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This is actually a really common scam these days. A scammer will call and use AI to replicate a family member’s voice and the family member will sound distressed and having an emergency so you don’t have time to think. Best thing to do is hang up and call that family member “back” to confirm.

Sleep physiology is just so cool.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

The world's richest 0.001% now control 3x as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity combined.

56,000 wealthy individuals have more than roughly 4 billion people.

Read that back.

I love Jessica Knurick, PhD, RDN
She's so clear and informative. #nutrition #dietarysupplements

www.instagram.com/drjessicaknu...

Ski resort acknowledges reports of bear sightings, as predator tops kanji pick Scientists say this year's surge in maulings is being driven by a fast-growing bear population, a bad acorn harvest and a falling human population.

A ski resort in Japan said Friday it had received reports of bear sightings, while separately the nation picked the kanji character for a bear as its symbol for 2025.

“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...

Obamacare IS the Affordable Care Act.
It's crazy that many people don't know this. #gaslighting

To fulfil all your long tailed tit mouse desires here is a perfect little shrine titled The Gaze of a Long-Tailed tit. It’s available now should you wish to purchase it then you can gaze on it to your hearts content and look into each other’s eyes each day. Please DM me for details of size and price

Whoa!

Montana youth activists who won landmark climate case push for court enforcement In 2023, court ruled in favor of 16 plaintiffs that officials violated their constitutional right by promoting fossil fuels

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Montana youth activists who won landmark climate case push for court enforcement

oh really!

Photo of a small life-like model of a fox lying down facing left created with soft textile material, the model rests on the white hands of the artists, the background is white

Mikaela Bartlett, UK #artist who works in needle felt and sculpts creatures out of natural/dyed sheep and alpaca wool #WomensArt

Photo featuring a log with painting on the cut surface of a forest landscape

Landscapes painted on the surfaces of cut logs by US artist Alison Moritsugu #WomensArt

Photo of a row of five smiling Bolivian women in colourful tops and skirts holding mountajn climbing equipment while standing on ice with a mountain ridge behind them

In 2019 a group of Bolivian indigenous women aka the “Climbing Cholitas” summitted Mount Aconcagua, Argentina (highest point - Southern Hemisphere) The women had previously worked for years as cooks for mostly rich male mountaineers. They climbed in traditional dress #WomensArt

Illustration from 'The Snow Leopard', 2007 by author and illustrator Jackie Morris, who lives and works in a small cottage in Wales #WomensArt #ArtAdvent 🎄

Photograph of a white woman putting clothes out to dry on a washing line in her garden in shoulder height snow so only her head and shoulders are visible

In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart

A great day botanising with my fellow staffers Matt @bsbiscotland.bsky.social & James @bsbicountries.bsky.social!
We are #BSBImembers & plant-lovers as well as staffers, so after a work meeting James checked the #BSBIDistributionDatabase & we 3 went hunting (on our own time!) for interesting plants

300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote Read more here.

Despite Missouri Republicans creating numerous obstacles to block a petition against their new Trump-approved congressional map, Missourians successfully submitted over 300,000 signatures, exceeding the required amount by 106,000.

Medicinal history goes back to Dioscorides:
www.hillviewhardyplants.com/acanthus-his...

I always wondered if those were just decorative.
Acanthus mollis-inspired.

Native to: powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🌳🌿❄️🎄Advent Botany Day 11! Yew trees. Green all year round. Let Niamh, Izzy and Jess tell you more!
#BUC2026 #trees #AdventBotany #Christmasplants #plants #loveplants

Also, of course, the State Department changing typefaces for reasons that boil down to "fuck accessibility" is both utterly in line with the overt bigotry of this administration and a signal indicator of how unserious these people are, it doesn't matter what typeface you use when you're a joke

Science Friday's Picture of the Week: An octopus mother brooding her eggs, which hang from a rock.

Two years ago, a marine biologist sent an underwater drone to the bottom of the sea. She expected to find worms. Instead, she found an army of octo-moms brooding their eggs, like this one in our #PictureOfTheWeek. 🐙

Read more: buff.ly/UyfvaKr

Infographic on the chemistry of mistletoe. It explains how mistletoe leaves are mildly toxic due to the presence of toxic peptides, as well as the alkaloid tyramine. The structure of tyramine is shown between two mistletoe leaves.

Infographic on farofa, a Brazilian side-dish also used as a stuffing for turkey or chicken. Farofa is made from cassava flour, made itself from cassava roots. Cassava roots contain toxic cyanogenic glycosides and must be soaked to remove these compounds. The sturcture of linamarin, the main cyanogenic glycoside in cassava root, is shown.

Two poisonous plants for day 10 of #ChemAdvent! ☠️

Brazilian farofa is made from cassava flour, made from cassava roots soaked to remove toxic cyanogenic glycosides.

Mistletoe is less likely to be eaten but is also poisonous due to the presence of toxic peptides and tyramine.

#ChemSky 🧪

Uneducated MAGA voters have no clue about healthcare in the United States! ACA vs. Obamacare?

In Miami, Democrat Eileen Higgins won with 59%.

And Eric Gisler flipped a solidly Red GA state House seat.

The Trump admin gave states an ultimatum: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown, or lose your federal funding.

Oregon and 19 other states fought back — and won.

Then officials logged in to the grant website to accept the money, only to find the button to do so was disabled: propub.li/4a4Bsk5

Mushroom causes fairytale-like hallucinations - @theU The same peculiar hallucinations are independently reported across distant cultures.

Interesting!

attheu.utah.edu/science-tech...

We had to bail them out during his last term, too.

Where the hell is DOGE? The waste of taxpayer dollars combined with his fraudulent “emergency” tariffs is off the charts.