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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 2h

the very specific word for “eating acorns”

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 2h

balanophagy

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 3h

I was laid off from an LPHA at the beginning of 2024. We ran out of CARES act funding that was filling the gaps in a state where the right-wing legislature had turned on public health. The siege on state and local agencies in many states began well before Trump II took office

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 12h

This assumes that state and local public health agencies are well funded. They are not. And the regional disparities are stark, so interstate collaboration will almost certainly drift towards those states that have better resources.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

this. and states are already under tremendous additional pressure from other federal cuts (like to medicaid and WIC). most of this federal public health capacity will not be picked back up. generational damage

Rick Weinmeyer @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social · 12h

This assumes that state and local public health agencies are well funded. They are not. And the regional disparities are stark, so interstate collaboration will almost certainly drift towards those states that have better resources.

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 12h

Finally catching upon GBBO and I gotta say, this season's missing a few key players (Kooky Grandma, Woke Tradesman, Inscrutable Regional Accent) in favor of several copies of Nervous Millenial and Tall Gay

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 16h

I love when baby birds look like they wish they had just stayed in the egg

Instagram post from wildliferescuebc showing a newly hatched gull looking this a wet gray rat, squinting at the camera

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 16h

I'm a horticulture student and the greenhouse on campus has a ton of flytraps. It's always fun to see people find out about their actual care requirements -- yeah they just chill in a tray of water which is sometimes outside in February, don't point the hose near them

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 18h

theonion.com/we-re-going-...

We’re Going To Enjoy This Cocaine-Fueled Mason Jar Rocket Ride For As Long As It Lasts

When I became an executive of a company that produces mason jars back in 2003, I never dreamed my life was going to be like this. A decade ago, we were just another glassware business, but now, there’...

theonion.com

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 18h

Also iirc Azealia Banks said the same thing

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 18h

Fun to imagine an American evangelical hearing about this idea

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 20h

I posted pics showing a lot of young people at the rally that popped up outside the supreme court when Dobbs dropped and got several replies like "if only they had voted!" You're looking at people who live in DC and got an alert on their phone about a scotus decision, wtf are you talking about

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

Making sure all my enemies know that there's a big rally about how much I suck coming up, & also that it really bothers me

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 1d

so many people getting the soros checks it causes 16th-century-spanish-style inflation

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 1d

Making medical history as the first person the freeze to death because the temperature dropped slightly below 70°

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant use of CVS receipts

The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to @handmadebygrey.bsky.social for a roll of receipt paper so I can put this over the top border on this auction quilt without lurking at CVS for dropped receipts like a weirdo!

A long strip of fabrics in rainbow order and in random widths next to the blue background fabric of a quilt.

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 1d

(Alt text: huge wheatpaste poster of the Banksy bomb thrower guy but it's edited so he's throwing a subway footlong)

Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 1d

These are everywhere in my neighborhood and I expect to see at least a dozen costumes this Halloween. Making it not just possible but fun and funny to do an "I am Spartacus" is a winning move

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely there needs to be a budget and comms plan for getting video of ICE abuses in front of as many eyeballs as possible

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 2d

Highly recommend the Wikipedia “Picture of the day” home screen widget

Screenshot of bottom third of iPhone screen shows 4x2 widget with slice of image: illuminated manuscript of man in priestly garb holding severed head

Desc of full image: “Illuminated manuscript of the Horae ad usum Parisiensem (Book of hours for Parisians), or ‘Book of Hours of Charles VIII’ King of France (1468 - 1498). The folio shows Saint Denis, first bishop and patron of Paris, walking with his head in the hands, after his execution”

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 2d

I salute the women-of-a-certain-age thirsting in the quotes and replies 🫡

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2d

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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Kelly Bluebook @cheatlines.co · Jan 6

*watching an ad for blood pressure medication with the sound off* damn... seems like there's a medicine that turns you into a good looking older gal with her own kiln

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 2d

Starting to feel like fall, so this may be the last bouquet of the year

Vase containing dahlia, zinnia, black-eyed Susan, and coleus

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I've got a dad back @dadback.bsky.social · 8d

French dudes be like Breaux

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Confusing Fall Warbler @plumicorns.bsky.social · 2d

Typos are penance for jumping in on an obnoxious discourse an hour after everyone's sick of it

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