Carol Mitchell

Noel Coward (notably not an introvert 🙂) described this perfectly long ago:

This will bring joy to your day...

The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report is out: The Point of Return. 🌍🌡️🔥 It's sobering but actionable. Decades of inadequate climate action have closed off opportunities to limit warming, but ambitious action today can still prevent much greater harm. A thread of some of the highlights 🧵

My brain cannot process this level of corruption. She was being paid $50 million to engineer a pardon from Trump *while working at the Justice Department* as a "Special Government Employee." And it worked. He got the pardon, and she got the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/u...

The thread and the comments are all 💯🎯

Excellent piece, and ends with a quote from John Kenneth Galbraith: “People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” Sums up a lot of what @astra.bsky.social have been writing about in ETF... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

Friends, can we all block and report @scuba-diving-5.bsky.social — they are pretending to sell my stuff on merch (check their replies tab), but it’s a credit card number theft scam. Hopefully nobody got ripped off, but if you did, call your credit card company ASAP.

Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years The measles virus kills crucial immune cells, putting survivors at risk of being reinfected with diseases they’ve already had. Read more: https://bit.ly/4diczSQ

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

So fuc*ing infuriating and sad. The CDC used to be the crown jewel of the world's scientific firmament. Other countries came to us for help fighting deadly diseases. Its disease detectives learned what caused illness and helped change practices to prevent them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...

Hey!!! Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece - on why the bullshitty AI doom hype frenzy perfectly represents the tech industry's cutlist climate denialism and their unhealthy methane addiction. Plus the media's total failure to grasp the real risks at play. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

Cat owners...here's a survey about hairballs and grooming from Dr. Samantha Taylor. Direct link here: www.surveymonkey.com/r/The_Fur_Re... Some more details: www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/09/arti...

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

a brooklyn bodega cat was stolen on Sep 10. residents promptly built a tip network and organized people to check leads day and night. he was successfully recovered today. democrats have spent billions trying to figure out how to make people care this much about anything. should've tried cats.

One of the most haunting 9/11 stories I know of involved Prof. Eqbal Ahmad, my Hampshire College mentor in the 80s. He met bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1986 and tried to warn us in this 1998 talk (at the 1:23 mark). Tragically, Eqbal died during surgery a few months later, but HE WARNED US in 1998!!🤯

So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756...

What if post-Trump America is even *worse*? 1/

Y'all... the Band of the Coldstream Guards performed "9 to 5" in front of Buckingham Palace in honor of Dolly Parton.

[Exit Queen.]

Project 2025 says to kill wild horses and Trump is doing just that.

Most people are mostly good, #874 in a series

As a conservation professional, I am regularly frustrated by the actions of the well-intentioned but uninformed people who are supposedly "on my side." I tried to explain in a new blog post featuring an analogy that I hope lands. www.southernfriedscience.com/the-locksmit...

The eclipse didn't pass over me today, but I like to think that this was my colander 2 years ago.

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Are there any risks to/from pets with the ongoing Cyclospora outbreak in people? TLDR: No. Full explanation: www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2026/07/arti...

If you have time this weekend, please check out the doc (~30 min.) my team & I released this week on Musk’s push into Greater Memphis with xAI and its noisy, methane gas burning turbines, data centers, broken promises & impacts on majority Black communities next door. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

“teenage geniuses and their billionaire backers aren’t going to save us, and they’re going to take us on a wild and expensive ride along the way,” says @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social about the Ocean Cleanup. My latest for @therevelator.org therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl... 🧪🦑🌎

"By voting to confirm him, Republicans are putting their stamp of approval on a DOJ that investigates the president’s enemies & treats every Q of law as a question of loyalty. It’s a grotesque perversion of the legal system, & it’s beyond anything Roy Cohn could have imagined." — @lizdye.bsky.social

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Love this:

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

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Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Every single day I fed her on the streets of Thailand little Snickers would bring me a little gift. It got her a home in America. You can probably guess what she is up to over there now!

Perfect:

an essential🧵:

On behalf of parents of special needs children everywhere, I would like to invite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go fuck himself.

🧵 Really interesting thread for the science-minded: