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Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

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Freeze your credit with all three bureaus if you haven’t already. It’s pretty benign in terms of impact on your life and reduces potential loss if all our SSNs get sold on some Discord server by these scriptkiddies

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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

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We are ~berry~ excited to share our fruit bat stickers with you! 🦇🍓🍑🍌🫐🍇🍏🦇 Designed with #Pride 🏳️‍🌈 in mind, Each vinyl sticker features an intricately designed bat with their favorite fruit. Ideal for personalizing your planner, laptop, water bottle and more. #bats #fruit #rainbow #stickers

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““It’s important to be connected to this culture because this was here before the public was here,” Massey said. “Probably three-quarters of Mississippi was Choctaw land, and now we only have 350,000 acres.””

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The kind of good news I’m grateful for. TY @hwahl16.bsky.social for sending this my way 💚

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the feds have an incredible conviction rate in large part because they don’t bring cases that aren’t ironclad really wondering if that starts to change, there might be some highly embarrassing losses in criminal court coming if they’re directing indictments with nothing behind them

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Today’s best blep unsurprisingly came from a harbor seal 🦑🦊🌿

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

More fun around the watering hole. Caught on #cameratrap: Desert #cottontail, #TeamJavelina, cactus #wren, #bobcat

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When I walk around Portland, I sometime feel like I'm in a comic book like that one Tintin where giant mushrooms just sproinged up. "Oh, that? Just a normal HUGE plant in the fringe between the street and the sidewalk."

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Could it be that I finally managed to get a decent shot of a crow harassing an eagle? Of course, the eagle is nonplussed, but I think I did it, finally!

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That's the thing about these tech surveillance companies--there's no problem they don't see themselves as a solution to. The problem is, when on you have ones that are court favorites, the money flows to them from every aspect of governance.

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Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

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Bird Book of the Dead no 19 - Pink Headed Duck With a range centred on India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, the Pink-headed duck and was apparently always scarce, but the last confirmed record was in 1935. It could conceivably exist in some of the remote wetlands of Myanmar, but no surveys have found one

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Happy Friday to everyone! 💚🤍🌿🕊 #FlowersOnFriday #trees #photography #scape #FlowerScape Robinia pseudoacacia, or common Robinia (Lat: Robinia pseudoacacia), is a fast-growing forest-forming drought-resistant tree, a species of the genus Robinia of the legume family (Fabaceae).

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Emissions coming from Starlink are both intended (comms, data) which is narrowband, & unintended (which is broadband, and comes from the satellite itself). The unintended emissions are unregulated. It's the Wild West. SpaceX are not doing enough. In some bands, Starlink was seen in ~30% of data.

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Many nations are spending billions of dollars on building sensitive instruments, like the SKA in designated Govt. radio-quiet zones. Key experiments, like searching for the Epoch of Reionisation signal, can be affected. The onus is not on science to fix this. The onus is on SpaceX to do better.

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MAJOR UPDATE: The Supreme Court just handed DOGE the keys to all the sensitive personal information Social Security has on file — your income, benefits, health records, and more. Why do Donald Trump and his cronies need access to millions of Americans’ private data? It’s absurd.

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California, btw, is a donor state - it pays almost 90 billion dollars more in federal taxes than it gets back

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The preprint website generated an AI audio summary of our recent preprint, posted under my name and using "We studied..." language as if I wrote it. It's purportedly to aid accessibility but it's full of erroneous assumptions, looks like I don't understand my own research. Seems... not great

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Hey everyone, I have a new story out showing how the sausage got made in the new NYT podcast on youth gender-affirming care. It's pretty ugly - my source refused to participate in the podcast so reporters used audio of her captured in public against her will.

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A message from island leaders: protect the Pacific Ocean from deep-sea mining

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Where grasslands meet badlands. Heading east today

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my green planthopper plush keychains are now available to preorder on Kickstarter! 🌿💕🐛 www.kickstarter.com/projects/fos...

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DOGE brutality was the ultimate manifestation of the "free market" libertarian movement's generational quest to portray the destruction of federal governance and corporate oversight as the path to utopia many of those think tankers should be ostracized almost as intensely as the fascists

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It’s 6:30am and I have seen a thick-billed longspur, long-billed curlews, watched pronghorns race and shape-tailed grouse dancing on their lek 🤯🤯🤯

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Holy shit how come no one told me we can put 0.06 gram radio tags on hummingbirds (and frickin butterflies) now??? @celltracktech.bsky.social celltracktech.com/collections/...

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note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

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It's time for this month's ID quiz! Head here for some clues and to take your best guess: www.aba.org/june-2025-ph...

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Today I also saw my lifer peregrine falcons! 😍🪶🌿 shoutout to @banditelli.org for making these sightings happen!

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💥NEW 💥 We’ve teamed up with trans and intersex people to challenge the interim guidance rushed out by the EHRC in the wake of the transphobic judgment handed down by the Supreme Court in April. goodlaw.social/mrfv

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Flower girl 🌹

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Been off socials for an extended time dealing with (waves arms around) stuff. Still working hard, though, so if you’re in the market for since cool leather goods check out my shop. Just finished this Dragon Hide Wallet for a customer. ✌️❤️ www.blackwandsupply.com

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⚠️Warning - Cuteness Advisory⚠️ Great to see the first Eider broods appearing in sheltered bays around the coast. Known here in Shetland as 'Dunters', the ducklings are just wonderful to watch and those huge feet never cease to amaze! #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds

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‘We were ready for this’: meet the scientists suing the Trump administration to reinstate terminated grants

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I hate that this whole, expanded situation is turning me into a punishment monkey, but people need to be very seriously punished for these abuses.

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To the best of my knowledge, there hasn't been a confirmed breeding Golden-winged Warbler in the state of Ohio for decades, only a handful of sightings in June in the last 20 years. But birder Will Cihula reported what sure looks like a territorial male in Geauga County: ebird.org/checklist/S2...

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Swallow swimming season. 🪶

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