We didn't deserve this day.

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

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Screenshot of Tumblr post by lurker-at-thresholds: Thinking about a new bit where i start using “workers of the world” as my go-to second person plural pronoun. Like “chat”. Workers of the world what do we think of this. Is it funny. Workers of the world please like and reblog my post

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

two millennials have a dramatic dance-off to the windoooooow, to the wallll—that is called a skeeted rivalry.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

After ICE outcry, Dems turn on DHS funding bill House Dems are turning against the Homeland Security funding bill en masse in the aftermath of the killing of Renee Good.

THREAD: ICE violence is powered by millions of dollars in funding for surveillance.

ICE is buying cell phone location data, leveraging Flock and Ring cameras and playing with terrifying spy toys from Palantir.

We have a rare chance this week to fight back. Plz share

punchbowl.news/article/hous...

When Trees Testify is required reading for students of botany or anyone interested Black botanical expertise and the lives of trees. An era-defining work! Buy it tomorrow!

The branching legacies of America’s past Plants serve as witnesses to the country’s history in a primer that celebrates Black botanical knowledge

Thanks @aravensgrace.bsky.social for your review of "When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy" coming Tuesday 1/20 fir @science.org.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....

If you haven't read Maria's "Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless", I highly recommend you do so!

Such a pleasure to get a jump on reading When Trees Testify, Dr. Montgomery! Thank YOU for this beautiful and important offering. 🙏🏿

Mushrooms Are Not a Metaphor | Los Angeles Review of Books Maria Pinto finds climate futures hidden among wild mushrooms.

"I made a conscious decision not to do chapters. . . . I wanted to feel like each hunt had finished, and we’d left the woodland with our baskets in between them."

Check out this fascinating Q&A with @aravensgrace.bsky.social in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 🍄

lareviewofbooks.org/article/mush...

What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there’s no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.

I spoke with @wired.com about how if local elected officials want to protect their community from ICE attacks, one of the most important things they can do is roll back city-level surveillance programs and restrict law enforcement use of Flock, facial recognition, etc www.wired.com/story/what-t...

white amanita mushroom in black hand outlined by a pine needle in the shape of a heart with a Floridian wetland, pine trees, and very blue skies as background

may we know what is nourishment and what is poison in the new year

A collage of Black foragers Hannah Vega, Tony Cineus, and Maria Pinto, a violet coral mushroom, and parasol mushrooms.

🍄 Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. Now, a wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the “nature gap”: buff.ly/PvRIV53

Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me About Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto Naturalist Pinto celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world in this joyful mix of memoir, science, history, and adve...

"A treat for nature lovers and mushroom aficionados."

First pre-pub review for FEARLESS, SLEEPLESS, DEATHLESS by @aravensgrace.bsky.social is in from @publisherswkly.bsky.social 🤩🍄

www.publishersweekly.com/9781469689791

A black book cover with slightly warped brownish beige mushrooms growing from the edges, a cartoonish illustration of an Ophiocordyceps- infected ant, and a handwriting-like font with the title, blurb, and author name written in it.

my book of essays inspired by the hunt for mushrooms is available for pre-order, y’all! 🥳

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

i put everything into FSD, and hope you’ll find some of that everything in its pages when you hold it in your hands in October
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A book called The Birding Dictionary: a tongue in cheek guide for people who find themselves obsessed, against all logic and reason, with birds. By Rosemary Mosco

THE BIRDING DICTIONARY, a small and dare I say very funny book, comes out May 6. Preorder it wherever you love to buy books. I think this will make a good gift for any birder, funny person, or parrot who enjoys shredding things.
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem....

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same to you!

Black woman wearing glasses, a scarf to tie back her hair, and a gray cowl neck sweater holding three large morel mushrooms in the woods

a low-angled morel mushroom with a deflated looking cap on the forest floor in the foreground, a Black woman crouched in the background and holding another morel mushroom

are you northeast loves ready with your food thermometers to check ground temps daily in anticipation of the arrival of these weirdos?
#morchella
#whoelsearewefightingfor

peach colored mushroom with fleshy teeth under the cap rather than gills, and a small dark spider hanging upside down from silk underneath the mushroom’s cap. all this surrounded by moss, lichen, and pine needles

this is your trickster exposure therapy channel
tricks are for kids and adults and the dead

this hedgehog mushroom makes a fragrant ceiling for anansi’s drama

can you get down with the shenanigan?

the future is a prank. both jumpscare and rich, psychological thriller. are you a prankster?
#hydnum

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

a bespectacled woman in a blue shirt in the woods holds a long, gilled mushroom seen from below…there is dirt covering about 6 of the mushroom’s 12 inches of stipe/ stem

some Oudemansiella species can look like they’re growing right from the soil, but all it takes is determined digging to see that what you’ve got is an iceberg among mushrooms, and it’s growing from buried deadwood sometimes as deep as a 6 inches beneath the surface!

they really are 🥰

pinkish fungi with red droplets of liquid oozing from them on the forest floor surrounded by pine needles with a Black hand in the background

who else are we fighting for?

‘bleeding tooth’ fungi i encountered in Oaxaca a couple augusts ago. these mushrooms are know for their blood red guttation, that is, the excess liquid they exude as a metabolic byproduct (like when we sweat!)

#hydnellum

a woman sits straddling a log covered in oyster mushrooms in the woods, smirking at the camera in a black leather jacket and yellow beanie

dr mushlove

What nature and science podcasts should I interview with?

a deer skull half clad in fur sits in the grass against a straw market basket with a red barn in the background

what else are we fighting for?

that every creature should decompose nobly rather than being snuffed by the preventable

when i checked to make sure it was still true before posting it was the 4th result but the first with an image--now it's as you say...i don't know how these things work at all but i like to think we had a small hand in giving it a boost