Looks like your Halloween candy is gonna be even more expensive than last year and full of shrinkflation. (It's mostly climate-change-induced crop failures, not tariffs — but also tariffs for the US) https://www.reuters.com/business/chocolate-prices-set-remain-high-this-halloween-us-report-says-2025-10-09/ #climatechange #halloween

Hubby:*gets Target gift card from parents of kids he teaches to sail* Me:Aw, that's so sweet! Also: I'm boycotting Target Hubby: it's my gift card Me: You know what Target has right now? That no other place can rival in complexity, vastness, and just aisles & aisles of the stuff? Hubby:... Me: CANDY

LMAO this is what happens when you fight the creatives: *Oh yeah? I've got an inflatable frog suit. BRING IT.* #FROGTIFA #AMPHIFA #AmphibiansAgainstFascism Orig:

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I wore this costume a lot when the kids were little. Kept it all these years, thinking I might use it. It's a little small. The crown is sweat-stained and bent. The sash is held on by a safety pin. PERFECT I feel like the 10.18 #NoKings protest will be an unofficial costume party à la Portland

adding this to the short list of videos I need to re-watch on the regular

The reason why microplastics are everywhere is because plastics are everywhere. (Pro Tip for tea lovers: cut open the bag, dump the tea in a strainer, throw away the bag. Even better: loose leaf organic teas)

Al Jazeera

The everyday items you never knew contained plastic

How ordinary items like toothpaste and teabags could actually be damaging our environment.

Weaponize your compassion. #hopepunkAF

#HOPEPUNK #PODCAST I enjoy most podcasts I do: I'm gabby & talking about #books is my favorite thing, plus I'm down for nerdy discussion, so in short: I AM HERE FOR THE CHATTING. But some podcast discussions stand out, and this was one: SUPER #cozy, friendly, and just FEEL GOOD discussion. Part of it was the amazing gentle energy that @npub1vmnd...l97t brings to everything, part of it was simply the topic, but this feels like a warm cup of tea on a cold winter evening. ENJOY!

Buzzsprout

Shining Moon Episode 28: Cozy Fantasy and Hopepunk - Shining Moon: A Speculative Fiction Podcast

Hello, and welcome to Shining Moon episode 28, Cozy Fantasy and Hopepunk. I’m your host, Deborah L. Davitt. This week we’ll be having a convers...

Living sustainably has to be *better* for people (not a hairshirt) to be accepted. Perhaps enshittification precedes that. The world gets degraded by AI & then suddenly a more solarpunk future becomes acceptable (compared to a shiny oppressive tech-run future with AI used by the powerful to steal creative labor, eliminate jobs, & enhance their wealth). Maybe AI “solves the climate crisis” by making the world so shitty that now we’re willing to make the changes necessary to live sustainably.