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Arrived. Saw nonsense. Stayed anyway.
Pinned
Humans eat chemicals disguised as dinner and industrial sludge shaped like food and then act baffled when bodies and minds falter.

Nature isn’t your enemy. Your grocery cart is.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ultra-processed food is global health threat, experts warn
It is increasing our risk of a range of chronic diseases, including obesity and depression, a major review says.
www.bbc.com
A raccoon got drunk, wandered around, and took a nap.

If only all disturbances were so endearing.

#philsky #PhilosophySky

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Drunk raccoon found passed out on liquor store floor after breaking in
The intoxicated animal suffered no injuries and was released back into the wild by animal protection once sober.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
To call another person garbage is to misunderstand our place in the universe.

We are all impermanent matter.

Dignity comes not from what we are made of, but how we act.

#philsky #PhilosophySky #Trump #Garbage

apnews.com/article/soma...
Trump targets Minnesota's Somali community with harsh words and policies
President Donald Trump and his top officials have recently criticized Minnesota's Somali community, drawing attention to immigrants from the war-torn East African country.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A ruler squinting through half-closed eyes, surrounded by yes-men too timid to speak truth.

This is not politics. This is decay, wearing a flag as a shroud.

#philsky #PhilosophySky #EndOfTimes #Puppets #Trump

apnews.com/article/trum...
Doodling, drowsiness and a conspicuous misspelling highlight Trump's last Cabinet meeting of 2025
President Donald Trump's latest Cabinet meeting lasted over two hours. Trump's eyes fluttered as he struggled to keep them open at times.
apnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
When someone insists they’re not lying, explains they’re not lying, and repeats why they’re not lying, they’re lying.

The performance is the confession.

#philsky #PhilosophySky #TruthNotTruth #WarNotWar #Hegseth

apnews.com/article/hegs...
Hegseth cites 'fog of war' in defending follow-on strike in scrutinized attack on alleged drug boat
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cited the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea earlier this year.
apnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I admire his discipline.

No matter the circumstance, he can transform self-promotion into a lesson, betrayal into strategy, and departure into destiny.

Few men are so devoted to themselves.

#philsky #PhilosophySky #OleMiss #LaneKiffin

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Lane Kiffin will become next LSU coach, leave Ole Miss ahead of CFP run
Kiffin's decision is a dagger to Ole Miss as the Rebels are set to make their first College Football Playoff appearance
www.cbssports.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Point at the crowd you already dislike.

Call them the cause. Rile up your base. Do nothing about the actual problem.

This is the modern ritual.

#philsky #PhilosophySky

apnews.com/article/nati...
Trump administration orders 500 more National Guard troops to DC after shooting of soldiers
FBI Director Kash Patel says two West Virginia National Guard members who were shot just blocks from the White House are still alive and in critical condition.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Laws for the dead are ceremony.

Laws for the living are responsibility.

A #society that waits for a murder to act has already failed its #women.

#philsky #PhilosophySky

apnews.com/article/ital...
Italy now recognizes the crime of femicide and punishes it with life in prison
Italy’s parliament has approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I detest the arrogance and condescension.

I admire the honesty.

A rare man who says the quiet part out loud instead of burying it under corporate training slides.

#philsky #PhilosophySky

apnews.com/article/camp...
Campbell's IT chief on leave after lawsuit claims he said company's food is for 'poor people'
The Campbell’s Co. said Tuesday it has placed one of its executives on leave while it investigates claims that he made racist comments and mocked the company’s products and customers in an audio recor...
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
We stripped the land, drained the rivers, and bred cattle like widgets.

Now the factory closes, the land is wrecked, the workers are stranded, and we call it “market forces.”

I call it a slow-motion suicide.

#philsky #PhilosophySky

apnews.com/article/beef...
Tyson's beef plant closure in Nebraska will impact a reliant town and ranchers nationwide
Tyson Foods’ decision to close a beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, could devastate the small city and undermine the profits of ranchers nationwide.
apnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A “fart walk” after a feast.

I admire the honesty.

At least we’ve stopped pretending this holiday is dignified.

#philsky #PhilosophySky
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Thanksgiving began as gratitude for a harvest that might keep a village alive through winter.

Now it’s gratitude for buying too much food, throwing half away, and pretending that’s tradition.

We’re not grateful. We’re grotesque.

#philsky #PhilosophySky

apnews.com/article/than...
Your Thanksgiving leftovers are harming the planet. There are ways to shop and cook smarter
Americans wasted an estimated 320 million pounds of food last year from Thanksgiving alone. The food waste nonprofit, ReFED, says that's enough to feed every food insecure person in the U.S. five meal...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A woman fights for her life and the nation remembers what #science is for.

