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Brad with Zohran Mamdani at the Pride parade.

Yesterday I was so PROUD to stand with LGBTQ+ New Yorkers alongside my friend and our Democratic nominee for Mayor, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social!

A mostly brown frog is holding on to a flower stem and bud. It has a white belly and throat. The frog has black pupils and is staring directly at the camera.

🐸File-eared tree frog (Polypedates otilophus).

Max. size for males 80 mm (3.1"), for females 100 mm (3.9").

Eats mostly insects and spiders.

Found on the island of Borneo.

Considered Least Concern by the IUCN.

📷by kuritafsheen77 on Freepik

YouTube video by Chris Simms A slow worm (Anguis fragilis) sliding through my unkempt lawn #reptiles #herpetology

Just spotted this slow worm weaving its way through my garden #reptiles #herpetology #nature 🧪 🐸🦎

youtube.com/shorts/nc0IM...

People like Bob Vylan and Knee Cap who speak out in support for Palestine are being investigated by the police. It's pretty clear to me which side are the terrorists and it's not the ones trapped in the rubble of a bombed out Gaza. 🧵End

The media wrings their hands and insists on towing the line that "Israel has the right to defend itself" and that we must condemn the violence of Hamas. Idk. The parallels between the fictional fight in Gilead and the real fight in Palestine are clear to see and yet in real life...🧵4

So why is it that in real life, as we watch people fighting for freedom in Palestine, when they fight back against their oppressors, their rapists, their colonizers, they are not supported, they are not cheered on by the media like we sit and cheer for June Osbourne. They are called terrorists. 🧵3

..the government. Those in Gilead call the deaths of 37 commanders an "abomination" and "affront to God". Some would consider it "terrorism". But us as the watchers see it as necessary, that a violent regime such as Gilead cannot be overthrown without bloodshed... 🧵2

I'm currently watching the latest episode of The Handmaid's Tale (airing right now on Channel 4). It's not lost on me that we are cheering on the courageous handmaids as they carry out a plot to kills the commanders of Gilead, their rapists and oppressers, whilst the rebels try to overthrow 🧵

beautiful day to be anti-colonial & anti-apartheid, we love to see it

Roxie Collie Laybourne - Wikipedia

Roxie Collie Simpson Laybourne (September 15, 1910 – August 7, 2003) was an #American #ornithologist born in #Fayetteville, North Carolina.

She pioneered the study of forensic #ornithology while at the National Museum of Natural History.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roxie_C...

Bombing for peace is like burning books to promote literacy.

New Discovery of Deep Sea 'Spiders' Is Unlike Anything We've Seen Before Three newly-discovered species of deep sea 'spiders' farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

A newly identified group of deep-sea spiders carries methane-eating microbes on their legs, revealing a unique symbiosis and a surprising new lineage in the ocean depths
#DeepSea
#NewSpecies
#MarineBiology
#OceanExploration
#biology
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Paper
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

*costing

Spineless gits coating lives once again. I was not old enough to remember the last time but I won't forget this in the years to come.

They used to have to fabricate or deliberately misinterpret intelligence to give the veneer of legitimacy to these actions. They don't even think you're worth that anymore.

Remember, we fought the entire Vietnam and Iraq wars without an official congressional declaration.

Congress has only officially declared war eleven times in US history. The last time in WWII.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

The penis fencing marine flatworms have got to be up there. Also velvet worms, they're pretty cool.

Projected Increases in Climate Extremes Across Global Vertebrate Diversity Hotspots We identified overlap between areas of high vertebrate diversity and regions predicted to be exposed to increases in extreme drought, heat, and precipitation. Tropical regions, which host the highest...

Vertebrate hotspots are expected to see increased climate extremes in the coming decades; often in places where animals may be most naive to such events. New research out of my lab led by Dr. van den Bosch in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🧪🌐🌏

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr
Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

"Ban news and ban communication
Ban talking back to cops
Ban all the politicians you can't pay for
Ban fair trials and elections
Ban anything and everything
That you see as threatening"

#DailyAntiFascJam

Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/0dgAOb...

YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UHN...

A picture of a Livestream on a computer monitor from the "rattlecam" project which is a Livestream showing rattlesnake hibernacula. On screen is a rattlesnake basking on some rocks in the morning sun.

This is where the heat is at I'm telling y'all

Update: still watching rattlecam, I'm going crazy on R, but these silly goobers are a nice distraction

Rattlecam has me in a chokehold I have it up on one of my monitors at work as we speak

YouTube video by Project RattleCam Rattlesnake coils on top of the pile

Rude!!! 😂

Watch live at RattleCam.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-pW...

The people on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is meant to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza are saying there is a drone hovering over their ship, which they take as a threat given what happened last time.

This is happening right now.

Incase anyone is wondering if it is legit, I did in fact Google it and I found the HHS whistleblower portal and their 'guidance'....this is horrifying

Absolutely, the marginalised, racialised, occupied, working class people...we all need to stick together 🤝

This is unfortunately real AF. I don't hate pride month per se but I am tired of corporate pridewashing. I take solace in the DIY community events that I find locally and marching with the Queers for Palestine though.

the juxtaposition between blaring #pride PR and silence on institutional #transphobia at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social is jarring

our last resort has been to publish an open letter and ask for students and colleagues across academia to add their signatures in support

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tinyurl.com/UoATransphobia