Do you know that 18% of microplastics in the ocean come from paints applied to buildings
The U.S. discards 1.1 million tons of plastic from carpet annually — equivalent to the country’s combined plastic straw, bag and water bottle wastes
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How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
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I love this advice from Dick Van Dyke!
Holy shit, New York!
Here’s the full view.
#NoKings #50501Movement
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June 2025 LGBTQ+ Toronto/LA Festival Testimonials.
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Hey corporate media, do your damn jobs.
~ Everyone
Well, considering the news media keep showing the same guy with the punk pants and tattoos who looks like he’s auditioning for Mad Max, maybe just arrest this guy and stop trying to pretend there’s an army of anarchists at these protests when it’s mainly taco trucks and bands playing.
There’s a Dutch phrase about feeling anxious that translates to “shitting seven colours of sludge.” A Bulgarian version is “deep in thought like a fat pig before Christmas.” But my favourite variant is the Puerto Rican como cocodrilo en fábrica de carteras, or “like a crocodile in a wallet factory.”
In B.C., the non-profit housing sector is pushing the envelope by building affordable homes that are low emission, energy efficient and climate resilient, @sobittersosweet.bsky.social reports for our Habitat series #bcpoli thenarwhal.ca/bc-affordabl...
Tonight 8pm - I’m live with Terry Christian.
We’ll be talking culture collapse and the rich co-opting working class identity to sell it back to us as Reform merch.
Can we reclaim it? How can poor kids create when they can’t even eat? Live. Maybe too direct. Here 👇🏼
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Sir David Attenborough’s new film calls for ban on destructive fishing methods
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Poverty doesn’t exist because there is not enough. There is more than enough. Poverty is a decision made by those with the ability to banish it.
If your response to this video is, “That’s what I voted for”—
Fuck you. Fuck you very much.
You’re heartless.
Trump sick joke to the world on #worldoceanday
He will not sign any order to protect the ocean
but instead has signed without any safeguards to mine and destroy the deep sea ocean the last untouched area on the planet that will annihilate entire ecosystems and fuel warming phys.org/news/2025-05...
I don’t know how to explain to everyone that it isn’t just trans people it is anyone. Anyone. ANYONE will have to show ID to use a public toilet under these rules. Do you understand????? They don’t have to police us now because we are surveilling and enacting violence on each other *ourselves*
The good part of AI is that the only thing a writer can do to combat it is to become more human. Make your writing weirder, hornier, more violent, absurd, poetic, difficult, political, jagged, dreamlike, ironic, surreal, alive. You don't have any choice but to plumb the depths.
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real:
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
⏬ Bluesky 'bite-sized' article thread (12 min) with extra links 📖🍿🔊
Image of giant trump poster in front of usda at night with laser art giving him devil horns
Projection art meets protest. In front of a USDA building now draped in North Korean-style cult propaganda , they beamed devil horns and whiskers onto Trump’s face. This is what dissent looks like: creative & unafraid. #3E
( 📸 @klonick.bsky )
URGENT ACTION REQUEST
If You Live Near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Please Blast this To Every One You Know Within Driving Distance.
Let’s Get Ahead Of This Y’all!
Even better, throw out the dusty old Harry Potter books you possibly still have rotting somewhere on a shelf. It’ll feel like an exorcism.
Please cis people step up on this one. Get loud and make it clear there is a problem here.
Text Reads: Patch 8 Stream Live Now! Featuring Aoife screaming silently into the camera.
Baldur’s Gate 3 now has 12 new playable subclasses, a photo mode, and cross-play!
Get ready for absolute chaos and learn more about what’s new in our Larian: Channel From Hell livestream, now live at twitch.tv/larianstudios
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
steve harvey vs the kiwi accent
