HoofbeatsEqualZebra
@knockknockzebra.bsky.social
Lifelong Bostonian; ex-longtime Animal Care Vol (including for 2 kinds of zebra). Chronically ill, PTSD-having, neurodivergent introvert; mask wearer. She/her. My friends really do call me T.
Pinned
Helena Wang - “Franklin Park: Framed Through Time”
Jury Selection (2/7)
Jury Selection (2/7)
And I’ve fed & cleaned up after everyone in the middle section but the elephant & Linehan. 😁
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Winter in the rocks
February 14, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Winter in the rocks
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The beauty of nature...
#photography #photo #beach #sunset #nature
#reflection #dawn #sunrise #sky #landscape
#photography #photo #beach #sunset #nature
#reflection #dawn #sunrise #sky #landscape
February 13, 2026 at 1:05 PM
The beauty of nature...
#photography #photo #beach #sunset #nature
#reflection #dawn #sunrise #sky #landscape
#photography #photo #beach #sunset #nature
#reflection #dawn #sunrise #sky #landscape
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A different kind of post. My wife Lezlie is a pen and ink artist. She drew over one of my images of a night heron. I was blown away. I'm trying to get her to submit it to a juried exhibition here in our city. I think they would love it. #art #penandink #ink #inkdrawing #sketch #lineart #inksketch
February 11, 2026 at 11:24 AM
A different kind of post. My wife Lezlie is a pen and ink artist. She drew over one of my images of a night heron. I was blown away. I'm trying to get her to submit it to a juried exhibition here in our city. I think they would love it. #art #penandink #ink #inkdrawing #sketch #lineart #inksketch
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We trying to have most #kakapo chicks hatch in nests on Pukenui, so don't have many eggs in the incubators. But there are ~4 which we're incubating and will put in nests just before they hatch. The Anchor chicks are due to start hatching soon - watch this space! #kakapo2026 #conservation
February 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
We trying to have most #kakapo chicks hatch in nests on Pukenui, so don't have many eggs in the incubators. But there are ~4 which we're incubating and will put in nests just before they hatch. The Anchor chicks are due to start hatching soon - watch this space! #kakapo2026 #conservation
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Not all new technology is good. This technology tries to eliminate human creativity, undermines the education system, and reduces efficiency and quality of output in employees forced from the top down to implement it. It's also very environmentally damaging. Please undo this disastrous decision.
BIG NEWS: We’re partnering with Open AI to launch a phased rollout of a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for state workers – the first state in the nation to do it.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
February 13, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Not all new technology is good. This technology tries to eliminate human creativity, undermines the education system, and reduces efficiency and quality of output in employees forced from the top down to implement it. It's also very environmentally damaging. Please undo this disastrous decision.
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Hornbills because
fucking
HORNBILLS
(+fox+candy cornbill)
fucking
HORNBILLS
(+fox+candy cornbill)
October 19, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Hornbills because
fucking
HORNBILLS
(+fox+candy cornbill)
fucking
HORNBILLS
(+fox+candy cornbill)
I’m in a rat’s-ass mood & this made me giggle.
February 14, 2026 at 6:04 AM
I’m in a rat’s-ass mood & this made me giggle.
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no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 3:43 AM
no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.
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Fellow #Massachusetts journalists: From now on, if you receive a written statement from an executive branch official or spokesperson, please ask them to disclose whether they used ChatGPT to produce it and share their answer, or lack thereof, in your story.
#mapoli
#mapoli
“[Sam] Altman appeared via video to help [Governor Maura] Healey announce that #Massachusetts will be the first state to roll out OpenAI’s ChatGPT software to all 40,000 employees of the executive branch of government.”
#mapoli
#mapoli
At launch event for new AI council, Gov. Healy says state employees will get access to ChatGPT
Gov. Maura Healey announced the three-year, $4.3 million annual deal with OpenAI at a Thursday event launching the Massachusetts AI Coalition.
www.masslive.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Fellow #Massachusetts journalists: From now on, if you receive a written statement from an executive branch official or spokesperson, please ask them to disclose whether they used ChatGPT to produce it and share their answer, or lack thereof, in your story.
#mapoli
#mapoli
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DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
This is horseshit, and she knows it. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
BIG NEWS: We’re partnering with Open AI to launch a phased rollout of a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant for state workers – the first state in the nation to do it.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
AI is here. Let’s use it as a tool to make government work faster and better for the people of Massachusetts.
February 14, 2026 at 3:06 AM
This is horseshit, and she knows it. 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
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Thought I would head over there to see if he’d commented yet and yes.
