Happy Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it & to institute new Government Day
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阿修是星辰的灰烬✨️just ashes from stars✨️ i write and study and sometimes even draw i like linguistics, maps, ancient history, and writing about little crabs & birbs🦀🦢🌈✨️ forever collecting antique grammarian literature (eng/рус/日本語/汉语)
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
"After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free?" brb dying my hair red white & blue and running through the streets with sparklers this speech is the good shit. this is a speech for all of us who love the best parts of our fucked up nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoMamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
Happy Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it & to institute new Government's Eve
🌿📚 More than 64 million pages of biodiversity knowledge are freely available through the Biodiversity Heritage Library. As funding challenges put its future at risk, the Internet Archive is proud to help preserve this invaluable resource. 🌎 Learn more 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt
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I've basically quit getting groceries at Whole Foods for corpo reasons but today had to stop by to check to see if they had an item we can't seem to find anywhere lately (they did not) BUT it was exciting timing bc a promo event was wrapping up & we got a bunch of really high quality free stuff😸
We call the Fourth of July Independence Day but I honestly think it needs a better name in light of the 250 anniversary? Im partial to the preamble so I think we should call it "the Right of the People to alter or to abolish the government and to institute new Government" day
I like how my home internet router decides to give up the ghost on the weekend when I actually need it
They've established a higher standard for proving discrimination than proving murder. Not only do you have to prove discrimination, but you must prove that no other motive, plausible or not, could have existed in conjunction with discriminatory intent.
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
brought my father to the flgs where he casually mentions the war miniature games theyd play in the navy which was the reason he was always bringing me home model kits & also why he introduced me to risk aka my first board game obsession…??? random loredrop on my gaming AND my crafting origin story?
The giant cancer specialist center here happens to be literally right next door to my favorite board game store so I've ended up amassing a small army of new miniature projects that I told myself I wouldn't…
Despite what a lot of people might think, we ABSOLUTELY remember those who regularly like our art, even those with lots of followers. One time, someone who had never commented but liked every single one of my pieces joined my Discord, and I genuinely had to hold myself back from being too excited.
Eize Basa@eizebasa.baby · 2mo agoWe all have that one follower whose Like feels like this:
Really good THREAD of analysis from Prof. @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social on what we’re seeing from this Court.
Maggie Blackhawk@maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is difficult to read the Supreme Court's opinions over the last week and not see the general trend toward accretion of Court power. Interpretive philosophies like originalism give way to "plain text" readings (by judges) and historical "standards," without any specific guidelines. /1
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]
2000-Year-Old Roman Amphitheatre Hosts World Cup Watch Party
Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. I don’t know whether Roman rulers, builders, and archite
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Also anyone who studies cancer from a public health perspective would immediately make the point that cancer survival stats are dominated by access-to-care equities. Scientific advances will not affect population level statistics without a fucking delivery mechanism. Absolute smoothbrains
We already thought @haozhulab.bsky.social hung the (liver-shaped) moon🌙 & now his #relentlessdiscovery is promulgated. Check out Chp 6, "When Our Bodies Autocorrect," p140 to read how somatic mutations could give us "hope." Great topic, @roxannekhamsi.bsky.social! 🧪 Watch out #booktok 🤓
Roxanne Khamsi@roxannekhamsi.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis week marks the release of my book Beyond Inheritance 🎉 📖 . It tells the stories of patients with mysterious ailments who have been saved by doctors' new understanding of genetics. And how whales can teach us about preserving our DNA as we age. Available as book & audiobook: tinyurl.com/5yjsr97n
ive been in curl up in a ball in a dark corner mood for days now but without any chance to curl up in a ball in a dark corner😔
This elderly man wearing a cowboy hat and sunglasses at the infusion waiting room was also watching yesterday and did a "tch" scoffing sound every time Messi scored so I was in kindred company
In honor of Japan's Crab Day, 22nd June, waving crabs, Ilyoplax spp. found in East Asia. #JapaneseCrabDay 6月22日はカニの日、ということで、東アジアで見られるチゴガニ7種盛りでばんざい！チゴレンジャー参上 🦀🦑🧪 #crab #カニ #カニの日
havent hit 40 yet but these lwk nailed the mood
Arr David@arrdavid.bsky.social · 2mo agoAsking children aged 9 what they think they'll be like when they're 40.
Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick
Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2mo agoMona Khalil spent over 20 years protecting sea turtles on Mansouri Beach. After she was injured in an Israeli attack, activists continued her initiative at Rmeileh Beach, where they protected the first loggerhead nest of 73 eggs on Thursday. youtu.be/fbBKzK4JNRc
This year is the 50th anniversary of the standalone edition of The Word for World is Forest. This Berkley Medallion edition is from December 1976. Cover art by Richard Powers.
And Rachel. Most enslaved people did not have the opportunity to pull a Rachel, but she sure did, and she went for it. bsky.app/profile/gill...
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 7mo agoAs an aside, Rachel is a legend. (From Fischer’s “African Founders”)
Today I’m remembering the very last people in America to be freed from chattel slavery, who were not the Texans who learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on this day in 1865, but thousands of people in Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey, who were freed by the 13th six months later.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 7mo agoSome years ago, I was chatting with a Retropolis reader, a young history student, and I mentioned there were several dozen people enslaved in New Jersey up until the day the 13th Amendment kicked in in December 1865. Y’all. He identified every one of them. njs.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/nj...
> Greenwater Services ^ what I'd name my front company when I'm an ecoterrorist comic book villain with the goal of returning DC to the True Swamp >:D
Traffic extremely stupid today because England is playing Croatia at the stadium down the road from where I work and I severely underestimated how early people would be in the area... I just wanted bubble tea for lunch 😭
