Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

You're looking at velvet malachite, Cu2CO3(OH)2. A few warnings: Please resist the urge to touch it to feel how soft it is. Absolutely /do not/ lick it. Keep far away from any Supermen. If a wingéd creature emerges, do not agree to any pacts. Let's talk about the science here.

Timeless El Capitan! I took this pic April 11, 2026 in Yosemite Valley, CA. #TimelessTuesday #RockinTuesday #NationalParks #yosemite #scape #landscapes #landscapephotography #ForestFriday #WestCoastPhotography #AdventureDoesNotWait #PhotographersUnited #photography

I am clean. I am cool. I am sprawled in MY OWN BED. I have ice cold water. No one is bothering me. No one is in my space. I have the whole evening to read until I fall asleep. Only one thing could make it better. A sleepy cat purring with the force of a thousand earthquakes.

Evening grosbeaks.

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults. All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Shannon Minter’s TIME 100 recognition arrives as he fights the Trump administration's assault on transgender rights.

“If you dunk your kids in enough artificial peptides, something cool will eventually take place,” said agency commissioner Marty Makary

Looking and feeling cute with my wonderful wife last weekend. 🥰

if an emergency room doctor finds out you're trans it's about a 50/50 shot they're going to blame your hormones for the problem without investigating the issue further.

This is precious!🥰🐾💃

In the context of publicly accessible gendered toilets, they never were "single sex" anyway. Plus per Swift J apparently the presence of opposite-sex children, cleaners, maintenance crew doesn't affect "single sex" status but the presence of trans people does, for unexplained reasons.

the great thing about having cats is that, at night, every creepy sound can be attributed to them. & probably is them. but here’s hoping no human is actually ever thumping around my house at night. I’d be like “that’s the cats. no worries.”

The press is entirely biased and responsible for the current situation America and the world is in. And I see no reason why the world shouldn’t hold those in the media financially and legally accountable to damage they have assisted in placing the world.

With enormous regret, SLAB is today advising supporters not to vote for ANY Scottish Labour candidate in this election. There are several pro-trans Labour candidates standing on 7 May, but a vote for them would now sadly be an endorsement of explicit transphobia. #NoVotesLabourInMay #TransRightsNow

Scottish Labour manifesto is out, don’t vote for them

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

if cats could drive they’d be like “yes of course i will let you merge” and then as soon as you did they’d attack your car

Water is wet

The American Medical Association directly responds to New York Times coverage mischaracterizing their posiiton on gender affirming care for trans young people. cloud.e.ama-assn.org/newsletter?u...

A statement on the IOC's decision to reintroduce mandatory sex testing for women. Please share widely. Alt text follows in the following posts.

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...

This is what radicalized me.

My resignation letter

Very Fashionable Cat 😺

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Wednesday

This article is darkly fascinating as an example of how transphobia infects your entire ideology. The core argument is that we should not believe people when they say they are trans, were sexully abused or have a mental disorder.

The Atlantic’s true editorial strategy: providing a safe space for milquetoast conservatives too chicken to own their politics, so they can safely launder right-wing ideology to gullible boomers.

An American physician, now practising medicine in Canada has some useful reflections "In Canada, where people don’t fear bankruptcy for seeking care, patients come in and they just talk to you, about doctor things. That’s a profound relief, for them and me" canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/02/15/i...

Rage inducing. How do these people sleep at night. The absolute arrogance of it.

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy. Proud to expose this stuff ✊ youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

Sometimes when my wife gets home she's taking a call and stays in the car for a bit. Dot won't leave the front door until she comes in. 🥰

Boris is peace personified.

when bigots say shit like "mass transition regret is inevitable" what they mean is that their goal is to make society so hostile to trans people that trans people decide to go back into the closet. thats why a bunch of terfs got all depressed when trans didn't go away after that supreme court ruling

“Every single day when I’m out in public, I have to decide,” Nikson Matthews, a transgender man, told lawmakers before the bill passed. “Do I feel like going to jail today, or do I feel like being attacked?” www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

Cleanse your timeline with the new kitty doing air biscuits.

thinking about the medieval cat door in Exeter cathedral again

Why, after years of scrutiny, isn’t there any evidence that large numbers of children were given irreversible treatments without assessment? “The journals are corrupt! And the doctors are corrupt! And the debate was suppressed! And the data is coming out any time now!” Like listen to yourselves

Weird how every journalist writing ‘balanced’ feature stories on this issue turns out to be a deranged conspiracist and ideologue the second you hear them speak off the cuff

Under Kansas law, he must use the women's bathroom or be subjected to criminal charges in government owned buildings or $1000 vigilante lawsuits in public spaces. I think everyone can understand why this is absurd and causes more problems than it was ever intended to fix.

I know some disagree but someone like Stephen Fry changing his mind and doing a complete 180 after supporting She Who Must Not Be Named, is a good thing and is evidence that attitudes are changing.

Recognising the impact of female archaeologists www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma... #women #archaeology #history

Exactly this. We live in the age of "vibes", I'm terrified of how willing we have been to abandon science, reason and moral clarity in favor of the feelings of people with demonstrably no emotional maturity. Even the clarifying lens of financial greed isn't enough to clear the fog.

Not even bothering to use the inside voice anymore. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride. Mainstream media: nothing Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes. Mainstream media: nothing. This is what extreme media bias looks like.

Trans rights are human rights. Thank you, Wembley. 🏳️‍⚧️

what do you do when your desired outcome (banning gender-affirming care) goes against the medical consensus? easy: simply exclude 97% of the relevant medical studies from your review...

Kinda hate that I can't use an em-dash anymore—AI is immediately assumed.