what if instead of skeet or toot or tweet, we just called each post a treat?

shouldn't Elon Musk have immunity for his Acts too?

is it accurate that, despite all the impediments to building in general, when a disaster destroys a person's home, a right to rebuild what was lost is grandfathered in? if that is accurate, isn't it a terrible idea?

it’s not a sex robot it’s an automate.

is there any version of urbanity that could be built and would not burn in fire-prone areas of Southern California, or would any form of human habitation burn under the conditions nature presents (and humans exacerbate) there?

“platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.” @kissane.bsky.social www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

what did he know?

finding not so much to root for today. i hope the fires are contained, suppressed, extinguished. i guess that’s something.

they deny it exists, but climate change serves an essential function for the right. it proves progress only makes things worse and we need to go back to their mythologized past. the disasters are caused by lesbians, they say. they have blessed themselves with abundant disasters.

one thing about canada, greenland, panama, the gulf of armenia — we’re talking about shit HE says again, rather than shit Elon says. which may be more important than greenland to him.

places i miss burn while i miss them.

a smaller mishap is called a kittenastrophe.

baby bskypost script grown up to parse and support URL and mention "facets" (that turns them into links in the post) github.com/swaldman/sca...

what if we did a *reverse* merger? we could sell ourselves to Denmark for, like, $1, then we'd have Greenland AND a civilized state.

when the US government finally realizes it has to arrange mass construction of new housing for climate refugees, my dream is @holz-bau.bsky.social leads the agency.

Europe has Ukraine as a bulwark to the east, and Greenland as a bulwark to the west.

i thought COVID would bring us together. i mean, it was the closest thing to an Independence Day, aliens-invade-Earth kind of scenario.

"When tariffs are moderate and are used to complement a domestic investment agenda, they need not cause much harm; they can even be useful. When they are indiscriminate and are not supported by purposeful policies at home, they do considerable damage—and more so at home than for trade partners."

the main practitioners of post-materialist politics are a few heads of state, who are making territorial conquest great again because they are bored of stable maps and miss the glory of conquest.