Liz Renner, Ph.D.

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

A collage of close-up photographs showing early spring budburst on trees and shrubs. Swollen pink and red buds, fresh green leaf shoots, unfurling scales, and pale catkins are shown against soft blurred backgrounds, illustrating sap rising and plants coming back into life in March.

March’s full moon, rising on 3rd March, is called the Worm Moon or the Sap Moon. As the soil warms, earthworms emerge, and plants stir as sap rises and buds begin to unfurl. This year’s March Moon is especially notable as it coincides with a total lunar eclipse in the night sky.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The hole in the ozone layer was actually very serious and a global effort allowed it to recover. Y2K WAS actually a serious problem and people worked countless hours to make sure nobody even noticed. Air and water pollution was catastrophic in many places and incredible effort reversed that damage.

America’s teachers are working two jobs and barely getting by | CNN Business Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth-graders in Washington. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

The overwhelming majority of American public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a new survey released today.

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One of the biggest problems with having a perpetual imperialist war machine is that "our leaders lied us into a war again" should be considered a crime that permanently ends the freedom of everyone involved but instead ends up just being background noise.

Tomorrow Never Dies remains the best Bond movie because everything in it happened for real

a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and saying score ! ALT: a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white shirt and saying score !

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A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer. From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

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Maybe putting people who *want* to bring about the end of the world in charge was not a great idea.

This is all to say that I'm TOTALLY functioning normally w/a well-regulated nervous system that's able to sleep, eat, & think normally right now. Zero insomnia whatsoever. Not at all worried about how I'm ~95% sure my cousin (active duty USAF major) and his unit are already across the pond.

/s 🥲

They're all having flashbacks right now and trouble eating or sleeping. They've seen enough of this latest escalation already to know that the full reality of American casualties won't come to light for a while. When C-17s are landing at Ramstein, the 💩 has hit the fan.

Vicki was a Navy nurse who served on the USNS Comfort during the Gulf War during Desert Storm back in 1990-1991. Her hubs, Barry, was an Army internist who also served in Germany and the Persian Gulf during Desert Shield/Desert Storm and had a long career in internal medicine + admin with the VA.

Since starting my postdoc post-DOGE on May 19, 2025, I've split my time between working remotely from Lyons, SD as live-in caregiver for my dad's mom, Gail, the widow of a Korean War USMC vet, and working on campus at UNL while renting a basement bedroom from my mom's mom's 1st cousin, Vicki.

How am I **doing** rn?!?🧵

My boyfriend is a purple heart Afghan War vet who served with the SoDak Army Nat'l Guard's 221th Engineer Company @ FOB Sharana back in '09-'10, where he swept for landmines + IEDs in a Husky VMMD MRAP. He still has PTSD + tinnitus from the explosions & sleeps w/a box fan.

I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge

new iconic meme format just dropped

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Going from "gambling is a moral stain and must be illegal" to "betting on whether people will be bombed before or after 6pm Saturday is perfectly normal" is one hell of a societal whiplash.

Big Oil has made nearly £346bn in profits since Ukraine war started Shareholders of the five companies have received £320bn in dividends and share buybacks over the past four years, more than the EU’s total clean energy spending in 2025, according to the analysis by G...

”Shareholders in the five companies received a total of $444bn (£329bn) in dividends and share buybacks (…) That figure exceeds the EU’s total clean energy spending in 2025 of $391bn (£289bn).”

Oil produces the largest CO2 emissions in the European Union.

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I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved.

It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.

me every single day

Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE.

To everybody who framed all of this as “The Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.”

Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us.

Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

And also it's not fair to expect the people who are victims of our imperialism to make that distinction. Because they only know that those are the people holding guns on them.

And that is why if you really support our troops, you oppose sending them to kill and die in imperialist wars.

This video by @michaeldgreen.phd is a powerful expose of the type of #censorship and #racism the Trump administration is applying to #science and knowledge production. Fighting back is the only solution! We have toolkits that help you do just that! #DefendResearch www.defendresearch.org/take-action

GribblesGoBag @GribblesGoBag Follow .•• Smascbyjeffchastair Remember who we are fighting for! 10:42 AM • Feb 28, 2026 • 2,893 Views

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety.

i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

Ana Kasparian & @AnaKasparian Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it. 9:41 PM • Feb 25, 2026 - 361.1K Views

I'll be honest with you. I see stuff like Platner QTing a holocaust denier and Ana aggressively posting "goyim are waking up," and I try to spin it into something satirical and humorous, but I think of the lovely and vulnerable, completely innocent Jews of this country, and I'm filled with terror.

Trump: "We also damaged their fishing industry."