https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/twitter-addict-realizes-she-needs-rehab/619343/

This really rings true for me.

Well… I feel better.

Welp. We fumbled that one, for sure. Could’ve had a star, but….

Nice job, racists.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored

Good article (long-ish).

«When climate fear starts to grip, it is worth remembering that we have knowledge that offers us a chance to act.»

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-data-on-covid-19-vaccinations-race-ethnicity/

Oy. Several things going on here, but: 😦

https://twitter.com/granawkins/status/1411619145930604555?s=20

Really good original thread by Sim Kern, with interesting replies, but I like this thread by Grant the best.

Grant♟️ (@granawkins) Tweeted: @sim_kern – Don’t say it’s impossible. – Fuck. Around. And. Find. Out. https://t.co/cwGORnP8ob

https://twitter.com/David__Osland/status/1410183979203018752?s=20

Heh.

David__Osland (@David__Osland) Tweeted: So it’s England v Ukraine. One is deeply divided between ultra-nationalists and people who want to join the EU, with dodgy Russian money funding its rightwing politicians. But Ukraine has its problems too.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/30/swing-state-voter-polling-democrats/

Interesting story, especially the presentation he calls “a recent set of polls”:

https://futuremajority.org/wp-content/uploads/Future-Majority-Playbook-Exec-Summary.pdf

https://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/1409620506739822606?s=20

Re our climate. I guess the question now is: how much worse do we make it? I guess we’ll have to spend the next few generations struggling against folks* with a tendency to say “all these restrictions are terrible and the climate’s still bad, so it’s not doing any good!”

*i.e., idiots.

Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) Tweeted: We’ve left the era of fucking around, and we’re now entering the era of finding out.

NOT A WOLF (@SICKOFWOLVES) Tweeted: ITS NOT CLIMATE CHANGE ITS A REGIONALLY CURATED SUBSCRIPTION BOX OF ARTISINAL APOCALYPSES https://twitter.com/SICKOFWOLVES/status/1409656824094027788?s=20