A Little Night Musing

The tattoo is also a takeoff on traditional Maori designs, which seems rather an icky bit of appropriation.

WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Not enough to bring back measles and chicken pox.

Now they’re bring back emphysema and stunted childbirth.

YouTube video by Doug and the Business Cats Playing Punk Rock With My Cat

Best Punk Rock song of the year!!💙☮️🇺🇸😻
This shit is about to get real dark ladies & gentlemen, buckle up, even the cats are PISSED🙀😾
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The FDA:  Promoting Quack Nostrums Based on “Incredible Stories” While Rejecting Vaccines Despite Successful RCTs "Vaccines are radioactive now."

The FDA today approves and promotes quack autism “cures” based on “incredible stories” while refusing to even consider vaccines despite multiple RCTs.

My latest.

No I don't want to "quickly hop on a call with you". I want to bump into you at random on a rain-lashed heath, nod at you in silent mutual admiration as we watch a buzzard gliding smoothly over a dramatic chicane in the river, then get the fuck on with my day

The Racism Behind the Cuban Hardliner Stance There’s a reason the loudest Cuban American voices are white while the majority of the island is nonwhite; the history behind it is ugly

The Racism Behind the Cuban Hardliner Stance
There’s a reason the loudest Cuban American voices are white while the majority of the island is nonwhite; the history behind it is ugly
extremearturo.substack.com/p/the-racism...

It was nice working with smart humans. Now if I could just keep them all alive.

What Did Responses to Puerto Rican Sign Language at the Super Bowl Reveal About the Misconceptions People Have About Sign Languages? In my last blog post, I briefly referenced the presence of Puerto Rican Sign Language (Lenguaje de Señas Puertorriqueño, LSPR) interpreters at the Super Bowl. At the time, my focus was on the broad…

What Did Responses to Puerto Rican Sign Language at the Super Bowl Reveal About the Misconceptions People Have About Sign Languages?

NYC-area officials raise Pride flag at Stonewall after Trump admin takes another down https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-area-officials-raise-pride-flag-at-stonewall-after-trump-admin-takes-another-down

Why are all the US media using words like "revoke" and repeal"? They mean nothing in this context. Why not "refuse to accept", "deny", or "lie about"?

A Pride 8Sstripe Rainbow flag covers the US park at Stonewall. A trans flag can also be seen and many protestors.

It's back up. #Stonewall. #NYC

Does this curse also count for the tech bros who illegally used books written by me and countless others to help AI annihilate the world? I fucking hope so.

What repealing the 'endangerment finding' means for public health The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean

The repeal of the "endangerment finding" will make it harder for future administrations to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act without a new law or amendment passed by Congress—with serious public health and climate consequences

We've hit the moth-erlode with this thread

The other night, I watched the Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s show on PBS about #BlackAndJewishAmerica. Part of the segment mentioned the Bronx Slave Market, and I felt the need to dig deeper. The history of Black women’s labor and how communities responded is powerful and complicated.

#EternalLight
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

There is a lot to hate Henry Ford for, his racism, his antisemitism, that he literally funded the publication of a nazi propaganda magazine in America. But topping the list is him pushing schools to require square dancing because he hated Black And Jewish Americans for popularizing jazz 

[LIVE] FIRST Gravitational Waves Detected | LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory) YouTube video by National Science Foundation News

10 years ago today, we told the world

"We have detected gravitational waves. We did it!"

Relive the moment we shared our result with the world www.youtube.com/live/aEPIwEJ...

#GW10Years #OTD 🔭🧪⚛️ 🎂

Down in the West Texas town of El Paso
I closed airspace for no reason at all

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Muere Rafael Amador, el alma blusera del flamenco El músico sevillano fallece a sus 65 años tras hacer historia en la música española, junto a su hermano Raimundo, como fundador de los grupos Veneno y Pata Negra

Muere Rafael Amador, el alma blusera del flamenco, por Alejandro Luque www.eldiario.es/1_c5faa4?utm...

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

So sweet!

Why am I not surprised.

Yet somehow he keeps on being able to find lawyers, not to mention construction workers. It’s baffling.

I have no desire whatever to learn to
love (American) football. I’m quite happy to go on ignoring it. I’m only watching the halftime show.

Last year, the administration cancelled the solar for all program that was helping improve the grid and help low-income households in all 50 states and Puerto Rico bsky.app/profile/cost...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

Can I just say? JD Vance is a complete turnoff. His face is so disgusting. I don’t usually discuss politicians’ looks, but he is so profoundly revolting. When he shows up in the news I need to turn my face away.

Ummm, possibly, because I have no idea what you’re talking about. Be more explicit, please.