cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11578580

> >“Noting that she had read studies about mushrooms growing around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, she came to understand further, through her work, that fungi are an extraordinarily resilient species of life that consume carbon, and even though petroleum products are toxic to plants, to mushrooms they are essentially a kind of carbon. > > >In fact, mushrooms break down several categories of toxic waste with the same enzymes they use to consume a dead tree. They can also eat plastic and other things made out of oil, like agrochemicals.” > > Full Article Here >

Photo of a couple with one of them wearing a black t-shirt that says "I'm very vulnerable right now if any goth girls would like to take advantage of me.

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A photograph of Ernie smiling quite happily. Ernie is holding a plant.

Text underneath says I like to use my victims as fertilizer to grow small plants, which I then send to the victim's family as a condolence present. Most people neglect potted plants they receive as gifts. So, in a way, it's like they're letting their children die all over again.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/9823448

> Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment. > > - Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent. > > - The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.

Driving the news: The high court voted 8-1 in favor of Starbucks in a case the company filed against the National Labor Relations Board involving the so-called Memphis 7, a group of unionizing workers who said they were unlawfully fired after they appeared in a TV news segment.

• Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's effectively become the court's lone labor supporter, wrote the dissent.

• The decision will make it harder for the NLRB, the agency that administers the national labor law, to go after employers for violating its rules.

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The writing on the bottom of the image says "Sega does what"

The bottom image is Ralph Wiggum sitting at a Coleco computer with an image of a cat and the letters C T. Ralph is trying to spell CAT.

The bottom text says "Super Nintendo Chalmers-Don't"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11758908

> VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- People who act shocked that a priest would bless a gay couple but have no problem with him blessing a crooked businessman are hypocrites, Pope Francis said. > > “The most serious sins are those that are disguised with a more ‘angelic’ appearance. No one is scandalized if I give a blessing to an entrepreneur who perhaps exploits people, which is a very serious sin. Whereas they are scandalized if I give it to a homosexual -- this is hypocrisy,” he told the Italian magazine Credere. > > The interview was scheduled for publication Feb. 8, but Vatican News reported on some of its content the day before when the magazine issued a press release about the interview.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11251965

> Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month after he was ordered to pay $148m to Georgia election workers he defamed > > Donald Trump’s former lawyer Rudy Giuliani has listed a claim against the one-term president over unpaid legal fees in a new bankruptcy filing. > > The ex-New York City mayor includes a “possible claim for unpaid legal fees against Donald J Trump.” in the 26 January filing, which states that the amount is “undetermined.” > > Mr Giuliani filed for bankruptcy last month, days after a federal judge ordered him to “immediately” pay more than $148m to a pair of Georgia election workers a jury determined he defamed. > > Mr Giuliani represented Mr Trump in a string of unsuccessful lawsuits contesting the results of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden. > > Mr Trump’s legal fees owed to Mr Giuliani have previously been reported. The New York Times wrote in August 2023 that “Mr Trump has never explicitly told Mr Giuliani why he is effectively stiffing him, but the former president has pointed out that he lost the cases related to the election.”

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Text underneath: Elmo encouraged Cookie Monster to eat the cookie laced with 5,000,000 mg of THC. Cookie Monster didn't know the cookie was laced with THC. Elmo is a dick.

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A man is pointing at the screen with a large smile on his face. The man has a large brim hat and a cane in their left hand. Top text on screen reads "Cursed magnets". Bottom text reads "I am confunded and perplexed as to how they doth work".

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Two panels split vertically. In the left panel, there is a woman who is quite old, has a receding hairline, and showing a lot of cleavage.

In the right panel, there is a man looking towards the woman in the left panel and is saying "You may have a nice rack, you do have a "but her face". We can fix that with this bag."

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