Mangroves along the edge of living areas. They absorb sea rise and wave damage from stronger hurricanes, while also providing animal habitat and absorbing carbon.
Mangroves
ocean.si.edu
Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs
@ashponders.bsky.social
I was a poet but then I wanted to get paid worse. I make photos for news. @ashponders.01 on signal. http://ashponders.com
Now what exactly did Miss J mean? Like, I had always assumed it would be something like a vintage mini-cooper or like an old mg roadster and I was happy with that. But a friend brought up that maybe it’s something like a Pontiac Aztek and now I need answers. What _kind_ of funky car?
There. Are. No. Trans. Women. In. The. WNBA. This whole conversation is a racist trap and long circuitous argument that always comes back to insulting cisgender Black women by calling them not women. In particular it attacks: Brittany Griner, Liz Cambage, and A'Ja Wilson.
"Now that they’re in the park, all we can really do is document all of the damage." @bigbendsentinel.bsky.social bigbendsentinel.com/2026/08/04/m...
More questions than answers as contractors descend upon Big Bend National Park
Terlingua Tensions are high in South Brewster County as federal contractor Southwest Valley Construction, a subsidiary of Nebraska-based Kiewit, moved heavy equipment into Big Bend National Park on Tu...
bigbendsentinel.com
Will nobody think of the ::copies & pastes:: Neocallimastigomycota???
Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 2d agoNeocallimastigomycota arguably are almost as economically important as yeast due to their impact on ruminant livestock and yet we never think about them as much
I wrote about the Trojan horse, and what we can learn from her mouth about different cultural attitudes towards deception and violence. As someone comments below, the phrase GIFT ARTICLE is pretty scary in this context.
Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · 2d agoTurns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Slowly emailing editors I've worked with successfully in the past to remind them I exist, that we do good work together. It's a humbling & dispiriting ritual. Reviewing our work, deciding if it was indeed successful. Looking up their current role in hopes they still work in news. Neither is certain.
Singapore has banned the two core members of British band Massive Attack from reentering the country after they displayed a Palestinian flag and expressed support for the Palestinian cause during their concert last week. Read more: https://wapo.st/4h9plG0
Data centers have become one of the U.S.'s most potent political flashpoints, uniting coalitions on the left and right like few issues do. We sent @mollytaft.com on a journey into the data center resistance. The Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders made appearances along the way:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
wired.com
I will always read anything by @stossel.bsky.social—and this one is fascinating. Highly recommend: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What if Freud Was Right?
A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.
theatlantic.com
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
propublica.org
This book permanently damaged me and everyone I know who read it.
David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.team · 10mo agoWhat is your favorite English-language novel? (Free spaces for Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, and Moby Dick -- what else you got?)
I don’t actually turn 40 for a few days.
enemy of the pod@bonnnt.bsky.social · 3d ago40 YEAR OLD MEN OF MY DADS GENERATION EXPERIENCING EMOTION DISTRESS: ah... time to start a secret family across town 40 YEAR OLD MEN OF MY GENERATION EXPERIENCING EMOTION DISTRESS: i just need to get my pen situation figured out once and for all!
requiem for a nachos bellgrande
literally crying again. I love food, it's so fucking powerful.
Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs@ashponders.bsky.social · 5d agoI met Nephi with @cecilianowell.bsky.social a few years ago. I drop into his spot, Café Gozhóó, whenever I'm in Chʼilwózh, which could never be often enough. I'm reading his new book today. It's made me sob and cackle several times already.
Not clear to me why it needs to be a "field" guide per se, but I'm still hyped.
Nick Garland@naturalhistorynick.bsky.social · 5d agoEvery known pterosaur, in one book, illustrated. Five years of work with Pete Buchholz and twenty paleoartists. Now live on Kickstarter! fossi.ls/ks
I met Nephi with @cecilianowell.bsky.social a few years ago. I drop into his spot, Café Gozhóó, whenever I'm in Chʼilwózh, which could never be often enough. I'm reading his new book today. It's made me sob and cackle several times already.
Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef
Named a nonfiction book “Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer” by the New York TimesFrom Indigenous chef Nephi Craig, a searing personal and cultural reckoning that demonstrates the power of food to h...
bookshop.org
At the start of bargaining, management said many of the things we’ve won were impossible. They fought us hard on provisions across this contract, especially on topics such as AI, where they are retaining too much control.
Hey Bluesky buds! We're having a big old sale on @coyotemedia.org memberships right now! 25% off an annual subscription *gasp* which is SUCH a good deal. If we get 50 new subscribers we'll launch our long-awaited merch store 🎉 100 and we'll throw a hell of a party for you. Help us make it happen!
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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Google Earth's new AI feature lets anyone fabricate inaccurate satellite imagery, from making it look like a place has been drone striked to manifesting a nuclear plant in Iran. What could go wrong? @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/google-earth...
The team at @coyotemedia.org is running a summer sale, with the goal of adding 100 paid members. Your money goes directly to worker-owners who are publishing fun, interesting, and unique work. With more $ they'll be able to do investigations, events, and more! www.coyotemedia.org/summer-2026-...
COYOTE’s Summer 2026 Subscriber Drive
We're having a sale!
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Y’all should read this, but if you don’t, just trust me that it says my home country is the coolest.
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 6d agoDid you know North and South America used to have a sea between them? South America was the Australia of the early Miocene, marsupials and all. Then, they joined at the Isthmus of Panama. And mammals from the north flooded south. Uh oh... www.sciencenews.org/article/mamm...
this is key to the findings: "the team [added] Spanish-language papers, papers from smaller journals[,] and samples from a museum in central Mexico" to English sources, doubling their dataset. So much info out there if people are willing to investigate non-English records!
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 6d agoDid you know North and South America used to have a sea between them? South America was the Australia of the early Miocene, marsupials and all. Then, they joined at the Isthmus of Panama. And mammals from the north flooded south. Uh oh... www.sciencenews.org/article/mamm...
Find a few dollars so you can order this magazine and enjoy David Eileen’s [do you think they explored each other’s bodies inside the Trojan horse].
Shō No. 9: Summer 2026 - Shō Poetry Journal
Shō Poetry Journal Shō No. 9: Summer 2026 Shō No. 9 (Summer 2026) brings together 69 poems by 45 poets and features cover art by Nara Allsop.
shopoetryjournal.com
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
jobs.gusto.com