floating

floating, 21 days ago to Korean

Study suggests that sperm whales have a phonetic alphabet and “a very large dictionary”

#whales #language #communication #animals #science

https://apnews.com/article/a94df8e07b129f19917437fcb85e7655

TonyStark, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

I've been very fortunate to find myself in a nice career.

I know many people who haven’t had the same path and the weight of student loans is financially drowning them. I'm truly happy that this will do something to give back to people who put so much in, but can’t break out from underneath the system.

This kind of policy won’t be coming from Republicans. Joe Biden has my vote.

150,000 more student loan borrowers to receive debt relief beginning Wednesday:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/150000-student-loan-borrowers-receive-debt-relief-beginning/story?id=107395007

floating, 25 days ago to random

In this Chilean adoption scandal, an estimated 20,000 newborns were stolen from predominantly poor and indigenous mothers and sold to American and European families who thought they were adopting children in need. The network of child traffickers included social workers and faith leaders. No one has been held accountable.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/27/chile-forced-adoption-scandal

jeffjarvis, 26 days ago to random

Ruth Marcus legitimates the justice who is indeed the handmaid to the right wing.
Amy Coney Barrett is no handmaid to the Supreme Court’s conservative majority https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/01/amy-coney-barrett-handmaid-justice-conservative/

floating, 1 month ago to random

floating, 1 month ago to climate

James Hansen: "Accelerated global warming is the first significant change of global warming rate since 1970. It is important because it confirms the futility of 'net zero' hopium that serves as present
energy policy and because we are running short of time to avoid passing the point of no return."

#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateCrisis #hopium #NetZero #Energy #policy

https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2024/Hopium.MarchEmail.2024.03.29.pdf

Global Warming Acceleration: Hope vs Hopium 29 March 2024 James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Pushker Kharecha Accumulating evidence supports the interpretation in our Pipeline paper: decreasing human-made aerosols increased Earth’s energy imbalance and accelerated global warming in the past decade. Climate sensitivity and aerosol forcing, physically independent quantities, were tied together by United Nations IPCC climate assessments that rely excessively on global climate models (GCMs) and fail to measure climate forcing by aerosols. IPCC’s best estimates for climate sensitivity and aerosol forcing both understate reality. Preservation of global shorelines and global climate patterns — the world humanity is adapted to — likely will require at least partly reversing global warming. Required actions and time scale are undefined. A bright future for today’s young people is still possible, but its attainment is hampered by precatory (wishful thinking) policies that do not realistically account for global energy needs and aspirations of nations with emerging economies. An alternative is needed to the GCM-dominated perspective on climate science. We will bear a heavy burden if we stand silent or meek as the world continues on its present course.

floating, 25 days ago to random

Giving the new dentist favorable reviews based solely on the reading material in the waiting room

A stack of books with visible titles "Likes. Andy Spade", "FERDINAND", and "Banksy" on a shelf.

floating, 1 month ago to random

Dear Mastodoners,
The term Semitic refers to languages, not people. The term antisemitism was coined in Europe for anti-Jewish political purposes and refers to Jews only. The racists make the rules. Learn things from legitimate sources and then you can open your mouth.
Love, Sick of This Shit

floating, 25 days ago to writing

I don't know if I can keep going
I'm tired of rowing and rowing
Plus, what kind of boat
Takes this much work to float?
There's water, but nothing is flowing

#writing #poetry #poem #limerick

floating, 21 days ago to books

I think it’s time to bump this one up on my reading list. I bought it a couple of years ago and keep putting it off.

#Books #Philosophy #Life

floating, 1 month ago to science

Interesting study investigating cell-membrane ion gradients as a "nongenomic information system" informing cellular decision making.

https://phys.org/news/2024-04-cells-hidden-communication.html

#science #biology

floating, 28 days ago to Cats

Good morning

#cats

floating, 13 days ago to Plants

Leaves are the best 🍃🍂🍁

Thanks for all that photosynthesis, cooling the local environment, participating in the water cycle, giving cover to critters, and being so nice to look at.

#Plants #Nature #Photo

MJ, 20 days ago to random

These white farts didn’t lose any personal dignity.

https://progressivecafe.social/@ClintBarton/112401051345240219

floating, 1 month ago to tv

Someone please make a #TV set with 1970's era functionality for my mom. 🙄​

#technology #tech

floating, 1 month ago to random

Strict new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down

#Biden EPA, that is.

https://apnews.com/article/5c96ca146e7f70b47806beb4bc3713e6

floating, 1 month ago to Cats

Morning yoga

#Cats

floating, 15 days ago to writing

Steal This Hour

Watch the clouds swell as cows drift across the yellow hillside

Watch the inky hawks circle and circle over blades of grass waving and fluttering in the field

Watch the squirrel flick its tail, clasping tiny fingers around a newfound acorn

Watch the flies zig and zag like magical green jewels

Read more >

https://paper.wf/nightdream/steal-this-hour

#writing #blog #mindfulness

floating, 19 days ago to til

#TIL that Microsoft is a major fossil fuel enabler. #climate #Microsoft #tech #AI #climate #ClimateChange

https://grist.org/accountability/microsoft-employees-spent-years-fighting-the-tech-giants-oil-ties-now-theyre-speaking-out/

floating, 21 days ago to random

Out for a walk in the late, milky light. Every few blocks, a mallard couple relaxing on someone’s lawn.

floating, 1 month ago to Podcast

This interview is a real gut punch.

"I didn't realize until years later, thinking back about that, was I was three years old. I lived with my birth mother, and then I didn't anymore.

And I was a three year old. I was talking to her. I forgot over [00:27:00] a while, over time what I was doing. And in the book I talk about it that way. I forgot what I was doing, but I kept doing it. And in, the way that I forgot my name, I had no idea what my name was and I had to find it."

#adoptees #podcast #identity #adoption

https://www.adopteeson.com/listen/277

TonyStark, 19 days ago to random

It’s always Republicans who whine about how government doesn’t work and then they vote all these people in there that do nothing but try to gum it up.

She should spend some time learning how government works: creates bills with substance, gets them passed, the basics.

Maybe this gives some of that side of the aisle some idea that they can deny MAGA. And how much easier it would have been had they supported the impeachments.

Marjorie Taylor Greene booed on House floor |
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/05/08/speaker-johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene-booed-lead-digvid.cnn

floating, 25 days ago to random

Momo being a Very Good Boy to see if I will cave and give him a different flavor of food after my son gave him a flavor he didn’t want. Guess what happened?

ai6yr, 1 month ago to random

Heard the next door neighbor demanding the pest control service douse her house with more pesticidea because of "spiders leaving cobwebs on the outside".

sickmatter, 20 days ago to random

https://www.jta.org/2024/05/07/culture/hinds-hall-macklemores-new-rap-track-defends-pro-palestinian-college-protests-and-condemns-israel

Macklemore the white supremacist nice