Michael Pellman Rowland

Moved over to Threads.

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Excited to see @VitalikButerin's donation to the EA Animal Welfare Fund!

If you care about animal suffering even a little, donating to effective animal advocacy may be one of the best ways to reduce suffering in the world.

https://t.co/XTsj6rMGVZ

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Map of Africa on the year 1880, before the European "Scramble for Africa"

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The fact that Texas is winning the solar/battery race should tell you that solar and batteries are a real technological revolution instead of a hippie commie plot

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

Agree but if, and only if, we provide them an alternative location to sleep. We are rich enough as a society to afford this level of caring if the left "do gooders" don't create expensive "minimal standards" that make this unaffordable. It should be better than a street tent, with a place to go to the bathroom and shower, transport to jobs so the homeless can get a job. If so cost of homelessness will decline. Mental health homeless folks should be treated separately/differently. Meritocracy is great as long as we take care of those who are temporarily or permanently disadvantaged in some way and cannot take care of themselves. The minimum level of care should be based on affordability by society and hence GDP growth.

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

Sunday's reign as the hottest day ever recorded on planet earth lasted until...Monday.

[Michael Pellman Rowland @TweetsByMPR]

@ElieNYC Joe-bi Wan Kenobi @KamalaHQ @JoeBiden

[Philip Lymbery @philip_ciwf]

Are animals conscious?
Science is at last confirming what many have long suspected - that mammals, birds & some invertebrates have elements of consciousness

Let’s hope humankind will wake up & recognise that the way we treat fellow species shames us all
https://t.co/rAvYdbGNF2

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

#3 German retailer REWE will phase out the sale of most chicken from low-welfare breeds by 2030. This will likely impact >50M animals/year.

It will also set a strong precedent. German retailers led the world in phasing out battery cages, gestation crates, and chick-killing in their supply chains. Other EU and US retailers are now following suit.

Hopefully this will start a similar chain of progress. For chickens suffering from their warped genetics, change can't come soon enough.

https://t.co/Zm5JfnH3Jz

[Lina Khan @linamkhan]

1. Pharmacy benefit managers can wield significant influence over drug pricing and access. But they operate in opaque markets that can obscure their practices.

That’s why @FTC launched an inquiry into PBMs. We've now released an interim staff report.

https://t.co/m54zgbsfkh

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

A lot of the problems we Americans shouted about for years are getting quietly fixed, and of course we ignore this and just move on to shouting about something else

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Octopuses have been wandering in the oceans for 296 million years.

They have three hearts and blue blood and they can even be elegant in their magical underwater dance.

[📹 Zola Lallo / hawaiiaquaman]
https://t.co/tqSIoXJBdv

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

Ants perform surgical procedures to cut off infected legs from other ants. First, the doctor ant licks the leg of the infected ant, then bites it, then cuts it, and ends the procedure by licking the area of the cut.

[Chris Anderson @TEDchris]

How to hand over power....

[Lewis Bollard @Lewis_Bollard]

Two new Dutch supermarkets are pledging that 60% of the protein they sell in 2030 will be plant-based!

The baseline is 40%, so they're committing to replace a third of their animal-based proteins.

11 Dutch supermarkets have now made the pledge.

https://t.co/Bx6hW8ZqYW

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

Honestly, more countries should have policies like this for highly social animals. A life of chronic loneliness can be torturous for herd/pack animals.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When researchers found this kind of mysterious underwater 'crop circles', they did not know the cause.

Then, they proved to be amazing artwork made by pufferfish to attract and win a mate.

[Eric Fisher @ericfisher]

My wife got me one of those wifi enabled bird cam feeders for Father's Day and let me tell you...you haven't really lived until you fully embrace old man bird culture

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Octopuses have been wandering in the oceans for 296 million years, they have three hearts and blue blood and they can even be elegant in their magical underwater dance

[📹 magicalaquatic]
https://t.co/T4GQtaLuwD

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Wow, what a milestone – I think this will be the way in which we'll end factory farming. We CAN develop cheaper and healthier alternatives that taste just as good, or better.

What we need right now is more talent + capital to make it happen as soon as possible.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

The more we know, the better all women can do. Research into women’s health is critical for every stage of a woman’s life.