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he is very silly. #dandy #BeardedDragon

I often think of Mayor Lucano, ever since reading about him. Mayor of a dying southern Italian town of 500 people, who rescued it by giving migrants a home in the many empty homes and abandoned buildings, which the right wing Italian government treated as a crime. time.com/6104836/dome...

blue chair moments #dandy

UNMUTE

Male Blackpoll Warbler, bathing in Central Park, NYC markscheflen.com #birdphotography #echowatch #wildlifeplanet #nycbirdalliance #BirdsSeenIn2025 #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birdlovers #wildlifephotographer #birdwatching #nature #birds #bird #blackpolls #wildlifeconservation

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981

this is a legitimately fantastic campaign video great gimmick, great message, genuinely funny as hell IF YOU LIVE HERE, REGISTER TO VOTE IN NYC, FRIENDS!

without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally

Look, it was rude to ask her, but given the size of her abdomen I think Ms Peppered Jumping Spider might be expecting. Peppered Jumping Spider (Pelegrina galathea) PA

Three letters: UBI. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Superb Fairywren sketch. I like to draw (via Zoom) with a friend in the States, and this is what I did yesterday with her. Every drawing is practice for the next.

Blue Prince (2025)

OMG OMG OMG HOLY SHIT HE COULD'VE BEEN EVER HOTTER?! CHUNKY BUFF YAUTJA!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

for some reason my phone activated his Food? look #dandy #BeardedDragon

“We’re requiring all men to head to their doctors and have them undo these terrible, terrible procedures,” the president said in an address from the Oval Office theonion.com/trump-i...

"We find no evidence that people love doing nothing" Participants of Germany's largest UBI study kept working, with no change in hours worked. They were more likely to enroll in university or change jobs. Basic income changes how you work, not whether you work.

don’t let them in. fuck ice. fuck fascists

An incredible experience today. The Agami Heron is a very rare species and one that's difficult to see. But today I made a new friend who discovered a rookery with over 300 of these incredible birds that are on a new property he bought. Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature #herons #heron

Making people dependent on charity — in any form — comes at the cost of human dignity. That’s why Universal Basic Income is not just economically sound, but morally and civically superior. It replaces dependence with autonomy, and pity with respect!

Precious young Monarch Butterfly caterpillar. Safe travels, little one, I hope you grow up to be a beautiful butterfly. (Danaus plexippus) PA

www.scottsantens.com/how-money-is... Oh this is a deep but good read on how money/tax/currency works (TLDR - Money is a social construct and the govt can make more if it wants to) and is a good component of the conversation on UBI. #UniversalBasicIncome

With bird cavity nesters, we have those that create the cavities and those that use them years later. And then we have chickadees, they kinda do a bit of both. #birds

Big log for a big milestone! 🪵 Ume is now four months old, 214 pounds, and still prefers logs for her teething chompers. The endangered tapir has a new teething log behind the scenes to help her out (and give mom, Yuna, a much-needed break 😅). Ume’s been busy gnawing and nibbling away like a pro! 💗

Reporters Without Borders says there have been 27 attacks on journalists in LA so far, 24 by LEO, 3 by others. That's a lot. If you haven't seen it, there's video of an officer appearing to target this Australian correspondent while she's on air. rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...

⚠️ this is a very important reminder ⚠️ all posts on bluesky are publicly accessible at the protocol level to anyone and as bryan says, for DMs you can exchange contact details and then use a secure messaging app like @signal.org to continue chatting signal.org

Art by Wren McDonald.

It doesn't end with the illegal immigrants folks, it's actually just the beginning.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Did you spot natterjack toads on Have I Got A Bit More News For You recently? 🐸📺 They mentioned our success story about natterjack toads breeding for the first time in 50years at Blackmoor, a reintroduction site in Hampshire. More about this partnership work 👇 www.arc-trust.org/News/toadall... 🧵

Female Western Bluebird takes off from the top of a small tree. #birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography

This just never gets old for me. 🦇

The fact that protestors started destroying driverless cars is a signal, as is all the celebration of this destruction. There is already anger about the jobs and income being displaced by AI before any universal basic income is implemented. A likely rallying cry — no automation without compensation!

🎶 Bird and Butterfly 🎵 Up in the air he likes to fly 🎶 #birds Ravi the roadrunner

Greta Thunberg has been kidnapped by the state of Israel. "Please make sure to be loud." - One of the last messages from the crew before being taken hostage after the attack from Israel RESHARE! REPOST! SPEAK OUT! RELEASE. THE. CREW. END. THE. BLOCKADE. FREE. PALESTINE.

Who up silkin' their songs?

This tiny jumping spider was wandering around on the top of a leaf and scooted to the underside. I gently coaxed her back to the top and ta-da! She had a snack, what looks like an even smaller spider. Peppered Jumping Spider (Pelegrina galathea) PA

Not in LA? Can't safely protest? 👇

You absolutely love to see it.

An amazing, colorful sawfly that was out puttering around the local meadow today. These insects are in the same family as ants, bees, and wasps, but lack a narrow waist, which is a good way to tell a sawfly from a wasp.

I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.

Potter wasps are pretty common around here, but I'd never seen a nest until today. Check out this fabulous bit of insect made masonry on the stem of a plant. It's amazing. Fraternal Mason Wasp (Eumenes fraternus) on the left and a Potter Wasp Nest, right

It's safe to say I'm now hooked on photographing dolphins. No blue whales today, but being surrounded by 600-800 dolphins is unbeatable 🦑🦊🌿

from the other site, an excerpt from the book “Let This Radicalize You”

Summer 2025 edition