Great opportunity for Platner fans to rank @andrealaflamme.bsky.social #2 and Mills fans to rank her #1! Or @davidcostello.bsky.social for these two slots, if you prefer. 🖖🏽

Beyond parody. Ban Waymo everywhere until Google commits to following traffic laws

This is great reporting by @miriamwasser.bsky.social, but it's sort of weird for Massachusetts to ask gas utilities how to wind down gas utilities. The answers are bound to be laughably bad. But I suppose now the utilities can't say the state didn't include them in planning processes.

tmw you forgot a meeting and scrambled to log on like 3 seconds before then waited 15 min and left because everyone else also forgot the meeting

The left desperately needs to resist conspiracy thinking. It delegitimizes us and actively harms our ability to build momentum. We can’t call false flag every time something weird happens. We can’t get our news from unsourced feeds like AltNPS. We can’t detach ourselves from reality.

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

It’s disappointing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social isn’t vocally opposing Hochul’s attack on NY’s climate law. There’s no affordability in an NYC w/ insane oil & gas bills or 20-30% of whose landmass floods. But in NYC policy he controls, it’s going well (so far and early). Big NYC/NYS contrast!

I'm working on a story for Business Insider on the 2010s-era guys who supposedly had a great idea for an app and where they are now, given vibe coding. If you used to know one of these guys (or used to be one or still are) and want to chat, email me at [email protected].

I have bought a lot of Moleskine notebooks in the past but can VERY easily avoid giving them any more money in the future. Huge mistake for a low level luxury brand like this imo. Incredibly easy to walk away.

Batteries move energy across time, they don't generate it. Whether they help reduce emissions depends on how they're built and run Data centres are capturing the resources of the energy transition and redirecting them towards helping fossil fuels www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Utahns, tomorrow these Box Elder County Commissioners will decide whether to greenlight a hyper-scale data center. If you oppose it, let them know. Boyd Bingham [email protected] Lee Perry [email protected] Tyler Vincent [email protected] BEC Office: 435-734-3347

I now require students to add a hyperlink to the actual article. Journals should be requiring this as well.

Use of AI to create study guides is rampant in my program. A classmate told me her study process is to copy and paste the textbook into an LLM and ask it to tell her what's important. I read the book. My classmates think that's odd.

Clean energy nerds have been excited for decades about the idea that developing countries might leapfrog fossil energy systems, much like leapfrogging land lines for cell phones. Very cool to see it becoming a reality!

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

A brief interruption from my online hiatus to say ciao from Bologna where it’s Liberation Day—a celebration across Italy marking the end of Nazism/fascism in 1945, which has obviously taken on some new significance in recent years. Really interesting to witness.

Breaking: A local LGBTQ group has constructed an art installation depicting Baystate Medical System running over trans kids after Baystate decided to cut off gender affirming care for youth in Western Mass. Springfield, MA:

"Shuttle service season"

Need a Noah Kahan song about being unable to rely on taking the green line from Copley

Palantir builds software that lets ICE and other agencies merge records from across the government (tax data, health data, immigration files) and search them like Google. WIRED reports Congress is now starting to demand answers (but not going far enough) www.wired.com/story/congre...

Your phone, your car, your neighbor’s Ring camera, every store you walk into... all of it is getting fused together by AI tools sold to the federal government. Law prof Anne Toomey McKenna lays out how this works in a must-read overview: theconversation.com/us-governmen...

In the past 3 months, U.S. immigration enforcement has quietly become a surveillance story as much as an enforcement story, and it's undermining everyone's liberties, citizens and immigrants alike. Here's what’s changed, and what you need to know. 🧵

Well, this is unimaginably bad…

I‘m toward the end of a national book tour where I have been hosted by an incredible array of bookstores, several of them Black/POC and/or queer and feminist and many of them have signed copies of The Edge of Space-Time in stock. PLEASE SHOP THESE STORES TODAY! They all ship.🧵

I am delighted to announce that the greatest website I have ever experienced still exists. My flatmate found it circa 2004. IT STILL LIVES. It's a fan fiction site and what is the fiction about? Only ROY ORBISON WRAPPED IN CLING-FILM. michaelkelly.artofeurope.com/karl.htm

this was the state flag of florida in 1845 and i think we should bring it back for italian-american introverts

just a quick oomfies service reminder to those who might need it: photos are uploaded at double the res now, which means you need to be double checking your photo privacy redactions to ensure they fully and 100% opaquely cover any info you don't want out there. goes for any reflections too.

some of the georgia counties that are burning have large african american populations, and guess who gets affected the most by these disasters. a lot of rural georgia is actually very diverse, so we could go without the schadenfreude

idk where this is from but it's a vibe

Reminder: Stepdad is still available for adoption! Please reach out my way or head to his adoption page if you are interested! We think he's hella funny but we also want to find him his own home! www.communityconcernforcats.org/adoptions/av...

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

I made an Ankh-Fourpork (smoked pulled pork, chorizo, pepperoni, and champagne ham) woodfire pizza with spicy red sauce for myself. #kai #food 🍕🍽️🍜

No, no, no. Roll this back. Do not tolerate it. This crosses a line.

Here are the ten dogs I walked today. They are not all looking at the camera so I’ll make this a thread and tell you all their names with individual photos.

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

Ok, the SOEST Twitter account was started in 2009, and has 367 followers. @soest.hawaii.edu was started last night and has 5.9K followers. My meeting is in a few hours and I think I will win. Thanks everyone! 💪

Everyone, please wish miss Mabel Happy Birthday. She's 4!!! @darthbluesky.bsky.social

1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This librarian loves working at @archive.org !

this whole gambling trend is just disturbing tbh

That was the first time I’ve ever had to get off a plane *on the tarmac* while surrounded by emergency vehicles, being forced to leave all our stuff on the plane. (Turns out someone called in a bomb threat. We were able to reboard and ended up getting home five hours later than planned).

This is wild:

So, here's the thing about PREDATOR VERSUS PLANET OF THE APES... It's PREDATOR... ...versus PLANET OF THE APES!

The Predator's out of the bag! I'm writing PREDATOR VERSUS PLANET OF THE APES, with art by @alanrobinsonr.bsky.social! Check out the article and ask your local comic shop to preorder issue #1 for you today! aiptcomics.com/2026/04/23/p...

My little bird watcher 🥹

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

My latest newsletter: Cory Booker went to Michigan and told the voters who sat out 2024 that the problem was them. I don’t think this is good strategy. www.readtpa.com/p/the-scolding