There's a lot more to sex and gender than the silly binary nonsense your era still clings to. All gender-based hatred is banned from my sickbay. You get to be who you are with me and I will protect you from anyone who says otherwise. 🖤💙😷🥄🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We knew this was coming. The reality just sucks. They are evacuating Mt. Hood Meadows now. My kiddo is being sent home from camp today because the air quality is so poor.

News Analysis@newsanalysis.com · yesterday

Oregon is nearing its all-time wildfire acreage record, with over 2 million acres burned so far this season. With continued dry conditions and fire danger, the state could surpass the record soon. Officials urge caution with fire restrictions and prevention. #wildfire #News

Reincarnation or Valhalla's/Christian's/Muslim's (or whatever cult some follow's) version of heaven makes sense when coming from generations of war and suffering. Our evolution must come from collectively learning harmony. To sustainably find ourselves thriving, we can't harm each other & our home.

The DOJ is now 0-20 in court trying to access states' voter files. They've lost in: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

#theBeeAt3 Basic bee facts every day at 3pm. 17. #Dandelions are vital to bees. Vast flowering season - February to November around here. Nectar/pollen for hungry #bees/#hoverflies/#butterflies among others. Cherish them. ‘A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees’ - Blake #nature

While out getting groceries today, saw a car a smidge bigger than the size of the one in this funny video, it was aw-dorable or auto-dorable :) youtu.be/dJfSS0ZXYdo?...

The Smallest Car in the World | Top Gear

YouTube video by Top Gear

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Here's hoping they have sodium ion battery powered EVs in the US next year.

Spokane, Washington. In 2024 governments gave $725,000,000,000 of taxpayer money directly to the fossil fuel industry. We’ve PAID to inflict these horrors on our world. Our children are going to pay a great deal more. We are nowhere near angry enough.🤬🤬🤬 Climate Dad

Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky

Alleviate any Monday-ness you might be experiencing with this highlight reel of the wild and wondrous life observed in the deep waters of Trinidad & Tobago during the #DeepWonders expedition, led by @divaamon.bsky.social https://youtu.be/G6krlmxdWRQ

"He did the Mash! He did the Vulcan Mash. (The Vulcan mash) It was a starship smash!" #TOSSatNight

Aaaaaand scrapie is back in the US. We can’t be declared scrapie-free again until at least 2033 thanks to Oregon having the first case in 5 years. Are we great yet?

Fatal prion disease found in Oregon sheep, first US case in 5 years

Oregon officials found the first case of classic scrapie in the United States in five years.

oregonlive.com

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

Magical video by Mike Nulty (@nuttynulty on IG) of a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) off the coast of Baja, swimming through reflective plankton or debris that look like stars. Space whale-shark! 🦈✨ Let's talk about /actual/ glowing sharks, the lantern sharks of family Etmopteridae. (📷: Mike Nulty)

It’s such a lovely book, fresh and resonant with dark fantasy I grew up with. Pick it up.

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 4d ago

Ooh ooh! Happy August -- turns out THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST is discounted at ebook retailers this month! :D $1.99 CAD at Kobo! The Tyrant's children have gone missing... and Veris Thorn is the only one who's gone into the magical forest and returned. So who better for a coerced rescue mission?

Briefly in this thread, which visually suggests zombie flamingos.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2y ago

There are other fun flamingo adaptations: 1. They have an organ that excretes salt, so they can drink saltwater. 2. Adults secrete 'crop milk' to feed young. Because of the carotenoids in their diet, this red liquid looks like blood. 3. Same-sex couples raising chicks are common in large flocks.

Flamingos, like all wading birds, are really standing on tip-toes. The base of the webbed portion is analogous to the ball of your foot. The heel is halfway up the length of their leg, and the knee is hidden under feathers (or floof in chicks) (📷: Calgary Zoo)

“Harvest testing showed that berries grown under the panels developed larger, juicier fruit with a noticeably sweeter taste…”

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes

In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.

ecoportal.net

i'm sick, this dog is living my best life

With new education guidance that could segregate Trans+ kids from toilets, there's a wave of hostile policymaking targeting Trans+ children 

Trans kids are being hit by waves of hostile policymaking - they need our help

Trans children and young people don’t need our sadness; they need our power and our solidarity

wearequeeraf.com

Activities for this season of #InverteFest: Community science project www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv... Art book submission form forms.gle/xCcLKLjia5JJ...

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · last yr.

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us. tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs. Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

So silly.

The Onion@theonion.com · 5d ago

“You don’t have to have a full pantry or a stocked fridge when everything you need for a tasty dish is right there beneath your skin,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., searing his left kidney in a skillet as several of his elbow ligaments roasted in the oven.

Dude is literally helping to take out the trash :)

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d ago

Now this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.

Straight-up Nazi approach: All Haitians are ordered to appear at the ICE office…

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Here's an @news.abc.net.au article on this too.

New Alzheimer's test could give results in as little as 18 minutes

The ability to diagnose Alzheimer's decades earlier could be a step closer with a new blood test set for clinical trials within months.

abc.net.au

Oh wow, I just saw this news. Australia's TGA has approved a clinical trial of a blood test that can identify biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease two decades before symptoms appear, allowing intervention strategies. I hope this goes well. This could improve millions of lives globally.

newsGP - ‘Milestone’ Alzheimer’s diagnosis blood test gets green light

GPs could one day be offering patients the ‘holy grail’ test, which could detect the disease’s biomarkers up to two decades before symptoms appear.

www1.racgp.org.au

Neat! biologicalrecording.co.uk/2026/07/21/c...

Can Infiltrators be Indicators? Understanding Cuckoo Bumblebees

Cuckoo bumblebees are obligate parasites that must successfully invade and gain control of a host bumblebee colony to achieve reproductive success. As apex species, these cuckoos have been consider…

biologicalrecording.co.uk

As a they'dee or gentle'them, all those movies about the experience of gay folks with others around them that 'accepted' the lifestyle, but reacted in the same way as before understanding this new information. Movies usually told as a person trying to set someone up with the opposite sex.

Drifting weightlessly through millions of schooling sardines and an underwater acoustic world filled with cracking noises, biological clicks, and low-frequency rumbles is a dreamy, surreal experience. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography