Climate pals, what are your favorite examples of actions that simultaneously reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to climate changes that we can no longer avoid? Joint Adaptation and Mitigation (JAM), if you will.

This is low key one of the most important popular studies that supports the societal importance of art history. So much so that I am doing everyone here a solid by not allowing the article preview to show, the images of which will haunt you for life. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

For me, this is what Nostalgia tastes like. Chebakia and mint tea

When the selkie returned to the beach, a man was holding her sealskin. "Is this yours?" he asked. "May I borrow it?" "You want to be a seal?" "No, but when I take it off, I'll be a woman, right?" "My heart, you already are," the selkie said. "That skin is mine, but I can help you find yours."

Question based on this thread: If measuring distance to someplace you are going do you use: A) actual distance measure in Km or miles (e.g. City X is 400 km away) B) time (e.g. City X is 4 hours away) And where are you from? For me: Canadian who uses time 🙋🏼‍♂️

Artem Gordin@artemgordin.bsky.social · last wk.

My "Irish Measurement Systems Flowchart" was warmly received by r/Ireland so I'm reposting it here having fixed one error, but without many smaller additions suggested, might do a v2 some time later! #speirgorm

Increasingly seeing "it's too late, we failed" as an argument against climate action. But: a) While we haven't done nearly enough, we've made a lot of progress relative to the "just let fossil fuels rip" world of pre-2000; b) the more&faster we reduce climate pollution, the less bad things will get;

Failing to see the problem with this. Had a conversation with my students last term. Is there any other tech that has relied on being so forcefully pushed onto people to be successful? I can’t think of one. Advertised heavily, etc? Yes. Pushed onto people so they have to constantly turn it off? No

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

there’s, like, a lot of yall who think I’m talking about one specific guy here and it’s like no. this is a general problem. the guy you’re thinking of, that is just one guy among many guys

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

This is going to the top of the list of GenAI applications that undermine our information landscape. WTAF Google.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

I am on leave for the year and very glad to not be taking part in this annual academic tradition. My sympathies to you all. Sincerely.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · last wk.

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

Have now seen The Odyssey and read the scathing review by Wilson. The following can all be true: a) A leading scholar on the original material has every right to pen a strong critique. Those saying she is biting the hand that feeds her fundamentally misunderstands the situation & academia generally

CEO: Make sure people know that our centaur/satyr robot is definitely safe. Marketing Team: You got it boss. Narrator: The website copy was not reassuring at all

You think IMAX 4D D-Box is an immersive way to watch The Odyssey. That’s amateur hour 👇🏼

Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning@booktweeting.bsky.social · last wk.

I am in the funniest possible situation I am trying to go see The Odyssey but may not get there because of transportation delays

In the 1800s French “wetlands considered unhealthy and unproductive were drained and replaced with pine forest” for timber and resin. Now it’s burning: "This isn't a fire in a natural forest. It’s a fire in a forest that was planted there to support industrial activity." www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

A human-made forest is at the centre of France's raging wildfires | CBC News

Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically cha...

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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride: Storming the Castle

Alt: Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride: Storming the Castle

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F. Zoe Blackheart, The Inkweaving Doom@inkweaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Very much looking forward to this book. Just pre-ordered my copy from my local co-op bookstore. Oh, and if you are not familiar with their work, highly recommend checking out @annaleen.bsky.social’s other books.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 2w ago

Did you know I have a new book coming out about a graduate student who is a slime mold from beyond the galaxy? Who comes to Earth to do fieldwork and meets a badass sex worker in ancient Pompeii? It's called "A Wall Is Also a Road." You should pre-order it now! torpublishinggroup.com/a-wall-is-al...

Looks around. Ok, it’s all right. Nothing to see here.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 2w ago

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

Kid1 has figured out that getting an actual recipe with silly things like amounts or timings from my mother is a lost cause. So their vacation project is being sous-chef to grandma and writing down something that resembles a recipe. Love seeing it.

around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak

No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.

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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

Porto, Portugal #GrainSocial https://grain.social/profile/did:plc:hnynajpysr47rnyf5mvlxrsz/gallery/3mrlgr2s4ea2r

I remember once in high school hosting another high schooler for a week. He was from the south (want to say Kentucky?) Saw our milk and in the thickest southern drawl you can imagine says “Y’all have milk in a bag?” Never knew it was not the norm until then.

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · 2w ago

Every now & then as I slice open a milk bag with a very sharp knife it occurs to me how oddly that must read to people outside of Canada

Sir Gary Oldman but he needs to randomly switch between Sid Vicious, Zorg and Jackson Lamb as he’s doing it

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun@eaterofsun.bsky.social · last mo.

My round up of @economist.com's heatwave coverage (gift link) www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

Sigh. One more thing to add to my to-do list. Can I add “No Pervert Glasses” clause to my class policies in the syllabus?

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Yeah this "pervert glasses in the classroom" thing is bothering me enough that I emailed both my departments asking if we can get practical guidance from the chancellor & IT. What I'm really, increasingly wanting is a Wi-Fi kill switch for each classroom, but i don't know that that's in the offing.

“Meep meep” Just added this to my life list. Not the first one I’ve ever seen but first since I started tracking. Also, the cartoons lied. Was not prepared for how small these things are in real life.

Check out this bird - Greater Roadrunner

Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

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Thinking about meaning of “home” as I visit my parents. Moved around a lot growing up. Changed houses, changed schools. So “home” for me now is wherever I’m living but also wherever my parents live. Doesn’t matter that I never lived there. If you moved a lot as a kid, where is “home” for you?

Everyone needs a treat, and this is today's www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Matt Damon's stunt double in The Odyssey is B.C. woman with 'the greatest arms' he's ever seen | CBC News

She might be small, but this B.C.-born stunt performer is making big waves for her part in Christopher Nolan's box-office busting epic The Odyssey.

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Scoiattolo@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz · 2w ago

The CBC is covering the fact that Matt Damon’s stunt double in The Odyssey is a 4’6” Canadian woman named Devyn Dalton with swole arms and chat, she has swole arms

Catching up on podcast listening and it’s been a year since this episode aired. Still as powerful as ever. #Pride

Hisham Zerriffi@hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · last yr.

@natedimeo.bsky.social replays this The Memory Palace ep every year on the anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Every year it delivers a punch no matter how many times I’ve heard it. A story of loves and lives, of sadness and triumph and of people just wanting to be themselves. #Pride

Can’t decide. If the entertainment system on your bus plays songs strictly in alphabetical order is that: Lawful Evil or Lawful Neutral