Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialmartyfive @martyfive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026< We will be with you soon, Jesse/Dylan Faden > #controlresonant 6704198
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialGuggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Self-Portrait by Max Beckmann, 1938 botfrens.com/collections/212/conten… 0304
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialHagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I think there's lots to be said about this almost-John-Oliver-style of communication that makes a complex issue maximally accessible. The political responsibility of socialists is to help people become political subjects in their own right, and I think this stuff can play an important part 14511
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off 494111918
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Fascinating detail. 91936704
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026“Winning is the worst thing that could happen to the left” is a genre of commentary that you can expect to get more and more popular now that the “These wackos will never win” genre has lost its plausibility. 302512460
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialDavid Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 10/08/2026On tough days when I need a laugh, I come back to this. Reply with your faves! 461
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialCao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 03/07/2026it is actually wild how we might be the only real democracy where our largest metro areas don't really matter in presidential politics because the electoral college + polarization. 210816
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialDel @del.art · 21/06/2026Game devs, pre-empt layoffs and stay connected with those on your immediate team. If the worst happens and you're all let go, consider forming a co-dev team. A group of experienced engineers, UI/UX specialists, designers, or narrative can be valuable as a small strike team taking on short contracts. 1033449
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Good thread on this ridiculous idea 071
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialA Reader of the FT @a-reader-ft.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Ships hunt far and wide for fuel after Iran war hits supplies— The search for fuel underlines the turmoil the US and Israeli war against Iran has caused across supply chains and shipping routes, increasing costs… www.ft.com/content/1a54... @alicemhancock.bsky.social @financialtimes.comft.comShips hunt far and wide for fuel after Iran war hits suppliesBosses warn of continued disruption despite deal to end conflict and open Strait of Hormuz 133
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialEthan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 19/05/2026*loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* inbox’s haunted 26910
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026one of the big breakthroughs was the US embassy publishing daily AQIs, leading to people acquiring their own monitors and becoming way more aware of it 1362
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026there was a *big* switch on this around 2011, when they effectively killed off climate denialism - previously a reasonably strong minority view inside party circles and among the public, premised on the notion that it was a Western conspiracy to block China's rise foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/31/t...foreignpolicy.comThe Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in ChinaFrom Western plot to party line, how China embraced climate science to become a green-energy powerhouse. 524420
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/04/2026Batteries move energy across time, they don't generate it. Whether they help reduce emissions depends on how they're built and run Data centres are capturing the resources of the energy transition and redirecting them towards helping fossil fuels www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 411537
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialrattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 21/04/2026"time immemorial" typically means "hell if I know" in terms of whether someone knows the origin of something. Which speaks to a lot of traditions - if you don't know where they came from or what context they best work in, why are you doing it? 051
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialAsh Parrish, Kotaku's LeBron James @adashtra.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Ash's acceptable list of Mom games: Venba Silksong Alien Isolation Horizon Zero Dawn Returnal 171006
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialgita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 13/04/2026i think a good question to ask is: why aren't there any "mom games" but "dad game" is a defined genre 4259994
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialsephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026just checking that we all remain aware that when the beauty aesthetics of women (both real and illustrated) veer towards 1) being dangerously thin and 2) looking unnaturally young, it's usually paired with the rise of fascism, glorifying an image of helplessness okay like I said, just checking 622356
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialDave Moore @otherdavemoore.com · 18/04/2026load-bearing footnote for most of the things I write about music 045
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialeminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Older internet slang was based around the neuroses of the American upper middle class - demonstrating control of politeness and vulgarity to mock social conventions, flaunting contempt for the less educated. AAVE outcompeted because it's more useful & relevant - it's how more people actually talk 2164
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialeminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Also, back when the dominant group on the internet was largely white, college educated American nerds, internet slang was formal/informal parodic wordplay (you, le ebin sir, have pwned TEH INTERNETS for today). Internet slang is now AAVE because now access to technology isn't just for the top 5% 3294
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialBen MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 16/04/2026"Housing unaffordability is an indictment of this country." I experience housing-related depression and today has been one of those days. This is not a terribly hopeful piece, but it really helps to hear any homeowner acknowledge, in a realistic way, that change is needed. 24813
