Disabled people asked for remote work for years. Were told it wasn't possible. Covid proved it was always possible. The future was just being rationed.
#Disability #Accessibility #FutureOfWork #DisabilityJustice #TechForGood
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06OnlySky is a digital magazine for America’s majority-in-the-making: the nonreligious and secular-minded. We explore life, culture, and the future through science, wonder, and human curiosity.
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Star Trek's humanist promise: you can hold two moral peaks at once and not need the universe to tell you which one is right. SNW remembers this. Most recent Trek forgot it.
"The difference between their dependence and mine is not that mine exists. It is that mine is visible." This essay reframes independence from the ground up.
#Disability #Interdependence #Accessibility #Humanism #DisabilityJustice
Climate change has shortened the re-chalking schedule for a prehistoric English giant from every 25 years to every 7-10. Deep time, disrupted. by @susanfourtane.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/rechalking-the-giant/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
#Archaeology #DeepTime #ClimateChange #CulturalHeritage #History
A portable planetarium in a school gym can fly kids past Andromeda. 22% of US high schoolers reach science proficiency. The math here is not complicated.
https://onlys.ky/educated-by-the-stars/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
Married mothers do more housework than single mothers. Not a bug — a documented pattern. Why? Because a lot of husbands aren't helping. They're adding work. by @daylightatheism@universeodon.com
https://onlys.ky/the-end-of-marriage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
#Feminism #Marriage #GenderEquality #LaborEconomics #Relationships
We treat privacy like a switch. It's actually a spectrum we've never mapped — and corporations mapped it for us while we weren't paying attention.
A fake press release. A plausible moral panic. Dozens of news outlets that ran it anyway. Negativland's 1989 hoax is the cleanest demonstration of confirmation bias ever recorded.
https://onlys.ky/negativland-and-me/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
#MediaLiteracy #Epistemology #Skepticism #MoralPanic #ConfirmationBias
Japan prescribed forest walks as medicine for tech worker burnout — in 1982. We're still arguing about whether wellness culture is cringe.
https://onlys.ky/forest-bathing/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#ForestBathing #Nature #PublicHealth #MentalHealth #ShinrinYoku
The most underreported environmental story: global forest cover is increasing in Europe, North America, and East Asia. Not because we got virtuous — because we got urban. Density saves wilderness.
https://onlys.ky/reforestation/
#Reforestation #ClimateAction #Environment #Trees #CarbonSequestration
Boosted by @Dragofix@veganism.social
AI replacing knowledge work breaks the historical pattern. Every past automation wave created new jobs. This one might just create new income sources instead. by @susanfourtane.bsky.social
https://onlys.ky/universal-basic-income/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#UBI #FutureOfWork #Automation #Economics #AI
A cabinet secretary's teenage daughter understood liberal education better than he did. "Conservative school to conservative college — that's just one-sided." She's 18. He runs the DOT.
#LiberalEducation #HigherEd #CriticalThinking #Secularism #Education
Teahouse culture on Ceres. An asymmetric rattlesnake station. A pilot called Iron Fist Bailey. 'Gamelan Bowl' builds a whole solar system in the cracks between a job briefing.
https://onlys.ky/gamelan-bowl/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#SciFi #SpeculativeFiction #ShortFiction #AsteroidBelt #Worldbuilding
Secularism is great at dismantling holidays. Terrible at building new ones. Thanksgiving is the proof. by @bledewitz.bsky.social
Four billion American chestnut trees, gone in decades. The roots are still alive underground — still trying to grow back. Still being killed every time they surface. by @daylightatheism@universeodon.com
#AmericanChestnut #Conservation #Ecology #Biotech #NaturalHistory
Europe's hospital scanning machines are failing from heat. The continent was never built for this. Neither was our energy grid. by @daylightatheism@universeodon.com
https://onlys.ky/our-shady-future/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#ClimateChange #RenewableEnergy #SolarPower #ClimateAction #EnergyTransition
AI attends your meetings. AI drafts your emails. AI coaches your small talk. Somewhere in that list, you became optional. Where's the line?
https://onlys.ky/the-human-archipelago/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
#ArtificialIntelligence #HumanConnection #Technology #Sociology #DigitalLife
Atomic clocks define our seconds. A 16th-century papal decree defines our years. The most underexamined contradiction in modern science is the calendar.
https://onlys.ky/godless-time/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=evergreen
The year 2100 is foggy. The year 3000 is almost readable. A millennium of cause and effect narrows the options. Three futures. All defensible.
#Futurism #LongTermThinking #ClimateChange #Humanism #Civilization
SCOTUS didn't impose religion on America. It just made the Establishment Clause optional. There's a difference — and it matters more. by @bledewitz.bsky.social
#Secularism #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment #ChurchAndState #ConstitutionalLaw
The problem isn't that we're too selfish to fix the world. It's that we're all waiting for someone else to move first. Prisoner's dilemma, civilizational scale. By @daylightatheism@universeodon.com
Every solo survival plan hits the same wall: you can't manufacture antibiotics alone. Civilization isn't a luxury — it's the infrastructure keeping you alive. by @daylightatheism@universeodon.com
#Futurism #Sustainability #Resilience #UrbanDesign #Humanism
Spent a few days in a house with no Wi-Fi. It felt like time travel — and not the bad kind. by @susanfourtane.bsky.social onlys.ky/information-overload/
https://onlys.ky/information-overload/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fresh
#InformationOverload #DigitalWellbeing #Attention #Neuroscience #SocialMedia