"Even at this moment, as I think of you, I feel cheered, for always I can write letters to you, and put into them what I am feeling, and receive from you detailed answers." Fyodor Dostoevsky, POOR FOLK

stubby clapp and pop warner. baseball names are undefeated

i am the bully, and you need to give me your lunch money* *book recs some from the queue: EXTRACTIVE CAPITALISM, Khalili* ADAM SMITH IN BEIJING, Arrighi* RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH, Dick STRIKE!, re labor in Rome, Bond

"The ability to toll and permit offers the regime in Tehran an enormous potential source of funding and geopolitical leverage that will — like its nuclear program — now require constant management." Whoops! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

new Broken Social Scene tomorrow www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bZ...

“Historic, systemic and dynamic.” Following the Santa Marta Conference, WRI’s Nick Robins shares why this new alliance of 57 countries could mark a major shift toward cleaner, more resilient economies 🌍⚡ Read more: bit.ly/42FfGOS

Study shows Koreans willing to fund developing countries' climate action: "Although 🇰🇷 is not obligated... its voluntary commitments – underpinned by public support – underscore the growing relevance of middle-power engagement in global climate governance." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

US industry groups like Chamber of Commerce, NFIB, API, ABC and companies like Amazon and UPS are blocking heat protections that save lives, especially for workers in warehousing, construction, agriculture and transportation. groundworkcollaborative.org/work/extreme...

Not everyone can bicycle to Finland, but you can: "reach out to the world, trusting it, and then you end up in situations and meet people who surprise you and expand your sense of possibility, which gives you more landscapes to explore, and so on and on." www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/travel-by-...

@milesklee.bsky.social against the Coke Freestyle: "This hedonistic beverage buffet is in some way also anti-art, because great art imposes and creates meaning by means of constraints and limitations." flaminghydra.com/issue-559/

Climate services for health can deliver $4–$68 per $1 invested 🩺 “This is one of the highest-return opportunities to protect people in a changing climate,” said Ani Dasgupta, President & CEO, @worldresources.bsky.social Full press release 👉 bit.ly/4ulN20Y

everyone is talking about Angine de Poitrine so I'm gonna listen to Horse Lords and call it a night

"countries struggling to make interest payments on their debts could not afford imports such as medicines, fertilisers and technology without the revenues from exporting fossil fuels." in another world, interesting to imagine what the Fed could do to help... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

when godel reportedly tried to tell the judge about the flaw in the constitution at his own citizenship hearing, einstein kicked him under the table and spoke over him. we should have listened? "because national security" seems like carte blanche for executive now. www.ft.com/content/74d8...

The Eastern US has lots of lithium -- enough to replace 328 years of imports. But the broader region, including watersheds, is heavily populated. There has been opposition before over plans to get it out of the Carolinas. gizmodo.com/an-untapped-...

Yes that will be cool

for what it’s worth @warriorsofficial.bsky.social if the rumors of a cap on steve kerr’s political speech are true i would probably just go ahead and put lacob next to john fisher on my wall of shame #FJF

Kinda interesting to think about in parallel to baseball. We may be getting a game that is more "optimized" but less interesting to watch (and maybe to play) as guys get bigger, stronger, insane spin, and just spam the thing they're good at. bigthink.com/strange-maps...

"Bruce has therefore weaponised his disability through behavioural innovation...The bird missing his upper beak has rewritten what disability means for behaviourally complex species" Bruce is also fantastically unstressed and does self care with pebbles www.404media.co/a-mysterious...

