Efforts Grow to Ban Octopus Farming Mexico recently joined three countries which have proposed a ban on the commercial octopus aquaculture industry.

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Washington may ban sales of farmed octopus • Washington State Standard A bill to ban the possession and sale of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of a House committee on Wednesday.

A bill to outlaw the sale, possession, transport, and distribution of farmed octopus in Washington advanced out of the state's House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. washingtonstatestandard.com/briefs/washi...

The end of fur just got a lot closer One of the world’s biggest fur producers just banned fur farms.

Big news: Poland, the world's second biggest fur producer, banned fur farming this week. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

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Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

Octopus Farming in the U.S. Doesn't Exist, and a New Bill Wants to Keep It That Way A bipartisan bill aims to stop commercial octopus farming before it starts.

A bipartisan bill aims to stop commercial octopus farming before it starts. @gaeacabico.bsky.social reports:

Bit suspicious that these islands didn’t get hit with Trump tariffs:

Fantasy Island
Love Island
The Island of Dr Moreau

Exclusive | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Donates $1 Million to Trump’s Inaugural Fund The president-elect had blasted the tech tycoon during the presidential campaign, but ties have been improving.

Is this the same Mark Zuckerberg who told Jim Jordan just a few months ago that he would not be making donations to support electoral infrastructure because of even the perception of not being neutral? 🤔 www.wsj.com/tech/mark-zu...

A eucalyptus tree with twisted, pendulous branches grows on the edge of a bay with wooded hills in the background. The sky is bright and is lightly clouded.

One of my favourite picnic spots

Male Blackbird in a mostly bare tree surrounded by red berries

Blackbird and berries! 😀😍🐦
#Birds 🪶

Mexico just put animal welfare into its national constitution These reforms are a big win for advocates, but what happens next will be crucial for animals rights.

“Where Mexico’s reforms stand out: They’re intended to protect all animals, including farmed animals and other exploited species.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally.

Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially.
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sunrise on the pretty point rock formation, hiltaba, the nature foundation south australia’s gawler ranges conservation property - gawler ranges, northern eyre peninsula, south australia #landscapephotography

Agrivoltaics can increase grape yield by up to 60% French agrivoltaics company Sun'Agri says that two of its facilities increased grape yields by 20% to 60% in 2024, compared to areas without solar panels. The PV modules helped regulate temperature fl...

Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%.
That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news
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Arizona is building the first solar canal in the U.S. . Solar-covered canals will generate renewable energy and save water in this notoriously dry area: https://buff.ly/3wEcF5h

We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

Mexico’s President Raises Prospect of Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Goods President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Trump’s threat to impose high tariffs, saying such a move would inflict damage on both countries.

I mean, what just happened with Mexico? To use technical language, Sheinbaum's response to Trump's tariff threat appears to have been "Fuck me? No, fuck you" (I spent many years in New Jersey) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/u...

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

Donald Trump's deportation plan causes 'panic' among farmers The news comes amid a warning that agricultural output will fall between $30 and $60 billion if Trump's flagship policy is carried out.

Trump’s deportation plan is causing widespread “panic” among farmers at risk of losing staff and business. Agricultural output will fall between $30 and $60 billion if Trump’s flagship policy is carried out.
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Introducing Daisy, The ‘AI Granny’ Outwitting Scammers British telecom company O2 adds to its fraud team a human-like chatbot that fools scammers into thinking they’ve found a perfect senior target, then wastes their time.

I don't like AI in general, but I love this. Bloody brilliant. www.forbes.com/sites/leslie...

There are a couple of Palestinian starter packs, including this one:

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Apropos of Elon & Vivek's excellent efficiency adventure, back in 1989 Bush sr set VP Dan Quayle up with something called The Council on Competitiveness. It was basically a backroom operation where corps cld toss in a few bucks and get a regulation killed. This will be the same.