Have you been watching the #kakapo webcam? After a few power issues it’s back online. I’ll be at the nest in about an hour from now, so tune in then if you’re free! www.youtube.com/live/K_j3aaE...
Thank you for prime alt text.
I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur.
HUMMINGSAUR
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:
Deeply loving the recovery team director casually mentioning that she was born in Columbia. #Artemis
The first blossom on a healthy Saguaro
It’s beginning. 🌵
Are there art projects? Can you do an emergency call for sculptors?
FAFO FIFA
‘Tourism officials were initially bullish on the World Cup’s potential to help reverse a dramatic 6.3% downturn in inbound international tourism since President Trump took office, driven mainly by his tariffs, America First rhetoric and immigration policies. ‘
Hi there, this is my regular reminder that SpaceX has proposed putting a million more satellites into the sky, making it so we basically won’t be able to see stars from earth. Awe is good for all of us.
The immersive space station exhibit was striking in this regard as well. These are people who’ve worked together for years, we are seeing them at the apex of their teamwork, at the highlight of their careers, they are at their best and this is what it takes to do this work.
Somewhere, Jim Lovell is laughing at the spontaneous tool usage on the window shroud solution. This is a nice Apollo 13 callback. #ArtemisII.
I am doing nothing today but getting moved to tears by astronauts and that’s just fine.
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
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Just gonna keep posting this because I can’t get it out of my head. Is #astrophysics Bluesky a thing? Am I right to be worried?
What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”
Colorado. Because winter weather DURING winter is just not what the cool kids do. Apparently.
A photo of a rainbow plated enamel pin dedign of a cracked disco ball with liquid eyes dripping out frames by the words 'all panic no disco' in drippy typography.
These days the whole world is 'all panic no disco'. 🙃
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#artShop #neurodivergent #bsnm
Image from post. 4 book covers: communion: The female search for live by bell hooks; Communion by JD Vance; Appalachian Elegy by bell hooks; Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance
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Someone sent me this.
Does this whole ‘bye bye stars, Elon says we can’t have them any more’ thing bother other people? No? Just me? Ok then. theconversation.com/a-million-ne...
Ok, US-based artists of BlueSky. We can't work toward a future we can't see, and you, my darlings, are how we see it. So here's a paid chance to be part of the vision. What SHOULD the future be? What inclusive non-binary kind better world can we create? www.future-of-us.com/artist-submi...
A man with a captain’s hat holding a pipe driving a cardboard boat with a sign that says ‘Don’t Blow Me Up!’
This boat won our corner of the Golden, Co #NoKings, though there were two great motorcycles:
A person with trans pride flags who was cheered hugely and was clearly having a Great Day and a chow in a side car with a crown and a sign that said ‘no faux kings’
Some of the more than 3,300 No Kings Day protests planned for tomorrow include:
Kotzebue, AK - This is the northernmost No Kings event (in the Arctic Circle!), signaling unity and power in every corner of the country.
Tucson, AZ - Attendees are creating an eight-mile chain to Oro Valley.
Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
Of course!
Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis.
My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives?
So I picked up my camera 👇
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Apparently it was a crash day party yesterday that our bodies arranged without telling our minds. I can see them off plotting on their own like something out of Baron Munchausen.