Sunday Snippets: Fall

Less than four months till 2027 and we are sliding from summer to fall. Summer is my favorite season but with each summer getting hotter, it's hard to enjoy it as I once did.

Summerween, Augtober, and the Death of Summer

There’s a recurring theme rolling through social media, where the solution is to ‘disassociate from extreme heat…’

And in order to do that, you need to run-not-walk to target, marshalls, homegoods, and michaels to buy fall themed items.

So, we’re disassociating from extreme heat by enabling systems (consumerism and fossil fuels) that perpetuate EXTREME HEAT.

[stage directions: SCREAMING OFF STAGE LEFT]

Does Meat Make the Man?

25 Years Since 9/11, When Will The Immigrant Victims Be Remembered?

Gate A-4

We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.

The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed

Officials demand answers after violent ICE confrontation with Frederick protesters

How To Love The World When It’s Like This

Op-Ed: ICE Is Building the Future of Immigration Enforcement

Oil executives just accidentally exposed the industry’s greatest weakness

College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

Trump’s female army

Lifeguards and Angels

"we are not the dam trying to stop the river; we are the river that they are trying to dam, and whatever they build we will overtop it and flow in in the end."

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Abolition After Katrina

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily

She Was Absolved of a Heinous Crime. Why Won’t They Leave Her Alone?

Lovely Dolly-isms

Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

Could Heat Disasters Kill 100,000 People This Year?

NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll

Baltimore’s Poe House launches emergency $50K fundraising campaign

Peekaboo island: the floating forest confounding nature watchers in western Canada

ICE Camps Are Not Untouchable. Here’s How Communities Can Push Back

People talked about this rural ranching dire need for medical services, and the medical service or hospital could also provide jobs, could also treat people that need medical services in the town. So trying to think about actually what the needs of a community are can only be answered at the local level, but just one example of there are desperate needs for things that are not extractive, that are not just a new national retailer coming in. National retailers, the Walmarts, the Dollar stores, they actually have a lot in common with immigration camps or prisons that they come in, they promise jobs. They promise bright new funds that are going to be spread out through your community, but they don’t actually work....We don’t need mass investment in better prisons. We need mass investment in our communities.

Sunday Snippets: Crumbling

The shit is crumbling. The dynasty he wanted ain't gonna happen.

Tenderly Tracking My Husband

We love Olivia Benson

Residents fear Frederick County will be the new ‘data center alley’

In This Church, Child Sexual Abuse Has Gone Unchecked for So Long That It Spans Generations

I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.

When ICE arrests you, what happens to your car?

I Fed the People Building the Metaverse

                  "The machine inherits its makers."

Troubled Water

Designer Sam Masters Waited 16 Years to Land His 420-Square-Foot Apartment

What I Witnessed In Palestine Made Me Think About My Gun

                “You like geese?” he asks with a smirk.

                 “No, I’m more of a birds of prey guy,” I reply, still staring at the geese.

                  “Ah,” he clicks his tongue. “You Americans, you always like things that kill.”

More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic

Trump admin is terminating a vast network of ocean monitors

New research connects climate change to increasing heat-related heart disease nationally

'It's so chaotic': Humpback whales are forming super-groups

Sleep is delicious

"This celebration of sleep evokes recent critiques of unbridled capitalism – a rejection of hyper-productivity, often associated with exploitative labour practices. In his Aeon essay, the political theorist Jonathan White has shown that sleeping in sync with our natural circadian rhythms is a matter of political justice. Not only does poor sleep often accompany socioeconomic inequality, it also detracts from the capacity to cope with difficult life circumstances. ‘Poor sleep is a corrosive disadvantage – one that yields more of the same,’ he writes. White advocates for what he calls ‘circadian justice’, which would require a radical, but not impossible, restructuring of society so that everyone’s circadian rhythms are respected, and people are free to choose work schedules that suit their needs."

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

We need to press and INSIST that if Harris and Walz want our votes, they need to stop the goddamn genocide going on in Gaza. Yes, Trump is a fucking goblin from the deep but Harris and Walz aren't entitled to anything.

Baltimore DPW workers have no water or AC during dangerous heat advisory

Scientists discover ‘dark’ oxygen being produced more than 13,000 feet below the ocean surface

Astronomers are scrambling to save the world's most powerful X-ray space telescope

Why many scientists fear a second Trump term

A flood of emotions in these stoic portraits of people returning home after a deluge

Hopescrolling

Grief is not a process with five stages. It is shattered glass

The Belgian town where families take in people with psychiatric conditions

A photographer captured the perfect shot of an Olympic surfer's record-breaking ride

Gangsta rapper to grandfather: The Olympic gold rebranding of Snoop Dogg

Disposable Heroes

With attention on Gaza, Jewish settlers expand in the West Bank

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. This has got to stop.

