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PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/pfas-forever-chemicals-found-in-98-of-us-waters-tested/

PFAS ‘forever’ chemicals found in 98% of US waters tested
A recent study from the U.S.-based environmental nonprofit Waterkeeper Alliance has found “forever chemicals” contamination in 98% of the waterways it tested in the United States. The findings come at a time when representatives from the world are gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the United Nations plastics treaty negotiations to hammer out a plan to […]

The federal government raised the price of stamps on Sunday.
The price of first class forever stamps is increasing by 5 cents, rising from 73 cents to 78 cents, according to Senior U.S. Postal service representative Marti Johnson.
It will also cost more to send a postcard in the United States -- that's going to run you 62 cents, up from 56 cents.
An international postcard went up by 5 cents to $1.70.

Cost of higher stamp prices now in effect, USPS says: Here's how much
The cost of stamps has gone up. A senior U.S. Postal Service representative called the jump a "rational and realistic approach."

Läs det här reportaget av Emma Bouvin och Anders Hansson. https://www.dn.se/varlden/hogereliten-i-jerusalem-fornekar-svalten-i-gaza-medan-nodhjalpen-vid-gransen-forfars/

Högereliten förnekar svält medan nödhjälp vid gränsen förfars
Högereliten i Jerusalem förnekar svält i Gaza – samtidigt stoppas nödhjälp. DN:s team Emma Bouvin och Anders Hansson på plats vid gränsen till Gaza.

A coalition of press freedom groups urges Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to release Atlanta journalist Mario Guevara, detained by ICE for two months (Free Press)
https://www.freepress.net/news/press-freedom-groups-call-kristi-no…

Press-Freedom Groups Call on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to Immediately Release Journalist Mario Guevara from Prolonged ICE Detention
Guevara’s arrest and detention represents an erosion of democratic norms in the United States.

"Some gut microbes can absorb and help expel ‘forever chemicals’ from the body, research shows"
#Health #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Ergebnisse des #fahrradklimatest2024. Interessant, wie nuancenreich das ausfällt (und wie sehr das Freiburger Umland ggü. Freiburg abfällt, aber ja: so ist's).
https://fahrradklima-test.adfc.de/erge

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Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc:

Download these now free retro mobile games before Sega removes them
Sega is discontinuing nine more retro games on iOS and Android, but you can now download them for free until they’re gone.

Richard Grenell, früherer US-Botschafter in Deutschland, verlangt, dass ZDF-Studioleiter Elmar Theveßen sein Visum für die USA verliert. Theveßen sei ein "Aufwiegler" | DIE ZEIT
Ich schätze Elmar Theveßen ungemein #FreiePresse

Commodore-Emulationspakete Amiga Forever 11 sowie C64 Forever 11 erschienen
Kurz vor dem 40. Amiga-Jubiläum veröffentlicht Cloanto Amiga Forever 11 und C64 Forever 11. Neu in den Emulatorpaketen: Erweiterte Touch- und Druckerfunktionen.

Certain kinds of gut microbes absorb toxic Pfas
“forever chemicals”
and help expel them from the body via feces,
new first-of-its-kind University of Cambridge research shows.
The findings are welcome news
as the only options that exist for reducing the level of dangerous Pfas compounds from the body are bloodletting and a cholesterol drug that induces unpleasant side effects.
The microbes were found to remove up to 75% of some Pfasfrom the gut of mice.