Diztrakted
@diztrakted.bsky.social
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Red, Green and Black
Ceramics, ecology, climate, and paleontology
Red, Green and Black
Ceramics, ecology, climate, and paleontology
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🕷️🔥 Methane-powered sea spiders
Sea spiders at Pacific methane seeps farm and feed on methane-eating bacteria growing on their own exoskeletons.
A bizarre deep-sea symbiosis turning gas into biomass.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#DeepSea #SciComm 🧪
Sea spiders at Pacific methane seeps farm and feed on methane-eating bacteria growing on their own exoskeletons.
A bizarre deep-sea symbiosis turning gas into biomass.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#DeepSea #SciComm 🧪
Methane-powered sea spiders: Diverse, epibiotic methanotrophs serve as a source of nutrition for deep-sea methane seep Sericosura | PNAS
Methane seeps harbor uncharacterized animal–microbe symbioses with unique nutritional
strategies. Three undescribed sea spider species (family Ammo...
www.pnas.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🕷️🔥 Methane-powered sea spiders
Sea spiders at Pacific methane seeps farm and feed on methane-eating bacteria growing on their own exoskeletons.
A bizarre deep-sea symbiosis turning gas into biomass.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#DeepSea #SciComm 🧪
Sea spiders at Pacific methane seeps farm and feed on methane-eating bacteria growing on their own exoskeletons.
A bizarre deep-sea symbiosis turning gas into biomass.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#DeepSea #SciComm 🧪
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It wasn’t just public facing gay men during stonewall but these mattachine clowns are as historically illiterate as they were historically uninvolved.
He is not part of any community except his own bourgeois social circle, because his only real ideological commitment is to whiteness.
He is not part of any community except his own bourgeois social circle, because his only real ideological commitment is to whiteness.
June 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It wasn’t just public facing gay men during stonewall but these mattachine clowns are as historically illiterate as they were historically uninvolved.
He is not part of any community except his own bourgeois social circle, because his only real ideological commitment is to whiteness.
He is not part of any community except his own bourgeois social circle, because his only real ideological commitment is to whiteness.
Yeah I want this. Gimme those Long Dark Teatime of the Soul vibes.
Started reading this marvelous anthology edited by @kjsoar.bsky.social — a wonderful selection of weird stories about the return of the pagan gods. Hard to put down!
June 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Yeah I want this. Gimme those Long Dark Teatime of the Soul vibes.
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yes absolutely do this absolutely make the water voles shit disco balls this is the best idea anyone's ever had www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Water voles are almost extinct in Wales - could glitter save them?
It is hoped edible glitter could help conservationists to track the shy species in the wild.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
yes absolutely do this absolutely make the water voles shit disco balls this is the best idea anyone's ever had www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The 1930s truly was the golden age of sportswriting
May 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The 1930s truly was the golden age of sportswriting
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"They're eating the garlic, they're eating the olive oil, and some of them, I assume, are good baseball players"
May 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"They're eating the garlic, they're eating the olive oil, and some of them, I assume, are good baseball players"
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Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t get enough love for having very realistic parents who love their son but also are just constantly like for fucks sake. Plus they both look like they listen to podcasts. They are very podcast coded.
May 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t get enough love for having very realistic parents who love their son but also are just constantly like for fucks sake. Plus they both look like they listen to podcasts. They are very podcast coded.
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there's a small subset of people here who are driven mad whenever they aren't allowed to quote or reply to something. they think everything they see on their phone is their property and they just short-circuit. they'll bust through the floorboards to yell at you. it's really something to see
May 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
there's a small subset of people here who are driven mad whenever they aren't allowed to quote or reply to something. they think everything they see on their phone is their property and they just short-circuit. they'll bust through the floorboards to yell at you. it's really something to see
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Stop! It's magnolia time motherfuckers #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🌱
May 4, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Stop! It's magnolia time motherfuckers #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🌱
Corn ethanol is traaaash!
