I want leadership like this for New Orleans. Instead we got the guy who nixed a huge coastal restoration project that the legislature had already approved because it “messes with Louisiana’s way of life”

Mongabay@mongabay.com · 13h ago

To mitigate tsunami impacts, a project in Japan has planted over 680,000 trees along the coast, drawing on traditional "guardian forests." While these natural barriers offer proven protection, many communities continue prioritizing concrete seawalls. Jonathan Vit reports for #Mongabay.

everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · 14h ago

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Canadians are fed up with lying Pete Hoesktra. He puts the ass in ambassador. There is a national campaign to make him persona non grata. Here is my call out to get Canadians to sign the parliamentary e-petition to give him the bum's rush. @meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com youtu.be/dw5JtXUuJZs?...

THROW THE BUM OUT - CANADIANS TAKE THE FIGHT TO HOEKSTRA

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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This is very true because although I spend a lot of time cooking and cleaning the kitchen I have been informed by my wife that I still do not understand the proper location for all kitchen utensils

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 13h ago

And a reminder that just spending a lot of time in a place does not mean someone actually understands a place. Which any anthropologist could tell you, but it’s something more writers and book people should probably internalize.

i saw someone essentially asking 'why are people more willing to donate to ngos and charities than directly to vulnerable people's gofundmes' and i have to be real here i suspect the answer is 'because they don't know you'

Car safety has improved to an incredible degree. In the 80s they didn’t really have crumple zones or airbags. If you were in a car crash you were getting seriously hurt. There was no ABS, no traction control.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h 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.

it’s amazing that there are ostensibly famous British people i never know about until they die and are remembered as a pedophile

(at desktop computer) honey get in here. You must see the absolutely absurd length of this cat

Oh, word?

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · yesterday

HORMUZ STRAIT TO FULLY REOPEN WITHIN HOURS OR TOMORROW

“Anyone born after 1990 is in a new geological era, a world fundamentally different from the one Baby Boomers and Gen X-ers inherited. The chances of anyone alive today experiencing a year as cool as 1996 are effectively nil." My interview with John Vaillant www.youtube.com/watch?v=03pr...

BURNING PLANET - A THREATENED DEMOCRACY

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

I have taken the 2-3 lbs of copper that were in the camera which you were probably saving for surveillance Forgive me they were so accessible so valuable and so disruptive

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Is there a connection between opulence and the decline of empire? Who cares, suggests Chad Mizelle, Trump's 2025 former Deputy Attorney General, as he comments on the tourism draw of gilded statues and the "opulence of the epicenter of once-great civilizations," without a shred of self-awareness.

The persecution of Dr. Fauci is a disgrace. Why doesn't a Canadian university invite Anthony Faucci to Canada to take up residence as a professor emeritus? The federal government should take efforts to fast track the move.

i'd say "pay attention to who has kind things to say about rod liddle, the racist pedophile, following his death" but to no surprise it is the entirety of the mainstream british press

How your email finds me

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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Sunday in Europe continues to suck ass… cmon man open the shops

Air to Ground Message: PAX HAD A REAL SOLID BOWL MOVEMENT LAV E WILL NOT FLUSH Area: Valparaiso, IN, USA Type: Boeing 737 MAX 8 A: #a56d7c3f15b F: #fcaa95536d0

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.

there are two possibilities: either there's a deep class anxiety among some the profession of architecture that prioritizes the aesthetics of squalor as a marker of authenticity over public health and the general right to not live in filth, or a rat wrote this

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

I should have bought a travel router years ago. It’s not super essential to have but it’s so nice to not have to constantly reauth hotel wifi connections. The router just keeps the connection active for you and all your devices can use it. Can also share purchased airplane wifi.

Now this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.