Bagged Spaghetti

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the chemical industry.

This is why you always follow the money.

www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/09/17/a...

This month, a team endorsed by Guillermo del Toro released Mexico's first stop-motion feature. It's 2 hours of pure imagination.

The film is called I Am Frankelda, and we've taken a deep look into how it came to be: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-film-a...

Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

Plato's Cave allegory, illustrated. the shadows on the cave wall are captioned "increasingly insane and extreme positions", the prisoners labeled "internet users", the figures holding the shadow's shapes labeled "algorithms", the fire labeled "random internet users expressing their idiosyncratic beliefs". the space above the cave is labeled "literally just outside" and the philosopher freed from the chains of the physical world labeled "guy who logs off"

from "Classical Studies memes for Hellenistic teens" on FB

IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

A coal-black bird with a bill that covers the whole front of the face. A long grackle-like boat tail, muscular legs and an alert black eye. The bird sits on red sand next to water, as if a mud puddle or stream. CREDIT: Suzie McCann, eBird, 01 Jun 2019, Santa Clara Ranch, Starr, Texas, United States

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur.

Like, I know *all* birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur.

(📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

Carl Sagan on sensible military spending and climate change.

40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.

Global map showing sea surface temperature anomalies in March 2025 relative to 1982 to 2010. Most areas are warmer than average. Red is shown for warmer sea surface temperatures, and blue is shown for colder sea surface temperatures. Data is from NOAA OISSTv2.1.

March 2025 continued the trend of exceptionally warm SST departures, particularly in the midlatitude bands of both hemispheres. Meanwhile, La Niña conditions are fading in the central equatorial Pacific. And unsurprisingly, widespread below-average SSTs remain hard to find. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1.

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky

please join me in the fight to save our libraries.

EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

Remember how Mark Zuckerberg started cozying up to Trump as Meta donated $1 million to his inauguration?

Well now Zuckerberg is trying to cash in — reportedly lobbying Trump to settle the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta.

This is why you always follow the money.

Honestly, last night’s bullshit is going to be a last straw for a lot of people when it comes to the Democratic Party.

Matching outfits and grimaces are not a real response to fascism.

We need an entire party of Al Greens.

Aight, making some carnitas and using the drippings for a green salsa.

What are you building?

RESOLVED: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is so much more expressive and therefore preferable than 🤷

Discuss

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Fully agree on the expressiveness. I think it's a generational badge.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ makes me ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
🤷 has too much of a corporate feel

I love the idea, but maybe we recycle them into something useful. Probably more fun to see them crushed and stripped than falling off into the ocean

Here's a mantra I picked up from a coworker that's helped me keep on keeping.

I focus on what I can control and make peace with what I cannot.
I am in charge of my happiness.
I know my path is clear.
I know my mind is focused.

Everything is aligned in my favor

#intention #mantra

We pay/paid for NOAA data with our taxes. It's our data and we should have access to it. This is theft (misappropriation of funds). It's a high crime. 🌊

Thanks for the optimist quote. It's nice reading a bit of positivity in light of these accelerating changes.

In a world where money talks how does the working class gets a voice?

So Clean Is that really how voters behave?

These do not look like real election results. However they are the actual election results from the 2024 presidential election.

We have measured the #dropoff" in 9 states, and found an almost identical pattern in each state.

smartelections.substack.com/p/so-clean
#SEDATA

RIP TikTok. The ultimate example of the olds not getting it.

It is especially ironic that we're freaking out about a foreign owned social network when we're letting untrustworthy figures straight through the door over here

It's not working with VPN

I was trying to VPN on my browser. I couldn't get past and got error messages. Didn't matter what country I tried. I was surprised to find out it was banned in China

I already have my own VPN account. Couldn't log in via browser.

Say what you want about TikTok’s data collection but let’s acknowledge there has never been an algorithm so accurately able to connect like minded people on any other platform, and probably never will be replicated again.