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Note to those fleeing MuskWorld: my view - Bluesky is the best platform for discussion. Threads is fine if you just want to broadcast into the algorithmic void but it’s awful if you want to talk about a subject.

Dahlias in white, yellow, orange and pink mixed with many smaller flowers.

August glories from the micro flower farms of Portland, OR.

Deforestation Inc. - ICIJ An ICIJ-led cross-border investigation exposes how a lightly regulated sustainability industry overlooks forest destruction and human rights violations when granting environmental certifications.

Luiz's work was part of a number of investigations featured in International Consortium of Investigative Journalists' Deforestation Inc series in 2023. He helped look into environmental certifications given to companies that have committed environmental crimes in Brazil www.icij.org/investigatio...

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Next week's Stage Talk is with the investigative journalist Luiz Fernando Toledo. Luiz uses open data and FOIA requests to reveal information about deforestation efforts in the Amazon.
He'll be discussing his investigations on Thursday at 5pm CEST/11am EDT here: discord.gg/ehN58Pbh?eve...

"Trump isn't finished." nytimes.com/2024/08/21/o...

This is a breakout column by Tom Edsall. His expert sources — political scientists — are united in their call of alarm. There is no phony "both sides do it." And the political press is not spared. Sean Wilentz calls theirs "a staggering failure."

“Donald Trump and JD Vance want to dismantle our health care system, repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions.” — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico This is exaggerated. Mr. Trump campaigned in 2016 on repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, but Republicans in Congress never succeeded.

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You don’t have to be an expert, a top-level coder, or a #blockchain ‘savant’.

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MA Phone Banking After Dark Into Nevada (Or Arizona) · MassDems Come join other Massachusetts Democrats as we make calls into Nevada (or Arizona) to help elect Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrats up and down the ballot.

Hello fellow East Coast friends!

You can't do political work at home after 9 pm, but you CAN make calls to states like Arizona and Nevada then.
Join for a series of "phone banking after dark."

www.mobilize.us/massdems/eve...

Lil Jon at the DNC

Jimmy carter was holding on to see this

Kamala Harris’s tan suit at the convention was unexpected for two reasons, our fashion critic writes. 4 min read

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK.

Strange and wondrous creatures: plankton and the origins of life on Earth The long read: Without plankton, the modern ocean ecosystem – the very idea of the ocean as we understand it – would collapse. Earth would have no complex life of any kind

In The Guardian today, an excerpt from the plankton chapter of my book, featuring the exquisite forms, formidable power, and fundamental indispensability of the ocean’s tiniest and most abundant creatures www.theguardian.com/news/article...

Today I mostly just went to the garden centre, met some new plant frens, and gave them a good home. #playsindirt #gardenlife

California hits milestones toward 100% clean energy — but has a long way to go Fossil fuels are still the largest source of electricity, but California has made progress with renewables while keeping the lights on.

There are some great clickable graphics in this summary of California's progress towards a 100% renewable energy power grid by Alejandro Lazo for Cal Matters.

Yes, there is a long way to go, but with the growth of battery storage deployment I suspect the state will get there ahead of schedule.

"The period-tracking, panty-sniffing ghouls of the GOP have, with the guidance and power of fifty years of metastasizing Christian theocracy, made great headway in their goal to control every American uterus."

This is extra infuriating because the opponents to safe streets here ran a single-issue candidate for state assembly against the incumbent **and lost handily**. Their ideas were rejected by democratic process!

A view of the Swiftcurrent lake backdropped with mountains, a bright blue sky and puffy clouds. This is in the Many Glacier portion of Glacier National Park

Y'all.

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A “man” walks into a clothing store and says “Ha, how ridiculous would i look in one of these stupid dresses.” a mafia boss approaches him “this here’s alphabet mafia territory. we don’t take lightly to those kind of phrases”. “wait i was just joking” “a comedian huh? tony, transgenderize him” “On it boss” the girl looks more feminine and says “holy crap i’m a girl?!” Mafia boss: “newsflash you babbo, you’ve always been a dame. you been hiding your authentic self behind humour. capice? Now quit being a jamuke and wear the damn dress” she wears the dress and is happy while the teo mafia guys kiss in thr background

"Tony, I want 'er sleepin wit da fishes"

"you got it boss" *reaches into coat and hands over ikea shark*

YouTube video by Mark by Mark A. Foster, Ph.D. Mark by Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.: Maoism–Third Worldism, Bhaskarian Critical Realism and Transformation

Maoism–Third Worldism, Bhaskarian Critical Realism and Transformation
youtu.be/krbvykXzrss

A 99% full moon with a warm, yellowish hue set against a black night sky. The moon's surface details, including craters and darker patches, are clearly visible. Pixel 8 Pro, 30x Zoom

She is in the clear tonight

there is a cohort of american millennials for whom the obamas still activate what is basically firmware-level programming

LOL I must like this place because I tell stories on here I never would back on Twitter because it would have been days of harassment and death threats simply for sharing an experience that I thought was interesting,

Canada🇨🇦 #wildfire emissions have increased rapidly through August, driven by the number & intensity of fires in NWT, resulting in huge amounts of smoke crossing the Atlantic as far as Europe. There are also many large wildfires burning from BC to ON.

atmosphere.copernicus.eu/smoke-canadi...

I like to believe that due to my "Man Who Killed Google Search" piece there is a Google PR person who has both seen this and had to send an email about it to their superiors

My son is 19, Autistic, Non Verbal & has profound learning disabilities.

He cannot read or write, dress himself or use a toilet.

Today I am taking him to the Job Centre because applying for Universal Credit requires him to attend.

It’s hard to imagine anything less appropriate for his needs

Lil Jon literally has a song with “roll call” in the title but he didn’t play it *during the DNC roll call*?? Feels like a huge missed opportu [checks lyrics] ah okay yes

YouTube video by Trinasolar Trinasolar is Transforming Energy Landscapes in New Zealand!

Thread and video - Lodestone #solarfarms NZ.
Good to see the P2 #solarpanel set up used on these solarfarms is more suitable for #agrivoltaics. Hopefully there will continue to be refining of the systems overtime, to better suit both NZ conditions and dual land use.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS_p...