Jake Mikic

requiem for vanished birdsong

People trying to end the world because the Bible says that Jesus will come when the world ends are going to be mightily surprised if they turn out, against all odds, to be right and Jesus returns and looks them in the eye and is like "yo, what is the ONE THING I asked of you?"

Species to Watch in 2026 • The Revelator From orangutans to parrots, hellbenders, and a newly discovered Tanzanian grass, these species — and the threats they face — are sure to make headlines in the year ahead.

Species to Watch in 2026 -- including kakapo, who are having a booming breeding season: https://therevelator.org/species-to-watch-in-2026/

“I just don’t get the kind of engagement on Bluesky that I get on X”

the engagement:

They incarcerated a white, retired British grandmother with a valid visa.

For 2 months.

I'm glad this article gets into what most don't: Even if you manage to get released, that's 2 months of not paying your bills. Her credit was wrecked.

She's retired - younger folks would have lost their jobs.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

A rectangular silver and white fabric background with a hand embroidered Salmon head and body coming down from the top right corner and a hand embroidered Salmon tail coming across from the middle of the right edge.

"Head or Tail"
hand embroidered Salmon themed thread painting.
#StunDay #embroidery #fish #WildlifeArt

YOU ARE NOW ENTERING FREE MINNEAPOLIS painted on a wall in the style of the Free Derry Corner.

This rules. I love how delighted they all look!

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

Image of a bearded, bald, and morose Charles Darwin, with his famous quote “I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything”

Happy birthday, Chuck.

Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

A truck driver prepares to leave after receiving a shipping container at Yusen Terminals at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro on Feb. 11, 2025. Photo by Joel Angel Juarez for CalMatters. Hed: Trump scraps a cornerstone climate finding, as California prepares for court

Breaking: The Trump administration formally rescinded the legal foundation of federal climate policy Thursday — setting up a new front in California’s long-running battle with Washington over emissions rules. bit.ly/3MsR8Er

📸 Joel Angel Juarez

This is one of the most blindly apparent attempts to make it harder for women to vote hidden behind a facade of trying to prevent noncitizens from voting, despite the fact that noncitizens already cannot vote!

Hey definitely call your senators about this. Like seriously.

Washoe Tribe buys 10,000 acres in one of California’s largest ever land returns Tribe, which was forcibly removed from its lands near Lake Tahoe, used $5.5m grant and private donations for purchase

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Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through ...

NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.

It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.

Pre-exp share I would never raise a support mon or have something like wobbuffet or shuckle on the team because of how tedious the training was

The Magic the Gathering card "Sudden Spoiling" 1BB Instant Split Second Creatures target player controls become 0/2 and lose all abilities until end of turn.

Stop a combo dead, blank an attack, make someone's board extremely susceptible to massacre worm, etc

Was ready to have gripes about this but as I watched every one I thought I'd have was addressed

- Talks about wind not just solar ✅
- Brings up fossil fuel + industry ✅
- Brings up politics (AND HOW) ✅

Worked 8 years in renewables advocacy: this vid is one of the best I've seen. 10/10 easily

An illustration of a great cormorant standing in front of buttering

The wildest dream of a Cormorant🫧

#bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #fish #bitterling #animalart #creature #artist

Decent move coverage too! The nice thing about having an eeveelution as one of your favorite pokemon is that they're probably going to be available in most games

I'm also pretty guilty of using repeat pokemon, like if there's an option to use a heracross or an umbreon you can bet they're on the team lol

Meet Haolong! A complete, Early Cretaceous Chinese iguanodont with a covering of hedgehog-like spikes (that seem to have a different origin from proto-feathers!?) This one's a pretty jaw dropping find.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Sun and Moon must be pretty rough too, my old roommate from college did her first playthrough as mono-ghost and said all the dark types made it a nightmare

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Google with AI buttons

Google without AI buttons

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Defund ICE - (UPDATED 1/30) ⭑ 5 Calls Updates January 30, 2026: By a 71-29 vote, the Senate has passed the new funding package that includes a 2-week continuing resolution (CR) for DHS and …

Take care of yourself, and your family and your community. We all have each other. Don't give in to despair. Do the things that fill your life with joy. When you feel really angry, call your representative. Let them hear how unfair things are instead of bottling it up!
5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

Someone on LinkedIn just asked me "why scientists should care and mobilize" right now.

But the answer is simple: BECAUSE IT IS THE MORALLY RIGHT THING TO DO.

People are being killed in the street, our democracy is being eroded, & we are watching the onset of authoritarianism before our eyes. 1/

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?