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Wow....roaring storm hit suddenly just as I was finishing my last lap for the day!

This is a tantalizing suggestion of a behavior called "rescuing", which is a prosocial, altruistic act. They saw a member of the mischief in trouble & spent considerable energy helping them out. That suggests a theory of mind; a type of empathy for others. That's not unexpected in social animals.

By labelling all hijabi women as "victims" or "oppressed" Laura Secor is as complicit in legitimizing a war of aggression against Iran as anybody who supports bombing a country because women wear a dress you disapprove of. She has blood on her hands.

The real bonus of having a decent lap-sized pool in my apartment complex. I'm so grateful it is not a useless leisure pool but also suitable for serious swimmers wanting to do laps. After years of on/off swimming hampered by access issues, I'm now into it daily and angling to refine techniques.

Scientists discover human colonization of South America was more complicated than first thought www.science.org/content/arti...

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This oil painting, titled "L'heure du thé" or "Tea Time," was created in 2026 by Dutch artist Simeon Nijenhuis (b. 1969). He's known for his "Inside & Outside" series, where outdoor light reveals interior spaces.

Buy or build a nice modern house with cottage core interior aesthetic and a substantial estate to go with it. Build a greenhouse. Buy off town council and hire folks to grow native veggies/spices. Start a town restaurant with fresh cooked veg food supplied by my estate. Run the whole like a coop.

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Ooof....took me a long time to get through this (in bite-sized installments) given the length of the video (4 hours!!). It is the first one I've watched from this channel. The cinematography and narration is mesmerizing. The history is thorough and well-researched. Long videos but time well-spent!!

new publication Food diversification as an adaptation strategy to climate change: Habitat suitability for wild and cultivated food plants in the Brazilian Semiarid Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

One unintended consequence of this totally unnecessary war is that it could achieve what the Global Conference on Plastics couldn't achieve - a cessation of plastic production.

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Man....just listening to ultra-leftists on this site shit on other leftists as being centrists/right-wing if they don't totally agree with the most insane takes has me wanting to get the hell out of this bubble.

Laundry as art [📸 Helga Stentzel]

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I love the analysis in this channel!

Once the grand residences of Mughal-era nobility, the Indian capital's haveli homes now stand at a fragile crossroads -- a handful lovingly restored but many more sliding quietly into ruin u.afp.com/SLjv

Honestly. Racial capitalism is the anti-life equation www.motherjones.com/environment/...

server: doggy bag? me: yes please

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Other politicians doing ethnic politics: Just put on the green hat and walk in the parade, Bob. The fenians'll eat it up. Zohran Mamdani doing ethnic politics: Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine

"If solidarity has been so often withheld from the Irish, it has never been withheld by the Irish" Look, we were told there would be consequences to electing Mahmood Mamdani’s son, and

We’re terrible stewards of our planet.

The climate lobby has been trying to defeat the petrochemical industry for decades. are you saying that it had to come down to a destructive war that nobody wants, to accelerate the transition?

Tehran was already on the brink of running out of water. Now, even the rain is contaminated.

Presidential systems are not a bad idea actually. Because too much diversity of power can freeze decision-making in times of crisis. The lesson to be learned here is that elected presidents are only as good as the electorate. We need to focus on cleaning up and "re" educating the broader electorate.

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I will never understand the diaspora of Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. It takes a special kind of psychopathy to have the country you escaped to bomb your home country, see your own people get killed, rejoice in a celebration of "liberation" while nothing changes on the ground for your own people....🤯

The Sahel inverts every narrative we've ever been taught about how democracy is always good.

The survey found no single consensus on what system should replace the current order. A secular republic was backed by 26%, while 21% supported a monarchy, 22% lacked enough information to decide, and 11% said that the form of an alternative system was not important so long as change occurred.

How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels

This is the best question I have heard asked. I wonder why not many are working on this?

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

Conspiracy lovers and opportunistic politicians, with some wealthy folks working behind the scenes, have been trying REALLY hard to make us scared of the simple idea of having more things nearby, and more choices in how to get them. Weird, right? #UrbanTruth

Really digging this channel btw....

V-Dem is a very flawed survey with subjective reporting. I think Salvatore Babones does an excellent job of unpacking the flawed assumptions of Western intellectuals on India. Its tiring when folks force-fit Anglo-colonial racial hierarchy system onto India and only see what they want to see.

The only way folks could survive in the country is by forming sizable landed cooperatives for grain crops like wheat, rice, corn etc. while also having a family garden for fruits/veggies/spices, while other cooperatives engage in medieval style processing in the absence of fuel. Then trade locally.