It continues to be one of the two worst subsidy programs in the Farm Bill and that's SAYING SOMETHING
It continues to be one of the two worst subsidy programs in the Farm Bill and that's SAYING SOMETHING
🌽🔆 Solar not corn ethanol?
A new study finds converting just 3.2% of US cropland now used for corn ethanol into “ecovoltaic” solar could triple national solar energy – while boosting biodiversity, water quality, and pollinator habitats.
🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#SciComm #EnergyTransition 🧪
A new study finds converting just 3.2% of US cropland now used for corn ethanol into “ecovoltaic” solar could triple national solar energy – while boosting biodiversity, water quality, and pollinator habitats.
🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#SciComm #EnergyTransition 🧪
Ecologically informed solar enables a sustainable energy transition in US croplands | PNAS
United States (US) croplands are ideal recipient environments for solar photovoltaic
(PV) energy because they are flat and have a high solar resour...
doi.org
May 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Corn ethanol is traaaash!
It continues to be one of the two worst subsidy programs in the Farm Bill and that's SAYING SOMETHING
It continues to be one of the two worst subsidy programs in the Farm Bill and that's SAYING SOMETHING
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Know that when RfK JR releases his autism vaccine report the media will cover it the same way.
May 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Know that when RfK JR releases his autism vaccine report the media will cover it the same way.
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When you think of money as "other people's labor", which it basically is, a lot of social institutions become very strange.
For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.
For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.
May 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When you think of money as "other people's labor", which it basically is, a lot of social institutions become very strange.
For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.
For example, did you know that you can inherit millions of hours of other people's labor? Why.
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But a 71 year-old boy who grew up so rich he never had to pay attention in science classes at any of the expensive boarding schools he was kicked out of for torturing animals doesn’t like the autism numbers — so now I guess we all have to get measles?
April 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
But a 71 year-old boy who grew up so rich he never had to pay attention in science classes at any of the expensive boarding schools he was kicked out of for torturing animals doesn’t like the autism numbers — so now I guess we all have to get measles?
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
A really bizarre - yet logical - consequence of remote work.
💻😞 Lonely workers more likely to cheat?
New research finds workplace loneliness fuels cheating by increasing emotional exhaustion – especially when no one’s watching.
Is this a hidden ethical risk of remote work?
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Workplace #Ethics 🧪
New research finds workplace loneliness fuels cheating by increasing emotional exhaustion – especially when no one’s watching.
Is this a hidden ethical risk of remote work?
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Workplace #Ethics 🧪
The ethical threat of loneliness: the impact of workplace loneliness on cheating behavior - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - The ethical threat of loneliness: the impact of workplace loneliness on cheating behavior
www.nature.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A really bizarre - yet logical - consequence of remote work.
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🔬♻️ Turning sewage sludge into food & fuel?
A new study turns sewage sludge into food & fuel. Using solar-power, it recovers 91.4% organic carbon, producing single-cell protein (food) & green hydrogen - cutting CO₂ emissions by 99.5% vs. anaerobic digestion.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study turns sewage sludge into food & fuel. Using solar-power, it recovers 91.4% organic carbon, producing single-cell protein (food) & green hydrogen - cutting CO₂ emissions by 99.5% vs. anaerobic digestion.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
#SciComm 🧪
Solar-driven sewage sludge electroreforming coupled with biological funnelling to cogenerate green food and hydrogen - Nature Water
The integrated process of mechanochemical fractionation-assisted and solar-driven electrochemical reforming, followed by biological funnelling, enables the efficient upcycling of sewage sludge. This p...
doi.org
March 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🔬♻️ Turning sewage sludge into food & fuel?
A new study turns sewage sludge into food & fuel. Using solar-power, it recovers 91.4% organic carbon, producing single-cell protein (food) & green hydrogen - cutting CO₂ emissions by 99.5% vs. anaerobic digestion.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
#SciComm 🧪
A new study turns sewage sludge into food & fuel. Using solar-power, it recovers 91.4% organic carbon, producing single-cell protein (food) & green hydrogen - cutting CO₂ emissions by 99.5% vs. anaerobic digestion.
🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
#SciComm 🧪
This may be the new dumbest thing that I've heard about that DOGE has interrupted. We're in a climate and ecological crisis. We need the genetic diveristy of these seed banks MORE THAN EVER and they were founded one hundred and thirty years ago!
Musk's war on government capacity threatens "irreversible losses of crop genetic diversity. Such losses directly undermine the United States’ ability to ensure continued food security and dietary diversity amid challenges to our agricultural systems." 😬
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This may be the new dumbest thing that I've heard about that DOGE has interrupted. We're in a climate and ecological crisis. We need the genetic diveristy of these seed banks MORE THAN EVER and they were founded one hundred and thirty years ago!
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Musk's war on government capacity threatens "irreversible losses of crop genetic diversity. Such losses directly undermine the United States’ ability to ensure continued food security and dietary diversity amid challenges to our agricultural systems." 😬
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Opinion | Why Did Elon Musk Go After Bunkers Full of Seeds? (Gift Article)
Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Musk's war on government capacity threatens "irreversible losses of crop genetic diversity. Such losses directly undermine the United States’ ability to ensure continued food security and dietary diversity amid challenges to our agricultural systems." 😬
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/o...
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Honestly?
This might sound like crank nonsense but I think a large part of why we're in this mess is we're all too willing to discuss issues without mentioning solutions.
It's why I never simply say "people cannot charge at apartments" - that's a political reality, not a practical one.
This might sound like crank nonsense but I think a large part of why we're in this mess is we're all too willing to discuss issues without mentioning solutions.
It's why I never simply say "people cannot charge at apartments" - that's a political reality, not a practical one.
March 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Honestly?
This might sound like crank nonsense but I think a large part of why we're in this mess is we're all too willing to discuss issues without mentioning solutions.
It's why I never simply say "people cannot charge at apartments" - that's a political reality, not a practical one.
This might sound like crank nonsense but I think a large part of why we're in this mess is we're all too willing to discuss issues without mentioning solutions.
It's why I never simply say "people cannot charge at apartments" - that's a political reality, not a practical one.
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I would actually strongly support adding Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore.
We live in a time of great stupidity, and we should thus be building monuments to our stupidity. Future generations will gaze upon these monuments with awe, and wonder how a civilization could have been THAT fucking dumb.
We live in a time of great stupidity, and we should thus be building monuments to our stupidity. Future generations will gaze upon these monuments with awe, and wonder how a civilization could have been THAT fucking dumb.
March 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I would actually strongly support adding Donald Trump to Mount Rushmore.
We live in a time of great stupidity, and we should thus be building monuments to our stupidity. Future generations will gaze upon these monuments with awe, and wonder how a civilization could have been THAT fucking dumb.
We live in a time of great stupidity, and we should thus be building monuments to our stupidity. Future generations will gaze upon these monuments with awe, and wonder how a civilization could have been THAT fucking dumb.
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alright so trump abolishes term limits, obama runs against him in response, the courts rule them both ineligible after the election, and the second runner-up wins the presidency. and THAT'S how we get president lincoln chafee. that makes sense, i just had to talk through it in order to get there
March 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
alright so trump abolishes term limits, obama runs against him in response, the courts rule them both ineligible after the election, and the second runner-up wins the presidency. and THAT'S how we get president lincoln chafee. that makes sense, i just had to talk through it in order to get there
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Here are some nice mushrooms
March 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Here are some nice mushrooms
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Do you feel the richest you've ever been?
On Piers Morgan Uncensored tonight
On Piers Morgan Uncensored tonight
February 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Do you feel the richest you've ever been?
On Piers Morgan Uncensored tonight
On Piers Morgan Uncensored tonight