Last few hours to comment on this VERY IMPORTANT deep sea mining issue. Please, please, please, take 5 minutes. Talking points on my blog. Link to in and where to comment below. Share share share!

Saunieindiego@saunieindiego.bsky.social · 3d ago

Comments due TOMORROW (8/3) 🚨 NOAA is fast-tracking Pacific deep-sea mining, threatening fragile abyssal ecosystems. ​Only 8 comments have been filed! ​Talking points: birdsmatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/t... ​Comment here: www.regulations.gov/docket/NOAA-... ​#DefendTheDeep #StopDeepSeaMining

A short thread with some things I've written on heat / heatwaves / staying cool... Maybe will help a few people. 🧵 On churches - and other old stone buildings - that remain relatively cool in hot weather, and can act as community refuges. www.thereengineer.pro/p/churches-s...

Churches say ‘we’re cool’ as climate change supercharges heatwaves

Old stone and concrete buildings are a secret weapon in a warming world

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He pitched military service with a promise of lifetime healthcare. When he needed it, the system failed. really proud of this one. @berkeleyjr.bsky.social @nbcnews.com

He pitched military service with a promise of lifetime healthcare. When he needed it, the system failed.

More than a year after the military’s health insurance program transitioned millions of people to TriWest, problems continue to plague the program, leaving patients in limbo.

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I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor for three years in my teens. This is spot on. Non-paywalled version gcaptain.com/drowning/

Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.

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Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

This is Tarin, one of our TNR cats. She's 9 months and already has 1 litter. She is so gentle but scared and bc we have no long term fosters will be released back into the streets. If you're in CT and can foster and socialize a very shy girl, please reach out! #fosterneeded #CT #cats #rescue

I love all the bumbles.

Annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup or similar chemicals. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them.

Meet the volunteers shuttling northern red-legged frogs across a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay eggs.

How people are helping breeding frogs dodge cars - High Country News

Imperiled northern red-legged frogs need to cross a 4-lane highway in Oregon to lay their eggs. Every winter, volunteers carry them across.

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Do you know someone (perhaps an older person?) who would love a senior cat who needs to be an only pet in a home? This isn't my shelter, but a neighboring rescue. Tiny is a 13-year-old Ragdoll. I believe her owner died. She needs to be your one and only. Hermiston, Oregon #cats

Today marks a major moment for child health: the AAP has released its updated 2026 childhood and adolescent immunization schedule. Updated annually to reflect the latest scientific evidence, this year’s schedule is formally endorsed by 12 leading medical and healthcare organizations. bit.ly/4r5KbaQ

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"This could be the difference whether your child gets cancer. Are you willing for them to die because the therapy for them is delayed?" Powerful video with voices from top US scientists on the very real and devastating impacts of the funding cuts.

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

Single shot 70mm from yesterday. Ghostly. Etherial. And a photo I'll probably never be able to top! Dickens, Nebraska. 6/16/25

FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE UP TO DATE ON YOUR VACCINATIONS NOW.

We have friends everywhere. Our teams are actively on it today. If you see something, say something. To report anything, email us at report@ourparks.org.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

STAR WARS was released 47 years ago today. Hollywood’s biggest movie phenomenon, and the film that launched the career of star Harrison Ford, the behind the scenes story is as spectacular as blowing up the Death Star… 1/37

Folks at Princeton have put together an aggregator to highlight example of how federally funded research has directly impacted people's lives. They are looking for more studies to highlight, so send along suggestions and help make the benefits of science more visible! publicusaresearchbenefits.com

I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...

Gaming Out a Sudden Stop

What happens if investors lose faith in America?

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Gather around kids!! Tell these fuckers that you want “Updated Sub-Lineage Covid Vaccines” or “Updated Covid Vaccines” or That it’s patriotic to vaxx & be heathy. We have till Friday at 11:59 to make comments on the shit they dropped today. This is on purpose. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

🚨 💉The FDA will no longer approve COVID vaccines for people 6mo–64yrs who don't have a risk factor for severe COVID-19. People 65 years and older and those under 65 with risk factors can still get vaccinated. There's so much to unpack here. See a few thoughts below 👇

Rightfully, the cuts to Medicaid (over 10M people will lose their health care) and the tax cuts for the rich have been the story of the disastrous Republican budget bill. But I read the whole thing. And there are some hidden rats in there you need to know about. 1/ A quick🧵

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

I've pitched versions of this idea to a number of NIH scientists, as well as university researchers over the last six weeks or so. So I decided to put it together into a post.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.

A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...