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I guess it's only fair to warn people that if I don't know you or recognize you from an interaction, then I'll probably block you as soon as you follow me.

I've been avoiding icing my knee for a week because the thought of cold sounded painful. Now that I'm doing it, this is great! I should do this more often

Even after living here for ~15 years seeing reporting cover gerrymandering as a totally normal thing and not batshit politics and evidence of a broken constitution drives me nuts

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

I keep thinking about this. Like.. you have a bunch of writers going to a writing convention and so you pick *the revolting Nazi* to cover the event? You couldn't have fucking emailed *any other writer* in attendance for 600 words?

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I saw Dua Lipa interview Patti Smith at the London Literature Festival last night. Patti Smith was asked to describe her perfect day off. She said she would write, eat pizza and watch her shows such as Pursuit of Jade and Alchemy of Souls. I almost fell off my chair... one of us!!! #kdrama #cdrama

The persecution of @repilhan.bsky.social just days before an election is vile and politically-motivated. I'm leading 175 House Democrats in denouncing this. When we retake power, we have to seriously look at how we can stop these abuses of power — starting with the power of the purse.

I cringe posting about the media references to my own report. But my point is to stress how vulnerable this entire ethnic cleansing campaign really is: I'm just a random guy with a laptop in Chicago, who created a report that helps map and shine light on the violence and corruption.

Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s longtime nationalist strongman, conceded defeat Sunday in a general election held after his once-tight grip on power was weakened by nearly two years of student-led protests. nyti.ms/4zegOaY

lula’s first speech as a re-elected president directly addressed the digital crimes committed against brazil’s democracy during the election, where big companies like meta attempted to silence him and his supporters to influence the elections

In 2026, there are 26 Dems running for Congress, Senate, Governor, or Statewide Office who have made anti-trans votes or statements. Iowa, New York, Ohio, and Texas lead the pack in anti-trans Democrats. Your EITM candidate guide for this election cycle. Subscribe to support our journalism.

"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

ah here's the actual quote. The ringing clearly distorted the line. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

ICYMI, LA Taco has parted ways with two of its most fearless ICE reporters, Memo Torres and Izzy Ramirez (@eltragon.bsky.social and @izzymirez.bsky.social on here). Neither says why, but it sounds like it was sudden and involuntary.

Links to fundraisers to help Memo and Izzy get on their feet with independent coverage. Memo: solo.to/eltragon Izzy: gofund.me/d7bae7f56

Beautiful. Let's do this from sea to shining sea.

I don’t want this to go by in the flood of horror, I want us to remember this one.

Olivia: Next in my "it's okay to..." series. "Your feelings of grief, loss, anger, frustration and sadness are all valid. It's okay if you're struggling right now, these are difficult times we're living in 🩵" H/T: @o-bel.bsky.social

I have another friend who is finally coming out of the cannot read, cannot speak, phase, very slowly. I don't know how to explain to people that this is as real and bad, in a number of ways, as polio and post-polio syndrome, and we pretend it does not exist. www.kpbs.org/news/arts-cu...

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

‘Overnight, everything was dead’: the #Teesside fisherman turned activist dubbed the Mr Bates of the seas - www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc... bravo; all signs that a massive environmental crime has been committed here. people should go to prison for it

About one third of claimed carbon capture just dumped secretly into the atmosphere by chevron

This snippet contains many inaccuracies. For starters, you mean the web, not the internet. Second, it doesn’t power anywhere close to 70% of the web when you measure overall traffic, revenue, or influence. This stat from the WordPress community counts my zero-traffic PHP blog and Amazon as equals.

ICYMI "The people holding up the Internet" sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

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In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.

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1 like=1 thought on disability/chronic illness politics

“It looked like they were killing her,” says independent American journalist Jasper Nathaniel, “The Palestinian youth, stepped up. They ran out ahead, and they started beating the settlers back by throwing stones at them, which is the only thing that allowed me to then run out front and grab Heidi.”

Ann was one of the kindest colleagues I have ever known: encouraging, genuine, secure in her own work and self. She was one of my champions at WaPo, and she knew the score there. Ann never hoarded information or opportunity—quite the opposite. She knew there was always room for more of us. 💔