AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

“There is a certain gesture of virility, be it one’s own or someone else’s, that calls for suspicion. It expresses independence, sureness of the power to command, the tacit complicity of all males.” — Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno

This is your reminder that it's been ten months since the assassination of Melissa Hortman, her husband and her dog, and there hasn't been even a hint of justice for her family, friends or colleagues.

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Whimsy as an act of radical defiance

I’ll have Mayor’s babies now, please.

“Like the Tramp scares in the nineteenth century, or the Red scares in the twentieth, the contemporary Gang scare has become an imaginary class relationship, a terrain of pseudo-knowledge and fantasy projection.”

— City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis

“Ideas spring from a source that is not contained within one man’s personal life. We do not create them; they create us.” Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933. Scary times know scary times.

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.

"Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials."

I think most people would prefer this. #Science

“If language were a commerce, punning would be its usury.”

— Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson

🎵 Jazz — a 20-track playlist

20 tracks • 101:57
Curated by GetMusic on Indie Crates

@getmusic.bsky.social @willebrant.bsky.social @fold.fm @wildergoose.bsky.social

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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

“The taboo on talking shop and the inability to talk to each other are in reality the same thing. Because everything is business, the latter is unmentionable like rope in a hanged man’s home.” — Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno

“tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose, a solace still glimpsed by those embroiled in purposes;” — Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno

Greta Thunberg is right.

We are just relearning this!

“The Greek word kosmos can denote many kinds of order—planetary, governmental, social, sartorial, linguistic—as if all the different strands of human and natural complication in the world were woven out of one texture, extending over both space and time.” — Economy of the Unlost by Anne Carson

Theee chords and the truth. That’s all you need.

Seven Strange, Secret SFF Versions of History - Reactor From time-travel hijinks to occult weirdness in Las Vegas to an alternate Space Race...

Sweetly honored by inclusion on this list of the secret and the strange: reactormag.com/seven-strang...

There it is there

Attn Wash 9 Baumgartner must go!

Line graph time series of monthly mean surface temperature anomalies for the Antarctic region only. Every month is shown from 1940 to 2026. There is a long-term warming trend in all months of the year, but less obvious than the other regions.

Last month was full of climate extremes around the world, and it can be hard to summarize it all. Even temperatures for the #Antarctic region were at record high levels

Using data from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social ERA5 reanalysis.

“personal pronouns that fold over one another like hands.” — Anne Carson

“Perhaps poets are ones who waste what their fathers would save.” — Economy of the Unlost: Reading Simonides of Keos with Paul Celan by Anne Carson

For sure

Leonora Carrington lives. Born April 6, 1917, I just saw her and her hearing trumpet the other day. Stride strong and story on.

@nisishawl.bsky.social Hey, it's me, Brian--got your msg via email but don't have your deets! If you (temp!) follow back you can DM me, and I'll give you mine. But: yes, really really want to be back in touch. Love back atcha, BC - PS sorry to reach out this way, all I can think of at the moment.

Ok, now do the bass clef.

Artistic reconstruction of the Jiangchuan Biota, ~554-539 million years ago. Credit: Xiaodong Wang

The Jiangchuan Biota of Southwest China shows Ediacaran organisms living alongside early bilaterians and the oldest deuterostomes - filling a key gap in how complex animal life diversified before the Cambrian explosion! 🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...