Icona Pop's latest is a lot of fun 🕺

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Avantist was a great find! (Followed a breadcrumb from Start-track.com's START THE TRACK: VOL. IX 👀)

Couldn't tell you why, but I was reminded of Delta Activity. It's been a long minute since I've listened to Happy is the New Sad, but it kept popping into mind as I listened through Avantist 🤷‍♂️

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Now for something completely different but equally cool: Cetáceo by Biomigrant

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Aw hells yeah—new Austin TV rocking my morning chores 🤘

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Let's test a near-future scheduled post from #littleFedi with this photo of a magnificently moss-laden Acer macrophyllum I came across on a short walk through the Hoh Rainforest to the banks of the Hoh River.

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Until we realign our society with people rather than profit, all these people-eating machines will keep eating people

Hansen told me that, for the next 19 years, she avoided the subject of fluorochemicals with the same intensity with which she had once pursued it. She focused on raising her kids and coaching a cross-country ski team; she worked a variety of jobs at 3M, none related to fluorochemicals. In 2002, when 3M announced that it would be replacing PFOS with another fluorochemical, PFBS, Hansen knew that it, too, would remain in the environment indefinitely. Still, she decided not to involve herself. She skipped over articles about the chemicals in scientific journals and newspapers, where they were starting to be linked to possible developmental, immune system and liver problems. (In 2006, after the EPA accused 3M of violating the Toxic Substances Control Act, in part by repeatedly ­failing to disclose the harms of fluorochemicals promptly, the company agreed to pay a small penalty of $1.5 million, without admitting wrongdoing.)

— Sharon Lerner, "Toxic Gaslighting How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe"

The scale of harm reported in Lerner's story is overwhelming 😳

As though it's not enough to be learning that PFAS chemicals are harmful and everywhere, we learn that the executives of the company making the stuff had a pretty good idea it wasn't good for us or the environment—in the '70s—but decided to keep making it anyway. For profit.

Again.

This isn't a problem that can be fixed by changing any one company. They're all like this. Every for-profit corporation on the planet will eat you and your family and everyone you know, for profit. Some rich assholes will have signed the order while thinking of nothing more than how much richer they'll be after their people-eating machine eats more people. That's the nature of this beast. Until we realign our society with people rather than profit, all these people-eating machines will keep eating people.

You are people.

If you would rather not be eaten, and you think it's generally a bad idea to make people-eating machines in the first place, then you, my friend, are an anti-capitalist.

Welcome.

We have a lot of work to do.

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Rat Cage's Not Asking For Much will be a good one to return to whenever I'm looking to scratch a hardcore itch 🤘

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Stone From The Sky makes some mighty fine post-rock 🔥🩶

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Spider season started early on the Olympic Peninsula this year. Walking into webs every which way I go isn't my favorite thing in the world, but I do love the opportunity to photograph some cool arachnids. This particular spider is Callobius severus. My partner saved her from drowning, and I captured a bazillion photos while she recovered in the sun.

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I remember first learning about the Battle of Blair Mountain—long after finishing school, of course, because the incredible history of the U.S. labor movement in the early 20th century isn't taught in our public schools—and wondering how there wasn't at least one decent movie about this particular episode in U.S. history. It's years later, and as far as I know there still isn't one. Can't say I'm surprised 😒

Matewan is worth a watch, if you haven't seen it 👀

While not great and not about the Battle of Blair Mountain specifically, it's a decent film about the Battle of Matewan, a precursor to the Battle of Blair Mountain.

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Many Amazon warehouses have unique symbols to represent that specific site. VGT3’s symbol, painted on the entrance to the site and inside, is of a Tyrannosaurus rex, the massive carnivorous dinosaur, with its mouth open, holding an open book.

— Emanuel Maiberg, "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

It's always been baffling to me that the bad guys choose symbols that seem bad. (Like the Nazi SS Totenkopf, for instance.) You'd think they'd want to obfuscate their evil shit with symbols that seem good—butterflies and rainbows and whatnot—but no, they're proud enough of what they stand for and what they're doing that they just put it on display for the whole world to see.

Incredible.

The war against invading Rubus armeniacus at home is something of a neverending nightmare, but I gotta say:

It's a damn tasty nightmare during berry season 😋

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