Now restore trans kids' fucking health care.

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Frass. It's insect poop.

A dark tabby is coiled up like a snail next to a long haired tuxedo sitting like a loaf on a grey heated cat bed.

Mack & Miska sharing the heated cat bed on a chilly morning. #caturday #catsofbluesky

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

Chinook salmon found naturally hatching in Upper Klamath River for first time in a century The Klamath Tribes are celebrating evidence of Chinook salmon spawning in Klamath River tributary.

After big dams on the upper Klamath River in far northern CA were removed in 2024, Chinook (king) salmon migrated upstream for the first time in 100+ years--and now they have hatched.

100 Dams Down: 2025 A Big Year for Reconnecting Rivers in the U.S. In 2025, the United States removed 100 dams. One hundred outdated, often crumbling, and frequently dangerous structures were pulled from our waterways across 30 states. In their wake, more than 4,893…

A record year for dam removals reconnects US rivers, reconnecting over 7,900 km of rivers. Many of the structures were obsolete or unsafe, and their removal is already restoring fish migration routes, reducing flood risks, and reviving ecosystems. American Rivers buff.ly/LwcNbjh
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Oh wow, those dudes never stop moving, I have so many blurry pics!

The pointed head and thick body of a green moray eel juts out from a crevice

Looking down on front half of a green moray eel coming out of a crevice. Its mouth is slightly open

The open-mouthed head of a green moray arches over a feathery pale soft coral.

Side view of a handsome green moray eel against a soft and hard coral backdrop.

The slightly intimidating beauty of the Green Moray. 🦑 #diving #scuba #coralreefs #Bonaire

I mean, it's a great time saver...

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

A slender fish with a pale upper body and yellowish lower body barred with blotchy black vertical stripes and a black polka-dotted tail hovers above coral, facing away from the viewer at an angle.

Lateral shot of a slender fish with a pale upper body and yellowish lower body barred with blotchy black vertical stripes and a black polka-dotted tail hovers above coral.

I find Harlequin Bass (Serranus tigrinus) very scooty when approached so I have few photos. Fish often have funky biology and these are no exception; they are synchronous hermaphrodites (have male & female reproductive organs) & can take on a male or female role in spawning & self-fertilize 🦑

The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.

1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary.

It disavowed the New York Times reporting.

Incredible development for trans youth.

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Black beans and rice with mexican seasonings and maybe some salsa and/or guac is pretty fast. And you can make a quick and easy vegan chocolate pudding with nut milk, cornstarch, and cocoa.

A male Common Green Darner with a lime green thorax and blue and brown abdomen and female with a green thorax and brown abdomen are perched on a floating twig. Both have long reddish legs. The male is holding the female behind the eyes with structures at the end of his abdomen, while the female inserts eggs into the twig.

Common Green Darners (Anax junius) will be returning north this spring. A. junius is one of 5 migratory dragonfly species in North America; some nymphs hibernate through the winter deep in their local wertland, others emerge as adults in late summer and fly south. #entomology #dragonfly #insects

A continent-long “brown ribbon” has appeared in the Atlantic off Africa — and scientists say it’s not a good sign - Futura-Sciences Last May, satellites detected 37.5 million tons of pelagic sargassum, a species of brown seaweed, forming an unbroken band from the coast of West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico. This Atlantic Great Sarg...

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The Ratchet In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targeting gender identity.2 That is a more than fourteen-fold increase in total anti-LGBTQ legislation and a thirty-one-fold

Anti-trans legislation and the architecture of a coordinated campaign of elimination: a data-driven analysis of the most sustained legislative assault on a minority population in modern American history.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Solidarity from the person whose dinner last night was 2 egg custard bao...

Washington State - Puget Sound.

The underappreciated interpretation!

A wedge-shaped, slightly mottled flat fish the same color as the sand around it with two goggly eyes on the same side of its head lies on the ocean floor pondering its etymological origins.

Things you learn while playing bar trivia with dive buddies: "sole" is derived from the Latin solea (sandal), which is derived from the equally Latin "solum" (bottom). So, a fish that looks like a sandal or the sole of a foot and lives on the sea floor. 🦑 #etymology #fish #scuba #diving

The attempted erasure of trans people from public life continues apace.

Hear me out -- Edward Estuary.

Oh, I am so sorry!

A shaggy long haired tuxedo cat with mostly black body & a white band across his shoulders is coiled in a circle on a human's lap.

Old Man Miska had to get some senior blood work done today & now he's sleeping off the trauma with several Churu in his belly. #caturday #catsofbluesky #rescuecats

Chocolate pu-erh = lawful good

Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride The bill could heavily impact LGBTQ+ activities throughout the state, and is the latest exercise in the erosion of democracy there.

Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Florida Passes Bill That Lets DeSantis Remove Local Elected Officials From Office For "Promoting" Pride The bill could heavily impact LGBTQ+ activities throughout the state, and is the latest exercise in the erosion of democracy there.

1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy.

Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity.

No court hearing necessary.

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Red Flag Alert - Anti-Trans Genocide in the USA - #3 | Lemkin Institute

The Lemkin Institute has issued a *THIRD* trans genocide warning, noting the next stage is widespread containment - and this was before the 4th Circuit ruled today that states can essentially do whatever they want to make trans people "appreciate their sex".
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