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[kd @HypnoticEnergy]

@colligocritters What a cool looking little guy! I also enjoy bananas 🥰

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

22 states are seeing sober drivers arrested for DUIs EN MASSE. Tennessee is leading the charge with their officers bypassing people blowing zeros on field sobriety tests and them basically saying “well I smell alcohol” and locking people up anyway

[Caitlin Gooch @theblackcowgirl]

Hey hey yall!! My name is Caitlin Gooch aka The Black Cowgirl®️ and the founder of Saddle Up and Read. I am from Eagle Rock, North Carolina where I was born and raised on my family’s land. Thank you for caring !!!

Great read!

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

They are now hiding the Flock ALPR cameras in speed display trailers.

For your safety of course.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

TAKE YOUR CHILDREN INTO THE WORLD.
Let them help you in the laundromat, or practice being quiet in the library. Let them order and pay for their own food at the counter, teach them to speak kindly to the waiter, let them help you ship a package, take them on the bus and let them pay their fare and pull the string. Even if they’ll NEVER need to ride public transport or use a laundromat or can afford to buy books, let them interact with the world. Give them perspective and experiences.

[Gabrielle Drolet @gabrielledrolet]

this is why jesus said so much stuff about knowing thy neighbours btw

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they’ve murdered.

It’s not because they’re Jewish. Hope that helps.

[Hashilé 🇸🇳🇲🇱🇳🇬 | Personnage principal @sankurienne]

Et elle a eu raison de continuer. Le sang menstruel est profondément politique.
Pendant des siècles il a servi à justifier l’exclusion des femmes de l’espace public, du sport, du travail, de certaines fonctions religieuses, de l’école et même de la médecine. Il a été présenté comme une preuve que le corps des femmes était ‘faible’/ ‘instable’.

En franchissant la ligne d’arrivée elle a rappelé que ce n’est pas le sang qui est honteux, c’est la honte qu’on lui a attachée.

[kd @HypnoticEnergy]

@Favwontmiss Maroon

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

I decided to do a little historical research to understand exactly why the United States consistently votes "NO" to making food a basic, non-negotiable human right at the United Nations. What I discovered was truly shocking and highly revealing.

It appears that the entire American legal system is built almost exclusively on the cold, individualistic concept of "negative rights": which are mere freedoms from direct government interference, such as the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the right to bear arms, and protection against unlawful search and seizure.
A "right to food", on the other hand, is a positive right, meaning it legally, structurally requires the government to actively provide a material service, a life-saving commodity, or survival resources to its citizens. Now it becomes glaringly clear why the US government has historically resisted codifying any positive economic, social, or cultural rights, such as the rights to universal healthcare, affordable housing, clean drinking water, or basic food, into law.
They claim that these survival needs are merely "policy goals" to be debated and legislated democratically, rather than fundamental, non-negotiable constitutional rights.

The US Mission to Geneva has explicitly admitted that if the right to food were formally recognized as a legally binding, international human right, the US government deeply fears it would face massive, endless domestic lawsuits from its own impoverished citizens over systemic poverty, structural food insecurity, and widespread malnutrition. Furthermore, Washington fiercely opposes the legal concept of extraterritorial obligations: the revolutionary idea that wealthy, imperialist nations have a binding legal duty to provide aid, agricultural resources, financial assistance, or food to the starving citizens of other countries that they have spent centuries exploiting, plundering, and destabilizing.

This stark contrast between the US government’s fierce opposition to a legally binding "right to food" and its absolute willingness to instantly intervene with trillions of dollars to bail out failing private corporations, massive banks, and corporate monopolies is the ultimate double standard. It can only be described as the classic, brutal reality of "socialism for the rich and cutthroat capitalism for the poor."
Indeed, we always see that America proudly, eagerly guarantees an ironclad financial safety net for bloated corporate entities, massive defense contractors, and Wall Street venture capitalists to prevent market failures, bankruptcies, and bad investments. Yet, they flatly, ironically decline to guarantee even a basic safety net for human lives to prevent widespread nutritional failures.

[Peter Twinklage @PeterTwinklage]

the moment ChatGPT persuaded that first poor boy to kill himself, Sam Altman should have pulled the product from the market for emergency refinement. but he didn’t, & his glorified Magic 8 Ball has pushed child after child into the grave. hard to see him as anything but a monster

[Mightykeef @MightyKeef]

The Mayor of New York just did something none of the presidents of the United States would ever do.

