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.

slate.com

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…

canarymedia.com

The van hands out food, water, clothes, first aid and free HIV tests. Locals recognize "Thrivey" as it drives across the Twin Cities. The van, and everything in it, is funded by federal money that has been suddenly revoked, as the government reroutes grants from nonprofits to state health agencies.

Running on empty: Can a red HIV outreach van outlast federal cuts?

The Aliveness Project says that nobody else can replicate what they do for the high-risk communities they reach. They're still being defunded.

19thnews.org

With financial abuse, there is no end to my ex's violations, but even if that cost me paid work since '24, I know I tried everything humanly possible to warn others about how he drained me of $183,364+ over 6.5 years, so if able to help me stay housed, please donate/share!🥹 ko-fi.com/equitablefor...

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 9mo ago

Please review my Accounting for Access Intimacy Abuse webpage here: bit.ly/AccessIntima... If you believe in Disability Justice, free of violence, please consider sharing this post, and if able to contribute to my continued existence, please send funds here: paypal.me/kjagoo Please share widely! 🙏🏾

Communism when no food and also, and you're not going to believe this, Communism when food.

you have not recovered from cisnormativity or compulsory heterosexuality until you have completely abandoned the instinct to judge people into categories purely on appearance and ignore all other identity information. you are doing a violence to yourself and the people around you. cut that shit out

it's ✨Shameless Self Promotion Saturday✨... again it's been a "seriously too nervous to look at the shop analytics, because bad numbers aren't real until you actually look at them" month going to try and just enjoy being away from TX for a week we love you all

-𝚖𝚘𝚡@moxiest.art · 5mo ago

hi! hey! do you hate the fucking government? do you like cute shit? are you super fucking queer? do you want to support an artist who's just trying to get by in these trying times by selling things in the only way that feels ethical? oh dear god, let us help ✨Shameless Self Promotion Saturday✨

I promise you that if this ever happens to me I will sing the best ever death metal band in Denton so loud and creaky and hail Satany. do not trap me with evangelists I react badly

BanmarNJ@banmarnj.bsky.social · 2w ago

Evangelists say they are heeding a biblical command to preach on flights In-flight evangelists have preached sermons and busted out guitars in recent years. Some travelers lament that they “can’t even walk away.”

not exactly sad I haven't gotten to use this one but nonetheless

space ghost@luxenoir.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Post a meme you have NEVER gotten to use

Finally, a kink I feel perfectly comfortable shaming.

WIRED@wired.com · 2w ago

MAGA-coded adult content playing off immigration crackdowns, white supremacy, and obeying the “natural order” is finding rabid audiences on X. www.wired.com/story/people...

glued an old doodle to a drawing i didn’t like and now i love it

The last thing I need is another podcast to keep up with, but I just finished the first episode of American Abyss and folks I'm immediately hooked. The voice acting, the atmosphere, the ART. Can't wait to see where this project goes, A+

Eduardo Valdés-Hevia 👁️@valdevia.art · 2w ago

WELCOME TO THE PALMYRA EXCLUSION ZONE I'm happy to announce that, together with a roster of great artists, writers, and actors, I've been secretly working on a huge multimedia podcast project. And it's called American Abyss:

(No shade to the books on the list but whew this framing)

my Call To Action is this think about this next time you're going to spend money on some piece of corporate art. then maybe give that money to someone who's drowning instead your money evaporates when you hand it to a Business if you buy art from artists, they get to use it. in real life. to live

Jana H-S (she, like a knife)@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2w ago

again. I am doing "oh shit" well by the standards of my peer, and this is my past 60 days on bandcamp. four actual purchases in two months. all of them on days when I've seriously begged for anyone to help me out the begging is what sold these albums I hope you find this depressing. because it is

hot people hot people

USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hurt people hurt people

I’ve made a start but who knows what direction she’ll head in… Oh & there’s still time for you to join in - the more, the merrier!!

Skulls and Sheets@skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sign ups are now live for this years charity auction: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Human creativity is the most important thing of this auction! Sign ups will run till 31st July Donation deadline End of November 2026 Thank you!

With alt text because of course they didn't provide it Much love to all the talented people who have been hurt yet again by banal corporate bullshit

ZA/UM Studio@zaumstudio.bsky.social · 3w ago

The family’s water was undrinkable: It corroded taps. It withered plants. Their ice maker expelled clumps of salt. But why was this happening? For two years, Oklahoma delayed basic tests that could help them find out. (Published Feb. w/ @readfrontier.bsky.social)

Salty, Oily Drinking Water Left Sores in Their Mouths. Oklahoma Refused to Find Out Why.

State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

propublica.org

just salivating at the thought of feeling your boot on a poor person's neck huh

@collie.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m not being hyperbolic, I will be very disappointed if the next Democratic president does not use the federal government to crush the rurals.

"the rurals" And who might that be? Those of us on rezes? Hard to get more rural than that.

@collie.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m not being hyperbolic, I will be very disappointed if the next Democratic president does not use the federal government to crush the rurals.

conveniently ratio'd for either legal or half letter size, so you conveniently can just print it out on any printer if you like, whose going to stop you (not me)

"I refuse to be your enemy. We shall be nothing to one another instead" is still the best way I've found to defuse my emotions when someone gets the best of me

Imagine if you allowed yourself to feel the full weight and consequence of every sexual assault you have ever experienced. Imagine what would happen to you if you tried to get them recognized by others as serious and meaningful. Lol. Lmao.

planning something who would pay me money for one of these incredibly sexy cassettes

Jana H-S (she, like a knife)@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · last yr.

a horny album deserves horny cassette demo photos

does anybody want to ✨make some magic✨ for the community today? a few people in the community rely on Free Friday for their shoes for the year, the tariffs prevented that last round since shoes are back, anybody feeling generous and want to help fund some pairs to help us cover sending some out?

-𝚖𝚘𝚡@moxiest.art · 2mo ago

posting about this made caused some deep anger about how the tariff bullshit kept us from being able to give shoes to people on free friday have multiple people who literally got their only pair of shoes for the year during FF events and we couldn't hook them up this time

I, too, think about beautiful monster women when I'm stuck in a cishet man's arms

If you like my writing and think I should not have to suffer this dumb cost of trying not to be in intense pain all the time, please consider PayPal.me/stompsite

I had a ton of fun participating last year! In short: - it's fun - for a good cause - spooky horse skulls - all skill levels welcome - get a cute pin for participating - seeing your art go to auction is, like, really cool??

Skulls and Sheets@skullsandsheets.bsky.social · last mo.

Boosting! Nearly at 35 sign ups!