@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-01-08 17:58:03
"A floating litter trap was anchored in Cologne to monitor the amount of rubbish flowing through the Rhine. Out of almost 2,000kg captured by the trap, 15% was found to be made of plastic, and 28% was food or drink related."
There is very little need for disposable food packaging - and it's clear that reusable containers are very cost effective compared to disposables. Add to that micro plastic shedding into food and drink, with the attendant health impacts.
Wh…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-01-08 17:58:03
"A floating litter trap was anchored in Cologne to monitor the amount of rubbish flowing through the Rhine. Out of almost 2,000kg captured by the trap, 15% was found to be made of plastic, and 28% was food or drink related."
There is very little need for disposable food packaging - and it's clear that reusable containers are very cost effective compared to disposables. Add to that micro plastic shedding into food and drink, with the attendant health impacts.
Wh…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-12-07 18:15:47
The Cowboys might have had the refs' favor in Detroit after all https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-might-have-had-the-refs-favor-in-detroit-after-all
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-05 10:20:28
Chinese automotive chipmaker Black Sesame says its Huashan A2000 chip passed the US Commerce and Defense Departments' "relevant reviews" for global sales (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3338742/<…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org2026-01-06 22:33:20
LŠ, je suis tout Š fait d’accord avec M. Ganzer: «Ce que je constate, ce sont des manquements. Et des manquements ne doivent pas arriver dans un pays tel que le nôtre.»
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/202
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-12-05 20:23:02
Sources: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have agreed to part ways following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-11-06 13:12:45
Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
SINOFAR: No.
GIROC: [Laughs] The weapon built into that hand will not work here, primitive.
SINOFAR: Nor will brute force, until *I* allow it.
GIROC: His impulse to kill is primitive.
SINOFAR: As ours was not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/218
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-12-09 09:21:34
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
2XM & Cortese:
🎵 Made For Me
#2XM #Cortese
https://feelingblue.bandcamp.com/album/made-for-me-ep-fb006
https://open.spotify.com/track/2roovcK8APdumAcdYeOrkD
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 02:11:37
The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the United States next year to the token level of just 7,500
– and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.
The low number represents a dramatic drop after the US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people
fleeing war and persecution from around the world
@salrandolph@zirk.us2025-11-29 16:53:47
I’ve fallen in love with the Japanese literary form, zuihitsu.
Zuihitsu, meaning “following the brush,” flow as the mind flows. They are fragmentary—mixing moments of observation, opinion, anecdote, asides, and humor. From the contemporary point of view zuihitsu refuse categorization, vibrating in the live space between prose and poetry.
#poetry
