Free Radical
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Ineffable. 🇺🇦🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸 Mastodon: @freeradical@mastodon.online
Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
My favorite things in one story: wetlands, conservation success stories, and names that make you giggle like a middle-schooler ipmnewsroom.org/at-spunky-bo...
At Spunky Bottoms, an Illinois River wetland’s resilience is on display - IPM Newsroom
The Nature Conservancy acquired the roughly 1,300-acre Merwin Preserve at Spunky Bottoms in the late 1990's and allowed the site to return to being a floodplain wetland.
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One day several years ago, I got an anonymous handwritten, threatening letter delivered to my campus mailbox, and then someone (the same person? someone else?) DM'd me on twitter from a burner account, with a photo of my driveway with my car parked in it. This is real and it's dangerous
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d agoThere are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.
Spent the morning making a map of where you can grow #coffee. Simple comparison here uses temperature, elevation, and rainfall to map suitable areas (for arabica and robusta) in the year 2000 and the projections for 2050. It's about a 35% reduction in coffee-suitable land.
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
“.. The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to U.S. President Donald Trump's family business.” @reuters.com $COF www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Jeanne Gibson, one of the last surviving Rosie the Riveters, died on July 29, 2026. She was 100 Years old. Born in Minneapolis in 1926, she was only 18 when she moved to Seattle to weld U.S. Navy destroyers at Todd Pacific Shipyards. Rest in peace, Jeanne
"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism.
Craig Unger@craigunger.bsky.social · 5d ago@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...
in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
A crude pothole graffiti tactic got Portland’s attention. Please don’t copy it, officials say
Nearby apartment dwellers had a bird's eye view of the graphic murals.
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if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Let me tell you something about me: if I get even three drops of rain on me, my hair reverts to the Galician hair of all my ancestors. Red, random curls, and completely unmanageable.
Chemist Stephanie Kwolek was born #OTD in 1923. She invented Kevlar, used in high-strength / low-weight applications like body armor and airplane parts. She also invented the Nylon Rope Trick demo! 🧪 👩🔬 Images: DuPont/Stephanie Kwolek
What a week! 🦩 Thank you for the ideas, laughter, questions, and conversations that made #BCCE2026 so special. Carry a little Madison (and flamingo spirit!) with you. Safe travels, and see you at UC San Diego, August 6–10, 2028, for #BCCE2028! #chemistryeducation #chemed
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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One of the single most effective promotions of the LA Metro D Line expansion was this shirt, embrace the memes and *promote photogenic/talented people that are already excited about your thing*
Ride The D Unisex Heavyweight T-Shirt
It's official! Section 1 of the D Line Extension is a historic moment bringing rail transit for the first time to this part of Wilshire Blvd. Commemorate this Los Angeles transit milestone with this ...
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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d agoHonestly I think the climate & clean energy world is too dominated by nerds preoccupied with Facts and Science. What they need to do is just hire a bunch of hot people to say nice things about clean energy online. Don't overthink it. Just hire hot people who know how to use selfie sticks.
This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)
me: [sobbing] England, you can't just call everything a pudding J. J. Thomson: [points at atom] pudding
“If the government hadn’t funded research into desert lizard venom, we wouldn’t know about semaglutide…If research scientists hadn’t studied how bees optimize nectar foraging within a colony, we wouldn’t have the algorithm that assigns internet traffic” www.publicnotice.co/p/michael-kr...
The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift
Trump wants to run scientific research like his family business.
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"are we dealing with the right officials" is almost universally a sign the diplomats/heads of state are stuck, lost, in denial and are resorting to "maybe there are other interlocutors who agree with us", which is about as ridiculous as it sounds.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4mo agoCan they transfer us to the right department. 🤡
I’m sorry. This post escaped containment and I forgot to post a picture of our sweet demon Nori. She’s 7lbs and 100% a terror.
