NEW | China installed more than twice as much solar capacity in the first half of 2025 as the rest of the world combined ☀️ 256 GW in just six months... 🤯 The rest of the world combined installed 124 GW.
parent to a transgender young'un. active at reddit r/cisparenttranskid. throwback memes. pretty woke. Pritzker/Walz/etc. Never Gavin. Miss me with that "oh those Never Gavin people, those Pronoun People, they probably didnt even vote blue" nonsense
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NEW | China installed more than twice as much solar capacity in the first half of 2025 as the rest of the world combined ☀️ 256 GW in just six months... 🤯 The rest of the world combined installed 124 GW.
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
i actually think there is a wide open lane in american politics right now for “get the US out of israel.” the challenge is having the steel to weather the inevitable attacks from the right. but “israel has forfeited american aid because of its behavior” plays.
A local diner was raided by ICE and 14 people were kidnapped, and most of the locals seem more concerned with where they're going to get their hashbrowns than with anything else. Unfriendly reminder that immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers and migrants don't owe you labor to deserve respect.
this is even more horrifying than that "let's do ai-guided ayahuasca trips in the sf tenderloin, pay me several hundred dollars please" pitch
Please, we’re so close.
Absolute garbage person www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
and of course all fascists are idiots, as a whole they are people who prioritize hierarchy over critical thinking. those whose ambition is prioritized over their moral framework rise quickly within the ranks, and those people are cunning but still stupid because of that rise.
i fucking hate the kremlinology shit i just cant be optimistic about what the actual announcement is going to be, and i define "optimism" there extremely broadly
okay, related question what's a "bay-zowar"?
yes. tasting fabrics is one of the easiest ways to test fiber composition. natural fabrics, such as wool, cotton, and linen, breakdown in the digestive tract. synthetics such as polyester will not. so to test fiber composition, eat the garment. if fibers appear in your poop, it was synthetic.
The thing about AI and social media is it's just the latest iteration of people solving for "how can I get the clout of an expert without having to learn a craft, profession, or discipline" and producing the dumbest possible shit.
i'll be happy to be wrong, but i think it's more likely to be something like invoking the insurrection act based on some made up shit like defining protests of NG troops in DC as an insurrection. these people do not de-escalate ever, they just lie bigger.
he also was very much not the favorite going into 2020 and pulled it off. nothing is set now, and whatever consolidation/collusion the media environment has around a narrative is extremely brittle, and it also important for those same voices to portray it as inevitable. we can do this.
Mike Solan tried to blame J6 on "BLM" and now he's cheerleading an invasion of Seattle by federal troops
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
bsky.app/profile/moll...
so for obvious bot networks to be doing this kind of browbeating around governor hairgel this early, i have three responses: 1. its really early for choosing a standard bearer for an election 3y away 2. you are not going to get network effects that your dark money funders rely on 3. fuck you
i was ride or die for harris too, and kiddo and i did GOTV work for a district that flipped blue even though we dont live there
sidenote, biden was extremely underappreciated in terms of actual policy achievements. there were obvious downsides but he swung for the fucking fences. hero. i will never fucking forgive the voices that pushed him out, though i also understand their concerns.
This is infuriating and you should send it to every veteran you know, because while you can’t lose your civilian job while you’re activated, they don’t have to pay you, and you can’t get the mortgage pause until you’ve been activated a month. American Legion & VFW should be on fire.
this is...woof. well-intentioned and clueless
I wrote about @iceblock.app, the developer's infuriating HOPE talk, and how it's unfortunately basically activism theater micahflee.com/unfortunatel...
