You probably know by now that the war in the Middle East has caused a spike in the price of oil. But it's also set to hit food prices in the supermarket, as Elena Casas explains
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You probably know by now that the war in the Middle East has caused a spike in the price of oil. But it's also set to hit food prices in the supermarket, as Elena Casas explains
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The looting of African resources by outsiders & its tragic consequences for African people is an old story. Gold, diamonds, ivory, rubber... And now coltan, so that we can have fancy phones. apnews.com/article/cong...
βEvery man dies. But not every many truly publishesβ
yeah i suppose the full saying is "publish or die. and also die."
Entirely understandable
Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face
Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now
Good. I opened my back yard to some guerilla gardeners. I donβt want folks going hungry on my block.
They were out there all afternoon gasping about the quality of the worms and praising the ladybugs while asking them to please not eat the caterpillars and there is so much sun back here
I really donβt think they can put all this back in the bottle in the long run but in the short run, fuck!
Snatch your IDs, snatch your stories, steal your lives out from under you itβs disgusting. I am so sorry.
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
This is not new. None of this is.
Is that the personβs name or some literary reference I donβt get or both?
The strait women have had it. I donβt blame them.
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Because we are here for women murdering men. With popcorn
βInstruction towards victory at last finds purchase!β
Did they have an an ancient Latin scholar preposition removal coach?
Girl, I am going through it. So many people I know are going through it. Imagine being able to teach the subject at the college level intellectually but then get hit over the head in a way that is plain not deniable. Turns out this silence has a structure.
to (sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly) share their own experiences with divination, ancestral guidance, spiritual and psychic powers. I'm talking about everyone from philosophers to STEM scholars, theologians, undergrad and grad students, elders, doulas, diplomats, sociologists, organizers..
Instagram comment from the late Michelle Trachtenberg to Sarah Michelle Gellar: Thank you @sarahmgellar for saying this. I am brave enough now as a 35 year old woman....To repost this. Because. This must. Be known. As a teenager. With his not appropriate behavior....very. Not. Appropriate. So now. People know. What Joss. Did. The last. Comment I will make on this. Was. There was a rule. Saying. He's not allowed in a room alone with Michelle again.
Wasn't allowed to be in a room alone with her *again*. The "again" was the most chilling part of that.
Your reminder that Joss Whedon wasnβt allowed to be alone with 14 year old Michelle Trachtenberg.
Just if youβre getting excited about his career re-launch and donβt care about his revolting behaviour toward Charisma Carpenter.
Call it end-times fascism, or Toscano's Late Fascism, there is a real crisis faced by capital but it is not merely a crisis of production and profit but an existential crisis, a crisis of climate, a crisis of futurity itself. Speculation reaches its end in the non existence of a speculative future
For all the talk of an Asian century, China and other Asian powers never prepared for scenarios where the US would flip from the primary security guarantor in the Middle East they relied on to the primary source of instability that would undermine their energy supply chains
At least 14 people detained at Camp East Montana, located on the Fort Bliss Army base, have tested positive for the disease and are being quarantined, NBC reported. As many as 1,500 people are currently in the facility, according to recent reports. www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...
I thought you asked. Sorry if I read that wrong.
"Legend of the Seeker" is both hit and miss for me. There's parts I absolutely love and other parts that annoy me. S2 is pretty great though.
And "Xena" people folks EVERYWHERE on that one. π It was Tapert's first show post-Xena.
There is a Xena feed? How do I get in on that?