2025 Global Forest Watch tree cover loss data is here! 🧯TCL is down from 2024, when there were record level fires 🔥but fires may be part of the new normal, with fires joining 🚜agricultural expansion as leading drivers 🌴policy may have curbed TCL in key countries 🇮🇩 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 gfr.wri.org/latest-analy...

created my ORCID iD today 😇

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

"Importantly, we argue that inertia is not merely passive but actively maintained by those with institutional power." I will have to think more about the emphasis on discourse here, but broadly speaking pro-climate movements must remember *they have opponents.* www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tonight: much-needed serenity with Kelly Moran and William Basinski 🌌

“Me caaan go back a Jamaica,” he hollers, the visceral sound reverberating around the 777. “Dem kill me bredda. Dem a go kill me.” The actual op-ed makes a much less powerful case against forced removals than that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i’d have watched WALL STREET about ten years earlier if i’d known it used “america is waiting” like that

one of many interesting slides from this presentation: what could go wrong? radicalization of carbon interests -- violent retrenchment, aggression to defend the status quo ...and here's some interesting reporting right on cue: Russia sabotaging renewables? www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

🌍 Environmental defenders contribute to climate goals and policymaking. Yet only 5% of climate policy studies recognize them – with stark consequences. It’s time to recognize defenders and formalize their protection. Read more: bit.ly/49fzoUj

but does she appreciate george bataille?

for all the resilience of dollar hegemony, it seems increasingly likely we will look back at this exact sequence of events and see how obvious the vulnerability was petrodollar to electroyuan? www.wsj.com/world/middle...

what if agency was never the problem, and instead, the hard question is the same as ever -- what do we do with it? ourtime.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

The day is April 20. The DEA announces they have apprehended "Brick Steves," the OG travel influencer who used his avuncular manner and popular series of shows and guidebooks to disguise a worldwide web of illicit trade.

In any case, Weird Era is a good title and I'm gonna go listen to Deerhunter now

Meta: We're tracking your keystrokes because AI McClatchy: We're misrepresenting your professional identity because AI Hear me out: The AI didn't make these people do shit. It was just horrible leaders looking for a scapegoat.

$750 million in government subsidies doesn't buy what it used to. 7000 jobs for 750 million = $107,000 per job www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

“Here they were shedding skins. They could imitate nothing but what they were. There was no defence but to look for the truth in others.” - Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT

the tagline for EYES WIDE SHUT should have been "Illuminaughty." 🤠

"Markets are not properly pricing risk, because they really don’t have to. They have assumed that the U.S. government will not allow them to implode, and that assumption is putting the world economy at stake." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/o...

central banking is kinda like classical music, very intimidating but there are really only like a few dozen dudes who get 95% of the play. if you can remember who was on the marlins in 1999 i promise you have it in you

chekhov’s baby

The energy that made the modern world didn’t come out of nowhere. A new global trade in stimulants gave workers the energy to toil in the factories and thinkers the fuel to invent a new world. 🗃️🧵

@adamtooze.bsky.social: "Denying the obviously political origin of the shocks amounts to a cocktail of escapism & cognitive dissonance...manifest in treatment of politics and the derangement of the US as some kind of external, ultimately exogenous disturbance." adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Primary: "Here's a referral to get your potentially dangerous symptom checked out." Referral desk: "Let's see when our next appointment is...how is October?"

“If it were Europeans working on this project, you wouldn’t have a project at all,” a former Siemens manager ... said while looking at the new site. “With the Chinese, you have a project.” what a quote @timmcdonnell.bsky.social www.semafor.com/article/04/1...

Poem by Muriel Rukeyser I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane, The newspapers would arrive with their careless stories, The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the unseen.

"For the nations of the Global South, [a new monetary order] has been taking shape over the last few years, in the advancing buildout of clean energy, which has become the potential exit from the hydrocarbon-dollar trap." www.equator.org/articles/the...

was reflecting recently on 730DC's decision not to use Substack they approached us in 2018 basically said no because we wanted the newsletter to reach as many people as possible, that is, to be free...but there was a vibes element too, and i now realize they are connected via Substack's ~10% cut

"[Priests] were (for me at least) kind of a love letter to our city." thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/one-questi...

he just wants to be clippy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Everybody got something to offer, but nobody’s chosen." www.hearingthings.co/earl-sweatsh...