or andy capp
The scary headlines about "Chorus, a sEcReT dArK mOnEy gRoUp" have been absolutely wild to watch. Because I'm in Chorus, & it's been a godsend. Without it, I wouldn't be able to cover the US's massive modern-day farm slavery problem- at all. youtu.be/f5UwwtrGdak
Oh my would you look at the time (Reassert Congressional Supremacy o'clock)
to fight
the room is filled with people brain poisoned deliberately over a decade plus by the religious right on platforms like xitter I've made my peace with the idea that I will be deep in the cold ground before my child is no longer having tonight tooth and nail for their rights, I got nothing to lose
transmasc erasure
Loomis had his brain cooked by COVID limiting his ability to go see live music, which is a ridiculous thing in the first place. the blurbing on his last book by Chomsky didn't help his self centeredness either. Erik Loomis is the Bill Maher of Cheryl Rofers
I can speak from a state perspective — we have a state lab. They do drug-resistance testing. Problem is, our state’s public health budget is around 60% federally funded, so massive cuts to the CDC hurts our capacity. IDK how well our state lab can do without CDC funds.
Seems bad that a senator doesn't understand that bars and liquor stores stayed open so already overwhelmed ERs didn't get swamped by people having alcohol withdrawal seizures, and that indoor church services stopped because singing is extremely high risk for spreading respiratory viruses.
sichuan chili? in Cincinnati? it's mutating, and this sounds like it could have the ability to escape containment. this is all hands on deck, people
NGL at this point I think two things are true. 1.) There's a concentrated effort to astroturf anti-trans concepts into the baseline positions Neoliberal parties because it matches the people with the $ to run. 2.) The BlueMAGA/Resist posters are just Team freaks to the point of having no values
the gorillas simply freeze to death in winter dot gif
if MDR or XDR get loose in those facilities being picked up by ICE will become Russian roulette if not a straightforward death sentence. Dr Paul Farmer wrote about Putin's prisons and their issues with DR TB nearly two decades ago now, worth reviewing. of course that would spill into the public.
Weird, because literally all my life the St George’s Cross has been almost totally associated with far right racists, homophobes, thugs and football hooligans - a group apparently that now includes the Labour Party.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.
there is also, probably, a lesson here in how the process of gaining power is meaningfully different from the process of skillfully using that power
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
I'm pretty concerned about the risk of TB spread in these immigration facilities, which have poor surveillance for political reasons. is drug-resistance testing/classification (e.g. MDR/XDR) a thing that there is capacity at the state level for, or is that also a CDC only thing?
"Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing its lab would perform — the only one in the U.S. capable of doing so. The CDC no longer has the capacity to do that.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
Leaving aside the typical histrionics, this seems to be Trump beginning to distance himself from Kennedy (who’s “ripping apart” CDC), and inviting mainstream physicians and scientists to defend the vaccines, so Trump can then say, I got them to explain it better and vaccines are OK.
if this were more explicitly political, it would be called out as the concern trolling it straightforwardly is
This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.
Seeing Charles Blow describe his experience writing for the NYT in similar terms to Paul Krugman really brings home how much the entire NYT is a heavily curated monoculture focused on manipulating, directing & controlling upper middle-class public culture in the US. It's why it's such a bore, too.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
there is no way I am going to break opsec by playing this fun game with you jive turkeys
This should be a bigger story. A government official had the YouTube channel of a private citizen shut down bc he didn’t like what that citizen was saying. This administration’s version of free speech is a joke.
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste
I will not let my child use the internet until they first master FORTRAN on punch cards
not that you should be wondering because of how normal it is for me to be feeling pretty good
I was going for the star wars reference but I'll take it
there's.....a SECOND cynar?
the alt accounts are a botnet run by one or two small grouos
Hi. I’m the executive director of the organization that had the honor of hosting the FEMA Katrina Declaration and I can confirm this is a lie. NICE TRY, KRISTI! @standupforscience.bsky.social @atrupar.com
ok, that's enough of an excuse to post my favorite soup related music video www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoyZ...
