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submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

submitted 1 day ago • 281 comments

🎪 🤡 MUST-WATCH: Jim Jordan interrupted at a Republican lawyers conference by someone playing 🎵 “Send In the Clowns” 🎵 and circus music and 🎵 “You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Liar” 🎵 on the ballroom speakers Incredible stuff.

submitted 2 hours ago • 38 comments

Why is the DNC revoting on leadership roles? Who is David Hogg and why's everyone talking about him? And what does it have to do with the media, Jim Clyburn and DEI?

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

People are seriously not ok. Chimp Crazy from the same director as Tiger King. it amazes me that people think they’re being good to animals when they’re just torturing them... and then blame the animals for their behaviour. the selfishness…sickening. every single owner made me ill. #chimpcrazy

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm lucky to be able to read an actual paper. in my hand. the Toronto Star has an insight section that's just great. there are so many stories that no one knows about and won't know because no one reads the paper anymore. local stories and around the world. it's just sad.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

You have to be the worst economist of all time to not think that treating HIV provides economic benefits. But Oster also tells people that drinking alcohol is safe in pregnancy (and most recently “a little raw milk is ok”), because she’s a dangerously ignorant grifter with no understanding of health

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

That's because they changed the definition of antisemitism legally to criticism of Israel and left literally every traditional definition of antisemitism alone.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

exactly.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 1 day ago • 1928 comments

and you wonder why I post so much shit how the cons and Ford are shite. here's just one receipt of so so many:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

What’s supposed to happen? If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do? Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run? 1.

submitted 2 days ago • 1009 comments

i don’t understand when my fellow thirtysomethings panic about no longer understanding what the kids like and how they dress. the most perfect serenity ever devised by man or heaven is within reach and you’re pushing it away with both hands

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

Not to distract from the fact that Yamal Said is an Austin TX resident since the ‘80s & a lawful permanent resident, he was on his way OUT of the country. WTF is going on here??

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

Q: Why are fish poorly educated? A: All the schools are below C level. Now that you've sat through that, please watch this video on animal collective names.

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

Of all the things to write about. wtf.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking down trade barriers. Building one united Canadian economy.

submitted 3 days ago • 117 comments

You're one accident, fall or illness away from being disabled. Again, some of y'all vote like nothing will never happen to you, your kids or future grandkids...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

submitted 3 days ago • 1495 comments

This article actually made me laugh

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Love this. Reminds me of some stuff I did in theatre school.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I had an interesting conversation today w someone who asked me whether it would really be so terrible if no COVID vaccine boosters were available this fall. I showed the list of co-morbidities that increase risk for severe COVID and reminded that 74% of Americans >18 have at least one of these.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

@lwvus.bsky.social CEO Celina Stewart warns that the SAVE Act could disenfranchise approximately 69 million women who change their name after marriage, a figure large enough to sway election results.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

no fucking shit

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You bet your ass

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

submitted 4 days ago • 445 comments

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

submitted 4 days ago • 953 comments

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur. Like, I know all birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur. (📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

submitted 5 days ago • 311 comments

Elmo’s LinkedIn update has me 😫

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

"You are not refugees. You are just a case study of white flight dressed up as martyrdom. You are not escaping violence, you're escaping equality."

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

Form impeccable. In fact he should be coaching me

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Carneys cabinet is fairly boring and uncontroversial, and that's a good thing. #canada #cdnpoli #markcarney #canadian #canadianpolitics #canpoli #canadapolitics #frankdomenic🍁 #canpoliTT

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

ORDER TODAY TO AVOID CANADA DAY DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOCIAL SHUNNING PeaceLoveCanada.ca

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

🎪 🤡 MUST-WATCH: Jim Jordan interrupted at a Republican lawyers conference by someone playing 🎵 “Send In the Clowns” 🎵 and circus music and 🎵 “You Ain’t Nothin’ But A Liar” 🎵 on the ballroom speakers Incredible stuff.

Why is the DNC revoting on leadership roles? Who is David Hogg and why's everyone talking about him? And what does it have to do with the media, Jim Clyburn and DEI?

People are seriously not ok. Chimp Crazy from the same director as Tiger King. it amazes me that people think they’re being good to animals when they’re just torturing them... and then blame the animals for their behaviour. the selfishness…sickening. every single owner made me ill. #chimpcrazy

I'm lucky to be able to read an actual paper. in my hand. the Toronto Star has an insight section that's just great. there are so many stories that no one knows about and won't know because no one reads the paper anymore. local stories and around the world. it's just sad.

That's because they changed the definition of antisemitism legally to criticism of Israel and left literally every traditional definition of antisemitism alone.

exactly.

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

and you wonder why I post so much shit how the cons and Ford are shite. here's just one receipt of so so many:

i don’t understand when my fellow thirtysomethings panic about no longer understanding what the kids like and how they dress. the most perfect serenity ever devised by man or heaven is within reach and you’re pushing it away with both hands

Not to distract from the fact that Yamal Said is an Austin TX resident since the ‘80s & a lawful permanent resident, he was on his way OUT of the country. WTF is going on here??

Q: Why are fish poorly educated? A: All the schools are below C level. Now that you've sat through that, please watch this video on animal collective names.

Of all the things to write about. wtf.

Breaking down trade barriers. Building one united Canadian economy.

You're one accident, fall or illness away from being disabled. Again, some of y'all vote like nothing will never happen to you, your kids or future grandkids...

I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

This article actually made me laugh

Love this. Reminds me of some stuff I did in theatre school.

I had an interesting conversation today w someone who asked me whether it would really be so terrible if no COVID vaccine boosters were available this fall. I showed the list of co-morbidities that increase risk for severe COVID and reminded that 74% of Americans >18 have at least one of these.

@lwvus.bsky.social CEO Celina Stewart warns that the SAVE Act could disenfranchise approximately 69 million women who change their name after marriage, a figure large enough to sway election results.

no fucking shit

You bet your ass

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

This is the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris), and it's just straight up a dinosaur. Like, I know all birds are technically avian dinosaurs, but my first thought looking at this guy is: dinosaur. (📷: Suzie McCann, eBird)

Elmo’s LinkedIn update has me 😫

"You are not refugees. You are just a case study of white flight dressed up as martyrdom. You are not escaping violence, you're escaping equality."

Form impeccable. In fact he should be coaching me

Carneys cabinet is fairly boring and uncontroversial, and that's a good thing. #canada #cdnpoli #markcarney #canadian #canadianpolitics #canpoli #canadapolitics #frankdomenic🍁 #canpoliTT

ORDER TODAY TO AVOID CANADA DAY DISAPPOINTMENT AND SOCIAL SHUNNING PeaceLoveCanada.ca

the democratic party got a single gen z representative with david hogg and he started actually representing the resentment young generations have to old and weak democratic leadership and canned him. pathetic. this party will genuinely never change and keep losing to republicans. bleak

my laugh today!

this exactly. well, he does golf...

sounds about white...