"The cancellation means that the government is discarding what could be one of the most effective and rapid tools to combat an avian influenza outbreak," said Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, adding that it is the opposite approach Trump took with Operation Warp Speed to combat COVID-19.

In what I'm sure is a huge shock to everyone here, no, you can't avoid ingesting microplastics through the power of personal responsibility and not microwaving your soup in a Tupperware container.

Sorry sweaty it's your responsibility to suffer

I want off Mr Bones wild ride

This bottle also contains no cadmium!

aaaaaaaaaah we're going to have to boycott everything

This week, the UK Health Security Agency announced the discovery of West Nile virus in UK mosquitoes for the first time. The agency said it had found no evidence of transmission to humans and the risk to the British public was low.

Get ready for more diseases.

(i dont know wether this is the right community to post this, but whatever)

i HATE this biological waste that populate my workplace. Germany is an irredeemable fascist hellhole that will never be salvaged. if anyone at work is an open fascist and doesn't even attempt to hide it, bullying people who dare to have any sense of moral righteousness AND THEN FUCKING CONTINUE ON WITH THEIR WORTHLESS LITTLE LIFES AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED, i don't want to live (here) either. everyone tries to suxk the cock of whoever happens to be the most removed ugly little nazist in town and then all those bitch-ass cowards who condemn this fucking circus in private but don't dare to say shit in public think they aint complicit. if a society allows someone to openly ruin an autistic persons life to the point of them not really having any possibility of a career and then mocking them and bragging about it like its a fucking accomplishment, this society does not deserve to continue its existence and neither do the people who are part of it. the only reason i haven't committed suicide yet is that i want those rat-faced shit eating bastards to suffer instead of me. i honestly starting to wonder how i could make them be gone go together with myself

linky

Sorry for the shitty link. I think the text reeks of AI. But I googled and googled and googled it's the only non-paywalled article I could find. The US MSM is 100% shit.

Paywalled article at statnews.com

I changed the layout and created the list.

• Has the search for cases been weakened by government cuts?

• Are immigrant farm workers, who have accounted for many of the U.S. cases, more afraid to come forward for testing amid the Trump administration’s deportation push?

• Is it just a natural ebb in infections?

“We just don’t know why there haven’t been cases,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University. “I think we should assume there are infections that are occurring in farmworkers that just aren’t being detected.”

This, and other images that make one very angry. Of course, this average is is due to the bourgeoisie dragging figures up. Median individual income is roughly about half of these figures. And that means 50% make even less than that.

The bourgeois are feasting while all around me, I see the ghost of Tom Joad. Regular workers are being left in the dust.

Rising inequality is no new concept. It’s been getting dramatically worse for decades. But with looming climate collapse and the worldwide rise of fascism aided by liberal collaborators, when will the house of cards fall down?

Once again, if you’re able to safely do so, stay armed comrades.

Last month, her team Adrift Lab found a bird that broke the record: almost a fifth of its entire body weight was plastic.

“To witness it first-hand, it is incredibly visceral. There is now so much plastic inside the birds you can feel it on the outside of the animal when it is still alive. As you press on its belly … you hear the pieces grinding against each other."

Since Dr Lavers’s first visit in 2008, she has witnessed an increase from about three quarters of birds carrying about five to 10 pieces of plastic, to every single bird having 50 or more pieces.

https://archive.is/L2pHb

The 155 vacancies the agency is seeking to fill by May 27 include key weather forecasting positions at offices in coastal Texas and Louisiana that could soon face hurricane threats when the Atlantic season begins in a few weeks. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the weather service’s parent agency, is also asking large numbers of meteorologists to move to offices in Alaska and across the northern Plains in Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota. Without the transfers, there are fears that some offices could struggle to monitor weather threats, issue aviation forecasts and launch weather balloons around-the-clock, according to current and former weather service officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the agency. Agency officials did not immediately respond to questions from The Post.

The solicitations lay bare how significantly the Trump administration has whittled away the corps of public servants responsible for the forecasting, warnings and information that can protect lives and property when extreme weather strikes. An estimated 500 National Weather Service employees have taken early retirements or been fired this year, out of a staff that numbered more than 4,200 before President Donald Trump began his second term, the officials said. But the action is spurring some hope that, after five months of efforts to cut staff, administration officials are heeding concerns that the nation could now be less prepared for major storms or other events, said Brian LaMarre, who retired from the weather service last month after a career that included 17 years as meteorologist in charge of the forecasting office in Tampa, Florida.

