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In July, the bird flu spread from dairies in Colorado to poultry farms. To contain it, two poultry operations employed about 650 temporary workers — Spanish-speaking immigrants as young as 15 — to cull flocks. Inside hot barns, they caught infected birds, gassed them with carbon dioxide, and disposed of the carcasses. Many did the hazardous job without goggles, face masks, and gloves. By the time Colorado’s health department asked if workers felt sick, five women and four men had been infected. They all had red, swollen eyes — conjunctivitis — and several had such symptoms as fevers, body aches, and nausea. State health departments posted online notices offering farms protective gear, but dairy workers in several states told KFF Health News that they had none. They also hadn’t heard about the bird flu, never mind tests for it. [...] Farmworker advocates also pressed the CDC for money to offset workers’ financial concerns about testing, including paying for medical care, sick leave, and the risk of being fired. This amounted to an offer of $75 each. “Outreach is clearly not a huge priority,” Boggess said. “I hear over and over from workers, ‘The cows are more valuable than us.’”

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you know, and another thing. bigotry isn’t all about feelings, there is material benefit to oppressing people. women are oppressed because there is material benefit to having a domestic sex servant who will do your laundry for you, chattel slavery existed (and continues to exist) because there is material benefit to having a labor force you don’t have to pay. native peoples all over the world have been and continue to be murdered and brutally oppressed because colonial powers wanted to steal their shit! some people are really in it for the money, and you can’t reason with those people. you can only stop them

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I’ve been reading about werewolves on Wikipedia and I just have to say. “Werewolves are warriors that descend into hell to fight demons” kicks unbelievable amounts of ass as a concept

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Sometimes I think about how one COULD posit that all biological life is the execution of digital code: DNA is just base 4, after all. I imagine this code iterating on itself over and over and over again. I think about how, from this perspective, Earth itself is the hardware: its physical state, its material reality, is the memory in which the life-code executes. This great big thinking machine requires incomprehensible energy input, but it just so happens to have an eternally-burning nuclear furnace, perfectly positioned to avoid overheating its delicate instruments.

I think about the calculation running for billions of years. I think about all that energy and time, used to answer such deceptively simple questions: “How do I keep doing this a little longer? How do I do it a little better next time? How do I make sure someone else can do it when I’m gone?”

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house rules, by rachel sontag

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Ok this is kinda funny but imagine being surrounded by people who sound like this. The French language was a mistake in the first place but combining it with English…. abomination

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people who don't follow chess I promise this post is really funny

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so cutes and translucent as well

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why do Tinamou eggs look like that. i want to eat them whole 

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*does this to you*

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Kind of a hot take but i dont think we can solve the issue of marginalized people being treated like children without asking ourselves why we treat children like subhuman objects incapable of thinking and undeserving of autonomy

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“カワセミはよく勢い余って木に突き刺さると聞いたので、心と壁に突き刺さるカワセミ画鋲作りました。ついでにキツツキも。”（いしかわかずや｜アイデアクリエイター@issikazu20）

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