Bryan Rossi-Anderson 📚 #Tsundoku

12 Books that will help you escape The Matrix.

Mad energy 😂

“Iran is really kicking a*s, is really doing something that no one ever thought it would do. And to me, I'm like, do it. Do it because we've seen three years of annihilation of Palestinian people and nobody doing a damn thing, except Yemen...”

Under my leadership of the Labour Party, Peter Mandelson had no role, no influence and no part to play, because I do not trust the man and I do not believe the man.

Amazing how the media can tell you all about human rights abuses in Iran, but when the US is causing people on ventilators to die in Cuba, there is radio silence. Apparently, human rights only matter when we need an excuse to start a war.

Part 3. The rare good news in all of this: bugs bounce back fast when you stop killing them. Four years after the EU banned those seed-coating pesticides, French researchers checked 57 bird species across 1,900 sites. Insect-eating birds were already recovering, up 2-3%. Small number, but the lead researcher said it matches what happened after DDT was banned decades ago. Full recovery took 10-25 years then. The clock just started. In areas where farmers planted wildflower strips along their fields, insect numbers came back by 30%. Where European countries rewilded degraded land, insect species variety jumped 20%. Butterfly and moth populations rose 40% in restored grasslands and meadows. These aren’t projections. This is measured data from programs already running. So the fixes work. The problem is scale. Now the other side. At the current rate of decline, roughly 2.5% of total insect mass disappearing per year, researchers writing for the UN warned that insects could functionally vanish within a century. A 2019 review in Biological Conservation estimated 40% of all insect species are headed toward extinction, with insects going extinct eight times faster than mammals, birds, or reptiles. A 2018 study in Science calculated that at 2 degrees Celsius of warming, 18% of insect species lose more than half their geographic range. At 3.2 degrees, that jumps to nearly half of all insect species. And these losses stack. When bugs disappear, the animals that eat them starve. Insect-eating birds in Europe dropped 13%. Bats lost up to 50% of their nightly food. Soil insects that break down dead plants and recycle nutrients fell 40% in affected areas, slowing the decomposition that keeps farmland fertile. The EU looked at the data and acted. Recovery started within four years. The U.S. still coats 150 million acres in the same chemicals the EU banned. Every planting season, the clock runs a little further in the wrong direction.

Part 2. So why are the bugs disappearing? Almost every corn seed planted in America comes pre-coated with a pesticide called a neonicotinoid. Think of it as nicotine for bugs. It gets baked into the seed, and as the plant grows, the poison spreads through the whole thing, stems, leaves, pollen, nectar, all of it. About half of soybean seeds get the same treatment. In total, these pesticides cover around 150 million acres of U.S. farmland every year. That’s roughly the size of Texas. Here’s the part that got me. The plant only absorbs about 2% of the pesticide on the seed. The other 98% washes off into the soil and water. A Penn State study found that 40% of farmers don’t even know their seeds are coated with it. The EU looked at the science, found “high acute risks” to bees, and banned three of the main ones from outdoor use in 2018. The U.S. still hasn’t. The neonicotinoid market hit $5.5 billion globally in 2023. Pesticides aren’t the only problem. Streetlights are killing bugs at a scale nobody expected. UK researchers compared moth caterpillars near lit and unlit roads and found 47% fewer caterpillars near the lights. One German estimate puts the toll at 100 billion insects killed by artificial light per summer. And the new LED streetlights cities are installing to save energy? Worse for insects than the old yellow ones. Then there’s the land itself. North America has lost 90% of its native grasslands. What replaced them is mostly single-crop farms stretching to the horizon, corn or soy with nothing else growing. For insects, that’s a desert with poison in it. The EU banned the pesticides. The U.S. still sprays them across an area the size of Texas every planting season.

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

🚨🇺🇳🇮🇱 UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese tears apart the question about Israel's "right to exist"

@9NewsNancy It made perfect sense in Gaza. Unfortunately, I don’t make the rules. 😩

Iran has a right to exist. Also, they warned they would strike which I have been reliably informed makes them the most moral army in the world. Lastly, the children harmed were used as human shields. Did I miss anything?

Kinda awkward when you start a war to destroy nukes that the other side doesn't have and instead they destroy the nukes that you do have 👀 👈🏾

@ISephara He arrived in hell a long time ago

BRRRRRRAAAAPPPP 💥

Iran has declined the US permission to sell oil. Says it has no surplus crude oil to offer international markets; that’s diplomatic speech for fuck off.

If the title isn't enough to get to interested... #MoveAlong

"The Green party has maintained a consistently anti-war position – it’s just that now, people are paying attention," writes @RivkahBrown. novaramedia.com/2026/03/20/the…

@JakeCan72 @hobobobby

Seven cops raided a rapper’s house looking for drugs and a kidnapping victim. Found neither. Filed no charges. Left behind a broken gate, busted doors, and one deputy eyeing a lemon pound cake in the fridge. Afroman had security cameras rolling the whole time. He turned the footage into diss tracks, music videos, and merch. Mocked the raid. Made money off it. The deputies sued him for $3.9 million. Defamation. Invasion of privacy. Emotional distress. Yesterday a jury of his peers ruled in his favor on all 13 counts. Zero damages. Case closed. He walked out of the courthouse in an American flag suit: “I didn’t win. America won.” They came for the lemon pound cake. They left with nothing. 🇺🇸

Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah isn't just a history lesson; it's a story of resilience. It’s about finding your voice when the world tries to silence you. Zephaniah’s ability to write for young adults with such raw honesty makes this book a treasure. 📖✨ #WindrushChild

After starting a war that nobody wanted except Israel & declaring victory 13x, Trump chastises NATO nations for not helping.