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Drunk raccoon passes out in bathroom after ransacking Va. liquor store The furry bandit was returned to the wild after sobering up. Authorities said he had no signs of injury “other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices.”

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This year, almost 50 interactions between orcas and ships have been recorded in Portuguese waters – more than ever before.

A data story by Sebastian Gräff.

Methane emissions are driving climate change. Here’s how to reduce them. This primer explores the causes of methane emissions and how the world can limit the release of this potent greenhouse gas.

On methane reduction, we know how to do that, and we don't need any fancy new tech to get there.

"... the world needs to begin by rethinking livestock production ... shifting towards plant-rich diets ..."

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There's Already a Deal to Beat Dirty Fossil Fuels A United Nations climate summit has once again failed to strengthen a pledge made two years ago to transition “away from fossil fuels.” Instead these dirty drivers of the climate crisis went completel...

the frustration over cop30's lacklustre agreement simply strengthens calls to worry less about negotiation and more about delivering what’s already been agreed

free link via @opinion.bloomberg.com
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NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths

AAAAAARGH www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

Extremely uncomfortable reading www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

A startup has a bold, new plan to dim the sun. But is it a good idea?

@lararhiannon.bsky.social explains the state of solar geoengineering — and it’s risks 🎥

Dimming the Sun Is a Terrifying New Industry Solar geoengineering, a bunch of techniques that aim to mask some effects of climate change by blocking sunlight, isn’t on the agenda for this month’s COP30. It ought to be. A record-breaking funding ...

The Torment-Nexus-Industrial Complex just keeps attracting more money, warns @lararhiannon.bsky.social

Maybe we should think twice before letting tech bros blot out the sun? Just spitballing here

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Worth remembering that the guy isn’t just a despicable murderer and a corrupt tyrant he is also a world class incompetent.

Pennies Are Trash Now The government has no plan for America’s 300 billion pennies.

"All of the best parts everyone would have loved were cut by my psychotic editor... I’m not worried about him reading these words, because a low-class butcher like that doesn’t possess enough humanity to subscribe to The Atlantic"

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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

Great article about a pretty stupid idea. the more you read about it, the worse of an idea it becomes ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

ha! That's wild!

Hard to think of anything in media that regularly brings me as much pure joy anymore as the headline in The New York Times' Trilobites section.

train travel should be accessible to all x

Urban Bears Bring Fur and Loathing to Japan In a seminal 1996 episode of The Simpsons, bear attacks lead to anger among the people of Springfield and the formation of Bear Patrol, a ludicrously over-the-top and over-funded response unit that pr...

Come for the headline, stay for the bears 🐻

Just one of the ways climate is pushing humans and wild animals closer together, and fostering conflict

Free link! via @opinion.bloomberg.com
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Covid jab less likely than virus to cause rare heart issue in children Largest study of its kind shows health risks of refusing vaccination

NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found.

Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
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Britain's next maternity scandal A four-month investigation with Channel 4 News reveals harrowing failings at one of Britain's most prestigious hospitals

Some of the details in this piece make my blood boil www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...

I Saw a Vision of Chocolate’s Future in an Amsterdam Brownie The real-life Willy Wonkas of confectionary are racing to cut the use of expensive cocoa. Their creations are delicious, but there’s a downside, too.

The soaring price of cocoa is forcing chocolate makers to cut its use. The creations are delicious, writes @lararhiannon.bsky.social, but there’s a downside, too ⬇️

Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust Two scientists argue that the growing commercial efforts to counter climate change by reflecting away sunlight will thwart responsible research in the field.

In an op-ed for TR, @davidkeith.bsky.social & @danvisioni.bsky.social voice deep concerns about Stardust & other for-profits racing into solar geoengineering — and asserting claims that, they argue, the science doesn't support.

YouTube video by My movie clips Archive. Aftersun - Under Pressure

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YouTube video by Guardian News Watch the 2025 John Lewis Christmas advert

The John Lewis Christmas ad just seems like a rip off of Aftersun to me www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5S...

Is this the end of chocolate as you know it? @lararhiannon.bsky.social went to an Amsterdam lab to find out: bloom.bg/4hI1Fqj

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Shamed by how well the pomodoro method works. Am basically a trained lab rat with no self control 🍅

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as #climatecrisis warms country

- only Antarctica now free of the insects

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I've got a peanut allergy and I often wonder whether things would be different if the advice when I was a baby was different.

Needless to say if I have a baby I'll be packing them off to get fed peanut butter from an early age (just away from me!)

Heat map of travel efficiency, updated

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.