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if this isn't a reason to never give up wired headphones idk what is

breaking: the negotiated NDAA to authority military spending would ban trans women from competing in sports at military academies it would likely be the first sports ban in federal statute, and would codify a definition of sex as solely defined at birth unless something changes it is set to be law

oh look who missed the trans sports ban in the NDAA. guess she didn’t read the bill

The House Republican military authorization bill bans trans women in military academies from playing women’s sports

A thing CrossFit girls always imagine could happen ACTUALLY HAPPENS: Old lady on an Amtrak pulling into Penn Station says plaintively: Oh my bag is in the overhead rack! Me: Shall I get it for you? Her: Are you strong? Me: Sister, I am *easily bicep-curls a whole-ass suitcase to the ground * 😎

There are many alarming things in this thread about AI poisoning the information ecosystem, but also check out the publication timeline - lack of meaningful (or any) peer review at predatory journals guarantees slop like this will get through.

someone heard about liberation weekend

74th review request.

As this chart (from IPCC AR6 technical summary) shows, global temperature increase has closely tracked cumulative CO2 emissions. As of 2024 the world has emitted about 2750 Gt CO2.

73rd review request of 2025.

Trump's Asserting US "Dominance" Over Western Hemisphere. Canada, Too? The Monroe Doctrine is back. The US will again be bullying Latin America, its "backyard." What about its "front yard," Canada? I worry about Danielle Smith's treachery more than Trump. youtu.be/qbCxcEA1Ifw #ableg

Energy as technology vs. Energy as a commodity This. Right here. Where Alberta gets it completely wrong. Wind/solar/batteries (tech) are FUNDAMENTALLY different than oil/gas (commodities). This video explains why and why it matters. #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/OATk15pvd7Y

Dijon on SNL was remarkable. Prince vibes. pitchfork.com/news/watch-d...

I come to bury Larry Summers, not to praise him.

Unbelievable rain totals for dry season! Almost 3 Decembers worth of rain in 24 hours in spots. Normal Dec rain is 2.5”. Downtown Tampa had double that! Areas like Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor, East Lake, Odessa, Trinity, Keystone, Lutz, Wesley Chapel etc.., had 5 to 7 inches.

Summoning all of my energy to write this feature. It's gonna be a doozy.

How was your week? So here was mine: got myself quoted 3x in the @washingtonpost.com in 3 days, on 3 entirely different, wildly controversial topics: How to make a small donation with big climate impact? "Spend it on yourself!" I s'pose that's what an economist would say. ;) wapo.st/4po6gkv

“Happy” earliest sunset week in DC. 4:45pm. We start having 4:46pm sunsets later this week! (Sunrises keep getting later into January tho)

Y'know, I was under the impression that Poland's government was pretty right-wing, but I can also totally understand why they, of all countries, would *particularly* detest Nazis.

One of the fiercest bouts of vertigo I have ever experienced. Like being in the middle of a tornado. Used the Epley maneuver and felt a little better after about 2 hours. Still feel nauseous and exhausted. World no longer spinning.

at least TWO good new songs tonight

FOLKS!

Just read @rfkuang.bsky.social's Katabasis last night, and not only does it absolutely live up to the hype, I love her ability to take a mundane substance--chalk, silver in Babel--and build a whole, fully-realized world around it.

These guys are just absolutely the least self-aware, most unimaginative, vapid, insufferable fools (and that's when they're NOT actual Nazis). They're what happens when too little history, science, and critical thinking intersects with far too much money & too many sycophants.

This is accurate

Life on board a ship studying the AMOC www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/c...

Happy FEMA Review Council Report Week to all who celebrate.

my bad, it is actually Butt Day

Soooooooo my Oregon Ducks may be coming to town for the Orange Bowl… 🍊 🦆🏈

I was today years old when I learned the Japanese for Caturday is ケツ曜日 (“ketsuyōbi”)

The New England states -- and MA especially -- have long led the nation on climate and clean energy policy. As national political headwinds mount, political leaders in these states can stand strong and show the rest of the country how it's done, or cave. www.eenews.net/articles/new...

"Biodiversity is life’s incalculable extravaganza. All of it is endangered by the supreme human." How did we get there? The brilliant Eileen Crist explains: www.eileencrist.com/index.php/co...

Excellent new @commsdeclare.bsky.social work out today - read the whole thing here: commsdeclare.org/wp-content/u... The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:

“The words as written in the Constitution don’t really mean that, they mean this other thing” -legal scholar who nobody would have ever heard of but for this exact type of gambit

I've been living with Mac's new "liquid glass" interface for a while now and, nope, it still seems like a bad joke to me. I genuinely couldn't believe it when I first saw it. This is like Mac teleporting back to Windows Vista era! All bubbly everything, so hackish. This is interesting:

Holy fuck this is bleak.

