Good, 6'45", AI-enhanced documentary on the scourge of plastic pollution. However, I couldn't help but notice in the ending scenes all the people wearing reflecting vests made from artificial fibres, gloves that I assume are neoprene, and the plastic recycling bins. Synthetics are hard to avoid!

HOMO PLASTICUS | The Evolution We Never Saw Coming

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"The World Bank warned that nearly 2 million Filipinos could fall into poverty if the government fails to cushion the impact of higher energy prices, urging targeted cash transfers instead of broad fuel subsidies that it said are costly and ineffective."

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Crude oil inventories held at Cushing, Oklahoma, fell below 20 million barrels. At the same time, the U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate spot price rose above the international benchmark Brent spot price indicating inventory levels were near tank-bottom levels and extreme tightness in the market

Hard to think of a headline that could more succinctly sum up the state of the USA at this time.

A UN Food and Agriculture Organization assessment urges rigorous risk evaluation for recycled plastic used in food contact materials, Quality Assurance & Food Safety reports. Without better decontamination, hazardous chemicals can migrate into food. 🔗 https://ow.ly/zyxY50Zvwsz

Once you imagine that shadow below Blanche's nose is a toothbrush moustache, you will not be able to unsee it.

@papa2doc.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump Says He May Drop Blanche’s Nomination, For Now-- Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general is on hold after Republicans, lacking the necessary support, postponed a critical committee vote.

First-rate investigative reporting from the Elizabeth Concentration Camp in New Jersey. If you want to keep up to date on what the fascist Trump regime is up to in of USA, please follow @conifergirl.bsky.social. Note: I do not know this person, never met her, but I admire and applaud her posts.

conifergirl.bsky.social@conifergirl.bsky.social · 7d ago

For almost two months, Martin Soto has been in solitary confinement in the Elizabeth Concentration Camp in New Jersey. Before being transferred there, he led a hunger and labor strike in Delaney Hall so effective,

Compare this French tuition rate with Indiana University’s. The annual tuition rate for this coming school year is currently $12,143/year. That’s for Hoosier residents only. That’s just for the Bachelor’s degree. That’s FOUR TIMES HIGHER than what France makes foreign/non-EU students pay. Why?!

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · last wk.

We are just beginning the exploring-college journey here, but I just want to point out that even as a non EU citizen you can get a four year degree in France for $3300 a year. We could have this, if we had a government that gave a shit about us.

Thread with US examples, but probably with wider relevance. "It's really, genuinely difficult to put yourself in the headspace of the average disconnected, not-paying-attention voter if you know things. " Indeed. I'd like to think of myself as not living in an echo chamber, as I have /

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

A reminder that people who know anything about politics -- what the parties are, what they stand for, their record, who they've elected, how government works -- are a freakish minority. Most people know *nothing at all* past the vague mythologies that sift down through pop culture.

This is such a great visualization of the carbon cycle and of how humanity has completely altered it within a geological instant. Visualization by @rarohde.bsky.social. 1/

I want to be able to do this in a decade.

Amy Oddo✌🏻💙☀️@amyoddo.bsky.social · last wk.

Sir Mick Jagger, my pretend high school boyfriend, turned 83 yesterday🥳🥳🥳

Wars over hydrocarbons are nothing new. According to Kenneth O'Reilly's book (published 5 yrs ago) on the ancient & modern histories of asphalt (bitumen) — both naturally occurring and that which is a residual of refining petroleum — the first war over asphalt took place during the 4th century BCE.

Asphalt - Nebraska Press

La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada—immense deposits o...

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I want to tell you a story, and it begins with this VERY WEIRD animal: Meet Thetys vagina... [a thread 🧵] 📸 m_patton bit.ly/2Mgw8Sf 🌿🧪🦑🐙🌊

First evidence of nanoplastics in Antarctica soil. "This chemical alteration represents an ecological crisis that demands urgent systemic action at a global scale. Article: www.thedailyscrumnews.com/the-hidden-s... Scientific Reports paper, "First evidence of nanoplastics in Antarctic soil," 7/4/26.

The Hidden Synthetic Cloud Altering Antarctica’s Untouched Valleys - The Daily Scrum News

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My husband texted me "IT HAPPENED" but it turned out to be about LeBron going to the 76ers. I had 2 minutes of beautiful serenity.

Agricultural exceptionalism is rooted in racism and white supremacy, and the reason why this bipartisan baloney still dominates the narrative. "Family farms" can be owned by one individual or a (family owned) corporation. Landowning farmers benefit from subsidies that are capitalized in land values.

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here's former conservative Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson propagating the lie that taxing billionaires will hurt family farmers. He's now with something called Saving America's Family Enterprises, a shadowy group that I guarantee you is funded by billionaires. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Wars over hydrocarbons are nothing new. According to Kenneth O'Reilly's book (published 5 yrs ago) on the ancient & modern histories of asphalt (bitumen) — both naturally occurring and that which is a residual of refining petroleum — the first war over asphalt took place during the 4th century BCE.

Asphalt - Nebraska Press

La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada—immense deposits o...

nebraskapress.unl.edu

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

Oil Prices Hit $100 a Barrel After Attacks in Red Sea: Iran War Live Updates

The price of Brent crude soared after Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen claimed strikes on two Saudi tankers. President Trump warned that the U.S. would hold Iran directly responsible for further attacks ...

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Good news!

The Detroit News@detroitnews.com · 2w ago

The newly opened Gordie Howe International Bridge is projected to save travelers more than 420,000 hours every year, per federal projections.

Genuinely terrifying. And remarkably similar to how the Nazis began their criminalisation of dissent and their dehumanisation of any who resisted. It's happening. In the US. Right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner

Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis

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Assuming this is not AI generated, there should be an Olympics decathlon event for this sequence of trials, and this woman would win the platinum medal. Her hopping on one high-heeled foot on a narrow wall … 😮

𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

HAVE YOU SEEN ME? Senator Mitch McConnell Missing since June 14th, 2026 Last seen being loaded into an ambulance on June 14th at his home May be disoriented and wandering aimlessly If found please contact the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 or your favorite independent media source

I keep hearing people refer to Pete Hegseth as “a cartoon character”. But they never say WHICH cartoon character. Is there a better exemplar than Beavis?

James Woolrich@jmwoolrich.bsky.social · 3w ago

If your body loses T as you age - THAT'S what's "natural. What a dumb fuck cartoon character

NBD, right? "a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public." Proposed risk assessment would have ended the use of biosolids in food systems 🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump officials kill proposed rules for Pfas-contaminated sewage fertilizer

EPA tosses out scientific research carried out under Biden and says toxic sludge not a significant threat to public

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ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance

Cute video. But I wish this obsession with big plush animals would end. They are all, or almost all, made using synthetic fibres, shedding microplastics as they are handled and age. And their production collectively helps perpetuate growth in the petrochemical industry.

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 2w ago

He climbed the giant bear and found the best spot to nap. Original post

Outrageous. In my view, the sound of freedom will only be audible when we hear the door bolt engaging as Hegseth and the Acting Secretary of the Navy, as well perhaps as the pilot who flew over the beach, are thrown into the brig. 😤🤬😖