Increasingly think we need a ‘modernity is actually good’ political tendency. the right is putatively pro-industry and economic growth but thinks science is gay and wants to throw out vaccines for essential oils, the left putatively believes science but also embraces crank degrowth NIMBYism

This is a cool visualization of how trees cool us down and asphalt heats us up. www.ctinsider.com/projects/202...

It's great to see this spelled out so clearly. Also, the best sci-fi is not about predicting the future but creating imagined worlds to explore the anxieties of the present. Silicon Valley totally fails to get this.

Excessive LOLOLOLOL AI isn't like moving from horse + cart to a Ferrari It's moving into a palanquin: inefficient, a sign of conspicuous consumption from pretentious asshats, movement at the expense of and carried upon the pained backs of stolen/uncompensated labour mostly in the global South

heya, I'm opening a few character and portrait commissions to cover some expenses! €100 for a full body character + color €60 for a portrait list of 4 characters hit me up at: [email protected]

really thinking about this tweet as i’ve been struggling to breathe through nausea for the last 5 hours

The tell with all of this is your kids can be taught by sex bots dressed up like John Oliver, but the tech barons send their kids to schools where they don't allow phones and there is an art AND music teacher.

Big congrats @gilduran.com it looks fantastic!

The average US Education experience: "Biology? That thing I learned about in middle school & then never looked into again?" "Communism? That thing I learned about in high school & then never looked into again?" "The Economy? That thing I learned about in college & then never looked into again?"

"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."

The U.S. government says habitat destruction no longer counts as ‘harm’ to endangered species

gotta make sure we connect the diarrhea back to the regime’s cdc layoffs that’s not just explosive diarrhea, it’s the trump trots.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The house can’t do two contradictory jobs at once,” Kyla Scanlon writes. “The link between retirement and home prices is pitting the old against the young.”

no one wants to consider my insane pitch which is to eliminate timezones across the planet so we’re all on the exact same time and force everyone to change their conception of what a day is

Most people think about the canary in the coal mine thing as the canary reporting an environmental danger to miners through the fact of its death. Essentially, when the canaries die, the miners come to recognize the danger. That's not the whole story and understanding the whole story has value.

Done for @ty-pesh.bsky.social ! A big fan of their work so I was keen to make this.

True, my guy. We should better train the murderers. I’m sure that’ll do it.

wait they can’t even get appropriations bills out of committee?

Technological change is hard to predict. For every amazing solar and battery story, how many carbon storage and cellulosic biofuel disappointments are there?

Senate Democrats are actually doing things thehill.com/policy/defen...

Maybe if the NYT would do the same for other cities in the state...

It'll be a stressful few months as I wait to see if the risk of leaving Squarespace is something we can bounce back from. In my mind, I had no choice if Assigned was to weather increasing government interference in trans speech. But a safe financial decision, it was not. Please join if you can.

functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.

Having a whole PAGE of my Bisexual Murder Husbands just gives me a clear perspective of how WEIRD they are together and... ya know what, SURE I feel like thats lore accurate. Bo and Feral don't do Romance, they do Weird

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really proud to play a small part in this effort www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...

My coauthor Jay Falk's postdoctoral fellowship was terminated by the Trump administration for documenting the hummingbird example in this paper.

Biologist here (zoologist specifically)! This is a really good example of junk science being used to push a political pseudoscientific agenda. Even ignoring that the piece is absolutely filled beginning to end with fallacies and even actual factually incorrect statements, it also doesn’t even 1/2

Gerontocracy is bad. It produces bad governance by ancient and out of touch people. It’s hugely disruptive when they all start dropping at the same time. And it diverts what little energy these people have for doing their actual jobs to succession battles.

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

my favorite thing in here is "6 hours later" lol. that's what the person who generated this thinks is a long amount of time to spend on a piece of art

"We are looking for a person to run our exclusive neighborhood group for upper-income residents in downtown Chicago. You will be responsible for weakening morale, making the group members unhappy, and causing general chaos." buff.ly/arCHs0q

Things right-wingers concerned about the birthrate won't touch: "If you’re worried about population collapse, then I have two solutions for you: attract many more immigrants, and figure out how to loosen the patriarchal bargain’s grip on the masculine imagination."

I talk about this CONSTANTLY If, compared to childfree independence, married motherhood is even *arguably* a quality-of-life downgrade, there will be women who will opt out of one or both (when allowed). And what makes that change in status a downgrade isn't case-by-case. It's on a cultural level.

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. A tapestry woven with love and care—each thread a promise, each color a vision. In the whispering leaves and the murmuring stream lies a future yet unseen. A cherished legacy, or ruin?

Thinking about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statement that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven

Speaks to the state of things when a government tells corporations "We won't let you scam people" and they start screaming that's anti business

I have never used AI in my life and this insistence that it’s impossible to avoid and therefore people like me must be lying hypocrites is insane and insulting. Makes me even more determined not to ever use it.

"The Great Depression was bad simply because there were no online-exclusive combo deals. Had President Herbert Hoover possessed the foresight to introduce a digital app featuring a rotating roster of highly discounted cheesy items, the Dust Bowl would have been an afterthought."

feels like a real landmark of impunity that major corporations are making federal crimes part of the interview process

We need Broken Windows theory but just for white collar crime.

With heroes massively flopping in cinemas, it falls to this bear to rescue the passion for real heroes, fighting for important causes, especially now in our chaotic world full of pornography and masturbation Tomrrow I'll start producing this comic which I hope you all hate, bc it will be ridiculous

political candidates should be tripping over themselves to run on this message (and we know why they aren't)

Profound lack of self awareness in this vid.

Insane things happening in amazon today

where the fuck am i

So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...