Every time I listen to BBC World Service radio I'm reminded how excellent it is. A comparatively balanced, nuanced, global perspective that we don't get to see much of from many other newsrooms.
lots of devastation and negativity on the feed today. i know this won’t solve anything, but maybe it’ll make someone smile and just forget for a small moment. the beauty of the cosmos 🌌
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They are taking back campaign promises faster than they made them.
insects who prefer warmer weather? why the fuck are you so sensitive all of a sudden. your entire body has like 2 nerves in it. you are shit
$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.
I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
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Legit surprised how many people seem to be enjoying that Glowworm thread. Y'all will end up with one on HMS Ledbury if you're not careful.
they said in 2025 i will say "Heavens to betsy" . I wont be incorporating the phrase "Heavens to betsy" into my posts, not in 2025, not ever
DEM L 190, a supernova remnant around 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, S. Kulkarni, Y. Chu
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It’s why I’m mostly here now, in The Good Place.
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
DEI is the bogeyman for those who believe that if I’m gaining, they must be losing. The idea that everything would be fine if only white men ran the world is a weak argument—clung to by insecure men who can’t handle reality. DEI ensures women & BIPOC are looked at fairly IN ADDITION to white men.
Today I used algebra to solve a graphic design problem Be careful out there kids, math will get you when you least expect it
From : “Hertling believed that the Mark Thompson-led network was prioritizing certain pundits more focused on delivering politically incendiary—and sometimes misleading—rhetoric than fact-based commentary.“ www.status.news/p/mark-hertl...
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The devastation in California is apocalyptic. The images are heartbreaking. At least 5 fires continue to burn without containment. I’m grateful for the bravery of not only the first responders, but every day people who have been helping others, including animals, evacuate to safer locations.
Lawyers for Liz Truss have asked me to stop saying Liz Truss crashed the economy. I only said Liz Truss crashed the economy because Liz Truss did crash the economy. If she wanted me to not say Liz Truss crashed the economy, she shouldn’t have crashed the economy. Please don’t share.
The U.S. will rebuild its stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry matched to the current strain of the virus circulating among commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
Somehow the more streaming services you've got the less there is to watch.
marvel rivals making a male character: give him the most creative kit ever seen in the shooter genre marvel rivals making a female character: i don't know, have her shoot energy shots out of her hands. and make her ass big.
Heartbreaking scenes from Altadena, California as a dog walks up to a firefighter that’s trying to put out a fire….thankfully a local shelter took in the pup 🙏 via @abcnews/Twitter
Imagine watching disaster movies like The Day After Tomorrow or 2012 and thinking that the apocalyptic weather scenes were the “unrealistic” part. Turns out those scenes were almost bang on. The unrealistic part was the humans working together to overcome the problem & save the world. Sigh.
An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon concluded that the human brain and the universe basically grow as a result of similar physical principles. Today’s House of Study goody looks at a myriad of similar connections, with many exquisite photos:
It’s a Mel Brooks piece up in here… High Anxiety!
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Good resistance news: An 'Achilles heel' discovered in antibiotic resistant bacteria. Scientists in Canada found the critical vulnerability: bacteria need zinc. Deprive them of the nutrient & their stability is disrupted making them susceptible to antibiotics again www.genengnews.com/topics/infec...
when i look at the moon, i think of you
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A key thing to appreciate about big wildfires is that they reach an intensity that humans simply can't deal with. Sometimes they are about 10 times more intense than the best firefighters and planes can fight. Offer as much money as you want: it's too late. www.ft.com/content/540f...
President Jimmy Carter U.S. Capitol Departure
Rate his cuteness out of 10 ❤️
When I was a kid, the cartoons would have these parodies from stuff like "The Godfather" & "Jurassic Park". Then I'd rent them from Blockbuster & go "I can't believe Goodfellas ripped off those pigeons from Animaniacs." I still can't believe they did that. The 90s were wild.
Rock songs in the 70s were like "She's a dangerous woman, she'll play you like a fiddle, she'll steal your heart and ruin your life. She's 16."
2025 is gonna be the most “editor sent it back for being too on the nose” year in human history
we are living through a live-action prequel to ‘parable of the sower’
An escape room but it’s just your nice warm car with your favorite songs on shuffle and the actual world is outside