Imagine: You’re in your mid-30s, doing mid-30s things. One day, you get sick. You almost die, & it doesn’t go away. You’re now disabled. Other people report dying & becoming disabled by the same illness, while still others accuse the sick of lying. It’s chaos for a time.

Broke out this old gem for my 7 and 9 year old today to explain why the world is the way it is. youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs

I’m decamping to mastodon [email protected].

You can find me @[email protected] and @[email protected] Project mushroom is shaping up to be great, but not federated to other servers. So keeping one foot on the outside.

[email protected] Get out now.

If walking costs you $1, we all pay $0.01. If biking costs you $1, we all pay $0.08. If bussing costs you $1, we all pay $1.50. If driving costs you $1, we all pay $9.20. Via The Discourse study. This isn’t just about choice. It’s about who pays for your choice. #citymakingmath

The most succinct, spot-on take I've read.

An underrated benefit of people having deep political experience is they can understand the levers of power in a way outsiders don’t. Apparently Biden’s income based loan repayment is going to mean more loan forgiveness than the original loan forgiveness. npr.org/2023/08/08/119…

Whats driving record-setting global temperatures in 2023? A switch from persistent La Niña conditions to a growing El Niño on top of warming from human emissions, with minor contributions from the solar cycle, the HT volcano, and marine low sulphur fuel standards.

According to the #IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, to limit global warming to '1.5°C with no or limited overshoot', then global CO2 emissions decline: * 48% in 6 years * 80% in 14 years * 99% in 24 years (thanks David Ho for reminding me to remind people) ipcc.ch/report/sixth-a…

doing everything we can to keep unhoused neighbors hydrated un this heatwave. We are short on cash, every dollar helps.

Whether it's the woke left giving pronouns in their Twitter profiles, or the radical right gunning down Black people with assault rifles, there's plenty of extremist activity on both sides of the aisle.

The ruling class has no interest in ending homelessness because their presence serves as a constant reminder of the penalty for non-compliance in the system where we sell our labor for a fraction of its value

When I look at the video of a clearly struggling Mitch McConnell, I think about how scary and difficult that must be, and how hard McConnell has worked throughout his life to ensure that the end of people's lives are as difficult and scary a struggle as they can possibly be made.

This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person. 🧵👇

Sewage and sanitation, another branch of civil engineering, are so good at their jobs, that system failure resulting in harm or death makes national news. Traffic engineering is so bad at safety that system failure resulting in harm or death is baked into their models and code.

Perspective: Lithium we mine today and that we'll need to mine by 2050 compared to other major mined materials today like Iron, Aluminum, and Copper. Measured in kilotonnes. Great visual.

It does!!

What’s going on Denver Int'l Airport ? These security lines are outrageous.

Peter Norton published this piece in response to the recent Current Affairs article titled "The Strong Towns Movement Is Simply Right-Libertarianism Dressed in Progressive Garb." Read the full story here: strongtowns.org/journal/2023/9…