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Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.

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Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is due to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve

#Cop30 live: standoff over inclusion of fossil fuel phaseout in final text escalates

- Following a dramatic fire yesterday, the climate summit is meant to finish this evening, but disagreements over the final text look difficult to resolve

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

21.11.2025 11:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Cape May, New Jersey is due east of Washington, DC

21.11.2025 11:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

mood

21.11.2025 11:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iranโ€™s capital must be moved because the country โ€œno longer has a choice,โ€ President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iranโ€™s capital must be moved because the country โ€œno longer has a choice,โ€ President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท

21.11.2025 04:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 192    ๐Ÿ” 137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 77
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COP30 BREAKING NEWS

The presidency has just dropped a new package of texts including the "global mutirรฃo" cover, which makes no mention of fossil fuels or roadmaps

Here's my snap analysis (pic)

unfccc.int/sites/def...

21.11.2025 07:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 40    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap Exclusive: Summit leadership ignores letter from 29 nations threatening to block progress without commitment to transition

Cop30 draft text omits mention of fossil fuel phase-out roadmap #Climate

21.11.2025 09:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You had Annieโ€™s insight, just in the other direction

21.11.2025 09:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cloud

Cloud

Sunset

21.11.2025 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would have been an especially annoying number to dial on a rotary phone. With all different digits, the only way it could have taken longer to dial would have been 867-5409

21.11.2025 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

21.11.2025 03:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2043    ๐Ÿ” 386    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

Like the last one really sounds fake. But itโ€™s not

21.11.2025 03:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What would your state's state smell be?

(Nice answers only)

21.11.2025 03:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

I love pho

21.11.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Clover Steveland

21.11.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Annie Withey created Smartfood popcorn in the 1980s and then later that decade created Annieโ€™s Mac and Cheese using the *same exact cheese powder*

21.11.2025 02:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 274    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Outerbridge Crossing, a bridge in Staten Island, was named after Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge, first chairman of the Port Authority

21.11.2025 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 137    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

German chocolate cake was named after English-American chocolate maker Samuel German, and uses baking chocolateโ€”which may be the Bakerโ€™s Chocolate brand which was named after the Baker family who owned that chocolate company.

French toast was *maybe* named after Albany innkeeper Joseph French.

21.11.2025 03:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 168    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal child care next week New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who championed the new initiative, told CBS News it would save families an average of $12,000 a year.

New Mexico just became the first U.S. state to offer free universal child care

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham told CBS News it would save families an average of $12,000 a year.

"In 41 states in America, your child care payment is more than your mortgage payment," she said.

#PublicHealth

21.11.2025 02:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 322    ๐Ÿ” 75    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Well his real first name was Stephen

21.11.2025 03:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon of two men standing in a hallway with one wearing an orange hat Alt: Dale Gribble eats the evidence and runs off.

So-called "baby carrots" are cut down to that shape and size

21.11.2025 02:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 42    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

New Mexico is the only state to have a โ€œstate smellโ€

A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks

21.11.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 717    ๐Ÿ” 60    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Annie Withey created Smartfood popcorn in the 1980s and then later that decade created Annieโ€™s Mac and Cheese using the *same exact cheese powder*

21.11.2025 02:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 274    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

21.11.2025 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 680    ๐Ÿ” 130    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 469    ๐Ÿ“Œ 598
David East
@davideastUK
[middle english period group chat] feudalismluvr: havin roast beef w/gravรฉ tonite groats4days: lol gravรฉ
saxon_69: gravรฉ domesday_bloke: gravรฉ yas _faerie_kween: gravรฉ
[le_borte_d'arthur has changed the group name to "gravรฉ"]

[quote-posting:
* Haggard Hawks * Words | Language | Etymology @H...โ€ข 2019-06-16
GRAVY is thought to derive from and Old French word, 'granรฉ', that likely meant 'seasoned' or "well flavoured'. The N in 'granรฉ' was likely misread for a U or a Vin the Middle English period, and the mistake has remained in place ever since.]
7:12 AM โ€ข 2019-06-16

David East @davideastUK [middle english period group chat] feudalismluvr: havin roast beef w/gravรฉ tonite groats4days: lol gravรฉ saxon_69: gravรฉ domesday_bloke: gravรฉ yas _faerie_kween: gravรฉ [le_borte_d'arthur has changed the group name to "gravรฉ"] [quote-posting: * Haggard Hawks * Words | Language | Etymology @H...โ€ข 2019-06-16 GRAVY is thought to derive from and Old French word, 'granรฉ', that likely meant 'seasoned' or "well flavoured'. The N in 'granรฉ' was likely misread for a U or a Vin the Middle English period, and the mistake has remained in place ever since.] 7:12 AM โ€ข 2019-06-16

16.01.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 464    ๐Ÿ” 147    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Have not had

21.11.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ok that does sound really good

21.11.2025 02:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like it but havenโ€™t had it in a while.

Orzo is just likeโ€ฆif I want to eat a grain in that shape, rice already does the trick

21.11.2025 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not a huge fan of orzo tbh. Pasta-based rice

21.11.2025 02:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And to the farfalle haters in the thread - the chewier middle is a feature, not a bug

21.11.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Watching this is good for your eyeballs. It keeps them healthy and happy.

Send more auroras please!

21.11.2025 02:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 247    ๐Ÿ” 58    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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