Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen

In a world inundated with technology and digital distractions, it’s easy to lose sight of the simplicity and charm of nature.

A recent guerrilla gardening experiment by kindergarten children reminds us of nature’s resilience and its ability to flourish in the most improbable spaces.

The children did an experiment in guerrilla gardening by dropping seeds into sidewalk cracks and observing the results. At first glance, it might have appeared to be a fruitless endeavor – what could possibly […]

https://streetartutopia.com/2025/06/26/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/

This is why we loved David Lynch: such PASSION for his chosen medium. Be sure to watch this video all the way through. https://youtu.be/OQiQk8AJ0YI

via https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/twin-peaks-season-3-theatrical-mix-david-lynch-intended-1235136544/

This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater.
We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊
https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/tipping-points-experts-issue-urgent-message-to-world-leaders/

Inspired by some tech bro saying their algorithm found this writing so awful it couldn't process it. I decided to have a read. It's wonderful. Well written and interesting.

What's more. It made me think about door knobs and handles. Everywhere I've ever lived has had handles. To the point I've always thought lever style door handles were the norm. Door knobs are rare. So rare, that at a friend's house recently. I couldn't work out how to open the front door...

https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250626/

I would call your attention to a significant sequence of events.

1. Trump attacks Harvard.
2. Harvard refuses to fold.
3. Universities around the country start to form a mutual defense pact against Trump.
4. Trump now says that letter to Harvard was never supposed to be sent.

What it does show is that Trump, like bullies everywhere, folds when he faces firm opposition. So we need to put firm opposition in his face at every opportunity.

#uspol

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Part of progressive organizing in the new world order is doing it off #X / #Twitter.

Like this but not limited to this.
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/11/07/x-odus-charities-and-campaigners-to-abandon-musks-twitter-after-trump-endorsement/

Worth saying because (1) it's still not obvious to many and (2) network effects can overcome other interests.

There's more than one good alternative to X/Twitter for this purpose. But I'm amazed and disappointed to see some think that #Threads is one of them.

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #USPolitics

Right now every company that imports from China is taking all the cash they can muster, and buying up as much as they can and stuffing it in a warehouse , in anticipation of the tariffs creating accelerated demand for imports

That money would have been used for expansion, raises, bonuses and other operational elements

Because cash is relatively expensive, and it costs money to store inventory , those companies will increase prices as if they had paid the expected higher tariffs.

Fight early and fight hard. The deeper the cut, the worse the impact.

#Fascism #AntiFascism #Resist

As a mental health measure, I've cancelled most of my email subscriptions to US substacks. Mostly annual subscriptions, so I still have access until they expire, but they don't land in my mailbox. I can still go back if something hopeful happens there, but I can't imagine what.

Mastodon Tip

Seeing some newer folks saying that it is hard know who to follow.

This tool, Followgraph for Mastodon >>> https://followgraph.vercel.app/ to the rescue!

Followgraph will provide you with all the follows of the people you follow.

What? OK, so say you have found a few accounts that interest you. Run Followgraph and you will see and be able to follow all of their follows ranked in order of how many are shared.

Then add some these accounts and run it again.

more...

#MastoTips #NewUser

Mastodon is notoriously a difficult place for new users to establish themselves and learn their way around. Now, of all times, it is important for us to throw our doors open and welcome newcomers. Bashing them about transgressions of rules they don't yet understand isn't helpful. Friendly reminders to help them understand may be. And most of all help them find their People. Finding some folks have a very incorrect impression of #Mastodon.

Shift in 2024 electorate by state from 2020. Yep, Dems need to rethink themselves.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/s/fYnHMAXCiL

#data #statistics #uspol

And now in Norway, local governments are making massive cuts to social services to pay massive interest rate payments to private banks, at the same time as their tax income has gone down since people are getting tax deductions for their interest rates.

So not only is it getting really hard to hold on to your home, they’re also shutting down your kids’ school.

The European Parliament’s biggest party, the European People’s Party, promised not to cooperate with certain far-right groups. A Follow the Money analysis shows how the Christian Democrats, led by Ursula von der Leyen, are abandoning their pledge behind the scenes. https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/cordon-sanitaire-european-parliament

This coalition of @WorkingFamilies, @indivisibleteam
and others already has a kit & resources for post-trump community gatherings. Idk where it will go but it’s a great start for folks curious about building local, durable, and connected networks of political resistance

https://weareworthfightingfor.org

Alarm bells are ringing loudly as the world's largest river, the Amazon River dries up:
"Never has so little rain fallen in the rainforest, never have dry conditions lasted so long, and never has such a vast region of the jungle been in drought"
#climatechange

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/world/americas/south-america-drought-amazon-river.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk4.A32D.p84BitppF7lo&smid=em-share