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That cute rock stack by the creek just killed a bunch of mosquito killers. Dragonflies spend most of their lives underwater, sometimes up to five years, clinging to rocks while they grow. A single dragonfly larva eats hundreds of mosquito larvae before it ever flies. But dragonflies are just one species. The rocks in a healthy stream are also covering caddisfly larvae, mayflies, stoneflies, water beetles, salamander egg clutches, and the freshwater snails that fish depend on. Eastern Hellbenders, an endangered giant salamander species, lay their eggs specifically under flat stream rocks. Moving the rock kills the clutch. When you pull a wet rock out of the water and stack it on the bank, everything clinging to that rock dies. They desiccate within minutes in the sun. A single rock pile is dozens of small lives lost. Most stream cairns are stacks of fifteen to twenty rocks. If you see stacked rocks at a creek, knock them over. The stream rebuilds itself faster when rocks are scattered the way water put them. Leave no trace isn't an aesthetic preference. It's real habitat protection.

What “stay safe “ really means for women

Sailor Moon makes her debut as a meet and greet character at Universal Studios Hollywood for Fan Fest Nights.

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

In Japan, survivors of sexual abuse almost never use their real names. In 2024, Riho Fukuyama did. She was 25 when she stood up publicly and named her own father as the man who had raped her — repeatedly, in their home in Toyama, from 8th grade through her second year of high school. At least eight times. Her father was arrested. In court, he didn’t deny the sex happened. He argued she could have fought back. That her silence meant consent. The trial court didn’t buy it. Eight years in prison. The judge called it “cowardly and cruel,” and wrote this about why she didn’t resist: “She was forced to carry the unthinkable — being raped by her own father — entirely alone. Psychologically, she was cornered. She had almost no will left to fight.” He appealed. Today, the Nagoya High Court threw it out. Eight years stands. After the ruling, Riho told reporters: “I’m grateful they finally heard what I’ve been trying to say.” She now runs a foundation that helps other survivors of family sexual abuse find the courage — and the legal footing — to press charges. In Japan, this kind of abuse has long been called an invisible crime. Riho made it visible by putting her

I knew it. Coachella took down the video. Variety, NME, CNN Brasil, & Pitchfork wrote articles using this tweet. Reposting it here in clips: the moment The Strokes criticized the CIA, the US government, and the killings in Iran and Gaza. #Strokeschella

As an autistic girl: OH MY GOD??? PLEASE DO NOT SPREAD THE NOTION AROUND THAT AUTSTIC PEOPLE CANT COMPREHEND CONSENT? this is such harmful misinformation! Yes you might struggle to pick up social cues, but that NEVER extends to BASIC. CONSENT. if you hear no, IT'S NO.

CNN just announced the existence of a global “rape academy” where 62 million men are enrolled and are taking lessons on how to drug and rape women. I’m so fucking done.

If you have a bug zapper up, it's time to take it down. A University of Delaware study analyzed nearly 14,000 insects killed by bug zappers over a single summer. Mosquitoes accounted for 0.22% of them. Less than one quarter of one percent. The other 99.78%? Moths, beetles, midges, fireflies, and other beneficial insects doing exactly what your yard needs them to do. Here's why it's even worse than it sounds: mosquitoes don't find you by light. They find you by carbon dioxide, body heat, and skin chemistry. Your bug zapper is completely invisible to them. Meanwhile it's running all night massacring the pollination night shift. Moths are among the most important nocturnal pollinators alive, and they're flying straight into your zapper because they navigate by light. Bug zappers kill over 70 billion insects annually in the US. Harvard Medical School's Zika page specifically warns against them, noting they may actually increase mosquito populations by eliminating the beneficial insects that prey on mosquitoes. What actually works: eliminate standing water within 100 feet of where you spend time outside. That's your best bet. It's time to break up with the bug zapper.

Absolutely the fuck not. Only disgusting pedo-pushing, breeder-minded fucks would agree with the mother here. Maturing is knowing that pregnant minors should be able to get abortions WITHOUT parental consent or knowledge.

Promises won't close Rikers Island. Action will. Today, we're announcing the opening of a 104-bed unit at Bellevue Hospital - New York City's first-ever Outposted Therapeutic Housing Unit - serving people in custody with complex medical needs, including critically vulnerable detainees from Rikers Island. This marks a major step toward a correctional system built on access and prevention. The journey to close Rikers has begun.

