As I put it a few years ago in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250,000 electric vehicles. The main answer MUST be FEWER cars driven LESS."
Depicting LGBTQ people in films isn’t “therapy.” It’s depicting the actual real world, where LGBTQ people exist & have always existed.
This move is part of the broader movement to erase LGBTQ people from many aspects of life.
We’re part of the real world. We’re not going anywhere.
Fritos contain three ingredients: corn, corn oil, salt. People regularly disbelieve this because they think something unhealthy must have scary chemicals.
Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?
Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
If only we had something like a carbon tax.
Third (fourth, fifth, ... , billionth, ad infinitum)
Second.
Unpopular opinion but gas prices have always been too low.
Cheap gas means urban sprawl, giant useless pick up trucks, shitty transit options, shitty rail options and dangerous or no bike & pedestrian options.
Oh and burning less gas means the climate apocalypse gets postponed
Man, I wish Pete Boulay and Kenny Blumenfeld were on here...
This number made me do a double take today.
September in Minnesota is now 6 degrees warmer on average than in 1970. 🌡️
And fall colors peak ~ 2 weeks later.
Hear my convo with Pete Boulay of the MN State Climate Office tomorrow on Climate Cast.
#mnwx
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...
The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.
Dean from Moorhead touches on something that @angeladavismpr.bsky.social never really does - how salt use is poisoning our environment.
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
Good input from @ktigue.bsky.social, too!
Ooh, a spare hand!
Always nice to hear @angeladavismpr.bsky.social talk to Kenny Blumenfeld on @mprnews.org, even if everything that is shared is so fucking dire. #ThisIsFine #GlobalWarming #GlobalWeirding #ProtectOurWinters
Always nice to hear @cathywurzer.bsky.social talk to @birdchick.bsky.social, especially about how bird calls signal spring. Redwing blackbirds, sandhill cranes, mourning doves...
The idea that climate destroying cars deserve 100% of all public space needs to go.
#AbolishICE
this is just true.
for now. Jewish groups should rally to pressure for censure and expulsion for Ogles because it's the right thing to do in the face of bigotry. But if that's not good enough for you, recognize it'll be us next.
#AbolishCBP
Around 4% of particulate matter consists of plastic, TWO-THIRDS comes from tire abrasion.
"...people in a city like Leipzig inhale approximately 2.1 micrograms of plastic per day through the air, which increases the risk of death from cardiovascular disease by 9% and from lung cancer by 13%."
This is actually one of the most shocking things I have learned in my grad school education - that the bulk of PM2.5 comes from tires and electrification will actually accomplish next to *nothing* in improving air quality in that sense
Even as the Minnesota Department of Highways was planning expressways through Minneapolis, most of the people who lived and worked there rode the streetcar, took the bus, or walked. ...
Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.
On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.
Come to think of it, I have one of those too! Connected to another magical thingy on my roof that summons power from the sun and feeds it to my house, my stove, and my car. Doesn't have to go through the Strait of Hormuz!
I have a magical device in my driveway that protects me from oil price shocks, emasculates petrothugs, slows the rising seas, and powers my car. During times like these, worth considering!
Chart from linked article, showing what % of of each major fertilizer type (nitrogen, phosphorus, & potassium) the US imports, 2000-2024. N has gone down from 21% imported to 6%. Phosphorus is a little up from 2% to 13%. Potassium has gone from 76% to 94%.
The US already makes 96% of the N fertilizer we use.
The fertilizer we import the most is POTASSIUM. Which we get from CANADA.
When we import phosphorus, we get 98% of it from PERU. Not Iran.
So the reason we've had trouble getting those is TARIFFS.
farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2025/07/us-f...
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
Hi everyone.
If every single one of you seeing this post considered clicking “follow” on our new account/movement, @urbantruth.bsky.social, our work would start regularly reaching a BIG audience, and that’s KEY to us having the REAL IMPACT we hope this initiative will have.
Thanks for considering!
