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Please enjoy this ridiculously cute butterfly, which was about the size of my pinkie fingernail. It's in the butterfly family called metalmarks (Riodinidae). Males, like these, have reduced front legs and perch using only the rear 4 (females can use all 6). Sarota acantus; Costa Rica 🐙🌿 #insects

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

Farmers depend on climate data. They’re suing the USDA for deleting it. investigatemidwest.org/2025/03/05/f...

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This assassination makes the Minnesota house even. I'm waiting for the first Republican Minnesota state legislator to commit to sit out votes until Rep. Hortman is replaced - otherwise Republicans are hugely benefiting from and complicit in this sort of political violence.

submitted 21 hours ago • 84 comments

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

submitted 12 days ago • 55 comments

Ya’ll, today Atlanta skipped right past “bless his heart” and called Trump out for what he is: a PUNK ASS BITCH 🖕 #nokings #atlanta

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 23 hours ago • 662 comments

🏆 to whoever came up with and coordinated the No Kings protest at Ocean Beach, San Francisco. Don’t miss it…absolute fire.

submitted 21 hours ago • 195 comments

A listless speech from a draft-dodger who has denigrated the army for nearly 80 years and degraded it since he became commander-in-chief produces virtually no reaction from the crowd. And then they sing happy birthday as if there would be a firing squad if they did not.

submitted 20 hours ago • 43 comments

I appeal to all of you to get into this great revolution that is sweeping this nation. Get in and stay in the streets of every city, every village and hamlet of this nation until true freedom comes, until the revolution of 1776 is complete. ~ John Lewis (1963 March on Washington)

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Blatant lies from official government feeds. Do they not know we all see the video?

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Alright, Lou, open fire.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

I’m sorry, I see that everyone is still entertained by the short saga of Ed the Zebra..he is utterly beautiful, but I just think it’s a little F’d up that some rich ass just imported an exotic animal and clearly cannot handle it by losing him one day later. And this is a herd species…where is herd?🙄

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A standing army for civilian law enforcement, you say?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

submitted 6 days ago • 1478 comments

Amen

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

This is true.

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

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He sure did!

submitted 42 days ago • 409 comments

Physical buttons are finally coming back to cars. 🤌 It’s not just an aesthetic choice, though—it’s a safety-conscious one. Research shows that reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high.

submitted 35 days ago • 49 comments

Tiny earthquake just now in Atl

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

@jelaniya.bsky.social Your comment tonight about Trump making corruption aspirational was brilliant!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

TRUTH

submitted 38 days ago • 29 comments

Please keep fighting for hares! The parliamentary petition to protect hares from shooting during the breeding season now has over 6,000 signatures. Let's all find just one more person to sign this week to get it over 10,000 to force a government response. Keep sharing! #UKwildlife #mammals

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Happy #Invertefest! Celebrate invertebrate biodiversity 🐛💕

submitted 50 days ago • 14 comments

map.climatevulnerabilityindex.org/map/cvi_over...

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WATCH: Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park react to Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook San Diego County. The elephants formed an "alert circle" meant to protect the young and the entire herd from any threats, according to the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance.

submitted 61 days ago • 60 comments

One man just wiped out $10 trillion in wealth, is destroying centuries-old legal protections, and seems determined to unravel humanity’s greatest public health achievement. In 3 months. I don’t know how we get out of this. But if we do, one person can never have that kind of power again.