Have you ever wanted a Cybertruck for your face? We've got you covered

"Sweet!" said influenza in response to the announcement

Study: One in five soil species face extinction | Conservation International In a hidden world underfoot, countless species could go quietly extinct, a new Conservation International and IUCN study warns.

www.conservation.org/news/study-o...

Buckle up.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

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Why would they even bother having her own? She’s not gonna have any interview in good faith.

Please don't use speaker phone while in library. Ask for headphones at the front desk.

Only a fallen society needs this sign

Honestly. The word that came to mind was “undergrad.”

Yep. That’s some bad typography

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Bw this silliness and Pitchfork comparing Pavement to the Beatles, it’s not a strong era of music criticism we’re in right now

LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024

Oh Canada...what's happening?

LNG Canada, the country’s first large-scale LNG export facility, might have flared more gas than any other plant on earth last year.

flared 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025

thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock Santa Marta conference born out of frustration at Cop summits, where renewable progress has been stalled by major polluters

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock

Gah, wasn't able to finish this comment (did BlueSky crash or something?). Anyway, it isn't about "traditional" nonsense, and I'm annoyed at the Economist for casting it as such; it's so blithely ignorant

Western men are going abroad to find traditional wives Frustration with modern dating has fuelled the rise of “passport bros”

True to form, The Economist misses the point, casting this phenomenon as an economically rational decision for men seeking a "traditional" wife instead of a symptom of a culture that enables men to view women not as equals but as dolls they can control. So gross.
www.economist.com/culture/2026...

Only at the end does this piece breezily concede that there may be a resultant power imbalance. Men like these don't want women who are equal partners. They want someone they can control. Casting this as some kind of rational economic decision for men seeking a "traditional wife" ...

You know … if you start building these in more places, the cost will come down. And energy production is only one benefit — the economic and health benefits of the localized cooling effects these will have are sizable.

I recently saw an ad for a comms/mktg job for a conservative NGO and it was explicit that the job would involve using AI liberally (lol) to generate large amounts of content, and the lack of care or intellectual honesty required to do this is of a piece with all of this <gestures at everything>

I literally laughed out loud

Omfg

I often run into folks who seem slightly confused about where our greenhouse gas emissions come from.

Many folks seem to think that greenhouse gases are basically "CO2 from burning fossil fuels" -- but that's only ~61% correct.

The other ~39% of our emissions stem from other gases and processes.

This week is the first at the Daily News since Heath Freeman's Alden Capital laid off our entire print production staff.

It's embarrassing to open the paper we work so hard for each day and find mistakes like this.

Is this the level of editing New Yorkers can count on going forward?

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announces it has found a buyer to keep the newspaper open Owners of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said they have found a buyer who had agreed to keep the newspaper open, less than a month before it was due to shut down.

The nonprofit that runs the successful, Pulitzer-winning Baltimore Banner is going to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Of all the possible outcomes here, this is likely the best we could have hoped for.

apnews.com/article/pitt...

In a First for the U.S., Renewables Generate More Power Than Natural Gas In March, for the first time, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the transition to clean power. However, rising power demand is complicating the shift away from fossil fuels by extending the lives of many aging coal power plants.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

Well for one, the headline would have been "Trump calls himself a modern-day Jesus. Religious experts disagree"

Reporters and editors write things like "trade barbs" or "exchanged blows" or "hit back" because they think it insulates them from bias and instead it just makes asymmetrical conflicts seem symmetrical and it's anti-journalism and we should stop.

No thank you

Oh, Arsenal.

So... what I infer here is that cutting the Iran War short by a week could cover the USPS's losses for a year