you crack open an unusually large acorn and these guys all come tumbling out

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe has been relocating nuisance beavers to suitable habitat to support healthy ecosystems and build climate resilience. Beaver reintroduction was already one of my favorite climate adaptation strategies - the Cowlitz "Kit Cam" is an amazing climate comms addition (sound on!).

The Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement were labeled terrorist organization. Not the Klan tho

It is mildly annoying when one purchases a sewing pattern and then, in the process of sewing it, begins to strongly suspect that one knows much, much more about good practices in garment construction than whoever drafted the pattern…

Creature of the Night original painting auction is live and ends at 7.30pm on Thursday May 14th 🐈‍⬛️🌿✨️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

"Don't you want the jobs those data centers create?" I wanted those jobs federal research grants create and that didn't seem to matter.

This is wild: Yomiuri News reports that due to the Iran War, Japan is facing a critical shortage in naphtha, a key material in making potato chip bags, and printing ink. As a result, the snack giant Calbee has announced that they are adopt black-and-white packaging for most key products 🫠 🫠 🫠

An Osprey flying past the moon on the way back to the nest.

The rule appears to be that redistricting is always legal when it benefits Republicans and never legal when it benefits Democrats.

So fucking much for the “Kickstarter After Dark“ newsletter, I guess. I heard about that launching and thought it was a positive sign. Guess I was hoodwinked.

The bluesky account cwebbonline. com is routinely stealing other people’s work without credit & has developed a big following. Content farming is lousy & opens the door to all kinds of misinfo. Please keep an eye on who you follow and repost to make sure they’re legit and worth your time

This is also why the democrats are utter shit on trans rights. They've got the same media diet and same billionaire donors, telling them this. It's why over 100 House dems just voted transphobia into federal law, why the V-coding candidate would only say "I will follow the law," etc

Think about what kind of media diet you'd need to have to think that the average person is motivated enough by bigotry to be willing to see themselves or loved ones die a slow painful preventable death. That enough people hate trans people more than being alive, to bank elections on.

These guys are completely convinced most people hate trans people more than they like themselves and their families being healthy and alive. That's why like half their attacks on ACA end up focusing laser-like on just trans people.

They're betting on "This might kill your cis kid but it'll *definitely* kill a trans kid" And, look at the media shitholes they fester in, they're completely convinced normal people agree with them. All their technofascist epstein-adjacent billionaire-owned media empires tell them so.

It's the LBJ quote, modernized: "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

One of the reasons the Republicans are pushing so hard to kill ACA *while* making half of all their attacks on it focused on trans people, is that they're convinced the average American hates healthy trans kids more than they love their own sick cis kids.

Mum and Baby 🦊🦊🧡 Garden #fox and fox #cub on camera for the first time last night !! 😊 #garden #wildlife #nature #mammal #cameratrap #trailcam @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

🐍🌼 Did you know that rattlesnakes are dedicated parents? They give birth to live young and stay with their babies for weeks to: 🛡️ Guard against predators 🌡️ Help regulate temp 🤝 Huddle with other moms for safety #MothersDay #SnakeFacts www.savethesnakes.org

Daily bunny no.3315 playing hooky

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

mole

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Man, I want to grow these just so I can say it’s time to harvest the skanks 🤣

fyi, anyone using Chrome. In addition to the steps David mentions in the article, you should also type chrome://flags in the address bar, search for 'Gemini', and set literally everything in there to 'Disabled'. And then ofc remember to do that again anytime Chrome updates.

Pallid Desert-Digger (Centris pallida) from last weekend, visiting smoketree

Oh my god guys, how!! 🤯 I just had hands down the best experience with bobcats I’ve ever had 🐱

Little purple guy (Tutelina sp.) 💜

Brother Alonzo you rascal get DOWN from there (commission)

While looking for warblers on the nature trail, I felt like I was being watched. After looking around, I spotted the watcher. 🦝 📷: Raccoon

"In my fantasy, if we lived in a city with money that didn't all go to the police department, the city would eminent domain that little lot and just turn it into a little bird sanctuary.” @nuala.bsky.social interviewed Meghan Long, the photographer behind the Night Herons of Oakland IG account.

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

the right people is all the people. make voting mandatory. if we can all get called for jury duty, we can all fucking vote.

Condolences to the faculty and students being asked to come up with individual solutions to the structural problem of admin having outsourced higher ed to for-profit, PE-owned third-party tech companies

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

BREAKING: Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results Even though Virginians put this to a vote and the people of Virginian voted for this redistricting, apparently the will of the people is irrelevant now. 1/2

“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” ~David Attenborough

What a legacy! How lucky we are he’s lived long and productively. Happy 100 years! 🎈

A Tree Swallow zips over the pond's surface, hunting for insects.

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

One thing you can do right now if you are mad is find a place like @voteriders.bsky.social (or another local group if you can) and sign up to volunteer. We're fighting on a million fronts right now but one no-brainer is to help people who would vote if they could figure out how.

The weather is warming up (for the second or third time this year) and I am once again realizing that I only have two pairs of summer pants and one of them currently needs repairing 😅 I gotta sew myself some new pants.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

It's important that you always shoot your shot, because you'll never know unless you try. Like my friend in our "bimonthly crafternoons" group chat just asked if anybody wants to go stand in a river and count glass eels next month and her problem now is actually that too many of us want to go

It’s thought that up to 90% of all species living in the deep Pacific could be unknown to science 🤯 Exactly how mining might affect these animals is still largely unknown. But a new study has tried to assess all studies to date, giving a mixed picture. Find out why 👇🏻 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

whoops we apolitically installed an unaccountable christofascist autocracy, as one does