Janaki Anagha

Flowers of California poppy (Eschscholzia californica). Two fused sepals form a hat-like structure that has already dehisced, while four free bright orange petals adorn the blossom. Inside the flower, though not visible from this perspective, are numerous stamens arranged in several whorls and a gynoecium composed of two carpels. The gynoecium is surrounded by a floral cup forming a wide rim, which can be seen on the lower left, once all other organs have fallen off. (Image credit: Annette Becker.)

🌾🌼 Flowering Newsletter 2025 🌼🌾

"Flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous wind-pollinated grass flowers to the large flowers of California poppy with its bright petals" - @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social

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#FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪
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YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Good morning, monsters.

Fallen leaves are not only pretty, but an excellent place to hide. Or listen to sputtering rain tap on the leaves while you rest, where human concerns cannot find you.

It’s just wild to me how many iterations there are of the United States. I don’t know the place that so many people describe when they shout about saving democracy. I’ve never been there. And yet I’ve lived here all my life…

Portland Frog on getting pepper sprayed in his air intake: “ I’ve tasted spicier”

wizard frog is insane

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IG newberlinlibrary

commit exactly one heinous crime that haunts you for the rest of your days. never tell a soul. this will allow you to look brooding and mysterious when you sit alone at a bar table in the wee hours of the morning.

25-pack of Risographed Fuck ICE posters — Molly Crabapple Express your feelings towards our American Gestapo with these striking posters, risographed by Molly Crabapple at her beloved Robert Blackburn Studios. These posters are NOT archival. They are printe...

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Thin White Line – Maya Pace Writer and community practitioner Maya Pace awakens to how California’s essential nature, dry, scorched, renewed by flame, has been repressed for centuries by our ideals of paradise.

“We have created a future that will ask us if we love it enough to live in it.
There is no glory. This is it. An intimacy bound, feet first, to the damp and scorched earth.”

Maya Pace on loving California (and maybe other things)

emergencemagazine.org/essay/thin-w...

Oops looks as though I forgot about this app and so many other things until an unknown 4am October morning awakened in me my forgettings. A familiar thing, October.

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

Horseshoe theory isn't real so much as all dumb guys are kind of alike.

I have an exoskeleton from all the lessons I’ve learned from farmworker women. I’m so lucky to be so close to the people who have been at the rock bottom of this country their whole lives.

Oof very much want to talk to you about what’s going on re: all this in the California heartland

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate A tiny but crucial agency that maintains physical coordinates like latitude and longitude in the US is struggling as the Trump administration forces out federal employees.

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam.

FULL TIME!!!! 🌵🌵🌵🌵
#ElClásico

@lailalalami.com ‘s amazing book The Dream Hotel is about the surveillance state and the commercialization of personal information, but it’s also SUCH a woman’s book. About trying so damn hard for corporeal autonomy, the loss of anything secret, the daily invasion on femininity. #booksky

Cause or effect amirite?

Stakes The NBA playoff's rules, conditions, and contradictions of pressure.

this week's BASKETBALL FEELINGS is about the contradictions of the nba playoffs — its active language of loss, the correct amount of want vs. pressure, and the weird green frenzy of energy that spills out right now before the postseason clamps up

A trace fossil in Elgin Museum - the label says Jurassic worm burrow

Not all fossils are the bodies of animals or plants. Trace fossils like tracks & burrows preserve animal behaviour.

This beauty is on display in Elgin Museum & labelled as Jurassic worm burrow. I would use the ichnogenus Gyrochorte but maybe @ichnologist.bsky.social can advise?

#FossilFriday
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I kinda like when passersby tell me “I like your tattoos. I want to get some, but I’m afraid they’ll hurt” and I get to reply “They always hurt, but then they don’t.”

The number of words listed in the ESA to describe “harm” is a running enviro lawyer joke. Now i get it. Shouldn’t have been talking shit ;(

The key to happiness is wearing the other guy out

Canada, congratulations on not following your neighbors on the road to hell.

May 5, 2025 cover of the New Yorker. Expository text: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-05-05

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.