New federal rules mean Arizona will be getting a lot less water from the Colorado river. City leaders say they've been planning for years and no one will run out, but keeping taps flowing is expensive. n.pr/4zNY0zV

Arizona's taps won't run dry, but water bills will go up under federal plan for Colorado River

New federal rules mean Arizona will be getting a lot less water from the Colorado river. City leaders say they've been planning for years and no one will run out, but keeping taps flowing is expensive.

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Tofu recall in 29 states. Short food chains and smaller distribution + regulation means safer, more resilient food systems. Less chance for pooled contaminated products, easier to trace issues. The oldest tofu maker in the US is here in PDX: Ota Tofu. I also like Bui Tofu in Montavilla.

Tofu recalled in 29 states, including throughout Tri-State, for contamination

Tofu was recalled in 29 states, including throughout the Tri-State, because it may be contaminated with ink.

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I do GIS. No mapmaker has to default to the data provided, and corrections to the data displayed occur all. the. time. Google knew this rule from Trump was coming and chose to accept it.

Micah@rincewind.run · 18h ago

re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly

A place that could be any place is no place at all. Car culture and its dominating infrastructure has sterilized our country's landscape. Grey asphalt, parking lots, and the same corporations have taken over our lived experience by force.

How Did Nearly Every American City End Up Like This?

YouTube video by Streetcraft

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China's BYD will be setting up dealerships all over Canada in late 2026. This Canadian will take extreme pleasure in knowing American cars will get passed over for Chinese electric. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BBL-... #cdnpoli

BYD Opening 20 EV Dealers In Canada! First Location Is Here

YouTube video by Simply Gregster EV

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[sighs deeply] Before feeding any of your research into any LLM, please check your grants and institution's information security/academic integrity policies. You may be surprised how very little of your work are allowed to let anywhere near the Plagiarism Engines.

Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Bike infrastructure isn’t about catering to existing cyclists. It’s about opening up access, independence, and opportunity for those who can't drive. Cities that invest in cycling are actively choosing to give more people the freedom to move through their communities. LISTEN: bccycling.ca/podcast

"Painted lanes marked with a solid white line were no different from having no infrastructure at all. However advisory cycle lanes, which motorists are allowed to enter, caused the odds of injury to increase by 34 per cent." Thus 'murderpaint.' road.cc/content/news...

Painted advisory cycle lanes increase risk of cyclist casualties, study finds

A study of cyclist casualties in London has found that painted advisory cycle lanes increase the risk of cyclist casualties, with the authors urging that highways authorities cease installing lanes of...

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I am 100% serious. DraftKings hosts their service on aws. Tell AWS that if they do not suspend DraftKings and turn over all server records to Washington State police, the police raid us-west-1 and us-west-2 and just start pulling plugs out of the wall

Infrastructure is politics@rational.bsky.social · 2d ago

New York and California should send their state Police to seize bank accounts and computer servers to preserve evidence of crimes. They should kill it dead, this weekend, Sunday while the banks are closed

Posting next week's schedule SUPER early so yall have extra time to chew on this stacked list. An opportunity to make stuff and hang out EVERY DAY!! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

Not to minimize the harms of tire wear, and EVs are heavier given a car size (although in the US EVs tend to be much smaller than ICE). But as a parent who's taken an interest in protecting my kids from drivers, there's nothing I can do about gases and it's frustrating. bsky.app/profile/this...

Politics of Cars@thismachinekillsfascists.bike · 8h ago

and at least filters indoors or masks outdoors can catch the PM, there's basically nothing people can do to protect themselves from gases that cause respiratory illness

We just saw this result of a program that targeted the highest emissions vehicles, and people have been so indoctrinated into "EVs don't solve all the problems of cars" that they tell themselves eliminating gases like NOx etc is irrelevant to pediatric respiratory disease because EVs have tire wear.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2w ago

Some outcomes are bigger than politics.

Personally I have found that buying linen (or linen blend) shirts is an enormous upgrade over cotton for sweat while cycling in the summer. It dries so much faster. Replacing a backpack with panniers is well worth it too.

The Sweat Science Advice Nobody Tells Bike Commuters

YouTube video by Shifter

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For those new to parenting autistic kids: Here are eleven autistic-informed suggestions for making your child's (and your) life easier, through understanding what autism is like from the inside: thinkingautismguide.com/2017/04/elev... #autism #parenting #neurodiversity

Eleven Ways You Can Make Your Autistic Child's Life Easier

A mini-guide and checklist for parents, to help both them and their autistic kids live the Best Lives Possible.

