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a flag for humanity should emphasize what really makes humanity special- abstract, complex advancement, focused on the future. while the prehistoric hand art is beautiful, our hands are too chimp-like to really be special enough

Easter 2025 vs Easter 2026 We are winning. Google finally changed their logo for Easter.

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

Same water. Same tank. But the one on the right has oysters. A single oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day. Oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay once filtered the entire Bay, 19 trillion gallons, in under a week. Today, with less than 1% of the original oyster population remaining, it takes over a year. We ate them. We dredged their reefs. We dumped nitrogen into their water until the algae blooms choked what was left. And now we build billion dollar water treatment plants to do what oysters did for free. The Billion Oyster Project is working to restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor. Restored reefs in Maryland's Harris Creek can now filter the entire creek in under 10 days and remove nitrogen equivalent to 20,000 bags of fertilizer every year. Nature had this figured out. We just have to restore the oysters and get out of the way.

I hate to break this to SF Giants fans - who are some of my favorite people - but Tony Vitello is not a major league manager and being a fringe Hall of Fame candidate does not make Buster Posey a baseball genius. It's gonna be a long year🤦🏼‍♂️