Listening to Jess Piper: She’s a survivor who knows how much victims need justice. But she warns—fascism isn’t a distraction from that fight. It’s the plan. Authoritarians silence survivors, erase rights, and protect predators. We have to fight both. #USDemocracy #Pinks
Currently listening : www.audible.com/pd/B0DZG5GJ7...
It's amazing what modern photo filtering/processing tech (#Topaz #PhotoAI in this case) can do with older images. 4MP, Canon PowerShot with underwater housing, Molasses Reef off Key Largo, ~2005. Blue Tang and French Grunts. 🧪🐡🌿🌎 #fish #CoralReefs
🧪 RFK likes to say that the Covid vaccine isn't effective against infections. During the height of the pandemic, Covid vaccines prevented hospitalizations, deaths, and saved Americans $1.5 trillion. It is very easy to be willfully ignorant.
RFK Jr. is upset that a recent large Danish study in Annals of Internal Medicine, conducted over 20 yrs in 1 M kids, found no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines & 50 different health conditions. His request for the retraction was rejected. 🧪 www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Heat extremes attributable to climate change have led to a 25–38% average reduction in monitored tropical bird populations since 1950, according to a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3UIIpP7 🧪
#ScienceSky 🧪 here's a delightful opportunity
I hate this leg press. It’s ergonomics leave a lot be desired IMO. I can’t press full ROM well with it, for instance. Nevertheless, it is the least used press/squat station around. Ergo, I can work in it uninterrupted (and without making other gym goers wait.) So… screw it. Lemons to lemonade.🍋
Gefilte fish, beef in Korean BBQ sauce, rice, Brussels sprouts and jasmines rice with bell peppers and seaweed. Cuz tomorrow is leg day. 😳
Saturday morning, ballet for breakfast it is.
A quick clip from my Dragonfly Life Cycle video - a timelapse of the metamorphosis of a Willow Emerald nymph into an adult Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V... #bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
NEW: Indigenous activists opposed to Nevada’s Thacker Pass lithium mine have for years been surveilled by law enforcement agencies and the company behind the mine, records show. “They treat us like we’re domestic terrorists,” an organizer said.
Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael
Directly or indirectly, we are committing or abetting a genocide in Gaza, with starvation as a tool of war. Planned or unplanned, it doesn't matter. edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...
Nothing more delicious than right-soy-boy cope
Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.
An open letter to the MAGAs (credit: avellinofarms@IG)
Forget Trump and the Epstein files, in general, Republicans, wtf do you vote for? How you vote, what you select, defines you. So, what gives?
“In her bid to review these files, Bondi created one thousand witnesses to what is in the Epstein file — and Bondi’s attempt to politicize the search for Epstein files. “One thousand.” t.co/WPuUpLBvge
This is how it looks when a Sea Anemone runs away from a Starfish.
Cool
Listen closely as Carl Sagan explains how regular people can create change!
Yesterday morning (leg day.) The wonders of caffeine and some light cardio when you don’t feel like it.
🍃 Secret Sounds by Plants 🧪 "sounds are outside the range of human hearing, but can be perceived by many insects, bats and some mammals"
I need to clean the top lid before that dripped fat and charcoal solidifies
Good morning. Leg day it is. The nice thing about summer school breaks is that I can sleep a little longer (meaning more sweat at the gym.)
🐶 Heat risk in dogs A new study found dog deaths rise on hot days in NSW. Risk increased linearly after 25°C, and jumped 9.5% on extreme heat days. Public holidays saw the highest mortality. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/avj.... #SciComm #Dogs #Climate 🧪
Today is one of those days. #thisisamerica 🤷♂️ How do people lack social consciousness or empathy beyond their own little shitty tribes is beyond me. It’s not even selfishness. It’s pig-headed idiocy.
