this happened at PFE? weird and bad!

(these are just the ones I can name on top of my head!)

Jesse Jackson and Marvin Gaye playing one-on-one.

there have been so many “never again”
shootings in my middle aged life

1989 Stockton schoolyard shootings (34 kids shot)

1993 California St (14 shot)

1999 Columbine (34 shot)

2012 Sandy Hook (30 shot)

2013 Charleston (10 shot)

2016 Pulse nightclub (107 shot)

2022 Uvalde (39 shot)

there have been so many “never again”
shootings in my middle aged life

1989 Stockton schoolyard shootings (34 kids shot)

1993 California St (14 shot)

1999 Columbine (34 shot)

2012 Sandy Hook (30 shot)

2013 Charleston (10 shot)

2016 Pulse nightclub (107 shot)

2022 Uvalde (39 shot)

wow that’s awful. was this in Oakland?

I will donate!

I once had to transfer at Heathrow when the security agents were doing a work slowdown

the lines were massive

I was in a tunnel (maybe under terminal 4?) crammed in with hundreds of people

about the only time in my life I’ve worried about stampedes / crushing

avoided Heathrow ever since

NEW:

Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases

The tech giant has been the overwhelming buyer of carbon removal technologies, accounting for 90%+ of industry volume last year. Now sources tell me it’s pausing its voluntary buying.

a @heatmap.news exclusive

heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

This isn't how I wanted things to happen, but it is really funny that Trump might be the greatest decarbonization president ever

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

That 6.5 GW existing is peak production - yesterday the peak was about 3.9 GW of wind.

But yes I think that’s without much of this online.

Largest renewable project in U.S. history - 3.5 GW of wind in New Mexico - begins delivering power to California and Arizona.

@CaliforniaISO has taken operational control - will count as in-state wind

Will speed up California's push for 100% WindWaterSolar

www.eenews.net/articles/lar...

An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.

Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

There's no call for how invested I got in this.

how is this literally happening in real life

implies all the others ARE their views

You know what really needs a Prop 65 warning?

The Candidate Statements for Governor packet.

Here's a random sample:

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%
1/10

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The company sent it to me when I was a tech journalist, hoping for a review. Welp, here's my much-deserved good review, 26 years later. The Adaptive Sound Technologies sleep + sound is excellent, and will last you decades. That is the rarest thing in late capitalism. www.soundofsleep.com/soundsleep/

Eight children killed in Louisiana shooting, police say The children, aged from one to 14 years old, were killed in a shooting that police are describing as a

Another family annihilation case. Awful.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sketches of two characters from The Pitt. Santos leans aggressively over a counter while Mel stands behind her sweating and wearing an apologetic smile. Santos says, “she asked for NO pickles.” Mel says, “i-, r-really, it’s fine.” hashtag mentos for life

why do I always fall for this exact ship dynamic

At the foamer holy grail in Chongqing, China.

From the dice community on Reddit: Lou Zocchi has died Explore this post and more from the dice community

Word is that Lou Zocchi passed today.

He was one of the earliest distributors of RPGs, helping them to get out to players across the country.

He published foundational early RPGs like Space Patrol and Superhero: 2044 (the latter the first superhero RPG).

www.reddit.com/r/dice/comme...

yeah I learned my lesson in November 2016. was convinced he’d wreck the economy. turned out I was wrong!

incredible exchange here, this website has the juice

is he back on that?