This is a Juvenile Gouldian finch it takes about 5 to 8 weeks to complete its physical color transition during the juvenile molt. The entire color change process typically starts around 3 to 4 months of age. Live in grasslands and open savanna's of Northern Australia

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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

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UBC is replacing human scribes for disabled students with ai techenemy.com/a/3mrrhqx6fi...

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Our local university is making bad decisions, as represented by "Vanquished" by Emily Carr

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there's a cruel trick built into caring about the long term: it looks exactly like not caring about the short term.

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AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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Hey folks, I don't think these bad ballot measures are getting the attention they need amidst the swirl of everything else. Please spread the word, so we can help beat them. If you live in AZ, CO, MO, NE, or WA - volunteer. If you don't - give to the work. 19thnews.org/2026/07/tran...

The fight over trans girls’ sports participation moves to the November ballot

State ballot measures seeking to restrict transgender student-athletes’ participation in school sports will appear before voters in November.

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1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment

The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.

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The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along)

Please avoid all salads, including word.

In my opinion, this is litigious thuggery. Amnesty spoke their truth and it hurt the feelings of the anti-trans brigade. TERFs destroy everything they touch. I mean, imagine suing Amnesty, of all organisations?

For my Jewish friends looking for scholarship to cite when you resist "AI": Here's a well-known and respected Rabbi.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social · 3w ago

So. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love?

Potential language for calling people out without unintended ableist strays that hurt folks who have nothing to do with it. 💜 taken from : www.kent.edu/digitalacces...

But I am urging you: put down a marker here and now. Make sure that the future knows that we did not consent to the demolition of our national research capacity. These proposed revisions allow political appointees to whimsically determine what research gets funding and when and for how long.

I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵

Many “gender critical” groups are funded by right-wing actors who are pushing legal attacks on abortion, drag queens in public, sex education, etc. This is why it’s painfully ridiculous that such groups claim they aim to protect women’s or gay rights — GC groups are fuelled by those opposed to both.

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“What this analysis shows is that trans people’s wellbeing & public attitudes towards trans people have worsened since 2017, in conjunction with the rise of an organised GC movement.” New analysis by Amnesty International exposes how UK media enable transphobia. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

There’s a handful; I either write for them (or pitch them with no success yet) …

blippy@blippy.bsky.social · last mo.

wonder what media companies don’t hate trans people at this point

VPD: we need to expand surveillance because Richmond had CCTV cameras Richmond: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Metro Vancouver city ordered to remove surveillance cameras, delete data

A Metro Vancouver city has been ordered to remove surveillance cameras from a busy intersection and delete all recordings captured to date, after an investigation by B.C.’s privacy watchdog.

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Tessa Rowland@tessarowland.bsky.social · last mo.

gross. VPD seeking further public realm surveillance with expanded CCTV cameras

Happy birthday to Labyrinth! Released on this day in 1986.

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Alt: David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King, doing some damn good lounging.

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6 years ago today Fox News helpfully distilled some of the demands of the Movement for Black Lives... Curious that they could figure out the demands but that white dude bros on the so called Left say that it's unclear... LOL

There's a reason people don't want you to experience negative emotions through fiction and the reason is fascism, because then you'll realize how unfair your own condition is and you'll start questionning the World and ipso facto the system. It's always about control, never about protecting

Boze the Library Owl@sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · last yr.

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

Here’s how to do gymnastics! 体操はこうしてこうですっ☆

Hamilton council voted 15–1 to stop datacentre development while the city writes regulations for the facilities. @apasek.bsky.social and I think it isn't really a Hamilton story. Hamilton is the first domino in an urgent national conversation. gift: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1c12514... #HamOnt

Hamilton just hit pause on all AI data centres. This is big

The Ontario city is the first to confront a question all Canadian municipalities will soon face: How to build AI data centres responsibly?

theglobeandmail.com

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison

Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility

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truly fb marketplace is a place of wonder and terror

Happy Caturday—and Summer Solstice!!! (The solstice will take place overnight in the pre-dawn hours at 4:24am EDT.)

About damn time: “This Scientific Consensus makes clear that climate policy can no longer ignore wildlife – not only for the sake of biodiversity, but for the future stability of our planet.” 🧪 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/wildlif...

Wildlife belongs in climate policy, says breakthrough consensus - Oceanographic

Scientists have endorsed a landmark consensus recognising wild animals as active participants in climate mitigation.

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