White-Crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys). From my book A Field Guide to Long Island Sound, Yale University Press, a.co/d/ffZ6GFP 🧪🌿🌎🪶 #sciart #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #birds #birdart #Sparrows
"...in areas particularly vulnerable to flash floods like this region is, you have to have some level of preparedness all the time during thunderstorm season and be ready to act whenever a warning is issued." An excellent post on the catastrophic flooding in Texas. 🧪
“Purposes are deduced from behavior, not from rhetoric or stated goals.” - Thinking in Systems, by Donella Meadows. ICE is not disorganized. Immigration policy right now is not dysfunctional. It is operating within the Tangerine Loc-Nar’s desired parameters. #StayWoke #PayAttention
My old baud modem whenever I connected to CompuServe. Oh man, I'm old.
Blame the people who didn't show up to vote in the last elections. The blame is not just on the top.
It won't happen this time because we know better now. We tragically have thousands of body bags and grieving families, and veterans warning their kids not to sign up to remind us of that. It's only those w/o flesh in the game that'll push for this.
MAKE THIS FUCKING VISIBLE!!!!!
Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.
There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care. It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors
Given my daughters are a) US born, and b) half-Japanese and half-Nicaraguan, I'm buying this. I absolutely do not feel them safe in this country anymore.
Here is some text in Spanish bc I’m too lazy to caption: “La mayoría de los seguidores de Trump, los aislacionistas, no quieren esta guerra. La mayoría de los demócratas no quieren esta guerra. La mayoría de los independientes, como yo, no quieren esta guerra. Entonces, ¿cómo demonios pasó esto?”
#TACO If you know, you know (hint: Trump Always Chickens Out.)
Two things: 1. How did these miners vote? 2. Do they know who had an actual plan to deal with Black Lung in 2016? Hillary f* Clinton. My heart is cold. I have no more empathy to give.
I think Podrick had an underdeveloped arc.😂 www.youtube.com/shorts/ZjiHw...
“MAGA Catholics” aren’t Catholics. They are Neo-Falangists/Neo-Francoists. apple.news/ARAroLmC2SvS...
This bird is trying to break into my house
“Ukrainian Drones Patrol A 16-Mile Kill Zone. ‘If You Simply Drive On Any Roads, You Risk Your Life,’ One Russian Blogger Warned. - Forbes” apple.news/AYsEHRxOeR82...
Obligatory 😆😆😆
Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
I am part of this week's @politico Cartoon Carousel! You can check out the full selection at this link. And please consider sharing to reach more people. Thank you! www.politico.com/gallery/2025...
I know right!?!?
They were willing to f* the lives of other, "lesser" people, not realizing that the funny armbands were for them, too. May they get the four years they voted for, and whatever they wanted for others, may they get it back with loan-shark interests (I ran out of f*s to give.)
Happy Cinco de Mayo... except to the xenophobic segment of the MAGA. Like, really. Sure, feel free to intoxicate yourself on tequila and pig-force your facial sphincter with tacos while worshiping the man who called Mexicans rapists and murderers. May you wear a red hat in Cancun and FAFO.
That's gorgeus art.
I will call these folks effing idiots. I'm tired of trying to understand them. Yet, when my disappointment in their segment of humanity hits rock bottom, the questions come back, inevitably: Why? How? What's the thinking process (or the emotional process that replaces the former)? Like... how?
Feels like the moment MeToo went from discussing sexual assault and harassment by celebrities to examining these same abuses by family and friends, we saw an acceleration of the argument that “society gives boys nothing”. An orchestrated backlash by abusers who saw that their unmasking was coming.
#WorldPressFreedomDay #diadelalibertaddeprensa Mi #Caricatura en @confidencialni.bsky.social
40 Years ago Carl Sagan knew about Climate change and he was so aware of it's impact on Nature more than us we do right now.
Is he going to use Signal to send his "good bye" message?
With all the talk of product shortages , I think it should be said that products will first find their way to densely populated areas first and everywhere else, last This certainly will hurt all those red counties. How they react to their shelves being everything will define the midterms
#USA #100Days #Trump www.gocomics.com/pedroxmolina...
Yes! They are.
Corporate America has more ethics than the current WH. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...
