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submitted 42 days ago • 298 comments

While Energy Transfer may be celebrating today, the reaction we are already seeing from people who see this attack on free speech for what it is will only speed the end for Big Oil. The struggle continues. www.greenpeace.org/usa/verdict/

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. Mad magazine published this in 1969.

submitted 108 days ago • 8 comments

You affect how the bugs in your tummy feel, which affects how you feel. Sort of... There is a rather complicated feedback between human gut microbiota and things like anxiety and depression. We are still trying to understand this link, and it's implications. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 118 days ago • 1032 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 119 days ago • 882 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 130 days ago • 57 comments

a poem can close an old man’s eyes and open a child’s

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"With all its defects, delays and inconveniences, men have discovered no technique for long preserving free government except that the Executive be under the law, and that the law be made by parliamentary deliberations." A re-read of Justice Jackson in Youngstown never fails to reward.

submitted 131 days ago • 13 comments

Some cheerful yellow from my garden today. 🌱

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments

Just some heart-shaped leaves that made me smile on my walk today.

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato

submitted 211 days ago • 615 comments

looking for winter deep in the icy cloudbanks a half-submerged moon

submitted 211 days ago • 1 comment

"Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing." Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

submitted 211 days ago • 2 comments

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

submitted 214 days ago • 467 comments

We know about seagrass and mangroves but muddy bottoms matter too. New studies explore carbon stores in seabed sediments. The top 10cm of seabed mud around the UK may harness 3x more C than the country's remaining forests. Bottom trawling could release it again 🦑🧪 news.mongabay.com/2024/11/mapp...

submitted 214 days ago • 3 comments

Mooniness over Sydney harbour on my way home tonight.

submitted 305 days ago • 0 comments

We are nature defending itself... Not good enough Tanya. Simply not good enough. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 429 days ago • 0 comments

It almost seems like we should manage natural resources with the foundational principal of being precautionary in the face of unknown factors, like technological advancements in this case.

submitted 431 days ago • 0 comments

Like Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin says, anyone claiming to be saving the Great Barrier Reef, but who is not stopping climate change is talking guano! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 438 days ago • 0 comments

New book news! Life in the ocean has always changed, but now it’s changing faster than ever because of humans. Should we be fearful for the future of life in the ocean? Or hopeful? #WhatTheWildSeaCanBe will help you to be both. UK release 6 June atlantic-books.co.uk/book/what-th... 🧪🦑

submitted 444 days ago • 2 comments

Drop me a line, sang the sea nymph to the fisher, so I can draw you in. Come meet my fortysomething sisters. We'll teach you how to swim. I remember, said the fisher. I once kissed your salty lips. But I've promised my heart to the moon and cast myself adrift. #mpotd #whistpr

submitted 444 days ago • 3 comments

I dropped a part-slurped cup of tea. Later some boiled potato and two grapes. Dexterity distracted by a desire to drop into our discussion two words: I quit. Let’s switch the disappointment for possibility. And a cleaner kitchen floor. #mpotd

submitted 444 days ago • 0 comments

Easter hunt for pumpkins in my overgrown patch (all from compost volunteers) produced these beauties. Looking forward to roasts!

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In pushing other species to extinction, Humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches🦋LJC #GlobalWarming #Extinction #Healing #Earth #nature #biodiversity #sustainabililty

submitted 449 days ago • 0 comments

Another incredible report from Ian Urbina and Outlaw Ocean, this time on human rights abuse, banned antibiotic use and lies about certification claims in India's shrimp sector. Where are your shrimp/prawns from? #slaveryshrimp #pukeyprawns www.theoutlawocean.com/investigatio...

submitted 451 days ago • 0 comments

Slavery seafood breaks my heart 💔 - this time Indian farmed shrimp/prawns 🦐. Even worse when it claims to be eco-certified. Where's your seafood from? #SlaveryShrimp www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-...

submitted 451 days ago • 0 comments

It’s early autumn in Sydney, when we are supposed to start planting bulbs for spring. These jonquils are now flowering in my garden…

submitted 459 days ago • 0 comments

Whether you wish to explore haunted forests or to become the haunter yourself, just know that there's always a place for you in the darkness between the trees.

submitted 504 days ago • 1 comment