When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore. When your SpaceX rocket hits the moon like a big piece of junk and you don't give a shit, you're a moron.
Brooke Macmillan
@brukmac.bsky.social
writer/editor | EiC Crested Butte Magazine | founder Mountain Words Festival (may 23-25, 2025!) mtnwords.org she/her 🤍 crestedbuttemagazine.com
James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived. We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.
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Krassensteins@krassenstein.bsky.social · last yr.Aberdeen, Scotland today:
btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.
joemag@joemag.games · last yr.Donate to your local PBS/NPR stations. It's up to us now.
hey you guys remember when the white house photoshopped gang tats on a pic of an innocent man? anyway, memories
THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard. This is a movement. And today was a turning point.
Thousands of surfers all around the UK to join @sascampaigns.bsky.social paddle-out to protest over sewage spills this weekend. Scottish locations: Belhaven Bay, Nairn & Stonehaven www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou... #surfing #scotland #surfersagainstsewage
For more on the complexities of Crested Butte's evolution (Indigenous Ute civilizations → mining & extraction → recreation tourism → current amenity era), check out Katherine Nettle's piece, "As the Butte Turns."
As the Butte Turns
Change is afoot in the northern Gunnison Valley; few who live in Crested Butte would deny it. The roads are busier, construction is booming, and it seems that one major development after another is…
crestedbuttemagazine.com
A spotted moray makes a dramatic entrance, with its needle sharp teeth in a mouth flared wide, the second morning in row #spottedmoray #morayeel #thatsamoray #teeth #lobster #sergeantmajor #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity
“The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest & most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” Whitehouse said. “It is defending a $700 billion/year subsidy & avoiding being charged for the health & planetary damage burning fossil fuels causes.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor
theguardian.com
In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
newyorker.com
Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
newyorker.com
My own writing is a bit of a slog right now. But there is something delicious and potent about consuming the art that this country so desperately wants to withhold from us. I will read and listen to and lay eyes on every bit of rebellious art you create. I will DEVOUR IT. Tag me. Link me. Gimme.
Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.
Last year, law enforcement intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the US-Canada border. At the southern border, agents seized 9,600 kilograms. The idea that Canada is a major source of drugs is a lie, and this admin is hoping you’re stupid enough to believe it.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
