Kira M

i switched to linux

ALSO rebuilding after climate disasters!

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
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"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social

My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech

Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social.

Download this. Use this. It is so good.

I do not work there, I just think it is neat!

do you have a good source or more details on how suburban developers lobby/write/shape building codes?

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Patrick Healy is the guy who drove the great @pkrugman.bsky.social away from the NYT by killing his newsletter and trying to rewrite crucial passages: www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

taking this moment, between the terrible supreme court opinions, the concentration camps, and the bill in the senate, to go on tour of cable news to trash the dem nominee for mayor of nyc, and to do it while lying about him and peddling in obvious islamophobic rhetoric…it’s truly black pilling

This times a thousand, and it's messed up how a political assassination just kind of fell out of the news right away.

the data backs this sentiment up!

Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding to California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

optimism of the will pessimism of the intellect

Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

that soft animal of one's body tho

Thank you for using direct language and providing relevant context! It'd be awesome to see this paper doing these things more regularly when describing Trump & his administration

it seems to really grimly set the stage for a huge expansion of the war economy.

"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.

Bluesky CEO: imagine a 'world without Caesars' Jay Graber dunks on Mark Zuckerberg without mentioning his name.

the feminine urge to

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Apropos of nothing much, profound kudos to everyone still writing (& reading) books—a radical act of attention & focus in a world increasingly warped by brain-fracking rightwing tech dipshits whose sole purpose in life is to profit off our infinite scrolling. It's practically civil disobedience! 🫡📚

Trending BETA What people are posting about. CDC Layoffs Texas Outbreak

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

seems like a big part of the picture is to contract many of the essential functions of government out to Musk's businesses after public capacity is destroyed

Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism.

It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.

Sorry you're driving a Swasti-Car flier. SELL YOUR TESLA NOW

A flier for the Tesla of your liberal/progressive neighbors who are increasingly shaky about owning or selling @niedermeyer.online

Monday Changed Everything: Gov Hochul Needs to Remove Eric Adams from Office Events in the Trump DOJ-Eric Adams story have moved very quickly this...

“New Yorkers didn’t elect Donald Trump to be mayor. But under the current arrangement, he is the mayor. The governor has a responsibility to restore democratic governance to the city by removing the mayor from office.” Via @joshtpm.bsky.social

I'm with Kelly here: deeply interested in leftism as a political project but have no interest whatsoever in leftism as a subculture. the stakes of leaving this behind are hopefully clearer by the day