Devon ⛈️🎃
@hydrophd.bsky.social
Scientist | Proud New Englander | Aspiring Horror Artist
OU Hydrometeorology PhD | Opinions are my own
OU Hydrometeorology PhD | Opinions are my own
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it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
it rules that every day now is just watching everything in your life get more expensive and worse and then also constantly being told that nothing is more expensive or worse
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Why has Zohran Mamdani been so successful? Because, despite what critics of his White House appearance have claimed, he has refused to play along with American political theater.
www.newglobalpolitics.org/when-power-t...
www.newglobalpolitics.org/when-power-t...
When Power Turns Itself Into a Joke - New Global Politics
How to make politics real again by anchoring it in the material ground of everyday life.
www.newglobalpolitics.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why has Zohran Mamdani been so successful? Because, despite what critics of his White House appearance have claimed, he has refused to play along with American political theater.
www.newglobalpolitics.org/when-power-t...
www.newglobalpolitics.org/when-power-t...
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I was explaining this to someone else but, people who use AI Keep thinking it makes them "just as creative" as a real artist.
But they haven't even cultivated their IMAGINATIONS.
They don't even have the well of *ideas* to pull from
Even just THINKING CREATIVELY is a skill you need to develop
But they haven't even cultivated their IMAGINATIONS.
They don't even have the well of *ideas* to pull from
Even just THINKING CREATIVELY is a skill you need to develop
November 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I was explaining this to someone else but, people who use AI Keep thinking it makes them "just as creative" as a real artist.
But they haven't even cultivated their IMAGINATIONS.
They don't even have the well of *ideas* to pull from
Even just THINKING CREATIVELY is a skill you need to develop
But they haven't even cultivated their IMAGINATIONS.
They don't even have the well of *ideas* to pull from
Even just THINKING CREATIVELY is a skill you need to develop
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Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
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When the median homebuyer is nearing retirement, you don’t have a housing market. You have a crisis.
The median age of all U.S. homebuyers is now 59 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
Just 15 years ago, it was 39 years old.
November 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
When the median homebuyer is nearing retirement, you don’t have a housing market. You have a crisis.
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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It’s because they want to stop the progressive Democrat victory momentum last week in its tracks because they can raise more money as perpetual (controlled) opposition to Trumpism
If Democrats do this then the entire shutdown was pointless and a massive chunk of the momentum heading into 2026 will be lost.
How can these people be this fucking stupid?????
How can these people be this fucking stupid?????
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It’s because they want to stop the progressive Democrat victory momentum last week in its tracks because they can raise more money as perpetual (controlled) opposition to Trumpism
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Mike Johnson's selling Trump's message: Children must go hungry to prevent Americans from having affordable health care. It's not going well, as I discuss in PN.
Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts
The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.
open.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Mike Johnson's selling Trump's message: Children must go hungry to prevent Americans from having affordable health care. It's not going well, as I discuss in PN.
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Lot of stuff here I've been saying for a decade, very well put
still thinking about this article today. so many societal ills are caused by people white-washing what actually happens. it's awful to see games do it too.
can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator
can't wait for cozy domestic violence simulator or cozy kkk simulator
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
more like no thoughts to declare
blog.giovanh.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Lot of stuff here I've been saying for a decade, very well put
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ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
The ICE Shooter’s Motive
Joshua Jahn's friends speak
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
ICE shooter Joshua Jahn's politics aren't what's being reported, three longtime former friends tell me.
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...
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For @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about how, three years on fron its release, Knives Out: Glass Onion predicted the AI-addled tech broligarchy we're all struggling with today.
This piece is our free post for the month, so if you like it, throw us a subscription the-flytrap.ghost.io/glass-onion-...
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Peeling Back the Tech Broligarchy's Glass Onion
'Knives Out: Glass Onion’ skewered the tech industry. Three years later, the film remains an urgent call to reclaim entertainment and tech from the broligarchy.
the-flytrap.ghost.io
September 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about how, three years on fron its release, Knives Out: Glass Onion predicted the AI-addled tech broligarchy we're all struggling with today.
This piece is our free post for the month, so if you like it, throw us a subscription the-flytrap.ghost.io/glass-onion-...
This piece is our free post for the month, so if you like it, throw us a subscription the-flytrap.ghost.io/glass-onion-...
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New in PN: Potemkin village populism
"Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
"Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
Potemkin village populism
Trump thinks he's fooling the public, but he's only deceiving himself.
www.publicnotice.co
September 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
New in PN: Potemkin village populism
"Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
"Unlike the fake villages Potemkin erected, Trump’s theaters of cruelty are not harmless diversions. And while he imagines Americans cheering him, his performative sadism is only a winning strategy in his own mind. In reality, he’s becoming more & more reviled."
