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The moment a squirrel stops to smell a flower [📸 Dick Van Duijn]

submitted 13 days ago • 115 comments

“Panama communicates to the world my absolute rejection of this method of managing bilateral relations on the basis of lies and falsehoods.” —President Mulino (gift link) wapo.st/3WTA50b

submitted 16 days ago • 182 comments

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

submitted 19 days ago • 458 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget INSURRECTIONIST TRUMP!

submitted 35 days ago • 179 comments

As Joe Biden’s term as the 46th U.S. President comes to a close, so does the most pro-Native administration in history. Today in The Big Picture, Amelia Christnot explores how Biden kept his promises to Indigenous Americans—setting records and reshaping representation along the way.

submitted 39 days ago • 71 comments

It shouldn’t be ignored that Kash Patel chose to plead the Fifth in response to a grand jury subpoena over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents. He only testified, involuntarily, after being granted immunity. Think about that. Trump’s FBI nominee pled the Fifth in response to a DOJ subpoena.

submitted 81 days ago • 593 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 81 days ago • 572 comments

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll contribute to the global overdepletion of the ocean. So give him a salad, maybe.

submitted 83 days ago • 619 comments

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

submitted 87 days ago • 713 comments

When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...

submitted 86 days ago • 1023 comments

They have a point.

submitted 86 days ago • 608 comments

By strapping acoustic tags onto 6 turtles over 10 days 🐢 , this study found that ~75% of acoustic samples had detectable human-made sound from boats & shipping ⛴️🛳️🚢 (at frequencies between the low end & punch of a kick drum) These sounds were very often as loud as fireworks 😬🎇🎆 🧪🌏🐢📢🌊

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submitted 92 days ago • 863 comments

I see what he did there.

submitted 92 days ago • 439 comments

The first selfie in space. 📸 Buzz Aldrin

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

New research shows younger and middle-aged adults have worse long COVID symptoms than older adults "On an average of 10 months after COVID-19 onset, younger (ages 18-44) and middle-aged (ages 45-64) adults had worse neurologic symptoms of long COVID than adults 65 and older." #LongCOVID

submitted 92 days ago • 23 comments

This is what I hear from Nancy Mace’s mouth now whenever she talks.

submitted 93 days ago • 1146 comments

Back in May Dr David Nicholl reported his concerns about physician associates (& anaesthesia associates). Finally a Health Secretary has ordered a review into what #PhysicianAssociates do & their supervision in #NHS. #MedicalCare @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/health/...

submitted 94 days ago • 9 comments

As Health Secretary Matt Hancock sent Covid infected patients into Care Homes with zero protection for other residents leading to 30,000-40,000 deaths. Now at the Covid inquiry he blames Nicola Sturgeon. He and Johnson should be in court.

submitted 93 days ago • 118 comments

Right wingers are making accounts here, spending an entire day blatantly trolling and insulting people, and then crying "censorship" when they get banned 😂

submitted 93 days ago • 324 comments

Good morning...

submitted 93 days ago • 97 comments

Ex-Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss are asking a federal judge to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court for repeating the false claims that have already led to a $148 million defamation judgment against him. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...

submitted 93 days ago • 64 comments

Sorry, Morning Joe, we’re just not that in to you.

submitted 93 days ago • 1174 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget

submitted 93 days ago • 1909 comments

Scotland puts great emphasis on the healing power of art, especially poetry. That's why every Scottish hospital has a Burns unit.

submitted 93 days ago • 67 comments

1. In states across the country, education officials are turning public schools into Christian indoctrination centers. A new state-created K-5 curriculum that received preliminary approval in Texas quizzes Kindergartners on the order of creation in the Book of Genesis.

submitted 93 days ago • 221 comments

After @propublica.org reported on the cases of two women — Amber Thurman and Candi Miller — who died after they couldn’t obtain timely reproductive care in Georgia, the state has dismissed the entire maternal mortality board. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

submitted 93 days ago • 100 comments