Bob Ross

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

In 18 months Trump has made more than all U.S Presidents combined.

He's made more than he did his first 78 years. (Despite starting with $400 million)

In 12 years he's done NOTHING to better Maga lives, only his, & yet the Morons celebrate.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has approved the use of cancer-linked pesticides diflufenican and epyrifenacil, both PFAS forever chemicals.

Neither pesticide has ever been used in the United States before.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There was once a bird in America so numerous it darkened the sky for days when it passed, and it was the cheapest meat in the country. Then, inside a single lifetime, every last one of them was gone.

The passenger pigeon. Three to five billion of them, the most abundant bird in North America, possibly in the world. Flocks a mile wide that took hours to fly over. And because there were so many, they were the meat of the poor, netted by the thousand, packed into barrels, and shipped by the railway carload into New York and the other growing cities to be sold for next to nothing.

It was free protein on a scale that is hard to even picture now. A working family fed itself on a bird that cost a few cents because the sky was full of them and always had been.

The railroad and the telegraph were what finished it. Hunters could now find a nesting site by wire and ship the slaughter to market by rail, and they did, year after year, faster than the birds could breed. The flocks thinned, then collapsed, then were simply gone. The last wild one was shot around 1900.

On the first of September 1914, a bird named Martha died alone in a cage at Cincinnati Zoo, and the most numerous species on the continent was extinct. They froze her in a block of ice and sent her to the Smithsonian.

From more birds than anyone could count to none at all, in about fifty years, because we treated something free and infinite as though it could never run out. The poor lost a meal. Everyone lost the bird. Nobody got either back.

[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.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Approximately 85% of Iowa was once tallgrass prairie. Big bluestem, switchgrass, Indian grass, compass plant. Root systems that went down ten to fifteen feet and built some of the deepest, richest topsoil on the planet. Grazed by tens of millions of bison, two million elk, and uncountable smaller herbivores, all ruminants, all cycling nutrients back into the ground every time they ate, walked, slept, or died.

Today, 99.9% of Iowa's original prairie is gone. Less than 0.1% remains as intact ecosystem. By landscape transformation, Iowa is the most ecologically rewritten state in the United States.

Approximately 74% of its land area is now row crop. 86% of that row crop is corn or soybeans. Mile after mile of two species, planted in straight lines, harvested with combines that cost more than the farmhouse, fed synthetic nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, sprayed with glyphosate, atrazine, and dicamba, drained through buried plastic tile to remove the water the prairie used to hold for free.

The Iowan does not eat the corn. 40% of US corn becomes ethanol fuel. 36% becomes livestock feed. A further chunk becomes high-fructose corn syrup, which becomes Coca-Cola and Twinkies. A small fraction reaches a human plate as actual corn.

The Iowan does not eat the soybean either. The soybean is crushed for oil, which becomes the cooking fat in almost every fast-food restaurant in America. The leftover meal feeds chickens and pigs.

In 1950, Iowa had 206,000 farmers. In 2026, it has 85,000. The land has consolidated into the hands of fewer, larger operations. The small towns have hollowed out. Iowa, which sits on some of the finest soil ever inventoried by humans, now imports more than 90% of the food its residents actually eat.

In March 2024, a valve at NEW Cooperative in Red Oak was left open over a weekend. 265,000 gallons of liquid nitrogen fertiliser drained into the East Nishnabotna River. The spill killed approximately 750,000 fish across 50 miles of river, all the way to the Missouri border. It is the fifth-largest fish kill in Iowa's recorded history. The valve was open for 48 hours.

This is the system we have been told is feeding the world.

What it is feeding, primarily, is itself. The corn feeds the ethanol plant and the feedlot. The soybean feeds the chicken house and the fryer. The system grows because it needs its own outputs to keep going.

The bison would have done all of this for free. The bison would not have killed 750,000 fish. The bison would not have required a single bag of synthetic nitrogen. The bison would not have hollowed out a single town. The bison did this job for ten thousand years, on the same land, with no inputs, and produced, as a byproduct, the deepest topsoil on the continent.

We replaced the bison with the spreadsheet.

The spreadsheet, on its own, is starting to look like a poor trade.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The American chestnut was the dominant tree of the eastern US forest for thousands of years. One in every four trees in the Appalachians was a chestnut.

Then, between 1904 and 1940, a fungal blight from Asia killed roughly four billion of them. The species nearly went extinct as a forest tree within a single human lifetime.

The recovery effort is now in its fourth decade. The American Chestnut Foundation breeds disease-resistant hybrids by crossing American chestnuts with blight-resistant Chinese chestnuts, then backcrossing for generations to recover the American tree's form.

Other researchers have used gene editing to insert a wheat gene that detoxifies the blight.

The first restoration plantings are alive and growing in the Appalachians. They won't be mature for another 50 years.

None of the people who started this work will see it finished, but we should all be glad they're doing it.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

“Forever War” but it’s just Trump constantly threatening to revoke/extend the ceasefire so his administration can do insider trading while you pay $5 a gallon for gas.

[NHL @NHL]

We get to watch Sidney Crosby in the #StanleyCup Playoffs again 🤩

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

This is absolutely insane:

At 7:04 AM ET today, President Trump said “the US and Iran have had productive discussions" to end the Iran War.

By 7:10 AM ET, the S&P 500 surged +240 points adding +$2 TRILLION in market cap.

27 minutes later, Iran completely denied all of President Trump's claims and said there has been "no contact" with the US.

By 8:00 AM ET. the S&P 500 had fallen -120 points erasing -$1 trillion in market cap.

That's a $3 TRILLION swing market cap in 56 minutes, just in the S&P 500.

What is happening here?

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

There are no "ongoing talks with Iran".
Trump is just trying to manipulate the markets again

[Hugh Mungus @HubertObungus]

Smoking weed all the time makes you retarded. I conducted a study on myself to prove this

[Cigarette Nostalgia @CigsMake]

It’s 1999 and your teacher has a hangover

[Michael Hauff @TheFFRealist]

Jahmyr Gibbs to my fantasy football team in the Championship.

[PickensBurgh 🫡 @PickensBurgh]

Steelers fans are too quick, a DK Metcalf inflatable is crazy 😂💀

[PickensBurgh 🫡 @PickensBurgh]

LETS GET “HARRY MACK” BACK IN THE LOCKER ROOM TO HYPE US UP

LFG 🔥🔥🔥🔥
https://t.co/BsmjyiINcn

[Le'Veon Bell @LeVeonBell]

Diddy orchestrating the freak off…

[Bob Ross @blazingbobby]

@MarkKaboly Wrong

[SteelerNation @steelernation]

🥰

[RGill @robggill]

The Pittsburgh Steelers' story is one of Irish immigration - set-up by a son of Irish immigrants from Newry. Dan Rooney made a tremendous contribution to peace on this island through Ireland Funds. The game is his legacy. Has nothing to do with Gaza.