Red counties' FAFO moment, and I'm all for it. I ran out of f's for these people long ago. I will reserve my empathy for children and those who didn't vote for this debacle. May y'all get the four years you voted for.
That might be the best explanation I've seen so far. AoT www.cbr.com/attack-on-ti...
Yes, you are right.
"There are no Nazi sympathizers, only Nazis. They're Nazis." Rantarian (on Reddit.)
Pete Hegseth picking his new staff. www.youtube.com/shorts/-swEi...
These garbage people. Do not normalize them with your silence.
He's alive, thank God. Now, let's bring him home. If there are charges against him, as the government says, then let the government present the evidence to an immigration judge or formally make a charge in a trial court. Otherwise, leave him alone. Due process or bust.
Oh, in that case, I would demand identification, and if that fails, then pew pew pew as needed. ICE goons at least show an ID (even when they fail to provide a valid warrant.)
3/ Whatever you, the generic you, choose to do, always consider the implications for those that depend on you being alive. It's not just your life and your rights. It never is.
2/ I say this as someone that's carries (and willing to use it in a self-defense scenario that the law would/could side with me, like a robbery.) But this isn't a clear-cut self-defense situation. It's almost a certain death sentence that will leave your loved ones to pick up the pieces.
1/ Yes and no. If ICE goons come, you know they are ICE. So what do you do? Do you shoot them, federal agents and risk the death penalty or getting killed? Or do you take your chances? The family that depends on you invariably will ask for the latter.
I want to write a report fully detailing the conditions in CECOT via curatorial journalism—there is so much people don't know—but I'll tell you honestly that writing my last three reports on this subject has broken my spirit. My health has been affected. This is the worst topic I've ever written on.
2/ I mean, he's right... they have that power. Yet, they are sitting on their hands with their bare asses while doing nothing.
1. That's cute. 2. I only see AOC and Bernie actively trying to exercise that kind of power. 3. He's still getting paid his salary while saying this ineffectively vacuous tripe.
“.. The Canadian Association of University Teachers, which boasts a membership of 72,000 .. recommended in an advisory published Tuesday that “academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.” @politico.com #PariahState www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
We invest in education and scientific research to build a stronger country and thriving democracy. President Trump’s threats against universities are lawless, and denying funding for the next medical breakthrough will make us all poorer and worse off.
Chinese trade with the US is 14% of its total global trade. We are China's largest trading partner, but we aren't even a majority stakeholder. China can take the hit and survive just fine.
He looks like a bouncer at a strip club or one of those pyramid hipster shitfluencers (the ones we get a lot of down here in South Florida.)
This convo right here.
Exactly. And if he had committed a thousand crimes, it wouldn’t be a heavy lift to prove just one. But DHS and the White House offer nothing but conclusory bullshit.
Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?
The ICE officers covering their faces feels like a pretty big tell
Amen.
#MarioVargasLlosa
So now, the party of Lincoln—yeah, that’s fucking rich, ain’t it—has become the party of “Fuck your laws, fuck your rights, and fuck you if you disagree.” Reagan is rolling in his grave so hard you could hook a turbine to him and solve the Texas energy crisis. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
I don't know whether to call this "OnlyTyrants" or "Broke-Law Mountain."
SS guards were shot without apology for 'just following orders' at Buchenwald by some of our people when American GIs liberated that horrid place. My late dad was among the liberators...
“I was just following orders” was not a defense at Nuremberg. And it won’t be a defense in the future here.
from today's post, in which Harvard tells Donny to stick his fascist threats where the sun don’t shine. please go read the whole enchilada — the link is here: bit.ly/3EidOTR (longer excerpt in the alt text)
"I really thought things would change after this administration, when we have Mr. Trump in office, things would change to the better," Atallah said. "Things actually changed to the worse." What? If he voted for Trump, fvck him. I ran out of empathy, and I only reserve it to victims, not enablers.
"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
#Nicaragua Es casi un requisito urbanístico. En cada cuadra existe un vecino invivible. En Centroamérica, la competencia es fuerte, pero obviamente los ORMU superan a todos...
Eli Valley 