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Before you fall asleep poorly tonight, slow down to enjoy one of my cutest videos of Baby Bird Season 2025. It doesn't get much better than this 🥰 🪶

“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.”

I'm not a Bernie-or-bust partisan but this year he's provided such a tireless voice in defense of democracy. IMO the strongest counter to the volatility of the moment would be to replace 99% of responses with this simple, matter of fact message distilled from years of experience.

Today's pickings.

Moss absorbs 4x more COz than trees, grows without soil, and helps cool cities. Stop removing it. #moss #CO2 #trees #soil #cooling #leavealone

A community consumed by joylessness within can't sustain life, even its own. We will win.

Doggo in the Dungeness.

If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

iconic photo the shoes in hands

🚨 Wolves Need Your Voice! Congress is considering harmful riders in the upcoming Interior appropriations bill that would strip protections for gray wolves in 44 states and weaken the ESA. 📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...

New comment in @TheEconomist from @Scripps_Ocean's Ralph Keeling on Trump and climate science: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

This was recorded in a parallel universe where Fox Business exists but batteries do not.

If you'd like to let the Secretary of the Interior know about this new invention called "the battery," you can contact him here:

Good night. 🗺️

This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him.

Fuck ICE Fuck Trump Fuck war Fuck everything about that. All power to nature and the working class. Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing. Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣

Regarding ongoing discussion of training students to evaluate sources of information -- it's heartening to see much serious attention by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and others. But I'm stumped why academics in particular are still so stumped by this!

We recently reported DOGE created AI tool. It didn’t go well “I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Yo. Look at how cute this prairie dog pup is. Omg. Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it! Video to be added later 🗺️

THANKS, COLUMBIA!

100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill. They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget. Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control.

Release his files.

Why I fucking love bsky

JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...

The Phillies did the kiss cam thing to Coldplay

It was a good year to be 12. youtu.be/lvnTsLSGPpc

This is very hopeful news. Current NSF, NOAA, NASA funding maintained in new Senate appropriations bill - which also explains the critical role basic science plays in US technical & economic progress.

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/

A moment I still remember from undergad classes: in a discussion section for first quarter QM, another student complained that she was tired of the harmonic oscillator. The TA said, "I have some bad news," and then turned and wrote on the board: Everything is a harmonic oscillator

"A warning coordination meteorologist is responsible for teaching emergency managers what specific types of weather alerts mean. If those positions remain vacant for, say, half a year, 'you’re really starting to lose your relationship w/local officials.' " www.latimes.com/cali...

Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined. “What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?”

Ok, or maybe AltNPS hasn't changed at all lol "Photo credit to an undisclosed source." Yes, an undisclosed source who sent this photo TO PBS NEWS, not the Secret Agent Park Rangers. Shoutout to @knives.motorcycles, who also has the most radical bsky handle I've ever seen

Idiotic ICE manly-men prepared for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or something.

Imagine going to Ventura county To terrorize a community and murder farmworkers instead of look at dolphins. Just the most soulless fucks in America right now.

Capitol Hill just hosted a science fair with a twist: 🔬 Nobel winners & other leading scientists stood by posters showing their work — and the cuts now gutting it. They came from across the country, many paying their own way, to call attention to the serious risks these cuts pose to our future.

So glad we all get to experience the Most Ironic Independence Day In American History.

I freaking love this (mom of two pigeons, Peep and Poop)

The perfect @amiberger.bsky.social content does not exi-

The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems.

Hours after Putin spoke to Trump And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense

Imagine that there was a US administration whose department heads were competing to see how many people they could kill. It would look just like this one. Rubio and Musk are in the lead, causing thousands of deaths by shutting down USAID. Kennedy is trying to catch up. Trump keeps the leader board.

Wildflowers on Klahhane Ridge.

Klahhane Ridge, Olympic National Park, my supremely happy place.

best TikTok ever 🏆