Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
kaiju (but make it haiku)
breath is hot laser
we lay in rubbled wasteland
then shed scales, trade love
Absolutely.
"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."
That's a pretty simple and effective message.
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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.
If you see this, post something orange from your gallery
A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!
Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....
One of my favourite books!
A round manhole cover with a squiggly concentric pattern and the letters PAM.
Near Monet’s garden, Giverny France #ManholeCoverMonday
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I think about this surprisingly often.
Cover shot of a book on a slight angle showing its spine and its shadow on a light gray background. The cover is bright yellow and white with red bold text that reads “END TIMES FASCISM” Additional text is in black and reads: And the Fight for the Living World The authors’ names follow in black text: Naomi Klein Astra Taylor
One year after our original essay appeared, @astra.bsky.social and I are thrilled to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World.
On bookshelves Sept 15th and now available for pre-order.
Canada: is.gd/RNravu
US: is.gd/U3nR3H
1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.
WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)
that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵
The Ascension, by Paolo Veronese, 1585, 📸 by @gwephoto
For whatever reason, about six months ago I found myself googling articles about Gib Bickel, curious about his history. These two were good deep dives into his philosophy as a retailer and how he built up The Laughing Ogre
www.tcj.com/laughing-ogr...
icv2.com/articles/new...
Gib Bickel ran Columbus, Ohio’s Laughing Ogre for most of its existence. That was my local shop from 1998 until I finally ended my pull a while after moving out here. Nice guy. Really friendly. Always remembered me & my dad, even if we hadn’t been by in a while.
Condolences to his family & friends
Let's not forget two of the "great minds" that got us here: Peter "Jailbird" Navarro and Howard "I Took My Kids To Epstein Island" Lutnick
My failsafe method: get that blank page open & write *w/o pausing* stuff like "I'm terrified of being terrible, I've got nothing to say, I don't want to do this" & I promise that within a few minutes of uncensored flow ur brain will go "yeah but what if..." & you have to honour that & follow it.
Wow! Congratulations to you both! ❤️
A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.
image shows green binary text on a black background, Matrix style, with an orange silhouette of an ape; red text reads #APEFEST "Don't look at the ape!" I made the cover image with stock, a bunch of effects, and this public domain artwork: https://artvee.com/dl/gorilla-2/
Do you like found footage horror? With a cosmic bent?? Well. 💀My flash fiction #ApeFest is now live (it's alive... alive!!!!) at @gavagai.com !
gavagai.com/posts/2749
Favourite author discovery by far this year is Jowita Bydlowska, I’ve been gobbling up her books.
Jowita's got a banger of a story in DEVOURING TOMORROW, the anthology I co-edited with @jeffdupuis.bsky.social!
www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...
The war in the Middle East has accelerated lifted demand for alternatives to volatile fossil fuels, setting 2026 up to be the year of the battery.
It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies
Okay, one more: my Dad was a film professor at SMU in Dallas, TX and he was also a photographer and experimental filmmaker.
Here are a handful of his short films: www.youtube.com/@donpasquella
"Magneto and Lifeboat" Parts 1 and 2 feature me as a toddler!
We live in different countries, so I don't get to see him nearly as often as I'd like. I was able to go see him around Christmastime with my kids and that was a real gift. I'm always shocked to see him at first: who's this old dude? And then I see myself in the mirror: who's THAT old dude? 😆
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I just had a long phone conversation with my 90-year-old father. He's still mentally sharp as ever so we were bantering like crazy & cracking each other up. Physically it's a different story... He's ready to check out anytime, so I really cherish these phone calls.
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