Sweet dreams, everyone ♥️ (art Deborah Hocking)

Monarch butterfly numbers from the eastern migration are up substantially this year, but that's mostly because the past two cycles weren't good. From WWF: www.worldwildlife.org/publications...

i was very grateful to be masking in urgent care when an unmasked woman came in and said to the check in lady “i have tuberculosis”

if you find yourself overwhelmed by constant terror at the state of the world, may I suggest becoming a bird person? it doesn't really fix anything, but it at least lets you go "oh hell yeah" whenever you see a raven flying past with sticks for a nest in its beak or whatever

Goooooooood morning! This is fascism! @standupforscience.net is here to fight.

spring is here the pups are in full bloom

Duolingo making me a bit worried about the occasional moose who isn’t!

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Happening now: a small protest at O'Hare is marching through terminal 1 this evening outside Chicago. ICE agents have been spotted inside the airport all week. Folks chanting, "ICE out of O'Hare! ICE out of everywhere!"

A western meadowlark yesterday at Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. First time I've ever seen this species! It's hard to distinguish from an eastern meadowlark, but other birders ID'ed this one as the western species.

weaving some magic in artist Asako Eguchi’s world

After having my GP tell me casually over the phone (when I had covid) that they still come in to work when they have covid and don't wear a mask and that's the norm was...fun.

Florida has just banned public universities from teaching a list of basic sociological facts that happen to be inconvenient for right-wing political agendas. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

First they came for gender studies . . . and now they are attempting to ban sociology. Florida has written its own sanitized sociology intro book and banned all others that reflect what the discipline knows about gender, race, inequality and the world. truthout.org/articles/flo...

NYT always happy to tell Big Lies about us

Rev Black (the priest ICE shot in the head) also pitched turning these camps into community spaces or multilingual schools and childcare facilities. One day we will not only reverse every hate-filled policy of our country, but we will turn the sites of their evil into monuments to community.

I can't help but notice that whenever a sport bans trans women, they immediately begin transvestigating every Black and Brown cis woman with any chance of winning. It's almost as though some people think "woman" means "cis and white." 🤔

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

anti-trans virtue signaling that is not going to last, because a LOT of cis athletes are about to find out they are intersex

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

It's actually really fucked up watching so many people clamor to watch a new television series created by a woman who has proudly bragged she'll use the money she makes to try and kill my entire community.

Reminder that you are being lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale

this was taken from us

ive known we live in the bad timeline for years simply because jimmy johns thrives but quiznos died

Literally no one says *anything*. It’s really hard to take, like we are being shredded piece by piece and nobody cares.

There are so many colorful ways to hate your job

Why I’m Not Having Kids Because I Refuse to Be the Reason Chappell Roan Has a Bad Hotel Stay: https://reductress.com/post/why-im-not-having-kids-because-i-refuse-to-be-the-reason-chappell-roan-has-a-bad-hotel-stay/

Last week, in a unanimous vote, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma banned AI data centers on their land. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...

I've now gone over 150 and thus have started a volume II: go.bsky.app/51XvBs7

For those interested I've started putting together this starter pack for the field of environment & climate law, broadly construed. It's a field in which I'd love to be able to get more involved. Let me know if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/RtbVp5X

"The Trump administration admits to testing conversion therapy on trans prisoners and implies its policy of forcibly detransitioning trans men in prisons has the aim of preserving their fertility." transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Please don't even pirate it or hate-watch it this time, just let it go, starve the franchise of attention completely

Hey leftists, it’s ok to discuss disagreements about strategy, but if you say people who take COVID precautions: - are too scared to leave the house - demand that everyone wear a mask 24/7 - are terrified of a just a "cold" You are using far right anti-science talking points.

The anti-trans "Gender Dysphoria Institute" is recruiting transgender youth for a new study. It's run by some of the worst anti-trans "scientists" out there. Now, our writer S. Baum has uncovered a massive dark money network from the far-right funding it. See our latest investigation.

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Every time I post about endometriosis and dare to make it, gender inclusive, I always get a lot of comments from people angry that I didn’t just say “women” And every time, I think about how Rowling has enough money to cure endometriosis forever. But she doesn’t actually give a fuck about women.

From Instagram - today the Dyke Project shut down NHS England HQ to protest the politically motivated ban on trans youth healthcare.

Every time Potter Discourse slouches back 'round, I remember how we collectively Thanos-snapped Neil Gaiman when we found out he was a sexual predator

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

making fun of losers who are still into Harry Potter actually seems to be working to some extent, and we should keep doing it Gen Z and Gen Alpha members are our strongest soldiers when it comes to calling out Harry Potter as irredeemably cringe millennial adult-baby slop

Look, I moderated a Harry Potter Livejournal community. I wrote a lot of Harry Potter fanfic (including a story about a major character being trans). I met a lot of my best friends because of Harry Potter. If I can give that shit up because the author is ACTIVELY WORKING TO KILL PEOPLE, so can you.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

our society continues to innovate on destroying labor and institutionalizing child abuse

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov are introducing a ban on AI data centers and other hyperscale data centers. The ban would remain until Congress passes new AI legislation. That legislation must ensure AI is safe, benefits workers, and doesn't raise electricity prices.

listen you gotta see our show ROBO WAITRESS ASSASSINS April 5, 12:30 pm pacific Live in LA and livestreamed! put your eyes and ears on it!! 🩷 www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Once again a demonstration that every one of their accusations is a confession. 🤦‍♀️ www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

if Anita Bryant was still alive and promoting Florida orange juice, you couldn't pay me enough to drink it. how is Harry Potter any different? here is a timeline of JK Rowling's transphobia: web.archive.org/web/20241225... & here is where her HP money is going: www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowl...

it’s not hyperbole, JKR literally said support for HP is support for her transphobia and she uses the money she makes from it to TRY TO TAKE OUR RIGHTS AWAY if you watch that show please don’t ever speak to me again trans lives are more important than your fandom of a terrible human’s IP

A satisfying cartoon for all the chronically ill folks who have been told to just think themselves better!