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Small bird perches on bush. Bird has a petit beak, white ring around black eye, white belly and throat, gray back, forked tail and yellow patch on the shoulder.

Myrtle Yellow Rumped Warbler today

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

Had a visit from a sharpie today. Lil friend was no more than 40 feet from me and my kiddo. Sharpie was interested in the chickadee party in my neighbor's yard. While the view is terrible, I saw the hood of the sharp-shinned and was surprised at how small it was. Good #bird day!

A hawk with a small, sharp bill and speckled gray, buff, and brown feathers looks downward for prey as it flies over a marshy area.

Northern harrier on patrol. Trivia: like owls, they use sound to hunt. Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Preserve next to San Francisco Bay, Mountain View, California. #birds 🐦

Two male wigeons eating side by side. They have white bellies, black tail feathers, gray backs and rusty brown chests. One is a Eurasian wigeon with a reddish brown head and a slight white stripe between his eyes. The other is an American wigeon with a brighter white stripe between the eyes, a green band behind the eyes, and gray below.

Found a new lifer for me! I love this photo of the Eurasian and American wigeons side by side. (Forgive the potato quality)

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Portland pays homeless residents to clean up the city's trash. They've collected over 1 million pounds Currently or formerly homeless workers get paid $20-29 an hour and have access to an array of benefits.

This sounds like a GREAT program -- let's have some more of this!

(h/t Ysabet)

Portland pays homeless residents to clean up the city's trash. They've collected over 1 million pounds www.goodgoodgood.co/...

I'd love to see either @aoc.bsky.social or @petebuttigieg.bsky.social follow up on this idea:

What does Meta's 'move to masculinity' mean for LGBTQ+ workers? Hot on the heels of Elon Musk and Donald Trump denouncing the “woke mind virus”, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg is throwing his two cents in.

Male fragility. Boy wants to grope his secretary again. 🤢

www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/11/m...

Bluesky Now Has Its Own Version of TikTok Bluesky, like other social media apps, allows users to post videos. Bluescreen isolates those videos and delivers them in a never-ending feed, similar to TikTok.

Checkout this feature on Lifehacker 🥰

GOP attorneys general call on Costco to end DEI programs The Issaquah-based retailer is facing challenges to its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

"Nineteen Republican attorneys general called on Issaquah-based Costco Wholesale to end its workforce diversity policies after the bulk retailer became one of the few companies to defend its practice."

I'm an Oregonian and am proud to call you my see senator. How can I help?

More of this messaging, please.

Americans voted for cheaper groceries. Less than a week on the job and Trump's already managed to get us into a trade war that will drive up the cost of coffee and be a gut-punch to American farmers and manufacturers, all because Colombia hurt his feelings.

Perfect! Not only do I love Costco and Meijer, but I just spent 12 1/2 hours working concessions at the circus (travel hockey moms will understand) and we shared a stand with Auntie Anne’s. I ate my weight in pretzels!

So Target got real comfy thinking us millennial moms won’t take our basic girl bits to Costco & Aldi after they cut DEI programs to satisfy the new administration.

Big mistake. Huge.

In 1969, newly elected president Richard Nixon resolved to defund PBS and use the money to wage war in Vietnam.

Fred Rogers was summoned to testify before Congress, and what he said that day changed the course of history.

A thread:

The Democratic Party needs to get out of this woman's way.

Photo of SK in a forest in Pennsylvania, wearing a tie dyed field shirt from the 2017 grassland bird Konza Crew and holding a large sparrow that is black on one side of the body and brown on the other.

Here is a photo of a trans non-binary biologist (me) holding a bird (Eastern Towhee) that is likely a bilateral gynandromorph-- a fusion of cells with female-type chromosomes and cells with male-type chromosomes in one bird!

Biological sex and human gender diversity is real and wonderful ❤️🏳️‍⚧️