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Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

“We witnessed another level of evil,” he added. “Not only are migrants being torn away from their families and friends, they are also being torn away from their religious communities. ICE is severing the Body of Christ.”

If I look like I'm trying to explode my computer with my mind, mind your own business. Just got an email from the most annoying person in our org.

The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.

Politicians who meet fascists half way, are just fascists.

Newsom is all about publicity & nothing about integrity.

It’s been depressing watching American ppl hero-worship a power crazed sell-out. It’s not just Kimberly Guilfoyle & cosmetic surgery he has in common with the Trumps. READ this:

What’s especially wild (legally) about this is that NSBP, NSHP, and SACNAS have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, including white people. NSHP has had a white president, my SACNAS leadership institute class has several white members, and NSBP has a sizable white membership.

I was going to print out the thank you note one of the FLL teams sent me to put it up in my cube but the printers aren't working.

There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.

also! if anyone wld like to send some extra cash into a native lesbian's pocket for indigenous people's day, it all goes towards rebuilding my savings / furnishing my apartment / paying my student loans.

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Photo of a Black-capped Chickadee by Chad Hordewel. A speech bubble from the bird's mouth says "Hi, I'm gijigijigaaneshiinh"

🪶 In the Ojibwe language, the word for chickadee is gijigijigaaneshiinh. To hear it pronounced (it sounds really cool) visit ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/m...

As soon as I can afford a 2 bedroom place in my neighborhood, I am just going to have a TTRPG room. I love my apartment's location (walking to work is so good for my mental health tbh) but it's so hard to run a game in a small room.

I know it's probably a safety thing, but I am almost out of facemasks and most of the ones I'm finding come individually wrapped in plastic. I'm just thinking about all the microplastics.

Psst: Stop burning stuff on Earth for energy. Let the burning fireball in the sky be your energy source.

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The local freight company that serves a bunch of mines is about to put their train away for the winter so they're just letting it run like a lawn mower to get rid of the gas at the end of the season but it's been going for at least 4 days. There's gotta be a better way.

So we all thought we would have President Musk but got President Miller instead.

Two adult caribou and two baby caribou stand together on a foggy plain covered in patchy snow. The adults look towards the camera.

The Central Yukon Resource Management Plan has been rescinded.

“The Senate just plunged northern Alaska into chaos, ripping up a balanced land management plan that Alaskans spent years collaborating on,” said Cooper Freeman, our AK director. 🧵

More of our Public Lands work ➡️ bit.ly/3KIdNeK

“Virtual Firefly Symposium: Science, Conservation, and Education” A female Florida intertidal firefly perched on a red mangrove leaf at a nature center in Broward County, Florida.

Join us for a free 3-day virtual symposium on firefly research & conservation! Each day will include 6 presentations & time for networking. Everyone interested in fireflies is invited! 🪲💡
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Friends, some advice if you plan on spending time outside in an animal costume, sharing for no particular reason:

-You will sweat a lot more than you think. Have water/snacks

-You cannot move well (the Left Shark guy is a trained experienced professional dancer). Don’t run or you’ll trip and fall.

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening? New research shows there's a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

New research shows there’s a simple way to protect workers. Is OSHA listening?

The U.S. workplace regulator is considering a federal heat rule — if the shutdown doesn’t delay it further.

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#Climate #Heat #Health #OSHA #Unions

If you’re an archaeologist and have never done Skype A Scientist, I urge you to give it a try. It’s a lot of fun!

So far I've signed up for 10 First Lego League team interviews, it's possible that that's too many but I've already completed three and didn't die. I've also learned a lot doing this kind of scicomm that never really came up during formal teaching or museum/living history work.

It's a reflection of the times where I'm still like "yes it has a lot of charm and character." Genuinely so many original design features. If you give it to me for $5 I can afford the new roof, asbestos remediation, and updating all the utilities.

The housing market is so wild, I just saw someone add "asbestos siding and known leaks in the roof) to a listing and it only dropped 20k, and is still listed above 200k. Son you will have trouble giving that property away.

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

It is, of course, federal funding cuts, but also state funding cuts, because vermont has a gop governor.

New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation” While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

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A diamondback terrapin seen on the beach while conducting shorebird surveys for the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The markings on its face and legs are very striking.

Pots set to catch blue crabs kill tens of thousands of imperiled diamondback terrapins every year, but a simple excluder device could pretty much solve the problem.

“It’s cheap, it’s simple, and it could save thousands of turtles,” said the Center’s Tara Zuardo.

Get the rest ➡️ bit.ly/436AEGX

two men are pushing a small boat through the water . Alt: Three young men are on a rowboat when it capsizes and then they salute as the ship sinks

Look I know it'll shock you to know this, but we are almost out of archeologists AGAIN.

Do you know any archeologists? Are they willing to be matched with a LEGO team?

Please send 'em our way we need all hands on deck (STILL!)

We have had 585 requests for archeologists 🫠
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The man trying to get me to use chatgpt at work is also using it to plan his Appalachian trail route, specifically to find shortcuts.