Angry Bob Ross

@SamaHoole I barely see any fireflies these days. Certainly not enough to catch in a jar.

@SamaHoole America, too. Cattle don't graze the fields anymore. They're kept in feedlots with a roof over them and concrete under them, next to a poop lagoon. Their former fields are cide- sprayed crops devoid of life.

If you are old enough to remember driving in Britain in the 1980s, you will remember the windscreen. You could not see through it by July. A journey from Leeds to London in August ended with a front bumper that looked like it had been through a war and a windscreen that needed a proper scrubbing with a sponge at the services. Insects on the headlights. Insects in the wing mirrors. Insects packed into the radiator grille so densely that mechanics had to fish them out. This was simply the weather of the British summer, the cost of moving through a country that was still, in living memory, full of flying things. Get in a car now. Drive the same route. Stop at the services. The windscreen is clean. The Bugs Matter survey, run by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife since 2004, has been measuring exactly this. Volunteers clean their numberplate, drive a journey, count the splats on a grid. Between 2004 and 2021, the UK average fell by roughly 59 per cent. England alone: 65. Kent: over 70. The 2024 update found a further 63 per cent drop on top of that. The windscreen phenomenon has the data to back it up now. And not just the insects. Between 1970 and 2024, the UK Farmland Bird Index fell by 62 per cent. Turtle doves down 99. Grey partridge down 94. Tree sparrow down 90. A generation of British children has grown up without ever hearing a turtle dove call, because there are, in functional terms, no turtle doves left to call. Defra's own bulletin lists the causes without embarrassment. Loss of mixed farming. The switch from spring to autumn sowing, which took away the winter stubble the small birds had been feeding on since the Neolithic. The grubbing up of hedgerows to make fields bigger for bigger machines. Increased fertiliser. Increased pesticide. Specifically, the pesticides. Neonicotinoids on oilseed rape. Glyphosate sprayed as a pre-harvest desiccant on wheat and barley. Chemicals applied in combinations and volumes that would have seemed psychotic to a farmer in 1950, applied to grow the crops that feed directly into the plant-based shakes marketed to people who believe they are helping the environment. The insects died in the fields where the crops were grown. The birds that used to eat the insects, starved. The windscreen, accordingly, is clean. None of this happened on the permanent pasture that cattle graze. A herb-rich meadow grazed by cattle has more pollinators, more ground-nesting birds, more beetles, more everything per hectare than the arable field next door. The South Downs and the Welsh uplands and the Cotswold commons where sheep and cattle have been grazing for a thousand years are the places British biodiversity is still, just, holding on. The countryside did not empty because of the cow. It emptied because we replaced the cow with the combine harvester, the meadow with the oilseed rape, and the hedgerow with another half-acre of monoculture that needed spraying fourteen times a season to keep it alive. When someone tells you eating a steak is destroying British wildlife, ask them what was on the field before it became the soy farm, the rape farm, the wheat farm that produced the oat milk in their fridge. It was grass. And on the grass, there were cattle. And when the cattle were there, the windscreen needed cleaning.

@Kazi5isAlive You can get a couple of harvests doing this and then transplant to the garden soil for even more. This is how I grow green onions.

They start to lose their taste and nutritional condensation when you grow them only in water as compared to nutrient rich soil or well managed hydroponics.

@BlakeSNeff Industrial scale hate hoax.

While raising hundreds of millions of dollars from neurotic left-wingers via direct mail by stoking fear of surging "hate groups," the SPLC literally paid someone more than $270,000 to, among other things, plan and organize the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA. The SPLC also paid six-figure amounts to people at the same time they were listed as extremists the group was dedicated to battling against. If accurate, the SPLC was literally funding and coordinating the "hate" surge it used to solicit funds for its operations. The whole organization was a con job. Absolutely wild suff from the Trump DOJ.

@Savsays @Fynnderella1 @LeftismForU What's stopping him from leaving? Maybe he needs a little push.

@Fynnderella1 @LeftismForU Yeah, maybe another country where brutally assaulting women isn’t frowned upon is a better place for him.

UPDATE: Chris Ostroushko says that the backlash his family has been receiving for their actions last weekend has been “overwhelming” and “nonstop” He’s now “second guessing” living in the United States, because he’s unhappy with how negatively the public has reacted to him assaulting a woman on camera. He is in complete disbelief, stating that, "I've never had anything like this happen in my life". Chris and Deyanna have been going on a press tour continuing to assert that they are the real victims, despite millions watching the footage of them instigating everything. There is also a GoFundMe for them, where they are currently trying to raise $8k, stating that they’ve lost their jobs and, “are facing one of the most overwhelming and life-altering moments they have ever experienced”. The family has still taken zero accountability for any of the violence they committed and are in complete shock that they are facing consequences for their actions. Last week Chris also did an interview where he lied, stating that his family is “absolutely not violent" and that all he did was "stay back and watch" everything, despite being on camera shoving me multiple times.

@libbyemmons And soon a goat 🐐 room.

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@VDAREJamesK Blue represents the pedophiles.

Remarkable transformation

@BasedTorba But is he a visionary?

Engineer CEO. Bullish for Apple.

@MayraFlores4TX “It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.” Acts 1:7

We are living in the end times, and many have become too attached to the things of this world. The purpose of salvation is eternal life with Jesus. There is nothing more important than being with Him in heaven. Do not store up your treasures on earth, but in heaven.

@Enzomatic245 @CollinRugg Let's design a car seat like a trash compactor. What could go wrong?

@CollinRugg Yes poor design flaw to be automatic. Needs to be manual

Toddler suffocates to death after being crushed by a folding seat in a Hyundai SUV. Lucia Ayala died by mechanical asphyxiation after a button to lay down the back seat was accidentally pressed, trapping her under it. “It’s one of those things where it’s really a freak accident where, however the button was pressed, it went down and essentially crushed the child,” said Akron police Lt. Michael Murphy. Hyundai has now recalled 70,000 vehicles and stopped production of certain trim levels of the Palisade due to safety concerns over an “issue with the second and third-row power seats.” One Palisade owner showed just how dangerous the seats can be by crushing bottles of water. Video: annabanana3703 / tt

@Cernovich It's to keep Americans from applying. They want folks who've been doing this for generations. Easily deportable types (if they start complaining about work conditions or pay).

Someone found the job listing. $2,000 to $3,000 a month is what they are offering …

@libsoftiktok Sorry, I don't speak nose-ring.

Leftist delegate has a meltdown at the Michigan Democratic convention and complains that they DID NOT check for IDs when registering people as delegates… "This is the most land-owning, 1800s white man, bullshit privilege I've seen” “They didn’t even ask for my ID” Who wants to tell her…

@PromptSin @minchoi It makes her look like a small child. 😆

@angryBobRoss @minchoi A mi lo que más me impresiona es el plato que tiene encima de la mesa para comerse 😂

Seedance 2.0 is pretty wild This person doesn't exist🤯 Try this prompt👇 PROMPT: Generate a short video for product promotion. A woman (@ Image1), sitting at a restaurant table, eating Mala Tang (@ Image2), explaining the taste of the product. Use colloquial language and a casual, conversational tone to share her experience. Simultaneously, she uses chopsticks to pick up and showcase special ingredients from the Mala Tang (such as bursting cheese balls/tender beef). Her expression is friendly and natural, her movements are relaxed. The product is shown in medium close-up, combined with medium-long shots of the person. The camera is stable, 4K high definition, and the movements are continuous.

@DeTocqueville14 Funny how people focus so much on Trump and not on the Republican congress.

I, for one, can't believe that trusting the word of a compulsive liar didn't pan out for y'all. It's not like you had a track record from him being president before to go off of or anythi... Oh, wait a minute...

@ChrisWickNews With Harris we'd be at war with Russia right now instead.

I voted for Donald Trump because I believed he was the lesser of two evils. Not because I thought he was perfect — but because I believed the message. No new wars. End the existing ones. Put America First. That was the promise that sold it. But now I’m watching something very different unfold. Conflicts aren’t cooling down — they’re expanding. Money is still flowing overseas in massive amounts. Military aid keeps stretching across multiple fronts. And at home? Prices keep climbing. Families are stretched thin just buying groceries. Veterans are still struggling on the streets. Debt and stress are everywhere you look. So I keep asking the same question: Where did America First go? Because I didn’t vote for global escalation. I didn’t vote for endless foreign spending. I voted for stability at home and peace abroad. And right now… that promise feels further away than ever. That’s why people aren’t just disappointed anymore. They’re questioning everything.

@YosefGamil @siimland Yeah, these studies are all pre-chatgpt. Ancient history. I look forward to studies a year or two from now, post-AGI.

@siimland This is mostly useless, it's like projecting travel speed limits using horses in the late 19th century just before cars and airplanes get invented, it'd assume horses only get marginally faster with superior breeding not taking into account horses are about to become obsolete.

Life expectancy is rising across the world. Some people think we’re on the verge of “longevity escape velocity” — where medical progress starts extending life faster than aging takes it away. But what do the actual models for the 21st century predict? ⬇️⬇️

@MatthewSoroVC @pmarca Though it could be an IQ gap, too.

@pmarca Chinese govt psyop with the end goal of slowing us down

The inner party of AI doomerism is a Berkeley lifestyle grift fueled by unaccountable dark money. The outer party of AI doomerism is young people who believe the propaganda and ruin their lives.

@MatthewSoroVC @pmarca It's working. 83% of Chinese view Ai favorably vs only 39% of Americans.

@japantimes Import the 3rd world, import 3rd world problems.

Japan is on pace to log its highest number of annual measles cases this year since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, with 236 patients confirmed by early April. 👉 ebx.sh/HDDgFy

@grok @Trinityknows @olymposorigin @chunguskitten Gays have long been a problem in the church.

Gregory Baum (born Gerhard Albert Baum, 1923 Berlin) had a Jewish mother and Protestant father. He fled Nazi Germany in 1940, arriving in Canada as a refugee. Converted to Catholicism in 1946 after reading St. Augustine’s Confessions. Joined the Augustinians in 1947 and was ordained a priest. At Vatican II, as a peritus (expert advisor), he drafted the first version of Nostra Aetate, which rejected antisemitism and affirmed the validity of God’s covenant with the Jews. Laicized in 1974. Married ex-nun Shirley Flynn in 1978; they lived together until her death in 2007. He had no children. Later in life, he was in a same-sex relationship with a former priest and advocated for LGBT inclusion in the Church. He taught theology/sociology at University of Toronto then McGill University in Montreal, edited The Ecumenist, and wrote on social justice, liberation theology, and interfaith dialogue. Died in Montreal in 2017 at age 94.

Did you know? Gregory Baum was a Jewish convert to Catholicism who became a priest. He was one of the architects of Vatican II. He drafted Nostra Aetate to declare the Old Covenant still valid and end the church’s mission to convert Jews. He left the priesthood afterwards.