Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label summer. Show all posts

Sunday, September 13, 2026

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, August 23, 2026

Sunday Snippets: Third grade

My son starts third grade this week. Time is a fickle goddamn thing because he was just a baby.

Take Five

Chef José Andrés warns of multi-year world famine from Iran war

What Is Freedom: Elissa Altman

Dog Days

State fairs forever (data centers never)

Is Ocasio-Cortez Ready for the Glass Cliff?

Sherrill Administration Announces Statewide Housing Resources Ensure No Veteran Has to Go Homeless

The Family Physician Talking You Through Your Abortion

A Year of Confinement in Delaney Hall, With No End in Sight

I went to more than 20 yard sales last weekend

Cumulative access to print books improves literacy achievement: Evidence from a five-year randomized trial in high-poverty schools

Air Florida Flight 90 Tragedy: Blizzard, Heroism, and the Potomac’s Icy Waters

Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires

A Federal Judge Says the Constitution Still Protects Abortion

AI has captured a third of research discovery. Study sets out actions required for publishers to make content visible via new channels.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone

When data centers come knocking, counties should have a ‘wish list,’ officials say

If one thing was clear after the second major panel focused on the issue at the Maryland Association of Counties summer conference, it was that data centers are not going anywhere — at least not any time soon. So counties should start preparing.

“Counties willing to negotiate can extract meaningful investment in their community’s futures while mitigating impact to their communities and residents,” Ullman said. “New schools, road upgrades, community centers, long-term support packages for local initiatives — it’s all on the table.”

Sooooo we just negotiate with captors in hopes of better cages? The fuck is this bullshit?