It’s also a lot easier, psychologically, to tell yourself that your compatriots dislike your way of life for material reasons rather than hating the existence of it for strongly held ideological reasons.

Some of us are pissed off at the world, some of us bitch and moan about people who are pissed off, and some of us watch the sugar cube dissolve and sip absinthe until we have fever dreams about Christina Hendricks

For years, people argued that there's no point in taking climate action unless China is onboard. I'm at a COP30 event where Chinese government officials and renewable industry reps are outlining the fast-paced renewable energy transition and long-term carbon neutrality plan. The story has flipped.

my high school philosophy teacher: the A students become teachers and preachers, and the C students work for the B students

🎶coast to coast, LA to Chicago, western Maine cross the north and south to Key Largo, love for sale smooth operetta 🎶

I'll believe the Democrats give a fuck and this isn't just about ✨political scandal points✨ when 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 completely denounce and cut all ties with 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 in these chats and start standing ten toes down for the 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑠 . No matter who it is. No matter what.

hey y’all. we found out today that Charlie’s car is gone, most likely stolen (we have filed a report for it, etc) i’m sharing this out to help Charlie catch a break if possible, we’re prepping to move right now so any help is appreciated 🫶 shares are appreciated too. 🖤

king shit

it’s really funny how Trump thinks your average Democrat actually gives a shit about any of these people or organizations yes, Trump, I too hate Larry Summers

New post on estimating climate deaths per project. This is a very new approach, but in my view critical to honestly assessing the impact of oil & gas projects. And totally doable.

oh fuck yes

Current (permanent) mood as an American in 2025:

still jangled up about last night there’s something so awful about normie straight people looking at me, a queer parent, as somebody assumed to be on their side with “I know you don’t want to see freaks in your kid’s bathroom” pals, do you know what it FEELS like to be the freak in the bathroom

We have reached 1.4 degrees celsius #globalheating according to NASA data (smooth black trend line). Breaching 1.5 is now inevitable. From now on the fight is to keep overshoot as small and short as possible.

This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe. Share it widely.

I had such a dumb argument at the bar about whether trans people are being persecuted, with some neighbors I’ve been friendly with who weren’t having it and all I can think is “did I make them worse and more dug-in by trying to calmly talk about how scary this shit is for my friends and fam”

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

and no matter how scrupulous you try to be, people will make up insane fanfiction about your motivations for allowing X thing and not Y thing which, if the community you are moderating is, say, your neighbors, bc you run a community news site? I don’t know if I could go back tbh, it was rough

I sometimes genuinely do wish people could have the experience of seeing what gets reported and taken down so they could viscerally understand what an unmoderated space on the internet looks like, because however bad you can imagine it is, the reality is far worse.

having a small microcrisis here over the question of “what if all my efforts to make my little town a better and more interesting place to live just end up driving more wealthy people to buy weekend houses here and displace people”

Anyway, in good journalism news:

Another way to reduce electricity prices? Shifting from for-profit, investor-owned monopoly utilities to municipal utilities or member-owned co-operatives would save about 15% on electricity bills, averaged over locations and customer classes.

QOTD: “The humanity of a child is worth far more than the reputation of any adult who betrayed them”

every six months you absolute gremlins discover that moderation is hard, and no rule will ever truly serve me every damn time: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 p.s. reinstate Link, that was some bullshit

they don’t think we’re people it’s so exhausting not to get to be people, I’m so fucking over it

about 6 weeks into lifting again in a real way, with progressive overload, and you know what: my t-shirt arms are getting tighter 🦾🦾🦾

Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.

the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

Kathy Hochul could bring down bills and protect our future by building 15 gigawatts of public renewables. Instead, she's raising bills to build Trump's fracked gas pipeline and a crypto mine. Is this why? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

“'She did not just approve a fossil fuel project. She made a moral choice,' Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado (D), who is primarying Hochul, said on Monday. 'New Yorkers deserve a governor who does not treat the climate crisis as a PR problem, but as a test of moral leadership.'”

Had a guy ask me for a reprint of a receipt he lost, he goes "it's for Caterpillar pants" I go "dang those pants must have a ton of legs" he didn't laugh. I laughed a lot. That's showbiz baby

I love Boston

those of us who are queer with early histories of sexual assault? we been living all this time under the eye of a smug, pitying world that sees us as broken toys. one that looks at our joy, and dx’s it as sequelae imagine!! you endure all that!!! and then, whatever you like, they pity you for??

me: [__] did a thing universe: holy shit, that thing is Bad me: pretty bad, right? universe: like it’s SO bad me: … … … universe: like it’s so bad, you’re, like, doing violence by saying he did it me: … universe: think about it. this thing is so bad! wow I feel sorry for that guy me:

YA DON’T SAY no shade on OP: I legit spent about 30 years vigorously pretending to be special on this front

I will never log off

I’m a fun time tonight 💀 mute if you like, I’ll be back to my regular nonsense soon enough the lord is trying me

people have DIED child rape has a BODY COUNT jesus christ it’s not about the ineffable sexual orientations of rapists vis a vis the age of the people whose lives they’re actively destroying, or whether they physically resemble adults forcing children into sex work is murderous business

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

This is so cool: Copper, which makes induction stoves with li-ion batteries integrated, is going to build *10,000* of these suckers for use in New York public housing. Better cooking, easier cleaning, grid resiliency built in. Win win win.

I am very certain that, despite the obvious inverse relationship between these two human qualities, I am both funnier and happier than this man

🎶 I’m feeling great unease Demand for food, fuel, and feed And also wood, it seems It’s leading to a great land squeeze With all the love from me With all the dyin' trees, I scream The angels in my dream, yeah Have found solutions like these, yes please 🎶

milestone of the day: bench pressing 1/2 body weight for 5 reps on my way back home ⚔️

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

fyi: when you tell people you’ve been sexually assaulted, in a “here is some info you do not need to act on” way, almost nobody will push back. normal people go “holy shit I’m so sorry” but if you need them to do *anything*? like, say, absorb the fact that a casual friend did a bad thing? welp

I’m still trying to understand how long of a delay this might mean. For now, here’s the court agreement: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... And the scoop from the Times Union: www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti... This is Hochul’s third big move backtracking on climate in less than a week.

i had never before considered careless, hasty, sloppy, barely coherent writing in emails as a means of signaling high social status, but it makes perfect sense.

these days I protect my time as hard as I can, and when people ask what I do, I’m pretty vague about it a big chunk of what keeps me busy is volunteer, and another big chunk is “downtime that enables me to make less money without my household going off the rails” feels like a huge privilege tbh

despite having gotten lucky - meaning that when I spoke up, as a truly tiny child, people believed me and the abuse stopped - I still lost people out of my life like thirty years later because I wouldn’t be nice and shut up forever about it it never fucking ends

[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic