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Airdrops are just staged shows to numb already numbed peoples…

What’s happening right now is a deliberate flood of images showing trucks at the crossings — a scene designed to numb us. The U.S. regime has coordinated with Israel to amplify this media presence…

Medium

Behind the ballistics of the explosive squirting cucumber https://phys.org/news/2025-07-ballistics-explosive-squirting-cucumber.html

"To reduce direct competition for space and resources between parent and offspring #plants, there is an evolutionary drive for plants to disperse their seeds as far as they possibly can... the #SquirtingCucumber uses high-pressure explosions to eject its #seeds at high speed across large distances... the seeds can achieve speeds up to 46 km/h and reach shooting distances up to 12 m"

It has been a while... so have some ants!

I believe these are Red Harvester Ants taken near Lake Hefner in Oklahoma

#Ants #Insects #Pogonomyrmex #barbatus #Oklahoma #Formicidae #Photography #Nature #Harvester

“Humans are exceedingly bad at exercising restraint and simply not doing things. Rather than drastically reducing consumption, travel, recreation, and development—things that take real personal and political sacrifice but create space for other species to exist—we put an enormous amount of effort into developing technologies that enable us to continue with business as usual or at least provide a veil of plausible deniability regarding our impact on the world.” https://wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/wilderness-and-the-value-of-doing
Wilderness and the value of doing nothing

By Dana Johnson, Wilderness Watch

Wilderness Watch

I think some people don't seem to understand how big Visa and Mastercard are and how much power they wield over people all over the world.

And especially how much control they wield over online payment transactions.

[ i swear to goddess if you get in my mentions with "this is why bitcoin is the future" or something to that effect, I *will* block you. ]

Thinking about the Leonardo da Vinci doodle page of 27 cats and 1 dragon
oh, you asked an LLM? well we posted an offhand question on mastodon and an autistic cat-type entity infodumped to us about it

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

Globe & Mail: Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-wikipedia-page-editors/

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia

Wikipedia editors, the internet’s nerdy unsung heroes, keep the website one of the last best places online

Free of ads and profit-seeking corporate overlords, and maintained by dedicated volunteers, Wikipedia has consistently ranked as one of the top 10 most visited websites worldwide

The Globe and Mail

Dilman Dila is an award-winning independent Ugandan film-maker doing short videos often with sci-fi or fantasy elements. You can follow his video account at:

➡️ @dilmandila@video.ploud.jp

There are already many short films and other videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://video.ploud.jp/a/dilmandila/videos

You can also follow Dila's general non-video account at @dilmandila

#FeaturedPeerTube #FilmMaking #SciFi #ShortFilms #Uganda #Africa #AfricanCinema #PeerTube #PeerTubers

Dilman Dila

Dilman Dila is a Ugandan writer and filmmaker of science fiction stories. He has been shortlisted for the BSFA Awards (2021), the Nommo Awards (2022), and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2013),...

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We made a comic about a mayfly.
@lowqualityfacts that thing is way too effing cute to be a mayfly
@lowqualityfacts After hatching, mayflies live for months or even years in their larval stage before molting into adults. This mayfly is just a malcontent.
@lowqualityfacts I'm feeling the need to "Well Actually"... But I won't... This is very low quality...