It’s so hard to stay optimistic sometimes

Save us President Xi, I guess

And Alex Karp’s Ph.D dissertation on the Frankfurt School!

I still remember this time last year when certain people were excited about Burgum being the “abundance pick” for Interior.

It’s really news like this that keeps you going sometimes

Identifying a distinct fascist aesthetic/vision, and using that to underscore the need for a robust alternative is not the same as “handing it to them.” Naming something is not the same as approving of it, sorry if that makes you uncomfy.

When did the article say that?

Shit like this is what’s keeping me sane right now:

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The next 20 years are absolutely not going to be pretty, especially for people in the global south, but we’ve already made so much progress relative to what was previously thought possible that you can’t help but hope that the worst possible outcomes will be avoided.

I think the only thing that’s keeping me sane is reminding myself that even though the effects of climate change are accumulating faster than anticipated, so is the pace of the energy transition.

Renewables have advanced so far beyond what we dreamed possible even 5-10 years ago.

nearly 100 people are dead. we barely know anything about them. their largest impact on the politics of the country that murdered them resulted entirely from how psychopathically the deed was done, not that it was done in the first place, that's totally fine!

Bipartisanship!

then they spit on you repeatedly, tell you your family members and relatives who are stuck at home won't be able to come, tell you your relatives that did make it might get deported back, and call you slurs nonstop. what do you think will happen to your already cooked brain