Ambulocetus @ambulocetus@social.cleverlibre.org

The Inflation Reduction Act was enacted a year ago, passed by a Democratic Congress and signed by Joe Biden.

Inflation has fallen every month since then -- and is now only 1/3 what it was before.

Even Fox has to admit the truth.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the term "woke" didn't start with kids on Twitter.

The was first recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s in a song called "The Scottsboro Boys," about the dangers Black Americans faced traveling through states in the Deep South. The original line was "best stay woke," as in, "remain aware of the dangers of racism."

Black communities shortened the term to "stay woke," over time, and eventually added "woke" as a state of being--or constant awareness.

Doctors Confirm McConnell Had A Stroke After Imagining A Happy Black Person https://www.theonion.com/doctors-confirm-mcconnell-had-a-stroke-after-imagining-1850683094

POV: When Worldcoin starts advertising their dystopian bullshit in your neighborhood.

2000 BACKERS WOOOOO https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/weiner/the-universe-abridged-beyond-the-point-of-usefulness?ref=6vghse

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Thought I ordered 50,000 nematodes. Would anyone like some nematodes.

Please. I have so many worms.

These five American women will appear on new quarters in 2024 https://thehill.com/homenews/4119326-these-five-american-women-will-appear-on-new-quarters-in-2024/

Multiple bright, young scientists I know have told me they will not be applying to jobs in TX & FL.

Faculty friends at institutions in these states have shared they are having trouble recruiting new students & concerned about what they could be accused of.

Having spent years working at UT Austin where I loved our weird & welcoming community, I’m deeply troubled watching things fall apart. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/25/texas-a-m-professor-opioids-dan-patrick/

I got an advance copy of Peter Hotez's new tour de force book today—a couple of sentences on the back cover encapsulate my thoughts on it and his courageous work

PragerU is propaganda. It isn't, in any way, an academic organization. It's a YouTube channel that makes lecture-style videos that explicitly promote evangelical Christianity, political disinformation, anti-LGBTQ talking points, Islamophobia, and Anti-Semitism.

Its namesake is conservative talk radio host Dennis Prager. In no way, shape, or form should these videos be in America's classrooms.

https://bridge.georgetown.edu/research/factsheet-prageru/

I just learned that there's a popular flavor in Australia called "musk", which I, in the US, had never heard of. (This is not a Twitter joke.)

This reminded me of learning about elderflower, which is apparently a popular flavor for things in the UK but which is just about unheard of in the US, and of the gooseberry, still endemic to Northern Europe I'm very popular, which was deliberately nigh-entirely eradicated from the US about a century ago; and about discovering how China and other places in Asia were just discovering the American cranberry before the pandemic hit; and of how most Americans have never had anything that is rose flavored, despite the popularity of rose flavored things across the entirety of mainland Asia.

Is there some list somewhere of interesting flavors popular to certain cultures and unknown in others? Something you could consult for giving international gifts, so you could know what a recipient might find novel and interesting?

I'm finding it a little hard to work today with this in my head.

Antarctic ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the mean. That is, I'm reliably told, a one in 13 billion year event.

We're about to see a lot of shit hit a lot of fans. And we are far from ready.

Business as usual is over. Politics as usual is over. We need to be putting our effort into building systems that can help us survive what greed and power and wilful blindness have wrought.

#ClimateCrisis #Antarctica

Uh oh

#nature #photography #flowers #bees #silly #drawing #SillyScribbles #BloomScrolling