I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

Mallard. Drawing by Francis Place (1647-1728). © The Trustees of the British Museum. #MallardMonday #SciArt 🦆🪶

When people talk about taking kids' devices away w/o addressing how they have fuck all else to do, I think about the insane shit all the bored suburban kids I knew got up to before cell phones You can't just take their phones away or they're gonna get into making homemade napalm & burn a field down

This is a way that you can see the results of your efforts immediately, too. I think that’s worth a lot.

I am once again saying that the people who do this are evil but the facts that cops are a loaded gun any random person on the internet can pick up and fire is a far bigger problem

A pair of recently fledged young Great Horned Owls, with mom perched not far away 🦉 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 #birds #owls

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

Sex work is valid work. Sex workers deserve to be paid a living wage and to have safe working conditions, just like any other worker. Yes, I represent sex workers. And yes, I'm happy to do it.

They brutalized this man three blocks from our place, just two blocks from South High before the start of the school day. They left his hat on the ground and the smashed up car on the street. My neighbors are trying to locate his people and get his car towed somewhere safe. ICE is still here.

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

Lots of people have warned that the US right-wing is trying every tool at their disposal to restrict bodily autonomy, including bringing back the Comstock Act. Well here is exactly such an attempt, from the SCOTUS bench. And please remember/realise that shit like KOSA is just Comstock in digital.

144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens

Everyone please appreciate the heroic scientific struggle to talk about the cloaca with the public, which is not a “butt” “butthole” or “anus” by any reasonable definition—but also that’s the best broadly comprehensible descriptor. Hence: manta butts. 🤷‍♀️

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Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Not finals week in NZ, but can confirm our Canvas-based course management system is down. Building global single points of failure into dozens of countries' education systems via huge edtech providers is such a great idea /sarcasm.

Obama and other liberals keep saying that they want a "strong GOP". Well, this is what it looks like: a brazen and gleeful rejection of Black people having anything worth respecting or defending and alignment with an openly white nationalist agenda that holds nonwhiteness in contempt.

Seeing little kids get gassed by their own governmnent in Portland is up there with the most traumatic things I've witnessed as a journalist

hey @shannonskalos.bsky.social, they want a person good at bird calls :)

Sketch of a small burrowing owl Graphite on paper #art #birds #nature #sciart

When you consider that Paul Skenes has thrown 5,568 career pitches, all to major league hitters, and allowed a homer (23) on .004% of those, any Tom, Dick, or Harry saying anything other than "give me the $50,000" is absolutely delusional.

good, because that shit sucks

"where are the student encampments?" here you go!

What the fuck, stop funding concentration camps

The new resolution will be considered by the Sacramento City Council at the 2 p.m. meeting on Tuesday at City Hall.

I'm also trying to raise just a couple extra hundred bucks so I can get these little babies vaccinated and a physical check-up before going to fosters. If anyone can literally donate ANYthing, my Venmo is "Nico-Colaleo". Thanks so much in advance ❤️

#bioacoustics #wildlife

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

Application due May 5th!

I helped pull a moose out of a hole like that many years ago.

Permanent job in Sacramento! Sr environmental scientist in a good unit. Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor

The Governor has mandated all state workers be in office 4 days a week starting July 1. The unions including the union for state scientist are fighting hard, but just as a heads up, working conditions may be different than stated in the job ad by the time the job starts.

Permanent job in Sacramento! Sr environmental scientist in a good unit. Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources. calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

My friend Matthew will be needing additional surgery. Anything you can give to help with medical costs and costs of living will be appreciated. They have given tirelessly of themself to save disabled people like me. Even just sharing this will help slow them that same love and support in return.

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Rocks are memories of the land. 🩶 #art #sciart #rocks #earth #drawing

Another addition to @romgothsam.bsky.social's Sexy Satan series!

WHY does this look like a maternity shoot

Do I have any followers in the Los Angeles area who is looking for some sweet cats? Or any followers who know someone in L.A. who is?

With a final tally of 213-214, the war powers resolution to disengage US forces from the war on Iran failed by a single vote. Representative Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic lawmaker to vote against the measure. Had he voted for it, it would have passed, handing Trump an historic loss.

Breaking: In a 50-49 vote, the U.S. Senate passed the measure allowing sulfide mining in areas near the Boundary Waters.

he showed up to a mostly empty auditorium, got heckled by anti war protesters opposing the war he just humiliatingly failed to negotiate an end to, erika kirk stood him up, and he tried to explain catholicism to the pope. the only way he could’ve had a worse time is if he pissed his pants up there.

feels so good to steal money straight out of Intuit's pockets, love this for all of us

Here is Los Angeles' budget proposal from last year.

If your hospital closes and the next closest is only 6 miles farther, your risk of dying just went up by 1% regardless of what conditions you do or don’t have & regardless of anything about you or choices you make. Now imagine how bad 33 miles is. I want my taxes to lower everyone’s risk of dying.

It’s hard to really explain how much hospital distances affect whether people live or die but a 10 km (~6 mi) increase in distance to the hospital increases the death rate for *everyone* in the community by ~1%, and as high as +10% per 10 km for certain conditions, and gets worse the farther it is

Great thread on how ICE is effectively outsourcing their mass deportation mission to local police, leveraging the already significant funding they receive and the impunity with which they operate in communities.