Reposted by Ainsw0rthEllie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem 10385251964
Reposted by Ainsw0rthDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115623174
Reposted by Ainsw0rthAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/09/2026I highly recommend you reading and sharing this story btw. We sent our Editor-at-Large to Ukraine for the third time in a year to see what life is like doing basic research in the most challenging of circumstances — and why Ukrainians are persisting despite being abandoned by some of its allies:thexylom.comUkrainian Mycologists Are Not Giving UpAs the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Ukrainian mushroom scientists struggle in their quotidian work. 14318
Reposted by Ainsw0rthWildPartyInviteDecliner @ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Francis Fukuyama keeps the winning streak alive. 414231633
Reposted by Ainsw0rthThe Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.theverge.comThere is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter seriesYou can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry. 366201169886
Reposted by Ainsw0rthHalloween III: Season of the Ben @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · 29/04/2026What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all. 3854117389
Ainsw0rth @ainsw0rth.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This analysis is excellent, with some interesting data points for the sharp-eyed DC fan. Chatted with Nate a bit. Seems pretty clear that DC has been working on corners as the season goes on. Also pretty clear that Barlett is consistently dangerous, if we can get him better service. 011
Ainsw0rth @ainsw0rth.bsky.social · 07/08/2026hankgreen.com/smush · Aug 6 409 pts · ★★ pangram first · clean plate 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞hankgreen.comSmushA daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required. 000
Reposted by Ainsw0rthmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 03/08/2026change in societal norms from "a 14 year old is capable of watching 3 kids for an evening" to "a 14 year old can't be trusted to be in public unchaperoned" 2180639
Reposted by Ainsw0rthCJ Coreschi @cjcoreschi.bsky.social · 02/08/2026So many studies over years have proven again and again: People generally do not want to commit crimes! People are *driven* to crimes when legitimate pathways/lifestyles are made impossible/unsustainable. Give people the ability to live and do things legally, and they do! 171
Reposted by Ainsw0rthjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026yep. modern fascism is in a lot of ways an attempt to fulfill the fantasy of adulthood without responsibility. to act with the impunity you imagine adults have! 1070365
Reposted by Ainsw0rthSeth Vertelney @svertelney.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Mauricio Pochettino is now, in fact, the winningest USMNT coach in World Cup historyusatoday.comPochettino already becomes winningest USMNT World Cup coach everTwo weeks ago, Mauricio Pochettino had never coached a World Cup game. Now he is already the winningest coach the USMNT has ever had at the World Cup. 110512
Reposted by Ainsw0rthDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I have more good things to say about FIRE than most people on here, but this stuff is clueless. It assumes that the ideal university is one where faculty contribute equally to the political parties that support and oppose science. 3347979
Reposted by Ainsw0rthAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/05/2026The fact that Nature allowed this piece to be published like this suggests institutional capture, much as what happened at the BMJ. That's what the anti-trans side does, capture institutions to silence research into GAC while publishing hackery designed to attack it. 214112
Reposted by Ainsw0rthAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/05/2026You cannot simultaneously argue the laws were too inactive to matter AND that people talking about the laws is what actually caused the harm. That's an ideological claim designed to shift blame from legislation to advocates by citing other SEGM authors to launder the blame. 215012
Reposted by Ainsw0rthAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out 289161043955
Reposted by Ainsw0rthThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Late-stage capitalist worker delivers burrito taxi to aging man in public housing 0486
Reposted by Ainsw0rthTimothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 14/04/2026the governor said more or less directly "we didn't ask for this and we're not going to make our taxpayers pay for hosting it" which i think is a perfectly reasonable take? 2123936
Reposted by Ainsw0rthMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai... 19778592275
Reposted by Ainsw0rthHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 11/04/2026My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching. 483106891545
Ainsw0rth @ainsw0rth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026"Good policies aren't good politics unless you take credit constantly for them." Put it on a fkn T-shirt. Yes. 010
Reposted by Ainsw0rthDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/04/2026we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important! 11372871393
