I wish more people knew about this. When you change the natural shapes and colors of animals, you cause them untold suffering. Please do not support extreme breeding. Check out: Vets Against Brachycephalism vetsagainstbrachycephalism.com #animalwelfare

Imagine you have a loaf of crusty bread that's gone stale. No mold, but hard as a rock. You put it under running water & stick it in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 10 minutes. Now it's soft & delicious as fresh-baked. What strange & wonderful BREAD MAGIC is this?! Let's talk about retrogradation.

A Spionidae larva (polychaete) under UV light. So pretty! #marineplankton 🦑

If she gives in then everything she accomplishes afterwards will be because she slept her way to the top. If she refuses, her career will stagnate. As soon as he propositions her she's lost.

These handsome devils with their fancy crowns appear to be Charaxes sempronius, the Tailed Emperor butterfly. They're native to Australia where they feed on kurrajong or bottletree shrub leaves. They're also famous for getting drunk & fighting on hilltops. Let's talk about these tiny dragons.

👀 ‘So often the question is “have we gone too far?" So rarely is it the statement: "They have gone too far." So often the question posed is "where does it all end?" So rarely is the question “how will we make this end?”’

Okuhara Seiko was a Literati artist in Japan during the late 19th century. Literati art focuses on expressive ink paintings with an emphasis on personal feelings and themes of literature and nature #WomensArt

Swalwell needs to withdraw and retire.

This is a grotesque troll post.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Carol Lynn Pearson, A Widening View, 1983 #poetry #poem #CarolLynnPearson

Over the years I’ve often grumbled that no-one should be allowed to go back to the Moon until we’ve cured the common cold. And so of course as humans approach the Moon for the first time in my life, I’m parked on the sofa with tissues, nursing the first cold I’ve had for months. Hmph.

They say you don’t really understand a policy until you feel it in your bones. Not read about it. Not debate it. Feel it at 3 a.m., when the house is so cold you can see your breath and you’re bargaining with the thermostat like it’s a luxury item instead of a lifeline.

How much fossil fuel was burned to achieve this? How many species went extinct for this to happen? What if all the resources and expertise had been diverted towards the clean energy transition instead? There is only one good planet and humans are killing it. #ClimateChange #collapse

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMovies Watership Down

Is it possible that this book was allowed to be released because it is going to happen soon? Is the demented one full of tumors or something? #NoParticularReason

The Pipevine Swallowtail caters are out and they are Hongry…. #omnomnom #inverts

Today I learned that pollination (in a sense) via animals is not restricted to land plants 🤯 www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-a...

The world should start planning the biggest celebration ever. All the best performances, big venues, community parks, the biggest release of songs by musicians ever in 1 week, dogs wearing their best bows, kitties eating their favorite treats, cars decorated with paper flowers and streaming 1/

If you notice a pesticide company making false claims, you can submit details, photos, and MP4s of online ads to the EPA using this form. I've learned from FOIA dumps that EPA lawyers do, indeed, collect these complaints for possible enforcement action. #pesticides #epa echo.epa.gov/report-envir...

Wholly endorse this use of the phrase "religious violence" to describe Hegseth's real motives:

It’s a mad world. Autoclaves exist for a reason folks. Surgical teams are dropping essential equipment, /including/ the implants themselves and “at least attempting” to sanitize them. A fave prof died a slow death from an infection of shoulder implant. Not much of a surprise after all.

It makes me unbelievably angry that Mueller is dead and the rotten sack of scat stills blunders around leaving a stench of death wherever he goes.

A billion-dollar industry: inside the growing solar panel recycling sector in the US #energysky -- via pv-tech:

#Mammal #Lepus #Hare #WhiskersWednesday The whiskers on a Snowshoe Hare. This is a shot from Feb 2024 because we got a BIG dump of snow last night. It also blew hard, so with the drifts, it will take a couple of days to clean up.

AI is mutilating the details of images of animals. So much could be lost if we don’t stay vigilant and know who is documenting real animals. Wildlife photographers are more valuable now than ever. This is a fight for reality and to protect real wildlife. AI slop is a threat to nature.

PBS did a balanced segment tonight on Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), interviewing folks on both sides of the issue, inc. a disability advocate who made the points I think disabled folks want noted. They discussed slippery slopes & Canada's expansion to mental health issues. youtu.be/2tHolKOqAsA?...

kevin twomey - calculators

Equations are like - kids! 12, 13! even lower numbers. I lower the numbers more than any one. Everyone says it. Most people can’t do it. I can. Wasn’t hard for me. Lower numbers made it easier for me to get hard. Lots of low numbers folks. I’m the lowest. #Trumpstein #PedoTrump #Epsteinclass

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

I had a nightmare that #Covid was just getting started. Oh. Holy shit. #WASF #CovidIsNotOver

🧵 A personal anecdote about a moment my doctor may have changed her mind about wearing a respirator. Please. Follow the research on the Covid. It isn’t just you you’re protecting, the people that love you are relying on you to make the right choices. bsky.app/profile/rach...

I need more people to understand that most of these things happen because someone like you stopped to help and other people wanted to help too. It’s just everyday people, seeing a need and filling it.

So much #herps love! Thamnophis are such amazing beasties.

Transferring 5 #kakapo chicks from Whenua Hou to Anchor this week means that some more two-chick nests were created. With a more reliable food supply, most chicks on Anchor are growing fast - like these in Hine Taumai’s nest. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds

If you have pets, this is a great blog to follow. Scott Weese helps to communicate about how best to keep pets healthy, especially when it comes to the recent developments of #BirdFlu.

Gaze into the crystal ball of epidemiology! Cast the runes of phylogenetic codes! Peer into the scrying mirror of virology! The sky whispers secrets of lessons learned and then willfully abandoned.

I caught a miracle in action! While checking the California Dutchman’s Pipevine along my walk, I stumbled upon a whole tiny world. I spotted lingering flowers, Pipevine Swallowtails in flight and, the best part, a female actually laying her bright red eggs!

Welcome to nonlinearity. There is no going back. This will be a summer of worldwide heat no humans have ever experienced. It will also likely be the coolest summer humans will ever experience again. #collapse

Kimmel mocked smelania’s “movie” just before the pedo spewed this desperate gibberish. He is (ostensibly) POTUS and still, nobody wants him in Hollywood. The cool ppl enjoyed themselves in authentic glamour while he sat alone in diapers, amid fake gold garbage glued to his walls.

Can't believe how pretty my province is right now all lit for Long Covid. A powerful reminder that this issue is far from gone 🩵 Photo credits: 📸 Long Covid Foundation BC Parliament Science World/BC Place Canada Sails of Light With thanks to @cancovsoc.bsky.social #LongCovidAwarenessDay

Scientists have criticized Colossal for repeatedly claiming to resurrect an extinct species, when in reality it has genetically altered an existing animal to have a superficial resemblance to the extinct species. Colossal dismisses the criticism as "semantics". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I’m so sorry. We are trying. Americans didn’t want this. Oligarchs did this.