My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers
L: https://economist.com/1843/2026/03/06/my-road-trip-with-the-do-gooding-cactus-smugglers
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794568
posted on 2026.07.05 at 10:30:44 (c=0, p=6)

The man just told me this place has an elevator, all I gotta do is climb 5 steps to get to it.

It's always special seeing a nuptial flight. The workers all come out of the nest and run around to act as cover for the queens and drones as they take off. Before they fly they run around working themselves into a kind of frenzy.

This might be to spread pheromones that might trigger other nearby colonies to fly. These ants are near a big park so if the queens go that way they should find some males.

I wanted to collect a queen but these have not mated so there is no point.

Review - We Burned So Bright, by TJ Klune: your mileage may vary here, but I found that the apocalyptic event was so poorly committed to that it just felt goofy, and Klune's usual sentimentalism didn't work for me like before. Rating: 2/5 ("it was okay").

Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/07/09/review-we-burned-so-bright/

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White “”””leftists”””” been showing they whole ass this year for real 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Dinner at 8? How cosmopolitan.

US expands military strikes on Iran after Trump says he’ll ‘hit them hard’
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/7/8/aje-onl-nf_us-expands-military-strike-on-iran-080726?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Hay un montón de cosas criticables de Argentina, que la gente se ponga contenta por el mundial no sería una de ellas, amigues... Llevo un año y medio acá y el gobierno viene haciendo mierda el país sí o sí, sin mundial mediante y muchas veces con parte de la oposición remando para el mismo lado.
Me importa cero y odio el fútbol, pero ayer fue lindo ver a la gente contenta que quieren que les diga 🤷🏻‍♂️

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@catsalad/116886169453909638

The three genders

New #ebook @gutenberg_org: Oldham by Lucy Ellen Guernsey https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79054

you ever think about how modern police and ICE really could not exist without cars? fascists really rely on this mechanical imbalance of power to kidnap and ambush people.

ALL kidnappers need these types of tools to attack and isolate people....

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Season of the Serpent by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Though this is the third book in the trilogy, there is a detailed "story so far" in the beginning to get the reader up to date, and there has been quite a bit of a story so far. Although I haven't read the earlier books, I didn't feel at all lost in this wonderful and vibrant world. The author indicates that he to
https://readerbarn.com/season-of-the-serpent-by-suyi-davies-okungbowa/
#Fantasy #Fiction #Africa #fantasy #multicultural #trilogy

🇦🇺Honoured to present my book to Australian readers with two people I most admire. I was in 🇦🇺25days into the genocide, with 🇮🇱killing about 150 Palestinians a day. There I learned how much patience one needs when confronting uninformed media and aggressive proApartheid lobbists.

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%
L: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/we-cannot-choose-to-become-idiots-the-ai-cheating-scandal-roiling-brown-university/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838611
posted on 2026.07.08 at 19:11:28 (c=0, p=4)

I saw a Solenopsis molesta nuptial flight today! They are so tiny and amazing. Their queens are smaller than my carpenter ant *minor workers* And the queens dwarf the regular ants. "ants for ants"

These ants are called "thief ants" because they are into organized crime, they will fence stolen goods without asking questions.

They were living under a heineken bottle cap in the median of a street in the South Bronx.

They enjoy hotdogs, stealing from larger ants, being tiny, and "thrip music."

7/10

Merely okay read for me. A bit of a slog to get through.

#books #reading

i don't get pretty ~for others~ i get pretty for myself. it's an affirmation. a delight. indulging in the very things my cis male upbringing intended to deny me. :heart_sp_trans:

The Leanpub Podcast 🎙 Feat. Serena Martino, Author of The Unwritten Job Description: How to Redesign Work and Life on Your Terms

https://youtu.be/lOSm_jkuCxk

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Emmys Diversity Report 2026: Representation Continues Steep Decline
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/awards/emmys-diversity-report-2026/

#emmys