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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 13h

Curious why the term gender-non-conforming doesn't feel good to you? It's cumbersome, but so are many official terms that try to encompass the entirety of a big fuzzy cloud of concepts/people.

Also, this genderqueer person thanks you for speaking up for us.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 17h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 20h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 20h

Pres. Kornbluth articulates such moral clarity in this rejection of the proposed “compact”:

“the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone”

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️‍⚧️ @restingdinoface.bsky.social · 19h

It's part of why I wrote this piece, dipping into some of the pop culture aspects to highlight why carnivorous plants grow where they do. Amazing plants.

Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger?

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history

www.smithsonianmag.com

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 20h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

police ought to have the equivalent of "How's my driving? 555-1234, van number X"

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

So much of what I read about systemic police shittiness is like, not just misaligned with protect and serve, but fully its opposite. Perjury, wrongful detention, assault of people in custody, pushing out cops who fight abuse

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

Catching up on the Every Heart a Doorway series. Forgot how much I like these. Wildly creative, and kind even when they're cruel.

And unapologetically queer, both in the sense of having queer characters, and also the entire point of the series is navigating one's own personal otherness.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

It's so extra insulting and infuriating.

Thinking of the BTB about FBI botching the investigation of the Atlanta Olympic bombing. Main character is a guy who genuinely wanted to protect and serve, even if his excess zeal made him a dick about petty stuff like noise complaints.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 21h

ooh ooh i like this recommender good details good descriptions heading to library

compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 22h

Fascinating, slightly nauseating context: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germani...

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 3d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

religionnews.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

That chant is a banger. Now we gotta get it to the front lines on the Portland front, where it can be shouted by someone wearing an inflatable dinosaur suit.

collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 1d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 3d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1d

these are two dogs I was sitting recently. idk what they found here but it was Good so they both Tactically Fell Over

Two French bulldogs on a Y-shaped leash, rolling around on some artificial grass.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1d

This reminds me of when my middle school teacher came into a room with a suspicious lump in her shirt, and said "Is anyone here scared or phobic of snakes?"

And we all jumped up and demanded to be shown the snake

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 1d

A Brit looks at this letter: Z
and says "zed" while
an American says "zee".

Why?

The answer lies in the Norman Conquest, American nationalism & Noah Webster of Merriam-Webster fame.

It starts with the Greek letter: zeta (Z, ζ), which entered Old French as "zède" via Church Latin.

An ornate version of the letter Z, with inked oak clusters, flowers and leaves behind it. It's in black and white, from getty images.

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote several papers about how bad corn ethanol was going to be around 2010, so I am not surprised.
We should always remind ourselves that biofuels are complements not substitutes for fossil fuels, b/c they are used in ICEs and have limited scalability.
They are a big ag and big oil PR mechanism.

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 2d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2d

New, on HEAT DEATH! Against the backdrop of a relentlessly changing climate, guest writer Israel Kolawole explores the strange history of a longstanding American dream: the ability to bring rain on demand.

When The Desert Blooms

Inside the long, desperate quest to make it rain.

heat-death.ghost.io

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2d

The global whaling industry experienced a boom c. 1840-1950 as technology allowed whalers to hunt the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

Under standard models, we would have expected krill populations to have *exploded*.

Instead, they DROPPED exponentially.

Let's talk about the KRILL PARADOX.

Change in distribution and abundance of southern right whales. (A) Shows historical and contemporary wintering distributions (Figure 1 from Carroll et al., 2018), and (B) shows decline in abundance and subsequent recovery (solid line is the mean, dashed line shows upper and lower 95% CI). Modified Figure 1 from Jackson et al. (2008). Contemporary sightings are divided into regions where large aggregations are seen during winter: Argentina (ARG), Brazil (BZL), South Africa (SAF), southwest Australia (SWA), south central Australia (SCA), and New Zealand sub-Antarctic (NZSA) and regions where sightings are typically of small numbers of individuals per year. The large aggregations are IWC management units and correspond to historical whaling grounds, although another 5 whaling grounds show little sign of recovery. Summer feeding areas are poorly described and so not shown.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 2d

the increase in UK exports in the first half of 2025 was mainly to Indonesia (24,006 tonnes in 2025, up from 525 tonnes in 2024) and Malaysia (28,667 tonnes, up from 18,872 tonnes in 2024).

well that's a lot of garbage

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I siphoned 2/3 of the water into a bucket before physically moving the tank, then put it back in. Water is heavy, about 10lbs per gallon.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2d

I can't stand the phrase "tasked with"

compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2d

mEtEoRoLoGy

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2d

They did give me a nightmare scenario addition:

"The larger the datacenter, the larger the battery backup it needs, which we also only have recently started addressing in the code."

And added "So, yeah, I guess we're waiting for a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for datacenters."

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