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Congrats to Justin on getting “It is more important than ever that we...get our shit together" as an on-the-record quote from a sitting MLA published by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Today marks one year since the Dec. 3, 2024 martial law declaration that rocked South Korea and still reverberates today. What’s on my mind today is the grit of South Koreans who rushed to the National Assembly that night, in freezing weather, to demand a return to democratic government.

Close-up of a cup-shaped velvety orange fungus, growing among damp rock, redwood duff and decomposing wood.

Apricot Jelly (Guepinia helvelloides) we saw last week, for #TextureTuesday. Such a perfect name for this beauty.💚
#Fungi #FungiFriends #NaturePhotos #iNat 📷

White Honduran Bats
(Ectophylla alba)

They have white fur, found in 6 of 1,300 bat species. They construct "tents" out of leaves they cut with their teeth; then roost inside. Eat exclusively one type of fig.
#whitehonduranbats #wildlife #wildlifephotography #tentmakingbats #costarica #photography

Beautiful view from the office over Stanley Park in #Vancouver 🚁

Two young girls sit by a New York window as a giant Snoopy float passes by in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade, 1988.

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

Won't pretend I'm impartial here but I do not think the US should be imprisoning the immigrant spouses of US citizens as they appear for green card interviews. Who would want this? To what end?

Northern flicker - red shafted - flying from my neighbors yard to my yard yesterday. #birds

Lovely family sits around round dinner table with lace tablecloth and servings of yummy food. The cat of a white car with gray patches, green eyes and a pink nose pops up in the bottom of the frame as if it’s taking a selfie

When your cat takes the family photo.

Bald Eagle flying back to the nest with a beautiful stick!

When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy!

#LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography

A Red-tailed Hawk surveying the woods. He liked this spot; after a taking a few photos, I tootled around the park and came back to see him still in the same spot an hour later.

The gully Peiroulets - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14673

The snowy owls sitting on Montrose Pier this foggy morning. The Chicago Park District has closed the pier’s far end to keep people from getting too close.

Photo of an auricula theater with 4 shelves under a proscenium arch. 27 potted plants with variously colored flowers are on display. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Close-up on a single auricula with pink and yellow flowers and a ring of white farina. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Primula includes species commonly cultivated. Gardeners recognize a few broad kinds, including the auriculas, which are traditionally (in the UK, at least) displayed in “theatres,” like this one at Stockton Bury Gardens. Their intricate flowers often have a mealy coating. #Primulaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Fluorescent microscopy is beautiful🔬✨

People who are pushing the envelope will not only uncover new biology, but captivate (and entice!) new generations of brilliant minds to love biology the same way we do

Personified electricity guy, wielding lightning bolts, wearing a strange square loincloth, bestriding cityscape with small homes below and skyscrapers behind him.

Goodnight from Chicago, home to excellent Art Deco industrial infrastructure.

Black and white photo of an elevated train passing over a city street lined with cars on the right side.

Chicago "L"

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:

one thing ive thought for awhile is the messaging around clean energy has been atrocious

“what if you never had to pay for gas again” feels like it would resonate more than “we need to bring CO2 levels down”

B.C. says 1950s-style clear-cut logging isn’t happening anymore. Is that true? @sobittersosweet.bsky.social explains #clearcutlogging

give me the quadrivalent mRNA flu vaccine right now. put it in me

Existing HAVN boat sauna on the Victoria BC waterfront

Proposed site for a HAVN boat in Vancouver on a Marina in partnership with the Vancouver Maritime Museum. It will help the Museum survive and prosper in challenging financial times. A win-win.

I’m one of many who believe our Vancouver waterfront should have more things to go to. Here’s one I’ve been advising & helping with— HAVN now has a proposed site in Vancouver for a floating sauna boat. They have one in Victoria already. I’ve experienced similar in Helsinki & Oslo! www.havnsaunas.com

There’s so much going on in this one. Just photo bombs the whole way.

Young divers today are probably going to be in the last generation or two to see healthy reefs. This is what we’re destroying.
🤿 #marinelife

screenshot of an Instagram post reading "This budget stinks! We demand a change". The date of the event is Nov. 25 at 9am, meeting in the lobby of Vancouver City Hall at 453 W 12th

there's a change-in being staged at Vancouver City Hall next week, coinciding with the vote on a proposed budget that may see change tables removed from city facilities to "save money" www.instagram.com/p/DRNu5kYksgu/

Saw the VFD fundraising outside of the Canada Line and I gotta say it sucks that firefighters have to stand outside begging for money while Vancouver Police get a 50 million raise to their already insane budget. @cityofvancouver.bsky.social is blowing it so bad.

251: Christopher Gaze. Arts contribute 24 billion to our economy. Stories we tell and community connection. We lose jobs and erode cultural ecosystem that draws people here. Without culture there’s less joy. Lets work together to find creative solutions. When we invest in culture we invest in people