Reposted by Ainsw0rthBrian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Thousands of GSA employees lost their jobs during last year's DOGE rampage. Now (surprise!) the agency is on a hiring spree. from @leahfeiger.bsky.social and @zoeschiffer.bsky.socialwired.comA Year After DOGE Cuts, GSA Now Plans to Hire Hundreds of EmployeesThe General Services Administration is hiring “approximately 400 positions,” according to an internal email viewed by WIRED. Last year the agency lost thousands of workers as part of DOGE’s rampage. 111344
Reposted by Ainsw0rthJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This means that the right wing basically has a way of submitting unsworn, unvetted amicus briefs directly to a member of SCOTUS, unlimited in quantity and content. How—sincerely—can you regulate that sort of vector for propaganda? Alito is cooked, obv, but I mean more generally. 12525122
Reposted by Ainsw0rthRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers 234104243454
Reposted by Ainsw0rthZack Labe @zacklabe.com · 19/03/2026Even in a world of extremes, some events still stand out to me. This is one. All-time monthly records are being shattered. The size of this ridge across the western U.S. is truly striking for March, and we see a very clear climate change connection. Explore: csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif... 321068521
Reposted by Ainsw0rthKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Never let the public forget this was a war of choice 0174
Reposted by Ainsw0rthTim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 11/03/2026If Ellison finances his WBD deal w/billions from China & Arab states, "would CNN & CBS News have to disclose in all of their pieces that they are partly owned by nation-states with a vested interest in the conflicts?" asks @oliverdarcy.bsky.social. They'd have an ethical obligation to do so.status.newsEllison’s Foreign Funding FurorWhile David Ellison is vowing to protect CNN’s independence as he prepares to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, Democratic senators are raising fresh concerns to Status about Paramount’s expected use ... 38127
Reposted by Ainsw0rthAkshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026UK's Climate Change Committee has some of the smartest minds working on modeling the costs of how to get to net zero. And this assessment is likley to be applicable to any fossil-fuel import dependent country. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comNet Zero Costs Less Than One Fossil Fuel Shock, UK’s CCC SaysThe cost of meeting net zero is less than a single fossil fuel price shock, the UK’s official climate adviser said. 39653
Reposted by Ainsw0rthRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 10/03/2026you should contribute to the anti-freeze gallery: www.antifreeze.gallery/contributeantifreeze.galleryContribute to The Antifreeze ArchiveHow to help archive the history of the American resistance. 054
Reposted by Ainsw0rthMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit: 10748561007
Reposted by Ainsw0rthChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026oh good i was worried it was white supremacy and capitalism 203166674
Reposted by Ainsw0rthDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 09/03/2026It's been painful to see space community people who seem very decent humans, nevertheless "oh that's just Elon" away anything Musk says. What would it take? We'd have ditched Von Braun in the 60s if he insisted on spouting Nazi views in public, Saturn V be damned 614017
Reposted by Ainsw0rthderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/03/2026interesting that it's taken as a given that the US should have a hand in shaping who the iranian people choose as their leader 962503265
Reposted by Ainsw0rthDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 03/03/2026So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed. 600111553460
Reposted by Ainsw0rth👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 01/03/2026Sadly, it is an appropriate time to re-up this thread. Among all the other terrible things about this war, gasoline is about to become much more expensive for families that have been give too few alternatives. Here's how state lawmakers can help. 17325
Reposted by Ainsw0rthEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The Supreme Court has decided to hear a major climate case against fossil fuel companies Alito has not recused himself, despite owning nearly $200,000 in fossil fuel stocks—including in Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips, which are being sued in cases that would be directly affected by a SCOTUS rulingheated.worldSam Alito has an oil money problem30 percent of Alito’s individual stock portfolio is directly tied to fossil fuels. 29721367
Reposted by Ainsw0rthGrace Panetta @gracepanetta.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization 105138092484
Reposted by Ainsw0rthHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books. 222223676031
Reposted by Ainsw0rthAndrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability. 6154912993
Reposted by Ainsw0rthLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/02/2026This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered. 15695933755
Reposted by Ainsw0rthMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/02/2026BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today! 227154212779
Reposted by Ainsw0rthElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy 32077091587
Reposted by Ainsw0rthKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/02/2026the "left" also broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades 262738
