Brooke Macmillan

BLUE boosters that are good to follow 😀😍💙🌈💚🌊🌎🌹

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@gwenie.bsky.social  
@hedahunter.bsky.social  
@henryd21.bsky.social 
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“Girlfriends” “Now we’re older we know who’s gotten sober / or been bitten by God or chewed and discarded / under a dirty bus shelter.”

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Shattering verse from Kim Addonizio

btw did you know you can subscribe to PBS for only like $5/mo or a $60 one-time for a year donation, and get access to their Passport streaming service? They mail you a little live programming guide and everything, too. The 40-something seasons of NOVA alone are worth it.

hey you guys remember when the white house photoshopped gang tats on a pic of an innocent man?

anyway, memories

THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard.
This is a movement. And today was a turning point.

Oil painting depicting washing on a line by a craggy windswept shoreline. Painted in the fishing village of Catterline in northeast Scotland. At Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Joan Eardley
Winter Sun No.1, 1961-2

Thousands of surfers all around the UK to join @sascampaigns.bsky.social paddle-out to protest over sewage spills this weekend. Scottish locations: Belhaven Bay, Nairn & Stonehaven

www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou... #surfing #scotland #surfersagainstsewage

As the Butte Turns Change is afoot in the northern Gunnison Valley; few who live in Crested Butte would deny it. The roads are busier, construction is booming, and it seems that one major development after another is…

For more on the complexities of Crested Butte's evolution (Indigenous Ute civilizations → mining & extraction → recreation tourism → current amenity era), check out Katherine Nettle's piece, "As the Butte Turns."

A spotted moray makes a dramatic entrance, with its needle sharp teeth in a mouth flared wide, the second morning in row #spottedmoray #morayeel #thatsamoray #teeth #lobster #sergeantmajor #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage ‘Premium experience’ for US users will include BBC News livestream as broadcaster looks overseas for income boost The BBC is to begin charging US-based users for unlimited access to its news content and rolling televised coverage, as it searches for new ways to ease the pressure on its finances. In the first scheme asking users outside the UK to pay a direct subscription for its news content, US users will be offered the chance to pay for a “premium experience”, including unlimited news and feature articles and a livestream of the BBC News channel. Continue reading...

BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage

Welcome to the resistance

Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor

“The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest & most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen,” Whitehouse said. “It is defending a $700 billion/year subsidy & avoiding being charged for the health & planetary damage burning fossil fuels causes.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Machine Stops The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

In a letter drawn from a posthumous collection of correspondence, published in 2019, the neurologist Oliver Sacks argued that society had no immunity to the seductions of digital life. “What we are seeing—and bringing on ourselves—resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale,” he wrote.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

She's not wrong......

I take back everything I said about NYT

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

My own writing is a bit of a slog right now. But there is something delicious and potent about consuming the art that this country so desperately wants to withhold from us. I will read and listen to and lay eyes on every bit of rebellious art you create. I will DEVOUR IT. Tag me. Link me. Gimme.

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

Erica_fosk: "We interrupted our drag show to shoot at Nazis" is a truly powerful energy I want to bring back. oliharris808: British soldiers (interrupted during drag show rehearsals by a German raid) manning a BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun at Shomemead Fort, England in 1940

Last year, law enforcement intercepted about 19 kilograms of fentanyl at the US-Canada border. At the southern border, agents seized 9,600 kilograms.

The idea that Canada is a major source of drugs is a lie, and this admin is hoping you’re stupid enough to believe it.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

That Giant Sucking Sound? It’s Climate Change Devouring Your Home’s Value.

“Precise estimates for climate migration in the United States have remained elusive in large part because modeling for human behavior in all its diverse motives is nearly impossible.”

mmmhmmm

As snow and ice is coming, here’s a list of my ten favourite gritter names…

10. David Plowie
9. Nicole Saltslinger
8. Creedence Clear-Road Survival
7. Spreddie Mercury
6. I Want to Break Freeze
5. We Will Rock(salt) You
4. Super Spreader
3. Thaw and Order
2. Gritter Thunberg
1. Snow-be-gone Kenobi

Justice Department Concurs With Matt Gaetz Defense That 17-Year-Olds Pretty Much Ready To Roll
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