Mastodawn

What perverse karma is it that #climatechange is expanding the range of a tick named after Texas and causing people to lose the ability to eat BBQ?

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/06/as-lone-star-ticks-move-north-red-meat-allergies-are-on-the-rise/

As lone star ticks move north, red meat allergies are on the rise

Its bites can trigger an immune response to red meat.

Yale Climate Connections

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago

mycorrhiza 5d ago

As a matter of fact, no, I don’t think I need to engage in any discussion on the technical capabilities of a fundamentally unethical technology.

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago

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mycorrhiza 5d ago

“You have to admi—”

No. I don’t have to admit shit until you admit that hastening the climate apocalypse so that you can produce code and text faster is THE DUMBEST POSSIBLE THING, regardless of the quality of that code and text (which remains sub-par).

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago

Pauline von Hellermann 6d ago

#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.

Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”

(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)

This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116800140951369519

Man, I'm glad I moved away from them after the last (or last-last, or last-last-last, or...) time this happened...

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"5d ago

I feel like it's my duty as an elder to point out for those who don't remember or weren't alive yet, that a season of TV used to have upwards of 20 to 30 individual episodes in it. A typical television show would release a brand spanking new episode every single week from the fall all the way through to the following spring, without fail. This was real. This was normal. They stole this from you.

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"5d ago

So in the end did Trump's war with Iran help people? No. But did it at least make Americans safer? No. Ah, but was it at least popular? No. But did it at least reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Also no. But did it at least drive gas prices down? No. But did we at least get out without any American casualties? No. But did we at least prove our military superiority? No. But was the end of the war at least a diplomatic success? No. But was it at least good for his own base? No. But did it at least help him personally by distracting everyone from the Epstein files? No. But did he at least condemn the war? No. But did he at least refrain from actively praising the war? No. But is the economy good now? Hell no. But di...

Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran

5d ago