Sending you some cat solidarity from Oakland -- don't worry, the cat's fine -- he's just stupefied by the warmth of the fire

Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social -- I saw this and immediately thought of you...

Thanks for your post Pitchbot—it reminds me I’ve been meaning to read this for years en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sh...

Useful examples of how our racial group names like "white," "Black," "Asian," "Hispanic," etc are so broad as to be meaningless, and yes, "social constructs": www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The WSJ had a great feature about the success of Rao's and why it tastes so good -- essentially, it's a mass produced sauce with high-quality tomatoes and simple traditional ingredients, and no paste, fillers, sugar, or starch.

The protesters in Berkeley were back at Tesla today at noon. They say they will be there each week:

Just passed by the Tesla dealership in Berkeley.

I prefer Zuck back in his Marcel Marceau phase

Cruxclimate.com thinks that the GOP will not fully repeal Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Their view is that the repeal will be "surgical," though there are some credits, such as energy conservation and EVs, that are at high risk. They even made a chart: