Trump's Department of Homeland Security cuts funding to mass shooting prevention programs in Minnesota before killings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
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Trump's Department of Homeland Security cuts funding to mass shooting prevention programs in Minnesota before killings. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
That is trippy! What camera/lens combo did you use?
A group of 6 LCC K9 comfort dogs arrived in Minneapolis yesterday in the wake of the latest mass shooting. The organization deploys comfort dogs following tragic events. The dogs wore their "please pet me vests," offering love and comfort to those processing this heartbreaking tragedy. 15/10 for all
This is what my Lebanese friends who left Lebanon heard from their fellow citizens of a different religious persuasion. Same crap different a-holes.
🐥 need a political break ? 🐥 #Catsky #Dogsky #Kittens ♥️
Sports and nature are my escape from our current dystopia. You have to recharge your batteries somehow, not to mention plenty of leftists make their living off of sport as anyone else.
Now you need to draw what you are looking at, so someone can hang them both on the wall. In fact you draw multiple ideas of what you are watching. Very cool!
saw a blue salmon swimming upstream to spawn today
Trying to imagine a sense that isn’t augmenting an existing sense is tough… perhaps the ability to sense chemicals like a chromatograph similar to how we sense color now
If you could add one totally new sense to the human body—what would it be? 👁️👂🧠 Detect magnetic fields? See UV light? Sense earthquakes? Let’s theoretically upgrade biology. 🧪
🧪 #resist #resistrfk #defendresearch #standupforscience So sad that we have to tell the world that the MAGA delusional alternative reality is a lie.
Second perhaps being Kodak inventing digital photography and then standing pat with their film monopoly and not leveraging their invention
Sure is a terrible new logo - cross between a Super8 and Arby’s without the flair
There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.
Mail-in votes are much harder to hack, Krasnov says…
WOW. @marcelias.bsky.social goes off on the failures of legacy media: "We have an absolute collapse and failure by the institutions that have promised us that democracy would not die in darkness, that in fact, they stand for the proposition that democracy will die in plain sight of daylight."
Mini therapy horse Black Pearl loves to wake up kids out of anesthesia with her keyboard playing at Shriners for Children Medical Center... 😊 #bluesky
Genius! We seeded our field after it was used as a lumber landing. Our meadow is slowly awakening.
Very nice of them to pose while we can compose the shot (versus other birds where it is a crapshoot to keep them in frame)
Very nice. Did you blur via lens speed or some post production? What lens speed if so?
Our tax dollars being pissed away. More people standing around than a paving crew.
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
Read my palm?
Leopards are facing a severe conservation crisis. They have lost 75% of their historical range globally, and in South Africa, they are already extinct in 67% of their former range. Without immediate action to address habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict, leopards could disappear entirely.
You mean all these bison live? Phew.
Looking forward to talking with @aaronparnas.bsky.social over on Substack Live later today. Tune in at 12pm ET.
Makes me think about how humans populated the easy places along the rivers and waterfront. Then people eventually were forced to live in the Himalayas and the deserts. So what made these organisms venture to the extremes of the ocean?
Fantastic log/branch the bird is on - a very complimentary shape
#dogdaysofsummer #happydogs
Where can I rescue 🛟 an 🦦 otter?
'Hello human, nice to meet you'
Adam and Eve partied with the dinosaurs 🦕 🦖 from day one?
The right has a very well oiled and financed messaging machine which stays on message, using fear as a motivator. The left can’t seem to build the same momentum, even with topics that have an undercurrent of catastrophe, like global warming.
Someone is always spilling the dirty laundry…
Anyone feeling this?
#london #streetphotography #streetphoto #candid #urbex #urbanphotography #storytelling #reportage #humans #humansofbluesky #urbangaze #architecture #siesta #photography #eastcoastkin #believeinfilm #fuji #film A lunch break before smartphones St Paul's, London, 2001 Fuji Velvia 50mm Nikon FM2
Ewwww de toilet
They are treating people worse than mere numbers, not even bothering to track them once they’re in the system. Unacceptable.
Patience is always needed with an 11 year old best friend. #dogs #b&w
Careful now - you might be put on “a list” for saying that …🤓
If we double down after each loss we will eventually win our money back (gambler’s fallacy)… however we are gambling with many lives (those fighting, those accidentally in the cross-hairs, and those at home neglected by paying for our wars)
Does that mean doctors with empathy can decide not to treat those who lack it? MAGA may need to start their own med schools…
Pure evil. And a Russian stooge.
Perhaps! I need to dig up my notes and looks at some other photos in that series
We asked and YOU answered! Thank you for schooling us in these delightful new words. English needs to up its game. youtube.com/shorts/3zj0h...
Trump knows his ABCs ~ Always Be Criming…
Immature bird from last year’s trip to the Galapagos I can’t identify in the middle of my insomnia… #birds #birding #lifelist #Galapagos
Sneak peak at all of America tomorrow for “No Kings Day” 🍊🦅🇺🇸
If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼
And he would bring peace between Russians and Ukrainians… and lower the price of eggs…
I just emerged from the deep state woke Marxist meeting to control the weather for tomorrow’s small dictator parade. I can report things are on track and we are ready for space laser deployment. More soon.
Nothing like a bathroom carpet on a radiant floor. #cats #noboundaries
The orange felon activated National Guard troops for some couple of dozen people arrested yet instead of activating the National Guard on January 6 2021, he chose to do nothing and then supported the terrorists who stormed the Capitol as well as gifted pardons to 1,500+ of them.
Love it! Did you do much post-processing in the dark hours in this photo?
Good luck today! May a ray of sanity be projected from the coverage of this event!
Wow, even though they target basic research, the impact of research funding cuts is massive www.forbes.com/sites/johndr... 🧪
Isn’t that a Fjord and not a lake?
I am not sure my #cat is persuading me to go shooting or sit back and relax!
This Lexington, Kentucky MayDay protest hits every note! The Republican Party doesn't exist anymore. This is fascism. #resist #protest #mayday
Mitch McConnell and other spineless Republicans after January 6th would not convict the impeachment charges
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
"It’s...a physical embodiment of how profoundly humans are reshaping the environment...and how long-lasting the effects can be..."Just one meal from one person — the packaging is still here,” Mr. Hiemstra said. “A bird has been breeding on it for 30 years.”" 🧪🌎🪶 #pollution #plastics #birds
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch #addictionsci 🧪🛟 🫁 America is at risk of losing a generation of scientists www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Dog-bombed
🧪👇🗽get out of your office or lab and into your representatives faces.
Very cool video! I imagine lots of patience required to collect the footage.
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
Sorry not sorry, y’all. I will never ever never never ever support anything that diminishes trans rights - even if it’s just one tenth of one percent of their rights. Never. Because once you forfeit one tenth of one percent, that becomes 10%, then 100%. Every. Time.
Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.
For sure. Bruins can’t string two goals together. I think the reality that they are sellers at the trade deadline for the first time in a long time was in their heads. Better than watching 🍊 💩 unable to string two actual facts together.
Winding myself up to counter the 🍊 💩
That’s the skull of a Klingon, not a rock!
Were you trekking on your own? Fascinating landscape!!
Having more fun watching my Boston Bruins losing 6-3… the home fans booing almost as much (but no arrests being called for by the players)
Freddie Mercury didn't go into the studio and nail the vocals for "The Show Must Go On" in one take while dying of AIDS for you to despair and give up now. Take the time you need, but then get up and get back out there. The show must go on.
American dogs don’t seem to worry that their global prestige is fading.
America 🇺🇸 is no longer the shining city on a hill, but the turd 💩 in the punch bowl. Trump 🍊 ruins everything he touches.
Drained, Chester sat down and waited for the police to arrive. Staring at Alan’s still-warm body laying among the empty shells, he felt no remorse. There were two sacred rules. You didn’t touch another man’s wife, or another man’s nuts. His ears perked up as the sound of sirens rose in the distance.
Thankfully it seems a judge has halted this for now.
Lynn-Nahant Riviera - over 30 degrees break out the beach chairs #beach #beaches #beachlife
The cruelty is the point, unfortunately. I think so many people are unhappy in America and can only find happiness by reveling in other people’s pain.
That view makes me thirsty!
cc: @Gavin Newsome It’s time to build a CDC & NIH in California with the folks who were fired from the feds. In fact, I think each blue state governor needs to scoop up these scientists, healthcare workers and laboratory workers asap. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social
Get ready for Sunday with this helpful infographic from @britannica.com
#landscape #scape #fisheye #fisheyelens #NewZealand #hiking #trekking Along the Routeburn Trak on the South Island in New Zealand. My fisheye lens showcases the hairpin turn.
It’s an awesome place - one of the locations which really got me shooting photographs
Photographed by me June 2024
Sea lion in the Galápagos Islands needs to trim his whiskers, or like Wimpy find himself a burger!
Love this! Color palette, composition balance, angles, text on building and of course car
A good start! I want to do the same with old 3D film cameras
Still cold out here.
This is what you get when you click on the CDC's "Health Disparities Among LGBTQ Youth" page. It has been disappeared. This purge will harm some of our most vulnerable & hamper research aimed at helping them - an abdication of the CDC's vision to "equitably protect health, safety and security." 🧪
I just visited! What an amazing State Park (photos are my own). A great way to stay out of the casinos if you have to visit Vegas!
TV spot from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social about recent paper on Sikkim flood (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) featuring commentary from @usaskwater.bsky.social John Pomeroy about Peyto Glacier and GLOF risks in western Canada www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... @ucalgary.bsky.social 🧪⚒️
Hey! Candy Crush is an excellent coping mechanism for this dystopian reality.
“Higher productivity” we all know seems to trickle up to the shareholders and management, not the workers. Remember there are no costs when people don’t get sick because “low productivity” public health workers do their jobs. In fact private health workers are measured as productive helping the sick
Canada should poach all our scientists and then sell their breakthroughs back to us (at new patriotic tariff process too). SMDH