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messing with trees

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Every politician needs to hear this. Then play it back and listen to it again.
@democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

USDA quietly dissolves 2 critical food safety advisory committees. These groups advises on microbial and meat inspection. You know, the stuff that keeps E. Coli, Salmonella, and Listeria from turning your dinner into a hospital event.

A slow-shutter photo of sea foam pulling off the sandy beach at Birling Gap with the Seven Sisters cliffs in the background. UK.

Golden cliffs. The Seven Sisters chalk cliffs of East Sussex reflecting the golden light of sunset.

A swirling pair of blue and orange turkey tail mushrooms grow off the sides of a fallen tree branch on the floor of the forest. All photos by me

Here are some nice mushrooms

Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.

The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...

The painting "Judith Slaying Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi.

Happy International Women's Day!

May we all embody this energy today and always.

#BlueSkyArtShow theme of the day is #windows.
A solemn view.

It is truly delightful!

🎯

RFK Jr

I decided to recycle the front of the sign from Presidents’ Day protest and added the back. What do you think? #StandUpforScience!

a backyard scene of a snowy night. There is a fence with buildings behind it and a large tree on the right. There is a single light on a pole.

calmness of winter

Shadows of tree limbs viewed through a layer of screens

#makersmARTch is #soft today. Abstract photography—projected shadows.

Linda Richman from SNL: we’re all miracles

#makersmARTch #wood is a landscape made of roots and lichen.

Well said!

just learning that the iconic canadian prog rock band "Rush" has introduced a devastating 5/8 tariff on all tempo exports to the United States

US natalist conference to host race-science promoters and eugenicists Details emerge about Natal conference in Austin later this month, set to feature figures linked to far-right politics

A natalist conference featuring eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel and conference venue operated by UT Austin.

Be careful who you listen to, you may end up dying of dysentery 🫣