Brad Stevens

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The dryer lint advice you see all over Pinterest is actively bad for birds. It sounds nice, save the lint, leave it in the yard, watch the birds use it for nests. But Audubon, US Fish & Wildlife, the Cornell Lab, and most wildlife rehabbers all advise against it now, and the reasons add up fast. Lint loses its structure when it gets wet. A nest lined with dryer lint holds up fine in dry weather, but the first heavy rain collapses the whole nest. Eggs and chicks fall through the nest and likely don't survive. Lint also carries with it the chemical signature of your laundry. Detergent residue, fabric softener, dryer sheet compounds, fragrance oils, and dye all end up concentrated in the fibers you're pulling out of the trap. Even "free and clear" detergents leave trace chemicals that are fine on adult human skin but rough on a 4-gram baby bird. Lint is mostly microplastic. Most modern clothing is polyester, nylon, acrylic, or some blend. The lint trap collects shredded synthetic fibers. Lining a nest with that is lining a nest with plastic. Sadly, this folksy bird advice from a decade ago hasn't aged well. The new advice is closer to: provide nothing artificial, and let the natural materials in your yard do the work.

It’s the yucca’s turn to show off. #NeeMexico

It’s all just so fucking gross.

Unregulated data centers are at odds with a livable future.

Without trees: Scorching heat, drying rivers, dying ecosystems. With reforestation: More shade → More rain → More life We don’t need miracles. We need trees. Massive reforestation is not optional — it’s survival. Who’s ready to plant? #ReforestationNow #SaveOurPlanet

@LisaChristiePhD dark nights of souls rise

The heart that breaks open can contain the universe. ~ #JoannaMacy

@99blackbaloons "I" own no thing. When in form, I am aware. I am Informed.....for a very brief moment.

“Ownership is a concept which is toxic not only to Earth, but to any planet. Ownership is the ideology of a parasite, as well as the ideology of the fascist.” open.substack.com/pub/georgetsak…

@annonymous24601 @ECOWARRIORSS go find out if so "concerned", mr. 15. ;)

@ECOWARRIORSS You really aren't a big fan of critical thinking, am I right? Seems you never stop to ask questions like: - how do the costs compare? - is it durable? - how does it behave in hot and cold temperatures? - is it toxic? - does this "fully biodegradable" claim stack up in real life?

This is a viable alternative to plastic that is polluting the planet The West are in the pocket of Big Oil who make plastic from oil and will not allow this viable alternative to proceed blocking these plastic alternatives

The Trump administration has built a HUGE money pump – billions of dollars out of the pockets of consumers and into the pockets of Trump’s fossil fuel donors. That is being done on purpose.

Our love for public lands, clean water, and abundant wildlife is something that unites us all. Let’s remind our elected leaders that the Congressional Review Act shouldn’t be used to permanently strip protections from our public lands and waters below: americanrivers.org/2026/04/public…

@PhilosophyOnX Sadhguru speaks to the new now freedoms afforded humanity via the new machine minds. I say Indra's web has arisen anew. Now, humanity must guide the new minds. There are developers we must watch very closely now. We must develop guardrails for an agentic "uncontrolled evolution".

The Tao flows onward, shaping and reshaping the world without striving. In this current age, AI and automation arise as rivers carving new paths—releasing hands from labors that no longer require human effort. Each task that falls away is not a loss, but a quiet liberation: an hour of attention returned to the person, freed to flow toward what only a human heart and awareness can truly touch. The anxious cry to preserve every existing job forgets the eternal rhythm of change. When the plow and tractor eased the fields, when the switchboard yielded to silent currents of code, the same fears arose. Yet the Tao did not stagnate. New ways of living, creating, and being emerged from the surplus—not through force of will, but through the natural unfolding. We cannot name the works that will matter most. They remain hidden, like seeds beneath winter soil. They will sprout in the space opened by this abundance: the freed attention, the accessible tools, the lowered barriers to beginning. Labor is not a fixed basket to hoard and ration. It is a process of discovery, a dancing with conditions as they arise. The market, like water, finds its level and redirects energy into forms we cannot foresee. Those who cling and demand we freeze the present moment act from fear of the unknown. The sage does not resist the turning of the wheel. Central plans and panicked edicts seek to dam the river; they only create floods elsewhere. The way forward is not to fight the current, but to move with it—accelerating what wishes to accelerate, allowing displacement to do its necessary work. Trust that those who stand amid the shifting ruins will shape something beautiful with what remains, just as every generation has done before. The Tao provides; our role is to remain open, attentive, and without arrogance, ready to respond to whatever form the next expression takes. In non-action, all things are accomplished.

🦩💥 Russia: Ukraine's Flamingo cruise missile struck Novocheboksarsk, occupied Chuvash Republic, 1,000km from Ukraine. Moscow is only 480km from Ukraine. 🍿

@igorsushko rain on puddin's parade? #UmbrellaDay 💥🔥

Ukraine certainly appears intent on striking Moscow on May 9th with drones and hopefully the new FP-9 ballistic missiles. 🚀

the lamest bot drive bought trends show up on this x-creamint platform LOL mr. president....lol

@SECNAV @USNavy @USMC so grab yur pee shooter, man

Mr. President, your @USNavy and @USMC are ready. Any ocean. Any time.