I remain convinced that age-gating social media is largely an effort to keep kids straight, cis and apolitical. If you’re a Washingtonian, call your legislator.

Here's a curious cougar for this #FurriendlyFriday. I studied a population of cougars between L.A. and San Diego for my PhD and will forever have a soft spot for these cats

Re: Gavin Newsom

Albert Renger-Patzsch, Fungi Lepiota procera ca. 1930 - Gelatin silver print

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Chapelle Roan is taking stronger action towards people named in the Epstein files than the US government

Always remember that If they build the camps, they will fill the camps.

Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people. ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.

I cannot count how many unhoused folks in the French Quarter I encounter in hospital gowns or scrubs, wearing their hospital bracelets, only socks on their feet, with dirty dressings over wounds or in medical distress. This problem is everywhere, because disabled people are disposable in the US.

wealth extraction is the point

So far this month we have sent: $2,800 in no-questions-asked cash to unhoused & recently housed neighbors $815 for eviction prevention $1,200 in utilities to prevent evictions & shutoffs Thank you for supporting our work & making this possible 🖤🏴

Americans are wondering if their own police departments are going to protect them from criminal federal agents and every time a video like this comes out, there's an answer.

like, hundreds of children are suffering and are being exposed to infectious disease outbreaks in concentration camps *right now*. that has to matter more than presidential sounding words

stuff like this is why i have trouble with the incrementalism and slow-walking from dems. this is happening *right now*

The niche is absolutely there. I am sure there are dozens of us who get distracted in steamy scenes wondering about historically accurate laundry practices or some such thing

Zombies Some lovely Ophiocordyceps specimens on the walk today.

half a billion dollars per year for a single concentration camp. the dhs nazis are bleeding this country dry

Got my annual covid shot today! I usually get it in late December, but I was traveling, then sick with a non-covid bug, then starting the semester. But today I got it, and I mention that because if you haven't had yours yet--or haven't had one in a few years--today is always a good day for it.

Really appreciate them talking about deliberately planning for 10 hour days on set because a) extremely long days especially impact hair, make up, wardrobe deps, which are overwhelmingly staffed by women b) it is actually cheaper to not pay huge amounts of overtime for 15 hour days

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

Guy in an anticapitalist shirt at the gym complimented my shirt from @sarahmackattack.bsky.social

The problem with ICE is not “training” or “accountability.” It is the mission of the agency on its face. DHS and ICE didn’t start up until 2003. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Come get your lights fixed today!

#BlueskyArtShow #Sunlight Cow parsley in the late evening sun

🌊 Caribbean Reef Octopus & Golden Trevally Sculpture 🐙✨🪸 #ArtYear #Art #Artist #Handmade #ArtGallery #Octopus #CoralReef #Ocean #Underwater #Nature #MarineLife #FebruArty 🦑🐡

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Another wildlife surprise from this past weekend. Saw lots of footprints in the snow, and then 😊 #mammals 🌿

Shut them down and free the incarcerated kids and their families.

This line ran for years as a big joker with very few people pointing out no one like work trainings but somehow diversity training was experienced as *uniquely* oppressive

“Diversity trainings were annoying” okay, name a work training that you loved to do?

If you have a billion dollars or more, you are evil. You don't start out as evil, so it's not like only evil people ever get a billion dollars; it's just that being a billionaire forced you to make a choice, be evil or change how you do things and stop being a billionaire. Billionaires choose evil.

This Jack Horner. Who’s been known to the whisper network for some time now. There’s a reason I have repeatedly turned down writing about his work or him.

this is buried at the end of a thread but it is worth elevating. don’t use biometrics on devices that are logged into Signal! passwords and passcodes can’t be compelled. neither touch nor face id require you to be conscious or alive to unlock.

Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.

If you are a Californian who doesn’t think throwing more money at OpenAI is a good use of state resources (or a useful intervention for learners in a teaching focused university system), add your voice.

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

Mai Vang is running against an old guard Dem in the Sacramento area congressional seat! Vang is the most progressive member of the Sacramento City council.

Primrose Spider Orchids are endemic to the south-west region of Western Australia and they're so beautiful 🤩 #painting #watercolor #botanicalart #botanical #orchid rachelhollis.com/product/prim...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

🪶 Cedar Waxwings have been seen in 49/50 states this month (sorry Hawaii.) If you head outside this weekend, maybe you'll see one. Hope you find something beautiful.

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did). That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later. This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.

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We take brighter notes where we can find them here in the Twin Cities. Found this note in my kindergartner’s backpack today. I’m tracking down his drawing, and glad they’re learning about diverse scientists! We say thanks to the volunteer lookouts on the corner every morning walking in to school.

notice how after ilhan omar was attacked by a maga true believer parroting donald trump, the mainstream media didnt kick off a multi-day orgy about how trump and other republicans need to change their tone and "lower the temperature"? that discourse only goes one way for the msm.

This is unconscionable. Evil. But it happened in May 2023, when Biden was president. So no, we don’t “reform immigration detention,” we destroy ICE, CBP, and DHS. We can’t reform this soul sickness.

Even if Bovino gets fired, ICE has to go. Even if Noem is out, ICE has to go. Even when Trump leaves office, ICE has to go. As protests grow and ICE's popularity drops, we may see concessions and leadership changes, like Bovino's departure. ICE still has to go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...