sometimes the green sauce is spicier than the red, despite being the color of medicine or soothing jungle foliage. there's no way to adequately account for this
We’ve lost the art of just being like “hey man that was kinda uncool.” Everything has to be the biggest deal ever and people have to be groveling begging for forgiveness and apologizing profusely for every little thing. Sometimes a “yeah that was uncool my fault guys” is enough
Each bee has four wings. So this veil took about 5,000 dead bees to make. A single healthy hive holds up to 60,000.
Luci Jockel is a jeweler out of Rhode Island School of Design who only uses bees that died of natural causes. She found beekeepers who’d lost their hives and made a deal: she’d put in physical labor helping them rebuild, and they’d give her the wings from the bees that didn’t survive. A Rhode Island beekeeper named Paul Whewell had lost everything to a harsh winter. She worked his hives, learned to keep bees from him, then started her own colonies with her dad. Other wings came from rooftop hives at the RISD Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MAD Museum in Manhattan.
Each wing is about half the width of a dime. She glued them one at a time with archival glue, the kind museums use to preserve artwork, to create a material she calls “bee wing lace.” The pattern comes from Dutch lace collars she studied in 1600s portraits at the RISD Museum. Nine years of work. The finished piece is a mourning veil, made to grieve the bees it came from.
Jockel started building this in 2017. Back then, US beekeepers were already losing around 40% of their colonies every year. Last year it hit 55.6%, the worst since tracking began in 2010. Commercial operations lost 62%. In raw numbers: 1.6 million colonies gone in twelve months, with damage above $600 million in replacement costs and lost honey production alone.
Bees keep most of your food supply running. About 75% of US crop production depends on them. California’s almond harvest alone needs 1.4 million hives trucked in every spring, roughly 60% of all managed colonies in the country, for a crop worth $6 billion a year. Total annual value to American farming: $34 billion.
She needed 5,000 bees and nine years to build one veil. One in every three bites of food you eat depends on the ones still alive.
BREAKING:
🇮🇷🇺🇸The Iranian embassy in South Africa posted photos of the two commanders who ordered the attack on the school that killed 180 children and wrote:
“Remember these two criminals. Leigh R. Tate, the commander, and Jeffrey E. York, the executive officer of the USS Spruance, who ordered the launch of Tomahawk missiles three times, killing 168 innocent children at a school in Minab.
Don’t they have children of their own?”
A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone.
In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery.
In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years.
A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years.
Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply.
Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story.
One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.
Les hommes sont responsables de 96 % des viols, 90 % des homicides et constituent 96 % de la population carcérale. si tu veux des chiffres je peux t'en donner aussi.
En sociologie, on sait que si les hommes se suicident 3 fois plus que les femmes, c'est parce que le système que tu défends vous interdit toute vulnérabilité. la masculinité est construite sur le virilisme, sur être fort, ne pas montrer ses faiblesses pour ne pas être jugé par les autres hommes. Et ça c'est la conséquence du patriarcat, qui je te l'apprend, ne touche pas que les femmes.
Les hommes ont bâti un monde si violent et une virilité si toxique qu’après s'attaquer aux femmes, ils finissent par ce détruire eux-mêmes parce qu'ils ne connaissent que la violence comme mode d'expression.
Le féminisme est littéralement la seule solution pour tes "20 mecs par jour qui se suicide"
C'est le seul mouvement qui s'attaque à la base du problème : le patriarcat, l'éducation genrée qui formate les garçons dès leur plus jeune âge, et cette injonction à incarner une virilité toxique. Le féminisme n'est pas seulement une lutte pour les femmes ; il est aussi une libération pour les hommes.
There is something really funny about how socialist intellectuals spent a weekend arguing about fellowships in black transgender polyamorous poetry and meanwhile a random No Kings winemom from Kansas set a building on fire because of a Nextdoor post saying ICE wanted to buy it
yo en 2015: no puede ser que se haya separado my chemical romance lo estoy pasando horrible además me hacen bullying en el colegio por lesbiana y aún no supero mi situationship de hace 2 años mi vida en una mierda solo gerard way puede salvarme
gerard way en 2015: