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A hand holding a tiny baby wētā, an endemic ground cricket.

A hand holding a tiny baby wētā, an endemic ground cricket. It is under an inch long, while its antennae are about three.

hey whats your deal. why are you so antennas

Excuse me what??? Is Aaron into children to barely legal people???

He blocked me for saying the bsky staff are cool with Aaron's ephibiphilia

GOOD NEWS! A large, international Phase III clinical trial has unveiled a promising new option for people living with HIGHLY treatment-resistant HIV. 96% of participants who switched to this simplified regimen of a daily oral tablet MAINTAINED viral suppression with NO new drug resistance reported.

So beautiful and adorable. They look like they're made of copper!

I was thrilled to find this Habronattus cambridgei hopping through leaf litter in Mexico.

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Despite the overwhelming majority of Mississippians who live on or near the Pearl River (myself included) opposing any form of flood control, they still try to do this shit.

Opinion | House Bills Seriously Dilute Public Records Act Layne Bruce writes that two bills passed by the Mississippi House will chip away at government transparency.

OPINION: "Every few years, it seems some folks wake up one morning and decide the real problem in Mississippi is that citizens know too much about what their government is doing.

"This is one of those years," Layne Bruce writes.

Opinion | Opinion | Modernizing Mississippi Tourism Through Better Alignment, Not Bigger Government Danielle Morgan writes about her support for the Mississippi Tourism Reorganization Act which will make Mississippi’s tourism agency a cabinet-level agency.

OPINION: "In a competitive marketplace, Mississippi cannot afford to under position one of its most reliable economic engines," Danielle Morgan writes.

Mississippi Graduation Rate Hits 90.8%, Rising From Nation’s Lowest to Among the Highest The Mississippi Department of Education announced that the state’s 2024-25 school-year graduation rate is 90.8%.

Mississippi's graduation rate reached 90.8% and the dropout rate fell to 7.1% in the 2024-2025 school year.

The graduation rate was just 74.5% during the 2013-2014 school year, with a dropout rate of 13.9%.

The bill died in committee thankfully.

Mississippi Legislature 2026 Regular Session Senate Bill 2294 Senate Calendar | House Calendar | Main Menu Amendments | Code Sections | Additional Information Bill Text for All Versions pdf | html | pdf with deleted text As Passed the Senate pdf | html | pdf with deleted text As Introduced Description: MS Future Innovators Act; enact to require high-school computer science or CTE with embedded computer science course. Fiscal Note: No fiscal note conducted Background Information: Disposition: Active Deadline: General Bill/Constitutional Amendment Revenue: No Vote type required: Majority Effective date: July 1, 2026 History of Actions: 1 01/19 (S) Referred To Education 2 02/02 (S) Title Suff Do Pass 3 02/05 (S) Passed {Vote} 4 02/05 (S) Immediate Release 5 02/06 (S) Transmitted To House 6 02/06 (H) Referred To Education;Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency 7 02/18 (H) DR - TSDPAA: ED To AC 8 02/19 (H) DR - TSDPAA: AC To ED 9 02/19 (H) Title Suff Do Pass As Amended 10 02/19 (H) Amended 11 02/19 (H) Passed As Amended {Vote} 12 02/23 (H) Returned For Concurrence Amendments: pdf | html | pdf with deleted text [H] Committee Amendment No 1 Adopted Voice Vote pdf | html | pdf with deleted text [H] Amendment No 1 Adopted Voice Vote pdf | html [H] Amendment No 1 to Amendment No 1 Pending pdf | html | pdf with deleted text Amendment Report for Senate Bill No. 2294 Code Section: A 037-0013-0205 ----- Additional Information ----- Senate Committee: Education House Committee: Education, Accountability, Efficiency, Transparency Principal Author: Johnson Additional Authors: Simmons (13th) Title: AN ACT TO CREATE NEW SECTION 37-13-215, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT, BEGINNING WITH THE ENTERING NINTH-GRADE CLASS OF 2029-2030, A PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SHALL, BEFORE GRADUATION, BE REQUIR…

Hell yes, Mississippi public schools will now REQUIRE computer science and technical classes before graduation, massively increasing computer literacy in this state!

I'll have to tell my mom to let me keep the car to go vote

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‘History Rocks!’ Tour Visits Choctaw Central Middle School for Its Only Mississippi Stop U.S. Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs William Kirkland and the “History Rocks! Trail to Independence Tour” visits Choctaw Central Middle School.

“I am a strong proponent of education and am dedicated to ensuring our tribal educational system receives its recognition,” Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Chief Cyrus Ben said.

Opinion | Revoking Transgender People’s IDs Has Consequences Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write that revoking transgender people’s identification can invite broader discrimination.

OPINION: "The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with each consecutive year," Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write.

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Mississippi’s Black Voters Brace for Elections Ruling That Could Gut Supreme Court Clout Black Mississippians won a Voting Rights Act case that challenges how the state elects supreme court justices. But that victory may be in jeopardy.

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the state’s Supreme Court.

But that win may be short-lived due to a pending decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that may roll back the Voting Rights Act.

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Trump's Wish to Nationalize Elections Is a ‘Terrible Idea,’ Mississippi Elections Chief Says President Donald Trump’s suggestion to nationalize elections is a “terrible idea,” Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson said.

For years, President Donald Trump spread lies and conspiracy theories, claiming that he won the 2020 election by a “landslide” and has alleged the election was rife with voter fraud despite a lack of evidence.

Trump has suggested "nationalizing" elections in response.

Good and bad bills being killed off, not necessarily because people voted against it, but because our legislative season cuts off in March.

Teacher Pay Raise, Mandatory Online Campaign Finance Filing Among Bills Dead in Mississippi Legislature Bills to enact a teacher pay raise and force all political candidates to file campaign finance documents online died in the Mississippi Legislature.

Bills raising teacher pay are dead in the Mississippi Legislature. So are bills requiring political candidates to file campaign finance documents online and allowing terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals.

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Don't listen to the knucklehead vegans of Reddit on this one. It's your civic duty to trap and kill feral hogs much the same as it is to control and kill cogon grass. There's bounty programs for it.

Reminder that wild boars kill people and decimate the environment. They serve no purpose in North America. They're an invasive species and one of the worst ones at that. Trapping and killing is the only way to stop them.