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Before you put up some cool AI image, ask yourself--would you go a day without electricity in your home to get that image? Would you dump a bucket of toxic sludge in a nearby waterway to get that image? Because it may seem quick, simple and easy, but somewhere, a price is being paid.

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A beetle in the genus Clytus. Excellent wasp mimic. I only realized it was a beetle after I looked at it though the macro lens 😊🌿 #insect #bugsky #photography #nature #beetle #macro

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"Judeo-Christian" is what people say when they'd like to be racist but know they'd get into trouble if it was too blatant.

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🦊 Friday was my last day working at 18F. It was a team of extraordinary people, but a few things happened that made me realize I had to leave. Everything happens so much these days, so I thought I’d write down for myself what happened, and how I made my decision: ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/leavin...

submitted 3 days ago • 74 comments

RFK's brilliant idea to steal kids and send them to "farms" is just orphan trains (not called that at the time, and most of the kids were not orphans), which we already did, and which resulted in stolen urban children being used as slave labor in rural communities.

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And on FOX NEWS, no less.

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Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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“Born in 1940, he remembers the racial segregation laws that shaped his youth in Reserve, and the fears that those forces – of “separate but equal” – have never fully dissipated. “We live in a sacrifice zone here,” he said. “And this all just gave me more evidence of my original fear.””

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If you're an entomologist who lost your position in this nonsense, please message me. If you're an organization seeking a taxonomist or a broadly trained entomologist, reach out. I'm also looking for professors seeking PhD students, globally. #entomology 🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

A leafhopper, Agrosoma placetis. 🌿 #leafhopper #macro #insect #bugsky #photography

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a pupating butterfly decorated with golden lines #alphabetChallenge #weekGforGold #macro #lepidoptera

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A fancy caterpillar on #caturday 😁 This little guy is in the genus Thagona. Look at its fancy hat!! 🌿 #insect #caterpillar #macro #bugsky

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A chonky beetle in the genus Coelomera 🌿 #beetle #bugsky #insect #macro

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Treehoppers in the genus Alchisme. A bunch of adults to the right. A nymph to the left. 🌿 #bugsky #insect #treehopper #macro

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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 9 days ago • 596 comments

A treehopper on Tuesday, sitting on its eggs and newly hatched babies. Genus Alchisme 🌿 #bugsky #insect #treehopper #macro

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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 12 days ago • 3913 comments

Ireland! We need just 1,483 ppl who are Irish nationals to sign this EU petition to initiate a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy* across the EU. The UN considers such ‘therapy’ to be mental torture. #SpeirGorm Please sign & share with all EU citizens that you know: eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Posting a Monday Moth. Isanthrene basifera, a moth with clear wings. #mothMonday #moth #lepidoptera #macro #bugsky #Colombia

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How much funding would public schools in your state lose if Title I programs were cut? Use ELC's new advocacy tool to explore the impact of potential federal revenue losses. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

If I played for the Chiefs, I’d participate in throwing the game that badly just to deny Harrison Butker a Super Bowl ring.

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If I played for the Chiefs, I’d participate in throwing the game that badly just to deny Harrison Butker a Super Bowl ring.

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Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

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It is scary how many elected officials are just sitting around like they don’t need to work for their constituents, like there won’t be an election in which they’ll be voted out. If we don’t start acting now, there won’t be, for sure.

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I want the decimation of the consultant-driven Dems. We need more AOCs, and Crocketts, and Schatzs, and Raskins. Fuck the Fettermans and Schumers et al. 'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress www.rawstory.com/stop-playing...

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

The idea of going to Mars was arguably first promulgated by Wernher von Braun a nazi (literal) aerospace engineer The US brought him over during Operation Paperclip to help the US in the space race.

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Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

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WHY destroy publicly funded science and research institutions? It’s easy: There’s so much shit they want to try. Chips in brains, human genetic engineering, electronic prosthetics with neural interfaces They don’t want a review board in the way. They don’t want scientists with alternatives.

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Had never heard of Shedletsky so I had to look him up. Turns out he was former creative director for Roblox. That's it. That's his grand claim for being a Master of the Modern World. Dude, I did some quality assurance on the original CIVILIZATION, but it doesn't make me fucking Galactus.

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This is "government efficiency" - Musk style - as medicine is left abandoned in a warehouse so people can DIE. Trump & Musk are mass murderers. (John Green is an author, Crash Course eduction designer, and involved heavily in supporting medical philanthropy in developing nations)

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A very interesting bug. It looks like an ant, a leaf cutter guarding a plant, but it is a hemipteran, an assassin bug. Look closer and you’ll see its proboscis. I don’t have an ID. 🌿 #insect #bugsky #hemipteran #macro

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It’s #floralfriday AND #flyfriday so here’s a pic of both. A syrphid fly on a calendula bloom. #bugsky #insect #macro 🌿

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Membracids are some of my favorite insects, and there are so many here in Colombia. Here’s one in the genus Bolbonota. It’s tiny, disguising itself as caterpillar poop or a bit of soil. #bugsky #insect #macro 🌿

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An adorable Compsus weevil on #weevilwednesday #insect #macro 🌿

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