Between my sister barfing up hot dogs on my dad’s feet and me spitting canned peas in the toilet, I can say 60s meals sucked ass and I am so glad I eat so so much better now. (We also moved to Korea in 69 and I can’t tell you how lovely it was to have Asian food all of a sudden in our dinners)

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

Seeing lots on Emily Wilson’s critique of Odyssey. Funny how the slung epithets and vitriol always boils down to she’s got tits and a vajayjay. 😕

I clocked out early today to do this

the best of america

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 3h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

🤬🤬🤬

Katie O'Reilly@drkatfish.bsky.social · 1h ago

ICYMI the latest chicanery surrounding the invasive carp barrier www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

I was a little surprised by how much this bothered me, tbh. Not because I thought it was intentional or even human carelessness- it's a reminder that these algorithms work against difference, they work against outliers, they work against marginalia (literal & figurative). And that's what I write for

Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 3h ago

my pinned tweet for years was "I write for the people whose names get underlined in red by microsoft word" and...this is why. (no shade to the lovely people at the MIT Press reader, who changed it immediately as soon as I pointed it out)

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

No. This is false. The crew ignored two NOTAMs and tried to visual on a moonless night. GPS jamming (which occurs regularly and was one of the NOTAMs) did not actively corkscrew them into the mountain. I’ve reposted other, more accurate explanations of this incident.

I'm in Slate today with the tale of how a couple of invasive mosquito species have conquered the U.S., and what that means for our future (spoiler: it's not great!) Please read and share.

They’re the Most Annoying Creatures on the Planet. You Don’t Know What They’re Going to Unleash on America.

They can do a lot more than ruin your summer day.

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one of the other other things about this is the jamming was occurring after midnight local.....deliberately, because that is the least disruption to the NAS (should be little to no GA and airliners won't be flying in to airports in the impacted area/stuff like x-country redeyes can fly around)

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18h ago

also it wasn't bad weather, it was night time, that's it Which is deliberate because the disruption to the National Airspace System is much less impactful at night than daytime Like the argument here is DoD should instead be jamming at high noon lol

It's actually worse than this, as to contiue the analogy this crew had a magic "make it clear to a million" button (cease buzzer), used it.....and then undid the button

Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 19h ago

Would the crash have occurred if it was sunny? Probably not, but the accident cause isn't the wx, or forecasting, or the manufacturer, or the FAA's training standards.......it's the dumbass who flew into known IMC without an instrument rating, picture unrelated

Outstanding thread

T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 19h ago

I've told this story before and I suppose now it's time to do it again. When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher was the elderly sort of man who always wore a gray flannel suit and had a cigarette before class and a cigarette at the end of class every period.

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · yesterday

So the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...

Congress needs to nix this.

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

lies, damned lies, and runway/traffic in sight

Jeff Bachtel@jeffbach.bsky.social · 6d ago

I watched Juan’s video and I’m a private pilot that’s flown out of an airport part 135 operators use and I’m gonna drop a hurtful interpretation. The crew decided to do a “visual” approach when GPS came back, and probably never had runway in sight

#Bloomscrolling and #Foodscrolling crossover content: Banana flower in a Los Angeles area backyard. The inside of the red bud is edible. We ate banana flower salads in Cambodia. As the flowers shrivel up, the bananas grow. These are the small apple bananas. Very fragrant

The 37-person town of Antelope, Oregon has a rich, strange history. I wrote this essay for Portland Monthly about being drawn to its darkness: www.pdxmonthly.com/travel-and-o...

A Dark Sky Escape in Antelope, Oregon

Decades after a cult takeover, the tiny town looks to the stars.

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Case in point- keeping electricity on in ppls houses during heat/drought emergencies on a hotter planet requires changes in supply. Solar energy is the key, along with adapting nuclear plants.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · yesterday

NEW – Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @iain-staffell.bsky.social @henrypreston.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/yfvQnUS

Next time someone at work pisses me off (I work with half mechanics and half sales douchebags) I am going to call them babygirl and see who gets madder

There are so many annoying things about this, including that we have already solved off grid power

Mike Caulfield@mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 2d ago

Almost *everything* you see in this format, whether infinite power cubes or solar powered houses for the homeless that fold out of suitcases or French "bread libraries" for the poor is liberal catnip bullshit by content farms. Stop being idiots. Thank you.

My daughter has just sent me this lovely photo where you get an even better view of the puffin.

Longhorn Steer's-head (Dicentra uniflora), my favorite ephemeral wildflower, for #WeekEforEphemeral. 💚 #AlphabetChallenge #MacroMonday #NaturePhotos 📷

Adorable thread.

NatalieNM@secretagent39.bsky.social · 2d ago

The other day I decided to stop and pick up a Gino’s pizza on the way home. Another car pulled in at the same time I did. Cute, young guy in a pink bucket hat with a nice bike strapped to the back of his Ford Focus stepped toward the door. He politely held the door open for me. I ordered and

Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 3d ago

A friend’s recent photo of civic shading in Malaga

Holy crap. Watching NHK news and just saw radar of the typhoon heading towards Oki that my girl was telling me about last night. She said it’ll be a direct hit. Hope it is weak.

This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

It’s Dixie Dregs night at the uranium-bearing mineral household. Combined with dry rub ribs and Albariño.