The number of vacancies underscores how in the administration’s efforts to streamline government and boost efficiency it may be threatening core agency functions, he said. “We’ve got to be careful on how much efficiency we’re looking for,” said LaMarre, who had been working on a National Weather Service initiative to reinvent the agency’s staffing model. “The more efficient we make something, sometimes it becomes less effective.”

Such requests for transfers have always been relatively common at such a large agency but never covered so many positions and rarely included an offer of moving expenses, the officials who spoke with The Post said. The vacant positions include 76 meteorologists, including rank-and-file forecasters as well as the managers who run each of the service’s 122 forecast offices around the country. Other roles include technicians and analysts who are essential to keeping agency radar and computer systems running.

On the Gulf Coast, the Lake Charles, Louisiana, office needs a meteorologist-in-charge and two senior meteorologists. In the forecasting office that oversees the Houston region, the agency is also seeking a meteorologist-in-charge and a senior meteorologist.

The office in Fairbanks, Alaska, needs five meteorologists. The Hanford, California, office is seeking four meteorologists, an electronics systems analyst, an electronics technician and an information technology officer. An office in Goodland, Kansas, needs three senior meteorologists, while several offices in Arkansas, Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming are seeking two senior meteorologists. Offices overseeing the Cleveland and Cincinnati regions are seeking a meteorologist-in-charge.

NOAA is asking four meteorologists to move to the U.S. territory of Guam to fill forecasting positions there.

I'm sorry I'm just gonna write crap about my life again really. So you can just skip over If you don't want to read. I'm a pretty bad writer lol.

I feel like no matter what I try, I always somehow mess up and end up in the same hole I tried climbing out of due me being such a pinhead. Haven't really felt particularly happy or content for probably half a decade now and frankly I feel like a mix of anger and melancholy.

Thought college would be a better social place for me. But ended up being that people don't like when someone is silent most of the time. That and the blockades really degraded my social skills from eh to pretty shit. Since I'm from a village and all I don't see much action which is probably why I feel alienated as well. Only got maybe one guy I who I go out with from time to time but idk I feel likely he goes out with me more out of pity then that he actually likes me even though he seems cheery on our hangouts. We've known each other since we were in kindergarten basically. But still I feel mostly alone and frankly want to be because I don't think people don't deserve such a miserable and sad person like me.

Truth is I don't really like going to large social gatherings. I'm too scared for them and frankly I feel like I'm sticking out like a sore thumb on most of them. Just not feeling normal. So much to call myself a socialist lol. Not to mention my parents telling me that nothing good will ever come out of me. I'm entering my early 20s and I never felt more shit.

The state of the left here is frankly depressing. Found out about org drama, because of course a minor leftist party has infighting, and I feel like bashing my head to a wall with how petty It sounds. Also I think we should actually focus on organizing rather than doing electoral stuff. Not to mention my local branch is basically non-existent due to members leaving due to inactivity.

To not end this on a too bad of a note. I've been working out and I've been trying to learn new stuff. I'm going to driving school later this month which is neat. If the blockades still continue, which they seem like they are, I'll probably get a job somewhere here in my village. I did apply for an indie animation project today but I'll keep my expectations low. I did also go to protests so I somewhat got over my fear of social anxiety. But I'll see what I can do. Thank you for reading If you actually got trough this writing.

Time is on the side of the Russians in Ukraine and the Chinese on pretty much anything else when it comes to confronting the US empire.

But ever since the ceasefire in Lebanon and the fall of Assad I can't help but feel that the Palestinian cause is getting worse every day. No one is lifting a finger for them except the Yemenis and it only seems that the Zionist fucks are getting closer to their objectives.

Civil war in "Israel" when? True Promise 3 when (lol)?

It doesn't help that some of the loudest voices cheering for Assad's fall where Palestinians and that sectarism is strong against Shia's...

It’s the fourth global bleaching event since 1998, and has now surpassed bleaching from 2014-17 that hit some two-thirds of reefs, said the ICRI, a mix of more than 100 governments, non-governmental organizations and others. And it’s not clear when the current crisis, which began in 2023 and is blamed on warming oceans, will end.

“We may never see the heat stress that causes bleaching dropping below the threshold that triggers a global event,” said Mark Eakin, corresponding secretary for the International Coral Reef Society and retired chief of the Coral Reef Watch program of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “We’re looking at something that’s completely changing the face of our planet and the ability of our oceans to sustain lives and livelihoods,” Eakin said.

“I think people really need to recognize what they’re doing … inaction is the kiss of death for coral reefs,”