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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 9h

Because of apparent level of coordination involved, it's important to dig into the details on this one. I'm digesting it in stages.

During the Sept. 30 raid, residents, migrants, including the woman’s husband, and squatters alike were zip-tied in the middle of the night. Other residents — like the man who helped his neighbors hide — were left undisturbed by ICE agents, prompting questions about what federal authorities knew about the building’s occupants ahead of time and how they obtained that information.

Remnants of the raid and interviews with residents who lived through it reveal some hints, including a mysterious map of the building found in the complex and makeshift door stickers that took inventory of occupants in some units.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 21h

Umbellula, anemone, sponge, corallimorph?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

It's perfectly unreasonable

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that you can now bring Google Earth Engine data right into ArcGIS Pro?

Here’s a new storymap with details and a link to the tool on @github.com and thoughts on a possible interoperability of GEE and ArcGIS Pro.

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/bf22...
#gischat #geogchat #geogsky ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏

Bring Google Earth Engine’s Data Right into ArcGIS Pro

Access Google Earth Engine's Data Catalog in ArcGIS Pro

storymaps.arcgis.com

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

On occasion! Last time I saw one was 2023. Superb birds

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

Exotic for us? We got a palm warbler this year which isn't unheard of but it's not common. Western meadowlark last year. Our bread and butter is towhees, white and golden crowned sparrows, Wilson's warblers, hermit thrushes, western flycatchers, pacific wrens, kinglets.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

It's #NautilusNight!⁣ The common name "paper nautilus" for the genus Argonauta comes from the Greek ναυτίλος nautílos, meaning "sailor". People once believed these octopuses used two of their arms as sails, as seen in this #SciArt from "Zoography" (1807) www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54312693 🧪

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

Despite their size it can actually hurt. They put their whole foot in it when they peck you. Sometimes a warbler bites and it's like "wow I would be in trouble if I were a soft insect" but chickadees fight way above their weight class

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

Rocky Point on Vancouver Island I've been an extractor there for five seasons and a volunteer since 2017.

A yellow bird with a grey hood is held atop my fingers. The bird was captured under permit for a migration monitoring project and was released unharmed shortly after.

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

I've never seen this in slow motion. Incredible little powerhouses

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

I've had many a chickadee pull this on me. They're so scrappy especially recaptured birds. My undying respect goes to them. The sapsucker was similar but it was using slightly different angles (exactly how it looks when they're excavating wells for sap-sucking)

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

I was walking around with a sapsucker in a bag clinging to my clothes this afternoon. Wish I got a photo. Lovely hybrid, hacked a few chunks of skin off of me.

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 1d

All the cute gulls are arriving

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 2d

JA is one of the kindest, loveliest and selfless people I have met. Please consider helping their family out during this rough time if you're able.

JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 2d

My father died suddenly in our home this past Sunday. I am fighting against the overwhelming revulsion I have to asking for financial support to ask for help covering my access to healthcare for the remainder of the year so that I can focus on supporting my mom.
gofund.me/7be865eb6

Donate to JA focus on supporting mom after dad Jonathan Fay's death, organized by Jamie Andersen Fields

On Sunday, October 5th, my mom found my dad Jonathan Fay unco… Jamie Andersen Fields needs your support for JA focus on supporting mom after dad Jonathan Fay's death

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Kelporama @kelporama.bsky.social · 2d

JA! My sweet friend I am so sorry

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 2d

The IDF took 3D animations from the Scottish Maritime Museum, a cyberpunk project and other places to make shit up about Gaza, Lebanon and Iran and these were reproduced in international outlets for the past 2 years.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war