The Cloud Under the Sea

Hobbyist photographer snaps photo of extremely rare bird in 1st U.S. sighting

Woman Reading

Pregnant women in Missouri can't get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence

She survived the 1970 Kent State shooting. Here's her message to student activists

Largest-ever marine reptile found with help from an 11-year-old girl

Atomic vets are on the verge of losing federal benefits. Congress hasn't helped

Here’s how a Prince George’s Co. facility is making better, safer batteries

Climate change

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

Ceasefire. Ceasefire. Ceasefire.

substack f***'d up and now we have to talk about it

Photos: Documenting the war in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passes 25,000

Cold War Bunker Turned Mansion In Missouri Can Be Yours

New fossils suggest kelp forests have swayed in the seas for at least 32 million years

World groundwater levels showing 'accelerated' decline - study

Tiny Flying Rainbows

Japan's village with the oldest population is wooing young residents to survive

Patients say keto helps with their mental illness. Science is racing to understand why

Is it normal to cry over rotten produce?

Greenland startup begins shipping glacier ice to cocktail bars in the UAE

The Subversive Act of Photographing Palestinian Life

How to Save Corporate Modernist Architecture

Sunday Snippets: Trans Lives Matter

We need to pay attention the virulent and rampant transphobic bills in the US. We need to speak out and denounce it.

Our 25 favorite photos from the 2023 Iditarod ceremonial start

5 Texas women denied abortions sue the state, saying the bans put them in danger

How (and why) this man plans to live underwater for 100 days

No One Tells You the Full Truth About Pregnancy and Childbirth

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

At Home with Poet Kate Baer

Girls in Texas could get birth control at federal clinics — until a dad sued

The Ghosts in My Home

That Really Happened

Big Feelings

Texas man sues ex-wife's friends for allegedly helping her get abortion pills

On 3/11/20, WHO declared a pandemic. These quotes and photos recall that historic time

Sunday Snippets: Breonna Taylor

Her murderers still haven't been arrested. Her life mattered.


The New White House Fence Is Getting Covered In Protest Art

How I Feel Right Now as a Black Woman

Amy McGrath Takes Narrow Lead Over Mitch McConnell in Kentucky Senate Race, Poll Shows

1st U.S. Woman To Walk In Space Dives To Deepest Point In The Ocean

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley propose creating a national database of cops with a record of misconduct

COVID-19: Straight Answers from Top Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic

Louisville city council unanimously pass 'Breonna's Law' to ban no-knock warrants

We Step Aside: Indigenous Deaths in Custody in Australia

The Story Behind TIME's George Floyd Protest Cover

Is There a Racist Monument In Your Town? Check This Map to Find Out

We Don’t Have To Halt Climate Action To Fight Racism

Walmart, CVS, Walgreens To End Practice Of Locking Up Black Beauty Products

Sunday Snippets: Yay summer!

I am rejoicing the warmer weather. Even when I drive a black car with leather seats. It's okay, I didn't need skin or anything.

Because cats & This is what is like to have a cat, period. & Even big cats are kitties at heart

Wonderful news

AHEAD OF HER TIME’: YURI KOCHIYAMA (1921-2014)

Disgusting

Very Cool!

Now, though, she's planning to embark this month on a flight around the world, a trip that closely replicates the 1937 journey of the original — and more famous — Amelia Earhart. If she's successful, this Amelia, at 31, will be the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft.

Completely awful

Alba Quiñones Flores started her period the first week that she was in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection. Every morning, a guard delivered sanitary napkins to her cell of 20 women—but only four or five pads for all of them. Quiñones couldn't scramble to the door fast enough to claim one. She'd injured her ankle crossing the Mexican border before CBP picked her up near Falfurrias, Texas, and she still hadn't received first aid. A CBP agent had thrown out the pills and insulin she needed to treat her myriad health problems, including hypertension, diabetes, migraines, anxiety, and convulsions. So Quiñones wound up using the same, single sanitary pad for her entire period.
Bad-ass

If you are reading this, thank this woman. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMAN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.
Ah, childhood.

The third one makes me want to scream and punch something Because WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Heartwarming "Mommy Wars" my ass

Say what you will, but this is a family that seems to really love each other

Welp, that's one of the most adorable things I've ever seen

To Read: Yes, all I had no idea about the first one.

And people wondered why I'm terrified of the ocean/deep water Because it will eat your soul.

Fuck. Yes. Awesome and lifesaving idea.

Because if you deviate from the norm.... *off to find the book*

Ugh. Truth

Smaller Closets I also did some thinking on this subject this week.