Transgender and transsexual aren’t distinct categories. They’re a spectrum where the more transsexual you are the more likely it is you’re going to heaven.

the future is ours. we have to make it a place we want to be, we have to dream it into being.

it does feel fundamentally dysfunctional, right, to beg lawmakers to use the law to force law enforcement to obey the law

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

I have a magical machine that is really good at detecting patterns and therefore I know all. except for anything that is not precisely average.

just watched a bicyclist run into the back of a car stopped to let pedestrians cross a street

DOGE likely perpetrated the most serious, far-reaching data breaches in human history, and we will be dealing with the consequences for years. Many DOGErs should have been, and still could be, prosecuted for these crimes.

sometimes you talk to people about the EPA or the endangered species act, and you get to see that people are really naïve and think that the govt could ever divine something altruistic. it's baby brained and shocking because this comes from people who work in the field and/or are scientists.

the future is still ours. act like it.

I’m finding myself so overwhelmed with rage and heartbreak and dread that I need to get up and move my body while thinking about the legacy of Dr. King today. If you find yourself in a similar predicament but still want to engage his work, here’s audio of him reading his letter youtu.be/Di05SvJ8utI

every crisis all at once!!! I demand more!

sometimes I wonder if my neighbors can hear me singing to my dog about ecology, politics, and climate change. and then there's also the songs about being a silly goose, evil squirrels, licking the floor, and being the fluffiest pumpkin pie I ever did see. usually intentionally off key.

ya know, it would be really cool if instead of this fascist bullshit, we like, worked on trying to make peoples lives better or tried to do cool science and wanted to educate the population and maybe like gave them healthcare. what if we just, idk, tried that out for a change?

I can't help but doom when I go to the snowy land and there's not enough snow to go skiing (like 6 inches max and patchy). The reservoirs are empty and it's mid JANUARY. If we have another summer of no rain and we begin it with no snowpack and empty reservoirs.... yikes. Spruce galls are cool tho.

BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good? BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.

every time i look up how to do a “code” on the “computer” my eyes glaze over and i want to outlaw electrons. just protons and neutrons now, that was enough for my mother and her mother, we should be happy to have those

not an ecology grad student taking apart their disposable electronics to investigate microcontrollers... no, I would never procrastinate in such a manner.

I miss when there was context. like agreed upon and written down. I don't want to talk to people who won't even acknowledge that there is a general consensus. like fuck, climate change is real and the trends are towards warming. ect ect. give the story more than a lil blurb, please!

So much good art was made at bad art for good. I don’t know who made this (was it you??) but I love it so much.

I don't want to use your stupid location tracking app and I don't want to use a universal passkey. I just want to clock into work, fuck off, I don't even want want to work, stupid.

I do not understand why Democrats aren't saying "this Greenland shit is indicative that the president is not in his right mind and it is time to invoke the 25th amendment" except that almost every American politician does at heart believe we should rule the world with military might

I miss the days when all the grocery stores had bulk sections and were open till midnight or 24 hrs. this was normal before covid and I miss getting sunflower seeds at 2 am.

the haters dojo

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

lol sorry but women need to be meaner to men in 2026

gimme just one more hit of reality, I really wanna soak it in before it collapses.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

we also got 40% of our annual precipitation in a single 3 day storm. so thats.... bad. that 12.9 degree anomaly was for December. November was 6.7. and the mountains are currently bare up to about 8500 ft. so yeah, we're in hell. I am glad for moss but worried about *gestures wildly* everything.

moss post!!!! moss and sage because these guys have a really cool relationship. sagebrush (artemisia) provide a lil microclimate where mosses thrive, and moss also helps with seed germination and soil erosion. I did my monthly climate check-in and it's confirmed, we live in hell. 12.9 F above avg.

I'm really happy about living on the planet with all these people (?) that want to destroy and maim each other and everything else. cool cool cool

ya know, I actually kinda like my life and it might not be so bad, but I'm pretty sure we live in hell.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

If everyone was just a fraction less shitty, well that would be cool.

I think some of you read too much sci-fi and forgot that it's make believe. FANTASY. like when I wish I could live without skin. entirely unrealistic, just a fun thing I think about sometimes.

Some guys like to mock women for reading erotica and romance instead of "real books" it always turns out he doesn't read any books at all.

A few UV fluorescent organisms from an accidental night hike yesterday in the Oakland Hills. I’ll have an article out about UV Fluorescence in the SF Bay Area in the next issue of Bay Nature Magazine. #UVF #fluorescence

you live in society you better fucking think about it just a tiny bit. sorry, no opting out, especially for the symbols of power like an old white guy.

remembering the time I "baptized" myself in the dirty devil river and then ran around with mud in my hair for a week.... I think I need to do that again.

Slowly realizing even my political friends who say they hate AI are using it to speed up tasks like email writing, formatting grant applications etc

moss post!! (lichen and ferns too, cuz they're cool too) lichen is the least like the others, not really a plant but a composite organism, bending the ideas of what a species can be. then the mosses and ferns showing off their gametophyte (moss leafyness) and sporophyte (fern fronds) generations.

one password to rule them all

this is how it was going while typing up my finals for my wetland ecology course. pretty sure all variations made it into the paper but I still got an A, so I'm here to say that dyslexia will not ruin your chances.

"is ai the reason we have no snow?" asked to me by the youth in my life.

movie review - it was very long and a lot of things happened.

drinking pre-workout at the movies

as there is no snow, I'll be taking applications to join me on my hunt for tiny flowers this Christmas. I will supply you with a hand lens, scalpel, and lukewarm tea.

pigs feet, pepper cookies, french potatoes made by a swede, meatballs, nuts in the shell, ham *must not be smoked*, glög, julmust, cinnamon bread *no sugar*, lingon berries, rotten fish in a jar, smoked salmon, mashed potatoes, cream sauce, black coffee, elk meat. and vegan approximations for each

rain at 9500 ft, hell is upon us

got called a twink today