This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

Pido a la gente de buena voluntad que siga aportando y editando contenido en Wikipedia. Hay un ataque en curso en muchos frentes contra esta plataforma abierta, uno de los últimos vestigios de una era en la que el capital poco podía hacer frente a la cooperación libre de las multitudes en Internet.

⚒️ 🧪 A catastrophic earthquake just struck northern Venezuela. Large buildings have collapsed, and the USGS PAGER is forecasting thousands of fatalities. Our colleague in Caracas, Dr. Frank Audemard, has shared with us what the earthquake felt like and footage from the region. Here’s what we know.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

The vote or die contingent is mad that people voted?

This is a fight between the volunteers of the Democratic Party and the consultant/billionaire class of the Democratic Party. That's what it is.

The reflecting pool mess really does sum up the Trump years of using the US as a personal toilet while raiding the public coffers.

They're already doing it with every other form of data they have access to.

Yes. Don't do a single thing to try and change the downward trajectory of a failing enterprise that could take democracy with it. That's just rude.

The billionaire takeover of our newsrooms is accelerating, and the political calculations behind it are flagrant.

U.S. citizens, there are seven days left for public comment on the proposed cruel, transphobic changes by the HUD to their Equal Housing Access program. At the very least, we can give them hell for it. www.regulations.gov/document/HUD...

Verbatim something Maecenas would have said

This screenshot to me doesn’t intend to be anti black and anti hip hop in particular But it is Bc the implication that the basics of sampling, riffing and remixing are the same as AI shows a deep disrespect for the art style

Sussudio is right there.

It's all a hype train. The film cost around $115 million, big names attached, but the title sounded like an Amazon Sale Event and even the trailers couldn't generate excitement. Universal will get its money back, it just won't get a franchise.

Library boards might be the most important and the most vulnerable to our communities and require serious vigilance and stepping up to make sure the white christofascist league doesn't get their hooks in. If you can, show up and sign up for your library boards.

Time to re-share how to make a Corsi-Rosenthal box: corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

This is what I’m talking about. This is the follower & point count from the bio of a guy a whole TON of you are arguing with today. What are you even doing. These accounts exist to put you on a list. Don’t say your piece and then block. Just block and party on

I love this, I hope this is a huge success, but I'm going to have a moment 😆 (iykyk)

Mona is still here, still sharing with us and needs help. We know folks are still struggling and this site keeps cutting them off. Please help if you can:

Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight musicians and production team members have been sentenced to 74 lashes each, a two-year travel ban and a two-year ban on artistic activity. Her crime: performing without a hijab and with the participation of male musicians.

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

Well now here's something pretty spiffy. New out today from the New York Vocal Collective, a choral arrangement of Paul McCartney's "Blackbird." The first two and a half minutes are fine, but then it becomes…something else entirely. (You know the THX sound effect?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ot...

It’s a club and you’re not in it

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

Talarico: Ken Paxton let a pedophile back onto our streets. Adam Hoffman should have served 25 years to life in prison, but instead served less than 29 days. And that's because Ken Paxton gave him an Epstein style sweetheart deal. 

Med News: Even as #GLP-1 medications have shifted #obesity care, physical activity continues to provide #cardiometabolic benefits, @americanheart.bsky.social emphasizes in a new scientific statement.

Like twice a day now I read a headline that makes me remember that time I went to Versailles with my mom, and she looked around and went, “They had it coming.”

The most timeless legal principle is that the law is established for the sake of human beings. If the state creates these lex cogit ad impossibilia situations ("you need the ID to get the ID") then the state is fine un-personing them. This is the creation of a "death world" in necropolitics.

If your header is just unapologetically repeating what some oligarch says, it's not journalism, it's propaganda.

Deeply tragic, and my fucking god - SUVs are killers and need to be regulated and restricted. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We have to stop space exploration before a rocket ship punctures the crystal firmament and all the luminiferous aether spills out. You think luminiferous aether grows on trees? You think we're paying to illuminate the whole damn neighborhood?

Look at all those cunning little heels

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

Same, but it was sharing cross examinations about Buffy on the Kittenboard. Every kid should have access to their own Kittenboard.

I really liked Jeff's thread, but as one of the early originators of the carbon footprint concept, I want to address this misconception because I've heard it often.

This is about as close as it gets

I got sent 11 expert scientist reactions to Australia's Bureau of Meteorology officially declaring a strong El Nino, and not a single one of the comments mentions fossil fuels, coal, gas, climate policy, power stations, transport, targets - nothing. Of course the media is going to take that lead..

"Just call everyone 'love'."

this is a catastrophe and he will do harm, and only harm, to those living with disabilities

So much wrapped up in this one story: someone needed diapers for their baby and possibly couldn't pay for them; someone snitches; police show up and the baby is killed. There is no way to reform this. Too many communities have lived like this for too long.

Paradise Papers, The Epstein Files and this

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

they actively prefer kids to be less safe and more vulnerable to abuse

I would burn my bar card and walk into the ocean...

Any candidate to US presidency that does not run on the promise of a Nuremberg Caucus, as described by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, does not deserve to win pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/m...

The reason the government are doing absurd and unworkable bans, rather than regulating the platforms, is that this way it enables the fascist white supremacist billionaires who own these platforms to put much more surveillance slop into everyone's phones.

This has zero to do with protecting kids and everything to do with the government tracking what you do online and getting your ID on file. Absolute bullshit and further adds to the police state we're living in, where you can freely do a Nazi salute but get arrested for holding a Palestine flag.

If you want your kid to put the phone down, give them something else to hold on to. Your attention, maybe?