Slide from Brent Toderian at @toderianUW.bsky.social that says “If you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers. If you design a multi-model city, it works better for everyone, including drivers.”

Never forget, if you design a city for cars, it fails for everyone, including drivers.

If you design a multi-modal city that makes walking, biking & public transit attractive options, it works better for everyone, including drivers.

INCLUDING DRIVERS.

The “war on cars” has always been a lie.

Advancing the Scientific Integrity Act Congress needs to protect federal science from politicization. Here's why.

Apparently a Scientific Integrity Act was introduced earlier this year. Now we just need a Congress that will pass it and an administration that will follow it.

“The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official Judith Enck Discusses New Book We speak with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late. “Scientists have found micropla...

“The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late

This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.

It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!

I’ll be giving a free, public webinar on December 11th about the future of climate solutions.

Please come if you can! And please share with your networks. Thanks so much!

All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here.

Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.

If they hadn’t burned all the witches and midwives back in the day, we’d probably know more about perimenopause and menopause right now. We know fuck all about a condition that half the population goes through because men are a bunch of plonkers*

*not all men**

**but most of them

Traditional gender roles won’t get men what they want Men’s search for meaning is everyone’s problem.

There's a lot of reluctance to—and frustration with—studying men and masculinity in particular. But avoiding it won't make problems go away.

I wrote about why this all matters, not just for birth rates, but for gender equality and relationships (3/3)

www.vox.com/policy/47078...

who could have anticipated this

Illinois families are going electric — for free As federal incentives for home electrification disappear, an innovative state law lets utilities meet energy-efficiency mandates by getting people off gas.

Illinois families are going electric — for free

For more than a century, oil companies have sunk wells in this desert looking for liquid gold, leaving countless scars behind. Dunlap showed me wells ensconced by rusted-red pipes and decrepit pumpjacks strewn about the desert. These thousands of forgotten wells are not just inert fossils of economic history. Many emit methane—a greenhouse gas that's nearly 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide -and leach chemicals, including benzene, a human carcinogen. Recently, another problem has emerged: Old, dormant wells have begun mysteriously leaking-oozing brine onto the land-and shooting geysers of toxic water into the sky.

Former oil and gas workers in Texas are now fighting to make the industry plug old empty wells, which are exhaling methane and vomiting toxic water (from fracking miles away) all over the state.

Eye-opening story by @mollytaft.com

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

YouTube video by Cancel Me, Daddy How Access Journalism Actually Works (The Nuzzi Case)

The Olivia Nuzzi scandal exposed the dark underbelly of access journalism and how the rest of us suffer because of it. youtu.be/4EsMXpk7_pE

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!

My guide:

ENSHITTIFICATION in action 💥

Cory Doctorow on the Future Knowledge #podcast tells how a few firms captured the inkjet market & kept raising prices until ink became the most expensive fluid you can buy at $10,000 a gallon. 🐎

🎧 Listen & subscribe ⬇️
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The Big Bet to Fix the Rio Grande Sewage Problem - Inside Climate News Nuevo Laredo was dumping millions of gallons of sewage a day into the Rio Grande. The U.S. and Mexico worked together to find a solution.

Nuevo Laredo was dumping millions of gallons of sewage a day into the Rio Grande. The U.S. and Mexico worked together to find a solution.

Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists

A little white naughty puppy wearing a handknitted lavender muzzle that she's already wrecked because naughty.

May this naughty puppy bring you good fortune (I knitted her a muzzle not because she ever bites but because she wants to eat every last sharp or dangerous thing she finds on the ground outside and doesn't listen to mummie). ♥️

Significant rainfall is forecast for Kitsap today through Wednesday. Urban flooding is possible. Reduce the risk by clearing blocked storm drains.

Digital products are also dealing with enshittification.

FAANG companies tend to have extreme margins of extracting value, whether that be from your attention or wallet.

Even if the product itself isn’t offering customers anything new of value, they try to make the site/app seem like it does.

Undeniable at this point that Americans will become much, much poorer if they don't adjust to international regulations, in the same way brexit wrecked UK economic growth.

It's in our own self interests to adopt green tech.

The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff How Richard Mack led the rise off the constitutional sheriff movement, one of the most serious threats to American democracy since the Civil War.

"The Myth of the Constitutional Sheriff"
While ICE is the face of Trump's lawlessness masquerading as law, ICE isn't the key to how got here.
Sheriffs are.
Sheriffs empowered by myths.
3 Experts help unravel their deep roots & bitter fruits. 1/
barnraisingmedia.com/the-myth-of-...

Swiss startup turns urine into plant fertilizer The space-inspired wastewater treatment uses the nutrients and loses the odor.

We *knew* we should have patented that idea years ago...

www.popsci.com/science/urin...

You know, when Silicon Valley promised us the future, I didn’t quite expect it to be so much like the present. Including mediocre white men.

Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

If you watch our YouTube playlist “Animated Introductions to Autism, ADHD, and Neurodiversity” you’ll come away well-grounded in neurodiversity and neurodivergent ways of being.

Featuring short, accessible, tightly-scripted, animated videos.

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WHOI researchers are turning on the stereo on Maui reefs—and baby corals are showing up to the party! 🪸🎶🐠

📲Watch the full CNN story to see how our Reef Solutions team is helping to reverse reef decline from USVI to Hawai'i—through sound: go.whoi.edu/cnn-reefs

#GiveReefsAChance #ReefSolutions

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Like Sir Terry Pratchett once said, "Too many people want to have written."

And i get that want sometimes; i really do. I am so tired so often.

But the time & care of expressing a thought & 🤞🏾 being understood & understanding my thoughts & my self in the process? I actually love that shit.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 7 is an oldie but goodie of the photogenic little house finches that visit my deck each morning - love the brilliant reds some of these guys display, more reminders to pay attention to the our 'common' feathered friends 🪶📸

Katherine Duclos
Vancouver BC based AuDHD multidisciplinary artist, Pratt MFA, mother

In case you didn't know, these protections aren't followed unless the trans prisoner legally fights back sufficiently. This will just take that option to fight back away.

Justice without trans people is no justice at all.

Nature-First Cities Nature-First Cities - Restoring Relationships with Ecosystems and with Each Other; Nature-First Cities recognizes nature as the lead architect in the most essential of restoration projects – our citie...

Nature-First Cities
Restoring Relationships with Ecosystems and with Each Other
By Cam Brewer, Herb Hammond, and Sean Markey; Foreword by Faisal Moola and David Suzuki

www.ubcpress.ca/nature-first...