JAMiller
@jamiller.bsky.social
Retired GIS Analyst. Artist, crafter, vegetarian, Progressive, environmentalist. Mom of two. I like cats. She/her. 14th, Sec. 3., 86 47.
I hope this kind of thing backfires spectacularly. Anyone who supports the current Rump administration is a racist bigot.
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US national park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI
The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to remove certain items from gift shops.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I hope this kind of thing backfires spectacularly. Anyone who supports the current Rump administration is a racist bigot.
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“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually."
WHY??? 🤦♀️
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WHY??? 🤦♀️
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Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.
apnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually."
WHY??? 🤦♀️
apnews.com/article/trum...
WHY??? 🤦♀️
apnews.com/article/trum...
There are billions of dollars of data center projects currently underway in the United States, with hundreds of billions of dollars more planned. This pitch is going over great with many politicians — but it’s falling flat with a large and growing coalition of regular people.
America’s war on data centers is coming
AI is causing electricity prices to surge. No one is happy about it.
voxdotcom.visitlink.me
December 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Damn. This whole thread sounds so familiar...
#ResistanceRoots
Today in History, 1941: Hitler issues his “Night and Fog” (Nacht und Nebel) decree, ordering that members of the resistance working to undermine the Nazi military be arrested and brought for trial by special courts, circumventing conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. /1
Today in History, 1941: Hitler issues his “Night and Fog” (Nacht und Nebel) decree, ordering that members of the resistance working to undermine the Nazi military be arrested and brought for trial by special courts, circumventing conventions governing the treatment of prisoners. /1
December 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Damn. This whole thread sounds so familiar...
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Thank you, @murray.senate.gov, for supporting the Wild Olympics Campaign!
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Thank you, @murray.senate.gov, for supporting the Wild Olympics Campaign!
WE'RE NOT GOING BACK.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
WE'RE NOT GOING BACK.
Food banks need your donations more than ever, but PLEASE do NOT donate anything that is more than four years past the date printed on the can! Anything that old must be thrown away, but only after a volunteer wastes their time searching for that date. Cash donations are ALWAYS appreciated!
"I have never seen the line this long at this food bank, This is 4x the size of every previous year...the line wraps around the building a second time..Everyone is freezing and an older lady in line had to be taken inside because she looked like she was about to pass out from being too cold..."
December 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Food banks need your donations more than ever, but PLEASE do NOT donate anything that is more than four years past the date printed on the can! Anything that old must be thrown away, but only after a volunteer wastes their time searching for that date. Cash donations are ALWAYS appreciated!
"It symbolizes the desires of humankind for peace and security, human rights and development." Everything that Trump is destroying.
Gianni Infantino can rot in hell.
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Gianni Infantino can rot in hell.
www.ungeneva.org/en/about/dir...
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"It symbolizes the desires of humankind for peace and security, human rights and development." Everything that Trump is destroying.
Gianni Infantino can rot in hell.
www.ungeneva.org/en/about/dir...
Gianni Infantino can rot in hell.
www.ungeneva.org/en/about/dir...
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If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
If you don't believe that vaccines work and are safe, take a walk through a 19th-century cemetery.
Science matters. Washington state stands united with our partner states and medical experts to put public health and safety before politics. The hepatitis B vaccine at birth has been recommended and administered for decades — it is a proven, essential tool for protecting our communities.
WCHA disagrees with CDC’s Advisory Committee’s change to decades-long vaccine recommendation that has reduced pediatric hepatitis B infections by 99 percent.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
If you don't believe that vaccines work and are safe, take a walk through a 19th-century cemetery.
This is an environmental disaster for Nevada (and the rest of the world).
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:45 AM
This is an environmental disaster for Nevada (and the rest of the world).
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
“If our warriors are forced to follow rules arbitrarily and asked to sacrifice more lives so that international tribunals feel better about themselves, aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?! Who cares what other countries think.”
#WarCriminal #DrunkTraitor
#WarCriminal #DrunkTraitor
Pete Hegseth told US soldiers in Iraq to ignore legal advice on rules of engagement
Defense secretary shares anecdote in The War on Warriors and rails against ‘rules and regulations’ governing war
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“If our warriors are forced to follow rules arbitrarily and asked to sacrifice more lives so that international tribunals feel better about themselves, aren’t we just better off winning our wars according to our own rules?! Who cares what other countries think.”
#WarCriminal #DrunkTraitor
#WarCriminal #DrunkTraitor
Do you have children? Grandchildren? Do you care what the world will be like when they're your age?
It's been quite something to see one of the world's leading climate scientists, James Hansen, being vilified the past years for presenting data showing the rapid acceleration of global and regional warming, associated with continued greenhouse gas emissions and rapid reduction of air pollution.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Do you have children? Grandchildren? Do you care what the world will be like when they're your age?
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For USA deliveries - Art is one of the few things that is exempt from tariffs! No nasty surprise bills for you!
My little art shop has a collection of bird drawings and other nature subjects.
All one of a kind originals at affordable prices for gifts.
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#Birds #Owl #Turkey #Bullfinch #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #bsnm
All one of a kind originals at affordable prices for gifts.
folksy.com/shops/thewee...
#Birds #Owl #Turkey #Bullfinch #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness #bsnm
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
For USA deliveries - Art is one of the few things that is exempt from tariffs! No nasty surprise bills for you!
Today is a day of mourning.
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
Native American actress gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it 'fake,' she says
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Today is a day of mourning.
Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout. My son is an Eagle Scout (and my daughter would have been also, if she'd had the chance). Hegseth is a failure of a man and a human; he WILL NOT succeed at forcing his wacko religious views down our throats.
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U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Once an Eagle Scout, always an Eagle Scout. My son is an Eagle Scout (and my daughter would have been also, if she'd had the chance). Hegseth is a failure of a man and a human; he WILL NOT succeed at forcing his wacko religious views down our throats.
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
It was dark, so this isn't the greatest photo, but is this a pair of #Mr&Mrs #BirdoftheDay anis? I have no idea!
#CostaRica #Birds
#CostaRica #Birds
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
It was dark, so this isn't the greatest photo, but is this a pair of #Mr&Mrs #BirdoftheDay anis? I have no idea!
#CostaRica #Birds
#CostaRica #Birds
It's been awhile, but I still find Matt's videos to be uplifting. It's nice to be reminded that people are the same everywhere.
#joy #equality #life #SmallWorld
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#joy #equality #life #SmallWorld
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Where the Hell is Matt? 2008
YouTube video by Where the Hell is Matt?
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It's been awhile, but I still find Matt's videos to be uplifting. It's nice to be reminded that people are the same everywhere.
#joy #equality #life #SmallWorld
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfK...
#joy #equality #life #SmallWorld
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfK...
After 30 YEARS of negotiations, countries have agreed to begin discussions.
We are a failed species.
We are a failed species.
After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
After 30 YEARS of negotiations, countries have agreed to begin discussions.
We are a failed species.
We are a failed species.
Marilyn Strickland will never again get my vote. (She had already lost it, but this is the last nail...)
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Marilyn Strickland will never again get my vote. (She had already lost it, but this is the last nail...)
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A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. Take Action >> act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...
Stop Trump's Extinction Plan
The Endangered Species Act is the United States' most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump administration just proposed new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperi...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The Endangered Species Act is the world’s most successful conservation law, but it's under attack AGAIN. The Trump administration just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive species closer to extinction. Take Action >> act.biologicaldiversity.org/nXrxsHJM-USw...