$2.5 trillion well spent.

Well said. It's also worth pointing out that even if we do miss the 2c target, hitting 2.1 is still better than 2.3. Climate tipping points are not all or nothing, there are multiple tipping points at different temperatures.

The really unsexy truth about climate change is that we're doing Pretty GoodAll Things Considered and dooming about it is just sorta the Midwit Position now 4C was where we were heading prior to Paris. Worst case scenario on current policies is 2.7C. An unfathomable amount of harm has been averted

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

It’s embarrassing & sad watching leftists hurl names at strangers online. Online infighting & name calling in leftists spaces doesn’t help your cause as it alienates newcomers, it also burns out communities and movements.

I’ve been playing Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden and man, it’s been a minute since a game managed to make me feel sad (complementary). The way it approaches death, grief, love, is all very, very cool and unlike anything else I’ve played.

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

X is not "more fun" for anyone targeted by the Nazis you seem to enjoy bumping shoulders with. It's not fun for most of us. If your privilege insulates you enough that you're willing to debase yourself in the Nazi bar and blame the people who have better standards, go enjoy your careless sewer.

I live in a county that went 81% for Trump, in a representative district that hasn't gone blue in nine decades, in a state with a gerrymandered GOP supermajority, in a country run by a kleptocrat and his compliant Republican cronies, but sure, I live in a bubble because I'm on fucking Bluesky

Don't allow anyone to tell you that spending a rainy day reading books and eating pastries "doesn't classify" as self-care.

I can’t recall where I saw it but I read once that you see this kind of attitude particularly from a lot of commentariat liberals because they are in fact totally in a very real bubble and they’re deeply insecure about it And I think there’s probably a lot to that

I feel these people who accuse ex Twitter users of wanting to just have everyone agree and be fun must just have the easiest life outside of social media. My life can be v stressful. Why would I want to argue with Nazis in my off time?

“Guys were getting a growing body of evidence that a lot of life is actually sentient” “Shitshitshitshitshit time to change the definition of sentient “

At what age is it appropriate to tell a child that the federal government is working toward eradicating the type of person one of her mommies is

“how am i supposed to explain gay people to my kid” how am i supposed to explain homophobia to MY kid

transgender is inevitable. get on board or get left behind, luddites.

"painters hated it when they invented the camera" okay? I'm sure people didn't like when some camera-bro was like "now I can do what you do but better and in a second, why would we need paintings???" because it was stupid. But was that camera slurping up water and telling kids to kill themselves?

Mamdani is not without criticism but he consistently produces headlines that aren't Meet The Dem Superstar Who Helped Approve Republican-backed Child Mulching Bill

i think some pro-AI people are also taken aback by what feels like the sudden implication that they’re not cool when they’ve been told the last couple of years how they’re on the cutting edge and anyone who didn’t get on board would end up looking like a loser when maybe it’s the other way around

Hating bad technology is not hating all technology Hating the owners/programmers of bad technology is not hating all technology Not everyone is a luddite because we prefer to use our brains instead of the machine of approximate knowledge

the luddites opposed the commodification of cloth making, as not only were they with their knowledge of an ancient and important craft replaced, they were replaced by shitty machines that made garbage clothing. And you literally cannot argue against their position nowadays, as they were right.

one interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)

people liked google because it worked and they don't like AI google because it sucks

I'm trying to lookup if anyone has done anything with DRISL [Deterministic Representation for Interoperable Structures & Links] using Perl and I can not fucking get Google Search to stop fucking changing my query to "pearl drill" or "diesel" "peel" Google Search ignores the quotation marks operator

We bought into the "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus" bullshit so hard that we forgot how our own bodies work. We want to believe that we are different species not minor variations on a common body plan. Trans people remind us that that's all nonsense and some people really can't handle that.

That’s the argument: medical professionals who very largely support gender transition because of the decades and decades of proof it helps trans people live longer, more productive lives…and Kyle, a guy with no medical license, who feels uncomfortable with it.

That’s the thing…you don’t get to control what the science is just because you don’t like it. If the vast vast majority of medical professionals and medical science see this as a successful medical treatment for individuals who want it…it doesn’t matter if YOU don’t get it.

the fact that israel is straight up raping and torturing flotilla activists from all over the world and it’s not an international crisis it’s not putting a stop to anything, what is going ON

"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously" very good, needs sharing

When "homeless working adults with minor-aged children" becomes a distinct administrative category—not an anomaly, but a recognized population requiring its own eligibility framework—you know something is very, very broken in our society.

Honestly what *is* a gay romcom without an anti-capitalist revolt. You gotta do the work to have a happy ending!

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

stop generating crap you look stupid! 🐟

The main difference between the Bible and To Kill a Mockingbird is that when someone calls To Kill a Mockingbird their favorite book, they’ve probably read it.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

no wait let’s hear them out. how many can we fit on board

Every time trans rights are in the news, if I take an opinion I inevitably get a few ‘why won’t you listen to women’s opinions on their own safety’. A boilerplate answer: The *vast* majority of opinions I read in support of trans inclusion come from women. Presumably just not the ones who count.

tv shows reeling nazis in like

lmao

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

I'm a busy person with an aversion to admin work. it's so easy for me to default to just staying with the same email service I've been using. but they are trying so hard to push me into doing the FUCKING WORK to leave.

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed at least 30 cases over the past nine years that have a tenuous connection to the counties in which they were filed, a practice that legal experts say pushes the boundaries of the law. With @texastribune.org

That's not what "search" means. That's "talking to a chatbot" and I'm not stupid enough to want that

Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

democrats vote to confirm trump judges on the day trump sets up a $1.7 billion pedophile slush fund with your tax dollars

Every day of Trump 2.0 I think “it can’t get more outrageous than this,” and I am wrong. This slush fund thing is so fucking rancid and unacceptable and I hate the feeling and reality that no politician is going to stop it, or call in Batman or something. This is not a country.