This is incredibly on point.
Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks.
It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.
Counterpoint (short thread): bsky.app/profile/park...
“International Women’s Day” ending up on the only 23 hour day of the year.
A leafless tree is pictured below a starry sky. In the sky behind the tree is an aurora glowing mostly green but with some purple. The shape of the aurora seems to follow the branches of the tree. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
🔭 The Aurora Tree
Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace
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It is an existential imperative that we begin a serious global dialogue about how ‘experts’ as the media uses the term, consistently lag behind us laymen when it comes to Knowing Some Bullshit When We See It.
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box
Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.
President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:
“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
God help me, I read the name as “A.I. Jolson.” 🤦♂️
All dogs are good dogs and some could use your help
15outof10.org/unfunded/
By BEN LEFEBVRE 03/05/2026 05:00 AM EST f • • • President Donald Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is telling his advisers to bring ideas to the Oval Office to lower gasoline prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran, according to two energy industry executives familiar with the conversations. The White House is "looking under every rock for ideas on improving energy prices, especially gasoline prices," said one of the executives, who was granted anonymity to describe internal administration discussions.
I have an idea. Here’s my idea: We should have had this meeting last week before we started bombing Iran. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Part of me is curious, given thematic continuity across films, what Spielberg might do with Shakespeare's "King Lear."
For us, though, instead of rice it was macaroni.
"Here we are in Minneapolis donating food, donating games and books and art supplies to kids who can’t go outside, donating coats, donating meals, and donating whistles. We are learning how to make a functional community when it’s our own government disrupting our lives."
The remnants of 7 rolled snow balls are almost all of the remaining snow in a field. They look a little like ancient stone markers.
Snowhenge
Closer to home, a big wet water crisis threatens to bankrupt small towns and big cities alike. It will take spending and thrift alike to save the day.
Hey, im rallying some funds for my youth for some art supplies or their hobby of interest, i cant really buy things with my funding that arent employment related
Many r recently unhoused, backgrounds, no family, immigrant families
All A+ humans
Venmo is sheridan-lair
Or if you have supplies! ⬇️
Ditto.
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
So there's a black girl scout troop trying to raise money to to to Europe but they aren't close to their goal as of yet. Please share this and buy some cookies if you can
digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/reagan...
I’m going to try this with guests when I record interviews to move things along faster. Hello, three minute podcasts!
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The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is under immediate threat. Congress is trying to fast-track a vote to strip long-standing mining protections and push a toxic copper-sulfide mine into its watershed.
Call your senators now: 202-224-3121 and ask them to vote NO!
More info in the post.
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 13 through February 16 as part of a massive community science project
Pass by this spot nearly everyday on the 87 bus route.
Edward Rochester: "It’s a surprise, my dove! Come up to the attic and see..."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/val...
YO! Small business owners in Saint Paul, MN - some economic relief for the disruptions caused by the federal occupation is available to businesses in Saint Paul specifically. @mischieftoy.com @blackhartstp.com @bangbrewing.bsky.social
www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...
Ahhh, my teen years.
"Deux morts, des milliers de personnes arrêtées, deux villes ébranlées et Donald Trump défait. Ainsi s’achève l’opération anti-immigration « Metro surge », conduite par l’Etat fédéral dans les « twin cities », les villes jumelles de Minneapolis et Saint Paul, depuis début décembre. Tom Homan, le « tsar des frontières » de la Maison Blanche, a annoncé jeudi 12 février le retrait prochain des troupes de l’ICE (Immigration and customs enforcement, la police de l’immigration) et de la CBP (Customs and border protection, l’équivalent des douanes)."
How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad.
In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with:
"Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated."
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
A group of Buddhist monks on the "Walk For Peace" pass by the Library of Congress after a 15-week walking pilgrimage from Texas, February 11, 2026. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
A group of Buddhist monks on the "Walk For Peace" pass by the Library of Congress after a 15-week walking pilgrimage from Texas, February 11, 2026. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
A group of Buddhist monks on the "Walk For Peace" pass by the Library of Congress after a 15-week walking pilgrimage from Texas, February 11, 2026. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
A group of Buddhist monks who have walked more than 2,000 miles from Texas to Washington, D.C. since October finally arrived in the nation’s capital Tuesday. They walked right past the Library of Congress this afternoon on their way to a peace gathering at the Lincoln Memorial. ☮
