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Botany, geography, natural history, humans, and the arts. Pacific Northwest, Alaska, Hawai'i. Thomas R. Belfield - MA - Department of Geography - University of Hawai`i at Mānoa. Nānā ao.
📍Yakama lands.
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ʻO nā manawa paʻakikī a weliweli @pnwgeographies.bsky.social · Jun 3
Free Hawai'i.
Hawai'i Aloha
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Nazi Censorship book burning
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December 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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In very local news someone blew up a truck at 4am, Sunday morning, in the parking lot of elementary school directly across the street from where I live.
local new. big explosion. someone blows up truck.
December 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Tigers Between Empires. Title on book spine.
December 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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IJN Shōkaku. December 7, 1941.
historical photo: IJN Shōkaku. December 7, 1941. Shows flight crews and aircraft ready to launch.
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A tsunami that starts in Alaska can reach the Washington coast in less than four hours.
Nine Alaska seismic stations to go dark in January, slowing West Coast tsunami alerts
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December 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Good lord. This article is excellent, deftly drawing together many criticisms of generalized LLM-AI, damning it all. This is the claxon warning with flashing red lights.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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quite well from the fossil record. Even just what we've recorded, not taking into consideration the species that we miss, because many species of course have very small ranges, they're very tiny, they live in a very cryptic lifestyle. Most extinctions actually go unnoticed until well after they've occurred. So even if we just look at the ones that we definitely know go on extinct that we've observed, we're looking at an extinction rate that's about sort of an average of about a thousand times the rate that occurs between these mass extinction events. That's what we're in now. And everything that we look at points to the fact that it's perhaps even larger than that. So while we haven't achieved that threshold yet, we're on the way. And even more strikingly is that it's not going to happen in two and a half million years. It's going to be a century scale event. So this is potentially the largest mass extin-or I'd say the most important or the highest magnitude mass extinction event that has ever occurred in the history of planet Earth. It's happening now.
December 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Y'all the latest episode of the #Kilauea #eruption just went CRAZY. It looks like pressure built up enough to explode out the ground around the two existing vents (first few seconds), leading to a massive surge in lava fountaining.🌋🤯

USGS Live stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiyt...
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The triple fountain is an extremely rare event, and this was the first time during the ongoing episodic eruption at Kīlauea volcano's summit it has been observed.
Triple lava fountain appears during Episode 38 of ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu Crater eruption
The triple fountain is an extremely rare event, and this was the first time during the ongoing episodic eruption at Kīlauea volcano's summit it has been observed.
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December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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water
tree branches reflected in water
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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The island served as a secluded place for activities too dangerous to do elsewhere.
The remote island near Hawaii with a dark past
The island served as a secluded place for activities too dangerous to do elsewhere.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
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December 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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‘Incredible’ carved canoe dates back to first settlement of islands near New Zealand | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
‘Incredible’ carved canoe dates back to first settlement of islands near New Zealand
Fibers found on waka in Chatham Islands roughly align in age with earliest known human arrival
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December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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A critical bedrock environmental law is under attack.

The U.S. House of Representatives will soon vote on legislation that would gut the National Environmental Policy Act — #NEPA for short — and let developers call the shots on #PublicLands.

U.S. supporters, please take action ➡️ bit.ly/3MrzoZz
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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“Our Sovereignty Is Not Optional”: Tulalip Responds to ICE Actions
The Tulalip Tribes issued a statement this week pushing back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, saying federal agents have no jurisdiction over the Tribe or its citizens.
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December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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How the fate of the Amur Tiger is tied to humans and history #nature
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Caught Between Empires: On the Fate of the Amur Tiger
For centuries, as Cossacks and fur traders tentatively planted Russian flags along the Amur River, Amur tigers and their habitat were protected to the south from human encroachment by a dense barri…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Everyone likes books about tigers! Everyone! And @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social in #Minneapolis has signed copies in store for pickup or order online with convenient shipping!
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a book about tigers in front of a holiday decoration, placed there in hopes of igniting the Black Friday predatory instinct in viewers
November 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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"Against stupidity we are defenseless."

-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
February 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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quote about Noboru Wataya from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
November 11, 2024 at 4:29 PM
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"This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming."

–H. Murakami
December 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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UPPIK QUBIASUTTUQ / MAKING A NEST

Ningiukulu Teevee
Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 2006
stonecut & stencil
UPPIK QUBIASUTTUQ / MAKING A NEST Ningiukulu Teevee Kinngait (Cape Dorset), 2006 stonecut & stencil snowy owl figure red green feathers yellow eyes
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Sound up for serenity! 😌

Need a little breather and the sound of the ocean as you rest your gaze on the silvery waves rippling into Pelekane Bay? 🌊

The mighty Pu’ukoholā heiau sits in the sun beyond the bay on this flawless Kohala winter day. 🌞

Mahalo, Ranger Gorman.

IMG: @puukoholaheiaunhs
December 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Headline du jour

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Daily mail headline: “Kristi Noem’s ICE hiring chaos laid bare as fat, illiterate and violent misfits ‘not ready to tie their own laces’ are recruited“
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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The Pacific Whale Foundation, the designated Marine Debris Rapid Response partner for Maui Nui, is reporting more progress in its ongoing effort to remove harmful debris from local waters.

#PacificWhaleFoundation #MarineDebris
Pacific Whale Foundation removes more than 12,000 pounds of marine debris in 2025
The Pacific Whale Foundation, the designated Marine Debris Rapid Response partner for Maui Nui, is reporting more progress in its ongoing effort to remove harmful debris from local waters.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM