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sweeping the nation (they/them, call me Blue)
Meet Minneapolis is looking to commission a local artist or designer to create an illustrated cycling map of Minneapolis! I'm hoping to see some unique visual languages and cartographic ideas come out of this. More details: minneapolis-2021.s3.amazonaws.com/images/Cycli...
Ladies, online dating is out, this year we're Síle-Na-Gig dating (crouching above doorways and scaring off unwanted men by displaying terrifyingly large genitals)
I came across an arrangement of words describing a movie as “The Purge but as a romcom” and made the mistake of googling the movie in question. One night a year people are allowed to have premarital sex???? Straight people are never beating the allegations. ANY of the allegations.
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
Dr. Abdul El Sayed, Melat Kiros and Darializa Avila Chevalier (the latter two are PhD candidates) examples of academics who successfully went out of the ivory tower and talked to regular people and resonated with them. but you'll never hear of this as an example of higher ed being engaged.
I work at the intersection of the climate and biodiversity crises, so I especially value actions that support adaptation and mitigation AND conservation, e.g.,: Expanding urban tree canopy, green roofs, rain gardens, etc. to mitigate heat and flooding, sequester carbon, and provide habitat.
Kevin J. Kircher@kevinjkircher.com · 8h agoClimate pals, what are your favorite examples of actions that simultaneously reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to climate changes that we can no longer avoid? Joint Adaptation and Mitigation (JAM), if you will.
Not JUST lies. Organized disinformation. #Wildfires #ClimateChange
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · last wk.“Claims that wildfires can be prevented by [forest management] are not only inaccurate, but they’re also part of a broader pattern of disinformation in response to climate-fueled extreme weather… deflecting from what experts say is the biggest driver of worsening fires: the rapidly warming climate.”
the thing about cultural journalism moving towards a newsletter-based ecosystem is I'm totally happy to throw money to a few writers I like but I wouldn't have found them in the first place without their having come up through wider institutions that were free to read
chris@yrpalchris.bsky.social · 12h agoknew I recognised the name Veeps from somewhere (aside from the Good Charlotte connection) - it's where Dylan premiered Shadow Kingdom
My friend told me her 10 yo daughter is growing out her hair after a teacher at school barred her from entering the girl’s bathroom last year because of her short hair. Can you believe this shit? And the school never apologized for this act of bullying.
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Killing people involved in the transportation of plant medicine extracts is still murder
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
I just saw a dude argue that Christopher Nolan has created the most interest in The Odyssey that has ever existed in history and please, someone hit me with a tranquilizer dart that will allow me to sleep through next year’s Oscars. Please. I can’t take it.
I’m old enough to remember when lying about adultery was worthy of impeachment. Feels quaint at this point.
All you have in this world is who you are. Don’t throw away your vision of your own life for anything or anyone. Don’t become something you hate just because that’s easiest. Don’t make someone else happy at the expense of your soul. Those are the only things to regret.
I wish I could properly attribute this, but I heard someone say in an interview something like, 'pay attention to the new technologies that techbros develop, and you'll see how they're just trying to create a mom they control' And we know how these dudes pick "partners" so...
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d agoAI IS BASICALLY A SEX WORKER might be the hook for my new class…
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d agoToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?
Who is going to find time in their week this week to donate blood? The American Red Cross declared only its second ever national blood crisis in 145 years. There’s only a day’s worth of O+!
How many times have people chosen your abusers over you? That shit gets to a person. Fascism is that experience at scale.
Americans absolutely cannot handle minor personal inconvenience, unless it has been sold to us as “freedom.” The correct response to necessary lockdowns was “our very rich government should pay us all to stay home” but instead a bunch of people went with “I must dine out and it’s tyranny if I can’t”
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoit’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
chat they made something in real life that i swear to god would be a shitpost i could have come up with almost a decade ago and i need people to mail me packs immediately as little gifts. do you know how badly i need 1993 Daphne on a trading card with her lil choker and flower skirt
You could spend some time unpacking how horrible you feel going from an in-group to an out-group and realizing you were indoctrinated and coerced to defend a horrible orthodoxy. You could do that instead. Brown people, poor people, queer people would all really prefer you do that instead.
I remain convinced that militant queer White folks who reply-guy in to perform accusatory whataboutisms have deep-seated issues with their own prior complacency and they cope with their self loathing by projecting it onto other people as proof that they are Good and Right and their anger is just.
What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.
Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.
You are a mark if you are getting propagandized to build more jails and arrest even more people at a time when all of the governments OWN MEASURES show violent crime having significantly decreased over the past years.
