oops: #Hunters reap their just rewards after eating Chronic Wasting Disease-Infected Venison

#GoVegan #CWD #diease #cervids #deer🦌 #meat🥩 #USA🇺🇸 #PublicHealth🛟 https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/study-hunters-die-after-consuming-cwd-infected-venison/ar-BB1lNvEl

We Must Fight for a Better America. We Have No Choice.

our problem isn’t “polarization.” our problem is white supremacy.

#WhiteSupremacy #racism #bigotry #BlackLivesMatter https://newrepublic.com/article/168881/must-fight-better-america-no-choice

rare good news

Mariska Hargitay, Dressed in Her SVU Gear, Mistaken for Real-Life Police Officer By Young Girl Looking for Her Mom

#LawAndOrderSVU #TVseries https://people.com/mariska-hargitay-mistaken-for-real-life-police-officer-by-young-girl-on-svu-set-8634829

"balance" is "bullshit💩": When the #news📰 is "balanced" in an unbalanced world, it becomes an instrument of deception, mass delusions & hyper-polarization

Why We Need #Press🗞️ Objectivity, Not Balance

#FactsMatter #MSM #Media #journalism #JournalismMatters https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/why-we-need-press-objectivity-not

it is always MUCH more EXPENSIVE to clean up messes & fix broken things than it is to JUST NOT DESTROY THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE

(this delusion violates the 2nd law of thermodynamics, by the way)

#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateFinance https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/climate-damages-by-2050-will-be-6-times-the-cost-of-limiting-warming-to-2/

the WHO sounds alarm over human cases of bird flu, says ‘looking for new hosts’

The World Health Organization said that A (H5N1) strain has become "a global zoonotic animal pandemic"

#pandemic #zoonotic #H5N1 #BirdFlu #virus🦠 #animals #PublicHealth🛟 https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/human-cases-of-bird-flu-an-enormous-concern-who-101713435339252.html

no seriously, you lazy loozers: all you have to do to become obscenely wealthy is to work harder!

#wealth💰 #economics #greed #grift

interesting argument

Deepfake porn: why we need to make it a crime to create it, not just share it

#DeepFake #Porn #crime #women #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #ViolenceAgainstWomen https://theconversation.com/deepfake-porn-why-we-need-to-make-it-a-crime-to-create-it-not-just-share-it-227177

wow, look what just arrived: The Vanishing Mew Gull: A Guide to the Bird Names of the Western Palaearctic By Ray Reedman

#books📚💙 #BooksToRead #birds🦉 #birding🦜 #ornithology🪶 #name https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/the-vanishing-mew-gull

i've shared this before, but good news is always worth repeating

Finland🇫🇮 ends homelessness & provides shelter for all in need

#poverty💰 #homelessness #shelter #Finland #GoodNews https://thebetter.news/housing-first-finland-homelessness/

by mike luckovich

#politics #SocialCommentary #PutinsPuppets

Number of dead #sawfish soars to 40 as reports of spinning fish continue to roll in

#Scientists don't know what's causing critically #endangered sawfish to thrash & die, or what's causing more than 70 #fish🐟 species to spin & act erratically"

#FloridaKeys https://www.local10.com/news/local/2024/04/17/number-of-dead-sawfish-soars-to-40-as-reports-of-spinning-fish-continue-to-roll-in/

do you murder your own meat? now might be the time to stop doing that!

#hunting #venison🥩 #deer #cervids🦌 #USA🇺🇸 #GoVegan #ChronicIllness #WastingDisease #zoonotics🦠 #PublicHealth🛟 https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/occurrence.html

now would be a really REALLY good time to #GoVegan🌱 -- and do your own #PlantBased #cooking too!

#food🥘 #HealthyFood #HomeCookingvsFastFood #HomeCooking🍽️ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-021-00392-8

Who the US #economic safety net💰 leaves behind

HALF of those living in deep #poverty are working age #childless adults. They comprise 70% of the #homeless population, simply because they don't have a kid to warrant them being seen as deserving of help

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/17/poverty-adults-no-kids-economic-safety-net

Biodiversity Is Nature’s ‘Magic’ That Improves Peoples’ Mental Health, study out of King's College London, published by Scientific Reports

by @grrlscientist

#nature #biodiversity🪶 #ecotherapy #MentalHealth👩‍⚕️ #psychology #SciComm🧪 https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/04/17/biodiversity-is-natures-magic-that-improves-peoples-mental-health/

Four In Five Bird Species Cannot Tolerate Intense Human Pressures, out of Aarhus University, published by Global Ecology and Biogeography

by @grrlscientist

#birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #biodiversity #conservation🌍 #habitat https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2024/04/16/four-in-five-bird-species-cannot-tolerate-intense-human-pressures/

d00d, #GoVegan!

The scientific enterprise continues to be questioned when ideas are revised in light of new data. To most #scientists, this is a natural part of #science that we take it for granted. #Journalists need to do a better job of saying "this is what we know now."

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp7153

oldie but goodie

How Snobbery Helped Take The Spices Out Of European Cooking

#spices #snobbery #Cooking #food https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/26/394339284/how-snobbery-helped-take-the-spice-out-of-european-cooking