Orcas have sunk three fishing boats in Europe and apparently are teaching other orcas to do the same. https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why
Cloudburst: Why good clouds go down https://silverliningsinfo.com/multi-cloud/cloudburst-why-good-clouds-go-down by @sjvn
Here is my list of the most common reasons #clouds fail, including, of course, the deadly fiber-seeking backhoe.
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Goodnight all. It is true that there are difficult, hateful, even “deplorable” people in our society. Perhaps you know some of them. Our God loves each and every one of them as his beloved children. But you should really stop voting for them, because they make our country as mean as they are. The Lord bless you and keep you!
There's a lot of truth in this title.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence-automated-mansplaining-machine
Comic by Rosemary Mosco & Climate Adam.
https://elk.zone/hachyderm.io/@torb@octodon.social/110326563558570278
Before I go.
When the country chose not to do anything about guns after Sandy Hook, that was it. There is nothing more horrific than what happened there. And that wasn’t enough.
Get used to it. Or actually do something to change it. Vote. Run for office. Organize.
Outrage on social media does fuck all.
Love you, mean it.
This month in 1962 — THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW debuted on Saturday mornings on ABC.
A primetime version also ran 1960-62, but the Saturday show became the longest, continuously-running morning children's program in network TV history.
#LooneyTunes #BugsBunny #WB100 #ClassicCartoons #ClassicTV #Nostalgia
As always Fresh Air &Terry Gross deliver w/guest Gretchen Morgenson per her latest book “ "These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs - And Wrecks - America." written w/her co-author Joshua Rosner.
We’ve known about Private Equity Firms for sometime, but this interview & book will help many ppl understand them better. Basically they are and have been rot. And deserve massive sustained public shaming and hard nosed regulations.
Important listening & reading.
an old sailor living on an island in the Salish Sea. recovering nihilistic technofetishist