Bald eagles. 40 or 50 years ago bald eagles were about as real to me is unicorns. Now they are a common sighting in our area. Bears, too, though they are not always as welcome.

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 10h ago

Minor things: Apples! I remember when there were just like, red (cardboard), green (so sour), and yellow (sickeningly sweet) apples. Now?! GLORIOUS. No smoking indoors in most places? Hell yes. Major things: MEDICINE. How many people do you know on their third knee? With controlled blood sugar?

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Who says guys don't look good in pink and purple? Here's a male roseate skimmer (Orthemis ferruginea) in the Corrales Bosque on August 4, 2026. #nature #naturephotography #dragonfly

Computer scientist Frances Allen was a pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. + 1st woman to win the Turing Award + Her research directly shaped compiler design, code optimization & automatic parallel processing Born #OTD in 1932 & died #OTD in 2020. #WomenInSTEM #CompSci

It's hard to overstate how ISOLATING and scary it was with a child under 5 waiting for that under 5 vaccine. The world was kind of moving on and you not only couldn't, you had to be scared for your child every day

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

Also the Republicans were screaming that Fauci helped authorize vaccines for children, which is something every goddamn parent I know was praying for every day for more than a year and have been thankful for ever since. These people are all self-centered idiotic sociopaths, nothing more.

I have never wanted to be a different kind of mammal more than I do right now being able to roll myself into an armored sphere would fix me

Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️@snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Southern Three-Banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes matacus) is one of the only armadillo species capable of rolling into a completely sealed sphere: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Ran into this goose, and she knew a bunch of y’all.

Five years ago, 80% of New Mexico's energy was generated by coal and gas. Now it's 38%. A massive renewables success story from @climateconnections.bsky.social yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/07/new-...

New Mexico’s clean energy success story » Yale Climate Connections

In just five years, solar, wind, and batteries overtook fossil fuels, keeping air conditioners running while slashing pollution.

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Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:

"The whooppoo saith" leaps out. This must be the hoopoe, which is a very rare sighting in the British Isles (I've only ever seen one). Its appearance in this book implies that the hoopoe was much more common here in the 1600s. #birds jncc.gov.uk/news/rbbp-re...

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

The Duck quaketh... The Wolf howleth" — from what many consider to be the first picture book for children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658). www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...

This is worth a look. Who is on Bluesky, do we think?

Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 6d ago

About one in 10 Americans are Mobilizers, the most civically and politically active group in new Pew-Knight research. Sophie Culpepper for Nieman Lab.

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social Treasures arrived today! They are the gleamiest gleamers -- don't know why that doesn't show in the pic. I've already packed them back up because they are supposed to be gifts but that spider was trying to skitter onto my finger 🕷️

Librarians deserve the world.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last wk.

The Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

“Immediately afterwards, the Trump administration filed a motion asking the full Fifth Circuit for a ‘precedential stay order’ to lift the district courts’ decisions in the meantime. This request was strange, because ‘precedential stay orders’ do not exist.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last wk.

DOJ asked the 5th Circuit to save it from being "crushed" by a "flood" of habeas cases now, im just a simple legal writer, but I suspect DOJ wouldnt have to deal with so many unconstitutional detention lawsuits if it didnt unconstitutionally detain so many people ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The goal is to satisfy the *emotions* behind every information need without providing real information.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · last wk.

The cross-platform enshittification of search functionality is such an infuriating exercise of authoritarian creep. They would like to kill the inclination to find information & enforce satisfaction with be fed information.

Our statement regarding the Trump Administration's decision to drop charges against our union brother David Huerta.

today is septidi 7 Thermidor in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating mugwort

ImmDef is proud to endorse The Children's Safe Welcome Act which has been reintroduced in Congress! We're proud to stand with Sen. Jeff Merkley, Rep. Kamlager-Dove, Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights, and the bill's co-sponsors. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/ms2uwd66

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social can this same elven bullshit be reordered, or is it a one and already done?

The Peculiarity Shop@peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 2w ago

Available.

Share this widely, folks! I was already doing several of the things on this list, but a few of them were new to me. It'll make online life much, much more tolerable for everyone you know. And hey, the only way to force a new business model is to make the current one non-viable.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

One of 2026's better tech-related coinages is "dickover," John Gruber's term for > a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction... 1/

A #Roman mosaic depiction of a snake in a river scene - love the attention to detail in this piece, especially the patterning on its body, & the tongue sticking out 🐍🏺 #Archaeology #MosaicMonday #AncientBlueSky

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Fox News is straight up not broadcasting Markwayne Mullin’s big lie news conference, which is highly unusual since they normally take administration events of this sort. I guess they have 787 million reasons to refrain!

Getting out of town during these dog days of summer? Don’t forget to take a book along.

In Nairobi, Kenya, a low-cost scheme to connect residents of the informal settlement Mukuru to the city’s sewage system using "simplified sewers", with smaller pipes and shallower excavation, has already led to a significant drop in cholera, even though it’s only partially complete.

Climate Solutions Are Taking Root in the World’s Slums

As temperatures rise, it is the poor who suffer most. The coping strategies of those living in informal settlements may hold lessons for cities of the future.

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Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!