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Ultimate, *cycling, coffee and board games

[Min @minisundae]

@bwmoles It's hard to find well produced pods.. If you ever want to try a podcast - I recommend Winds of Change from Pineapple Street Studios. It's old but it's so well made.

[Min @minisundae]

@bwmoles Unless something happens such that the wider society accepts the cost of escalation.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sam Neill (2025): “It’s not a happy place, America, and I wasn’t happy there. I’m interested in the condition of America now. It beggars belief what’s happening there now. When you hear a slogan like Make America Great Again, it makes a sort of weird sense because America could be great again, but at community level. Not with sort of strange billionaires making weird decisions”

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

For the first time, US forces have used Ukrainian-style sea drones to attack an Iranian coastal installation.

Seen here, a trio of American Corsair USVs drive up to a sub repair dock at Bandar Abbas and detonate.

[Min @minisundae]

@NZ_Trav free helium! and cancer.

[Min @minisundae]

@Rays_Dreary @DrCraigEmerson Why should we allow her to import USA culture here? It's not even her culture..

[Min @minisundae]

@bwmoles 😂 but seriously text based platforms has sucked since astroturfing became prolific

[Min @minisundae]

@bwmoles The last few years haven't been great in that regard.. reading the history of the peace corps its amazing how much sentiments have changed.

[Min @minisundae]

@bwmoles Solomon Islands, and it definitely led to more 😊

[Min @minisundae]

@bwmoles fellow alumni! It's hard to come back 😑 but owning a house definitely helps.

[Nicholas Dawes @NicDawes]

Anyone who has travelled on a weak passport will celebrate investigative reporting into VFS global, the near monopoly intermediary that handles visa applications for 71 countries. https://t.co/ALB7KQM9e3

[Min @minisundae]

@champagnesftboi It was probably just Jacinta Ardern advising them on crisis comms.

[Nazem Alkudsi @LongArcNews]

The Hormuz closure is not a 6-week shock. It is an 18-month stress test for the global food system.
Most allocators are trading the obvious: oil up, defense up, gold up.
They are missing the connective tissue. 🧵

[Min @minisundae]

@cqcqcqdx Di Ode

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

[David Sun @arcticinstincts]

My mystic theory of U.S. politics is that every modern Republican administration has to ritually regime change a mustached brown guy with the same physiognomy in order to keep the American mandate of heaven

[Tong ZHAO @zhaot2005]

7/3⃣ Liberal democracies’ blunt disregard for international law deeply disillusions the remaining liberal voices inside authoritarian systems, eroding scarce internal sources of accountability.

[Duke Burbridge @BurbridgeDuke]

Israeli isn’t the first. But this is always a tool of genocide. #TigrayCantWait

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

yes, asian and african rivers produce 95% of ocean plastic but nobody asks where the plastic comes from.

plastic recycling is a scam. always has been.
the industry knew since 1974 it “cant be justified economically”

they funded the recycling campaigns anyway because the alternative was banning plastic.

only 5-6% of US plastic actually gets recycled and europe isnt better.
the EU exports 1.1 million tonnes of plastic waste per year, 3 million kg leaving every single day.
31% goes to turkey, 16% to malaysia, 13% to indonesia, all labeled “recyclable”

most plastics cant even be recycled to begin with (thousands of types, different chemical properties). and for the few that can, the output is lower quality and more toxic than virgin plastic.
you literally degrade the material each cycle until its worthless.

so what happens to the other 95%?
western countries ship it to southeast asia and africa under the label “recycling exports” with the receiving countries promising to recycle it in their stead for a price, but those countries dont have facilities either. so they burn it or dump it in rivers.

every 20 minutes, a 10-tonne truckload of plastic enters the ocean in indonesia alone.
it may look like indonesians pollute more but that’s because we ship them our garbage and they have no infrastructure to handle it.

china used to absorb it all. when they banned imports in 2018, the west just redirected to countries with weaker regulations. malaysia, vietnam, philippines. the map below shows the result.

you sort your trash so you feel like youre helping, the plastic goes on a boat, gets burned in a village without emissions controls, poisons their air and water, flows into their rivers, enters the ocean, and in your food and water.
you feel good about the plastic you recycled and never think about it again but you end up eating it anyway.

then we ban straws and plastic bags and call it environmentalism

[Min @minisundae]

@bradleyajaye @SenMikeLee @timburchett Great action against climate change!
https://t.co/xjbD5WjYM8