Brent

Aquatic Ecologist and sports nut.

all opinions expressed are my own.

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@Phil_Lewis_

[Taylor Lewan @TaylorLewan77]

Might be the best commercial for a video game we’ve EVER seen.

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@BradBunny_ @BearsNationCHI @newheightshow Agreed. To come out and had a chance to set the time like that and blew it....

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@KUTnathan and they still don't have an estimate for bringing the network back online? damn....

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@NBA @EvilMopacATX that shirt

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@MerriamWebster Shit. I always thought penultimate was the best of the best. <sigh>

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@KyleBrandt It also died the next most pathetic deaths after Boba fett. Such a letdown.

[Austin Statesman @statesman]

Ever wondered what Matthew McConaughey does in Austin?

The Texas native's perfect day in Austin includes his favorite restaurants, bike rides and more. Here's his full itinerary.

https://t.co/Kyfz6EY6D2

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@4TaxFairness @SenRubenGallego Good

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@CALEBcsw Congrats! Now get that ring and be back-to-back covers

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Bro is cooking on twitter

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

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@YIMBYLAND Absolutely awful looking. Serious downgrade from what a quadplex could be

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@CapMetroATX Any updates?

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@bravemanfan @BadSportsRefs @MLB Yes

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@EvilMopacATX G&S

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@OHWildBill @BadSportsRefs @MLB Situational awareness

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@OHWildBill @BadSportsRefs @MLB Ha. I guess but also no.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.