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Formerly Steph_In_KC
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Formerly Steph_In_KC in the Bad Place. Account deactivated. 🎉

Southern Woman living happily in the West 💙 Cat Caretaker 🐈 Friend to all animals 🐙🐍🐁🐝 🦭🐐🦮and some humans. Childless overeducated cat lady for Kamala. 🇺🇸
“By hunting the giants of the sea to the brink of extinction, we may have already removed these stepping stones and doomed an entire ecosystem that we have only just discovered.” is one of the saddest sentences I have ever read.
Huber & Castro Marine Bio 11th ed
November 30, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Very true
no one ever had to be forced to use *good* tech.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I love this fish! It looks so perplexed
This Oreosomatidae looks unique, and neat to see it up in the water column! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 875 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
November 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ok, so is everything in Thailand beautiful?? 🤩
This is the Sunburst Candy Spider from Thailand. Not AI (sucks to have to declare this). Very real and had been on my wish list for a long time.

The taxonomic placement is unclear, so we are leaving it at Cyrtarachninae.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This thread is fascinating!
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The fancy ass turkey 🦃 at the end has the most gorgeous caruncles! If you’re into that kinda thing
Jason Bittel's newest book, GRIZZLED: Love Letters to 50 of North America’s Least Understood Animals, comes out March 3, 2026. In the meantime, @bittelmethis.bsky.social (KSJ '21) has plenty to say about one animal in particular...
Here, Have A Fancy-Ass Turkey
As Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, a quick dive into turkey taxonomy and anatomy.
jasonbittel.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Please sign and share our petition to oppose deep sea mining in the Mariana Trench (yes, Trump wants to rip up the sea bed in the Marianas)

forms.gle/zpftbyXgHBxv...
Petition to Oppose Imposition of Deep Seabed Mining in US territories
This petition is organized by the Friends of the Mariana Trench in response to a Request for Information from the federal government and in support of our community. Our mission is to be the guardia...
forms.gle
November 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Best in Show
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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A view of this year's extreme sea surface temperatures and recent warming across the North Pacific... 🌊

This graph shows the average for a band across the midlatitudes for every average January-October period from 1854-2025 using ERSSTv5 data.
November 19, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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other98

JD's family has spent $35M on vacations.

Kash Patel used a $60M FBI jet to go on a date.

Trump spent $98M to golf for 24% of the days of this term.

ALL WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS.

But you think a single mom getting $6 a day for SNAP is the problem?
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Please someone write this story so I can forward to friends: what Google AI has done to smaller media websites, that is, Google Zero. Anecdote: was having someone over, said I'd made a green tomato chutney w/ last of my tomatoes, she said she asked ChatGPT and it recommended a couple of cheeses. 1/
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Was in OKC visiting family and spent one morning at the Museum of Osteology. I figured if anyone had a Gar Skeleton…
#GarWeek
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What could go wrong?
Oh
We crunched the federal data and found the US is on track to have the *fewest inspections since 2011* (excluding pandemic years).

In recent years, the FDA has typically been able to conduct ~110 foreign food inspections each month, but in March, the number of inspections dropped almost in half.
November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In addition to my favorite fall weather 🍂🍁, November brings #Nudivember 💜🎉
Welcome to the 2025 #Nudivember art challenge!

Like last year, here is a list of some lesser known, yet always fabulous, nudibranch species.

Participate as much or as little as you want in any art form you like.

Make sure to use #Nudivember and use alt text!
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Until SNAP is funded, here’s an ongoing list of Bay Area restaurants where SNAP recipients can receive free food. Just bring your EBT card!
While the feds continue to play stupid games, SNAP recipients are set to lose food aid for the next month. In the Bay Area, a growing number of restaurants are stepping up to help, and we're maintaining the list. Share with anyone who needs it. www.coyotemedia.org/these-bay-ar...
These Bay Area Restaurants Are Offering Free Food to SNAP Recipients
Amid a government shutdown that will cut off aid for 42 million Americans, local food scene folks plan to pick up the slack.
www.coyotemedia.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I get kind of annoyed by the "ai is actually good at ____" and is it? Are you cross referencing the output with verified data or did you get a few results that satisfied you and now you assume it is always mostly correct and helpful? Do you appreciate how easy it is to trick humans
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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I post this article too much,,,
But we have mass shooting too much

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
www.newsweek.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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The hand-wringers: "Oh, what CAN we do? What CAN we do?"
Heather Cox Richardson: There are 52,000 candidates on various local ballots. PAY ATTENTION: Who is fighting for democracy? REGISTER, help those candidates in their campaigns, and most of all, VOTE!!
October 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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She should try the local animal shelter next time.
Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.
October 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Parents at the Des Moines RG just got a notice that DMPS's superintendent, Dr Ian Roberts was detained by ICE.

#raygun #ICE

News: www.weareiowa.com/article/news...
September 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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4PM Today (Friday, Sept 26): Protest at the Neil Smith Federal Building in downtown Des Moines in support of Dr Ian Roberts.

Dr Roberts was detained by ICE in Des Moines and, apparently, driven to an ICE facility in Council Bluffs.
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Great news, Georgia! My office is hosting a one-day-only event to help you get your passport. Registration for this event is now open. Visit warnock.senate.gov/contact/passports to sign up.
September 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM