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Today is the day: the annual Normal Park Neighborhood Association yard sale is today. If you’re in Ypsilanti, stop by.

Are you a grad student/recent grad interested in the places where Great Lakes science, policy, and community meet? Become a Great Lakes Fellow! We're filling two positions alongside @ijcsharedwaters.bsky.social, @glcommission.bsky.social, and GL Sea Grant Network. Apply by June 20: buff.ly/6B4TyUj

This Pride Month, we’re celebrating the beauty of diversity above and below the surface. Environmental advocacy and the LGBTQ+ rights movement share a common purpose: protecting vulnerable communities, caring for the spaces we all call home, and creating a world where we all can flourish.

Happy Pride to us aces and us aros, to those of us who are one, and those who are both, and those who are unsure.

Happy Pride month! Remember, joyous existence is also a form of resistance against fascism

In 2016 (!), my natural resources economics prof claimed that climate change wasn't a threat, because we could just turn up the AC. And effects would happen so far in the future that developing countries would have widespread AC access by then. Happily, he's no longer with the UM econ department.

PSA

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

and help each others, when you can 👍

As we get closer to june I am gonna need you to remember something: Yes, if you're queer at all, in any way, in any amount - you're queer enough to count. That's it. End of discussion.

Michigan is adding water hyacinth and water lettuce to the state list of Prohibited Invasive Species. Get to know these plants and how to report them! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MID...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Indeed. In any case, I'd cite 'sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice'.

Exciting news: the #GLANSIS database has a new look! The Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species Information System has the same functionality #AIS researchers know and love, with improved navigation and new features for scientists + educators. Check it out here: www.glerl.noaa.gov/glansis/

Snag one of these badass shirts for gardening season ✊

Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

Happy 100th bday to Sir David Attenborough! He was 93 when I met him. What struck me most was his curiosity. He was always asking q’s: about the depth of sequoia roots, the rain patterns, the endemic animals. Big, branchy brain; small ego. Wanna live to 100? Stay curious!

The Seed Song

Despair Is Not Wisdom

#FoodieFriday When it comes to these invasive fungi, if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em -- potentially as a delicious New Orleans-inspired po'boy sandwich! New post from @helloellower.bsky.social on Freshwater Feasts: buff.ly/aocJ99U

The truth we have to look directly in the face as a country is that we built a system where being a white guy with zero shame and a willingness to hurt people can get you 75% of the way to almost any goal. We need to maybe address this!

Mondays are hard. Would a puppy help?

As one comment says, "Authenticity rocks!"

We can help everyone, actually. None of us is alone in this. That's why community exists. You must commit what you're able to supporting your fellows, including those who have nothing to commit. We hold one another up, that's how we got this far. Don't let fake "bootstraps" ideals end community.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone." ~~THE HIGH KING Lloyd Alexander

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

"You know how the University of Michigan says 'Go Blue', right?" "Of course." "Well, we're making limited edition Pop Tarts for colleges and Michigan would be a perfect school for this. We could do Go Blue Blu..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't need to tell me how to do my job." The result:

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Just watched Project Hail Mary again. What a perfect time for a story about human ingenuity and the almighty power of being scrappy, creative, curious, compassionate, and dumb--I mean, brave.

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

probably completely obvious but the reason Project Hail Mary is doing so well (apart from being very well made) is that it is all about problem-solving, cooperation, self-sacrifice, and forming deep relationships with those from far away. All values that people feel a desperate need for right now.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility #TDOV We're not going anywhere.

For Trans Day of Visibility I am again going to hope my trans friends and loved ones can get a little less visibility and a lot more peace

Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

Can't wait to rep weird girls* who garden *in the most gender-expansive sense

That isn't why I do that stuff. But part of why I do is a really maximalist view of the golden rule. I want to live in a society where if I need help in public, someone will help me. I try and act in public as if I already live in that society. Mostly it goes pretty well!

Couldn't agree more The number of folks I have reached irl by just like, being a dependable coworker, giving a stranger directions when they're lost, taking a photo of a family who is obviously trying to take a picture together, while being openly trans and anarchist etc is unreal

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.

This thread articulates something I've been trying to put into words for a full year:

This is an excellent thread up and down with a whole lot of takeaways, including that growth as a person and living in a society and developing skills all have as a necessary factor that we sometimes feel bad.

harry potter is the easiest case of being unable to separate the art from the artist that we have and obviously you should not be giving jk rowling your money or your eyeballs there is a vast quantity of entertainment out there where your money won’t go directly to hurting your trans friends