John Wares

It’s a good time to get in the habit of checking that your voter registration information is accurate.

A photo of the back tire of a cargo bike that is caked in winter salt.

A photo of the back tire of the same bike after being sprayed down to remove the salt.

If you’re salty, they’re salty!

Show your bike some love and give it a bath this Valentine’s Day!

I will continue to beat this drum: this is not about what happens on Election Day, but afterwards.

The key tell is her articulation of the core MAGA belief that the legitimacy of elections is entirely determined by the results: if they win, it’s legitimate; if they lose, it’s not.

Kennedy only being at -4 is just so bleak.

Nice coot feet ya got there

Pretty sure it’s a coot, but he’s doing a pretty solid impression of Jesus at the moment.

We also found a pile o’ gators. I think we counted like 18 total in this small area (there are a shitload to the left of this), but these three piled up were just crazy.

Some sort of red algae or some shit. I’ve got it posted on iNaturalist to find out what it is.

Great Blue Heron doing some fishing.

I got a new lens this past week, so we went to Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge to take it for a test spin. Among other things, we saw a Jesus bird. (Pretty sure it’s a coot.) But the other stuff was cool too, especially the gator pile.

Vigil remembering Heber Sanchez Dominguez at the GEO Group-managed Robert Dayton Detention Center in Lovejoy, Georgia today on the 1 month anniversary of his unexplained death.

Learned that ICE’s lease is up next year- pressure Clayton County commissioners not to renew.

#abolishICE

I always get confused. As bivalves often leave me confused.

Isn’t it international bivalve day soon @spissatella.bsky.social ?

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Sidewalk chalk: EAT THE RICH BEFORE THEY EAT YOUR KIDS

Downtown Athens Ga this week:

We clearly aren’t paying enough attention — they should be in a far deeper hole.

A heart-shaped prickly pear pad, which has turned pink due to winter. The pad has many spines that have emerged from pores (areoles) spaced across the pad's surface. The portion of the image surrounding the pink pad mostly consists of brown grass.

Happy Valentine's Day from New Mexico's high desert.

YouTube video by Anna Bocca How the Rich Took Over the Economy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAV0...

This is what Republicans want. Vote every last one of them out, no matter the office. Don't let these monsters anywhere near government again.

Evidence for Widespread Inter‐Basin Vicariance of Fishes Associated With Quiescent Geologic Features in the Southeastern United States Aim Stream captures are implicated as drivers of speciation in many groups of lotic fishes. In the southeastern United States, numerous stream-dwelling animals possess restricted trans-divide popula.....

What a week. But pleased to share new #fish #biogeography paper by PhD student Bryson Hilburn on southeastern stream captures (🐟not 🐿️) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Not to mention the other devastation and horror he has personally caused.

We knew he was lying then. Everyone in this administration.

American scientists of zoology, biology, and marine biology, Roger Arliner Young was the first Black Woman to receive a doctorate degree in zoology.

She was also the first Black Woman to obtain a professional publication on original research in the zoology field.

#BlackHerstory #BlackHistory

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter

Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

Terminally online “revolutionaries”: “read theory and burn down a Walmart” (does neither)

Wine moms: commits arson on a possible ICE warehouse in broad daylight

don't respond at all, tell the AE

New WISE Lab Paper! The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

Moderna chief: Company won’t invest in new late-stage vaccine trials Moderna has already been facing declines in sales after a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet:

helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis.

and you can help.

these people are really laser-focused on ruining the entire planet in every way as comprehensively as possible

...and every jackass running this country right now is chock full o' lead