I'll bet money this 'digital innovation' fund will be directed towards some SaaS solution where Ballmer owns stock or equity. This is basically a donation to avoid taxes while enriching himself. Worse than useless.
It is 2026 of there are organizations that still think that submitting to the Trump administration is going to stop the attacks, despite the never ending attacks on universities and law firms. Only those who have fought back have won.
The whole ordeal is some 2006 Tumblr level nonsense; deliberately disingenuous misreadings of social media posts combined with a gish gallop of lies. I work 60 hours at week at 2 jobs and resent to have to spend even 5 minutes on this horseshit.
I was recently alerted by incompetence to the existence of a small clique that is fabricating false accusations against @veraglaeka.bsky.social and wanted to note the group contains one rapist and one dog-fucker in case anyone might accidentally take them seriously.
The owner of the Inklings used bookstore described my trade-ins as 'an eclectic collection of weird' and now I'm ever so pleased with myself.
As climate change makes oceans, lakes, and rivers warmer it has creates cascading effects that are only now being found. For Chinook ranging from Alaska to British Columbia to Colorado, it has been a sickness due to thiaminase that comes from changes in the creatures they feed on. #environment
The famous, and sometimes very smelly, marshlands around Venice hold a special plant called Limonium (sometimes called sea lavender) that sequesters an incredible amount of carbon while providing lush flowers that provides food for dozens of insect species. #environment
While state attorneys sue the Trump administration to restore funding to the Methane Emissions Technology Center, it has already made discoveries about pollution from fossil fuel extraction that show current record keeping is under counts the damage. #environment
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Climate change won't only mean more deaths from heat stroke and degraded air quality, it means the slow destruction of residential stock by aggressive mold that will force poor people who cannot afford to mitigate the spread onto the streets but it will sicken millions, permanently. #environment
"...feed for livestock accounted for more than one-third of the overall cropland conversion globally, yet in certain growing regions, including Brazil, Argentina, the United States and China, that percentage reached more than 50 percent." #environment
Industrial agriculture has pushed many native plant species to the brink of extinction and climate change now threatens to finish them entirely. Despite cuts by the Trump administration, scientists are still fighting to collect seeds vital for future restoration and rewilding efforts. #environment
Besides gutting environmental regulations the Trump administration has slowed or stopped updating the endangered species list. The Hellbender suffers for this as its habitats are wrecked and the water gets warmer; though its name is everywhere in Appalachia it risks vanishing entirely. #environment
The Trump administration is intent on selling public lands to logging companies, mining corporations, and now ranchers. This despite that the BLM and USFS already lease 250 million acres which can be grazed down to 65%; meaning desertification and destruction of the water table. #environment
Chemical processing facilities across the United States, especially Texas, suffer incidents every day, with at least one catastrophic event a year that kills dozens and pollutes hundreds of hectares. When this administration is out there needs to be new rules and aggressive enforcement. #environment
Although I have no sympathy for dredging operations, it is absurd for the government to tell them no to fish in certain areas and then not identify those areas. It's also unacceptable for the government not to engage in recovering the dumped munitions for proper disposal. #environment
If you've got a few dollars to spare please send it MoonFeather's way so she can help her two horses that developed tooth problems.
The spread of guava as a cash-crop has had a devastating effect on eco-systems where the plant is invasive. In Madagascar, already afflicted with palm-oil plantations, this crop is wiping out and degrading areas, making survival difficult for for endangered lemurs. #environment
The DOJ going after environmental activists means the Eighties are totally back. Whether the FBI starts encouraging militants to kill activists, like it did with Judi Barr in 1990, remains to be seen but its clear Trump's backers are leaning on the government to intimidate the movement. #environment
Despite how news outlets treat it, carbon capture is not only unverified but untested and with little regulation. In 2020 a pipeline explosion in Satartia almost caused a mass casualty event, yet the government passed no rules or penalties, encouraging corporations to rush ahead. #environment
More grift/vice-signalling from Trump with an order to make the military buy coal, an exceptionally stupid idea as there about 200 coal plants left in the country, most are scheduled for decommissioning, and less than a quarter meaningfully connect to a military installation. #environment
Israel will not be content with merely mass slaughter, it wants to systematically kill the current and even the next generation by poisoning the land, thereby completing the genocide that started with the Nakba in 1948 with Cast They Bread where it poisoned the wells of Palestinian villages. #israel
Thermobaric weapons are not, and have never been useful for targeted strikes, they are deliberately designed to cause mass damage and casualties. Israel has been using them to murder as many Palestinians as possible and to erase even their bones so their very existence can be denied. #israel
America is littered with tens of thousands of poorly capped oil and gas wells, many of which are leaking, polluting ground and water sources or adding to climate change. In most cases oil companies have conveniently declared bankruptcy and run but New Mexico may stop this trend. #environment
Guns aren't just killing children in schools and people at the in churches and markets, they're also leaving behind lead in bullets across America and Canada where they're leaching into the ground or being mistakenly swallowed by birds, of which Loons are particularly susceptible. #environment
Good news as a Federal Judge calls out Forest Service for its blatant lie that clear cutting to prevent forest fires. We can thank Bill Clinton for allowing the creation of CE-6 back in 1992 which everyone at the time called out as a clear gift to the timber industry. #environment
Blue Ammonia is a scam that's never worked at scale, but its carbon capture process is being used as propaganda by the chemical industry as it rushes ahead with over twenty dangerous projects, the majority located near poor communities including those already suffering in Cancer Alley. #environment
The Bad River Band , are fighting the oil industry and the Canadian government which wants to slam an oil pipeline through a fragile ecosystem. The company running the pipeline, Enbridge, already dumped a million gallons into the Kalamazoo, and another 70,000 in Michigan last year. #environment
As the apple industry has consolidated and prioritized the search for the next Honeycrisp it has created a situation with too many growers and a process where the value of the actual apples has fallen to an almost unsustainable level as they're forced to chase the next hit to survive. #environment
She lies, she's a wonder to have in my life and its my mission to spoil her to the end.