Water is returning to the African Sahel. After the catastrophic droughts of the late 20th century, aquifers from Senegal to Ethiopia are refilling, water tables in Niger have risen four metres, and Lake Chad has swollen to ten times its mid-1980s size. Yale E360 buff.ly/SUrDAnL #ShareGoodNewsToo

After Decades of Drought, Water Is Rising in the African Sahel

Warming has brought extreme rain to the parched Sahel, which is seeing aquifers refill as monsoons grow stronger. But heavier downpours alone cannot explain the groundwater revival, say hydrologists,…

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I don't know about other cities but Chicago is having a really rough time with e-scooters. There's never been a better case for rapidly expanding protected bike lanes. #activetransit #electrification blockclubchicago.org/2026/08/05/b...

Boy, 16, Killed In North Center Is 3rd Teen Death Tied To E-Scooters This Year

The boy, identified by family as Alex Blacio, was riding home from work Monday afternoon when he lost control of the scooter and collided with a semi-truck, police said.

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A friendship IS a relationship.

This pic taking me down. 😭

Zora Neale Hurtin’ 📚🔮✨@alexaesperanzaa.bsky.social · 23m ago

I stay opening this app in the middle of a kerfuffle.

Especially, the fake videos.

I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.

About to turn my email notifications off. The high school been spamming for the last 2 weeks.

Nature been showing us, that’s those mf’s been lying, all of this time. Open your eyes.

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WTTW - Chicago PBS@wttw.bsky.social · 46m ago

Of the approximately 11,000 species of birds on the planet, only 45 are mentioned in scientific literature as exhibiting gynandromorphism, totaling fewer than 100 individuals. The bird at Hill ‘N Dale is the first-ever record of a bobolink gynandromorph. https://to.wttw.com/3RBpt6W

I think it’s funny when people be recording at a concert and you hear them more than the artist.

If a man’s first instinct is to argue with you and call you fatherless well……you should know what he is 🤷🏾‍♀️

Che told me I have everybody blocked and she ain’t lying. 😂

Calling someone diabetic as an insult is gross. Y’all be just like them crackas

No context needed

Cocoa Brown@seauxcocoa.blacksky.app · 2h ago

Fuck Killer Mike

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

Nolan Wells’ Mother Under Investigation With Nursing Board After Complaint, Lawyer Says

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, is under investigation by the Mississippi Board of Nursing after an anonymous complaint.

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Miami University: All academic departments at Miami to integrate artificial intelligence into the curriculum by 2027-2028 "If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework" miamioh.edu/news/2026/08...

The Bellamy salute was removed from schools in The USA in 1942 then "One Nation Under God" was added in 1952.

There’s the basement but idk about that.

It’s either my bedroom or the living room for my desktop since I lost a room. And I’m thinking living room.

And it’s back to school month for them both. My oldest is moving into her first apartment so it shall be interesting.

Things feel like they will be easier this month. As long as nothing pops up unexpected and I don’t go outside for too long. It’s only the 5th. 😩😂

Same. You gotta be on the wave socially and politically to just get in the door. And be very clear and open about it.

Ma$on@masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 4h ago

I am not interested in an interracial relationship, not because I don't find nonBlack people attractive (they are) but because I don't want to have to be subjected to (un)intentional racism, antiBlackness and microagressions in a relationship that should be my safe space.

Xfinity have issues today and for a sec I thought they turned my internet off like I didn’t my bill at 6am this morning.

In case you live on the South side and missed this story (which came out just before COVID shutdowns). To be clear we absolutely wanted the vaccines. chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/3/...

9 former patients of dead Evergreen Park pediatrician find out they were never vaccinated

In some cases, parents discovered that one child was vaccinated by Dr. Van Koinis while another sibling was under-vaccinated or not vaccinated at all, the sheriff’s office said.

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Easily the pediatrician we saw exactly once who tried to talk me out of the hep B vaccine and was later found to be injecting kids (including my premature infant) with saline instead of the vaccines they were supposed to get. A man apparently ahead of his time.

Heather Hill@rollin-academic.bsky.social · 4h ago

A question from Reddit that I'll answer here: "What's the most unhinged thing a doctor has said to you with a straight face?"

This is not directed at anyone I was talking to today. But just some receipts bc my memory long when it chooses to be. People been OBSESSED. And this is what I was initially responding to. These type of folks.

Let me text my neighbor before I forget.

I blame his mother. That’s all I got after watching that video. I know the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree.