Well this is so cool, I had no idea! Each flock camera apparently contains 2-3 pounds of copper, 1-2 oz of gold, AND a focusing diamond crystal?! So grateful to my friends on social media for keeping me educated 🙂‍↕️

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

It would be irresponsible of us not to further investigate if each Flock camera does in fact contain a focusing crystal that is actually a diamond

Another reminder that we are better off with the status quo of Mitch being alive but not voting. But Aug 3rd is the last day for a special election (which repubs would win), so if Mitch were to die today or tomorrow, it would be very suspicious.

Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · 3d ago

Only 2 more days until Mitch McConnel is declared dead.

There are a lot of Ohio Republicans in the news right now and it can get confusing. I'm here to help.

Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction

ALT: Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction

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Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

Arizona man languishes in African hotel after third-country deportation

A 30-year-old man, Ahmed Soliman, is confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea after being deported there by ICE without warning. He faces the threat of return to Egypt, where he may fac...

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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

I made a similar thing focused on the interwebs. un-ai.digitalprophet.online

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

They are going to destroy #QuitobaquitoSprings 😣💔

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Lots of scientists saying "Colette! What should we be doing right now?" CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION and MAKE SURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE. Do you know your congressional district? Do you know your state and local jurisdictions? www.vote.org

Check Your Voter Registration Status - Vote.org

It takes less than 30 seconds to check your registration status with our free 50-state tool. And if you're not registered, we'll help you take care of that too. Fast, free, secure, non-partisan.

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around 350,000 Haitians will officially lose their Temporary Protected Status today, as part of the Trump admin's ethnic cleansing operations this is v clearly illegal and immoral I wrote about the Supreme Court decision that's allowing it to happen anyway ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/mulli...

The Republican Justices Are Pretending They’ve Never Heard Donald Trump Speak

No comment about “shithole countries” is too racist for this Supreme Court to decide that it might be legally significant.

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Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

A detail from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (which never should have happened) that is getting lost in the shuffle: Trump’s comment that Graham Platner might have won anyway because it’s “the age of Trump.” Can we spend a moment on that? 1/

Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.

the reason we dont have medicare for all is bc corporations need employer based healthcare to keep you chained to your desk in a job you hate that doesnt pay you what youre worth

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

Don't have time to read the entire thread atm, but wow the nostalgia... 🥹

Ben Paddon@benpaddon.net · 11mo ago

Taking a leaf from @kyleor.land, who has been posting about a game a day since January 1st. I'm a little late to start, but hey. Let's see if I can keep this thing going. So, yeah. Big thread, a game a day for 365 days, what it means to me. Let's go! 🧵

El-Sayed: Shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you rather than to drop bombs on somebody else and their kids

Chaco Canyon is sacred—and a living landscape! Make your voice heard. Chaco Canyon is not for sale. And, we’re fighting like hell to protect it. Join us! Submit your public comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

A devastating blow to American universities that depend on the full tuition paid by foreign students. This may be more the point of the action than attacking immigrants.

Also, this part! 🥹 "Thanks to our forefathers for planting trees for us! And we return the favor by planting trees now, even when we know we aren't going to enjoy that shade in our lifetime. Our kids will. And that's what makes us a civilization."

kate_naomi 🍀🎶🌿@lunaraptor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some of this advice may seem common sense (especially to someone like me who grew up in Tucson AZ without AC) but there are many ingenious ideas as well, along with an interesting peek into India's culture. www.npr.org/2026/07/15/g...

Some of this advice may seem common sense (especially to someone like me who grew up in Tucson AZ without AC) but there are many ingenious ideas as well, along with an interesting peek into India's culture. www.npr.org/2026/07/15/g...

How to keep cool in this year's extreme summer heat even without air conditioning

"Extreme heat" is in the forecast this summer. How do people cope if they don't have air conditioning? Here are suggestions from a heat researcher who grew up in a very hot, AC-less place.

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HT @aussiastronomer.bsky.social IT'S MY DISSERTATION PLANET!!! LHS 1140b could have penguins after all!!! With funny voices!!!

Space.com@space.com · 3w ago

Astronomers discover 1st atmosphere around a rocky Earth-like planet in the habitable zone www.space.com/astronomy/ex...

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

And look at the AQI in some places! Even over here in Rhode Island it is high... Be careful when outside friends 😷

kate_naomi 🍀🎶🌿@lunaraptor.bsky.social · 3w ago

So tragic about the Boundary Waters fires... 😢 Used to hike and canoe up there years ago. wtip.org/live-updates...

So tragic about the Boundary Waters fires... 😢 Used to hike and canoe up there years ago. wtip.org/live-updates...

Live Updates: Wildfires and response across Superior National Forest and BWCAW | WTIP

As of Wednesday, there are 15 active wildfires throughout the Superior National Forest, with 4 inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Quetico Provincial Park and Ontario also have n...

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Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a Cambridge grad student in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars! In 1974 the Nobel was given to her advisor; she was left off. 🧪 👩‍🔬 🔭 Photo: National Science & Media Museum

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

Trump to sign order as soon as Monday to dismantle Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments www.abc4.com/news/politic...

President Trump expected to shrink Grand Staircase and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, sources say

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order to shrink the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments as soon as Monday, three sources with knowl…

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