This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.
Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’
nytimes.com
Had a great afternoon at the Small Press Expo and Lance got me a Moomin hat!
so many posts about Reacher on this website which means none of you cancelled Prime.
Hawaiian honeycreepers are the most beautiful demonstration of adaptive radiation and we’ve already lost ~40 species. The 17 remaining will likely go extinct in my lifetime because of climate change. The extinction crisis is here and has nothing to do with AI.
Beef Tallow Homunculus Escapes From HHS Building https://theonion.com/beef-tallow-homunculus-escapes-from-hhs-building/
Can’t shake the feeling that if i were actually a good person i‘d be in prison or dead by now
@smallpressexpo.bsky.social is this weekend the one weekend of the year my boring suburban Maryland neighborhood is flooded with freaks and weirdos and I feel at home.
Had to hide the Talarico clip the trans people in sports conversation makes me want to kms
My first real job in documentaries was making videos for the brand new National Museum of African American History and Culture. Feels like another universe, a different timeline.
In 1947 10yr old Richard Allen of San Francisco spent a week at the movies
Just subscribed to LRB. Any other print mags people like??
doing annual security training modules for work and the scripts are all AI-written!!!!!!!!!! i hate everything in the world!!!!!!!
AI food photos are viscerally nauseating to me but people who make and sell food for a living are using them in marketing. Makes me feel completely out of touch with the world. What are they seeing and why is it so different from what I see?
Became a citizen so I could say fuck ICE forever in public. I can’t forgive anyone who voted for this psycho!!! I don’t see a way back!!
spent 2 weeks in South Africa and snagged one day in my hometown. I love Joburg!!!
taking my partner and his family to South Africa tomorrow. The moms are going to meet for the first time. We’ve been together 9 years. Lots of feelings lol
writing back against the Guardian's recent 100 best novels of all time list, that struggled to get past the Anglo-sphere, or if it did, seemed to get stuck at Europe's borders (shifting as they are).... Te Whare Mātātuhi o Aotearoa has a much more engaging Southern Hemisphere set of the 100 best
The Southern Hemisphere Fiction 100 – Academy of New Zealand Literature
The rest of ‘the greatest literature ever published in English’
anzliterature.com
I know Noel Ignatiev is controversial(?) but his idea about being a traitor to whiteness gave me a framework for existing as a white south african.
I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2mo agoWhen I say a politics of white reconciliation based on a premise of anti-Blackness people act as if I’m spinning shit out of thin air but…
another huge layoff at disney today. like, was there a time layoffs were embarrassing to company leadership?? now they're almost like product launches.