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"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions" oh, ok then

submitted 15 hours ago • 59 comments

been feeling very anxious this week abt this upcoming weekend, and also feeling like obvi it's my duty to protest but also seeing what's happening elsewhere and feeling super unsure about whether i should go to my state's capitol or not

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Remembering Brian Wilson as he lived

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Most people think the theremin is just for aliens, maybe ghosts. Only Brian Wilson had the true vision that it could also be for summertime sweetheart jams

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

I really hope someone told Brian Wilson about this because he'd be into it

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

“The opposition to climate action is using anti-trans rhetoric to build its base” A new analysis shows 80% of anti-trans groups have financial links to the fossil fuel industry, @yessfun.com reports

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

RIP Brian Wilson

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Today’s news has me once again thinking about the time Mike Love was driven half mad by someone in the audience eating nachos.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

DING DONG!! DING DONG!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

this sucks !!!! I made my account in 2018 and have 1,235 observations. I love sharing the organisms I encounter, helping people ID what they've seen, and feeling like I'm contributing to our understanding of species distributions. I've even used observations on iNat to locate trees I want to

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

South African users of iSpot migrated en masse to iNaturalist when the former messed up their app. @inaturalist.bsky.social isn't a monolith, especially when alternatices like Observation.org are available, so really needs to consider pissing off their user base

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🍊 🚨 Lots going on (lol lmao etc), but crying for help anyway: Anybody in Knoxville Chattanooga or Abindgon or [waves at I-75] feel like being a hero? ABTCR is trying to get this lil guy out of an ETn kill shelter. If you can register to foster or adopt him, I’ll bring him to you!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Yesterday NASA gave all civil servant employees “separation incentive offers” to encourage voluntary resignations www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

man this sucks sm

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💥 BREAKING: DICK'S Sporting Goods shareholders have voted to reject an anti-DEI proposal (tally TBA). Proposal asking DICK'S to report on "affirmative action risks" of "discrimination" cited lawsuits filed against other companies by America First Legal, a group founded by Stephen Miller.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

my friend lily is getting bottom surgery today and while we've filled up her little GFM bar almost all the way, she's still about $700 short of her goal. any y'all wanna help put her over the top?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

omg Barbara crampton….

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Why do you lock your door at night. Is it because you think I'll come in and debate you. Are you afraid of free speech

submitted 39 days ago • 62 comments

TODAY IS THE DAY!!!

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

it’s not fair to judge me by my words alone. or actually my actions either. please judge me based only on my idea of myself that I hold in my own head

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

the new developments on inat inspired me to make a diagnostic thread for every insect order because there's only like 30something of them. going to try and avoid exceptions and extremely technical characteristics when possible. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

submitted 2 days ago • 73 comments

thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason

submitted 2 days ago • 67 comments

A bit of advice for iNaturalist. They ought to gather data on user sentiment about generative AI, and especially about their expert user sentiment, before they make large moves to deploy technology that is...let's say, spiritually at odds with a significant part of their community.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Cut your NYT subscription: it's fairly obvious that there's an entire class of elites convinced that their job is to attack liberals when democracy is being destroyed

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

if anyone knows of something like inat that doesnt use generative ai, lmk. i love sharing my observations, helping id, and feeling like im contributing to our understanding of species distributions, but i am completely against generative ai

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

This is not a drill!!! Major league bat dog!! 😭😭😭

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

ok, well, solidarity with the southern baptists on the singular issue of sports betting

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments