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Danish #megafauna -a big bull elk (#moose) from postglacial Funen (Broholm castle). The extirpation of elk from temperate Europe was part of a broader human-driven loss of large-bodied #mammals across the #Holocene, as we recently showed: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🫎🫎🏹 #extinction
The only people who believe most shooters are transgender have brains fed by a steady diet of right-wing enragetainment mush.
Our brains form new connections and pathways when we learn something new. “The more you use a pathway, the stronger and faster it becomes. . . . Starting any activity from scratch, with the curiosity of a child, can help our brains create new pathways.”
Let’s not overlook what was done to the Chinese from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age and into the Twentieth Century, and to the Japanese in WWII. We have a lot to answer for and much to do to ensure equality and justice for all.
Good. Gawd.
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
The original sin was not prosecuting George Bush’s cabal - letting Shrub’s cronies skate on egregious human and civil rights abuses paved the way for Trump and his flying monkeys. The original sin was Pres Obama’s and AG Holder’s.
Rocket launches cause upper-atmosphere pollution more than tripled emissions of soot and CO₂ in upper atmosphere between 2020 and 2024 Pollutants released at high altitudes have 500 times greater warming impact compared to similar emissions from planes or cars www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This story continues to spread because it displays the dangers of extremist xenophobia impacting both community wildfire safety and our sense of justice. More importantly, this could impact the morale and cohesion of firefighting crews across the country. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Remember MAGA's willing to burn down its own house to own the libs. Destroying the government that keeps them safe and alive is fine, as long as it hurts the people they hate. To them, this is icing on their poison cake.
Now here it is, your moment of zen.
And in related news, "Lebensraum" remains a guiding principle of the Israeli government. It's just sickening.
Donald Trump is once again threatening to issue an executive order targeting voting. This is an effort to subvert the Constitution and the 2026 election, which grants states and Congress but not the president power to regulate federal elections. If he does this, we will sue and we will win (again).
It’s been 29 months since ProPublica exposed Justice Clarence Thomas’s undeclared gifts from billionaire Harlan Crow & yet he remains on the SupCt, unpunished, unrepentant & still writing & helping write rulings harming Americans & democracy based on tortured interpretations of the Constitution.
Andor . . . Foundation . . . Alien Earth . . . Silo . . . sci fi's doing just fine, thanks.
Whatever kicks starts your motor.
"The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world!"
All good!
For all the folks questioning the use of the words "genocide" or "ethnic cleansing," they're coming right out and saying it.
"The current status of this trio of lie-and-liar descriptors is this: both bold-faced and bald-faced are used, but bald-faced is decidedly the preferred term in published, edited text. Barefaced is the oldest, and is still in use, but it's the least common. " So you do you! 🙂👍
Uncanny resemblance.
This is fantastic news! More of this please, and less interfering with our rights. The preservation of land is the greatest gift that we can give the next generation 💙 scdailygazette.com/2025/08/26/s...
Interesting point. If it was in your power, who would you choose to direct?
@LePapillonBlu2 Maya We are living in the dumbest timeline in human history. 😳
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
This is one of the reasons I wrote goodbyes to my family before my back surgery.
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Did you know? Jimmy Buffett was an environmentalist and activist, and co-founded the ‘Save the Manatee Club’ with former Florida governor Bob Graham, which took early actions that shaped manatee protections. #JimmyBuffettDay #SavetheManatee
Happy Birthday, Dr. Sylvia Earle! American marine biologist, oceanographer, explorer, author, lecturer, National Geographic Explorer at Large, and named first Hero for the Planet by Time Magazine. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean #DrSylviaEarle #HeroforthePlanet
Bald faced. BALD faced. /grammar pedantry
Lemme just ask one more question . . .
This feels like a metaphor for our times.
The Deere layoffs this week. The Caterpillar warning about tariffs. Just the beginning. @bloomberg.com $CAT $DE @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
We’re all LARPing Oregon Trail now.
The quislings who contributed to our present nightmare.
. . . CBS who? 🤨
Neal Katyal’s spot on here. Also, 🤬 Jake Tapper.
“President Homelander” - @radiofreetom.bsky.social
You know they’re spewing 🐂💩 when immediately go to “unreviewable by courts.”
I’m in.
GOP: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse! It’s catchy.
Bill always teals it like it is.
Oh yeah. Relatable.
Nuns from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the women on Texas’s death row—and even made them affiliates of their order. Lawrence Wright reports on a powerful spiritual alliance.
“The vacuum left after the U.S. abandoned its humanitarian commitments has destabilized some of the most fragile locations in the world and thrown refugee camps further into unrest, according to State Department correspondence and notes obtained by ProPublica.”
And #SCOTUS makes this possible - without meaningful reform of the courts, even if we pry Congress loose from the corporations, the status quo will remain. #PublicallyFundElections
IYKYK
We’re conducting a worldwide experiment in habitat modification with few controls on the results.
Roads into forests introduce non-native plants and are an additional source of fire ignition 🌱 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Red wolves are just beautiful, beautiful creatures. 🤩
cc: @bootycakess.bsky.social
“The Republican lawmaker was excoriated during a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, where Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she baselessly claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living.”
Plausible.
Here are tree species that rock in carbon absorption inhabitat.com/here-are-tre...
I need to log off for a while. 😒
Unilateral tariffs, destruction of public data, cuts to science funding, collapsing tourism... I wrote up a brief compendium of (some of) the damage to business that has resulted from rising authoritarianism in the United States this year:
That's a given.
Paranoid delusions seem to be seizing Sec. Burgum. His fumbling fact free rationale for illegally shutting down Revolution Wind is ludicrous. It means higher electricity prices for consumers & massive job cuts. Not to mention undermining energy independence. It’s crazy & lawless.
ALL. OF. THIS. The whole concept of "too big to fail" is an anchor chain to hold American workers down, insisting that mismanagement and flagrant risk must be subsidized by public dollars to protect oligarchs at the expense of workers.
Worth repeating.
“Without that observation network, we don’t have that heads up,” Garcia said. “We don’t know what’s coming until it’s actually here.” And without those warnings, damage will be greater and insurance costs will rise - just ask Florida about that one. This is economic strangulation.
Phenomenally funny, yes, but also just a great actor.
Relatable. (What an uncomfortable night that was.)
Everything Trump's doing is predicated on the notion that he's going to be President-for-Life.
The targets set by Trump and his flying monkeys will contribute to immeasurable damage to waterways from new road construction and logging plus contribute to flooding once the trees are removed as well as destroying an ancient carbon sink. So, bad.
Yes, we should definitely put machines in charge of making decisions about seniors' health, said no one in their right mind. 😠
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Now here it is, your moment of zen.
#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky
They’re content with clowning the libs while the institutions they depend on in ways they don’t understand burn to the ground.
Mendacity and mediocrity all the way down. It’s staggering how cartoonishly incompetent they are.
This week, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke the law when it decided not to protect gray wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains under the federal Endangered Species Act. www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/laws...
Pay attention. Your family’s safety is on the line.
All in.
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“ . . . French historian Georges Lefebvre, who compiled letters and other documents indicating how the rumours travelled from one location to another. . .to create a detailed map of the stories’ movement from town to town. “We treated it as a transmission network for an epidemic,” Zapperi says.
I published seven or eight issues of a zine my junior and senior years of high school - I wish I still had copies. 😕
Reminder:
Insanity.
😲
#FAFO, CA GOP. 🖕😠
"The Public Safety President" 😒
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NPS faced a perpetual maintenance backlog well before Trump and his flying monkeys decided to decimate the staff. This will cause incalculable damage to natural and cultural resources and visitor safety and experiences.
Now here it is, your moment of zen.
"With Earth an estimated 4.5 billion years old, it’s staggering to realise we can witness how the world looked at the dawn of time when the continents were forming. Before plants. Before dinosaurs. Before humans. "
And continuing the historic fight for justice and equality for black women.
I just published my article Archaeology as Worldbuilding, an effort that grows out of 20+ years of digital (and analog) archaeological making. Adjacent to recent arguments about storytelling, I broaden our scope to make past worlds & tell stories in community with others. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
The plot thickens . . . 🤨
People love to blame the lack of cycling in their city on the “fundamentals”: weather, geography, and density. But can those really explain why Chicago has four times more *walking* commuters than bike commuters, while Copenhagen is the opposite?
🤬 EVERYBODY who believes owning a private armory is worth this, you soulless 🤬ers.
One of the most common reasons Border Patrol agents kill themselves is that they are about to go to jail. I see this over & over in agent suicides. Not official, but my experience as an agent & a survivor of an attempt says this is likely. www.foxla.com/news/isaiah-...