The process whereby "anti-woke" evolved into a general purpose shield to protect white men from accountability was as predictable as it was rapid.

Weird to go on Twitter and announce that you also harass female students.

Our tax dollars at work. www.cbsnews.com/video/new-or...

once again, there is a borg of centrist thought that is trapped within its own mind prison of that website, and it is increasingly divorced from the reality of how most people feel. & the beltway press is attached to it via umbilical cord

New legal strategy against oil majors focuses on insurance costs. This is certainly a politically effective way to talk about cilmate, and we will soon find out its merits as a legal strategy. #ClimateInTheCourts www.eenews.net/articles/law...

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🥚 An adoptee scriptwriter calls it: Hollywood stories reinforce damaging tropes of adopted people as imposters/ devil children with trauma used as a plot device for evil [Marvel’s Loki] OR as the grateful waif who graces the lives of others [Roald Dahl’s Matilda] www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lol. The MAHA lunatics are going after the corporate hacks. 🍿

Amidst concerns grid won't be able to handle projected demand growth, and people not affording their utility bills, the administration is cutting bipartisan programs to reduce demand through energy efficiency. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Finished Wolves of Tukayyid over the weekend. That is perhaps the most "do you know the l o r e?" MechWarrior/Battletech video game content ever released. Very good missions, good pace, and good way to give a ground-level version of the story being told. Also good music.

Lotta really nice replies and quotes here

"Renewable energy" was in the name because it's a lab, and the purpose of labs is *new discoveries*. Renewable energy technologies are *newer* and more research was needed on them at the time the lab was created, in the wake of the Arab Oil Embargo. (1/) pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/03/d...

"Renewable energy" was in the name because it's a lab, and the purpose of labs are *new discoveries*. Renewable energy technologies are newer and more research was needed on them at the time the lab was created, in the wake of the Arab Oil Embargo. (1/2) pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/12/03/d...

Spoiler Alert: Canada is not one of them. At all. Quite the contrary #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/c...

little civics tidbit we should remember in these times: Article I is the closest thing in our Constitution to a built-in antibody against authoritarianism and elite domination and our elites are essentially using it like toilet paper

Tremendous climate leadership from the Colorado Public Utilities Commission: 👏 www.eenews.net/articles/col...

watching a wildly popular show, 10 years after it is over, like why did no one tell me this was good? (sherlock)

This is the least surprising headline of 2025.

#ClimateInTheCourts www.eenews.net/articles/exx...

The term 'Axis of Evil' has a bad history, but in this case it's truly warranted. share.google/DgBMNvIYzaxk...

Calm tonight before a slight chance of light snow ❄️Accumulation probabilities are higher south and west of D.C. (only a 20% chance D.C. sees an 0.1" dusting), especially SoMD and Fredericksburg 🥶Wind chills in the teens Monday morning with highs stuck in the 30s More at CWG.live

my favorite thing related to this was when our kid bought a phone at the thrift, tried to set it up at home and thought it was broken. me: how do you know it is broken? we don’t have a phone line to test it on? her: i put batteries in it and it doesn’t do anything. what is a phone line?

10 people who support child rape have blocked this account after indicating that child rapists are bad Here is one:

10 people who support child rape have blocked this account after indicating that child rapists are had Here is one:

I have so many French and Chinese chives, cilantro and flat-leaved parsley that need to be thinned. Basil just reseeded itself

fascinating that chase strangio went on ross douthat. time to listen & watch

Just when you thought this campaign couldn't get worse. If anyone has more information about the creatives behind this abomination, I'd like to speak with them immediately

I think the best way out of this political mess is if we turn America toward a democratic collectivism where individuality is prized, where ownership, governance and accountability are distributed, where everyone has a stake, and where there are thousands of nodes of power that resist disruption.

Do you want to keep up with the latest on climate change? Here are some of my favorite sources — mainly scientists and great science communicators who know their stuff and share it with the world. Check them out! go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV

Among many other things, the entire teen social ban saga is a brilliant example of how shitty, badly-researcher airport books can have shockingly outsized influence www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Bless IBCK www.ifbookspod.com

For all the talk about how the internet allows people to find community, I've somehow yet to meet the other people in my "desperately seeking size 13 EEEE-width flip flops" community. Where are y'all?

Climate doomism is political pacification. Hopeless people won't organize.

watch: www.instagram.com/reel/DR2PNdR...

