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If you’re worried about property destruction wait until you hear about climate change

Wow. RFK announced via a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that he is removing all 17 members of the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, which is the expert panel at the CDC that decides who is eligible for vaccines and whether insurers should cover them.

They're literally doing the meme

Probably the most unrealistic part of The Cask of Amontillado was him finishing a construction project in one day

I want beer with 32 grams of protein… will settle for protein kombucha even

Why do people at boiler room sets always look like they are being held there against their will?

How could you not be impressed by a bird in your yard? This dude can fly anywhere and it came here to hang out with you

Many foolishly use chatgpt because they long to speak to The Oracle

spring? oh, spring was a thing that used to exist between Frozen Days and the Burning Time

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

The catholic church has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever and do Conclave irl

I’m going to make the understatement of the last several years here but: we really need to do more public literacy on what propaganda looks like and how it works

RFK Jr. has directed the health service to research autism cures by clicking on every link that says "Try this one weird trick doctors don't want you to know!"

blooming bradford pear trees + gutter trash + car fumes
smells like Midwest spring

Stop the SAVE Act The SAVE Act would keep millions of people from being able to vote – and would shut countless eligible voters out of our democracy. Urge Congress to vote no now.

The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would make it much harder for millions of people to register to vote.

Tell your Senator to reject this harmful legislation.

photo of a red shopping basket filled with turnips, under the headline: If you’re worried about food tariffs, adopt a frugal mindset and cook smarter Learn to shop for groceries like a thrifter and work on eliminating waste By Sheryl Julian Globe Correspondent,Updated April 7, 2025, 7:21 a.m. caption: The big question is, writes Sheryl Julian, are we expected to remove all the pleasures from the table and turn the nightly dinner into a feast of locally grown turnips (above) and leafy greens?Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

pan american strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1916

pan american strawberries, painted by amanda almira newton, 1916

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

Millions of Americans believe they’re safe from wildfires in their cities. New research shows they’re not Many of the suburbs and cities hit hardest in recent years were caught off-guard, and key stakeholders are racing to understand the dynamics that drive these fires

Good thing we’re not gutting FEMA, NOAA and research on climate change and wildfires

Listening to The Cure… thinking about The Dust Bowl…

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

Do you think theres unrest among the vampire communities due to the degradation of the quality of human blood caused by microplastics?

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

Google Maps image of “Chuckle Head Conservation Area” in Tasmania

I found where they’re conserving you

Climate change is politically divisive. Public parks? Not so much. Parks are popular community amenities. When built right, they can also mitigate flooding, heat, and other impacts of climate change.

How investing in neighborhood parks has transformed climate resilience in some at-risk areas grist.org/looking-forw...

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”

Carl Sagan's prediction in 1995. We are here now.