Fossil Fuels Are Not The Future….

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

The True Cost of Fertilizer Hurts Farmers—and the Rest of Us, Too USDA conservation programs could help farmers avoid bankruptcy during a time of high fertilizer prices, but the programs are underfunded and understaffed.

In a recent analysis, we found that much of the fertilizer they apply is more than crops need. This is a problem even in the best of times, but recent events are underlining the implications of excess fertilizer use. UCS’ Precious Tshabalala breaks down the true cost of this resource in her blog:

Tell me if I’m wrong but if people can go to prison for lying to Congress, then shouldn’t members of Congress go to prison for lying to the people?

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.

Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.

Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Some evenings downtown Baltimore is just impossibly beautiful and peaceful.

On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise Farmworkers described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.

On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise.

They described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.

@melissagomez.bsky.social

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Andrew Gebo @Gebo_ She's been an American citizen longer than the First Lady. LeftyCrypto This is not an American @LeftyCrypto

🚀 Liftoff at 04:10UTC April 17, Long March 4C Y41 launched a high-precision greenhouse gas detection satellite from Jiuquan

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.

This is an archive TONS of public radio and broadcasting for me to waste all my time on and then get very jazzed about some interpretation I have of the past which no one will understand because they won’t do anything like go insane over an archive. americanarchive.org

"For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us."
- Cmdr./Cpt. Benjamin Sisko, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 🖖🏾

Aaron Swartz was hounded and persecuted by overzealous prosecutors for a mass JSTOR download until he committed suicide.

Sam Altman says that he deserves to violate copyright law in perpetuity because otherwise he can't make a fortune from a large language model.

We are in the wrong timeline.

"Over-diagnosis" is a fiction designed to cast doubt on historically under-researched diseases which disproportionately affect women. Patients either meet diagnostic criteria or they don't.

Here’s the story of one of them. Awful www.thestranger.com/forced-out/f...

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books"

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A mum comforts her little boy on the bus. He is crying about something. She says, ‘It’s ok. Have a good cry.’ Man nearby: Well done. We’re so bad at letting boys just feel sad.

Image Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA’s mobile launcher enters the Vehicle Assembly Building following its approximately 4-mile trek from Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, April 17, 2026, in preparation for Artemis III stacking operations. Description Credit: NASA

Following the successful #Artemis II launch on April 1, the 380-foot mobile launcher has returned to the VAB. Ground teams are now conducting the inspections and repairs necessary to prep for the Artemis III mission.

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Rep Justin Jones made a statement entrance, walking into the Tennessee legislature with an"Abolish ICE" flag. No subtlety. No backing down.🔥🔥

We must get back to a 🌎 where when someone lies, we say “lie.” I don’t get why it’s forbidden to identify this act w/ precisely the correct word. He just said gas prices are down, i.e. LIED

🛑 him, say lie. “But aren’t they up [blah, blah, blah]” ain’t it. Call out the lie. Powerful, helps society.

The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

He is growing more dangerous. He is. We have constitutional power to remove him from office. We do. Still on for golf at Mar-a-Lago this weekend? Absolutely. [Jonathan Brown]

Call DEM Senators, House Reps & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social & tell them to go on record & reveal the names of their Republican counterparts that they know, who state in private, that TRUMP MUST BE REMOVED, shaming them into action. The congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 will connect you.

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.

Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

We have a rule that "funny cancels out the mean most of the time" so if we can make each other laugh we can say really awful stuff. I worry sometimes about what other people would think if they heard us. XD

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Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
Image date: 24 April 2020, 13:00


This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbou...

Norman Rockwell "free speech" meme

If you do work for a company you should be paid in full and on time