#PhantomsFriday The Japanese say you should read/watch ghost stories in summer--the chill will be as good as a fan. The ghost of Oiwa appears to her husband, who poisoned her, in the form of a traditional Japanese lantern. He goes mad, of course. Netsuke, Tomotada, late 19th c, Bonhams

Global mangrove coverage increased by ~5,000 hectares between 2020 and 2025, a rare trend reversal for a key carbon sink. Why it matters: 👉Protects coastlines from storms 👉Supports fisheries & biodiversity 👉4x more carbon stored per hectare than many tropical forests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All billionaires are bad but it sure seems like women ones are at least kinda doing the philanthropic thing that the rich love to advertise. Without the private island pedophilia on the side.

After the UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing — but before the arrest of the man accused of killing him — informants lit up the law enforcement tip line with harrowing accounts of people who believed they’d been wronged by the industry, according to two former detectives with the NYPD.

This might be the best video ever

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

Jupiter (above) and Venus (below) appear closer together every day. Keep watching, if you can. On Tuesday, June 9, they'll be in conjunction (at their closest during this crossing of paths on the sky).

Maybe we could even make it a prerequisite that you have to BUILD UP TO SOMETHING FIRST by working in the PUBLIC SERVICE area of life. Something involving every day people IN THE REAL WORLD

omg lol

Been really enjoying Hunter the last couple days

Gamers™️ now hate a series for switching from a male protagonist to a female (God of War) Gamers™️ are super excited about a sequel that switches from a female protagonist to a male (Control) I don't think it's "Woke" that they hate...🤔

Flippernails?!

Somebody continues to buy her hilarious tee shirts 🤣

In 2025, the USDA cancelled its research on food security, saying “These redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear monger”. A New York survey just reported that there are now more people who can’t feed their families than there were at the worst of COVID19.

I was told the odds of finding this were slim. I said “Never tell me the odds.” At long last, I’ve secured a case of the good stuff. Harrison Ford x Glenmorangie collab Scotch Whiskey!

Friday timeline cleanse: Fiver loves spinach. If he hears the packaging he comes running for his leafs.

Chocolate X-Cake - Dessert "burger" made from cake buns, chocolate and vanilla brigadeiro filling, strawberries, and sprinkles Estimated 2000 calories R$ 37 @ Santi Dolce Artisanal Confectioners, Barra Velha, Santa Catarina, Brazil

First clip from ‘SUPERGIRL’, starring Milly Alcock and David Corenswet. (Source: @ComicBook)

After he ran out of oxygen, Dawa Sherpa spent six days hauling himself down Mt Everest through crevasses & avalanches, the 1st person to survive an accident at 7,500 meters alone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anemia is LATE STAGE iron deficiency. Our bodies preferentially use iron to make red blood cells over everything else so all these other functions are affected before your hemoglobin drops.

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The reason(s) it takes California so long to tally all the votes, you fucking parasite 🦠, is because there are a LOT of voters in the state, we wait until ALL the mail in ballots come in and it’s YOUR Federal Postal Service that slows that down… @**hole‼️ More explanation in the next post if needed…

My god he sprayed his stank on every inch

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Hunter is back, baybeee

Japan's Diet leadership will present a proposal on June 8 to revise the Imperial House Law, keeping succession limited to men of the male line (which PM Takaichi Sanae supports). However, polls show support for an "Empress Aiko" is more durable than support for Takaichi herself.

Rubio Suggests U.S. Return to Global Vaccine Program in Rebuke of Kennedy www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u... via @sherylnyt.bsky.social @snolen.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Walking along the banks of a river in Vermont a hundred years ago, you’d likely find yourself looking up at towering American elm trees. About 50 years ago, Dutch elm disease wiped out most of these trees. And now, scientists want to use these survivor trees to bring American elms back.

NEWS: The House has passed the Ukraine Support Act, 226-195, to provide new military aid to Ukraine and impose tougher sanctions on Russia. The bill advanced through a discharge petition despite Speaker Mike Johnson's efforts to block a vote.

Not only are Senate Republicans trying to give BILLIONS of more dollars to ICE for mass deportations… They just tried squeezing in their SAVE America Act too. Luckily, Democrats defeated it.

"Level four of the Obama Presidential Center includes a replica of the Oval Office"

If you want to know about the wealth gap in this country there are countless videos on the internet about how people can’t pay their bills, are running up credit cards, running out of food And then there’s articles like these 🙄

Gotta say this headline from AmericaToday cheered me. "The (Economist/YouGov) poll found the U.S.-born Pope Leo had the highest net favorability rating of a group of public figures they polled at plus-37 percentage points. Trump had a minus-17 rating, a difference of 54 percentage points."

🚨 BREAKING: Republicans have introduced a new REAL ID bill that could help them revive parts of the anti-voting SAVE America Act and bypass the Senate. The SAVE America Act may be stalled, but the GOP’s push to make voting harder isn’t.

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

A woman being the lead in a game is not an agenda. The meltdown over it is. She can carry the sword. She can carry the story. She can carry the grief, the rage, the hope, the whole damn world. Games didn’t stop being for you. They just stopped being only for you.

Grasping every bit of good news & giving it a big ol' kiss on the lips.

No surprise these two would become instant best friends. #MayTheGrouchBeWithYou

There isn’t a shred of evidence for this nonsense claim. Not one. It’s made up. He just lies.

Feeling down on humanity? Well the shelter where I volunteer ran low on dogfood and we put out the word on FB and we had trucks lining up to unload all the food people donated. We got way more than we can use. This am I drove this huge load over to a shelter a coupla counties over. #dogsifbluesky

Pssst: We bumped the video upload limit from 100MB to 300MB to make posting bigger videos easier.

I am confident that the LEGO Sagrada Família would fix me. Never have I been more confident of anything in my life.

Suddenly wondered if Gary Ridgeway is still alive, and he is, but a few months ago he was in end-of-life hospice care

RIP Spaghettios. Spagetthiewwws amirite

As someone who regularly criticizes crime reporting, I want to highlight the good stuff when it happens. Like this. No equivocating in the post. Headline is clear. First paragraph blunt. Doesn’t quote the admin until paras 12-13, and explicitly notes that it’s evidence-free blather.

I keep being reminded of this question and answer: "What is the problem that AI services are being built to solve?" "Wages."

We know of a man who was caught publishing dozens of AI-generated articles in academic journals. The journal that caught him pursued a ban not only from that journal but also from all journals by that publisher. This is a major crisis and it seems the consequences will be severe.

It’s true, screwworms can infect humans, though it’s rare. That said, even hearing about someone experiencing this symptom makes me want to run screaming indoors forever: “Feeling maggots (larvae) move or seeing maggots within a skin wound or sore, or in the ears, nose, eyes, or mouth”.

🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.