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So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

"New data reveals how Australia’s threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing – and what we have to do"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

New data reveals how Australia’s threatened reptiles and frogs are disappearing – and what we have to do
Australia is home to many endangered reptiles and frogs. This national snapshot shows their numbers have dropped sharply. But it’s possible to reverse this trend.

Nifty Natural History Note in @…: these frogs can change color from green to brown to hide against different-colored backgrounds (Image: Hugo Claessen, Wikimedia)
Physiological Color Change in the Neotropical Tree Frog (Pithecopus hypochondrialis) as a Potential Mechanism of Nocturnal Camouflage

"Scores of frogs have been removed, with the remaining sanitized ones displayed like an interior designer was called in.”
I don’t drive on Paterna Road in Santa Barbara often enough to have a good sense of how different it is,
but a Riviera resident said someone has been working on it for months now.
Anyone know more?

This plague of frogs tells us something hopeful about resistance to Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/frog-costume-2674331856/

I really like frogs 🐸 because they are inherently funny and awesome. I’m so happy that they once again stand for something progressive after the alt right had appropriated Pepe.

Insider Gives Raiders Big Update Impacting Fernando Mendoza https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-big-fernando-mendoza-update/

Why frogs, chickens and T-Rexes are taking over anti-Trump protests (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/19/inflatable-costumes-trump-protests/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzYwODQ2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzYyMjMyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjA4NDY0MDAsImp0aSI6ImE0YzM5Y2EyLWEyNjQtNDUxZC05MGY0LWFhNTliNmNiYTQ4YiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI1LzEwLzE5L2luZmxhdGFibGUtY29zdHVtZXMtdHJ1bXAtcHJvdGVzdHMvIn0.-ktIYcZy66ygUBui5y0HiRCuh5qyxm7uh-KHadAYcRQ&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p63#a251019p63

And before #MAGA gets their knickers in a twist, let's be clear: Frogs are not furry.

The "People Over Billionaires" March Tours San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood
Activists assembled in Alta Plaza Park, San Francisco's billionaire epicenter, on November 15
for a rally and march to demand,
"housing, healthcare, and food for all," from the ultra-wealthy.
During the rally,
Socialists and Communists set up literature tables,
and people distributed kits containing a whistle and ICE reporting instructions.

People Over Billionaires Rally and March in San Francisco's Ritziest Neighborhood : Indybay
Frogs, an octopus, a squid, a school of orcas and activists bring their "People Over Billionaires" demands to the ultra wealthy in colorful march and rally