I've read this book and it's so insightful! As an Alaska Native, I learned so much about our history and how people survived being forced to move. Highly recommend.

Who are they? Wrong answers only.

I finished listening to Someone You Can Build a Nest In, written by John Wiswell & narrated by Carmen Rose. It's a "kill the monster, break the curse" story (told from the monster's point of view) - but it's also a love story, & a story about consent & overcoming trauma. 💙📚 📚🪐

4 June 1890 | A Polish woman, Anastazja Onik, was born in Żuków. In #Auschwitz from 15 January 1943. No. 28821 She perished in the camp on 29 June 1943.

I have inherited my mother's cat, currently sleeping on my legs. It's very sweet & comforting, but I'm too hot. 🥰🥵🤷‍♀️

I was thrilled to have played a very small part in this ornithological discovery - back in March I had recorded a fish crow in this park and posted to eBird, which was one of several things that prompted @skwinnicki.bsky.social to realize that they were nesting there. Woo citizen science!

He had a minor criminal record so the US government is blocking him from entry. This is the same US government that got rapist Andrew Tate out of jail, let him in where he assaulted another woman.

263 years ago, on the 2nd of June 1763, Chippewa warriors played a game of baaga'adowe (a forerunner of modern lacrosse) outside Fort Michilimackinac in present-day Michigan. As the British garrison watched, the Chippewa chased the ball into the fort and captured it. #otd #history 🗃️

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Female birds with confusing names.

I've been in a fetal-position-under-the-desk mood for most of May, a mood I neither begrudge myself nor imagine to be unique. It hasn't been fun, & it's been hard to to activist stuff, but 🤷‍♀️ Are you in such a mood? Here are V EASY ways to stick it to the man from under your desk: 1. Amazon/Audible

On this International Missing Children’s Day, Ukraine draws the world's attention to children who are still illegally held by Russia. 🧵 1/6 ⬇️

The other audiobook I finished up recently is Scientific American's Fact or Fiction, a collection of columns exploring questions like "is chocolate really poisonous to dogs" & "did NASA really spend a bajillion dollars developing a space pen". The narrator is listed Janet Metzger. 💙📚

Recently finished listening to Thud! by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs. "Deep down" dwarfs have come to Anhk-Morpork & are using the anniversary of a contested battle between dwarfs & trolls to stoke tensions. Then one of them gets murdered. Sam Vimes & the Watch are on the case. 💙📚 📚🪐

Read the new Murderbot book, Platform Decay by Martha Wells, while I was out of town for a funeral. Murderbot (& Three) have been tasked with a delicate extraction job on this ginormous ring station built round a planet. & of course things get complicated. 💙📚 📚🪐

Finished listening to All You Can Save last week. It's an anthology of climate crisis essays & poems edited by Auana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K Wilkinson. It's part background info, part current efforts, part plans for the future, & part recruitment. 💙📚

Not the point of this thread at all -- but that window makes my brain hurt. What the heck!

So I've gotten 2 different emails for educational conferences over the summer that say "scan the QR code for registration details". Um, yeah, I'm reading my email on my phone, that QR code is useless to me. 🙄 Multiple access points, people - Provide a link too! #EduSky

We listened to John McWhorter's Language A to Z, a short lecture series for The Great Courses, on our way to a far away funeral last weekend. I'm a big linguistics fan & he's a good lecturer so it was educational plus entertaining. But I looked him up & he's ... iffy.

If y'all are ever in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, check out the Northern Nook in Newberry. They just opened in October but they've filled their little shop with all sorts of good books & games. I am definitely their target audience! share.google/9V5RGrjN4L2U...

Have you been hearing a new narrative that US is big winner of Iran war & with the Gulf knocked out, is new provider of "geopolitically secure” Oil & Gas NEW: Polycrisis bonus season Demand Destruction | Ep 1 US Oil is not winning the Iran War open.spotify.com/show/78cVf8D...

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

When Thomas and Alito kill Obergefell, *all* that difficult effort will be tossed into the trash. Lifetimes of work, burned. Back to square one, to be fought by people who literally never grew up in a world that dangerous.