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Summary of the ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER argument I presented yesterday at Wesleyan university. Joint work with @katemac.bsky.social 'Iran War Shockwaves & the dawn of the Electric World Order' (slides are publicly available here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan 2309
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialThe labor librarian @laborlibrarian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Still 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… 2749731154
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. 27632
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/04/2026mammals are so badass that the one that rules the ocean can't even breathe underwater 423912
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialMónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This was far too relatable and yet, maybe, just maybe, better things are possible 018354
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 14/04/2026it used to be you were taking a huge reliability risk buying used... but the reality is that cars have become vastly more reliable in recent decades. 100,000 miles is just getting broken-in nowadays. 1121
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I have a new piece in Time Magazine about building a Wage Standard. Link: time.com/article/2026... 34912
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialMichael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The big secret about vibe coding is that it's exactly as meandering and mistake-prone as every other type of LLM, the difference is that because it can test and refine its own output (and summon up addl instances to do it), it can sometimes produce usable results as long as its tests are correct 121
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. 05516
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g... A typographic carnival. 14521114
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialTimothy™️ (Not Tim) @posttim.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I fucking love Raymond Williams’s Marxism and Literature. I found some Riceour helpful on metaphor. Habitations of the Veil by Rebecka Fisher on metaphor and African American poetics/lit was super interesting. 191
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 07/04/2026Jawdroppingly helpful. This is what we need to educate people about how our networks actually work—and are governed—under the UI. 210337
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialJigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026One of the most persistent myths in energy is that high-renewables grids require months or even years of backup to survive “dunkelflaute” — those rare periods of low wind and solar output. That claim is often far more ideology than analysis. www.energyintel.com/00000194-848...energyintel.comCan Nuclear Help Europe’s ‘Dunkelflaute’ Renewables Challenge?Low wind and sun in the North Sea increase electricity price volatility in Northern Europe, fueling debate over nuclear energy's role in stabilizing renewables. 612729
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/04/2026This is only tangentially related, but I remember going to Versailles and learning they didn't have toilets and that servants shat in stairwells and like Teotihuacan had proper plumbing 300 years prior. But ok. 2069878
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialAlisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I truly think it depends on the person. I watched a lot of TV, but I also spent a ton of time with friends, in person, face-to-face, in the real world. I'd argue that spaces for gatherings like malls, small event venues, etc. has had more of an impact on in-person going away than smart phones. 3585
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/04/2026i wonder if AOC’s early clashes with the democratic establishment PLUS the unhinged reaction to her from republicans have given her some of the “both sides hate her so she must be Independent” vibe that goes a long way with low propensity voters 1475018553
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.social🐈⬛🎃🔪 Adam Jay 🍁💀👻 @bullgooseparty.bsky.social · 07/04/2026All around the world, center left parties are desperate to find a solution to their unpopularity that isn’t giving up horrible neoliberal policies that everyone hates 211530
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 06/04/2026NASA did this with despite a budget slashed to lemonade stand numbers so the government could subsidize 20 gazillion dollars of capitalist vanity projects that have gotten about as far from earth as a well thrown football. 8977251
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 05/04/2026The greatest 61851230
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Background paintings by Kevin Dart for The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show (2015–2017), DreamWorks Animation Television 3865187
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialTravis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 05/04/2026We'll hear a lot about the bravery and heroism of the US military soldiers who rescued the F-15E pilot, and nothing about the Iranian people that pilot killed in his missions or the many Iranians who were killed to bring him out of Iran. 431972
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialAshwin Varma @ashwinvarma97.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Melanoma. Metastatic melanoma was basically a death sentence as recently as 2008. Immunotherapy (which was my job!!) has completely transformed outcomes for metastatic melanoma). 664679
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialCaroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 03/04/2026💯 this. States are facing significant budget problems. We need a new set of state policy goals that are grounded in the realities of state budgets. For example: 1️⃣ Creating new state financing vehicles, like Illinois did last year on transportation. Polluter pays and cap-and-invest are others. 1124
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialCaroline Spears @spears.bsky.social · 03/04/20262️⃣ Insurance market reform. Thanks to climate catastrophes, many states have spent huge $$s bailing out failing insurance markets. We need to pass insurance policy that *insulates* state budgets from climate disaster market meltdowns. 0124
Reposted by @cosmicatallena.bsky.socialadvait @advaitarun.bsky.social · 03/04/2026the exceptions are, like, port authorities, bond banks, and industrial development authorities that have public enterprise functions that are more powerful than you'd expect but are pretty underutilized 382
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