[Wisdom Kaye @modsiwW]

The world cup, but if it was high fashion

[museofthesun @solarystix]

She’s so cool. I love when people seek to find solutions for their community. She’s doing what most people won’t.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

MY NEIGHBORS HAVE BEEN MARRIED 44 YEARS. SHE HAS ADHD. HE HAS 7 RULES.

I WROTE DOWN EVERY ONE.

She got diagnosed at 58 — "the label came four decades after the wedding," he says. When I asked how they made it, he didn't hesitate. He'd clearly counted:

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Nobody has ever made the dark feel as real as old Disney did.

In these films the night isn't an absence of light. It's a color, and someone mixed it by hand…

Disney had its own paint laboratory, built by a woman named Mary Weiser, the first of its kind in animation. Its job was to invent shades that did not exist yet. In the early thirties, when the studio was still making shorts, there were around eighty shades on the shelves. By the time they finished Snow White there were fifteen hundred.

Every one of them went on by hand, cel by cel, and each cel needed hours to dry before it could be photographed.

The Ink and Paint department was almost entirely women. According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the paints were sometimes named after them, and to have a color carry your name was considered an honour.

So the dark of Bambi's forest, the lamplight in Geppetto's workshop, the blue at Cinderella's attic window: none of it is a filter or a setting or a dimmer turned down. Each is a specific colour that a specific person mixed in a jar, and some of those jars had her name on the label.

That is why these scenes still feel more alive than anything made since. We went from hands, to computers, to AI, and at every step there is a little less of the person left in it…

The author Joanna Maciejewska said it better than anyone: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

Every single kernel on an ear of corn must be individually pollinated...

Corn is a wind pollinated plant, meaning the tassels (spiky things at the top of a stalk) drop pollen, mostly because the wind rustles corn stalks and forces it out...

It then falls onto the silks, which are those thin strands you see peeking out of the top of an ear

In this photo I have removed the husk of a young, underdeveloped corn to show you how it works...

A single grain of pollen MUST fall on every single silk, travel down the tube and into the kernel to pollinate. If you look closely, every single silk can be traced to one specific kernel 👀

This is why when you grow corn, you typically plant it in "blocks" that are 4x4' at a minimum - you want to maximize the chance that pollen falls on every silk

It's also why you DON'T plant different corn varieties next to one another. Because we eat the actual seed of the corn plant, we would get unintended cross-pollination when it came time to feast on our harvest

(This is in contrast to tomatoes, peppers, etc. where we eat the fruit of the plant, so cross pollination can occur but doesn't affect that season's harvest)

This has concluded today's Plant Daddy lecture, thank you for attending

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

It looks like someone put plastic in your tea. 👀

Most commercial tea bags, including ones that look like paper, are sealed with polypropylene, a petroleum-based plastic.

When you pour boiling water over your tea, the heat causes those plastic fibers to shed directly into your drink.

A McGill University study found that a single plastic tea bag releases approximately 11.6 billion microplastic particles and 3.1 billion nanoplastic particles into one cup of tea. Not over a lifetime of drinking tea. Per cup.

Researchers at the University of Barcelona confirmed those particles are absorbed by human intestinal cells and can enter the cell nucleus.

The long-term health effects aren't fully understood yet. What is understood: you're drinking billions of plastic particles every time you make a cup.

The fix costs about $12 and takes 30 seconds to learn. Loose leaf tea. Stainless steel infuser. Done. The tea tastes better anyway.

[I Dissent @DissentFu]

I would just like to point out a couple things first,

1. 70% of all wildlife has been killed off in my lifetime (52).
2. The 6th largest mass extinction of animals since Earth began is happening right now.

[Oxygen @Oxygen_Token]

The U.S. has finalized a major rollback of the Endangered Species Act.

One of America’s most successful conservation laws, credited with helping recover the bald eagle, gray wolf, and many other species, is being significantly weakened.

The new rule removes habitat destruction from the legal definition of “harm” to an endangered species. This could make it easier for logging, mining, and development to damage the habitats that threatened and endangered wildlife depend on.

Weakening these safeguards affects not only wildlife. It threatens ecosystems that provide clean water, carbon storage, flood protection, and biodiversity.

The ESA has been a cornerstone of U.S. conservation for more than 50 years. Rolling back habitat protections risks reversing decades of progress while nature is already under immense pressure.

You cannot protect endangered species if the habitats they depend on are no longer protected.

[Source: NPR; Earthjustice (July 2026).]