"Any noticeable differences in bowel function should be checked out. If things are different, you should really see a doctor and ask explicitly, ‘Could this be colon cancer? I hear it’s happening in young people.’” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I love this whole story. My school (6-12) turned the library into a STEM lab. 😞

I would watch all the movies in the comments!

Barred Owl in my backyard! It sounds like it's right by the house! 🥰

Finished listening to My Pigeon Familiar by Bridget E Baker today. (It fits the "audiobook" category in the adult reading challenge.) Since there's family health drama, I wanted something light. This was essentially "Friends, but make it supernatural" ... & I'm not a big Friends fan. 🤷‍♀️ 💙📚 📚🪐

I have the day off work today but I got the "2 hour delay due to fog" robo-call -- & now I might be awake for the day. Ug. & it's going to mess up my sub plans. 🫤 #EduSky

& here's the difference between native & non-native plants -- There's no garlic mustard specialists in the US. In fact, I rarely see leaves that have been chewed on by *any*thing. Garlic mustard is invasive here, crowding out plants that do actually support insects (& the food web).

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Finished listening to Becoming Wild, written & read by Carl Safina. It's a deep dive into how social animals build & maintain culture, focusing on sperm whales (family), scarlet macaws (beauty), & chimpanzees (peace). It's also a poignant plea for humans to value wild beings. 💙📚

The soundtrack for my mother's death is an oxygen machine & Family Feud (from her neighbor's room).

Has Pringles changed its recipe? I got some salt & vinegar chips as a treat but they seem ... weird. Not like I remember & not what I expected. (I could just Google it but somebody here probably has a funny & interesting story. ::imagine a Pringles can emoji here::)

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Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

I'm ready for book club! Making History by KJ Parker is a lovely story with an unreliable narrator. Their tyrannical ruler ropes a bunch of academics into creating & building a ruined city (as a pretense for going to war) - What could possibly go wrong? 💙📚 📚🪐

Just want to add to this that a Canadian man I met who’d fought in Afghanistan said while there they defined FAMs (“fighting age male”) as any boy over the age of 12

Successfully gave blood yesterday - Hit the 11 gallon milestone! (That's 88 successful donations, each counting as a pint, for the rest of the world. 😅) This is how I help save the world. I'll give again in June, once school is out.

The deep fury I feel.

So I was visiting my mom, who had the Hallmark channel on, & there were 2 shows in a row where the single mom & daughter ended up dating a father-son pair. (I caught the end of one & the beginning of the next.) This is ... creepy? Like, did the writers think this all the way thru?

Want to play a game? Each of the ten photos in this thread contain an American Woodcock, a shorebird species adapted to living in the forest floor. In each photo, the bird is mostly in focus, not blurry. Their camouflage is legendary. Can you spot her in each one? Let's start easy 1/10

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So I listened to Shoggoths in Traffic & Other Stories by Tobias S Buckell. I'm picking books from my TBR list for the library's adult reading challenge, so this is my "Caribbean author" choice. This is a bunch of short stories, pointedly critiquing our times. 💙📚 📚🪐 @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social

PSA: when you see a visually impaired person in public, needing help to find their destination, don’t hold on to their shoulders & turn them around! Don’t even reach for their hands and pull them after you! Offer Your Arm! Just offer them to hold on to you and go where they need to go. That’s all!

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Gotta love this whiplash weather. Why yes, it *is* perfectly normal; why do you ask? At least we missed the blizzard...

How your smartphone could help unlock the mystery of the monarch butterfly's migration from Mexico. Butterflies are tagged with tiny transmitters to track journey north. cbc.ca/news/world/m... #CitizenScience #ecology #environment #STEM #SciChat

This week I finished listening to Is a River Alive?, written by Robert Macfarlane. He also narrated it, so the parts kayaking thru rapids - That's his actual excitement. (I waited in my car until the end of that bit.) How do you figure out if a river is alive? 💙📚

Former Native American concentration camp lies beneath current immigration detention center If you know anything about Minnesota history, then you know about Fort Snelling, said Robert Rice, the owner of Powwow Grounds Coffee Shop. 1/8