February 13, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Thought I would head over there to see if he’d commented yet and yes.
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This is Richard Ebright’s longstanding dream, to get rid of this within NIH. He hated Fauci and NIH doing biodefense and pandemic preparedness going back nearly 25 years, esp because he worried it would cut into his funding.
After more than 1.2 Americans lost their lives to Covid, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya orders the agency to deprioritize pandemic preparedness & biodefense.
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Make it make sense.
Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 PM
This is Richard Ebright’s longstanding dream, to get rid of this within NIH. He hated Fauci and NIH doing biodefense and pandemic preparedness going back nearly 25 years, esp because he worried it would cut into his funding.
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza to the US after she was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order in November.
Judge orders Trump administration to ‘make amends,’ return Babson student deported to Honduras - The Boston Globe
Belloza was deported while traveling home to Texas to see her family for Thanksgiving.
trib.al
February 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza to the US after she was deported to Honduras in violation of a court order in November.
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I'd say my new year's resolution is to avoid any doctor who gives off judgy fuckbucket vibes in their directory profile except that's actually a long-standing resolution
February 13, 2026 at 11:08 PM
I'd say my new year's resolution is to avoid any doctor who gives off judgy fuckbucket vibes in their directory profile except that's actually a long-standing resolution
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Sure sure let’s order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Sure sure let’s order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the agency’s new grant guidelines could fund projects that encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American history.
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Another headline to rewrite: "Money meant for starving children used to provide security theater escorts for OMB Director."
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
February 13, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Another headline to rewrite: "Money meant for starving children used to provide security theater escorts for OMB Director."
WHAT.
SCOOP: Social Security workers are being told to give the details of appointments customers are making to ICE, raising the prospect of secret police abducting people going to mandatory SSA appointments. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, and @leahfeiger.bsky.social have more.
Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
WHAT.
Genuinely curious about how this Epstein Files document made it onto the Visible Mending feed.
February 13, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Genuinely curious about how this Epstein Files document made it onto the Visible Mending feed.
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“The proliferation of chatbots where people are inputting sensitive legal information…has created ‘a discovery nightmare.’”
If you assumed your AI chats couldn't be used against you in court, think again
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that prosecutors could access the Claude chat transcripts of a finance startup founder accused of fraud.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
“The proliferation of chatbots where people are inputting sensitive legal information…has created ‘a discovery nightmare.’”
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Do you earn $70,000 or less a year? Maximize your refund with the Boston Tax Help Coalition's free tax services! Make an appointment at boston.gov/tax-help
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Do you earn $70,000 or less a year? Maximize your refund with the Boston Tax Help Coalition's free tax services! Make an appointment at boston.gov/tax-help
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What state is getting into with new #OpenAI contract: OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely' from its mission - and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
www.universalhub.com/2026/what-st...
#Massachusetts #AI
www.universalhub.com/2026/what-st...
#Massachusetts #AI
February 13, 2026 at 5:09 PM
What state is getting into with new #OpenAI contract: OpenAI has deleted the word ‘safely' from its mission - and its new structure is a test for whether AI serves society or shareholders
www.universalhub.com/2026/what-st...
#Massachusetts #AI
www.universalhub.com/2026/what-st...
#Massachusetts #AI
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Ground hornbills are curious, clever, and absolutely convinced they deserve to be the center of attention.
We love these bold, curious birds. Stop by the Zoo to say hi to Bunsen, Merry and our other hornbill species!
We love these bold, curious birds. Stop by the Zoo to say hi to Bunsen, Merry and our other hornbill species!
February 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Ground hornbills are curious, clever, and absolutely convinced they deserve to be the center of attention.
We love these bold, curious birds. Stop by the Zoo to say hi to Bunsen, Merry and our other hornbill species!
We love these bold, curious birds. Stop by the Zoo to say hi to Bunsen, Merry and our other hornbill species!
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At the same time that Healey is saying that we have enough money to give large corporations tax cuts for investments they make in Texas, she wants to bring back asset tests for welfare programs.
commonwealthbeacon.org/government/s...
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‘It just requires people to be destitute’: Healey draws criticism over push to tighten eligibility for safety-net program
Five years after lawmakers scrapped the asset limit attached to the Emergency Aid to the Elderly, Disabled, and Children program, Gov. Maura Healey wants to bring it back at a higher threshold — a mov...
commonwealthbeacon.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:27 PM
At the same time that Healey is saying that we have enough money to give large corporations tax cuts for investments they make in Texas, she wants to bring back asset tests for welfare programs.
commonwealthbeacon.org/government/s...
commonwealthbeacon.org/government/s...