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Outhouse windscreen has really nice photo of a bufflehead on it.

Another panel has a photo of a black-necked stilt.

Nifty outhouse windscreens at Howard's Marsh North.

End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff Wealthy countries should triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal

With the disappointing progress at Cop30, evergreen reminder it isn't "we" or "humanity" failing to address the climate crisis — oil-producing nations and fossil fuel interests are actively obstructing action, despite heroic efforts by developing nations, Indigenous peoples, and many, many others.

AI is providing emotional support for employees – but is it a valuable tool or privacy threat? People are increasingly using AI chatbots for emotional and psychological support. Now, companies are using it to support employees – raising a host of issues.

AI tools are increasingly offering “emotional support” at work, while also tracking employee moods, stress levels and vulnerabilities.

Researchers warn the line between support and surveillance is getting dangerously thin.
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Speak up to prevent even more livestock from harming Wilderness! Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!

Speak up to keep even more livestock from destroying Wilderness areas!

Call your senators at 202-224-3121 and urge them to vote NO on S.1462, the deceptively-named “Fix Our Forests Act.”

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1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths

2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

IF you are going share something about RFK Jr., this is the story to share. I don't really give a shit who the man fucks. He is killing us. His "work" results in death and suffering among children. He is the worst human ghoul.
He has betrayed the country and his own family. #MedSky

Airstrikes don’t “test” a ceasefire. They break a ceasefire. Language isn’t that hard, media. Neither is professionalism and bravery.

The cover of One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This. Simple red background, with bold black all caps letters, and the drawn silhouette of a bomb plummeting towards a child. The gold "National Book Award Winner" sticker is on the upper right.

Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.

"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"

He Was Convicted Entirely On Clashing Eyewitness Testimony. Alabama Plans to Execute Him Next Week. No physical evidence connected Anthony Boyd to a 1993 murder. He was sent to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment.

Anthony Boyd went to death row on the word of a co-defendant who testified under threat of capital punishment. Boyd, who maintained his innocence, was executed by nitrogen gas last month.

While hunting for fossils, the unexpected is sometimes discovered. These finds can range from pottery shards to this fulgurite, or "fossil lightning," formed when lightning strikes the ground.

While hunting for fossils, the unexpected is sometimes discovered. These finds can range from pottery shards to this fulgurite, or "fossil lightning," formed when lightning strikes the ground.

this is some DC comics villain shit

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace

"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."

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How I feel about the whole Olivia Nuzzi story is that there are a lot of talented, ethical, underemployed or unemployed black and brown journalists right now who are ready to work.

Weekend bump 💛

Newsletter email header showing Willet flying over the crown marsh, the Birds Canada logo and the text: Extra, extra! Read all about it! The 2025 Great Lakes Marsh Monitor Newsletter

Here is the 2025 edition of the Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program Newsletter, The Marsh Monitor. This newsletter discusses the program results and analysis up to and including 2024, future program changes as well as ... buff.ly/kp9W6NZ
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Two black-and-yellow birds perched on a barbed wire fence against a soft green background.

#BirdoftheDay is #birdonawire x2

This male and female Black-headed Trogon were taking a break from digging out their nest cavity and posed for me.

#CostaRica #birds #nature

I love the little calibrating wiggle right before the jump. 😂

custom wreath!! (pictured: a kiln shelf with a bunch of glass wreaths in saucers)

a bunch of glass rings with different layered patterns of spiral cane

a bunch of green bumpy wreaths with murrine decoration in patterns including jellyfish and eyeballs

a bunch of pictures of jewelry, including a maroon dragonskin pendant, blue and yellow cufflinks, two pendants made of orange spiral cane and one pair of cufflinks in purple and green

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm a fused glass artist specializing in jewelry. This winter I'm branching into wreaths that make great decorations for walls, windows & Christmas trees.

I sell at nora.jewelry.

I'm donating 10% of this weekend's sales to Distribute Aid's harm reduction toolkit program.

A silky grey cat sits on a wooden kitchen table beside a pair of binoculars. His back is to the camera as he looks out at blue sky and bare trees, bathed in sunshine streaming through the window.

All set for #FeederWatch this #Caturday. What are you seeing at your feeders?
#birds 🌿

Fucking goats, man

We don’t need to reform ICE.
We don’t need alternatives to ICE.
We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE.

ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

According to CPSC data, from 2020 – 2022, there were an annual average of 1,500 cooking fires occurring on Thanksgiving Day, which is more than 3x the average number of daily cooking fires throughout the year.

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker at its nest in New Forest, photo by Steve Laycock

Six Lesser Spot young in a Quantocks nest, photo Gus Robin

Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...

Mamdani getting off his plane in NYC

Hugely disappointing, with world now on track to yet more heating & chaos, & poorest hit first & hardest. This process needs radically rethinking - meantime it’s vital that the Brazil-led coalition of the willing urgently delivers on plans to leave fossil fuels in the ground #COP30

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By revisiting old data collected by a probe descending through #Venus' atmosphere in 1978, new insights were gained about its atmosphere (almost 50 years after the data collection).

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Will do! There’s one in Crawford County, but unfortunately it’s getting overrun with the unethical sorts of photographers so I suspect it won’t be hanging around there much longer 😒

The quest continues, I've found helpful folks!

But I require more, I'm roaming the hall now, yellow masked yet again.

Again, don't tell Cassi, just pull me aside if you find me!

When life puts a rock in the way, carry it around like an urchin

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