Derrick Flakoll

Opinion | Has Your Energy Bill Gone Up? Show Us.

We're collecting stories (and bills) about electricity! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

YouTube video by racheldoesstuff I Could If I Wanted To (feat. Santino Fontana)

Hrrrm valid life choices but www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUuU...

Labor Day 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest were an example of the extreme weather that can occur downstream from a series of recurving typhoons

Three Western Pacific Typhoons Strengthened Fire Weather in the Recent Northwest U.S. Conflagration

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I started reading The Big Sleep because I love Double Indemnity, I feel like we all need to get Hardboiled Pilled

If there's just one piece of wisdom I can impart to everyone, it's that trying to post your way though it almost never works out the way you think it will

I shall become a bat

This is way more Charlotte-specific content than I thought I had any reason to expect

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

Before engineering the Trump administration's government shutdown response, Russ Vought spent years building Project 2025 strategy.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said in 2023. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.”

(Pub. Oct. 2024)

BREAKING: Alberta announces new pipeline application Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced a new proposed pipeline on Wednesday to carry oil from Alberta to the West Coast. The province itself will be the proponent applying to the federal Major Proje...

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Danielle Smith says Alberta itself will be the proponent for a new pipeline to the BC coast.

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

A view of the New York City skyline facing West, at sunset. The colors of the sunset, deep orange, and yellow, fill the sky behind the silhouette of a water tower atop a 20 story building, with some of the windows illuminated as people do their work into the evening. Avenues stretch towards the Hudson, and on the far right the cluster of buildings that make up Hudson yards glow suffused with the orange of the sunset. Even Hudson yards can be made beautiful, especially at a distance.

I thought this was nice.

just guess

A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

The Onion’s “only nation where this regularly happens” reposts

Why aren’t companies speeding up investment? A new theory offers an answer to an economic paradox The pace of US business investment has fallen by about 50% over the past 50 years. Idle capacity, not cautious executives, explains the decline, research suggests.

Despite soaring profits, U.S. companies now reinvest only 12 cents per dollar, down from 25 cents in 1975. An economist explains why excess capacity is more important than tax rates in explaining business investment decisions:

This story is rightfully getting traction but I just want to caveat that the company has very explicitly said they suffered a real traffic hit. Untangling causation between online outrage and IRL behavior changes isn’t always easy.

Costco has novovax starting next week

Social media is a highly contested space. Any reporter worth their salt should (or ought to) know that just because social media posts are freely available, it doesn’t mean they accurately represent what the public thinks or feels about political issues.

Baking cakes that depict military campaigns and battles

We definitely asked for this

I can't really get behind this sorta post cos on some level... yeah, I'll do that. It's easy for me to see the worth and value of people who respect me, and hard for me to see it in those who hate or oppress me: but I'm committed to doing it all the same. So yeah, I'll work harder for those cases. 🤷🏽

up in heaven after the rapture i just saw god take a tylenol

Rightly understood, the humanities and the sciences do not compete with one another, but instead are two complementary sides of the same epistemological commitment.

Federal workers: if you see something say something.

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Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

Not to defend the book too much but my sense is that some “precocious kids” at least temporarily regress in teen or later years, a la Rory Gilmore.

And of course future books could fix this, but we’ll never see a conclusion as rothfuss goes full GRRM…

Real heads will know

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

What to know about Fat Bear Week, and the brawny bruins ready to battle for the title The annual Fat Bear Week featuring gluttonous brown bears at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve is back.

The brawny bruins on the Alaska Peninsula are ready to brawl it out to see which will win this year’s fattest bear title in the wildly popular annual online voting contest known as Fat Bear Week.