Looks like no part of a body is free of bacteria: Wild and lab-grown members of the salmon family including European rainbow trout, Chinook salmon and Gila trout harbor active microbial communities inside their brains, #nature #bacteria #fish https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fish-brain-bacteria

Nothing is sacred, nor is your anonymity: **deanonymize #Tor ** by tapping servers, for years and doing "timing analysis". https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/panorama/tor-netzwerk-100.html

Brain-infecting parasite found in two L.A. County residents: What to know about ‘racoon roundworm’, #disease #health #zoonosis #California #SoCal #racoons https://archive.ph/jdn5V

Hydraulic failure in tropical environments is expected to increase as weather patterns change and temperatures rise. Hydraulic failure occurs when more water is lost from transpiration than is taken in through the roots. If uncorrected, the xylem loses conductivity and the plant will not survive. #climatechange #adaptation #water https://phys.org/news/2024-09-tropical-hydraulic-failure.html

Traces of cocaine discovered in mummified brain tissue reveal that Europeans were chewing coca leaves — possibly for medical or recreational purposes — in the 17th century, two centuries before the earliest known documented use of the New World plant in the Old World, a new study finds. #history #drugs #mummies https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/cocaine-found-in-mummified-brains-reveal-that-new-world-drug-came-to-italy-200-years-earlier-than-thought

The smell of burnt marijuana is no longer grounds to search a vehicle, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court noted in its ruling that since marijuana is legal in the state, and that there are a myriad of legal uses for the substance, the aroma of the burnt drug is not enough to justify a search. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/09/19/burnt-canabis-odor-insufficient-for-vehicle-search/1991726779917/

Felines Not Felons yard political sign. #politics #TFG

#darkhumor #Lebanon #Hezbolla #hack #israel

What's old is new. Remember old buildings where the store was on ground floor and people lived on floors above?

Imagine working at this Costco and living in these apartments and not having to go far to get your groceries. Costco store with 800 apartment units to break ground in South LA this week. https://abc7.com/post/costco-store-800-apartment-units-break-ground-south-los-angeles/15313168/

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It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's an f'ng Ukrainian drone...as it strikes Russian ammunitions depot. #Ukraine #Russia

I started seeing the "exploding pagers" in Lebanon stories and initially thought it was a @TheOnion headline. JFC Israeli #hack #security hack.https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-820536

@TheKiffness makes it to the Billboard Charts 2/x

#InNewsoftheAbsurd @TheKiffness makes it to the Billboard Charts. 1/x

Klamath River #Restoration: first year of revegetation following the removal of four #dams along the Klamath River, part of the world’s largest salmon restoration project. #water #nature https://vimeo.com/1008121374

Diddy Arrested and Taken Into Federal Custody in New York. https://www.tmz.com/2024/09/16/diddy-taken-into-custody-arrested-new-york-feds/

When a business sets the rules, enforces the rules, and allows you to be pardoned when you break the rules it does so to maintain its relevance and existence. Institutional #Religion wants to be the only "true" provenance of morality, spirituality, and comfort. Your continued participation props its existence. Mind you, religion is a human concept and thus corruptible, finicky, immoral, and everything other human quality you can think of...