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The essence of an Irish rainforest is best appreciated in ... the rain.

Join myself and John Ross MacMathuna @ceanncait.bsky.social in a rainy rainforest.

Volume up for the captivating sound of raindrops.

#booksky

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken Congress?

Our corrupt Supreme Court?

Our ridiculous buffoon President?

Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.

📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.

I can’t imagine celebrating a day when people are actively losing their freedom. I’ll be sitting this one out.

I emailed a letter to my local TD and Minister of State for Nature and Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan on the government's plans to abandon Marine Protected Areas.

Please write to your local government TDs asking them not to shaft our marine ecosystems and coastal communities like this!!!

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

So do I.

I think members of congress should have to comply with a work requirement to get healthcare.

cc: Etsy — we are seeing a lot of these messages

A garden with lots of native flowers exploding out of a garden bed

I know I post about it every time I’m here but hot damn the Fishtown pollinator garden looks so goooooood. So many colors! Absolutely swarming with bumblebees and other bees.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

The 35 richest Republican members of Congress have a net worth of $2.5 billion. 

They stand to gain from the GOP budget's tax cuts that disproportionately help the rich. 

Meanwhile, they're cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of their constituents.

A couple comments about what I’ve been learning about algo engineering, but first off: if you’re interested in helping us improve Discover and all of our algorithmic systems, we are hiring algo engineers jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

A troubled sky is reflected in the Stillwater surrounding the bow of a blue kayak. The shoreline runs along from the right side of the image and disappears off to the horizon. The clouds are the result of a thunderstorm, passing far away from where they are paddling.

Back out on the water this evening. It was a truly beautiful paddle with some amazing wildlife encounters.

only 1 Q

what made you ever leave 🥳

Cacao agroforestry in Belize hits the sweet spot for people and nature The Maya Golden Landscape in southern Belize is a patchwork of protected areas, agricultural lands and small communities, part of the greater Maya Forest, the second-largest tropical forest in the…

In Belize’s Maya Golden Landscape, small farmers have partnered with conservation groups to establish the country’s first forest reserve agroforestry concession, growing shade-tolerant cacao while protecting forest cover and biodiversity.

It’s 2AM on a Sunday and I’m heading to the Capitol to FORCE a full reading of the Republicans’ 940-page bill.

This bill will rip health care coverage away from 16 million people and cut food assistance.

It’s sick. And we will not stand for it.

Goodbye, my friend.

This is not about "left" vs "right" anymore — and it hasn't been for a long time.

The oligarchy feels safer if people split along the old “left” vs.“right” battle lines, so they won’t notice they’re being shafted and won't join together to fight back.

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.

A new generation of leaders is here.

I call on the Hungarian authorities to allow the Budapest Pride to go ahead.

Without fear of any criminal or administrative sanctions against the organisers or participants.

To the LGBTIQ+ community in Hungary and beyond:

I will always be your ally.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

This book is riveting and so, so infuriating. It follows 5 families in Atlanta who are struggling to remain housed and paints deeply compassionate portraits of each unit. It reads almost like a novel but is outstanding journalism

To those who weren’t born yet or those like me who didn’t remember, this is why we have the EPA.

Co-op staff say they are being put at risk by having to work alone Supermarket employees say they are left working solo on shop floor in smaller stores or when colleagues step away

My local co-op is shockingly understaffed with no one at the till most if the time.
Customers who use self serve are just encouraging the co-op to cut jobs.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment.

Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off.

📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.