Reposted by AlexJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Give Inde Navarrette a damn Oscar nomination I say, that was a command performance that I’m still thinking about the next day…static.klipy.comObsession 2025Alt: Inde Navarrette in Obsession 5382 0
Reposted by Alexdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight. 210284675682 0
Reposted by AlexPush The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I cannot believe I’m reading another article debating on allowing cars into Pike Place Market after a successful pilot program showed the car free experiment was a huge financial success and wildly popular with customers and businesses www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...seattletimes.comPike Place Market’s car experiment may be confusing. Here’s what’s happeningStrategically placed flower plants and 700-pound barriers will keep vehicles out of the Market through the summer and during the World Cup. 510112 0
Reposted by AlexTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026A win for the Philadelphia left: Chris Rabb has prevailed in the open primary to replace the retiring incumbent Dwight Evans, who was supporting a competitor. Rabb is a shoo-in for the general election and to join Congress. 81086154 0
Alex @originalfuture0.bsky.social · 04/05/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/c...nytimes.comIn Permissive Amsterdam, Ads for Fossil Fuels or Meat Are Now Verboden 011 0
Reposted by AlexToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 01/05/2026It sucks that EV adoption (fucking Tesla excluded) has been so poor in the United States. It's awful and it's detrimental to the environment and to the competitiveness of the US automotive industry going forward. The Big 3 is not to blame. Donald Trump is. 15/15 521100137 0
Reposted by AlexChimney Sweeps Local 420 @bobbby.online · 03/05/2026Good read christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/personal/...christophermeiklejohn.comRift · For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work.For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work. 081 0
Alex @originalfuture0.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Great news for Philly EV owners: billypenn.com/2026/04/30/p...billypenn.comEasing the struggle to charge an EV in PhiladelphiaHundreds of curbside and parking lot chargers could be installed on Philly streets over the next few years. 000 0
Reposted by AlexCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/05/2026Anyway the real question is, and always has been, "what about the incredibly wealthy fossil fuel companies trying to keep us from having free energy from the sky instead of expensive energy from the ground." 339376 0
Alex @originalfuture0.bsky.social · 28/04/2026www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-...guernicamag.comThree Pages of Don QuixoteHere was a woman who had lived through a dictatorship, been through three marriages, and built a brilliant career in a relentlessly male-dominated field. And she was happy. 000 0
Reposted by AlexPush The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 27/04/2026This photo is justifying the bus lane 21117 0
Reposted by AlexMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 28/04/2026"A Masterclass in Manipulation" | @hankgreen.bsky.social debunks right wing Koch-funded (www.desmog.com/reason-found...) @reason.com's latest disinformation efforts on climate (including their incoherent attack on the #HockeyStick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...youtube.comA Masterclass in ManipulationYouTube video by Hank Green 216861 0
Reposted by AlexJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/04/2026god gives his rattliest shopping carts to his most impatient soldiers 1872972 0
Reposted by AlexL.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Plus Bonus Taquito! Art by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social 09615 0
Reposted by AlexArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 06/04/2026The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon 253161993471 0
Alex @originalfuture0.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/c...nytimes.comThere’s a New Place to Store Greenhouse Gases: In Your Beer 000 0
Reposted by AlexDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/03/2026Electrify _________ Today's fill-in-the-blank is ... Industrial combine harvesters!linttas.comDeveloping electric harvesters and agricultural electrification technologies - Linttas Electric CompanyLINTTAS Electric Company aims to develop the world first electric combine harvester and to radically change the industry approach to agricultural machinery. 1120943 0
Reposted by AlexAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 17/03/2026This is astonishing—a rhetoric steeped so deeply in New York's ethnic history, in grass-roots urban progressivism, in the immigrant experience in the United States. It's not "you should be in solidarity with others," it's "you always have been, we all always have been." 181123253 0
Reposted by AlexChimney Sweeps Local 420 @bobbby.online · 19/02/2026This is a good post even if you think he’s off the deep end after gas town steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampi...steve-yegge.medium.comThe AI VampireThis was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on. 2176 0
Reposted by AlexShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/02/2026"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school 140233505880 0
Reposted by AlexBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/02/2026In the past year, metro Atlanta saw more evictions than all of New York City—despite having *one-quarter* the renters. Multiple Atlanta apartment complexes averaged an eviction a day. "The numbers are mind-blowing," said Grace Hartley of Princeton's Eviction Lab.www-wsbtv-com.cdn.ampproject.orgAtlanta ranks worst in eviction rates with more total evictions than New York CityThe new report found there were multiple complexes that averaged an eviction a day. 6220134 0
Reposted by AlexSteve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 22/02/2026This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen 9969102258 0
Reposted by AlexLegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 04/02/20262026: The concentration camps don't INTEND to kill the (illegally detained) prisoners. The deaths are merely a by-product of neglect, rampant disease, inhumane conditions, refusal to provide medical care, beatings, retribution, and transfer to foreign torture prisons and third world war zones. 12550113 0
