Matty Ice

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"If this sort of censorship was being threatened by debt-ridden students rather than actually carried out by powerful institutions acting in solidarity with a nuclear state killing thousands of civilians, it would be catnip for the Ben Shapiros of the world.

Instead, with a few exceptions, these once loud and incessant free speech defenders have bowed their heads and fallen silent. In [many] cases they’ve been actively complicit in the reprisals." https://www.webworm.co/p/biggesthypocrites

The World’s Biggest Hypocrites?

Free speech is actually under threat - and our loudest free speech warriors are nowhere to be found.

Webworm with David Farrier
CNBC, owned by Comcast, is marking the #cop28 talks by shutting down its climate desk and firing the reporters. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/catclifford_for-13-years-running-i-have-continued-a-activity-7132409726738276355-pITl/
#climate
Catherine Clifford on LinkedIn: For 13 years running, I have continued a tradition with and for myself… | 73 comments

For 13 years running, I have continued a tradition with and for myself where I pick a country I have never been to before and travel there alone on my… | 73 comments on LinkedIn

#Plastic probably shouldn't be used to store anything (with moisture) that you plan on ingesting:
"he filled the storage vessels with water and 3% acetic acid to mimic the aqueous and acidic foods they might reasonably contain in real life. After storing the containers in the fridge or at room temp for 10 days, the team found millions to billions of microplastics & nanoplastics in the liquids.

Microwaving the containers accelerated the process by an alarming magnitude."
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/can-you-put-plastic-in-the-microwave

Can You Put Plastic in the Microwave?

According to experts, storing food in plastic containers is bad and microwaving food in plastic containers is even worse. Here’s why.

Bon Appétit

🤦🏻‍♀️”Federal regulators have approved the expansion of a natural #gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top officials in West Coast states.

The project, known as GTN Xpress, aims to expand capacity of Gas Transmission Northwest pipeline, which runs through Idaho, Washington and Oregon, by about 150 million cubic feet (4.2 million cubic meters) of natural gas per day” #ClimateCrisis
https://apnews.com/article/natural-gas-pipeline-pacific-northwest-5e9c79c412b407ddc9bcb21c1ff8ee26?taid=65315e769c11a80001eeff59&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

Feds OK natural gas pipeline expansion in Pacific Northwest

Federal regulators have approved the expansion of a natural gas pipeline in the Pacific Northwest over the protest of environmental groups and top West Coast officials. The project aims to expand the capacity of the Gas Transmission Northwest pipeline by about 150 million cubic feet of natural gas per day. The pipeline runs more than 1,300 miles through Idaho, Washington and Oregon. The owner of the pipeline, TC Energy, says the project is needed due to growing demand. It’s opposed by environmental groups and officials including U.S. senators, governors and attorneys general from Washington, Oregon and California. Those officials say the pipeline expansion would undermine their states’ climate goals to reduce emissions.

AP News

I've started to believe that as a species, a thing we're going to do every year for the next N years is a cycle where

in March and April, we identify a COVID variant which is about to blow up and develop a vaccine,

in June through August we have a massive "wave" of that exact COVID variant, and then

in September or October the booster for the summer-wave variant which has, by that point, mostly passed through the population exits testing and becomes available for actual vaxxing.

They played a teaser for the Barbie movie before Avatar and people lost their minds. Not sure I’ve seen a teaser/trailer get a full round of applause like that before.
When doing nothing all day is just TOO exhausting https://mastodon.social/media/AKuljTEbhVWTGZKKiks