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Took the road less traveled... JD Tech & Health, MA SS Blocking: MAGA doomers disinfo/ "satire" w/o clear labels AI Slop putting me on a list/pack w/o my/asking DMs/Crypto/Req for $ Trolls get mocked & blocked I vet before following Don't be a lowbar�

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Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social · Jul 27

Folks - in this age of disinfo, if you're going to do "satire" or double-fakes, don't bury the "see, it's not real!" deep in the alt

Or if you do, don't cry like a baby when someone id's it as fake & accuse them of "not being able to take a joke"🙄esp when you liked others' reposting it as real😒

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

"im not owned! im not owned!!", i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob

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Peter Corkeron @petercorkeron.bsky.social · 11h

New piece on the ongoing attempts by Republicans in the US Congress to destroy the US Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Per the new bill "the act has “unduly and unnecessarily constrained government, tribes and the regulated community”"
In @apnews.com by Patrick Whittle
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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

apnews.com

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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 9h

This is why American troops are in Gaza. It's not to secure the peace. It's to secure his stake in the real estate there.

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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 11h

Probably worth mentioning that if the Democrats buckled and voted to pass the bill that robs Americans of ACA, it wouldn't take a dime from immigrants getting emergency care.

That's already funded. It's not even in danger of being cut.

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Sharks Pacific @sharkspacific.bsky.social · 11h

We tagged it, so what? Tags reveal where sharks travel and when, giving us a glimpse into their secret lives. These insights guide better protections (and make cool squiggly lines on maps). We are so close to funding the next tag. Let’s goooo! Invite your friends!

sharkspacific.org?give=G2EXWJD6

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 10h

Monarch butterflies - photographs from earlier this season 🌿 #Invert

Monarch with wings spread - perched on pink zinnia

Monarch with wings out - perched on pinky peach zinnia

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Sebastian Hoefer @taiapo.bsky.social · 10h

Is passive acoustic monitoring worth it for terrestrial mammals? 🎙️🐨

We find it's not the one for all solution, but for vocal species, yes! It's highly effective & saves lots of time and money, especially in the long-term.

Find out more: doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🔈🦊🧪🌎 @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Sensors versus surveyors: Comparing passive acoustic monitoring, camera trapping and observer‐based monitoring for terrestrial mammals

Mammals play vital roles in ecological communities, but many are in rapid decline worldwide. Comprehensive monitoring of mammal populations is crucial for effective conservation, but large-scale m...

doi.org

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 11h

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Use your voice. Reverse this!
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URGENT: Trump Opens Protected Areas to Destructive Commercial Fishing

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 10h

The update also declared several species extinct. The findings underscore the immense challenges facing species in a world transformed by humans but also offer new evidence of how the right interventions can help them survive: iucn.org/press-releas.... #birds 🌎

Arctic seals threatened by climate change, birds decline globally – IUCN Red List

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 10 October 2025 (IUCN World Conservation Congress) – Three species of Arctic seal have moved closer to extinction, according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List ...

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 10h

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Update: Of 11,185 bird species worldwide, 61% have declining populations, largely driven by forest loss. 3 species of Arctic seals are slipping closer to extinction because of climate change. And green sea turtles have moved from endangered to least concern.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/p...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/p...

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 9h

Saltwater crocodile found with mouth zip-tied shut in Adelaide River, sparking calls for stronger penalties

focusingonwildlife.com/news/saltwat...

Saltwater crocodile found with mouth zip-tied shut in Adelaide River, sparking calls for stronger penalties | Focusing on Wildlife

But on a recent tour, Wookie spotted something unusual on the Adelaide River, near Darwin — a 2-metre juvenile saltwater crocodile, dubbed Jiminy by guides,

focusingonwildlife.com

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Vector Ze ❌👑 @vector-ze.bsky.social · 1d

As we expand the raping of the biosphere we rely on for our survival, we are about to molest the deep ocean floor similarly with polymetallic nodule mining, with no regard for the biological, ecological, or climatological impacts. No regard for species yet to be known, which will be wiped out.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

Its not monsters from outer space
Its humans scraping the bottom floor and sucking up every life form that exists, leaving nothing
Fish often in vain flee for their lives

Also releases 370 million metric tons of planet-warming c02 every year, roughly same as running 100 coal power plants

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manofbeerd.bsky.social @manofbeerd.bsky.social · 11h

JFC this is fucking horrendous, we don’t deserve this planet and fuck unbridled capitalism

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 1d

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Rude 8647 Fulk @rudefulk.bsky.social · 11h

A candidate for local office in New York disappeared months ago. He could still win
Long Beach voters have a choice: re-elect the Republican incumbent or the Democrat who seemingly vanished at sea

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A candidate for local office in New York disappeared months ago. He could still win

Long Beach voters have a choice: re-elect the Republican incumbent or the Democrat who seemingly vanished at sea

www.theguardian.com

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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social · 12h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

ICE is now richer than most of world’s militaries thanks to Trump’s new funding

ICE’s annual budget increased from $8.7 billion to $27.7 billion

www.independent.co.uk

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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BkkGreg @bkkgreg.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna keep this handy for when my son says he doesn't like school.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

These are all sourced from “A People’s History of the United States,” and I struggle to think of a more prescient page from a history book that I have read than this one:

useless scholarly exercise in morality. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiro-shima and Vietnam, to save Western civiliza-tion; Kronstadt and Hungary, to save social-ism; nuclear proliferation, to save us all-that is still with us. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth.
We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable of classrooms and textbooks. This learned sense of moral proportion, coming from the apparent objectivity of the scholar, is accepted more easily than when it comes from politicians at press conferences. It is therefore more deadly.
The treatment of heroes (Columbus) and their victims (the Arawaks)-the quiet acceptance of conquest and murder in the name of progress—is only one aspect of a certain approach to history, in which the past is told from the point of view of governments, conquerors, diplomats, leaders. It is as it they, like Columbus, deserve universal acceptance, as if they—the Founding Fathers, Jackson, Lin-

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

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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f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 11h

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Explained
f the nyt

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Explained

www.nytimes.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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