"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift
i will say that over the last ten years i’ve noticed a correlation between constant family contact on cell phones and learned helplessness. just anecdotal of course, i’m just some guy. but i see what i see.
sonim xp3900+ it's a great phone, way better than the nokia flips
Pour one out for Judge Sparkle Sooknanan’s clerks this Labor Day weekend
if the Starter Slurry that comes with the MusicBlender includes copyrighted material, those rights holders need to be compensated. I say this as a lifelong, avowed music "pirate" but commercial and personal use are wildly different
i'm not taking much of a side on the output, and will note that the 303 and 808 both were originally marketed as assistive devices before becoming instruments in their own right. I do think we have to focus on the input side here
when I first heard this song I was not a fan, but I looked it up on internet mapping and there were three combination pizza hut and taco bells on Jamaica avenue
next you're gonna tell me his law enforcement policies are bad for public order www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6qm...
next you're gonna tell me this guy is wrong about his views on policing too www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6qm...
NGL I wanna know your source here but not in the usual argumentative way
gonna bump these in honor of the clip becoming the bullshit discourse du jour www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2z... www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6qm...
screaming this and I don't even live in nyc
If people don’t know that this is Heems from Das Racist and take him seriously, then I SMDH at ur overcooked internet brains
I suspect threads is a particularly target rich environment
with this particular Hot Take, you can call it xenophobia, I'm going to call it class consciousness. but it's clearly going to be the outrage du jour of the day for those unfamiliar with the personalities here so *shrug* I'll go back to kibitzing
I think you're off, and probably don't realize that in all probability, that guy "nehrujackets" is Heems of Das Racist. he's being funny, but has written multiple songs about his family's emigration from India to NYC where he has lived his whole life
i think the "art" thing keeps us from seeing the "labor" thing. a lot of creative types derive income by writing shit like jingles. that market is gonna be completely obliterated.
because new yorkers have historically been so pleasant and welcoming to new residents
yeah but come on, that's heems, it is "subway takes", he is competent to use humor and exaggeration, I do not think he is advocating an explicit policy here
(they hurt everyone, to be clear, including enby, et al) (and saying nothing about relative harms here, there are burdens and harms on everyone from this structure)
it doesn't get said enough, that patriarchy and misogyny hurt men as well as women. also i'm sorry you personally have to deal with that
autotune's got a lot of explaining to do
Based on AI, bounty hunters stormed a North Texas home, threw a flash bang and snatched the wrong guy, police say
Ugh so gross.
to make those decisions and execute them successfully, betting on the reputation of this country in the process, by a child, and to have this done to them. it defies all conception of honor.
I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of a Guatemalan child who has successfully emigrated, fleeing abuse or neglect in their own home to a place they regarded as safe enough, telling them we are sending you back there and starting the flight before turning around and my fucking rage has no bounds
Non-disabled people specifically were not listening to autistic people who RFK Jr has gone after the hardest, in my opinion, because they're fine with quietly villainizing autism too.
how does every single time he says "that's what I have been told" the entire courtroom not erupt, including judge, bailiff, and recording secretary, with "told by who motherfucker?"
i know how to be accepted and respected online and it is by yabbutting eugenics to a disability rights advocate I am very smart
wow
i think it’s bad, actually, that people who have both a professional and a social responsibility to tell the truth weaponize their professional standing to deliberately mislead people
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
I contacted @govpritzker.illinois.gov about this. His office asked for more information, then declined to comment. Caught my attention that he’s anticipating charges against troops next month but made a decision to say nothing about ICE, the private contractor, or the hotel his month.
I know there’s a lot going on but in June ICE took custody of a U.S.-born citizen in Chicago, Illinois and handed him over to a private contractor, which confined him in a hotel without a phone or other form of communication for five days. The city and state aren’t ready for what’s coming next.
that's a deep cut right there
Judge Sooknanan has ordered the Trump admin not to deport any members of the class of Guatemalan children while she is hearing the case
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
This is seriously the nucleus of the whole present era of transphobia in which we find ourselves: in order for any of it to make sense, we must suppose that the idea of being transgender popped into existence 10 years ago (and it's a rolling 10 years, like Bart Simpson's date of birth).