Joy
@joyandfive.bsky.social
Western NC. I live in a red county but a temperate rainforest so it sorta evens out. Trans ally. Politics and ecology, biodiversity, soil science. Poets always welcome.
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Mosquitoes, a photo gallery:
Mosquitoes - Alex Wild
Mosquitoes comprise a large family, Culicidae, of slender, scale-covered flies found worldwide. We think of mosquitoes as voracious blood-feeders, but the primary food of adult mosquitoes is actually ...
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November 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Mosquitoes, a photo gallery:
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Attention NYC: We made it past the earliest sunset of the year.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Attention NYC: We made it past the earliest sunset of the year.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
No, it's not on the solstice. That's the shortest day, but the earliest sunset is sooner and the latest sunrise is later.
So those of us who, like me, are primarily offended by early sunsets have officially survived rock bottom.
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Just as humans pass houses down through generations, so do some birds pass down nests, even through centuries. For example, Bearded Vultures nest in caves on cliffs in Europe, returning every year to the same caves to raise broods. The birds build the nest up with new nesting material each year....
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Just as humans pass houses down through generations, so do some birds pass down nests, even through centuries. For example, Bearded Vultures nest in caves on cliffs in Europe, returning every year to the same caves to raise broods. The birds build the nest up with new nesting material each year....
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
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December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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The layers of cultural and metacultural complexity in this video—the Red Army Choir singing "Sixteen Tons"—are pretty much incalculable.
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The layers of cultural and metacultural complexity in this video—the Red Army Choir singing "Sixteen Tons"—are pretty much incalculable.
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I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
November 30, 2025 at 1:33 AM
I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.
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This THREAD.
Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵
DOGE was not a money-saving effort. It was an effort to chase down and prove right-wing conspiracy theories. They went after USAID to prove conspiracy theories about foreign aid. Then they went after SSA to, again, pursue conspiracy theories about Dems paying "illegals" to vote. 1/2
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This THREAD.
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“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”
In One Week, Trump Moves to Reshape U.S. Environmental Policy
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
“This was the week from hell for environmental policy in the United States,” said Pat Parenteau of Vermont Law and Graduate School. “Unless stopped by the courts, each of these proposed rollbacks will do irreparable harm to the nation’s water quality, endangered species and marine ecosystems.”
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Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis
City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
www.forbes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
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I'd like to add that REBUILD is currently connecting people of color who have been detained by ICE/DHS to FREE counseling/therapy. Please pass along the word: www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
REBUILD - Darkness Rising Project
Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.
www.darknessrisingproject.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'd like to add that REBUILD is currently connecting people of color who have been detained by ICE/DHS to FREE counseling/therapy. Please pass along the word: www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
Xicano Hardcore: Pomona scene turns community energy into youth scholarships. idioteq.com/xicano-hardc...
Xicano Hardcore: Pomona scene turns community energy into youth scholarships - IDIOTEQ.com
What started as a few local shows in Pomona has grown into a movement that uses hardcore not only as sound and release but as a means to fund education. The
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November 15, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Xicano Hardcore: Pomona scene turns community energy into youth scholarships. idioteq.com/xicano-hardc...
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You can't know the U.S.'s history without knowing the U.S.'s Black history.
“America does not have a full accounting of itself without the historic Black press,” says Nicole Carr, author, investigative journalist, and professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
“America does not have a full accounting of itself without the historic Black press,” says Nicole Carr, author, investigative journalist, and professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
You can't know the U.S.'s history without knowing the U.S.'s Black history.
“America does not have a full accounting of itself without the historic Black press,” says Nicole Carr, author, investigative journalist, and professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
“America does not have a full accounting of itself without the historic Black press,” says Nicole Carr, author, investigative journalist, and professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
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Very interesting review! Added the book to my reading list.
November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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This is wonderful news!!!
#ncpol
#ncpol
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donates $63M to NC A&T, largest gift in school's history
Combined with her $45 million donation in 2020, Scott has now given a total of $108 million to the university.
www.wfmynews2.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is wonderful news!!!
#ncpol
#ncpol
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“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever really wanted to be free. The world is held together by the love and the passion of a very few people.”
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Love Is Never Going To Be A Popular Movement
Love is not going to poll well. It never has.
badfaithtimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:11 PM
“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever really wanted to be free. The world is held together by the love and the passion of a very few people.”
badfaithtimes.com/love-is-neve...
badfaithtimes.com/love-is-neve...
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“If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.”
— Howard Zinn
— Howard Zinn
November 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.”
— Howard Zinn
— Howard Zinn
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"Successful democratic movements depend, above all, on courage." – David Shimer
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
"Successful democratic movements depend, above all, on courage." – David Shimer
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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The sound of democracy working. ❤️🇺🇸
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The sound of democracy working. ❤️🇺🇸
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racketmn.com/elevated-acc... - People are in motion EVERYWHERE...
Meet the Volunteer Pilots Flying Patients From Red States to Reproductive Care - Racket
Removing barriers to bodily autonomy, one prop plane flight at a time.
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October 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
racketmn.com/elevated-acc... - People are in motion EVERYWHERE...
"Here’s the bigger question: What will we fill their heads with? Now that’s a question worth giving your life to. Everyone is dying, and if you’re worried about that, then throw yourself into preserving knowledge. Or preserving goodness." Thought-provoking essay. Thank you, @jkuznicki.bsky.social
"But the nation is the great project that we all share in, and we have to defend it because it's noble to be part of something larger than yourself and --"
Let me stop you right there. Imagine yourself smaller. Because you are--we all are--and it's better not to have any illusions.
Let me stop you right there. Imagine yourself smaller. Because you are--we all are--and it's better not to have any illusions.
Two Paths to Immortality: Some Civic Religion for Nonbelievers
Reactionary immortality projects explain a lot about American political culture—above all why and how we Americans choose to panic.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Here’s the bigger question: What will we fill their heads with? Now that’s a question worth giving your life to. Everyone is dying, and if you’re worried about that, then throw yourself into preserving knowledge. Or preserving goodness." Thought-provoking essay. Thank you, @jkuznicki.bsky.social
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Twice a year I hold a workshop on writing a nonfiction book proposal. It’s organized to lead you through exercises that results in a draft or revision (or just learn about the genre) Next one starts in January
How To Write A Nonfiction Book Proposal January 5-15 2026
In this course, you will learn the basics of non-fiction trade book proposals, receive feedback on your proposals and queries, and become part of a...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Twice a year I hold a workshop on writing a nonfiction book proposal. It’s organized to lead you through exercises that results in a draft or revision (or just learn about the genre) Next one starts in January
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My 83 year old dad went to his first ever protest today. He brought the American flag from their front stoop
October 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
My 83 year old dad went to his first ever protest today. He brought the American flag from their front stoop