Yellow Bittern 36cm belongs to the heron family, it blends into its marshy and reed-filled habitats, making it a master of camouflage Live in the mashy rice paddies, reed beds across Asia, India and Japan, Indonesia Diet: small fish, frogs aquatic insects Large feet allows it to walk on plants

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Opinion | All This Staring at Our Faces Is Messing With Our Heads (Gift Article)

Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.

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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

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Opinion | Can We Keep One Small Corner of America Technology-Free? (Gift Article)

Can we have one small square of America that is A.I.-free?

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This is not just an "interesting take." It's true. It's called control when the powerful know everything about us and we know nothing about them.

@migas7.bsky.social · 4d ago

Interesting take about uses for data centers. Not benign.

Definitely More True than Not…..

Astronomer Vera Rubin was born on this day in 1928. Her research studying galactic rotation was one of the crucial pieces of evidence for the existence of dark matter.

LOON : highly associated with Canadian lakes, breed across Alaska, the northern US , Greenland, and Iceland. They are strong migrators that abandon northern freshwater lakes in the fall to spend winters on the saltwater of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf coasts, as well as northern Mexico and Europe

Seriously, unfortunately so true.

Bees are disappearing, and our food supply is beginning to collapse. Plants and animals are vanishing, and life is becoming a desert plain. But if humans were to disappear, nature would slowly heal. Rivers would flow more cleanly, forests would grow again, and wildlife would reclaim the Earth.

Red Avadavat (Strawberry Finch) – India's Tiny Ruby of the Grasslands

Einstein was right...

The saddle-billed stork is an African wading bird recognized as the world's tallest stork. It stands about 1.45 to 1.5 meters sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Senegal and Sudan down to South Africa. Diet: fish, crabs, small aquatic reptiles.

Scarlet Ibis 55-72 cm are highly gregarious wading birds. They build their nests tightly clustered together in mangrove trees and shrubs, often sharing a single tree in tropical wetlands and coastal mangroves of South America and the Caribbean Diet: crustaceans, small fish, aquatic insects

#Australia is planing a landmark leap in #renewableenergy by constructing the world's largest #waveenergy farm, enough to power 1 million homes. Wave energy is predictable and consistent, making it one of the most reliable forms of renewable power. climate-kic.org.au/2026/04/09/w... #ActOnClimate

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Workplace "flexibility" isn't; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/11/y... #Pluralistic 1/

This painting is part of my project "The Love and Loss Cabinet," a meditation on the continuity of love in our lives. You can view the entire project on my website bernellloeb.com

We have the solutions. We just need to elect politicians who support the people and not their donors.

Ross Murray@inlayterms.bsky.social · 4w ago

Switzerland put solar panels in the unused space between train tracks. They are removeable, so you can still work on the tracks. And it's working!

You can opt out from Meta stealing all your images and reels on Instagram by opening your profile, hitting the three bars on the top right, scroll down to "sharing and reuse," open it and turn off the buttons that allow anyone to "create with and reuse your content."

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The SAG-AFTRA Hollywood union urged its members to opt out of Instagram’s Muse Image AI tool to protect their likenesses.

A growing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea, has sickened more than 1,200 people across the U.S. Experts say the true number is much higher. In March 2025, RFK Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, which monitored parasitic diseases

This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying it? We killed millions of whales We kill 100 million sharks every year We pollute and warm our oceans Why? #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis

"The real-life effects of this capitalist coup have been disastrous for most. US workers have experienced declining or stagnant wages since the 1970s. As a result, many must rely on credit . . . "https://www.hamptonthink.org/read/the-capitalist-coup-called-neoliberalism-how-and-why-it-went-down

The Capitalist Coup Called Neoliberalism: How and Why It Went Down — Hampton Institute

By Colin Jenkins Rich people have always had class consciousness because... they want to stay rich. This collective consciousness led the "founding fathers" of the United States to set up systems ...

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#Morocco is finding a clever way to produce #cleanenergy while protecting one of its most valuable resources: water. By installing floating #solarpanels on reservoirs and dams, the country is allowing the same surface to generate electricity while helping reduce water evaporation during dry periods

THIS RIGHT HERE!!!

"Every late rentier society in history has responded to the behaviours of Conspicuous Despair in the same way: by locating their cause in the character of the despairing, rather than the structure that despairs them."

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...

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