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Bay Area philosopher and general weirdo. My hobby is creepily monitoring birds. I consider a trailside vulture carcass a "buddy." I have a blog https://dog-envier.bearblog.dev/blog/
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‘i don’t want you to kidnap my neighbors, man’

When was the last time a socialist politician campaign in NYC in Yiddish? Meyer London?

Amur Falcon is renowned for its extraordinary #migration. In the virtually treeless Mongolian steppe it is frequently seen on cow pats, looking for grasshoppers & beetles. In the tropics en route on migration it relies on flying termites & dragonflies. #birding #birds #naturebeauty #birdphotography

This is how Israel treats the family of one of the most esteemed professors in America

Today, 22nd June is a Crab Day in Japan, a good excuse to make crab postings! 9 crabs enjoying muddy feast. 今年もやってきたカニの日!これを口実に、干潟のツマツマ特集です。 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #invertebrate

92% were in Biden counties, most in the blue-heavy cities of swing states. 43 of the 66—two-thirds—were Philly and Atlanta: blue cities in swing states that swung. And we barely talk about it, if ever. Short Attention Span Theater is great for stand-up, terrible for politics.

honestly i think israel knows this and the current government prefers a nuclear iran to an iran which gets sanctions relief and glasnost with the west.

I think this was probably a fake publicity stunt (have there been filings in this case?). But obviously he should be shamed for it regardless.

E.g., the Spanish knew full well they were committing heinous genocide in the Americas. The crown literally appointed what was essentially a human rights monitor, the Protector of the Indians, the first of whom was Fr. Bartolomeo de las Casas. Not that they generally cared, but they knew!

People always think I'm being ungenerous or misstating their views, but this is very explicitly what the "gender-critical" crowd says: Their *best case* against gender affirming care for kids is that the research says it works, but the research doesn't count. (this is from the Cass report)

Feel like we haven't heard from Bailey Warren for a while 💀

This is true but the US is currently in 49 different presidentially declared emergencies, spanning decades. Only 8 have been declared by the current Trump administration.

Family detention at Dilley, begun in 2014 under Obama and halted under Biden, is back — and it’s just as bad as it’s always been. I visited there in 2015 the week before long-term family detention was restricted in court. I’ll never forget the listlessness of the children held there for months.

Waking up in a cold sweat and remembering that while governor Cuomo was shoveling elderly people into the Covid meat grinder a guy named Randy Rainbow made a viral song about being Cuomosexual

On Lassen Peak, October 2024

Ward Harkavy. My god, there's a name I haven't heard in years. But the screenshot? THAT is who all these establishment Cuomo backers are propping up. He's a terrible excuse for a human being on every level. Do. Not. Rank. Cuomo.

““At one point the fear was expressed that if we found too many descendants, it would bankrupt the university,” he said.”

I was gonna RT the post saying the repression of this period is on par with McCarthyism but I think it's worse.

I did not quite realize but the reason my partner wanted me to go to this wedding so bad was to buffer her from her mother. And now it turns out it's a "nobody we don't personally know can come" deal.

turns out climate change will cost dramatically more than economists predicted, and the cost of addressing it is actually negative. oops! prospect.org/environment/...

The BBC has confirmed it won’t air its documentary on Gaza’s medics. I know some of the journalists involved and they’re absolutely excellent. This statement is mealy-mouthed; you can’t “both sides” the facts on the ground of a genocide, and there’s a clear public interest in documenting those facts

You probably just assumed this was written by a private equity manager who inherited millions of dollars from his manufacturing magnate father, but just to confirm, this absolutely was written by a private equity manager who inherited millions of dollars from his manufacturing magnate father.

My students just call ChatGPT "Chat" and I'm starting to pick it up

I don’t see this mentioned at all about Andrew Cuomo. He’s on Netanyahu’s legal defence team for his ICC claims. nypost.com/2024/11/25/u...

This is a thought-provoking question. One of my answers comes from teaching In my classes, if I start talking abt climate change in a factual way, most of my students immediately shut down & disengage If we start by talking abt grief, & try to think abt the best ways we could live, more come along

People have hyped themselves up into the most histrionic nonsensical fears and it keeps getting amplified because it aligns with the genocidal US elite agenda.

Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

Happy World Albatross day! #worldalbatrossday

another article on the same incident, in english; we all love Large Gollum though so I'm glad this misunderstanding happened www.thepopverse.com/jrr-tolkien-...

relevant reminder: pronghorn antelope, a truly unique animal most closely related to giraffes and the fastest mammal in NA, nearly went extinct 100 years ago because they'd die instantly whenever they accidentally hit a wire fence, and only recovered thanks to conservation of public lands

Sting was so real for that song about being captured by the animals

the chinese translation of 'waffle fries' is just 'potato grid'

Huge implications from this: Microsoft cut off the email of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, because of his work on Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

also insane how close in style this was to Tove Jansson. makes sense they had her illustrate the Hobbit