“Severe heat killed more than 50,000 people in European cities and towns this summer, according to peer-reviewed estimates released by scientists in London on Friday.”
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My peers, generally speaking, are massive assholes who have channeled their oppositional, gatekeeping dispositions and their belief that sincerity and openness are weaknesses into politics with predictable results. bsky.app/profile/fran...
The last two years of this administration are going to be a blood bath and the only thing to debate is how much of it will be literal and how much will be figurative. Sigh.
This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!
As a driver, I want physically separated lanes for bikes
As a pedestrian, I want physically separated lanes for bikes
Also as a cyclist, I want physically separated lanes for bikes
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
Nearly three years ago, Alaska filed criminal charges against an American Samoan family for illegally voting. But last month, prosecutors who were fresh off a loss at the state Court of Appeals dropped the charges.
we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million
Schrödinger wakes up, groggy, no memory of the last few hours, unsure of his surroundings. He seems to be confined inside some kind of box. There is a strange mechanism at one end. His pulses quickens; from outside he hears a cat purring.
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
This is demonstrably, measurably improving the health of the people who live there. Most notably, it increases the respiratory *& cognitive* health of children. They literally do better in school.
If this country really gave a shit about children, this would be at the top of the public-policy list.
Helmets are often misinterpreted as the solution to safety. Put simply, they aren't. Helmets protect your head from an uncontrolled fall. Proper infrastructure is what protects you from multi-ton vehicles. Don't conflate the two, they are worlds apart.
It's funny that a lot of people erroneously assume the ubiquitous surveillance state license plate readers are being used to enforce speed limits. It sort of makes logical sense that they would do that!
But the people putting the surveillance state shit up do not care about enforcing speed limits!