impaledroses:

Sisters of Mercy 🕸🕷

merelygifted:

Parler gone from Google Play Store. Updated Campaign acct, gone from Twitter

merelygifted:

In an interview, Dominion CEO John Poulos said the lawsuit aims to clear his company’s name through a full airing of the facts about the 2020 election.

Poulos said he would like the case to go to trial rather than settle.

“We feel that it’s important for the entire electoral process,” he said. “The allegations, I know they were lobbed against us … but the impacts go so far beyond us.”

merelygifted:

Oregon State Representative Caught Opening State Capitol to Rightwing “Flash Mob”

merelygifted:

ABOUT TIME TOO

merelygifted:

100% Pure Florida Not From Concentrate Treason.

solarpunks:

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis by enabling for the first time the full recycling of bottles.

The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug.

The international team then tweaked the enzyme to see how it had evolved, but tests showed they had inadvertently made the molecule even better at breaking down the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic used for soft drink bottles. “What actually turned out was we improved the enzyme, which was a bit of a shock,” said Prof John McGeehan, at the University of Portsmouth, UK, who led the research. “It’s great and a real finding.”

The mutant enzyme takes a few days to start breaking down the plastic – far faster than the centuries it takes in the oceans. But the researchers are optimistic this can be speeded up even further and become a viable large-scale process.

(via Scientists accidentally create mutant enzyme that eats plastic bottles | The Guardian)

vizual-vibe:

Rotating clouds above Denver

merelygifted:

Welp, Twitter did it. It’s more than four years overdue, but we’ll take it in this very dark hour as Americans hold their breath, grit their teeth, and cross their fingers until noon on Jan. 20, when sane leadership of the country will be restored.