Japanese scientists created a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours—no microplastics left behind. Made from plant-based CMC with salt-sensitive bonds, it breaks into harmless nutrients. [📹 RIKEN CEMS / Univ. of Tokyo] Original post
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
They are trying to take our health data. HIPAA be damned www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...
Trump's personnel agency says it will remove some identifying info as it sweeps up medical records
The Office of Personnel Management said it will "pseudonymize" medical records it collects on more than 8 million people — federal workers and retirees, and their family members.
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🚨Who is aware (thanks to the BIG UGLY BILL): beginning 2027 you will need to re-certify 2x a year for MEDICAID? PLEASE RE-POST FOR EVERY PERSON WHO DOES NOT KNOW!🙏
Very good thread about being a responsible consumer
Max Blau@maxblau.bsky.social · 2w agoI’ve reported at length about abuses of foreign farmworkers who come to the U.S. on H-2A visas: stolen wages, guns pointed in their faces. One woman I met was kidnapped, raped and nearly killed. I wanted to know: How do I tell if the produce I buy is part of the problem? 👇
Chocolate covered pretzels with a side of questionable ethics and/corruption isn’t gonna fix our issues, Frankie 😒😒😒 Keep the fucking pretzels, we need more staff, we need our telework options back, and maybe more than a 1% pay raise. Outside of that, eat the pretzels yourself, and fuck off 🖕🖕🖕
The Social Security Chief Keeps Sending Staff His Daughter's Pretzels
Staff say the gesture isn't increasing morale, but it is raising ethics questions.
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Don’t think having an Undersecretary of Nat. Resources & Environment who “buzzed” Forest Service workers (Boren), a Sec. of Ag. who calls valid Forest Service law enforcement “lawfare,” or an OMB director who wishes to put the federal workforce “into trauma” (Vought) helps. Watch the consequences.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 3w agoForest Service workers taken hostage, held at gunpoint in remote NorCal trailer, feds say
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. --Thomas Paine 🔥 🔥 🔥
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses
As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
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Join our July Organizing to Protect Democracy training tonight, July 14, where our experts will break down how to advocate for our rights while our representatives are in their home districts for August recess.
Important #AltCitizen action required. If you want to live in a democracy then you must actively participate in a democracy.
ProTip (AKA alt_localgov)@protip.altgov.info · last mo.Are you ready? Our aspiring and presumptive first dictator is going to try to wreck our elections this November ember in any way he can. Here’s what you can do about it: document everything. #AltCitizen 🤝 #AltGov Keep reading.
Want to know how federal grants shape your community? This quick guide by @courtneygibbons.phd shows how to trace grants where you live & why it matters. Find out what’s flowing into your state or town, so you can weigh in on OMB’s sweeping changes to grants.. buttondown.com/crgibbons/ar...
How do grants and cooperative agreements affect your community?
Ever wonder how to find out what federal grant money is supporting in your community? (Or what the federal government is spending money on in general?) I'll walk you through USASpending.gov to show yo...
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In today’s drop of #tgeDogefiles, we continue on with the court appeals filing. Here we see all the RIF areas that were identified directly by Doge to fuck over.
DOGE didn't "self-delete" over the weekend, they were all absorbed into National Design Studio, under Joe Gebbia. They are still around and still very much breaking things and making bad decisions.
Listen to a president who firmly believes in our American ideals. This is a speech worthy of today, an instead of option. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/r...
Read Barack Obama's full speech at grand opening for his namesake center in Chicago
Former President Barack Obama, joined by three former presidents, capped off the opening of his presidential museum in Chicago with a rousing speech.
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Words from a president who believes in the ideals of the United States and its people.
They've had 2 other flags. I'm not surrendering mine.
Today let us reflect upon the highest hopes and dreams the best of us had for this new country and commit to making them a reality. #4thOfJuly
I feel engagement on this is crucial. Please take a moment to comment. It’s quick & simple. No expertise needed. Core principles of transparency, accountability, public oversight are enough. This is a test cast for how a violation of norms goes. Massive public comment sends a strong message.
Saunieindiego@saunieindiego.bsky.social · last mo.DUE TOMORROW (6/29) USFS using a SIX DAY comment period is trying to rush forward with a logging project that targets 11 million acres of our national forests. Please comment here cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/Comme... My comment if you need talking points: birdsmatter.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/u...
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Lynn Stahl@msbtterswrth.altgov.info · last mo.If you want to follow actual feds (and former feds and staties) who are fighting the good fight, you can check out our starter pack. bsky.app/starter-pack...
The theft of your tax dollars continues in complicated and dangerous ways.
The Steady State@thesteadystate.org · last mo.
Beware. New influx of maga bot accounts & coordinated attack groups. Cutesy fake account pages etc. Focused on #AltGov @altfda.altgov.info @altstategov.altgov.info @pokinpotentialppl.bsky.social @altspaceforce.altgov.info Midterms are coming & this is their usual political action strategy.
Thank you #CivililServants I called the government help line just this week and it was a marvelous experience 1 (844) 872-4681
Alt-IRS@alt-irs.altgov.info · last mo.Here is your America 250 reminder... The Government, meaning the Civil Service is NOT the Administration. We are non partisan employees just trying to serve the public the best way we can.
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