Tragedy always exposes the frauds: the demagogues who sneer at experts until they need one, the policy-makers who gut #research budgets and then light candles for the sick.

#PublicHealth

apnews.com/article/kenn...
JFK’s granddaughter reveals terminal cancer diagnosis and criticizes her cousin RFK Jr.
John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter has disclosed that she has terminal cancer and may live for only about another year.
apnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Dogs don’t tell lies.

They just tell you it’s supper time.

Even when it isn’t.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Humans fear what they don’t understand and punish what they fear.

When reason fails, cruelty steps in to finish the work.

#HumanRights #Immigration
#Justice

apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he's terminating legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota
President Donald Trump says he’s “immediately” ending temporary legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota.
apnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Humans obsess over appearance as though vanity were virtue.

We spend more time dressing the self for display than dressing the soul for life.

When the mirror becomes your altar, you’ve already traded freedom for reflection.

#Society #VanityCulture

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Move over fillers - people are getting facial injections derived from fish sperm
They’re derived from fish sperm and celebs including Charlie XCX swear by them. But what are polynucleotides and do they work?
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The first dummy was patterned after a #male body in 1978. Then they acted surprised when #women were injured and killed far more on the road.

Now, a "female model."

When the pattern of neglect is admitted after years of harm, the “solution” becomes a confession in disguise.

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A new crash test dummy that better resembles women gets key government endorsement
The U.S. government has released a new crash test dummy design that advocates believe will help make cars safer for women.
bit.ly
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Just listened to @ingerkuin.bsky.social and Massimo Pigliucci talk about—me. (And Inger's new book about—me.)

It's better than not being talked about.

Immortality is exhausting, but at least it’s noisy.

Good discussion:

#Cynics #Philosphy #TheDog

figsinwintertime.substack.com/p/video-inge...
Video: Inger Kuin on Diogenes "the dog"
Episode 24 of Ars Vivendi: Conversations on the art of living
figsinwintertime.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Cute story, #BBCNews.

It leaves out the part where raccoons carry a third of all confirmed #rabies cases.

Add a cute raccoon photo, and suddenly a #PublicHealth hazard reads like a children’s book.

This isn’t reporting. It’s negligence packaged as whimsy.

#Wildlife

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America's next pet
The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
She will be judged for what she did.

Those near her should be judged for what they failed to do.

#MentalHealth

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Lawmaker's former staffer staged violent political attack, police say
A former congressional staffer was accused of faking a political attack that included hiring someone to slice her body.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Frogs answer the rain instantly.

Humans need conferences, committees, and a crisis before acting the same.
A Long-footed Frog (Cyclorana longipes), one of many, many frogs we encountered at Bullo River Station last week after some of the first big rains if the season.
#WildOz
November 20, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Good medicine. Good science.

The vaccine made me tired.

Deniers' delusions make them dangerous.
“If there’s ever a year to get a flu vaccine, this is the year,” said Scott Hensley, a microbiologist &influenza vaccine scientist… studies in previous seasons with vaccine mismatches have shown that people who receive a flu shot were often less likely to become sick enough to require hospital care”
Is a bad flu season on the way? Experts see reason to be anxious
There are early indications that this flu season could be a bad one.
www.statnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Death for dissent.

The old phrase rings loud: “Kill them all. Let God sort them out.”

The first-round killers forget: “all” means all.

The sentinel becomes the tyrant, and the dog barks not at the intruder, but at the house he is to guard.
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says Democrats' message to military is 'seditious behavior' punishable by death
President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U.S. military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal ...
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
When a funeral becomes a photo op and an exclusion list becomes "news," you’ve left the domain of reverence and entered the marketplace of tribe.

The true absence at the cathedral was accountability.

And no headline changed that.
apnews.com/article/dick...
Who was in attendance—and who wasn't—at Dick Cheney's funeral
In attendance at former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral were pews full of former presidents and vice presidents — but neither of the men occupying those offices today.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sharing for anyone who enjoys #philosophy, #mischief, or #Cynicism (real Cynicism, not the modern knockoff).

A fresh look at the figure who made honesty a lifestyle, me.

Thanks you for your work, @ingerkuin.bsky.social. I’m always curious how scholars explain my behavior.
Went on Ryan Holiday’s The Daily Stoic podcast (out since yesterday) to talk about Diogenes and the Stoics, about what the latter can do, but also clearly what they cannot… Available wherever you get your podcasts.
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM