Traci White

Start reading a new book (I started two)

episode 1 of "pluribus" was much more disturbing than i expected and i am here for it. vince gilligan's cinematography/humor with rhea seehorn's nuance are an iconic duo. it makes me wonder about how countries more based on collectivism (v. american individualism) depict hive minds in their sci fi.

YouTube video by boburnham Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)

With all the highs and lows of what the internet has brought me in the past week, this song is even more accurate than every other day that it's extremely accurate

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin... (namesake of professorship for women academics at the University of Groningen, too) (and while she was far from the first woman in science to not get the credit she deserves, this specific case kind of reminds me of Harmony Cobel's storyline in "Severance")

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(i would be curious about research on the people who walk away or freeze in moments where someone clearly needs help)

i think it's arguably even worse that RFK peaced the fuck out rather than standing there like his batteries had been removed. it's just black holes where souls should be, damn.

Paper mill owner told not enough power for coal to electric conversion Australia's only paper mill uses coal-fired boilers, which its new owner wants to convert to electric, but he says he has been told there is not enough local power in the Tasmanian grid to support thi...

There is really no escaping the fact that electrification = an overall massive reduction in energy consumption *but* a massive increase in *electricity* consumption.

This is why curbing pointless data centre growth is so important: make way for the socially critical stuff like electrification ->

Vibe Check Society & Culture Podcast · Updated weekly · A weekly podcast where Saeed Jones and Zach Stafford make sense of what’s going on in news and culture – and how it all feels. Vibe Check is your favorite ...

Vibe Check is the best thing every week (now twice a week!) but this episode in particular is the very best because @theferocity.bsky.social and @zachstafford.bsky.social kindly answered one of my questions and said outrageously nice things about me 🥺

i came here to recommend this too!

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Geert Wilders didn’t lose the Dutch election - he had already won Dutch politics has been transformed by 20 years of hateful speech about foreigners

The Dutch radical right maintained its vote share this election. One election pledge was to deport the “children and grandchildren” of migrants.
No amount of integration will ever be enough for some, because their policies are just a thin veil for bigotry
My piece
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

he had a chance to call for both! mitigation - stopping shit from getting way worse - and adaptation - making us better able to deal with current bad shit - both need to happen. and dammit, tech won't save us, we will save ourselves.

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

"History will tell you that negotiating with racism or fascism or authoritarianism never ends well." - i'm so appreciative of, and in awe of, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's ability to hit the damn nail on the head every time.

“The people at home want solutions”: most voters support strong climate policy - Environment Psychology Groningen Political party leaders often claim their plans and policies represent what “the people" want, or at least reflect the opinion of the majority of their voters. Yet our colleagues professor Goda Perlav...

Dutch elections are tomorrow, and you wouldn't know it by how little politicians campaign on it, but most voters - yes, including far right supporters - actually support strong climate action. Read all about it:

epgroningen.nl/the-people-a...

YouTube video by PopsONE0 Tevin Campbell (Powerline)- I 2 I (A Goofy Movie Soundtrack)

he's an icon in my mind because that man is also the voice of powerline from "a goofy movie" and "I2I" gets happily stuck in my head at least once a week

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9egD...

From pigs’ heads to arson plots: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine

Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram.
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

Voor miljoenen aan Nederlandse techniek en schepen naar Rusland gesmokkeld om Poetins kernvloot te beschermen Met Nederlandse apparatuur en schepen bouwde Rusland in stilte Harmony: een onderwaternetwerk dat NAVO-schepen tot in de Barentszzee volgt.||Via een postbusbedrijf op Cyprus en met schepen en technolo...

Via een postbusbedrijf op Cyprus en met schepen en technologie uit onder meer Nederland heeft Rusland in stilte een geheim wapen gebouwd: een onderwaternetwerk dat zijn kernonderzeeërs beschermt en NAVO-schepen kan uitschakelen.
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/voor-miljoen...

The Success of Nonviolent Civil Resistance | ICNC You may also be interested in: How the world is proving Martin Luther King right about nonviolenceSince 2011, the world has been a deeply contentious place. Although armed insurgencies rage across the...

~7 million Americans joined #NoKings protests yesterday, representing 2% of the population.

The 3.5% rule: no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5% of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating

www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/suc...

That song still slaps!

I did just realize the video ends with a frog king and queen rising glowing from lily pads, but frog kings are the only acceptable ones today

YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together (Official Music Video)

seeing the huge turnout across america for #nokings is keeping my vibe right. here's a protest anthem, in honour of the Portland frogs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfa...

"Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together" 🐸

i love them both! i actually was more wrecked by "the corner" but "the wire" was great. "treme" was a tiny bit lighter because of new orleans joy, have you given that a try?

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

(minor side note: @nytimes.com for the automated audio version of stories, which i appreciate having access to, please try and find voices that reflect the author)

the whole damn essay was great, but these last three paragraphs had me "mmhmm"-ing forcefully alone in my house this afternoon. here's a gift version: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

(it's not about what sauce we'll be eaten with, it's about not being eaten in the first damn place)

a purple background with the words " the cheek the nerve the audacity the gall and the gumption " written in yellow ALT: a purple background with the words " the cheek the nerve the audacity the gall and the gumption " written in yellow

what an audacious claim that was, as if Coates was dominating the conversation.

a book called “what I have done with birds” by gene stratton-porter. the image on he cover is two brownish birds on a tree

worrying book I saw in Scotland that sounds like a confession I do not want to read