I like Rings of Power, but it reminds me of Detective Pikachu. I don't see how it is accessible to anyone w/o deep knowledge of the lore already, but it doesn't really flesh out that lore into a strong, well-paced) plot. So as a big Tolkien fan I'm going "neat references, but story's a bit weak"
I'm sure I will! So far I'm finding your book very helpful in thinking about the language I use across the board, and how I'll answer questions on policy.
I continue to be enraged that Snopes is perpetuating the myth that Trump didn't call Nazis "very fine people". He did. It is not ambiguous. We can read the transcript. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The bogus âCharlottesville hoaxâ idea reemerges.
Wonderful day teaching kids about marine ecology at the London Natural History Museum, then as I get out the library emails me that The Language of Climate Politics by @doctorvive.bsky.social is ready to collect. Just in time for my talk on climate models in Glasgow next week!
Uhhh, there are definitely some people I'm "following" that I did not choose to follow. Is this a thing for other people on here?
Immigrants stealing and eating pets is a racist trope thatâs been around for literally more than a century. That at least two US senators, the GOP VP nominee and the worldâs richest twit fell for it tells you that they arenât just bigots, theyâre the simplest, dullest variety of bigot.
Long Covid rates nearly DOUBLE in people who were already disabled. This is why we beg you to care about safe spaces. Beg disability orgs to implement clean air and masking. Weâve been shut out of society. Weâre much higher risk. We deserve inclusion. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Got my covid booster, new masks and tests, I am ready for autumn and winter, bring it on* *Please do not actually bring it on. I would rather it not be brought on, even if I am personally as prepared as I can be in this individualistic capitalist hellscape.
Good lord: "unpasteurized dairy products is responsible for 96% of illnesses caused by contaminated dairy products over the five-year period surveyed" It is truly wild how every advance in public health & safety has a fringe group of conspiracy theorists rejecting it buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Louis Pasteur didnât set out to make milk safer. A scientific jack-of-all trades, born in 1822 in eastern France, Pasteur pioneered fields from...
The American Meteorological Society State of the Climate Report for 2023 is now available: doi.org/10.1175/2024...doi.org/10.1175/BAMS... A historic year for Earth's climate... đ¨
