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Plant nerd and educator, musician, no-good commie, Massachusetts.
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Please read this. According to their account, the family did NOT want the police there. They tried hard to deescalate the situation. But 911 would not send an ambulance without the police. This is the exact catastrophe the family tried to avoid. www.nj.com/bergen/2024/...

submitted 198 days ago • 51 comments

Amid a nationwide outcry from women who say they experienced severe pain when getting an intrauterine device, new federal health guidelines published Thursday are urging health-care providers to address the problem.

submitted 203 days ago • 23 comments

Today I learned the director of public policy for Meta, Dustin Carmack, wrote a chapter for Project 2025. Carmack was a research fellow for cybersecurity intelligence and emerging technologies at The Heritage Foundation. static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...

submitted 213 days ago • 56 comments

Okay, I'd like to call for some laws to be made about "Right to not be advertised to" because this is getting really absurd. These include facial recognition cameras to analyze customer data. They play video, unsure if it's with sound. #walkingads

submitted 214 days ago • 2 comments

Reminder you don't always need to do kitchen work in the kitchen. If you're lucky enough to have a porch and a break from the summer heat, use it! #cooking #vegarden #homegrown

submitted 217 days ago • 0 comments

Exclusive: A six-month investigation from The Post reveals that many carbon credit ventures reap profits from public lands they have no right to and fail to share revenue with those protecting the forest.

submitted 218 days ago • 3 comments

Many native species can be planted straight into a lawn and do incredibly well, eventually outcompeting the lawn outright. This is an example from my apartment's fence line. No other maintenance was done other than watering when the plants were new. #nativegarden #horticulture

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submitted 219 days ago • 15 comments

I'm a single issue voter and the single issue is this

submitted 221 days ago • 38 comments

been holding off on posting this due to the news of the day but i can’t keep waiting. look what i saw today.

submitted 221 days ago • 28 comments

Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

submitted 228 days ago • 32 comments

Same day as Trump's attempted assassination. Don't let this get completely overshadowed. According to the article there's no motive known or arrest yet.

submitted 228 days ago • 0 comments

At least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting at a Birmingham, Alabama, nightclub late Saturday night, police said.

submitted 228 days ago • 4 comments