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🍌 Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-07/indigenous-guatemalans-denounce-exploita…

Indigenous Guatemalans denounce exploitation on Mexican farms: ‘Bananas are worth more than us’
The plants that grow these sweet fruits are cultivated with extreme care. But those who pamper them are despised and exploited

I've had it with Windows and ascended to the sunlit uplands of Linux, where the trees heave with open-source fruits and men with large beards grep things
https://www.pcgamer.com/softwar…

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.

Time may fly like an arrow, but "fruit flies like a banana" is NOT true. Most fruits are round and have completely different aerodynamic properties. Apples and oranges, for instance, don't fly the same way as a banana at all. Let's retire such undue generalizations in 2026.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#LateJunction
- Able Noise and Sandy Chamoun in session
Verity Sharp presents the fruits of our latest improvised collaboration session in which cross-continent improv duo Able Noise met Lebanese vocalist Sandy Chamoun.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0027tjz

It's a bit hard to read because my daughter's camera is pretty bad, but the section of the pantry that the cat is sleeping in is labeled "random". #CatsOfMastodon

Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits.

American robin, Turdus migratorius, in downtown New Haven, Connecticut last month
#naturalist #wildlife

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands. You will never again be able to open a newspaper and read about that treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag sitting down for a nice chat with Charlie Rose or attending some black-tie affair for a new glossy magazine without choking. Witness what Henry did in Cambodia – the fruits of his genius for statesmanship – and you will never understand why…

🦾 Research Status and Trends in Universal Robotic Picking End-Effectors for Various Fruits
#robots

😋 Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming
#food

Gene editing creates compact goldenberry plants suitable for large-scale farming
Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly popular in U.S. grocery stores. But the plants that produce these bright yellow-orange fruits grow wild and unruly—reaching heights that make large-scale farming impractical.