Seth Kaplan

@outsideinradio.bsky.social have you (and we) been misprouncing @justineparadis.bsky.social name for years?

Twenty followers away from the 5k mark on Bluesky. Wanna make my day? ❤️

Trump’s budget takes aim at gold standard measurement of atmospheric carbon dioxide OPINION: “President Trump, a renowned climate change denier, has shown repeatedly that he has no use for scientific data that disproves his preconceived assumptions,” David Ho writes.

I wrote about the Keeling Curve — our most iconic CO₂ time series — for @sfchronicle.com.

"The Keeling Curve is valuable to science, but it is also a treasure that belongs to humanity as the most poignant indication of our impact on the environment and as a testament to our ability to document it."

Opinion | What Hulk Hogan Left Behind

@espiers.bsky.social Elizabeth Spiers with an essay far more pertinent than any obituary of Hulk Hogan. She rather focuses on his distressing legacy.
-GIFT LINK-
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

Winooski Superintendent Detained, Questioned by Border Officials Superintendent Wilmer Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was questioned for hours at a Houston airport as he returned from a visit to Nicaragua with his husband.

Wilmer Chavarria, a US citizen, Global Entry member, and Vermont school superintendent, was detained returning to the US from a trip abroad with his husband. CBP told him he had "no Constitutional rights," took his phone and laptop, and revoked his Global Entry.
m.sevendaysvt.com/news/winoosk...

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard from a hotdog vendor or Donald Trump asking for a happy ending from an underage sex slave masseuse, both presidents made some provocative requests.

So you broke the movie before Capt. Kirk blew up the Death Star?

Rhymes with Orange Comic Strip 2025-07-20 | Comics Kingdom Read the Rhymes with Orange comic strip from July 20, 2025, and check out other Rhymes with Orange comics by Hilary Price & Rina Piccolo.

Always the Superfriend, never the boyfriend…
comicskingdom.com/rhymes-with-...
@rinapiccolo.bsky.social @comicskingdom.bsky.social

Love him, hate him, agree with or disagree with him (or like me respect him, think he is saying reasonable things without agreeing with all of it) everyone has to recognize that he is very good at this kind of presentation to the public, is smart, funny, and doesn't take himself overly seriously.

Lions and tigers and bears. Oh my.

cuomo exhibits all the charm of a dead car battery

What did @emilypeck.bsky.social say? Something about him being the Status Quomo? Fits.

Who reference developing

Brookline’s Gateway Center moves to a larger, more accessible space The center, which supports nearly 100 adult artists with disabilities, has relocated to a new, fully accessible facility just down the street from its longtime home. The move provides expanded studio ...

Excellent @wbur.org piece by Arielle Gray www.instagram.com/bonitafrobum... about the new Gateway Arts space in Brookline Village www.wbur.org/news/2025/07... - although there is an odd mistake, it is on Station Street and the piece says "Fountain Street"

Well yes, it is normal to tell people you are meeting at the Massachusetts State House to "meet me at the Hooker entrance" - a little on the nose for the lobbyists

Lots going wrong in the world. But the Public Garden in Boston sure is pretty.

@repmcgovern.bsky.social is one of the nicest, most compassionate people I have ever met. He is honestly motivated by a desire to protect the hungry and defenseless and to serve the public. It takes a lot to move a person like that to go off like this . . .

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat WASHINGTON—Despite polls that show the American public overwhelmingly supports keeping the ancient burial chamber sealed, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Friday to pry open the evil tomb of Batibat, a ven...

The White House reaction at the end is only tip off that this @theonion.com piece is from October 2024. Could have benefitted from @dahlialithwick.bsky.social quote though

theonion.com/supreme-cour...

Smart innovative suggestion

And on top of everything else it is a tough wordle day. Got it in 4 after lucky second guess but that is a tricky one. And stop pretending you haven't done it since 2023.

Cute. Seems like great resource for someone in the Bay area who wants a guinea pig

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes summer lunch program for low-income kids

Entitled Child Expects To Eat Lunch Every Day

Good point. In the short term more battery storage is needed. In the longer term the need is more clean generation and more transmission. Of course the federal policy environment has shifted in ways that make this much harder to do effectively and affordably.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

If you were not previously aware, I inform you that @repmcgovern.bsky.social is the best: smart, effective, tough, principled and just a really nice guy

Ancillary services markets providing grid support services is one of the underappreciated "low hanging fruit harvesting" achievements of FERC regulated market structures. Garages housing electric buses could (if properly equipped) participate in such markets: commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/how-...

This iconic image has been the subject of endless discussion and sparked many good efforts in Boston. There is a reason that the Bill Russell memorial is right in front of Boston City Hall just about where this terrible moment occurred.