧵1

⚡Clean energy continues to dominate new power capacity. #WRIExplains The State of Clean Energy👉 go.wri.org/state-clean-...

BREAKING: Six organisations from Papua New Guinea, Australia, Japan and Europe have filed the first-ever Equator Principles complaint against #MUFG over #PapuaLNG – a gas project that could affect 12,700+ Indigenous people and threaten ~100 species. #climate #biodiversity #humanrights

so what we used to do in CIA black sites to alleged terrorists, we now do to migrants, on US soil, for telling guards that another migrant needed his medication www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

A new WRI Finance paper offers the first stocktake of how #MDBs are mainstreaming nature. The takeaway? MDBs are only testing the waters right now, and they will need to make a much bigger splash to mobilize the $200B per year needed for nature by 2030. 📝 bit.ly/4rAN2tA

Fossil fuel companies and the institutions that support them have been using 💻 ads & the🗞️ media to influence everything from national elections to the outcomes of the UN climate summit #COP for years! We share their tactics and concrete examples from around the world in the thread. 👇

This week, Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs put 40+ private banks, credit agencies and pension funds on notice in a letter endorsed by more than 125 civil society organizations from around the world – calling on them to not finance or invest in the risky Ksi Lisims LNG project in British Columbia, Canada.

"Consistent results across specifications suggest [mobility] infrastructure enhances trust by promoting mobility and exposure to new people and ideas, as well as by elevating political trust as the government is perceived as more reliable and effective." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

You know how this became utterly predictable and inevitable? When absolutely none of the people responsible for the previous thousand family separations were punished in any way

a 2/3 zone with pat spencer and will richard on the wings has gotta be the smallest in nba decades

"Central banks can address the climate crisis through a setup that embraces what the authors term ‘government directing with operational independence’." www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

"The TFFF’s success now depends on these and other nations, as well as private sector investors, making the investments necessary to get the TFFF fully operational." www.wri.org/insights/fin...

I was excited when Janeese Lewis George ran for Ward 4 and now I'm excited she's running for Mayor

the people making money off "freebirthing" aren't just killing babies and endangering moms, they are ... sticking it to Sir Isaac Newton and Louis Pasteur 💪 www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

maybe i am going insane

awesome to see @katiejwells.bsky.social research mentioned in @tomwhitwell.bsky.social's annual '52 things i learned,' terrible to see that AI is being used to selectively offer lower wages to nurses with more difficult financial straits medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

i can't be the only one who raced to the grocery store last Thursday and was puzzled by whether I should accept "Yellow Gold" when I was looking for Yukon www.seriouseats.com/yukon-gold-p...

dream blunt rotation @lpeblog.bsky.social