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“Before it was streets and suburbs, Melbourne was a rich landscape of forests, swamps and grasslands. Our new Map of the Month is rebuilding it for the first time – tree by tree” (Nice work!) pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/wev...

We’ve reconstructed Melbourne’s 200-year-old forests

Before it was streets and suburbs, Melbourne was a rich landscape of forests, swamps and grasslands. The new Map of the Month from University of Melbourne researchers is rebuilding it for the first ti...

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While you're at it, if you use Word set your default language to Canada. (It actually just allows both US and UK spelling but better than getting squiggly red lines under labour).

Mark Shaw@markshawtoronto.bsky.social · 10h ago

Tech should really reconsider "the US is the default country". Actually everyone should, US Defaultism was already pretty bad before the mad king.

Our art books are awesome! You can find multiple years of #InverteFest artbooks now! Artists of all ages, all kinds, submit the most wonderful art. You can download them all for free. It's brilliant. They'll make you happy. Guaranteed.

Quirky Cryptid@quirkycryptid.bsky.social · 13h ago

I submitted this drawing to the #invertfest August 2026 book and it is in there! Feels really exciting!! Go check out all the cool art of Invertfest, not just mine! you can download the pdf file for free on the website: saimihanma.com/invertefest/... and you can look at previous art from past

Just recently voters in Missouri soundly rejected a GOP attempt to make direct democracy ballot initiatives all but impossible to pass. Now the GOP is trying again, this time in both North and South Dakota. Look sharp, Dakota Dems! via @pascalsabino.bsky.social boltsmag.org/measures-to-...

"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts

Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...

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A game I like to play because after a decade of reporting on climate change I'm a wee bit broken is, "how will climate change break that?" It's not just hotter temperatures, hurricanes, more extreme rainfall etc. It's knock on effects from that. Like changes in rainfall causing landslides.

You cannot build a bunker for climate change.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 17h ago

This is where the 1% will go to restart civilization after a nuclear attack. But it for me thinking: what if the uber wealthy built these bunkers for more people — and not for nuclear attacks but for the climate crisis that will get us all — instead of trying to leave the planet?

I spent most of the day in my front yard garden and not only does my garden look better, not only did I get to hang out with bees and hummingbirds, but so many folks in the neighborhood stopped their cars and detoured on their walks to stop and chat. I forgot it used to be like this. ❤️❤️❤️

The sound of curriculum committees adding internships as necessary to curriculums *everywhere.*

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3d ago

Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley

Look: I'm not against taxing rich people more. But if your goal is to tax rich people so they can't you know overthrow democracy income taxes aren't how you do it. You're just going to hit the guy with a really good construction company. They shouldn't be your first target.

This wasn't as true when Reagan was in office. And people like Peter Thiel don't even pay that

Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

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The richest people don't earn money through income though it's through stocks. Warren Buffet has famously said that his effective marginal income tax rate is lower than his secretaries because it's through stocks not salary.

Ken Caldeira@kencaldeira.com · 9h ago

If Trump really wanted to make America great again, a good place to start would have been restoring marginal income tax rates on top earners to what they were before Reagan started handing our country over to the super wealthy. www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...

Also, a reminder of my favorite ever Popular Mechanics article about British Paratroopers in WWII who jumped out of planes strapped to folding bicycles because the bikes let them cover ground fast upon landing

The British Paratroopers Who Parachuted Into Enemy Territory with Folding Bicycles

The BSA Airborne Paratrooper Bicycle was carried by British soldiers who landed on D-Day and in many other conflicts during World War II.

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Couldn't resist getting this one out tonight

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 6h ago

NEW: MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app on the Apple App Store, overtaking Google Maps thanks to Google's decision to follow Trump's lead in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.

"The Nerd Reich" is the #2 on the San Francisco Chronicle's list of Bay Area bestsellers for non-fiction. It's amusing to see my book climb the charts in publications that otherwise refuse to mention it! 👀 But that's okay, we are steamrolling the gatekeepers.

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 9h ago

This is should be a big scandal that he and his supporters get absolutely hounded over. But I'm guessing that this week will still be like... 90% Hasan Piker nonsense vs. 10% substance in the Michigan senate race www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...