A fragile food system, uneven public health messaging and global warming are all working to supercharge the parasite’s spread. sentientmedia.org/things-to-kn...

4 Things to Know About Cyclospora and Climate Change

A fragile food system, uneven public health messaging and global warming are all working to supercharge the parasite’s spread.

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I think everyone should garden a bit because it’s fun, it connects you to the outside world in your own immediate area and it teaches you that it’s borderline impossible to grow food and shatters any illusions one might have about subsistence farming being “the way forward”

Hunger's Bite was nominated for a Ringo! If you're a professional in the comics industry--which includes webcomics, self-publishing, and non-artistic roles-- you're eligible to vote! And I'd love if you could vote for Hunger's Bite! You have until August 26th! ringoawards.com (and please share!)

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

The tech AI mission is to literally complete the transformation of people into economic subjects. Nothing except flesh connectors serving to move capital from space to space. And that’s only as long as there isn’t a substitute for bodies.

We're taking the Trump administration to court over their decision to eliminate key protections under the Endangered Species Act to make way for more oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Help support our work to defend over 20 at-risk species: https://oceana.ly/4xobi4l

I'm moved to defend the honor of San Francisco's lovely street trees against some fool who's been saying the trees in blue cities are "all gross." Witness this!

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

We really need to fix school because there are too many people who think taxes are a personal purchase they are making.

I’m sorry, in what way is this different than the MUCH bigger subsidies the federal government gives to beef, dairy & corn producers? Meat & fish subsidies are about 70 billion on their own. We subsidize industries all the time but suddenly it’s socialism when it’s designed to help regular people?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I hope you like a constant array of creepy and sexy character encounters cause otherwise this issue isn't coming along well

Ramonkey Perales@ramonkey.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Hey all! I'm making a weird pulp sci-fantasy epic releasing this October and I need your help. Seems like I'm struggling getting on track on bsky compared to that other site... So do follow and share for more info soon!! Thanks bye!🔥

Just bought Odyssey 70mm imax for the end of August!! They extended screenings until early September and they were STILL 90% sold out. We snagged a couple unfortunate second row seats but I figure bad IMAX seats are still pretty cool considering how few places have it at all!

I’m feeling a way about this because my dog got attacked on a walk today too, by a dog that ran out of its yard and tried to bite him. Luckily Bruce only got scratches. But let me tell you THE most important thing to know about breaking up a dog fight: (1/2) (imma also tell you some legal stuff)

Farel Dal@farel.bsky.social · 5d ago

my older sister and her sweet dog Starry were viciously attacked by a neighbor’s dog that got under the fence in their yard. my sister is a single mom who also takes care of our elderly mother with dementia. they need some financial help. gofund.me/e5dffb87f

This is my painting named Sunburn. #art #drawing #artwork #globalwarming #heat #surrealart

So every day for the rest of my life I have to wake up and just accept we’re going to keep letting the world burn because beef is too precious to us and I think that sucks! I wanna to think about other things.

Economists have a name for what's coming to your grocery bill: #climateflation. This summer's heatwave will push European food prices harder than the war that closed Hormuz. Bread first. Then meat. Then your mortgage rate. I dug deep. Worth your time. www.forbes.com/sites/we-don...

Why Climateflation Will Drive Food Prices More Than War

Economists expect this summer's heatwaves to drive 2027 food prices more than the Iran war. Climateflation, explained: from your grocery bill to your mortgage rate.

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I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

The way water and light interact has to be in the top three of all things of all time right?

I asked the question on everyone's lips 🐒 defector.com/can-a-monkey...

Can A Monkey Have A Pet? | Defector

In the spring of 2004, researchers monitoring a population of wild bearded capuchins in a Brazilian woodland saw an infant clinging to Chiquinha, one of the adult female monkeys. The baby was not a ca...

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If you believe your own rights & liberty are non-negotiable then you know that you’re an audacious asshole, like, a real piece of shit, if you find yourself willing to negotiate the rights & liberty of others.

For #BirdOfTheDay, #EgretsandHerons, here's a Least Bittern peering between thick reeds into some gooey pond muck where tasty critters must be hiding! Another Waymakers donor piece from last year. #BirdArt #SciArt 🪶

STAY AWAY FROM HER 😭

You wouldn't know it from how some people talk, but it is incredibly easy to not use AI for anything.

It’s flower body horror Friday and a good day to read my flower body horror comic

Ripley 👽💖@skullingway.bsky.social · 4mo ago

now live! a new short, experimental dark fantasy comic about a strange new plague that happened during the Middle Ages skullingway.itch.io/pocket-full-...

I wish I knew how to tell men that you could look like a soggy foot, balding, chubby, acne, whatever, but if you have a snappy outfit and confidence you're going to be considered handsome every time. Women will fall in line for a guy who's a melted blob, but who is kind, fair and secure

Playboy@playboy.com · 6d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

More Crops Grown for Fuel and Livestock Feed Than for People, New Study Finds

Cutting back on beef and biofuels could help improve food security and mitigate climate emissions.

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My soul is breaking! Gaza is stealing my son Elias's eyes. Darkness is swallowing his gentle vision, and time has run out. Without immediate surgery, he will be blind forever. I am begging on my knees—save my boy's sight before night claims him! Verified : molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1624...

"embrace mediterranean life"

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 7d ago

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.