Each bee has four wings. So this veil took about 5,000 dead bees to make. A single healthy hive holds up to 60,000. Luci Jockel is a jeweler out of Rhode Island School of Design who only uses bees that died of natural causes. She found beekeepers who’d lost their hives and made a deal: she’d put in physical labor helping them rebuild, and they’d give her the wings from the bees that didn’t survive. A Rhode Island beekeeper named Paul Whewell had lost everything to a harsh winter. She worked his hives, learned to keep bees from him, then started her own colonies with her dad. Other wings came from rooftop hives at the RISD Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the MAD Museum in Manhattan. Each wing is about half the width of a dime. She glued them one at a time with archival glue, the kind museums use to preserve artwork, to create a material she calls “bee wing lace.” The pattern comes from Dutch lace collars she studied in 1600s portraits at the RISD Museum. Nine years of work. The finished piece is a mourning veil, made to grieve the bees it came from. Jockel started building this in 2017. Back then, US beekeepers were already losing around 40% of their colonies every year. Last year it hit 55.6%, the worst since tracking began in 2010. Commercial operations lost 62%. In raw numbers: 1.6 million colonies gone in twelve months, with damage above $600 million in replacement costs and lost honey production alone. Bees keep most of your food supply running. About 75% of US crop production depends on them. California’s almond harvest alone needs 1.4 million hives trucked in every spring, roughly 60% of all managed colonies in the country, for a crop worth $6 billion a year. Total annual value to American farming: $34 billion. She needed 5,000 bees and nine years to build one veil. One in every three bites of food you eat depends on the ones still alive.

“I don’t understand why women don’t just report it if it really happened.” When I was 19, I reported mine. I had bruises. Hospital photos. Text messages of him apologizing the next morning. My friends drove me to the station because I could barely stop shaking. I thought evidence would make it simple. I thought truth would be enough. Months later, I was the one on trial. His lawyer printed my Instagram photos and held them up in court. Asked why I wore crop tops. Asked why I drank that night. Asked why I didn’t scream louder. He replayed my police interview and pointed out every time I hesitated, every time I cried, every time my timeline wasn’t perfectly linear. “If it was traumatic,” he said, “why can’t she remember clearly?” Sitting there while strangers debated my pain like it was a group project felt like being stripped again. My messages were projected on a screen. My body was described in detail. My character was picked apart like that was the real crime. He walked out on bail. I walked out with panic attacks. That’s why some women don’t report. Because even with bruises. Even with screenshots. Even when you do everything “right.” You still have to survive the assault twice, once in private, and once in public, just to maybe be believed.

My sweet Nibbler has passed away. He was only 7 years old. He had a heart condition that is sadly very common for Bengals. There has never been a person that met him that didn’t love him. You could toss him around like pizza dough and he wouldn’t mind. He was so sweet that we never had to use food to distract him during nail clippings. We just kissed his face instead. That’s all he wanted. Kisses. He truly was a special boy who never caused problems, ran to greet you at the door, cuddled and snored in my arms nearly every night, played fetch, knew a myriad of tricks, and never bit or scratched anyone. He was impossibly sweet and outgoing. He was a dream. My soul cat. I tied my hair around your leg so you’ll never forget me. Please come find me again. I love you, my sweet boy boy. “The light has gone out of my life.”

In 1984, Josef Fritzl tricked his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, into the basement of their home in Amstetten, Austria. Once she was inside, he knocked her unconscious, locked her behind a reinforced door, and kept her there for 24 years. Upstairs, the rest of the family continued living normally. Fritzl told his wife, Rosemarie, that Elisabeth had run away to join a sect. He forced Elisabeth to write letters from the basement to support the story. In that basement, without windows, ventilation, or medical care, Elisabeth gave birth to seven children. Three grew up locked there with her, never seeing daylight. Three others were taken upstairs, left at the door with notes, and raised by Rosemarie as grandchildren. One baby died a few days after birth, and Fritzl cremated the body inside the house. The truth came out in 2008 when one of the children became seriously ill and had to be taken to the hospital. It was the first time Elisabeth had been outside since 1984. Doctors alerted the police. Fritzl was arrested that same day and confessed two days later. In 2009, he was sentenced to life in prison. Elisabeth and her surviving children were given new identities and have lived under protection ever since. Elisabeth was 18 when she was locked in that basement. She was 42 when she saw daylight again.

New record🥇 The Artemis II astronauts are now farther from Earth than humans have ever been! At 1:57 p.m. EDT, they broke the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Their journey around the far side of the Moon today will take them a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

CRAYOLA’S DANDELION IS BACK! 💛🖍️ Crayola formally reintroduced the Dandelion color on Wednesday as part of its celebration of National Crayon Day. "Today we're celebrating the very special return of Dandelion to the Crayola family—found in the 64ct and 24ct crayon boxes!" the caption read. The shade was discontinued in 2017 as part of a product update. Joining the celebration was influencer LaKenzie Leigh-Andrea Powell, who became famous for her social media content dedicated to collecting the warm, dusty yellow crayon. (Facebook/Crayola)

That's us! 🌍 The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

He is dead I don’t know what to do My baby is gone

This is a proper example of SEX EDUCATION and anyone against it could be a potential Jeffrey Epstein.