KONSYSE: The U.S. federal government has ended its participation in World AIDS Day. The State Department ordered all federal agencies to halt the use of agency resources for commemorative messaging and activities earlier in November 2025.

And holds up 🇶🇦, 🇷🇺, and 🇰🇵 as examples of how we should be? Another sadistic psychopath.

We think this Powerful Owlet may be female as its face mask feathers extend beyond the edge of its face, and there was a paper a few years back that said female juveniles could be distinguished from males this way.

Honestly, if you told me Trump affirmatively like prison rape I wouldn’t bother pretending to be surprised. That fits entirely comfortably with the rest of his deeply immoral worldview, a worldview not acceptable in any iteration of society.

The spotted towhee is a glorious mega-sparrow. 🪶

Abstract submission fees are to conferences what baggage fees are to airplane travel and vehicle passes are to Burning Man. And I am old enough to remember when none of these things existed. #howAmISuddenlyMiddleAged

Everything you always wanted to know about mushroom-forming fungi! Great collab with amazing mycologists. Thanks Laszlo Nagy for leading this effort! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A nice way to finish the year, with the publication of our new species, genus and family. This is yet another new species from a little creek in Scott Creek Conservation Park. So many undescribed species! #fungi #aquatic_fungi #freshwater_fungi phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/v...

#StillDoinCDs I didn’t know Vivienne Wilder’s music, but saw her & band at the Cameron House pub in Toronto - very impressive - & got her 1st 2017 full CD “Waking Up the Dinosaurs” after picking a title from the live set. Turns out there are a lot of keeper avant-rock songs on this disc.

Newsom’s comms team still going hard

Favorite images of 2025, Day 2: Taken just moments after yesterday's image, a green anole looks right at the camera as it bites back at the little blue heron who plucked it out of the alligator flag. #birds

Honouring Lou Sullivan on this World Aids Day. He was the first known Trans Man to contract HIV & the first Trans Man to publicly live life as an out Gay man. Currently reading his diaries for the 3rd time. What a life he lived & a legacy he left behind. 💟🏳️‍⚧️

František Kupka, Mme Kupka among Verticals, 1910-11 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135616

Just after sunset isn't exactly my preferred shooting environment, but Short-eared Owls don't care. First one of the season, and pretty damn close to home too so hopefully I'll get plenty more shots of it. #birds #raptors

My previous marriage was with a woman trying not to be gay, we divorced and later ended up matching* with the same woman on Hinge (they're now living together ♥️), and since then I've realized I'm transfemme and I'm now in a relationship with a woman who didn't realize she was gay until she met me

F*cking Orwellian

A male Pileated Woodpecker checks a spot in the bark for tasty ants.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

I don't think I'd ever seen a Great Blue Heron do this with its mouth, the tip of the bill still together, but open at the back. Couldn't work out what I was seeing at first. #Birds 🪶 #EastCoastKin #Photography

We all got mobilized by Sloan at the Andy Kim Christmas Special charity fundraiser tonight!

#StillDoinCDs Mes Aïeux (My Ancestors) is a Québec band that pioneered a stirring fusion of traditional & avant-garde music dubbed “neo-traditional,” & did it with humour & personal & political poignancy. “Ça parle au diable!” (Speak of the Devil), 2000, was their gold 1st album.

Yesterday I shared the BBC report showing Georgia's state security forces deliberately used chemical weapons on democratic protesters in Tbilisi. One of those affected, @mel.ge implores us not to forget about the incident and ensure the offenders are punished.

Good morning on Day 1379 of the war in Europe. The day after the 'crunch' Moscow talks and... nothing's changed. Ukraine wants peace. Russia refuses. Strangely, still no post from Trump on Putin's latest humiliation of US 'power' It's the daily thread - still never missed a day!

Here's a Dipper painted in watercolour for today's #ArtAdventCalendar and also #BirdOfTheDay theme #OnTheRocks ! I've only ever seen a Dipper once, they really are wonderful birds 🪶 🤎 Painting inspired by one of the @rspb.bsky.social website dipper images! #Birds #Art #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin

American kestrel female bringing food to her hungry daughter, shot from my deck in California #BirdOfTheDay #stripes #birds #Twosday

Eye-opening exhibit of artist Joyce Wieland’s work at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Anyone casually weighing in on this race needs to understand this.

#StillDoinCDs Bright Light Bright Light is the vehicle of Rod Thomas from Neath, Wales, whose dance pop ranges from ultra modern to disco-inflected with violin sweeps. “Enjoy Youth,” 2024, is his 5th album as BLBL, 8th overall, going top 10 in Scotland & UK-indie. Maybe the UK’s top gay artist.

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec. 2 A Lesser Yellowlegs forages in a small prairie marsh. #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Flicker getting a drink along the river: #birds #wildlife #nature

What a beauty! #birds #snow #wildlife #nature

This young Bald Eagle showed up, this morning, to celebrate #TalonTuesday! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #Raptor

Juvie Mr. Anna's is quite proud of his patchy gorget! He would like to lodge a complaint with management about this whole winter thing, however. No one warned him about this! (heated feeder is out for the three Anna's!) #birds #becurious 🪶

Robertson Davies was one of Canada's most celebrated novelists. He wrote several trilogies, won the Stephen Leacock Award and the Governor's General Literary Award and was the founding Master of Massey College. This is his story. 🧵 1/10

Good morning. The Desert is calling and I must go. This shot is Roadrunner tracks and the white flower is a Dune Evening Primrose.

Living the MAGA lifestyle means you drive a truck made in Mexico, post conspiracies on a phone made in China, and scream ‘America First’ through a Russian bot account.

Good morning. Marbled godwits foraging on the beach. 🪶

Growing evidence shows a rapid rise in chronic non-communicable diseases across pets, livestock, wildlife, and aquaculture populations, and a biologist contends the phenomenon mirrors the chronic disease crisis humans have faced for decades.

For #ArtAdventCalendar day 1, I’m sharing this Prairie Falcon image from January.

New species of tinamou, the slaty-masked tinamou (Tinamus resonans): mapress.com/zt/article/v... 🪶🧪 (📷Luis A. Morais)

#ArtAdventCalendar Dec.1 A male white-winged crossbill with his spruce cone on a frosty winter day. #Birds #photography #wildlife

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

My interview with @kyivpost.com by Ugo Poletti "How Russian Propaganda and Disinformation Tools Influence Europe" www.kyivpost.com/interviews/6...

LOOKS LIKE I’M GOING TO SEE SOME SHARKS!!! 🦈 😍 Biology card renewal here we come!

Former Fox Entertainment personalities committing international war crimes in the name of all Americans was the logical next step for Murdoch after decades of brainwashing his US viewers.

I'll join in the sharing of my favourite 2025 shots this month under the hashtag #ArtAdventCalendar Sony 𝛂7r5 1250iso|900mm|f6.3|1/800s

Tuesday. Today’s #BirdoftheDay theme is #stripes and so here is a red-bellied woodpecker #birds #birding #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #nature #outdoors #photohour #EastCoastKin