i donât think mordecai and rigby were ever gay for each other but i do think many times rigby would be like dude if i was a girl would you want to fuck me and mordecai is like dude thatâs weird. no. and rigby is all bent out of shape about it and in the middle of the night when theyâre both trying to sleep heâs like why wouldnât you fuck me if i was a girl. iâm cute right? or am i ugly and thatâs why iâm single⊠and mordecai is like fine whatever iâd fuck girl you. stop bringing it up now. & the next day rigby is like fuck off muscle man iâm not ugly mordecai said heâd fuck girl me & then a portal opens to an alternate dimension where theyâre genderbent like that adventure time episode and the voice of god is like mordecai you must make good on your word. fuck girl rigby.
Today I was playing a pokemon movie for my twins and Darkrai appeared and I said, âLook Luke! Itâs Darkrai.â And he said âDarai!â The double take I did. This boy turned a year old yesterday and Iâve been trying for months to get him to say mama and he sees Darkrai once and betrays me.
The problem with making it through this year if it kills me is that now I have to make it through next year if it kills me. And it just keeps going like that. Rude.
hey fun fact this album is actually named after a book called steal this book (first edition came out in the 70s)
hereâs the 2023 version, itâs got everything from how to apply for work, ways to feed yourself for cheap, how to start your own printing workshop, bunch of stuff. the pdf is tiny so personally i have it downloaded on my phone
2023 edition of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.This book provides a huge wealth of information about practical living.Great thanks to the l
They're wanting to change the definition of water to see which water would qualify under the Clean Water Act...I wish I was making this up.
What this means, in layman's terms, is that not all water or wetlands would be under environmental protections, so some could legally be dumped in, scraped out of, or otherwise harmed.
The comment period for this is pretty short (just a few days left!) so please submit comments asking for ALL water to be protected.
With the organizationâs technology, an area of the ocean the size of a football field is being cleaned every five seconds.
When self-described âocean custodianâ Boyan Slat took the stage at TED 2025 in Vancouver this week, he showed viewers a reality many of us are already heartbreakingly familiar with: There is a lot of trash in the ocean.
âIf we allow current trends to continue, the amount of plastic thatâs entering the ocean is actually set to double by 2060,â Slat said in his TED Talk, which will be published online at a later date.Â
Plus, once plastic is in the ocean, it accumulates in âgiant circular currentsâ called gyres, which Slat said operate a lot like the drain of the bathtub, meaning that plastic can enter these currents but cannot leave.
Thatâs how we get enormous build-ups like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant collection of plastic pollution in the ocean that is roughly twice the size of Texas.
As the founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, Slatâs goal is to return our oceans to their original, clean state before 2040. To accomplish this, two things must be done.
First: Stop more plastic from entering the ocean. Second: Clean up the âlegacyâ pollution that is already out there and doesnât go away by itself.
And Slat is well on his way.
Pictured: Kingston Harbour in Jamaica. Photo courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup Project
When Slatâs first TEDx Talk went viral in 2012, he was able to organize research teams to create the first-ever map of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. From there, they created a technology to collect plastic from the most garbage-heavy areas in the ocean.
âWe imagined a very long, u-shaped barrier ⊠that would be pushed by wind and waves,â Slat explained in his Talk.Â
This barrier would act as a funnel to collect garbage and be emptied out for recycling.Â
But there was a problem.
âWe took it out in the ocean, and deployed it, and it didnât collect plastic,â Slat said, âwhich is a pretty important requirement for an ocean cleanup system.â
Soon after, this first system broke into two. But a few days later, his team was already back to the drawing board.Â
From here, they added vessels that would tow the system forward, allowing it to sweep a larger area and move more methodically through the water. Mesh attached to the barrier would gather plastic and guide it to a retention area, where it would be extracted and loaded onto a ship for sorting, processing, and recycling.Â
It worked.Â
âFor 60 years, humanity had been putting plastic into the ocean, but from that day onwards, we were also taking it back out again,â Slat said, with a video of the technology in action playing on screen behind him.
To applause, he said: âItâs the most beautiful thing Iâve ever seen, honestly.â
Over the years, Ocean Cleanup has scaled up this cleanup barrier, now measuring almost 2.5 kilometers â or about 1.5 miles â in length. And it cleans up an area of the ocean the size of a football field every five seconds.
Pictured: The Ocean Cleanup's System 002 deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Photo courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup
The system is designed to be safe for marine life, and once plastic is brought to land, it is recycled into new products, like sunglasses, accessories for electric vehicles, and even Coldplayâs latest vinyl record, according to Slat.Â
These products fund the continuation of the cleanup. The next step of the project is to use drones to target areas of the ocean that have the highest plastic concentration.Â
In September 2024, Ocean Cleanup predicted the Patch would be cleaned up within 10 years.Â
However, on April 8, Slat estimated âthat this fleet of systems can clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in as little as five yearsâ time.â
With ongoing support from MCS, a Netherlands-based Nokia company, Ocean Cleanup can quickly scale its reliable, real-time data and video communication to best target the problem.Â
Itâs the largest ocean cleanup in history.
But what about the plastic pollution coming into the ocean through rivers across the world? Ocean Cleanup is working on that, too.Â
To study plastic pollution in other waterways, Ocean Cleanup attached AI cameras to bridges, measuring the flow of trash in dozens of rivers around the world, creating the first global model to predict where plastic is entering oceans.
âWe discovered: Just 1% of the worldâs rivers are responsible for about 80% of the plastic entering our oceans,â Slat said.
His team found that coastal cities in middle-income countries were primarily responsible, as people living in these areas have enough wealth to buy things packaged in plastic, but governments canât afford robust waste management infrastructure.Â
Ocean Cleanup now tackles those 1% of rivers to capture the plastic before it reaches oceans.
Pictured: Interceptor 007 in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of The Ocean Cleanup
âItâs not a replacement for the slow but important work thatâs being done to fix a broken system upstream,â Slat said. âBut we believe that tackling this 1% of rivers provides us with the only way to rapidly close the gap.â
To clean up plastic waste in rivers, Ocean Cleanup has implemented technology called âinterceptors,â which include solar-powered trash collectors and mobile systems in eight countries worldwide.
In Guatemala, an interceptor captured 1.4 million kilograms (or over 3 million pounds) of trash in under two hours. Now, this kind of collection happens up to three times a week.
âAll of that would have ended up in the sea,â Slat said.
Now, interceptors are being brought to 30 cities around the world, targeting waterways that bring the most trash into our oceans. GPS trackers also mimic the flow of the plastic to help strategically deploy the systems for the most impact.
âWe can already stop up to one-third of all the plastic entering our oceans once these are deployed,â Slat said.
And as soon as he finished his Talk on the TED stage, Slat was told that TEDâs Audacious Project would be funding the deployment of Ocean Cleanupâs efforts in those 30 cities as part of the organizationâs next cohort of grantees.Â
While it is unclear how much support Ocean Cleanup will receive from the Audacious Project, Head of TED Chris Anderson told Slat: âWeâre inspired. Weâre determined in this community to raise the money you need to make that 30-city project happen.â
And Slat himself is determined to clean the oceans for good.
âFor humanity to thrive, we need to be optimistic about the future,â Slat said, closing out his Talk.
âOnce the oceans are clean again, it can be this example of how, through hard work and ingenuity, we can solve the big problems of our time.â
If you haven't heard of these guys or seen their youtube videos, PLEASE take a few minutes to watch what they're doing. However bad of a state you think a river can be in, there are rivers in the world that are in a worse state than that. This is my favorite of their interceptors:
