There is some size variation in the dinosaurs.
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There is some size variation in the dinosaurs.
I will never apologize for a post
once again I am asking people to correctly answer the question "who was President in 2020"
Birding is a funny thing sometimes! I knew this hummingbird’s GISS was not Anna’s, but in the field I couldn’t think of another hummer except a Costa’s What I found was a black-chinned hummingbird! I had to do a bit of research to confirm when I got home 🪶
The right-wing fascist ascendancy is a global phenomenon, and hopping across borders does not mean you can actually hide from it. You may find a slightly better local maximum for your particular needs, but this is a global problem and it requires a global, solidaric solution.
“Ecocide operates through the creation of permanent dependency and vulnerability. By destroying the biological foundation of Palestinian food sovereignty, occupying forces ensure that resistance cannot take root — literally — in future generations.” - Ilā Ravichandran truthout.org/articles/isr...
you simply do not have to defend graham linehan that’s not a thing you have to spend your time doing there are better options, like cleaning lint out of the dryer
Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶
Went to the night market in our Trumpy little rural town and THE LOCAL LGBT+ GROUP HAD A TABLE WE'RE LITERALLY EVERYWHERE 😭😭😭😭🌈🌈🌈🌈
The Roadless Rule is under threat! Today, the USDA opened a 21-day comment period on its plan to rollback protections for nearly one third of America’s National Forest land, including 8,700 climbing routes, 768 miles of whitewater paddling runs, and 25,000 miles of trail.
Welp, it's definitely wildfire season.
since i know this area well it’s circling over the mexican cultural institute (it hosts great parties) and a heavy hispanic community (cuban embassy is down the street)
I think folks need to understand that Disabled people who pay attention to accessibility (and the lack of it) in multiple areas of life already know where it goes when we're not supposed to ask for better accessibility from folks who "mean well".
Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”
Welcome to CBS News with Bari Weiss; I’m Bari Weiss. The top story tonight is that my maverick opinions are being silenced by the woke left
This is consistent with the hypothesis that they just fired people at random
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I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...
🎶The itsy bitsy spider DIED FROM A MASSIVE FUNGAL INFECTION🎶 Ooof this is prettty horrific 😳 #Cordycipitaceae: #Gibellula Cary, NC, USA
Anna's hummingbird in my yard moments ago. #DavisCA, #birds, #wildlife #birdphotography #hummingbirds #NikonD500
None of it failed. None of it failed. All of it changed the world. If you're a survivor, pls know I see & believe you. If the press conference/firehose of Epstein-Trump news is triggering, I see that too. RAINN Natl Sexual Assault Hotline talk: 800-656-4673 text: HOPE to 64673 chat/WhatsApp:⬇️ 4/4
An excellent example of practical, really useful local ornithology. Great work, Tom! #Seabirds #Gulls
Liberals are starting to say shit like, "trans people asked for too much too fast," and I'll remind your souless asses that we actually didn't ask for anything. we were minding our own business and quietly improving our healthcare and you (cis) decided to do a pogrom against us for no reason.
Less than an hour after I reposted this, it got so dark outside that I thought a massive thunderstorm was coming, or that I missed an eclipse. It's not rain, it's wildfire smoke.
Your moment of calm...
RIP CBS News
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
it is a sad state of affairs when u realize the only thing that might get RFK jr fired is not universal condemnation from the scientific community but laura loomer complaining he didn’t say good morning to her or something
My website www.skindeepcomic.com has been loading poorly/displaying parking pages the past couple days, but I think I've got it sorted thanks to @t3rminus.calamity.world's help! Turns out it was AI bots and content scrapers hugely inflating the daily traffic, so uh, thanks for that.
Can’t wait to take extra close looks at all WAVIs this fall!
Guess we’ll just have to make more noise. Repeatedly.
The Trumpist majority on SCOTUS, like Trump himself, is spending down a trust fund they did not create, apparently believing it refills automatically. But it doesn’t. The whole system depends on other key institutions treating their rulings as legitimate.
Then I find out today that Florida has banned the practice of fluoridating water supplies and I guess we'll find out if the existing toothpastes are enough. They've turned themselves into a giant lab rat.
I laughed harder than I should’ve at “a second baby goat his hit the tower”. 😂😅
Subskeeting TWO baby goats rn
Yes, hello, I am a cis white suburban mom, and I am a single-issue voter. That issue: EVERYONE IS PEOPLE, STOP FUCKING TRYING TO UNPEOPLE PEOPLE
On a recent walk, I saw a clearly AI-generated logo, that new "comics style" they have for a dog groomer on the back of a truck and… yeah. The piss color wash is like the new AI sepia tone for everything.
trying to pinpoint a waterway in the Pittsburgh area, developing a Theory about the naming convention here Like it might have been on or shortly after July 6th 1892, say
if you're in a state like Mass. where you can't get a pharmacy Covid shot because of how state laws interact with CDC foolery, and you have CVS, check again, because their Minute Clinics can give shots. (regulations are different for pharmacists vs. other providers.) i just got an appointment today.
Made a few decorative hair sticks. :)
If you are 45 and under, go and get that vaccine now while it's still free, folks.
So literal months later we STILL have folks ordering stickers and expressing relief over finding an alternative to StickerMule. You don't have to order with us. Hell I'll recommend other companies with quality and ethics. Because what these fuckers will never understand: it's not about the money.
This happens--and likely a lot more than we know--naturally on the planet. Meanwhile, transphobes and bigots lose their entire shit over "biological sex" in humans. Fuck the assholes.
We visit family in India. They get raw milk from cows. The first thing they do is boil it. It's not a mystery. No one thinks they are denaturing vitamins.
"Housing all of Chicago’s homeless people would cost about $383k/day, [@ips-dc.org's] https://bit.ly/4lYIx87 told The Intercept, noting that the sum equaled roughly 1/4 of the expense of a deployment of 3,000 Guard members" theintercept.com/2025/09/03/trump-military-occupy-dc-la-chicago/
New episode! Our recent birding adventure in Wiltshire and Hampshire was filled with highs, near-misses, and surprises! From the awe-inspiring great bustards to the elusive quail and the unexpected grey partridges, each sighting and sound added to the experience. casualbirder.com/episode144 🪶
Local black bears—𝘜𝘳𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴—are hitting up pools as SoCal heatwaves extend beyond the summer season. According to Museum Associate Curator of Mammology, Dr. Kayce Bell, this isn't a seasonal summer behavior. It just depends on the weather: go.nhm.org/bearsun
Given that none of these deals appear to be in writing, let alone Senate-ratified, that should be pretty easy.
I really love Snail Kites. They have incredible bills that are adapted to eating Apple Snails and they have those intense red eyes. At Laguna de Sonso, Valle de Cauca #Colombia #birds #nature
The purpose of AI is to destroy any consensus of history, example #4,528,926
yeahhhhh those are load-bearing and this will kill some people and immiserate more
Over Labor Day weekend, 200+ pro-LGBTQ+ protestors took over Seattle's Gas Works Park with kazoos, jamming Chappell Roan's PINK PONY CLUB to counter an evangelical hate concert 🌈💗 #Resist www.pride.com/chappel-roan...
Massachusetts folks: this Saturday, Sept 6, at 11 I'm giving a free talk at Plymouth Public Library for Manomet Conservation Sciences www.manomet.org/event/author...
Until Senate Rs take tangible action to stop the process, this is all just words And Senate Ds should refuse to vote for any budget until those tangible actions are taken
The inevitable and performative defamation suits will be a thing to see, especially since these women are certain to be well-represented.
September is the start of peak hurricane season, fueled by warm ocean temperatures, low wind shear, and high humidity. 📲Guess how many Americans live in front line coastal communities— and learn more about our #hurriceane research: go.whoi.edu/Hurricane
Thrilled to make an appearance today on NPR’s It’s Been A Minute Podcast, talking about alligators, internment camps, and the heavy sadism of the whole business
It should go without saying - but won't - that "massive amounts of drugs" is not, without a lot more, a recognized justification for the use of lethal force under international law.
Here's the federal government's official comment portal. We need to OVERWHELM USDA with comments that oppose rescinding the #RoadlessRule to protect our National Forest #PublicLands. www.regulations.gov/docket/FS-20...
Mike making a compelling argument to go do photography in the 110 degree heat.
Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time “could blunt their efficacy.” The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.
"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:
I’m going to unwrap a bit more of the magic! Taken at 840mm equivalent 420mm F22 1/640s 2000 ISO I did get movement blur in the wings and body which I used Topaz to help Lightroom to mask moon, sky, and bird to process separately Hindsight, I might have bumped to 8000 iso to inc shutter spd 📷🪶
Last week I posted in one of my noncooperation threads that the city of Evanston, immediately north of Chicago, had cancelled its contract with Flock. Look at this this 1956-Invasion-of-the-Body-Snatchers-ass CEO. Thank you again, city of Evanston!
When a rancher bulldozed 175+ penguin nests, explorer Popi Borboroglu & National Geographic mapper Sam Guilford used satellites to help prosecutor Florencia Gómez win justice—expanding wildlife protection 8x. Tech meets tenacity. 🐧⚖️ www.esri.com/about/newsro...
Okay, so it’s not just me with a big black square for the photo. I just restarted my phone to see if that would help. Are we all clicking on it and crashing a server somehow?😅
great point Harmeet, just the one q: who won the Battle of Thermopylae?
Hurrah!!!!!! What a relief!
GUESS WHO'S BACK BACK AGAIN
FIASCO!!!!
Your occasional reminder that the positive effects of UBI have been tested and validated hundreds of times more often than the murderous Musk robotaxis or LLM’s we’re rushing to put into our schools and streets.
It's #WoodDuckWednesday and the Wood duck is judging you. 🪶
A former Fox News producer with history of posting racist stuff on social media — and, each time, prompting a controversy, including getting impeached from student government while in college — now has a gig at the EEOC, the worker protection agency created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
literally all you need to know about this ghoul of a VC is contained in this one sentence "Next, Bi iMessaged a photo of Leon’s corpse to Smith’s 7-year-old son’s iPad."
This is absolutely amazing: #Antarctica #SouthPole #PolarExploration #TerraNova #Scott www.bbc.com/news/article...
New paper! @coralcitycamera.bsky.social is a livestream from a coral reef in Florida, and countless people tuned in during COVID lockdown as an escape. Those people recognized and named some regular “characters” on the reef. 🦑🧪🌎🐠
Characters included Ramon the parrotfish, and Fedora, a remora who was often sticking to Ramon, causing some discomfort. It turns out that this is the longest anyone has ever documented a remora sticking to ANYTHING!
As long as I live, I’ll never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion dollar corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air we breathe” became a politically popular position with half of my country.
Jaw dropping murmuration of thousands of sanderlings tonight. Our enemies are cowards who even at the peak of their power are bitter and joyless. We are going to defeat them. Together 💜 Uncompressed: youtu.be/LSpTgH2PcDc #birds
A lesson for us all on why you should not promise the impossible to the terminally insane
Never start a headline with "Trump Says." It is true that he *said* it, but whatever he said was almost certainly not true (or it's propaganda or conspiracy theories or unproven assertions or hate speech). Print truth, not lies.
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
NEW: The oil industry touts Texas as a success story in controlling climate-warming methane emissions. The state’s regulator, however, grants nearly every request to burn or vent gas into the atmosphere.
I called this part a while back: “But many clients don’t appreciate the work that goes into revamping a poorly written AI article, she said, noting that companies often offer less pay for these gigs based on the assumption that they’re less demanding.”
Italian dockworkers' union in Genoa/Genova says if they lose contact for 20 minutes with their boats providing resources or if a hair on any worker's head is touched, they'll stop all shipments to Israel, and Europe will shut down access.
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
Working on the most French Canadian thing i've ever made.
I've been asked to clean up AI-spewed copy. I got paid less than if I'd just been asked to write it myself, even though it was about the same amount of work. Just one more reason I prefer to do consulting strategy work over copywriting work. Both are valuable, only one is well-valued.
OTC nasal spray seemed to cut COVID infections by 67% in mid-sized trial - Ars Technica apple.news/AgKfHvdiUTla... @rahaeli.bsky.social (it's an antihistamine spray!)
Shop update: removing a couple things now that have been sold, here's what's still for sale in my knitting shop! Details in thread below. I'm working on more things, too, so look out for those! #BSNM #Knitsky #ShopSmall #Pride ko-fi.com/crippledcomm...
Haven't checked out the koi paper lanterns maker in a while. They've got new patterns!
The smartest person in that bunch will park themself next to that solid gold "award" from Apple and when the news comes they'll do a sad gasp and then walk to their car doing their best to pretend they don't have an extra-heavy briefcase.
I am honestly quite worried about Chicago, and begging the national press to report it as what it is: an invasion of a US city by the national guard of another state at the behest of a fascist president for purposes of terrorizing the people into submission. There is no legitimate debate about it.
Some Secret Service agent is going to end up with a Post-It Note tagged to their lapel with the word “Mine!”
*9/2/2025 noncooperation thread* This spring, Columbia cancelled Karen Attiah's Race, Media, & International Affairs course—so she taught it anyway, to 500+ online students who signed up lickety-split in the first 48 hours. This Oct, she's teaching it again—& has added a 102 level! Move fast! 2/
If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them
*9/2/2025 noncooperation thread* The sheer courage & dignity involved here. Unbelievable. 5/
*9/2/2025 noncooperation thread* The public rallying for a critical public resource - is working! (thx to @lockdownyourlife.com for flagging!) 6/
Boooo!