This week: cashmere pair! Getting better 😅

Earned a silver star pulling drowning and wounded GIs out of the water at Omaha Beach… And a bronze star in Korea. Wasn’t allowed to vote in federal elections ‘til 54 and Maine elections ‘til 67. Charles Norman Shay, Tribal Elder and World War II Hero, Dies at 101 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

The US Department of Energy approved an $8.6 million grant that will allow the nation’s first utility-led geothermal heating and cooling network (in MA) to double in size. www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti... 🔌💡

Rather interesting collection of @natureportfolio.nature.com Climate Action papers, if I may say so myself: Just out: A special issue I co-edited on the "Behavioral economics of climate action," with papers on everything from Veggie Days to carbon pricing Intro: gwagner.com/climate-action-behavior

The enemy of my enemy is hilarious www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/c...

Check out the recent "warmth" over #Antarctica! Maps show temperature anomalies over the last month (left), 3 months (center), and 12 months (right) across the Southern Hemisphere. Red areas denote warmer than average temperatures. Data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

The fact that many of the cohorts used for nutritional epidemiology are large, and the studies tend to run for a long time, does not mean you can draw causal conclusions. I know this is boring! But it's a big reason we believe stupid stuff about food. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...

I understand the appeal of this given reliability concerns in PJM *but* it strikes me as fundamentally unfair to extend this special privilege to monopolies that is unavailable to competitors: (1/2) www.utilitydive.com/news/market-...

Viva la #Resistance 💪🇺🇸👇

Yes! An ode to close reading. (via @annehelen.bsky.social)

A harbinger of what is to come, if load growth is not managed responsibly: www.utilitydive.com/news/hurrica...

Terrific podcast on the emergent global order of networked cliques using states to further their own personal ends. From Stacie Goddard and @abenewman.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4lVw...

Democracy Under Attack: Smith Derides Judges as Mere "Gatekeepers" More evidence that @abdaniellesmith, @Alberta_UCP are "ungoverning" Alberta. Know who else "ungoverns"? Donald Trump. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/-R76y9OBOis

Have been collecting up examples of prominent ppl in cleantech and climate spaces relying on chatbots as an information retrieval source........ I can't find a single example *anywhere* of the 2012 India blackouts being blamed on renewables. archive.ph/NYfMU www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/w...

Loved that today’s #ZombiesRun episode featured: a gay ride-or-die couple who know it is time to get the hell out and an old British noblewoman who’s stiff upper lip “must uphold tradition” nearly gets them all killed. Thanks @naomialderman.bsky.social for the running motivation

The artichoke plant keeps making clones. Should I cut the smaller ones back? Can I transplant them?

Went out to cut down a tree and found a rib cage instead

Is Bill Gates a child rapist like Donald Trump? Nobody knows!

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne ...

this is the single most harmful thing newsom has said in his bid for the 2028 democratic presidential nomination

On "The Green Scare." "On December 7, 2005, the Bush administration led the nation's largest roundup of environmental and animal rights activists. The sweeping FBI action and the ensuing fallout would change the arc of environmental movements in the US." cldc.org/know-your-hi...

The Olympic rain shadow is clearly visible for this event. Sequim, Washington, just east of Port Angeles, averages well under 20 inches of rainfall annually. #climate

One of our most significant cultural creations was a skit about America

uh oh i am writing music again

“It’s not suppose to taste like anything. It’s should be a disappointment when you open and eat it. And you’re not suppose to look forward to your lunch in Norway" omg

In just a few generations, it's gone from "women need you & you'll get one as a mate/domestic servant regardless of how you act" to "women can survive on their own & will only mate with you if you bring something to the table" and WOW men are not adjusting well.

My 20yo loves Timberland boots. We were going to get his favorite pair repaired for Xmas, but the cobbler said they can't do it because the sole is glued on instead of stictched on. Very irritating. Are there similar boots out there that are more repairable?

I am once again learning about an appalling thing that happened in my country by reading the foreign press. 🏳️‍🌈 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

jasmine crockett made fun of the sitting governor of texas for being in a wheelchair. you have to willfully stupid to think she will win this senate race

Hillary Clinton is married to a Jeffrey Epstein client. And she’s known that fact for 20 or more years. What kind of fucked up person stays married to their fucked up husband for 20 years like that? Answer: Hillary fucked up Clinton.

Hillary Clinton is married to a Jeffrey Epstein client. And she’s know that fact for 20 or more years. What kind of fucked up person stays married to their fucked yo husband for 20 years like that? Answer: Hillary fucked up Clinton.