BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

If the Democrats are ever in power again, will they try and pass climate legislation? Abolish ICE? Expand SCOTUS? Prosecute... anyone? Rejoin the UNFCCC? Would they return Maduro? Or Greenland? Or just let all this stuff stick, and metastasize like the PATRIOT Act and Global War on Terror have?

Someone, sometime will base a movie around this pivotal pre-election meeting between Trump and Big Oil execs in May 2024. It felt a pretty big deal at the time, but now we know just how big a deal it was. Informs so much about the past few days www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Make it viral.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

I wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place

A milestone we didn't want to see - Russia has made one trillion euros on fossil fuel exports since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. All the more reason to shift away from dependence on dirty energy and to strengthen sanctions on Russia.

Not commenting on Venezuela is one thing, but Starmer's ministers not even being willing to say "no of course the US shouldn't invade a peaceful sovereign democratic NATO country, which is one of our closest allies" is quite another.

I've seen the Make America Great Again slogan attributed to the would-be dictator of the US in Octavia Butler's 1993 Parable of the Sower. But I just came across it in a diatribe by the dictator of San Diego in Kim Stanley Robinson's post-apocalyptic Pacific Edge, from 1984!

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Mayor Mamdani has the opportunity to do the greatest thing ever.

They did it. The beautiful bastards really did it 😭Chongqing, China.

A Japanese artist made the print DHS lifted to spread anti-immigrant hate. Can't make this up.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

I’ve begun evaluating license plates based on how funny they would be to be the last thing you see

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Hi Pam. Just a quick reminder that Nixon didn’t go to prison - but his AG did. Happy holidays.

While this is a good workaround, why does the mortgage system still not fully account for people's ability to pay rent for years or even a decade or more? www.independent.ie/irish-news/i...

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

Genuine question: Other than the most obvious of answers — myopic car company shareholders printing another quarter's worth of profits off the old tech — who actually *thinks* they are benefiting off delaying the EU gas guzzler phaseout?

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.

"The innovators who designed the juicero disrupted breakfast. We should have them disrupt warfare" - NYT

As always this @hannahdaly.ie post on data centres is great, but specifically strikes right at a Q that isn't being asked enough. Is gov't data centre regulation really doing the job of protecting our climate (and not just aiming for 'more renewables')? hannahdaly.ie/2025-12-12-C...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

relatedly: heatmap.news/climate-tech...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

For me, 2025 has felt like a particularly heavy year ... and you might feel the same. So as we head into the holiday season, I wanted to share a few recommendations — books, podcasts, and newsletters — that encourage me, make me think, and remind me how hope begins with action.

When you read this Guardian article, it’s worth bearing in mind that between 2001-2005, trawlers caught in excess of 500,000 tonnes of sardines and anchovies in these waters - every year. And you wonder why the penguins are starving to death. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

DOJ's newest recruitment ad features Judge Dredd, the comic satire about the dangers of lawless policing and authoritarian power

The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales. Tesla makes up less than 2%. The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.

As the U.S. doubles down on gas powered vehicles, the world will quickly move to smarter choices. I read this week how one of the top marketing people at GM was still talking about range anxiety.

4. If legislators are to insist on food literalism, they should at least be consistent. There's no dinosaur in turkey dinosaurs (and not much turkey). If a vegan hotdog is ruled out on the grounds that it contains no meat, the meat version should also be ruled out, as it contains no dog. 4/6

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Don’t forget LBJ and the war on poverty. If the Dems could just divorce themselves from wall street and dirty money, grow a spine and a set of cajones, and walk the walk, that’d be super.

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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

had the intrusive thought that 30 years from now we’re going to have VC funds and military startups named after harry potter stuff and it’s going to be even more annoying than hobbit stuff

Oh wow, give me the patience of @simonwillison.net trying to have a good faith nuanced convo about the role LLMs play in the work of software development on Bluesky. I work for an org that is v critical of AI & clear about its shortcomings - there are valid positions beyond ‘maximalist’ & ‘hater’.

Building search software that prominently presents mistakes made by LLMs as if they were the correct answer to your query at the top of the page is absolutely a bug

Have to take a moment to celebrate this historic win for the climate. Even though everyone knows it’s needed, it’s no small thing to commit to leaving fossil fuels in the ground. Epic work from the likes of Uplift and a Secretary of State who is doing the absolute best he can with what he’s got.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions. #ScienceUnderSiege

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Cows have rough tongues like a cat's but way longer and more prehensile. They can open locks/pens with them and steal stuff out of your pockets. A curious cow can get into a LOT of things with their tongue which is why cow-proofing things is important in science ^^ But it's also adorable 🥰

There is enough evidence now to investigate and, if necessary, dismantle Reform as a front for Russian anti-democratic sabotage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When your ships go out, but they don’t come in. #cop30

My Transition Co-chair Lina Khan and First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan joined Starbucks workers on the picket line today because making NYC affordable means an end to unfair labor practices and a living wage for our workers. We are their partners in the fight to live in this city with dignity.