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Texas startup sells plastic-eating fungi diapers to tackle landfill waste reut.rs/4ltNEgX

A pretty inevitable result of Airbnb creating a zero-sum competition between residents and tourists for housing units, instead of building traditional hotels.

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

Deconstruction is a growing approach to taking down homes that diverts waste from landfills, cuts carbon emissions and creates a circular economy for construction materials. (KUNC)

Petronas CEO says carbon capture and storage a potential revenue source reut.rs/44hBJg8

me 2 you

This is what I don’t get. Israel wants to have a European or even American standard of living and lots of laptop jobs and foreign capital but also thinks endless war with neighbors can be compatible with that.

ISRAEL-IRAN CONFLICT ESCALATES, CIVILIANS KILLED AS G7 WEIGHS RESPONSEOVER 224 IRANIANS AND 10 ISRAELIS DEAD AS MISSILE STRIKES HIT TEL AVIV AND HAIFA; OIL PRICES CLIMB.TRUMP VETOED ISRAELI PLAN TO TARGET KHAMENEI, URGES DIPLOMACY BUT WARNS IRAN-PIQ

The Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which serves to protect US interests in Iran, has shut down.

Underneath all of those articles is a deep fury that Bluesky punishes instead of rewarding lazy and/or hostile engagement farming. Try to build a following here with trolling and slurs and you'll find yourself in a ghost town. To them that is simply intolerable.

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Leaders of the American Patriots Three Percent (AP3) militia have forged alliances with law enforcement around the US. Internal files reveal their strategies for building these ties and where they’ve claimed success. (Published Aug. 2024)

Remarkable how ticky-tacky the parade looks. To say that this is the kind of thing we see in North Korea is both substantively true and an insult to the North Koreans.

The insane far-right misinformation engine formerly known as Twitter seems to have already convinced millions of people that the Minnesota assassin - a Christian nationalist who targeted Democrats and abortion providers - is a leftist. The site should be shut down.

I wrote quite a lot about how the left’s hateful rhetoric fueled the killings of the healthcare CEO and Israeli embassy staffers. I’m going to either ignore this weekend’s assassinations in Minnesota or maybe write something both siding them.

Whether it's Democrats putting flyers on Chris Cillizza’s Tesla or Republicans assassinating Democratic lawmakers, it's time for both sides to turn down the temperature.

it’s crazy how life for everyone has just gotten noticably worse immediately as trump became president again

CNBC: "The Democrats are really not saying anything" on the Israel/Iran strikes. "I mean, Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Schumer, no statements from them." "I think that silence is deafening for many."

BREAKING: Numerous US politicians appear to have bought war stocks before Israel attacked Iran. US Congressman Josh Gottheimer bought $RTX, Raytheon, a weapons manufacturer, last month. Congressman Bruce Westerman bought $RTX on 04/07/2025 AND on 03/02/2025. Unusual.

um what? sounds like more than a stern warning www.cnn.com/2025/06/13/u...

person in adjacent stall flushes once: that's normal. i am safe two flushes: the electronic sensor is probably touchy. no reason for concern three flushes: thats a lot but we've all been there four flushes: this is concerning. something is wrong five flushes: i am in danger. we are all in danger

at some point it is going to be America getting blown the fuck out by sophisticated, multi-year intel-driven strikes, because we put the dumbest and most venal people in the world in charge of counterintelligence

The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

And one further point on this: the reason I think Bluesky and the underlying ATprotocol are actually so important is that they are fundamentally set up to allow people to create their own communities and their own culture, without demanding that a company decide it for them.

This is an unbelievably dark story about ChatGPT from top to bottom, especially the twist at the end here www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

any mass media platform where center-right, pro-business politics isn't the dominant paradigm is inevitably going to be maligned in this way by wealthy and powerful people trying to dictate the contours of acceptable discourse they've been playing this game (quite successfully) for a generation

Nine-year-old Liu Yi from Nantong, Jiangsu Province, is gaining attention for hitting targets while riding a galloping horse. Footage shows him performing horseback jumps and shooting arrows with impressive accuracy, showcasing his rare blend of archery and riding skills.

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

Between 1970 and 1985, a typical American family could save 10% of their income for about five years and accumulate a 20% down payment on a median-priced existing single-family home, according to a New York Times analysis. As of 2023, it would take nearly eight years, the data shows. nyti.ms/3FKEzkx

I dunno, but maybe Democratic members of Congress shouldn't go the White House picnic tonight and pretend everything's fine and dandy, unless and until Sen. Padilla gets a phone call apologizing for what happened from Donald Trump?

This video shows Senator Padilla being forcibly removed and handcuffed by federal agents after he appeared at a press conference of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and started asking questions. Via Senator Padilla’s staff.

i dont care if bluesky becomes the new public square or whatever. mainly i am here because this is liberals fucking Alamo

i dont care if bluesky becomes the new public square or whatever. mainly i am here because this is liberals fucking Alamo