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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 7h

How hot does it get outdoors in Tucson? Hot enough to melt plastic party plates. Rippling, not flat any longer.

A package of hard black plastic snack plates sitting on a woven basket with seashells.

Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 7h

I think this is the only political ad that made me literally laugh out loud.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 8h

I enjoyed this look at London trees as migrants open.substack.com/pub/arefadib...

A Love Letter to London Trees

And to the Quiet Grace of Its Gardens, Where the Trees Taught Me to Belong

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 8h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h

“The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’s cuts.”

Lack of weather data due to Trump’s budget cuts impacted forecast for deadly Alaska storm | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 1d

My talk about Beer, Germans, Prohibition, and unintended consequences is now live. I didn’t know what I’d find when I started, but it ended up weirdly relevant—nativists vs immigrants, one group trying to impose their morality on another. I

open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

German Beer Gardens, Temperance, and the Struggle to Get a Beer

A YouTube

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 2d

I feel sure that every animal species that becomes extinct under our watch also takes a part of our humanity with it.

Heartbreaking.
Vale.

Australian Mammal Society @ausmammals.bsky.social · 3d

Sad news for Australian mammals..Australia's only shrew officially declared #extinct.
theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 3d

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d

Marathon

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 4d

The Pen is Mightier than the Sword. From the 1904 Delaware County, New York, county fair. Posted by the Delaware County Historical Society.

Black and white photo of a 1904 open car, probably electric, absolutely buried in bunting and flags, with a giant pen and the sign "Pen Mightier than Sword"

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 6d

I think sometimes we are all Sherman.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 6d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 6d

Corruption aside, if this becomes normalized, foreign military presence inside U.S. stations ( that fund terrorists, no less ) may start being sold to the public as “joint training,” but the boundaries of authority & oversight can shift over time. That’s how power creeps. This is fucked up!

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 6d

I would like to reiterate that everyone - even those of us who don't usually protest - should go to a No Kings March on Saturday, October 18th. Find one near you at this link. You do not have to register to participate.

www.nokings.org

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 6d

a lone warrior

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 6d

There's a lot more disinformation in here than there used to be. Confirmation bias isn't good either.

The standard meme of the pie graph "Did this happen" with most of it blue for "no" and a pie slice in yellow for "no but in yellow"

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 6d

Using Lee Bey's great column (buff.ly/OKF5bVy) as an excuse to re-up my thread on this incredible building. Though often overshadowed by the nearby Avalon Regal, it deserves to have a line of folks prostrating themselves before it every day & throwing huge sacks of money towards its preservation.

Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · Apr 28

1/2 This 1928 building originally housed Raphael's, a 2 story 450 seat restaurant of such excess that it could only have been built in the 1920s. You entered through a space meant to mimic an outdoor garden, complete with trees & fountains. At night, colored spotlights bounced off the 60 ft minaret.

Extreme wide angle photo of a Persian-influenced building of tan brick and absolutely incredible polychrome terra cotta ornament. A minaret-like tower extends up above the roofline.

Color close up of the ornament above the entry. Inside of a large horseshoe arch formed by rows of intricately designed polychrome terra cotta fashioned into geometric designs in dark yellow, blue and green, is another incredibly complex circle/star element in a lighter yellow, green and blue terra cotta. Below this, twin designs in pale green and dark pink that seem to mimic in miniature the curving arches common in Islamic architectural designs. Even this element is made extraordinary as it is filled in with tiny, dark pink terra cotta tessellations.

Color close up of ornament atop the building. From this angle can be seen part of the minaret-like tower, which is made up of tan brick and layers of intricately designed pale green terra cotta. Beneath this is some gorgeous terra cotta cresting; a dark green on light yellow calligraphic design. The facade also features a row of five dark yellow terra cotta polylobed arches highlighted by dark blue tessellations and bands of pale green horizontal tiles alternating with tan brick.

Crooked color close-up of terra cotta ornamentation on the building's first level. Straight dark green bands alternate with lovely bands of stylized foliate and geometric designs in blue.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 6d

This story made me happy yesterday: Humpback whales that live off the eastern coast of Australia have made a tremendous comeback. From just 150 in the early 1960s to 20,000 now. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks! And I actually looked at it and realized all the photos (at least that I thought were there) are gone. Sigh. So, I recreated it as a Substack. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...

Annie McClure Hitchcock

and Dwight Perkins--in honor of his new street sign

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 7d

That's terrific. I've been a fan ever since I happened to write about Dwight Perkins' start in life when writing about Annie Hitchcock. www.hpherald.com/evening_dige...

Hyde Park Stories: Hitchcock Hall

Charles Hitchcock Hall, 1009 E. 57 Street, was built by Annie McClure Hitchcock (1839-1922) as a memorial to her beloved husband and to the power of books. Hyde Parkers often

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 7d

Detailed journalism from a local not for profit weekly reporting a much fuller story than you'll get elsewhere. Please support local independent news or we don't get the full picture. There is so much that's broken right now. #chicago @southsideweekly.bsky.social southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 7d

At the age of 70 I found out I was neurodivergent by finding that conversation on Twitter and it’s transformed my life. I also have a wonderful time sharing my discoveries about my neighborhood with a lot more people than I know irl. It’s given me a meaningful project in my retirement.

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