David Burke

I hate the stutter step / pause #UCLfinal

Wild stat

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.

A thank you note/love letter/commentary on art for anyone interested

Now check out the last 100 years of April sea surface temperature departures in the new ERSSTv6 dataset (up through 2026). 🌊 Learn more about this upgrade in doi.org/10.1175/JCLI... and doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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Great day today: picked up a few new-to-my-yard species at the Native Plant Society plant sale, won a gift certificate to my local native nursery, saw some friends, spotted another toad in the yard, and saw my first pipevine in the wild! Here’s hoping the law of averages doesn’t ruin my day tomorrow

'Bored Peony' by Jessica So Ren Tang, Chinese-American contemporary textile artist who creates embroideries which explore cultural identity #WomensArt

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Please be delighted by the drama of this rain-soaked anemone in some good light. She’s having a moment! #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Seems like a “water is wet” story, but good to quantify the benefits in terms that can be used for policy-making

This is why I’m boycotting the FIFA World Cup this year. It’s all about the fans for me, and so very many have been shut out by ticket prices, safety risks, and transportation cost. What a waste of what looked, on paper, pre-Trump II, to be the most accessible tournament yet

I’m old enough to remember when Spot the Difference was not just a mechanism to determine whether the FBI used AI to rip off the Beastie Boys. Here’s hoping they sue and win.

Here’s how the AI Boom, such as it is, has impacted my life: it has been used as an excuse to lay off my friends for bot equivalents that never came. It has made mass culture and art immeasurably worse. I have a stalker with AI psychosis. So, no, I don’t more data centers. I want less of all that.

Can’t stop those Wood Poppies from poppin’, y’all! #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

Analysis Paralysis Vegan Ham Sandwich

The Met Gala’s got nothin on a Rhododendron in bloom. #nativeplants #gardening #rhododendron

Shout out to that time I got to meet Mel Goldstein, Famous Anthropologist of Nepalese mountain cultures and also Bonsai genius In addition to many very large Satsuki Azaleas, he also has a whole collection of the worlds tiniest conifers! His collection will someday be house at U of Michigan

Brought home a box of promise #gardening

Big news! This American Toad deemed my recently re-wilded backyard a suitable habitat! I started this project a few years ago, and this is the first amphibian we’ve spotted. It’s an exciting validation, and gives me hope that nature can heal with just a little care. #NativePlants #rewilding #toad

Any reasonable person can see how dumb this is, right? We’re gonna burn down the only hospitable planet so one doesn’t have to use one’s brain to decide which overpriced coffee to order?

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers? Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies. tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan

NEW US electricity data ⚡️🇺🇸 In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

Tomorrow’s Mirror:

A poignant moment #Artemis 🔭🧪

The next tipping point in the energy transition is approaching. Overall, solar has already been cheaper than fossil power for a while, but upfront costs used to be higher. That's no longer the case. Solar is now competitive upfront AND has vastly lower operating costs (no fuel).

Unlike the 1970s oil crises, there are now better alternatives: 🔌 EVs + renewables + heat pumps could cut fossil fuel imports by 70% 🚗 EVs alone: $600bn/year in savings Every country has the potential to be energy independent with electrotech. 🔗ember-energy.org/lat...

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

The Villages have fallen to the No Kings forces

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

There are real American heroes all around us if we pay attention. techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/k...

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Spain made history by meeting 100% of national electricity demand with renewable energy for nine hours, driven by strong wind output, abundant solar generation, and flexible grid management.

From 2028, no new homes will be on the gas network - and will instead be on a heat network or get a heat pump - and they must have solar panels on their roofs covering an area equivalent to 40% of the ground floor space www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Sleeping Mud Maid', living sculpture, in summer and in winter, by UK artist Sue Hill (and Pete Hill) at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, UK #WomensArt #Spring

By tying his voter suppression bill to the TSA funding, Trump is saying we’ll have long lines and TSA folks won’t get paid unless Republicans strip the ability to vote from millions of Americans. It’s not voter ID. It’s voter suppression.

The Associated Press getting on board. "The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."

'The Stacks' by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico with various fabrics #womensart

Terrifying numbers in latest annual survey of federal workers from @ourpublicservice.bsky.social. For example, DoD workers' trust in Hegseth is in the toilet. Only 11.5% of Army employees say their dept's political leaders "maintain high levels of integrity." Similar numbers for Navy, Air Force

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy. Are you seeing that message in media?

"An anonymous group installed an anti-Elon Musk vending machine that dispenses the Epstein Files at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas, on Saturday morning." Between this and the stuff we saw from @thecreepstateiswatching.com, Elon's clearly having a bad #SXSW #TeslaTakedown mashable.com/article/elon...

Duck sweet potato

Today the United States wasted another #1B on an illegal war in Iran, money that could have been spent on funding health care or providing SNAP benefits or cancer research or academic scholarships for minorities. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. #endtheiranwarnow

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why? If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment. Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.