Eli Fels-McDowell

"Before Google’s arrival a few months ago, an estimated quarter of a million trees occupied the 330 hectares (815 acres) of forest near the town of Muhos in rural northern Finland. Now they are all gone."

Family farms are getting squeezed by fuel and fertilizer costs while corporate agribusiness gets all the breaks. That's not how it should be. Send me to DC and I’ll fight for the family farm down the road. This Nov. 3, vote for Drew Williams for KY-01.

And we still have politicians not only allowing this, but even taking our tax dollars away from our communities’ needs and giving it to these billionaire companies in the form of tax cuts. If you’re in Fairbanks, AK come to our data center town hall this Thursday actionnetwork.org/events/nobod...

Just realised I haven't posted about the lizards in a while so here's a quick update: They're still pouring out of every vent in my house and I'm still no closer to finding a solution

One thing videogames got right is that it's very difficult to fast travel when you're carrying 120kg of acorns

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Times may change but the inviolable truths of the world remain unchanged: a scarab is one of the most valuable investments one may make.

Nobody congratulates me for knowing shapes and colors any more. Even though I'm really good at it now

A haunted house featuring nothing but one window with closed mini blinds where the bottom blind collector thing is slightly lifted on one side & the other side rests on the sill.

Finally updated my phone and everything looks fucking stupid now but the good news is it’s also in the wrong place.

Tale as old as time

⃤` . ⁄......⧵ ` . ⁄............⧵ ` . ⁄.......🪲.......⧵ / ⁄........................⧵ / ⁄..............................⧵ / big beetle on the great pyramid of giza

🎶 I wish I was a little koala I wish I was smaller I wish I had a tree with good food I would crawl there

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

When publishing with Brepols, authors are required to sign a contract that grants the right to "commercialize and disseminate [...] including licensing of these rights to third parties [...] through any other means/in any other format known today". Sounds like AI training to me. I refused to sign.

‘Pure arrogance’: anger in Finland as Google illegally fells 250,000 trees for datacentre

Never Forget that one of the greatest victories in American military history was won by a Liberal Arts professor from New England

recalling that the actual quote from Max Weber about "slow boring" is 180 degrees away from limp dishrag centrism. he explicitly says you have to be a hero who reaches for the impossible

On behalf of the trans community I’d like to extend my thanks to Guy Wearing Bowler Hat for taking over my role as Person To Stare At In Coffee Shop

audiophiles are like i came as soon as i heard

boys will say “meet me at this marked location” and then have “pathing issues” and “despawn”

failing a drug test bc my eyes are red and glowing (I took the drugs that make you evil)

I’m finishing up Young and Damned and Fair by Gareth Russel, and the depiction of Henry’s court during the rise of Catherine Howard is a fascinating portrayal of a group of pick me’s and fuckbois and just a general Housewivesian vibe that is SO FAMILIAR

Panic toggling the big "Tariffs" switch as I try to avoid getting crushed in the midterms

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

i just assume blue cheese is healthy bc its kinda weird

judge dismissed my plea to "be real for a sec", citing previous incidents

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

Maybe my winter will be dominated by glove choreography. Holding them in one hand while being told a secret. Hurling them at the feet of a traitor. Tightly gripping the wheel of a roadster, zooming along a country road, afire with news.