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Episodes
Monday Dec 12, 2022
Monday Dec 12, 2022
The city of Troy has taken aim at the roosting crows, and residents are up in wings about it. But is taking action against these beloved corvids advisable? Power outages, deliberate and not, are revealing the fragility of our utilities infrastructure. German cranks hilariously attempt a coup. David reveals some very problematic opinions about elves. And precision fermentation offers a promising glimpse into a future without big agro.
Precision Fermentation and Rewilding of Agricultural Land:
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Iran and China are adjusting policies in response to mass protest–even if they won’t admit it. Meanwhile, rail workers are forced to accept a bad contract or carry out a wildcat strike. A sweet grandma’s home is raided and ransacked by a Denver SWAT team, and the new AI chatbot taking the internet by storm gives us our wildflower–a police reform executive order that is meh at best, but what do you expect–the AI is a liberal.
Adam Johnson on the rail workers’ deal: https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonnyc/status/1598753656794501121?s=46&t=CS4G4BvrPNPBjnsrH0vRAw
Iran’s morality police: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/04/world/middleeast/iran-morality-police.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Grandmother’s home ransacked by SWAT team: https://lawandcrime.com/lawsuit/aclu-lawsuit-claims-grandmothers-home-was-illegally-raided-by-swat-team-searching-for-stolen-iphone-11/
Ending zero covid: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/01/the-beginning-of-the-end-to-covid-zero/
More: https://thechinaproject.com/2022/12/02/why-beijing-will-end-covid-zero-and-the-tech-crackdown/
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Monday Nov 28, 2022
Elder millennials yell at clouds this week as we discuss the deadliness of American car culture and the general trend of people not caring for those around them. Massive stockpiles of cannabis are going bad as New York struggles to begin its rollout of dispensaries. The movement to legalize psychedelic mushrooms is gaining steam, and the presumed extinct Pheasant Pigeon has been spotted in Papua New Guinea.
Pheasant Pigeon: https://www.audubon.org/news/like-finding-unicorn-researchers-rediscover-black-naped-pheasant-pigeon-bird
“Where’s the weed?”: https://wibx950.com/new-york-state-marijuana-stockpile/
Magic Mushrooms: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Mushrooms-17564620.php#taboola-1
Pedestrian road deaths: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedestrians-cyclists.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Monday Nov 21, 2022
Monday Nov 21, 2022
With DJT once again given an enormous platform on the bird site, we take a trip down memory lane to review the love-hate relationship between Musk and Trump. Rich people believe that their greatest legacy may be leaving behind a bunch of genetically superior babies who will one day rule the earth. COP 27 agrees to create a fund for the poorest countries most affected by climate change, but does nothing to curb emissions. And Indonesia is moving to pay fishermen a premium for all plastic trash they collect from the ocean.
COP 27 fails to rise to the occasion: https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/countries-agree-loss-damage-fund-final-cop27-deal-elusive-2022-11-20/
Sheep circle pit: https://nypost.com/2022/11/17/sheep-filmed-walking-in-circle-for-12-days-straight-in-china/
Indonesia to pay fishermen for plastic: https://www.trueactivist.com/indonesia-is-working-to-lessen-ocean-pollution-by-paying-fishermen-to-collect-trash-from-the-sea-t1/
Pronatalism freaks: https://archive.ph/2022.11.17-191234/https://www.businessinsider.com/pronatalism-elon-musk-simone-malcolm-collins-underpopulation-breeding-tech-2022-11
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
A nine year old girl was reported to the police for destroying invasive lanternflies in her neighborhood. According to her neighbor and former Republican city council member, the “little black woman” was scary to him. An FBI raid on an ABC news producer has resulted in him being disappeared in more ways than one. And workers at a California Medieval Times theater have won their vote!
FBI raid on news producer: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fbi-raid-abc-news_producer-1234613619/
Don’t worry, the FBI raid on a news producer is no biggie: https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-raid-on-abc-news-producer-james-gordon-meek-wasnt-tied-to-his-work
9 year old black child reported to police for being a good citizen: https://www.thedailybeast.com/local-republican-calls-caldwell-new-jersey-cops-on-9-year-old-black-girl-catching-lanternflies
LET THE GAMES BEGIN! Buena Park Medieval Times Wins Union Vote: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-11-10/medieval-times-workers-in-buena-park-vote-27-18-to-unionize
Charming Video of Unionizing Medieval Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Bpjht4EF5Y
Monday Nov 07, 2022
Monday Nov 07, 2022
The internet is getting worse, the midterms are going to be a faceplant for the Democrats, and your recycled plastic is probably sitting in a warehouse somewhere. But feel free to feed seagulls alka seltzer, they’ll be fine.
Terracycle: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-terracycle-tom-szaky/?leadSource=uverify%20wall
Chris goes on Skeptical Leftist- https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1644698050?sr=a&t=14s
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
In times like these, the news is scary enough amirite?! Nuclear war, assassination attempts, Kanye… all very spooky stuff. You know what else is spooky? Ozone-depleting CFCs. Thankfully Brandon is on the case! Happy Halloween friends, give the kids candy and save the drugs for people who will actually appreciate them.
Kigali Emendment: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/23373026/kigali-amendment-signed-biden-republican-hfc-climate-change-montreal
Pelosi Hammer Attack: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-pelosis-husband-violently-assaulted-pelosi-statement-2022-10-28/
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Despite some technical difficulties, we’re here to bring you the quality content you’ve come to expect from Ironweeds. Musk has a plan for peace in Ukraine, but it’s going to require a lot of your tax money. He’s kind of strapped. The New York AG is suing Norlite over their hazardous materials site in Cohoes, where residents are advised to keep their windows shut lest the airborne microscopic glass get into their nervous systems. It’s soup season. The crabs are gone. The salmon are washed up. But MDMA is proving to be effective at treating PTSD and eating disorders!
Salmon Cannon Club Remix: https://youtu.be/HtBuNU7XhQo
Neurons in a dish taught to play PONG: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03229-y
Alaskan Crabs Missing: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/alaska-snow-crab-harvest-canceled-climate/index.html
Letitious James sues Norlite:
https://www.dec.ny.gov/press/126338.html
Pentagon in Talks With Elon Musk Over Starlink: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3688602-pentagon-confirms-us-in-talks-with-musks-company-over-funding-ukraines-starlink/
Poor Musk gets no gov’t goodies: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1581345747777179651?s=46&t=_9epEsOL20Bj8GthiH6oig
Musk’s Poll: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/03/elon-musk-twitter-poll-ukraine-russia-annexation-war/
MDMA Therapy: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395622001303
Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
What will the world’s richest man do with Twitter if and when he acquires it? Based on his text messages, some extremely stupid things. The Uvalde School Police have been nixed, and specialty police forces are proving themselves to be good at one thing: not utilizing any of their supposed extra training in a crisis. Howard Schultz is, like, super sad about all this unionizing guys. He had no idea you felt this way. And Dark Brandon Rises again with a pardon for cannabis users… but it’s not quite as dank as it sounds.
Elon’s text messages: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-musk-texts-twitter-trial-jack-dorsey/671619/
Filling Howard’s soul: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/10/08/starbucks-union-ceo-howard-schultz/
Uvalde fires police: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3678197-uvaldes-school-district-suspends-entire-police-force%ef%bf%bc/
Biden pardons cannabis arrestees: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/06/us/politics/biden-marijuana-pardon.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. Get ready for milk made from yeast! As long as we only make girl synthetic microorganisms we should be fine. The Oathkeepers have a novel defense in their sedition trial: it’s not illegal if the president tells us to do it. And we didn’t do it if we went to Olive Garden. Florida and the Caribbean has again been struck by a monster storm, begging the question: When does the evacuation become permanent? Some states are trying to tie up a loopholes that allows members of the clergy to conceal child abuse. But guess who’s upset about these legal efforts? The clergy. Our wildflower is a celebration of the people of Cuba for passing the revolutionary families code with a supermajority of voters. Synthetic Milk: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/sep/18/leading-the-whey-the-synthetic-milk-startups-shaking-up-the-dairy-industry Cuba passes revolutionary family code https://www.liberationnews.org/supermajority-of-cubans-vote-for-revolutionary-families-code/ Oath Keepers: Waiting on orders from trump: https://apnews.com/article/capitol-siege-riots-donald-trump-conspiracy-government-and-politics-def7c6a17cac57d1b3dff64e923afef7 Sex abuse guarded when confessed to Priests: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://apnews.com/5d78129a2fe666159a22ce71323f6da3&ved=2ahUKEwiT3JeS2b_6AhUcl4kEHbBAA54QFnoECAsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2JieDQyOQnUvvwLOVkkhpJ