Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller

I've wanted to go to Isfahan ever since my junior year of college, when I had an amazing history professor who taught the Safavid dynasty. I've never figured out how to get a visa and see these amazing pieces of history and culture.

I am so sorry that my country is an instrument of ruin.

been up all night listening to mohammed's radio, etc.

No one has ever completely closed the Straits of Hormuz, either.

This is not a plannable event. This is the weirdshit equilibrium breakage you get in moments of system rupture. I have no idea what happens to the markets tomorrow.

I was absurdly obsessed with that book when I was 12-ish.

It's fascinating, and I haven't gone back to read it as an adult because I know it will be full of colonialism in ways that are icky. But I loved it.

it sure is

... you wouldn't, but I would, ha

for energy-wonk-bsky, this was wildly, wildly exciting

(says more about us than anything else)

it was a hilarious & well-done article, it's on my 'will do this as a performance piece' list, that's the only reason I remember it!

honestly I thought it was a joke about that one journalist who bought a barrel of crude in 2014ish to see what it was like

From the high femme cis woman contingent: I refuse to perform MAGA femme or cede femme to them, either.

they will have to tear glam from my blood-and-lipstick-stained teeth, if they want it so much

you and me both

salute from the double-shot 8-oz cappuccino contingent

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oh my god

ahahaha

... oh, yeah. Definitely.

My grandparents were all born here too! It's the great-grandparents who immigrated (or in one case the great-greats.) Mom's side is Hungarian (from Pest) and Dad's is Russian or Belorussian depending on where the border is (Minsk-ish).

this. 100%

vibes insane also inside my head, for Reasons

I wouldn't say I come from rugged folks as much as I come from brilliant, ambitious, and determined ones.

(... Russian and Hungarian Jews who came to the US in the early 1900s. I am proud of my ancestors.)

On my dad's side, my grandpa was a professor of chemistry at SUNY Buffalo (and worked on the uranium-chemistry side of the Manhattan Project).

On my mom's side, my grandpa paved much of Ohio, went broke in the 70's oil crisis, and became a NYC lawyer in his 40s.

we sure do!

blaseball

They voted to gut the state’s climate law, and are on track to lose their election tonight.

I am at this moment enjoying. :D

In my personal capacity (not an organizational endorsement of any kind) - I think Representative McQueen will be a magnificent Land Commissioner for New Mexico, and am planning to vote for him myself.

You go to the governor, and you say, ‘Hey, Governor, you have this problem. Utilities want business as usual. The innovators want to deploy their innovations. What is your opinion on how we get through this?’ And she’s like, ‘I don’t have any expertise in this area. Don’t make me make the decision.’ And you’re like, ‘Great, you’ve got Doreen Harris that runs nyserda. Why don’t you outsource it to her? She’s super smart.’ And Doreen is like, ‘We do research and development. We don’t want to make those decisions at nyserda.’ And then you’ve got Rory Christian running the Public Service Commission. And Rory is like, ‘I don’t want to make that decision either. I’m going to relegate it to the staff of the New York Public Service Commission. New York Public Service Commission’s like, ‘Well, we think everything should go much more slowly.’

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... well, I guess it's ... accurate? 😆

... aaand I have just bought a used copy of this book. :D

Sadly, it is an appropriate time to re-up this thread.

Among all the other terrible things about this war, gasoline is about to become much more expensive for families that have been give too few alternatives.

Here's how state lawmakers can help.

daaaaang

On the record as profoundly and violently sick of this shit