Reposted by AlexYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/01/2026The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments. 11673348 0
Reposted by AlexNorm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she? 'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.' From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951) 7890349 0
Reposted by AlexThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/01/2026A pet cow named Veronika can scratch her back with a broom, the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows. “Perhaps the absurd thing was not the absurdity of a cow using tools," one researcher said, "but the absurdity of us never thinking that a cow might be intelligent.”nyti.msCows Use Tools, Too, New Study FindsA pet cow named Veronika can scratch her own back with a broom — the first scientifically documented case of tool use in cows, researchers say. 30496105 0
Reposted by AlexJames Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls 9424682314398 0
Reposted by Alexandré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 23/12/2025via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon 3456941480 0
Reposted by AlexSean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats? 11358531670 0
Reposted by Alexalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 19/12/2025THREAD. Has anyone ever told you that we can't reduce the size and power of the police, prosecutor, surveillance tech, and prison bureaucracies because it's not popular? In my latest newsletter, I debunk that myth. equalityalec.substack.com/p/convention...equalityalec.substack.comConventional Wisdom and "Popularity"And a weird debate I just had. 432085 0
Reposted by AlexChris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025This entire weekend 214341477193 0
Reposted by AlexKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2025Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel 141819280 0
Reposted by AlexThe Onion @theonion.com · 25/11/2025Man Hoping People Notice How Many Folding Chairs He’s Carrying At Once theonion.com/man-hoping-people-noti… 512770249 0
Reposted by AlexBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 12/11/2025A reminder that the crises routinely treated as separate—housing, food, climate, healthcare, electricity—are anything but. This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces. 5364120 0
Reposted by AlexDOGUBOMB @dogubomb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Iggy was an invaluable tester and contributed so much to the project. He was absolutely brilliant in the game and came up with so many original strategies we had never considered. Please help us spread the word and as we help find him a living kidney donor. 💙 1161193 0
Reposted by AlexTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Pennsylvania is a state that has really diverse & high stakes, up and down the ballot tomorrow. —control of state supreme court —lower state court races —Philly DA: Krasner's reelect —important, heated school boards —partisan battles for county execs in swing counties —Bucks County at a crossroads 201221413 0
Reposted by Alexalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 03/11/2025THREAD: There is no explanation for the New York Times continue this level of unethical reporting. I’ve talked to reporters and editors there and no one defends this: reporting the stated reasons of the government as its *actual* reasons. 926661 0
Reposted by AlexThe Onion @theonion.com · 31/10/2025RFK Jr. Greets Trick-Or-Treaters With Big Bowl Of Ape Glands theonion.com/rfk-jr-greets-trick-or… 452541451 0
Reposted by Alexzbo1.bsky.social @zbo1.bsky.social · 31/10/2025I am getting a ton of mileage out of this cartoon. 131082221 0
Reposted by AlexJesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 17/10/2025Rondo Energy begins commercial operations of the world's largest industrial heat battery — 100 MWh — capable of converting low-cost electricity from wind & solar into heat at >1000°C and supply constant heating needs for industrial processes. 🔌💡 share.google/rniuYqTcGHfo...share.google'World’s largest' industrial heat battery is online and solar-poweredRondo Energy launches the world's largest industrial heat battery in California, delivering 24/7 steam and heat powered by renewables. 16714 0
Reposted by Alexalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 13/08/2025With Trump talking a lot about cash bail, it's time to remind people: what is the for-profit cash bail system? Why does it exist only in the U.S. and the Philippines? Why is it so bad for public safety but so persistent? I explained in this short video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO5J...youtube.comBail Reform: Where We’re At + Where We Need to GoYouTube video by AtlanticLIVE 26627 0
Reposted by AlexCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 23/07/2025Amazon Q shipped a feature where a rando hacker told it to run aws iam delete-user, and AWS said “Sure thing, pal!” They caught it only because a journalist asked. This isn’t “move fast and break things," it's “move fast and let strangers write your roadmap.” www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/amazon-...lastweekinaws.comAmazon Q: Now with Helpful AI-Powered Self-Destruct Capabilities - Last Week in AWS BlogToday 404Media released a truly stunning report that almost beggars belief. To break it down into its simplest form: A hacker submitted a PR. It got merged. It told Amazon Q to nuke your computer and ... 79526 0
Reposted by AlexAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/07/2025The Trump administration just awarded Virginia-based Acquisition Logistics a $1.26 billion contract to operate a 5,000-bed tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. The company previously got just $29 million in DOD logistics contracts over 5 years; now it'll run the largest detention camp in the US. 20015101011 0
Reposted by AlexSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The police investigation in to Kneecap was huge fucking news. Days of headlines pushing the fact it had the police involved. Dropped without a word. I’m so fucking angry with the government, the police and the complicit media. 949195 0
