Jon Gorey
@jongorey.bsky.social
Writer, musician, dad, giver of shits, fan of preindustrial climate
I wrote and released this song, 'New American Dream,' about the senseless Iraq War, in early 2005 after GW Bush’s reelection. It is, unfortunately, unbelievably, inexplicably, still timely. Sigh.
'New American Dream' by Jon Gorey (lyric video)
YouTube video by Jon Gorey
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The way things are going right now, I’ll be sending this zine from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social as our family holiday card and everyone’s gonna be getting “Separation of Church and Hate” by @johnfugelsang.bsky.social for Christmas.
Beyond the fact that most AI is trained on the stolen intellectual property of millions of writers, journalists, photographers, and artists, the data centers that power AI are devouring our finite landscapes, water, and electricity at an unthinkable, unsustainable scale.
Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
lincolninst.edu
But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities are not fully accounting for or prepared to meet. @jongorey.bsky.social explores their challenges and possible solutions: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Data Drain: The Land and Water Impacts of the AI Boom - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communities across the US are wooing data centers with tax breaks and other incentives. But data centers are resource-ravenous, creating demands for land, water, and power that many host communities a...
lincolninst.edu
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.
Kimberly Atkins Stohr@kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
"Make cities safe and fun for kids to run around and play in" is a pretty good guiding light for urban planning
Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12mo ago“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social A victory for FAST leadership.
Wonder why there’s microplastic in our brains? On the beautiful banks of the Neponset, I counted 212 bottle caps in our @neprwa.bsky.social cleanup this morning—not even counting fragments and water bottles. Mass. needs to pass a 21st century bottle bill and/or a producer responsibility law.
Happy #FellowsFriday! Today we're profiling Fernando E. Lloveras San Miguel, executive director of the Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico and the 2020 recipient of the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship (now known as the Kingsbury Browne Distinguished Practitioner program).
This essay I wrote for @bostonglobe.com (in print next Sunday, Sept. 7) is adapted from my new book, IN GUNS WE TRUST, out Oct. 14 via @broadleafbooks.bsky.social. Not gonna lie: This whole guns-in-the-church thing has been a gut punch. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Guns made me leave the evangelical church. When will the church leave guns? - The Boston Globe
A bewildering marriage of faith and firearms is fueling our uniquely American gun scourge.
bostonglobe.com
A quote from the article, and a quote from Socrates via Shakespeare: "The portrait that emerges... is of a young man who is ... unapologetically confident in his intellectual prowess." "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." Anyway, what a f*cking a*hole
The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · last yr.A Department of Justice lawyer accused Harvard University of "indifference to antisemitism." Yet that lawyer, when he was a senior at Harvard, submitted a paper written from the perspective of Adolf Hitler.
Urban green space filters and cools the air, absorbs stormwater, and improves health. But it also increases property values, which can pose a risk to longtime residents without thoughtful anti-displacement approaches. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Alt-weeklies “gave voice to and helped shape a way of thinking about cities: messy, thrilling, sad, funny, queer, glorious, pompous, comically crooked and endlessly fascinating.”
Tim Dickinson@timdickinson.bsky.social · last yr.This is a lovely paean to the alt-weekly by @jeffsharlet.bsky.social
"Short of burning a cross in front of the Lincoln Monument, there is little that the White House could do to more clearly signal its unapologetic racist nature... The more goading and horrific the racism of our government becomes, the more urgent the need to speak and act against it."
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · last yr.I used to find "DEI" to be a weak corporate counterpoint to "racial justice" but now I unironically want every business in America doing DEI as loudly as possible because the relevant counterpoint today is "overt racism." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
Today's @hcrichardson.bsky.social is a bookmark-it, all-time great chronology & overview of movement conservatism and our path from deregulation and racism to Trump fascism. It will make you want to go flip a car, but still, it's an excellent read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...
August 23, 2025
“It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wr...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
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Trying to re-liquify the honey with hot water and this honey bear hot tub situation has me dying 😂
Made this cool record player stand over the weekend, and it was mercifully simple to do!
DIY record player stand and using relative measurements | House and Hammer
This mid-century modern record player stand is a super simple DIY project. Read on for the tutorial and one of my favorite woodworking tips.
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Yes, this. Unless you’re planning to sell the place, you don’t generally do major renovations on a house you will be leaving in just a couple of years… which makes me very worried that he has no intention of leaving
Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · last yr.“Experts on historic preservation are raising concerns over the feasibility of President Trump’s plans to complete large-scale renovations to the White House by the end of his term…” Um… that’s because he has no intention on leaving, I fear. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/03/n...
Love this. I’ve been using @ecosiasearch.bsky.social for a while *specifically for its environmental impact* and yet recently they introduced an idiotic beta AI search summary. Thankfully you can disable it, but this is the kind of thing I want to see more of.
Boston 's Leslie Knope@archifydd.bsky.social · last yr.I am now pretty much only using Duck Duck Go because I absolutely hate AI
A recent convening explored the land policy solutions that can help address tangled titles and other heirs property challenges. @jongorey.bsky.social investigates for the latest issue of Land Lines: go.lincolninst.edu/l/153411/202...
Understanding Heirs Property - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Hundreds of thousands of people in the US own inherited property that lacks the legal protections of homeownership. Land policy can help address the challenges of such heirs property situations.
lincolninst.edu
I enjoy cooking on the grill but not the macho charade associated with it. Like why are all grill spatulas 4 feet long? I’m not roasting dinosaur legs over a bonfire, I’m literally just flipping turkey burgers 9 inches away. This thing is UNWIELDY
This is very bad. Millions of Americans will be impacted by Congress defunding public media, and especially by the decision to claw back already appropriated funding. But despite the challenges we face, we are still here, and are committed as ever to our mission and to you.
In 5 mos. Trump and his GOP toadies have: - burned food meant for starving children - declared war on science & research - reversed what little climate action we’ve taken - killed funding for PBS and NPR 😿 …all to pay for - mass kidnappings by a secret masked police force - more 💰 for billionaires
Roughly one in every three Facebook users is now a man aged 18-34 ...which would explain so much about Facebook, or young men, or both.
Global Facebook user age & gender distribution 2025| Statista
As of April 2024, men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience.
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Josh Kraft’s pandering plan will make Boston’s streets less safe & less fairly shared among all residents. He’s stoking division rather than finding a solution that works for everyone. Kraft: uninformed & unfit for #bospoli and #mapoli
WBUR@wbur.org · last yr.Bike lanes have cycled into Boston’s mayoral race. The city has pursued a plan to establish over 9 miles of new bike lanes under Mayor Michelle Wu. Her chief rival, Josh Kraft, is challenging the rollout.
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” grist.org/biking/one-m...
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
grist.org
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
