HAWAII — Tulsi Gabbard’s brother charged with trying to lure children to a hotel room with gum and money
Degen Pener
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Independent Editor/Journalist. Nature, Culture, Design
"When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026… it was not hot enough." via Climate Alert
After years of massive overruns and delays, California's high speed rail hit big milestones, completing around 60 bridges, overpasses and viaducts in the Central Valley, plus a rail yard, with the first tracks expected later this year. Here's my latest for C Magazine: magazinec.com/culture/all-...
All Aboard California's Bullet Train | C Magazine®
Dive into the details of California's Bullet Train: high-speed travel that promises to make intercity transit quicker and easier.
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With stars increasingly lighting up onscreen and IRL, are younger people picking up the habit? @degenpener.bsky.social talks to actual young smokers to figure out if culture is driving the behavior, or simply reflecting it
Cigarettes Get a Sequel: Hollywood’s ‘Cool’ Bad Habit Is Back
‘People are stressed out of their fucking minds’ as the industry lights up again
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Right now, DOGE is saying that any new hires have to be approved by their office. In 1980, when IL Governor Thompson said any new hires had to be approved by his office, the Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional politicization of hiring. What about now? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people. I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
Sunlit basidiolichen, Lichenomphalia umbellifera. Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends #fungi
Please re-tweet so I can quit X. I've got 45k followers there, just 500 here. When I get to 5k I can dump Musk forever I'm the director of @centerforbiodiv.bsky.social. Follow me for real-time, insider takes on endangered species, climate, public lands, oceans, toxics. We sue Trump alot. Very alot.
Apparently it is #BlackFlyDay (I think that's what it's called 😛) - here's a lovely velvety black hoverfly, Pipiza species (probably P. noctiluca) from Somerset last spring
Some interesting results from Jo Carpenter! Impacts on beech last is from sheer numbers of rats rather than prey switching as thought? #NZES2024
Jorunna funebris is our #Nudivember species today. They feed on sponges in the Indo-Pacific regions. www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Mourning Dorid (Jorunna funebris)
Mourning Dorid from Makadi Bay, Hurghada, Egypt on August 7, 2014 at 11:57 AM by Hsini Lin. big one
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Big likes for auroch like:
Markus Bühler (Bestiarium-Blog)@markusbuehler.bsky.social · 2y agoI will post here various photos of #Heckcattle from the Neandertal-Museum in Mettman which I recently visited. This lineage has some #Watussi cattle ancestry, what resulted into some specimens with particularly spectacular #aurochs alike horns, even among the cows (as those in the photos below).
Quite the thread botanically speaking:
Paul Cooper@paulmmcooper.com · 2y agoWhen botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses and ilex, pea plants and more than 50 types of grasses. But some flowers growing there mystified him. They were so rare they were found nowhere else in Europe.
The phrase “magic poo ring” was not on my Tuesday bingo card:
Jen Cross@jencross.bsky.social · 2y agoBlue-Footed Boobies and the magic poo ring. Blue-footed Boobies nest in a simple scrape on the ground. Guides told us that the Booby, while shading their eggs from the harsh sun, turn to face the sun throughout the day, and that's why there is a ring of poo around the nest. 🧵
The hedgehog, once common throughout Scotland, has been updated from “least concern to near threatened” in the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species Story by me for @theferret.scot theferret.scot/hedgehogs-ne...
Hedgehogs under threat in Scotland as population falls by more than 100,000 in 20 years
Hedgehogs have been listed as “near threatened” by a global wildlife organisation as the population in Scotland is down nearly 50 per cent over the past two decades.
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It's an official goodbye: The slender-billed curlew declared extinct, the "first mainland European bird to go extinct in half a millennium": www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct
This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.
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Wolves find their way to new territory : www.activenorcal.com/gray-wolves-...
Gray Wolves Found in Lassen Volcanic National Park for the First Time
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has reported the presence of a new gray wolf pack within Lassen Volcanic National Park.
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For the new winter issue, C magazine gave me the opportunity to meet and interview six amazing furniture designers based in the greater Los Angeles area - meet these six inspiring creators here: magazinec.com/design/why-s...
Why SoCal Is the Next Great Hub For Design
See how L.A. is taking the design world by storm. Meet the creative minds behind SoCal Design and explore the city's thriving furniture design scene.
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In tandem with the rights of nature legal movement, some nonprofits and other organizations are now giving a place for voices of nature on their boards, writes Sophie Tolhurst at Atmos: atmos.earth/why-the-art-...
Why the Art World Is Making Nature Its Boss | Atmos
To fight the climate and biodiversity crisis, cultural organizations are looking to recruit nonhuman voices to governance.
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