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The vast majority of the plastic flotsam and jetsam in the North Pacific subtropical gyre (the North Pacific Garbage Patch) consists of discarded fishing gear.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0

Industrialised fishing nations largely contribute to floating plastic pollution in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - Scientific Reports
The subtropical oceanic gyre in the North Pacific Ocean is currently covered with tens of thousands of tonnes of floating plastic debris, dispersed over millions of square kilometres. A large fraction is composed of fishing nets and ropes while the rest is mostly composed of hard plastic objects and fragments, sometimes carrying evidence on their origin. In 2019, an oceanographic mission conducted in the area, retrieved over 6000 hard plastic debris items > 5 cm. The debris was later sorte…

“Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch
The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

It's probably fine that we put like 3/4 of the internet behind cloudflare. Has having a single point of failure ever been a problem before? 🤔
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do/post…

"The survey’s findings contradict conservative media narratives about transition regret, which suggest that large volumes of trans people detransition because they later regret their transition as a mistake. The survey found that only a small number of people detransition, and the decision is largely due to external factors."
**Largest-ever survey of #trans people reveals the real reason trans people detransition** - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/largest-ever-survey-of-trans-people-reveals-the-real-reason-trans-people-detransition/

Gosh, I hate to undercut in any way all those press reports about how the Trump cyber EO demolishes the cyber initiatives of Biden and Obama, but with a couple of exceptions it doesn't.
“I’m pleased to see that there’s a lot of consistency between what was in the last administration’s order and what they’re going forward with,” Caitlin Clarke, a former senior cyber leader on the National Security Council and now a senior director for cybersecurity services at Venable LLP, told CSO.…

Trump takes aim at Biden’s cyber executive order but leaves it largely untouched
A new Trump executive order revises Biden’s last cyber EO to eliminate significant sections on digital IDs and secure software attestations, among other changes, but keeps much of Biden’s cyber protections in place.

Curtis Yarvin is not the sharpest fellow. He claims to represent Hobbits, but concludes that they want to have a monarch. Alas, Hobbits live in a decentralized, largely stateless society governed by custom, kinship, and mutual aid—making his claim not just wrong but profoundly ignorant of the LOTR.

There is nothing else to say but this:
#Israel has a #TerrorRegime, and the population largely supports it.
#Behemoth

With FFOTUS now actively using the military against US citizens and legal residents we have entered a new phase.
It is pretty clear that "protesting" via symbolic acts and gatherings are largely ineffective and, indeed, often serve to create excuses - poor excuses, but plausible in the maga-klan kommunity - for more repression.
In other words we are moving past protest to a more confrontational time.
And for which I remind people of song found appropriate around t…

MeidasTouch: "This is an important reminder: even the LAPD acknowledged yesterday that everything was peaceful. Then Trump brought the chaos. He is responsible." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3lr5clnaqcc2j