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"I know this is hard for you Americans to imagine, but please try." Uncanny.

Some need to touch grass.

How much would American-born workers want to be paid to be a dishwasher? Under the table folks likely paid less than minimum wage. If paid $17 an hour = better American-born dishwashers?

4:34pm: Severe Thunderstorm Warnings now blanket the eastern half of the region as these dangerous storms with damaging winds continue to advance east. #cwgalert

Petite white mushroom clusters. #fungifriends

“How do you destroy a people? You take away their culture. And how is that done? You must take their language, their history, their very identity. How would you do that?” I pressed my lips together, then looked up at her. "You ban their books” ― Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire #BookWormSat

NEW: Don't use AI for fact checking. @davidgilbert.bsky.social reports www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

Apart from EVERYTHING else, I’m not sure people realize what these things are going to do to paved city streets.

Picked up C41 issue - the smell and the feel - awesome edition for April. Recommend! www.c41magazine.com #printedmatter #touch

Fungi flowers #fungifriends

This is an amazing opportunity!

Please share. Thank you. #NationalParks

Morning mushrooms #fungifriends

"He wants to die, so he constructs a situation that fits with his lost honor and sense of perverted justice." wow.

The Whitney is incredible. The attorney who bought it had to keep his plan for development secret. It was badly damaged in a hurricane recently.

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

Alex Lawson: We're outside the Energy & Commerce committee with folks risking arrest to protest the destruction of Medicaid which is what Republicans are doing right now in the committee room.

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

It may feel like you have to attend law school to understand the American legal system. However, that is not the case. We broke down some of the most common legal terms used in the lawsuits surrounding the Trump administration.

I wish I could capture the fragrance of this iris - lavender and rose water flavored cake. According to neighbors Its ancestors have grown on the property for over 70 years.

Like a full body immersion in knowledge and hope - this week filled with students and educators. Today a keynote at UMD. 🥹

Come present! The MHS offers great and helpful seminars. #Skystorians

The media needs to call this what it is: This is a techno-oligarchic hostile takeover of the federal machinery of the United States of America. This is not governing. It is lawless. It is not based on principles of electoral representation. This is a criminal takeover of the federal government.

"To the medical historian Jacqueline Antonovich, Kennedy’s comments reminded her of eugenic arguments from the early 20th century — the idea that people with disabilities are “tax burdens therefore they shouldn’t exist.”

Lots! #fungifriends