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This is what I've had my head since I shot it. 114 lightning shots, stacked in photoshop, foreground edited in lightroom and photoshop. The first lightning storm I ever photographed. Badlands, South Dakota. 🗺️

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

This is the Broad-tipped Conehead, Neoconocephalus triops, A handsome Katydid that sometimes will visit the bug light 😁 #fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro #MacroPhotography #photography #Nature #NatureIsAmazing #Invertebrates #insects #Orthoptera

2. email your senators, too. contact: reps.fyi you're a poster; you can do this. there are too many moving pieces to speak to on a call. they need to know we're watching & trans folks don't have a lobbyist on the hill. add either of these into the body of your email. ALL OF THIS MUST BE FOUGHT. 🧵

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1. Great news for trans students in Chicago. Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms. Trump will now pull millions in federal funds. "Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right." Subscribe to support our journalism.

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So that’s how Musk knows Trump is in the files.

I love the way science used to be written. Is it necessary to know that the author was pushing his baby in a pram while making observations of insects? Perhaps not, but it provides delightful context, while assuming the reader is familiar with his previously published baby-wheeling-related work.

"Well well well, suddenly we understand gender dysmorphia, don't we boys?" part 1

Yeahh it sucks, artists have been noticing on YT shorts that the ai filters have been added, and make their art look weird youtu.be/tjnQ-s7LW-g

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

#SicArtSeptember Day 22: Fellowship A field scientist collects data from an evening grosbeak. - #sciart #scicomm #nature #sketchbook

1. A federal judge has blocked a Trump policy that says the National Endowment for the Arts will disfavor LGBTQ+ performances, ruling it violates their 1A rights. NEA funding is a significant for theatres. Their ban helped stop plays with trans themes. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

1. Trump has dug in on anti-trans provisions in the shutdown fight this morning, cancelling a meeting with Dems unless they cave on trans people. His post to Truth Social is a clear indication that Republicans are making targeting trans people a priority. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Amazing moving broom sculpture, I missed the artist's name, sorry!

piglet bug PIGLET BUG

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

Milt Kahl used contour blends in this drawing of an adolescent Bambi. What's a "contour blend?" Answer here: open.substack.com/pub/jamesgur...

Oilspill Prints in bio

“Nuthatch trio”. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. In honour of the red-breasted nuthatches who are filling our local ravine this month with their insistent little voices. #Birds #SciArt #WildlifeArt

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Herons are known for their long dangly necks Don’t forget those huge breast muscles have to power flight Swole Great Blue Heron 📷💪🌿🪶

This is an illustration drawn for the owner of those cute little finches! It's so amazing that their chirping sounds like a cat meowing owo✨ #illustration #digitalart #artwork #originalart #bird #birdart #pet #animalart #cute #commission

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

This week’s #FossilFriday features a very cool opalised dinosaur femur, belonging to an Early Cretaceous Australian ornithopod (Click the image to see it in full detail) #PaleoSky ⚒️🦕

Insectember day 18: sabethes Common name: canopy mosquito And it was a fairy🧚✨ 🎨 #insectember2025 #anthro #bugart

This iridescent, dendritic (from the Greek word dendron, meaning tree) #perovskite likely formed from volcanic gases released from a volcanic vent, or fumarole. This crystal is from the Eifel Mountains, Germany. Perovskite can be beautiful! More on dendritic crystals in the comment. #MinCup25 ⚒️

this bird is metal af 🦴🔥

Yep, finally doing it. Please help, any size donation you can!! And if you can't help, please share! Any share increases my chances tenfold!!! Thank you 💖 #transcrowdfund #crowdfund #emergency #GoFundMe #immigration #transrights gofund.me/d33ceb1f3

"Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that they fear could allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech."

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

A dramatic shot of two White-tailed Kites fighting midair 📷 Canon 5D Mark III Canon EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM Canon EF 1.4x III M, f/8, 1/1250, ISO 500, 560mm 7/12/20 Northern California #birds #ornithology #birdphotos #nature 🦉 🪶 🐤 🦜 📸

Got a view of the lunar eclipse!! 🙌

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 7: It’s a pair of often-overlooked classics as potassium feldspar #sanidine competes with iron ore #hematite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 6: Brace for oddness in a match between one of the very few hydrocarbon minerals #carpathite and the temperature-flipping mineral #leucite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

I enjoyed this. And what an infectious laugh. ❤️ "Reporter left speechless after witnessing Japan's new $70 million Maglev train in action at 310 mph"

That’s not who’s supposed to be at the end of the tunnel!

Illustration of a hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) for Menagerie board game by @moosegames.bsky.social 🦋 - #scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #moth #butterfly

Pinyon Jays are the sole species in the genus Gymnorhinus, Latin for “naked nose,” since they lack feathers covering the base of their bill. As a result, their bills do not get gummed up with resin from fresh cones, and they can capitalize on that resource earlier in the year than other birds can.

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Trying to learn gouache, here are some rock studies I put goggly eyes on just because. ガッシュを真面目に勉強している 本当です

🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨 @standupforscience.bsky.social Day 21! QUACK-O-GRAM THURSDAY! For $3 we will hand deliver an "IMPEACH THE QUACK" rubber ducky to your House Representative! (By one of our team members in a duck suit!) DO IT (AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS) act.standupforscience.net/fundraising/...

Nēnē 💛 #avianaugust #birdart 🪶

The commission prize for K'Andra, who won the @blackinastro.bsky.social art contest! I had so much fun painting this transformation of a solar eclipse 🤩

Illustrations for an exhibit, some beasts and how to capture them