Mastodawn

Dr Susi Arnott 5d ago

Ironically, can't find a date on this - but what a stirring read! IT and #LifeOnEarth - a personal history of #ispot
https://jonathansilvertown.com/blog/ispot

A personal history of iSpot -Jonathan Silvertown

iSpotnature.org, a pioneer in crowdsourcing the identification of species, has closed after 18y. I reflect on what we achieved and learned and where we failed.

Jonathan Silvertown

Ray Baptist Jun 12

Punaraagman, Syed Haider Raza, 2011

Colors are so good. Seems like life on earth. The paint is applied in a sort of threadbare way which I think adds (subtracts?) or transmits something. Essential, spiritual, without excess, something like that. Vital but tenuous.

#art #abstract #india #lifeOnEarth #essence #color #design #combination #quilt #vital #tenuous

DoomsdaysCW May 22

Companies join a #DeepSeaMining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits

Trump’s order suggests the U.S. will decide for itself when to mine the global seabed, reversing the decision of previous administrations to honor the seabed authority’s rules.

By HELEN WIEFFERING
Updated 3:11 PM UTC, May 22, 2026

WASHINGTON (AP) — "In the year since President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to create a deep-sea mining industry from scratch, businesses have raised millions of dollars from investors, stock prices have soared and federal regulators have raced to fast-track a permitting process.

"At least nine companies are in talks with the government for access to seabed minerals, according to an Associated Press review. Sections of the seafloor from #AmericanSamoa to #Alaska could be auctioned for offshore mining this summer and through the fall.

All the action suggests the U.S. may soon give the green light for companies to commercially mine the seabed — something that’s never been done in international waters.

"But a close look at some of the companies involved reveals uncertain track records and histories spattered with legal disputes, while major questions about how the minerals would be processed and refined remain unanswered. Watchers of the nascent industry are skeptical the promised riches will ever materialize."

Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/trump-deepsea-mining-executive-orders-oceans-environment-399faab6fc32922b4c533d3bad9c1ca5

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/MGqWh

#USPol #DeepSeaLife #OceansAreLife
#WorldPol #NoDeepSeaMining
#RecycleMetals #TrumpSucks #DeepSeaMiningMoratorium
#OxygenSource #Extinction
#PlanetEarth #LockheedMartin
#TheMetalsCompany #DeepSeaMineralsCorp #Allseas
#DeepSeaRareMinerals #BOEM #LifeOnEarth #Ecocide #PlanetDestroyers #HumanGreed #NoisePollution #SedimentPlumes #RecycleNickel #RecycleCobalt

Trump's deep-sea mining push: Investors raise millions as stock prices soar

Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions from investors, and stock prices have soared. At least nine companies are in talks with the government for access to seabed minerals. Sections of the seafloor from American Samoa to Alaska could be auctioned for offshore mining this summer and through the fall. But a close look at some of the companies involved reveals uncertain track records and histories spattered with legal disputes, while major questions about how the minerals would be processed and refined remain unanswered.

AP News

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 11

today is #MothersDay. i remember when THING1 kicked me hard enough for me to reckon, OMG A HUMAN IS INSIDE ME.

to this day, i admit i became a mother because i see motherhood as my own “Mutual of Omaha, Wild Kingdom”. my babies were my portal to living in my own human zoo (shoutout to Desmond Morris).

yeah. am a dork.

the thing is, the more i learned to see us as apes, the more i understood how powerful empathy is, especially in motherhood.

gorillas made me a better mom.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 10

the 1970s were so full of scientific hope in popular culture. we had Jaques Cousteau, David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, Diane Fosse, Jane Goddall. it feels like it was a loooong time ago.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 10

David Attenborough is the secular St Francis of Assissi

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 10

d’awww the baby gorillas are sitting on David. i remember how people were totally freaked out that they were able to record that.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 10

d’awwwwww Diane Fosse

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 10

so they were the first team to ever record a full pride of lions hunting?!?!? it’s not only because it happened over a few days, but it was because the lionesses were using their Land Rover as cover from the wildebeest they eventually attacked.

lionesses getting shit done with human tech.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦May 10

ewwwww …frogs… #LifeOnEarth