FAO have just released a report on plastic and food contact materials, and finds that recycled plastics are associated with higher levels of chemical migration into foods to me, this underlines the limits of a 'circular economy' and the need to reduce plastics + shift to reuse models

“Forever Plastics” a poem by Ronald Carson, was published today, 10 May 2026, in Poem-a-Day, by the Academy of American Poets. It starts: “We were the dream of convenience, the permanent press. We were the yogurt cup you spooned empty at dawn, the blister-pack popped for a single white pill, …

Why did Trump pardon drug trafficker and Honduran president Juan Hernández? According to leaked audio tapes, it was an initial payment in part of a agreement between Trump, Bibi, and others to take down Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum. english.elpais.com/internationa...

Maddow: How is Jared Kushner's role in the U.S. attacking Iran not more of a show-stopping scandal?

Hey Professors! Grammarly is using author name and writing likeness without permission, and there's a decent chance they'll start doing it for us, too. Here's how to opt out (below). But where is the class action lawsuit? www.theverge.com/tech/891822/...

My cat sleeps all day and then keeps me awake all night so this gave me a good laugh. Credit - @dagnylill on Instagram

Ihr interessiert euch für modulare Kernreaktoren? Das Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung ist hier richtig gut aufgestellt, u.a. mit Fachgutachten: www.base.bund.de/de/nukleare-...

Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862

🍿 New episode with @magnuslovold.bsky.social - grab the popcorn and listen 🎧 #plasticstreaty nerds! m.soundcloud.com/plastisphere...

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

»The thing is, a world before plastic is within living memory, and returning to aspects of it is hardly like going back to the stone age. “You only have to look back to our grandparents’ time, or even our parents’ time. We can use much less plastic without using no plastic«

Some test results available in this report by Austrian public broadcaster ORF: Temu’s “Enjoy Music“ headphones really bad, but also Sennheiser’s Accentum: #fail due to chemicals Positive: AirPods Max (2024) and AirPods Pro 2 help.orf.at/stories/3232...

What a creepy, creepy speech. #rubio #munich

Girls don’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day. They want you to reauthorize the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions ⛽️ ☠️ 💙 🌎

💕Let‘s go #PRUEF! Heute. Wer kommt mit? „Alle Parteien, die vom Verfassungsschutz als rechtsextremer Verdachtsfall oder gesichert rechtsextrem eingestuft werden, sollen durch das Bundesverfassungsgericht überprüft werden.“ pruef-demos.de #demokratie

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of the infamous #Lawyercat video, which I posted roughly thirty minutes after the start of the second impeachment trial. Who would have thought it would have such a lasting impact on the world! Happy Lawyercat Day for all who celebrate!

Happy #Lawyercat Anniversary for all who celebrate! It's been four years since the kitten appeared in my Zoom courtroom, and I released the 48 second video that made the whole world laugh. Here is the full video showing the big reveal at the end (in two parts because Blue sky). Enjoy!

Der #Rhein gilt als sauber. Doch im Wasser schwimmen Zehntausende #Chemikalien, bei vielen kennt niemand die Wirkung. Grenzwerte gelten oft nur für Bekanntes. Was heißt das fürs #Trinkwasser von Millionen?

📣 The new Chair leading #PlasticsTreaty talks has been elected: Julio Cordano of Chile. @enb.iisd.org’s Noémie Laurens breaks down the three main issues that the new Chair will have to face this year at INC 5.4. 👇

🎉 After 8 hours, a new INC chair for the global #PlasticsTreaty negotiations has been elected in two secret ballots: Julio Cordano from Chile! 🙏 Thanks to Johanna Lissinger-Peitz (Sweden), who chaired this session super-well! 🤞Let’s hope it will make a difference!

The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste, and Pollution ended in paralysis. Obstruction and geopolitics blocked agreement on basic rules needed for the Panel to function. Read our full statement 👇 www.ciel.org/news/isp-cwp...

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

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I’m the only one at this 3:25 showing of Melania so I asked the usher if I can smoke and he said go ahead.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Hope m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

„Mich interessiert an der Macht, es zu schaffen, dass Menschen nach eigenem Nachdenken und Überlegen freiwillig gemeinsam handeln", sagt Gesine Schwan im Gespräch mit Maja Göpel.

„Friedrich Merz möge den Mund jetzt bitte so weit aufreißen wie im Wahlkampf, als er um jeden Preis ins Kanzleramt wollte. ... wenn er und die anderen EU Regierungschefs nicht zusammenstehen gegen die Autoritären, sind auch wir bald nur noch "ein Stück von Europa"." www.stern.de/gesellschaft...

Important long-read on chemical ”recycling“, how the results are bent and why this amounts to greenwashing. #recycling #plastic #plastics #plasticpollution #greenwashing voxeurop.eu/en/ghost-rec...

Ein Land, das öffentlich Menschen hinrichtet, kann keine Fußball-WM ausrichten. #WMBoykottjetzt www.zdfheute.de/panorama/deu...

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

All I wanted was to eat my lettuce. Emu’s Taz, Graham & Stanley had other ideas

Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon was born #OTD in 1956. Solomon, working with colleagues at NOAA, proposed/confirmed the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole, chlorofluorocarbons. She led the Nat'l Ozone Expedition to Antarctica to collect evidence & was the only woman on the team. #WomenInSTEM (1/2)

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

Wie ist die Lage im Iran, nachdem die Zahlen der getöteten Protestierenden jeden Tag steigen. Versuch einer Beschreibung am 18.1.2026 im ARD Presseclub.

Quellen www.t-online.de/nachrichten/... www.newsroom.de/news/aktuell... www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/sp...

#plastics resource.co/article/comm...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

It’s Saturday toast time for our sheep. Will Squirrel share?

That´s the Spirit youtu.be/hS0wFiWpU4U?...

plan 2026: einen topf minze kaufen, sich davon überwuchern lassen

Come, citizens of Greenland! In return for a one-time payment of $100k you too can have no health insurance, be murdered in the street by federal troops, and have no voice in federal politics! It's a lose-lose-lose proposition.

public understanding of science depends on dialogue about current knowledge (and its limits) However, given that corporations have spent decades manufacturing doubt about the harms of their products, I find it concerning that the claims of a lifelong chemist at Dow seem to be accepted at face value

Media executives around the world are gloomy about the state of the business at large — but a little more than half are optimistic about their *own* news businesses, a new report from @reutersinstitute.bsky.social finds. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/publ...

🌟 #GoodNews in der EU-Chemikalienpolitik 2025 🌟 2026 ist da und bereits in vollem Gange! Trotzdem möchten wir noch einmal kurz auf das vergangene Jahr und die größten Fortschritte in der #Chemikalienpolitik in Europa zurückblicken: ➡️ chemtrust.org/de/good-news...

NO TO SINGLE-USE! 🥤🥡 Single-use items represent a massive design failure, creating a legacy of pollution that recycling alone cannot fix. #ChooseReuse! What's one thing you do to avoid single-use? Share it in the comments! #BreakFreeFromPlastic #RefuseSingleUse

Warum nicht statt Socken gleich Pest und Cholera verschenken dieses Jahr? Hier könnt ihr für den Audio-Fan in eurem Leben ganz einfach ein Geschenkabo für Pandemia abschließen (das nach einem Jahr automatisch endet). Das Beste: Ihr helft uns damit 2026 weiterzumachen steady.page/de/pandemia/...