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· Jan 2
Soccer is wild y’all.
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To wrap your head around this, you have to realize that THE SUN is constantly sending Earth a *massive* amount of energy.
That energy could easily power our world. Instead it's cooking us under the pollution from burning fossil fuels — a vastly smaller, dirtier, and more expensive energy source.
That energy could easily power our world. Instead it's cooking us under the pollution from burning fossil fuels — a vastly smaller, dirtier, and more expensive energy source.
In a newly published paper, we find that in 2025 human emissions of greenhouse gases added around 23 billion trillion joules of heat to the world's oceans – 39 times as much as the annual energy produced by all human activity on Earth. link.springer.com/ar...
January 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
To wrap your head around this, you have to realize that THE SUN is constantly sending Earth a *massive* amount of energy.
That energy could easily power our world. Instead it's cooking us under the pollution from burning fossil fuels — a vastly smaller, dirtier, and more expensive energy source.
That energy could easily power our world. Instead it's cooking us under the pollution from burning fossil fuels — a vastly smaller, dirtier, and more expensive energy source.
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“Societies have always leaned on their queer members to drag them out of their dictatorships”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Notes to The Resistance: During an Autocracy, All of Us Are Queer
On June 28, 1969, LGBTQ+ New Yorkers at the Stonewall Inn forever changed America: they rioted for their life because they were tired of police kicking the shit out of them.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:32 PM
“Societies have always leaned on their queer members to drag them out of their dictatorships”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Like a decade ago OKCupid released a paper about users “beliefs” and basically concluded that 25-30% of America is hardcore fascistic. I think about this all the time.
New poll finds that 28% of US adults believe the force used by the ICE agent in Minneapolis was justified.
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Like a decade ago OKCupid released a paper about users “beliefs” and basically concluded that 25-30% of America is hardcore fascistic. I think about this all the time.
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since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
January 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
since it's behind a paywall now, I wanted to share this graph from "How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts" (Nature, April 2025). Say it with me: the anti-trans/LGBTQ+ movement is an anti-science movement:
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
[article sans figs can be read here: web.archive.org/web/20250501... ]
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Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
January 8, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?
This is known as extrajudicial execution in the most generous terms...
January 8, 2026 at 3:11 AM
This is known as extrajudicial execution in the most generous terms...
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André, whose newsletter you should subscribe to, showed up for 2026 with a flamethrower.
Pointed out weeks ago that a reported power struggle last spring saw NWSL's sporting director & head of marketing both depart. The chatter focused on the marketing vacuum, & it drove me quietly bonkers..
Pointed out weeks ago that a reported power struggle last spring saw NWSL's sporting director & head of marketing both depart. The chatter focused on the marketing vacuum, & it drove me quietly bonkers..
wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
who cares about soccer
in nwsl leadership? no one, it seems
btvc.beehiiv.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:29 AM
André, whose newsletter you should subscribe to, showed up for 2026 with a flamethrower.
Pointed out weeks ago that a reported power struggle last spring saw NWSL's sporting director & head of marketing both depart. The chatter focused on the marketing vacuum, & it drove me quietly bonkers..
Pointed out weeks ago that a reported power struggle last spring saw NWSL's sporting director & head of marketing both depart. The chatter focused on the marketing vacuum, & it drove me quietly bonkers..
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wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
who cares about soccer
in nwsl leadership? no one, it seems
btvc.beehiiv.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:28 PM
wrote about the nwsl’s odd business decision to stop caring about soccer
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
btvc.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-... #nwsl #woso
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I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.
It's the most magical time of the year — when estimates of last year's global average temperature anomaly come out. Time to dust off my "last year was hot" auto-response.
January 5, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I'm starting to get the emails. Reporters: please see my comments below.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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Love this from Guillermo del Toro
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
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Free parking days in 2026 for Portland Metro regional parks:
January 3, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Free parking days in 2026 for Portland Metro regional parks:
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“The value of future rent inflation is capitalized in home prices and counted as an asset for homeowners. But the cost of future rents is undetermined for any family at any given time…so…not counted as a liability.” @kevinerdmann.bsky.social www.mercatus.org/research/res... ht @steveroth.bsky.social
"We Are Not as Wealthy as We Thought We Were": Elevated American Household Net Worth Reflects Poverty, Not Wealth
Abstract
www.mercatus.org
January 2, 2026 at 6:39 AM
“The value of future rent inflation is capitalized in home prices and counted as an asset for homeowners. But the cost of future rents is undetermined for any family at any given time…so…not counted as a liability.” @kevinerdmann.bsky.social www.mercatus.org/research/res... ht @steveroth.bsky.social
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They simply do not miss
January 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
They simply do not miss
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You could put Elaine May, Dorothy Parker and William Shakespeare in a room together and they'd never write a punchline this funny.
December 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
You could put Elaine May, Dorothy Parker and William Shakespeare in a room together and they'd never write a punchline this funny.
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New signing for the Thorns, Shae Harvey, seems like a great person as well. She wrote this opinion piece while at Stanford: stanforddaily.com/2025/03/30/t...
#BAONPDX
#BAONPDX
True champions will never be built on trans-exclusive feminism
Harvey argues on behalf of Cardinal Pride on why Stanford Athletics should take a stance in support of trans athletes.
stanforddaily.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
New signing for the Thorns, Shae Harvey, seems like a great person as well. She wrote this opinion piece while at Stanford: stanforddaily.com/2025/03/30/t...
#BAONPDX
#BAONPDX
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New result: you can build a universal computer using a single billiard ball on a carefully crafted table!
More precisely: you can create a computer that can run any program, using just a single point moving frictionlessly in a region of the plane and bouncing off the walls elastically.
(1/n)
More precisely: you can create a computer that can run any program, using just a single point moving frictionlessly in a region of the plane and bouncing off the walls elastically.
(1/n)
December 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New result: you can build a universal computer using a single billiard ball on a carefully crafted table!
More precisely: you can create a computer that can run any program, using just a single point moving frictionlessly in a region of the plane and bouncing off the walls elastically.
(1/n)
More precisely: you can create a computer that can run any program, using just a single point moving frictionlessly in a region of the plane and bouncing off the walls elastically.
(1/n)
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Before you give me your next logo explainer, run it in front of a bunch of U-8 kids and show me the video of what they called your team.
Our 2026 schedule according to these Junior Rowdies. 🤔
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Before you give me your next logo explainer, run it in front of a bunch of U-8 kids and show me the video of what they called your team.
Word
It is not that generative AI is intrinsically bad, it’s only that this specific moment in the trajectory of international liberal democracy has consolidated it as an incontestable tool of a new monied illiberal Internationale that seeks to remake society in order to maximize the return on capital.
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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December 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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If we made the fossil fuel industry pay its true societal costs they’d go out of business.
I've written a lot about the abandoned well crisis in this country. It's an environmental and climate disaster but also a financial disaster. This new article notes the financial reality about why nothing is done.
“They can’t, because it bankrupts the industry as we know it.”
“They can’t, because it bankrupts the industry as we know it.”
Meet the TikTok stars demanding oil companies clean up their mess
There are millions of abandoned oil wells across the United States. A group of unlikely activists in Texas is making sure no one forgets they need to be cleaned up.
www.motherjones.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
If we made the fossil fuel industry pay its true societal costs they’d go out of business.
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This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant, by @rarohde.bsky.social:
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant, by @rarohde.bsky.social: