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submitted 8 days ago • 88 comments

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart… in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

submitted 18 days ago • 46 comments

Thank you @blumenthal.senate.gov and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

in california they let dogs play basketball. teams of nothing but golden retrievers. they're pushing the human children out of sports because the rulebook doesn't explicitly say they can't play.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 20 days ago • 679 comments

If you are the kind of person who is reflexively angered at the sight of someone looting a $2,000 TV during a riot, well this plundering of the FAA amid fires across the federal government is Elon Musk walking out of the Best Buy with a $2.4 billion TV.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

I had been putting off watching Sound of Music with my daughter because I didn’t want to explain Nazis to a little kid. Suddenly I feel like this is a relevant time for 3rd graders to learn a healthy skepticism of authority.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I have never fucking hated 2 people more than I do right now

submitted 21 days ago • 41 comments

Coastal Peregrine Falcons’ Mysterious Decline In North America, coastal populations of the once-embattled bird are missing, and no one is quite sure why. www.biographic.com/coastal-pere...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

McCutcheon vs FEC is a great demonstration of how the GOP is helping oligarchs take political power away from regular citizens. Closing comments on what this means from @fleerultra.bsky.social are fantastic.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 27 days ago • 40 comments

Really nice overview of the HPAI situation in US dairy cattle, with a focus on transmission modalities between cows within herds, the spread of the virus between dairy farms, and exposure risks for humans. Highlights key gaps. 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Thanks for introducing me to this term @micbi.bsky.social

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

ATTN: Probationary federal workers who have been fired, please read: federalworkerrights.com/2025/02/13/m...

submitted 36 days ago • 95 comments

The Worst Swinging Strikes & "Swinging Balls" Of All Time

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 38 days ago • 415 comments

If you've heard Tested you know that athletes, doctors, and ethicists worked for nearly 30 years to end mandatory chromosome tests for all women athletes. They succeeded in 1999. Now, World Athletics wants to bring them back: buttondown.com/tested/archi...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

A lot of reporting on the shock-and-awe campaign seems awfully credulous about the ultimate goal here being to “slash government”. To the extent that’s happening, it is incidental to the aim of consolidating and centralizing power.

submitted 40 days ago • 47 comments

WE DID IT! 12 years in a row of sharks in a Super Bowl commercial!

submitted 41 days ago • 7 comments

my boyfriend made this sweatshirt in 2018 and he’s proudly wearing it around town today lmao

submitted 41 days ago • 31 comments

Smaug was a job creator, he earned that mountain of gold. Plus he had autism, which is why it sometimes looked as though he was burning people to death with his fire-breath.

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

Ayanna Pressley: "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby."

submitted 46 days ago • 495 comments

TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.

submitted 47 days ago • 344 comments

I swear every time there’s a photo of “a DOGE operative” it’s just these bastards

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

submitted 47 days ago • 111 comments

A few of us are still out here. Sorry for the shaky video.

submitted 48 days ago • 266 comments

All the “third way”, “both sides”, apolitical stances from evangelical churches and pastors has prepared them to be totally unprepared for this political crisis.

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

If you’re a federal employee, you should know this is a lie. Congress hasn’t appropriated these monies and so it’s literally not there to be spent. Also, federal agencies are limited by law to a max $25K payout in the case of restructuring.

submitted 53 days ago • 177 comments

The last time Ashley Marcial celebrated the Eagles on Broad Street, she fell off a bus stop shelter. She’s back, with a fake neck brace — and plans to go back on the bus stop — with a caveat. “I learned don’t stand on the plastic part: it might pop.” www.inquirer.com/eagles/live/...

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

🦇 There are many different ways to help bats. Either by becoming a member, donating, volunteering, raising funds at no extra cost to you, leaving a gift in your will or simply making your garden/green corner more bat friendly:

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

I feel rather silly posting this, but if you're an U.S.-based ornithologist/bird conservation professional whose work is being affected by all of this, I'm a freelance science journalist who mostly writes about bird stuff & I'd love to hear from you. I even have a Signal account now! #ornithology

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

The thing that’s most striking about this is that they set up an e-mail account specifically for people to report on each other for any attempt to implement “DEIA or similar ideologies” and threatened “adverse consequences” for NOT reporting.

submitted 59 days ago • 87 comments

It may be a good time to recall that almost 100 yrs ago wealthy businessmen hatched a scheme to weaken progressive Christianity because the social gospel wasn’t conducive to corporate profits. They poured $$$ into Chr orgs that preached a different tune: the gospel of free market capitalism.

submitted 59 days ago • 19 comments

I can’t imagine why I’d be thinking about the signage from The Prisoner on this particular morning.

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

Pace yourself, and stay connected to the things that bring you joy. As for me, that starts tonight. GO IRISH BEAT BUCKEYES ☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ youtube.com/shorts/ojrLa...

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

Love you all 🩵🩷🤍 #transrightsarehumanrights

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

There is an emerging conventional wisdom that resistance to Trump went too far and I am going to lose my mind. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/19/o...

submitted 62 days ago • 389 comments

Timothée Chalamet, welcome to The War on Cars.

submitted 67 days ago • 22 comments