August has arrived which means it's time to get to know the authors of our next BFS event! @shonak.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @ianthegreen.bsky.social @rtorrubia.com
Matt Thompson
@mvthomster.bsky.social
PhD in Plant Physiology. Building platforms for agriculture. E-bike commuter. I block a lot: >50% of my followers are blocked bots & aggregators. ->Plant trees EVERYWHERE<- LBCA-raised, he/him, 3 kids #trees #plantscience #agriculture #culturalevolution
Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....
working-class Downriver autoworker suburbs overwhelmingly nominating a progressive trans woman to represent them, you love to see it
I was wondering who would do this first
Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social · 24h agoyou would think but NO
What's amazing to me is that in the current political climate of killing any and all basic science research by the gov, we have all these biohacker types pretending they are doing science by spying on their children. 🤯
They turned the friggin' frogs gay. Buy one now at store.theonion.com.
Biked 1 mile to coffee. Then biked another mile to the pharmacy. Then biked 1 mile home. 95% on protected (separated) bike infra. More Americans deserve the freedom of a life like this (if they want it).
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Haven't seen it said - the best screen version of The Odyssey is clearly AFTER HOURS
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
watched Casablanca last night as a family, and my son asked if there was a sequel, just with Rick and Cpt. Renault <3
So far this year in New York City, there have been over 33,000 cases of car drivers running red lights, over 22,000 cases of car drivers failing to yield right of way to pedestrians, and over 50,000 cases of dangerous speeding in cars. But yeah, tell me how e-bikers are the ones ignoring the rules.
The kids were up in the high country this weekend and saw 3 beavers while on their way. Cell phone video with zoom. #mammals
This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
I’m somewhere the rich, wet, fermented odor of decayed vegetable matter is just about all you smell. A welcome change from parched LA.
Matt Thompson@mvthomster.bsky.social · 6d agovery long-delayed and (imho) extremely deserved vacation starts tomorrow
There was a time that Republicans were dominant in California politics. It was their immigration policy and rhetoric that undid them then, too.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d agoRemarkable: Dems have now pulled even with the GOP *on immigration* in two new national polls. A third finds Trump 22 points underwater on the the issue, and *32 points* underwater among independents. Trump has absolutely destroyed the GOP advantage on immigration. newrepublic.com/article/2138...
love to see Cunningham get loudly booed by the Moda Center crowd whenever she touches the ball
Any Democrat who doesn’t support DC Statehood now should be kicked out of the party
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d agoA GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
I think if we read between the lines of our contemporary and near-contemporary sources it's pretty clear that Qui-Gon Jinn was Anakin's father. The Jedi sources of course won't admit this directly but what they *don't* say makes any other explanation unlikely, to my mind anyway.
“Darth Vader” was an amalgamation of various Imperial Era generals and cyborgs that were combined in histories written centuries after the fact