In 2015 a biologist from Alaska told me about the ~40,000 seabirds that had all starved to death, at ground zero on his bay, in a matter of weeks. He had been studying these murres for years, and he cried as he described the horror of it all. It was the start of the 4,000,000 bird die-off, which was apparently not newsworthy.

I don’t remember many conversations in my life, but this silenced alarm hit hard, because I saw that our mass extinction had arrived.

https://www.audubon.org/magazine/single-heatwave-killed-half-alaskas-common-murres-shocking-new-study-reveals

A noBuddy House Rep from Georgia proposed this 3 weeks after inauguration, in a lame effort to garner attention and score loyalty points. He and his proposal are being completely ignored.

https://www.congress.gov/member/earl-carter/C001103

Sometimes I let myself think about life before “civilization”:

The stories of flocks of migrating birds numbering in the millions, darkening the skies for more than a day.

The plains with an ocean of waving grasses that sustained millions of buffalo, and the symbiotic chain of animal life that thrived in their wake.

The thousands of waterfalls that cascaded into freely flowing rivers and sustained riparian zones filled with vertebrates and insects.

Forests full of trees that were thousands of years old, sheltering the abundant wildlife.

I think of fireflies and bees and the absence of machine sounds, and I kinda wish I could go back in time to just … prevent hominins.

Several restaurants pushed back on Tuesday. Here’s an actual article instead of a tweet:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/05/06/ice-agents-are-targeting-dc-restaurants/

The United States has been dodging the ICC since Bush the Younger yipped out. Membership and retroactive accountability is long overdue, and hopefully it will start with ICE.

”Comcast may have robbed you of billions of dollars for years, and perhaps we laughed at how fucked millions of you were, and maybe we flipped you all off from our yachts, but you can trust us now because it’s a new day.”

Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio said in a statement on Friday that he had been briefed on the investigation, adding that he was “sickened by what appears to be an intentional act of violence.”

We’re all sickened by the intentional violence of police murdering whoever the fuck they want.

Stop it. It’s bad enough we have to wade through nearly two years of campaign assaults prior to POTUS elections. The spectacle of the last inauguration was just 14 weeks ago, and we’re fucking exhausted. Just stop it.

“The building or someone is on fire”

When I was working in property management, certain people would frequently call me in the middle of the night for what they considered emergencies. They’d wake me up because a stove burner wouldn’t heat, or a lightbulb was out, or they just remembered that a door creaks. This shit got old real fast, so I began training the night callers that “emergency means Fire, Flood, or Death”.

One man was unfazed by my Fire, Flood, or Death mantra, so every time I saw his number ring in, I just shouted into the phone FIRE FLOOD OR DEATH? FIRE FLOOD OR DEATH?!