Keep thinking that cruel optimism has shifted toward something like cruel inertia—feeling the enshitification of everything but repeatedly choosing the wan comfort of stasis over the minor inconveniences of salutary change
Turturro Was Right About Everything
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Waking up to discover that evidence has been released proving something we all knew. The Supreme Court's efforts to stop the Obama clean power plant rules were rooted in explicit, corrupt efforts to protect the fossil fuel industry.
Sometimes it's hard to understand the causes of climate change. While the basic idea -- we emit greenhouse gases, which warm the planet -- is well known, it's easy to get lost in the details.
But here's a summary with some more detail -- showing the fundamental sources & sinks of warming pollution.
Bad news - we'll soon blow through the carbon budget for stabilizing global temperature at 1.5C
Good news - progress on clean energy suggests it is possible to stabilize by 2C www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What does the science say? Neither is a magic threshold. Every bit of warming matters.
On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear
Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.
Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
The movement beats the machine
The end of history
Try to find a beverage whose packaging is more 90s-coded than this. You can’t
on liberty urges us to be able to defend our views against all manner of alternatives, but does not demand we associate with people we think are setting the wrong example
but simply, you do not have an obligation to be chummy with people, to go on their podcast, to pretend you like them
Two mushrooms with orange stems and red caps. On one of the stems sits a very tiny brown toad! photo by Diogo Luiz
A closeup of the tiny toad from the previous photo, perched on an orange mushroom stem! They are light brown in color with small, symmetrical markings in darker brown! They have very skinny legs! If you look very closely, they only have a couple of toes on each foot! photo by Diogo Luiz
Our friend the Izecksohn's Flea Toad is one of the smallest toads in the world, with adults averaging a just over a third of an inch long! They live in southern Brazil! (photos by Diogo Luiz)
"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.
This debate is stepped on
boy if you guys are mad that Geese hired some semi shady PR outfit you’re gonna haaaaaate what every bestseller author is doing
Full Psych Science paper from @bxjaeger.bsky.social available at:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here is the pattern of judgments for the individual targets:
When I heard 2122 from 3D country I knew this band would be huge…
When I heard 2122 from 3D country I knew this band would be huge…
This is FANTASTIC news. A street redesign that connects Grand Army Plaza to Prospect Park will be a huge win for a safer & a more livable Brooklyn. (1/2)
A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.
I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.
Walked past the old post office building yesterday, across from Union Station, and was struck by the inscription (which I’d somehow never noticed):
“Messenger of sympathy and love /
Servant of parted friends /
Consoler of the lonely /
Bond of the scattered family /
Enlarger of the common life.”
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
He liked the way she began her fierce, scornful sentences so often with a weak, conciliatory 'well.' She cut the ground out from under them before they ever got going, let them hang unsupported in the void. She had courage, great courage.
Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...
Deals are my art form. Some people get their kicks in different ways, but for me it's always been doing beautiful deals.
Deeply shameful to be an American right now. The only thing more shameful is being in a position of power and doing nothing to stop this
"The common sense of mankind demands that law shall not stop with the punishment of petty crimes... It must also reach men who possess themselves of great power and make deliberate and concerted use of it to set in motion evils which leave no home in the world untouched." —Robert Jackson, Nuremberg
Global warming is a slowly meandering ghost