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damn it's almost like people don't really want to keep supporting the party of "you'll get nothing and you'll like it"
I can’t believe doing nothing but in the most annoying way possible isn’t working
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Dems Are Struggling to Register Voters and Raise Money
The Democratic Party is struggling to register voters and raise money ahead of the 2026 midterms, when the party hopes to win back the House.
www.rollingstone.com
August 23, 2025 at 5:28 AM
damn it's almost like people don't really want to keep supporting the party of "you'll get nothing and you'll like it"
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Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
August 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Via Variety: 'Guillermo del Toro refused to make #Frankenstein with too much visual effects and green screens: "I want real sets."'
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
variety.com/2025/film/fe...
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“I saw someone tweet the other day a picture of the sky, and it was blue .... and then 20 minutes later, there were clouds. And they said, ‘How is this possible?’ And I’m like, have people just never looked up?”
NEW: Republicans in nearly 20 states + Congress are writing bills to ban “weather modification.”
“It’s not a conspiracy theory,” PA Sen. Camera Bartolotta said. “All you have to do is look up.”
Dems see it as “absolutely” the GOP’s latest response to climate change
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
“It’s not a conspiracy theory,” PA Sen. Camera Bartolotta said. “All you have to do is look up.”
Dems see it as “absolutely” the GOP’s latest response to climate change
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Republicans across the country are pushing bills to stop government 'weather modification'
“If it doesn't exist,” said Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., a co-sponsor of federal legislation targeting geoengineering, “then you don't have anything to worry about.”
www.nbcnews.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“I saw someone tweet the other day a picture of the sky, and it was blue .... and then 20 minutes later, there were clouds. And they said, ‘How is this possible?’ And I’m like, have people just never looked up?”
Had the pleasure of not only going to see Tinsman Road, my first ever screening at the Woods Hole Film Festival @whoi.edu, but also getting to meet @robbiebanfitch.bsky.social who was kind enough to sign my VHS copy of The Outwaters 👁️🩸
(I may have been fangirling a bit)
(I may have been fangirling a bit)
July 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Had the pleasure of not only going to see Tinsman Road, my first ever screening at the Woods Hole Film Festival @whoi.edu, but also getting to meet @robbiebanfitch.bsky.social who was kind enough to sign my VHS copy of The Outwaters 👁️🩸
(I may have been fangirling a bit)
(I may have been fangirling a bit)
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Years of weeks where decades happen starts to wear on a guy.
July 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Years of weeks where decades happen starts to wear on a guy.
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Are you fucking shitting me
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Are you fucking shitting me
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Each Friday, I write a summary of what happened this week in science 🧪& higher ed:
- EPA shutting down office of research
- NIH selecting politically-preferred reviewers
- ICE surveillance tech
- unsnarling research funding news
This was Week 26, a marathon.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
- EPA shutting down office of research
- NIH selecting politically-preferred reviewers
- ICE surveillance tech
- unsnarling research funding news
This was Week 26, a marathon.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
Week 26
July 14-18, 2025 - surveillance, sickness, and choices
buttondown.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Each Friday, I write a summary of what happened this week in science 🧪& higher ed:
- EPA shutting down office of research
- NIH selecting politically-preferred reviewers
- ICE surveillance tech
- unsnarling research funding news
This was Week 26, a marathon.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
- EPA shutting down office of research
- NIH selecting politically-preferred reviewers
- ICE surveillance tech
- unsnarling research funding news
This was Week 26, a marathon.
buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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“This is the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy That Nobody’s Talking About”
Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar of Trump’s scheme to gut the Voting Rights Act and gerrymander the 2026 election.
Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar of Trump’s scheme to gut the Voting Rights Act and gerrymander the 2026 election.
“This Is the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy That Nobody’s Talking About”
Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar warns that a move to redraw Texas congressional districts will undermine democracy in the Lone Star State and beyond.
urldefense.com
July 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“This is the Biggest Threat to Our Democracy That Nobody’s Talking About”
Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar of Trump’s scheme to gut the Voting Rights Act and gerrymander the 2026 election.
Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Greg Casar of Trump’s scheme to gut the Voting Rights Act and gerrymander the 2026 election.
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The federal workers I've spoken with emphasize it isn't just their substantive work that's suffering - basic organizational functions like payroll and IT are breaking down.
This comment from a recent NYT article haunts me. "It was only when he left that we truly realized his value..."
This comment from a recent NYT article haunts me. "It was only when he left that we truly realized his value..."
July 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The federal workers I've spoken with emphasize it isn't just their substantive work that's suffering - basic organizational functions like payroll and IT are breaking down.
This comment from a recent NYT article haunts me. "It was only when he left that we truly realized his value..."
This comment from a recent NYT article haunts me. "It was only when he left that we truly realized his value..."