thank god it was a White* man doing a cry for help for mental health and not a terrorist doing identity politics

Poly-Fluoro-Akyl Substances

It’s a class of human made molecules that have fluoride-carbon bonds

Yea there are electrochemical methods of destroying PFAS that are pretty new but they are not cheap/commodity technologies yet. Eroding safety regs slows the development of this kind of technology because the potential market becomes smaller and investors don’t want to invest as much.

“some damned fool thing in the Baltics”

Now witness the grilling power of this fully armed and operational burger station!

The garden is so alive right now, there are so many insects and birds and seeds flying around in the air. I love it

Wow beauty. Those wisteria can get huge. They look nice around structures but once established they need a tremendous amount of work to maintain and keep in check

large parts of the the classical world were slave societies, including pompeii. that level of sexual exploitation really strikes me as at odds with ‘sexual liberation’

I started reading ‘the sexual politics of meat’ recently and it’s good. it’s been a while since I read academic writing that wasn’t history/socialist lit so it’s nice to stretch some other muscles. the concept of the ‘absent referent’ is really useful, not just in the context of veganism/feminism. it seems right up the alley of the citations needed guys when they talk about how the corporate media covers imperial warmongering and war crimes.

also I really liked this sentence, by far the most grad school thing I’ve read in years, “Could metaphor itself be the undergarment to the garb of oppression?”

oh cool. I’ve thought about collecting fiddleheads but I’m always so happy to see the ferns come back in the spring. sumac and mustard garlic sounds like a good combo.

I’ve been eating the oil soaked balls with crackers/bread recently and it’s pretty good. I ate a fair amount of the stuff before I put herbs/oil on it and while good, it is better with the oil & herbs. After being in the oil for a while the tanginess has mellowed. I think if I do this again I will leave it to ferment longer, as I assume it’s like kimchi in that it’ll get more and more funky over time.

It definitely benefits from being eaten with other stuff like olives, walnuts, veggies etc and not just bulgur cheese + bread/crackers. bulgur cheese+bread feels unbalanced, like the ‘yo dawg we heard you like carbs’ meme or a hat on a hat.

This advertising was not tested on human animals.

MoA is a personal blog but RUSI is a legit British military think tank and Vershinin is one of their think tankies.

How do I know that you’re actually posting this?

MoA on ukraine v Russia via the latest article by the only useful analyst with RUSI. Certified brainworm free. Most of this MoA is a frankly well deserved victory lap of correctly calling the war. The most notable part is the analysis of casualties, which is obviously subject to all the fog of war and propaganda. This guy estimates that ukraine has lost 5-6x the number of troops as Russia

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/05/an-immediate-peace-is-the-best-one-ukraine-can-get.html#more

I’m not sure what exactly you’re flagging that you think “the left” is missing. The DNC are feckless controlled opposition, presumably that isn’t the left you mean. For anyone else, it’s pretty clear that Trump/modern republicanism is a continuation of starve the beast for everything but the security-carceral state, which ends in privatization of social services and exclusion of who those services are available and accessible to.

I wonder if those british SAS assholes also canoed people

it’s really more of a geneva suggestion

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/12/uks-f-35-exports-more-important-than-stopping-genocide-lawyers-to-argue

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UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue

Preserving the British role in the F-35 jet fighter programme takes precedence over the need to comply with UK laws on arms export controls, or any UK obligation to prevent a genocide in Israel, UK government lawyers will argue in court this week.