Velociraptors had feathers

however prolonged and exhausting the chase, the harpooneer is expected to pull his oar meanwhile to the uttermost

on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

On climate, silence is communication. Loud and clear.

New York Democrats propose sweeping pause on data center construction

Horrifying

William Nordhaus is the father of the fossil-fuel propaganda that "climate change won't cost that much, but net zero will be too expensive." Here's how Nordhaus lowballs climate damages in his economic models (screenshot from The Language of Climate Politics): 1/3

As @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social predicted... Exxon just wants to go in on its own terms.

The right-wing takeover of the legacy news media is progressing apace, I see.

Well this is interesting.

If you can’t assimilate the proven facts that fossil fuel executives lie and the industry and its trade groups are imbricated with right-wing disinformation networks, your commentary on the politics of climate change is doomed to be fundamentally wrong.

Just a few weeks ago some Very Serious Climate People said that Exxon’s CEO was too rational to want to go into Venezuela. I am literally BEGGING those people to learn something about oil company greenwashing, not to mention other forms of fossil-fuel propaganda. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Indeed he is, as I reported on last year for @desmog.com. www.desmog.com/2025/11/05/b...

definitely worth diving into @doctorvive.bsky.social book, language of climate politics - breaks down Nordhaus' model and its inherent flaws

William Nordhaus is the father of the fossil-fuel propaganda that "climate change won't cost that much, but net zero will be too expensive." Here's how Nordhaus lowballs climate damages in his economic models (screenshot from The Language of Climate Politics): 1/3

"Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025 – and more than 90% of the rise in investment." www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

and they ran a bjorn lomborg oped today we are in hell

Believing in this moment in America that there is such a thing as bipartisan climate policy is a form of psychosis. Just totally irrational.

This is actually really serious. Why is Heatmap, an ostensible climate publication, platforming a person found just the week before to be acting illegally to advance the Republican fossil-fuel-promoting, climate-denying agenda? @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social care to comment?

Has anyone upgraded to the newest version of Word? Can you opt out of the AI? Getting contradictory answers from the interwebs. My old version of Word is starting to break, but I’m afraid to ruin my writing tool with the new version…

"The planned hyperscale facilities of north and west Texas, if fully built out, could be among the largest emissions sources in both the country and the world, Bird said" “I’d be hard-pressed to think of a bigger emitter"

Batteries are roughly equivalent to transmission lines or other enabling technology (like grid management, substations, line upgrades etc). They can either be used to enable good stuff or bad stuff, but you have to check before you take the champagne out the fridge

It's just a simple case of "Who the fuck are you fighting for?" We live in a society where girls are preyed on constantly and expected to act as willing recruits of our unpaid safety net. And your thing is that we need to be nicer to the predators?

For the record this is Scarlett Johansson in this movie. She looks about my niece’s age here. Who is 12. She doesn’t look anywhere near an adult woman These men are disgusting

One of my kids is 16 and if i found out an older man was trying to sleep with her, I would turn into the Predator from those movies.

If you have ever talked to a sixteen year old you will know that it only takes about a second to realise that they are indeed still children.

The pitching of this as being about the man’s experience of desire and not about the child’s experience of being harassed. *It doesn’t matter how old they look.*

As someone who worked on the Dessler Report, the scientific response coordinated by @andrewdessler.com, I can tell you that the DOE report was filled with falsehoods — all meant to justify the gutting of US capacity to regulate carbon dioxide Why is @heatmap.news covering the work of its architect?

Why is @zeitlin.bsky.social of @heatmap.news covering Travis Fisher as an "energy scholar at the Cato Institute," when Fisher is a fossil-energy lobbyist who coordinated the climate-denying DOE report justifying repeal of the Endangerment Finding, ruled unlawful by a Federal judge just last Friday?

Time to check @mattyglesias.bsky.social’s hard drive.

more like an abundance of orders to stay 500 feet away from local schools

Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.

Oh look! Unleashing state power through scrapping proceduralism. It’s ICE Abundance!

holy shit

Sorry, folks, but you can't love your Jewish friends if you don't also love pedophilia. I don't make the rules.

After reading this eight-post thread of Richard Hanania tweets I feel very comfortable saying that that's a man who does NOT want anyone looking at his laptop hard drive. bsky.app/profile/doct...

no matter how hard this dude tries to rebrand as mainstream/acceptable (he was at anti-ICE protests like last week) he just can't help himself he has not changed substantially, or been genuinely contrite, since my article exposing how he wrote for nazi sites under the name Richard Hoste

In fact eroticized exploitation, abuse, domination, and violence are in fact normative parts of male heterosexuality—they’re largely constitutive of how men define themselves as men. The big feminist and queer intervention in sexual politics has been to say that this is corrosive and unnecessary.

What Matty is describing here is a predator. It’s that simple. It’s grotesque behavior.

As the mother of two teenage girls, I’m appalled by this claim. Teenagers may appear physically mature, but they are still CHILDREN—legally, developmentally, and ethically. Minimizing that reality is dangerous.

In case you forgot, Joe Manchin is the coal baron who decimated what would have been Biden's signature legislation, the Build Back Better Act.

huh

Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.

The quoted guy’s posts start horrifically bad and somehow get worse. People like this would be instant pariahs in a healthy society.

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

IDGAF I'm bringing this discourse back: John Ganz was obviously right and some of you are marks

TIL (from this long post on X, the top of which is here👇) that… Joe Manchin got Epstein to procure his yacht for him 🤯

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.