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Writer, gardener, science nerd, meteorology zealot, volcanology fan, lifelong botany student, locksport novice, Elder Scrolls and Magic the Gathering junkie... I share science news. I love cats. Writer of blog feature Cinematic Distractions. She/They
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Glitter, tactical clergy, tubas and other weapons of joy.

It's great seeing everyone's tips for keeping cool. Here's mine. i) Take a trip to the mountains. ii) Spend some time in a cooling cave. iii) Find an underground lake. iv) Get undressed. v) Hunt the silvery fish and eat them raw. vi) Forget the torments of the evil face in the sky.

you guys they might be vampires

The reason why birds make such a racket at dawn is still unclear. But researchers are now pouring cold water on one popular idea about why.

🇰🇪 VIDEO: Voguing and underground ballrooms: Nairobi's queer spaces grow despite threats In a private, underground space, a "ball" takes place in Nairobi where LGBTQ+ members can feel safe. In a country where being gay remains criminalised, organisers say such events, and tolerance, are growing.

Fundamentally, American media culture places more prestige on being wrong cleverly than being right simply. They’ll spend 50,000 words sucking off a Nazi with a polysyllabic vocabulary before they interview the nice lady who volunteers at the animal shelter because she likes dogs.

Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat advisory grist.org/extreme-heat...

There are a lot of trans people out here who do remember that no one was talking about our "legal path to transition" 10 or 15 years ago and just, we are beyond infuriated right now in ways that words will never capture

Tell the people who mean something to you that they mean something to you while you're all still here to say and receive it. Don't put it off.

call your Senators and yell at them to throw this out in the Byrd bath, that this is even a question is unconscionable they're movable on this, I think we'll get them there, but they need to hear from us no ban on gender affirming care in the nightmare bill

Much of the US & Canada will be in a deadly heat wave next week, with wet bulb temps being exceeded Disabled people, the elderly, young children and people on certain medications are most at risk Please help your community prepare. Boost mutual aid. Donate air conditioners. Check on those at risk

As a Dodger fan and Harvard employee, let me state that I understand how odd it is that they are the face of the resistance.

“It should be illegal for you to be mean to me and legal for me to kill you” is basically the Republican platform.

Scolding my calculator for giving me the correct answer

A federal court has blocked Louisiana’s law requiring schools to post Ten Commandments in classrooms. Louisiana ranks #46 in education. Maybe MAGAs should spend less time forcing religion into public schools and more time investing in actual education—like teaching separation of religion & state.

probably no one the password on those things is almost always 0000

Remember me saying I block people who threaten certain kinds of violence? This is why.

Many don’t see how profoundly alienating it is for entire generations of young people

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

People are getting really weird and shitty out here these days and I am for sure not enjoying it.

Happy Solstice! 🌞🌻

@biascilab.bsky.social made it on 🏴‍☠️ Go follow all her stuff!

Every time I post about ICE tactics, I get replies, “This is what I voted for.” Really? You voted for a mother crying for mercy while her child is still in school—about to come out and find her missing? There isn’t another way to go about this that preserves our humanity?

Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news

FYI, if you get a spam text delete it without opening it. Half of those are using read receipts to verify they have an active phone number to scam

“Wellness” is eugenics adjacent. It always has been. It’s designed to blame people for being sick, disabled or “different”. To push a narrative that you can “try harder” your way to “normalcy”. It’s a direct pipeline to fascism & white supremacy.

They have the date of his entry wrong and claim a DUI that is not in his record.

In a new production of “Evita,” one of the biggest moments isn’t on the stage. Midway through the show, Rachel Zegler, playing Argentine first lady Eva Perón, emerges onto an exterior balcony at the London Palladium and sings “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina,” to whoever is passing by below.

Found a vine full of tiny flowers crawling up the wall of my typical Thursday lunch spot.

This feels like a lot of why things are bad. To change things you first have to recognize they’re bad but that means, if you’re of a certain social status, they got bad on your watch.

And when you’re starving because you’re lost in the woods, remember to ask the AI what mushrooms are safe to eat, too! [sarcastic, obviously]

This is going to kill people. You don't have to go too far into the backcountry to get in a life or death situation.

You all realize their definition of “assault” is anyone who questions them, blockades them, shames them, films them, or in any other way attempts to stop them from illegally & viciously disappearing your neighbors

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obvi not the main point but “Zohran does not own a car” is one of the reasons people like him more than the guy from the suburbs who keeps speeding in school zones

The absolute bubble of delusional denial about this is insane. Their base hates them. They aren't appealing to the middle. They aren't putting up any serious opposition in Congress. No halfway functional political party would continue like this.

Hungarian police ban Budapest Pride march, citing protection of children reut.rs/4kI7Tas