Incidentally, I hear that with the Gulf Stream breaking down, Britain could end up with a climate like Labrador. But yeah, "Mediterranean lifestyle."
JP Babb
@jpbabb.bsky.social
I am an SF author and academic, currently pursuing a PhD in science and technology studies in Toronto. My research interests include science fiction, epistemology, and the history of cosmology, among others. Author of Reality's End
A political system that was fine with letting hundreds of thousands of people die needlessly from COVID will be equally fine with letting hundreds of millions of people die needlessly from climate change.We need a new political system.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d agoFor years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.
I suppose that an anarcho-socialist fan collective is probably not in the cards.
Admiral Funnest Frontier Prime 🏴☠️🖖@deckslower.bsky.social · last wk.If Paramount is forced to sell Star Trek who would you prefer to buy?
I really cannot overstate the extent to which the "crisis in masculinity" and the culture war in general have been ginned up by advertisers to sell you shit.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last wk.Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Mark Carney just allowed war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to fly through Canada despite a warrant for his arrest and the country being a signatory to the Rome Statute. We have aided and embedded one of history's greatest monsters
One thing that's really weird when you think about it is this premise of every standup has-been that comedy has gotten *less* edgy with time. Like imagine if Bob Hope were out there in the 80s saying that today's audiences could *handle* his stuff from the 1950s.
However you feel about Christopher Nolan, I do 100% hope that adapting epic poetry becomes the next big trend in Hollywood. We need a Gilgamesh movie; we need a Paradise Lost; we need a Song of Roland.
You know, there's a lot wrong with Canadian politics, but one thing I do appreciate is that our election campaigns take like 6 weeks, tops.
Every fanfic author's mantra: Let me do it. I can do it well! alliteration.net/poetry/dear-... #tolkien #fanfic #alliterative #poetry
Dear Tolkien Society: A poem in alliterative verse by Lancelot Schaubert
... I would write the end of the ruined saga. / I could give you the gold of the grave of the crown: / Pendragon’s poem I dare to complete.
alliteration.net
correct. the conservative movement is opposed, wholesale, to the concept of learning and science
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
"But isn't it true," Stupidio said as he farted and scratched his nuts, "that science is just another religion?"
insomniac@phillyinsomniac.bsky.social · 2w agoI've said before: we should bring back dialogues, so instead of carefully and defensively writing around any argument you could think of, you can just write a part where the argument gets made by someone named Uggo Dumbfuck and refute it directly.
I've said before: we should bring back dialogues, so instead of carefully and defensively writing around any argument you could think of, you can just write a part where the argument gets made by someone named Uggo Dumbfuck and refute it directly.
WHO says heat has claimed more than 200,000 lives across Europe in just the past four years. thediplomaticinsight.com/who-urges-eu...
WHO Urges Europe to Heat-Proof Hospitals as Deadly Heatwave Grips the Continent
The World Health Organization issued new guidance on Thursday aimed at helping European countries withstand increasingly severe heatwaves, as this summer's
thediplomaticinsight.com
Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced.
Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 2w agoIn February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...
100%. Don’t let TERFs colonize the narrative here. Most studies show that lesbians are far more likely to be trans accepting than almost any other group. It’s just, as queer ppl, we’re more likely to be in proximity to a lesbian transphobe than a straight one.
A secret third thing@secretthirdthing.bsky.social · 3w agoI rly need other trans women to stop accepting the lie that cis lesbians are in any sense uniquely transphobic. Literally cis lesbians support trans people more than other trans people do. Don't let your (very understandable) fears get in the way of having rly cool friends
Every time someone calls Hegseth's testosterone program or Elon's hair plugs "gender affirming care," I wince. Speaking only for myself, and I know the jokes are well-intentioned: I wish we'd retire this one. New from me on why. www.readtpa.com/p/theres-no-...
There’s No Gotcha Here
Calling Hegseth’s testosterone program "gender-affirming care" trivializes trans healthcare and misreads what we’re up against. Speaking only for myself: knock it off
readtpa.com
I remember thinking these looked like the shuttlecraft from Star Trek TNG when I was five years old.
mean things I say to myself@meantomyself.bsky.social · last mo.Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Listen, do you guys want a cosmological constant or not? #physics #science
The universe might not be expanding as we thought, study says
Until now, we have believed that the universe’s expansion is speeding up
independent.co.uk
Starmer’s resignation is a warning, but we’ve run this experiment at home. Sinema, Golden, and Fetterman made the same bet: that poll-tested moderation is a safe harbor. All saw their support crater. In a moment like this, tacking right isn’t the safe play, it’s the thing that sinks you.
The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...
one thing i genuinely wish both Labour and Dems would do is stop over-relying on electoral gurus like Morgan McSweeney and actually hire political scientists and sociologists to investigate "okay, how does class formation happen now, and how does it shape political votes? how do we win?"
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2mo agothe issue is (as Skocpol pointed out in Rust Belt Union Blues) is that socialization has gone from union halls to basically Fox News, so economic populist/social con voters are socialized more towards the GOP than the Dems
Last time Congress messed with the number of SCOTUS seats wasn’t over mundane policy disputes in normal cases. It was to defend Reconstruction, the settlement of a literal civil war, from any Johnson appointments. It’s not flippant hyperbole when we describe the post-Trump agenda as Reconstruction.
"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).
Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption
Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026
proelectrica.substack.com
Really loving Iain M. Banks's "Culture" series. It's like Star Trek for people who want the Federation to be more anarchist and 1 million times more insidious.