One was a mechanical engineer, the other was an accountant-type with the state power company and also a disability rights advocate (a passion of his after brain surgery left one leg partially paralyzed).
Raised Catholic (including 8 years of Catholic school) here! Cursing isn't explicitly a sin but is generally frowned upon. Never heard a priest curse before, but one I knew had a story of accidentally cursing in the company of another person that he'd tell to remind us he was also a fallible human.
A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
would have left a slightly different message about Iran when I called his office if I had seen this nonsense first 🙄
I know, the list feels very random!
This is a great set of articles on how the slashing of federal programs and grants across agencies (USAID, USGS, EPA, just to name a few) has affected global conservation. I still think the US has a lot of influence in the conservation realm, but we have lost so much in just one year.
Yep. The memo text is wild but there's no explaining what criteria were used. It's just 2 tables - 'these schools are bad' and 'these schools might be better alternatives'
media.defense.gov/2026/Feb/27/...
ecstatic that my part of FL will get a bit of rain tonight and tomorrow! we're in a roughly 8in rain deficit and tho we def won't get caught up on that, every little bit helps.
very concerned about how much lightning I'm seeing already this evening however. ⚡️🔥
It's sooooo dry!! 😩
I know you've got a track record of complain -> rain the last couple months, maybe we join forces to complain about it to the universe and see if that gets us a bit more? 😅
This is the thread I read to catch up (thanks for your service, KB!)
bsky.app/profile/kbsp...
Hurricane Helene damage in a forest showing trees fallen down across a trail
Research biologist position at Clemson for work on forest wildlife/habitat recovery post-Hurricane Helene in western NC. Full time, multi-year position. Will be working with David Jachowski & myself, includes field work, analysis, writing.
**Apply by March 9**
Job posting bit.ly/cuhhftpos 🧪🌎
"But many Floridians — particularly those who have moved here since 1998 and have no prior experience with wildfires on a massive scale — don’t see these signs and don’t comprehend the omens. They arrived ready to worry about hurricanes, but might not think of fire in the same hazardous terms."
Definitely an adult red-shouldered hawk! An immature would have a white/cream chest dotted with dark brown spots.
Nothing wrong with feeling hopeful for spring!! This is my 5th year in FL and I'm still amazed and delighted each year that there are birds that start nesting as early as February!
@skwinnicki.bsky.social this feels like something you'd have thoughts about! lol
what's the nest searcher equivalent of zugunruhe (migratory restlesness)?
every year as the Florida Scrub-Jay breeding season approaches, I start getting antsy to find nests & become wildly suspicious of darker areas within shrubs (even in non-scrub).🪶
Oh wow, didn't know about that one!!
This was my first thought!
There are two parts of this article:
1 - Historical funding trends & Congressional appropriations.
* Requires a longer conversation on levers of power
2 - "The Republicans Made Peace With Science".
* No, they did not & no they have not. This requires more than a conversation, but a reset.
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Close-up photo of a computer screen with the mouse pointer represented as a pointing hand. An ant is visible inside the outline of the pointer.
there's an ant inside my computer monitor! 😳
I've heard stories of this happening with tropical fieldwork computers and actually have a friend who ended up with ants in her laptop after a summer visiting family in Korea and Thailand. Never expected it to happen inside my apartment!
Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance.
bsky.app/profile/pron...
hammocks are apparently 'against community guidelines' at my apt complex now, so anybody have a foldable lounge chair they love?
A multicolored quilt made of of scraps with the words WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW staggered down it with a large beautiful eye centered between the words. The eye has a rainbow camera aperture as the iris. It is quilted densely.
Another resistance quilt finished this week. The eye is my own design, the letters are a fpp pattern by QuiltByNight, the rounded corners and black binding are meant to resemble the phones we the people are using to document the horrors and disprove the government’s lies about what they are doing.
Today is a good day to follow and support news outlets that avoid generative AI slop:
bsky.app/profile/alex...
definitely a yellow-throated warbler, they're such cuties!
Definitely a HUVI, congrats on the lifer!!
Tell me five classes you took in college:
The Jews of Germany
Intro to Latin American Studies
Invertebrate Paleontology
History of Rock
Art of the Western World (Renaissance to 20th Century)
“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”
If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.
