To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

If you go to an area that voted for Trump at 90%, and you reach them with the correct message? Slightly less than half will still vote for Trump. Happens🤷🏿‍♂️

But slightly more than half will not. Because their support for US racism was based upon a series of lies that are in opposition to their values

It's evil to train people to fall for scams, even if you happen to not be scamming anyone.

Scams work by using urgency (act now before it's too late!). This overrides your skepticism with regards to how the money will actually help someone.

I am of course referring to Democratic fundraising texts.

"What is actually scaring the right is that young women, by taking responsibility [to wait to have children until they're stable adults], are building real power in the world." 💯💯💯

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

John in a blue and pink shirt lettered shirt saying “empathy is cool, actually” on a black background and I’m standing behind him pointing to the lettering on the shirt

Important PSA from @scalzi.com and his hype man (me): EMPATHY IS COOL, ACTUALLY

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

you can add -e to any word to class it up, farte, cocke, balle, cume, turde, it works on anything. the e stands for 'elegance'

They once asked me to write something for them (when I was a postdoc) and I asked what their standard rate is, and they ghosted me 👻

why don't I share links from The Conversation? This is why.

This is exactly it. Even most people who would be considered well-off, wealthy, or rich by most standards still wouldn't meet this threshold!! It truly is a tiny fraction of people squawking loudly about numbers they would never even notice if they weren't told about it!

They're just so WEIRD.

We should never have stopped saying it. We should be shouting it from the rooftops.

A beautiful 80s-style glamour shot of a raccoon. You know the ones, where there are two images of the same person/raccoon. In this one there is a smaller version of the raccoon in the lower left corner, with a larger, slightly faded image of the raccoon in the upper right corner that is looking in the opposite direction. The background consists of beautiful streams of colors in pinks and purples and blues. The text reads: I'm sorry for being annoying. It will happen again. @nocturnaltrashposts

I feel this so deeply. This meme is me.

It would happen less if coming forward didn't have such a high chance of destroying your life, so you'd speak when the stakes were lower.

If you want less suspicious timing, don't participate in an accuser's destruction.

Taking out the trash in the replies but for those I've yet to block:

"Isn't the timing convenient?" that's what happens when you realize you're going to have to come forward NOW or the villain of your story will have even more power and it's now or never.

Make Teenagers Pregnant Again is going to be hard to fit on a hat.

The economy is a disaster, people in power won’t provide pre or postnatal care and are punishing women who even MISCARRY, gee I wonder why young people aren’t itching to get pregnant and churn out babies.

By doing so Kennedy is killing one of, if not the most, promising areas of cancer research in decades. A disaster of enormous proportions.

Bookmarking to read later... Link to preprint in thread.

(And yes, they mean "causal.")

One sabbatical side goal is to stop and rethink my mentoring and pedagogy strategies, not just constantly react. #AcademicSky

Screenshot of tweet from @markpopham: “Keeping track of things with the following rhyme: If the Naomi be Klein you’re doing just fine if the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy. Ooooof.”

Just since it’s come up a lot: the coiner of the verse about Naomi differentiation is @markpopham.bsky.social

I literally use this every time I encounter a Naomi on the Internet.

WHAT WE KNOW, 11pm:

—Liberals flip seat on Wisconsin supreme court.
—Also flip important school board seats in WI, OK, MO.
—Dems win Waukesha mayor race.
—GOP defends MTG's seat, but Dems way overperform.
—Big MO county rejects property tax freeze.

oh my god lmao they are reaching previously unheard of levels of cooked

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County.

Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

Liberals Gain Seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court, Adding to Firewall in Voting Cases - Bolts Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled by liberals through at least 2030.  Chris Taylor, a... Read More

Wisconsin liberals have just won another state Supreme Court election, in what is shaping up to be a blowout.

Importantly: Liberals are now sure to hold a majority on this court during the 2028 cycle and through at least 2030.

New in @boltsmag.org:

boltsmag.org/wisconsin-su...

rural Wisconsin counties that went for Trump by roughly 20% voted for the liberal candidate today.

I haven't gotten to post about this yet — but the right appears to be losing plenty of school board races today.

whenever I think about it I just remind myself that ultimately all these people care about is money, and nukes = no more money because no more planet

These aren’t all new releases but here’s an absolutely incredible treasure trove of the Books of Bluesky. The creativity and originality and skill is genuinely mind blowing.

bsky.app/profile/erin...