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Diversity: bio-, language, everything. Keeper of the Seeds. Fighting fascists since kindergarten. #AbolishBillionaires #FixTheGlitch portioid @ iNaturalist . developing #DuoNat, the biodiversity explorer.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · May 4

I quit my day job and travel the world, doing nature photography and developing the #DuoNat app.

Bearing witness to Earth's beauty.

Showing people what is.

So we don't have to show the future what was.

Follow me on an amazing journey into #biodiversity.

DuoNat account: @duonat.bsky.social

Aglaiocercus kingii (Long-tailed Sylph) from Colombia.

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=3611&level=all&phylogenyId=5562

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258605683

Pseudosphex (Tiger Moths, Arctiini, Erebidae) from Colombia

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=3616&level=all&phylogenyId=47157

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258512097

Glossodoris acosti (Chromodorididae, Nudibranchia) from Borneo.

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=3620&level=all&phylogenyId=47113

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&taxon_id=847499&user_id=portioid

Orang Utan (Pongo pygmaeus) mother with child. Borneo.

DuoNat: https://duo-nat.web.app/?pairId=62&level=all&phylogenyId=43367

iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/156589713

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 11h

they did to kissinger

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 1d

hard no.

it's a fake nobel price for a fake science. milton friedman?? gtfo.

too many people just go along with this bullshit.

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 1d

Every tramp deserves a violine

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 1d

this one is great :D I normally see these, which had the same idea, different execution.

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 1d

ok. but consider you're still promoting his product, so others might pay him based on that. I just think #msk stuff always needs the context 'the guy literally killed a million brown babies for fun'.

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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 2d

Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 1d

still I don't think there's a point in using, let alone paying, nazi AI.

I mean, the guy literally killed a million brown people for fun when he slit USAID's throat. projected (Lancet study) to be 14 million by 2030.

there should be limits.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 2d

abolish ICE

T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

NEW: Biofuels globally emit more than the fossil fuels they replace, our latest study shows.

The first-of-a-kind study looks at global biofuels production today and the potential impacts of government biofuel targets.
🧵⤵️

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T&E @transportenvironment.org · 6d

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 3d

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 4d

1974-2016

wasp got her

Number 16 (spider) - Wikipedia

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 5d

I'm going to get a tattoo of this. onto the face of every centibillionaire.

Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 5d

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 5d

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 6d

OMG WTF

»The G-Drive couldn't have a backup system due to its large capacity«

»We could not secure our gold reserves because we had too many«

858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire

Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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cassandroid אַנטיפֿאַ @cassandroid.substack.com · 6d

that's why I'm spending a lot of effort bringing Jugendstil ornaments to my landing page (disabled now, it's super hard) :)

for now, it has water, starfish and dragonflies.

this stuff matters. it connects you to the beauty of life.

sarefo.github.io