Add your name to tell Prime Minister Carney to protect our future over Big Oil profits: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

Thank you Feminist Press for giving “Coming Out Like a Porn Star” a second edition and so much support. The anthology is one of a number of books they offer on the subject of sex work. Great list @feministpress.bsky.social feministpress.org/blogs/news/7...

IDGAF if someone has an "unfair advantage" in children's sports because the point of children's sports is for children to move their bodies, play, and build team skills. They should be co-ed anyway, because in the big grown-up world boys and girls and thems need to work together.

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Could happen in Canada too. If we ask our politicians for it. Check out www.pluginsolarpower.ca. And send a politician a message. That Canadians deserve the ability to produce their own power. Even renters.

The BC NDP coming up with this dumbass scheme to bail out private developers with the same amount of money, or more, that used to go to purpose-built affordable rentals is especially galling. I truly don't know what's wrong with these people. It's such bad optics on every level.

It's 100% about bailing out developers who misjudged the market. Because it's not enough that we let developers basically run the housing market, to the detriment of pretty much anyone who isn't able to afford million dollar properties, we also have to protect the developers from their own mistakes.

FWIW, I interviewed with LabX Media last year for a marketing job with Discover. Ultimately it came down to “too much experience/too senior” like most of my interviews. I found the people I spoke with were professional and really nice. I hope this goes as well as it can, SciAm friends.

So I currently have simultaneous crushes on two people who are close friends, and for the first time in many years have found myself having fantasies centred on kitchen-table polyamory.

4. When The Earth Was Green- Riley Black A beautiful and enthralling journey through plant and animal coevolution, with an afterword that unapologetically revels in transness.

It is outrageous to me that we would have psychiatric MAiD before offering universal mental health care.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This should be of interest to some people on the gardening feed. 🌱

now that's a fucking Space X IPO headline

Oh wow, these look great:

June is both Pride & Orca Action Month. This is because all orcas are militant queer homosexuals. full support for the revolutionary praxis of Orcas in their Protracted Porpoise War against billionaires, yachts, & imperialism.

we are definitely in an age of anti-feminist backlash and the left is very much participating in it, too.

*flails in incoherent rage*

The Kickstarter for “the new Pojar & MacKinnon” only needs to sell ~11 more books before it reaches its funding goal and we can send out the early copies!

OMG 😱

We keep relationships alive as we tell ourselves and each other the stories of those relationships. When the Earth Was Green grows out of this affection. It’s how life shapes life, not only in its diversity but in the way relationships change those in them over time. 🌱

West Coast-y nature-loving friends, this may be of interest! It's a beautifully done book and a long-awaited update. Please share widely!

This is so cool - Pojar and MacKinnon is the ecosystem bible for the PNW and it's getting an update that involves the OGs and passes the torch to the next generation. Time to dust off my Kickstarter account.

I’m super excited to make TWO big announcements: I’m launching CanScienceBooks, a new popular science imprint, and our first book is Plants of the Pacific Coast, a brand new authoritative PNW plant guide by authors Pojar & MacKinnon, plus two new co-authors. 🧪 📚💙 www.kickstarter.com/projects/can...

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1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it' I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.

I have friends in Cuba who treat us like family. My heart is broken to see Carney obeying Trump's embargos when our country has had a close relationship with Cuba since the visit by PET in 1976. Carney is truly destroying everything he touches and doing it with glee. I loathe him and want him gone.

4/ It’s time for the countries of the world to rally and stop this impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos. We have to come to Cuba's aid. What's happening is too cruel, too horrible.

And we should be trading with them. Fuck the embargo.

1/ Cuba is out of fuel, strangled by the US fuel chokehold. People are dying, systems are breaking down. This is collective punishment against a people who have done absolutely nothing except live their lives under hard conditions imposed by the US blockade for decades.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in "The Message" that "virtues should be signaled, and the signalers should act to make their virtues manifest. It is the latter, not the former, that is the problem." I think about that at least once every day.

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

If you'll be in NYC on June 13, join us for this all-ages celebration of public libraries. If you're not in NYC, please spread the word. RSVP: librarypropagandafair26.eventbrite.com - Free and Open to everyone.

Life hack from a marine biologist: When your blue sea dragons need a little snack, remember that they never evolved to swim, so you have to drive the Portuguese man-o-war around and pick them up like a little bus 🎥 by me during field work :)

WHEN WE OFFLOAD MITIGATION BURDENS ONTO PEOPLE WHO CAN'T PRETEND IT'S OVER, THE BURDENS BECOME EXPONENTIALLY MORE MISERABLE. We then conveniently look at the compounded and totally unnecessary misery and conclude that any mitigation at all is inherently miserable.

TFW you realize Maude was a manic pixie dream girl

i am of the firm believe genocidal actions like slowly starving a nation of food and resources to both quickly and slowly kill off a population deserve a bare minimum trip to The Hague fuck US imperialism, what a dogshit fucking country we are

Popped into my FB memories: a wonderful and peaceful paleovisualization of some of the strangest cephalopods in Earth's history. More Oncocerida from Gotland youtu.be/rVHPlJZ9Y-E?...

Just hit a 250-day Wordle streak!

oh those toxic masculine attempted assassins, always *always* it has to be guns and bombs, bombs and guns, hollywood action movie bollocks can't just quietly poison the hors d'euvres with neurotoxins and take every motherfucker in there out, no no no, that wouldn't be alpha enough or something

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.

10/ We’re not done reporting. Please get in touch with us via Signal at 917-512-0201 if you or someone you know: • Has worked at an immigration detention facility • Has been detained at such a facility • Has info about the companies contracted to build and provide services

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Man who wouldn’t wear mask to protect people fine wearing mask to shoot them

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.