🦇 Did you know brown long-eared bats love perching in their favourite spot and eat moths? They are not so keen on the wings though... This photo, taken by Mike Mullis, is a collection of moth wings left by a brown long-eared bat from underneath its feeding roosts in his barn in East Sussex (cont)

#photography #jazz #music Copenhagen Jazz Festival boat stopped under a bridge to use the acoustic properties of the bridge, for a small concert youtu.be/IQpx5ne8PHY?...

#FossilFriday #SurvivingEarth The boomerang-head lepospondyl Diplocaulus @denvermuseumns.bsky.social

🔥💀 ''As the US celebrates its 250th birthday, an architectural playbook is being deployed in Washington. It’s one that we’ve seen before...'' monocle.com/design/archi... #history #architecture #arthistory #US #Germany

The Trump administration has directly spent $2.7bn of taxpayer money on its crusade against wind power while pouring $1.125bn into boosting coal, which critics say is pushing up Americans’ bills. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

100 years of June sea surface temperature anomalies... wait for the last frame (record high) 🫣 Data from ERSSTv6: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext... 🌊

In the U.S., 65% say global warming is important to them; 76% are interested in news about how climate affects cost of living; BUT only 39% of Americans say they hear about global warming in the media at least once a month: @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

Over half a million Americans are now organizing against data centers — a stunning number. Check out the full report here: datacenteropposition.com.

Our data scientist Tuna Acisu’s successful quest to continue a 1,200-year-old climate record— How can we learn about temperatures and climate change from before thermometers even existed?

Listening to the latest Today in Politics - Explainer by @hcrichardson.bsky.social youtu.be/bxEawcvCle4 #US #Currentevents #history #navigatingcomplexity #synopsis #synthesis #Greenland #Iranwar #Trump #Corruption etc.,

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

unchartered territory ahoy! 🏴

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. the President is right that his tariffs are at work — in destroying U.S. jobs .. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025 .. “His trade oscillations and border taxes are a major reason .. why Americans are so unhappy.” www.wsj.com/opinion/how-...

An asymmetry between the parties and their affiliated media is that a Dem senator switching parties could receive credible promises that they'd have the support to sail through a GOP primary. When Dems got Arlen Specter to switch in 2009 he lost the Dem primary to Joe Sestak, who then lost the seat.

Day 190.

Even Krugman can see the board.. even Krugman 😬

Fascinating talk with Economist/columnist Paul Krugman.. youtu.be/b30scw0dQYA #Oligarchy #US #inequality #compexity #synthesis #perspectives #economics

#GunaiKurnaiCountry 🦇Bat of the day Grey-headed flying -fox

did you know that the English words druid, trust, truth, betroth, and truce all share a root word with “tree”? this reflects the longstanding spiritual and symbolic significance of trees in many European cultures

There’s no denying these eight-legged segmented micro-animals are pretty cute. But the real allure of the tardigrade lies in its incredible hardiness. These little “water bears” might just be THE KEY to helping cancer patients

🧬🌿🍄⚡⚗️🔬 ''Mycorrhizal mycelium is a sticky living seam that holds soil together. Remove the fungi, and the ground washes away..'' youtu.be/0-hS4HoW5fM #Life #Mycorrhizalmycelium #Climate #Biology #Planetaryboundaries #Homeostasis #Complexity

ガマグチフクロホコリ こんな立体的なの初めて見た なんか海の生物みたい 前見たのとは別種なのかな

久しぶりに近場の公園へきのこを見に。全く期待していなかったので意外と出ていた印象。 2025.8.18 ヒメカバイロタケ #fungifriends

🎧🔥👁️ youtu.be/RP3c8Hu3tD8

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

JD Vance: "There is so much fraud-- or, there was so much fraud in the federal government ... "

Offshore wind turbines being born.

🎧🏴 youtu.be/hxsld16TjSU #wednesdaymotivation

Trump: "I would be the greatest communist in history. I'd be right up there with Leneeen."

Day 188

📢 Day 39 of protests in Albania #Albania #Corruption #Kushner #Trump #US

The Graham Platner fiasco proves that the Democrat Party is far too tolerant of sexual predators. by Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Pete Hegseth, Jim Jordan, Dennis Hastert, Blake Farenthold, Trent Franks, Herman Cain, Cory Mills, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald J. Trump

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

He wasn't known here in the Netherlands as Teflon Mark for nothing. World.

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

Alternatively, we’ll be reading our work alongside DJs at major music festivals, our finely crafted words projected in vibrant colours on mammoth screens, as we fight, fight against the flashing of the lights.

Like a firework. Kaboom. I’ve taken this #lichen before in the summer the light was perfect and it looks like conditions are perfect on frosty winter mornings too. It was wet dark cold and these were thriving #FungiFriends

🔬🧫🌿 ✨ ''Lichens are fungi that have discovered agriculture'' (Lichenologist Trevor Goward) youtu.be/Tc0nILyks-U #lichens #ecology #symbiosis #biology #ecosystems #pioneerspecies #paleohistory #cyanobacteria #devonianperiod #science

Cladonia coniocraea. Zielonka Forest, Wielkopolska (western Poland). #lichens #porosty #fungi #grzyby #lichenology #mycology #lichenfriends #fungifriends

Lichen o clock! 😍

On my way, Clacton.

Platner Principal: any person with a Nazi tattoo is prone to heinous scandal.

Fine. Need to delete my rant from earlier as and yes, I'm well aware it lacks the nuance required to be left out in the wild. Now you know.

From today: ✨Author Margaret Atwood on why The Handmaid’s Tale no longer feels like fiction.. youtu.be/bBs_SfypE7I @margaretatwood.bsky.social #writers #dystopias #books #perspectives

"Aussie boys are on a bender! Donald Trump is a sex offender!"

🎧🏴 youtu.be/bndL7wwAj0U

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...