Gilly
@gillyarcht.bsky.social
Architect+Art, SF in both its incarnations. Life embracer. Founder @art_slope. Climate eyer. BC survivor. Shaper of spaces, carver of light & air. Local radio http://radio.garden/visit/san-francisco-ca/LbmJqSyY 🦋Feed https://shorturl.at/6XVt3
This is outrageous, despotic shit and everyone who played a role in it should lose their place in polite society. Show us the warrant. Who asked for it? What did they claim? Have there been grand jury proceedings? Who was in charge? And what judge, if any, signed off on the search warrant?
The Associated Press@apnews.com · yesterdayBREAKING: Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.
the omar raid is getting the headlines trump wants without the context of his years of attacks on her
I was born in an age of fear (Cold War, nuclear threat loomed) and now I live in an age of sheer malevolence. I can’t believe there’s something worse than fear. What’s so bizarre is in the 20th Century—scary time in some ways—a lot of yokes were thrown off, a lot of human afflictions were solved.
I've been up since 4 AM this morning working on a past-due draft on the many ways that the Turkish government has weaponized the judiciary to harass, dislodge, and jail opposition leaders. Then I look at the news. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Ilhan Omar’s home raided as part of criminal investigation by Trump’s feds
Raid comes as Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress, has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire for years
independent.co.uk
Marie Kondo-ing the heck out of this next
Corey S. Powell@coreyspowell.bsky.social · yesterdayThis map doesn't look like much...until you realize what it is. This is a measurement of *all the mass in the universe* between here & the cosmic microwave background (the edge of the visible cosmos), as deduced from its collective gravitational pull. 🔭🧪 news.uchicago.edu/story/south-...
Singapore again ranks the world's most polluted city on Monday. Singapore rolls out subsidies for haze-related medical treatment and schools remain closed in parts of Malaysia, as both countries grapple with unhealthy air quality due to fires in Indonesia u.afp.com/SCcr
He’s not the only one, but clearly billionaires only listen to other billionaires nowadays, if to anyone at all
Doug Coulson@dougcoulson.bsky.social · yesterdayBill Gates warns cyberattacks most imminent AI threat www.afp.com/en/bill-gate...
ok i’m kind of miffed that the russian bot farm problem was this easy to mitigate against and i really wish ukraine had done it years ago now
Funniest thing is Musk screaming "Zelensky's gone too far" on Xitter but not finding the RTs etc because, well, obviously.
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes
Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education syst...
propublica.org
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4d agoSeid has been repeatedly fined and cited and warned, and he's carried on turning the neighborhood into an uncontrolled vermin breeding facility: gizmodo.com/a-billionair...
Repeat after me: Yes on 40, no on 41 and 42, which are designed to cancel out 40!
CalMatters@calmatters.org · 3d agoGavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.
Russian bot traffic has dropped to nearly 0 after Ukraine struck a Yandex data center in Vladimir, Russia
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2d agoUkrainian drones struck three Yandex data centres in Russia, shutting down two and crippling the third. The attacks disrupted more than 80 services, including banking, transport and cloud infrastructure, following Russian strikes on Ukrainian data centres.
I love thinking that there will still be bookstores in our future. Or a future.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2d agoWrite the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan.”
"The Drift", one of the oldest established lanes in the village, featuring on maps for hundreds of years, on a sunny autumn afternoon. Drift roads or driftways were traditionally used for driving/droving/drifting livestock from the common to the marketplace.
‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes
‘A living hell’: how Los Angeles got taken over by mosquitoes
Heat and humidity have led to one of the worst mosquito years in recent history, with West Nile virus at a decade high
theguardian.com
Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, the world’s largest steerable dish radio telescope at the time (now the third largest). was switched on in 1957 on this day. Built by Bernard Lovell, it was the only radar device that could track the carrier rocket of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik I.
This is just an exquisite find of architectural deliciousness, how has it been unknown so long… v @jwomack.bsky.social
Certified Illinois Expert@mrillinois.bsky.social · 3d agoI have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.
I just stumbled across the only known issue of an African-American periodical titled: The People's Journal. It was published in Brooklyn, NY from roughly 1866-1869. This issue is dated August 29, 1868. I'm still trying to digest all of this, but at a glance I already see some really cool stuff. 🗃️🧵
This looks really bad and should be blasted by James Tallarico.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d agoNEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social · 5d agoRFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
Oh hurry, please. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have found a surprising way to regrow damaged knee cartilage by blocking a protein that becomes more abundant with age. In old mice, the treatment restored naturally lost cartilage and also...
sciencedaily.com
The Nazis played these games with Hamburg harbor during WW2.
UNITED24 Media@united24media.com · 2mo ago🕵️ Russian tech giant Yandex attempted to hide a military missile site near St. Petersburg by replacing satellite imagery of the facility with photoshopped forest cover. united24media.com/world/yandex...
