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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 1h

🇧🇷Tovacuçu
🌎Grallaria varia
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O tovacuçu é uma ave passeriforme da família Grallariidae.

📷 Sérgio Coutinho (RotadasAves)

Um pássaro de porte médio, com plumagem marrom-oliva e manchas escuras em formato de escama nas costas e peito. Possui uma faixa clara que se estende dos olhos até a nuca e uma garganta clara. As asas exibem uma coloração castanho-avermelhada vibrante. Suas pernas são longas e finas, de cor rosa pálido. O pássaro está empoleirado em um galho coberto de musgo verde intenso, com um fundo desfocado de vegetação verde.
Atenção: O alt da imagem foi gerado automaticamente.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 20m

A murderer at home, a murderer abroad.

Also why is his ex-wife Ivana buried in his golf course (after suffering blunt force trauma to torso, according to coroner's report)? They should bring cadaver sniffing dogs to all his properties. Who else is buried there? ☠️☠️☠️

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 12h

Roger's Park, Chicago organizers tell community to wear whistles.

3 short whistles (PRE-PRE-PRE!) means ICE is near.

3 long whistles (PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!!) means ICE is detaining someone.

"Form a crowd, stay loud!"

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 11h

The technofascists made their fortunes thanks to government research to create the WWW and thanks to the generosity & vision of the pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee. They owe their billions to the democracies & universities they are trying to destroy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ber...

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

Never give up HOP.🐸

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Apr 6

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 1d

Some conspiracies are true, many are false. But nothing Trump & his administration say can be taken as truth. He is a reality star who populated his Cabinet w TV hosts, WWE owner, etc. Political theater is to hide the crime, grift, theft, as he consolidates power. It's been long time in the making

Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · May 19

For anyone who remembers Reagan's inauguration, when US hostages in Iran (major election issue) were released day of inauguration, the ceasefire in Gaza day before Trump inauguration was deja vu. Manafort was Reagan's advisor in 1980, Trump's in 2024. Of course now we see ceasefire was for show. 💔

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 11h

Correction: *89%* of US stockmarket owned by white people. Stockholders control national/international agenda. War, genocide, weapons sales, border & prison industry, mass surveillance enrich stockholders who see their portfolios passively ballooning as people suffer and die in Gaza, in US streets.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 11h

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 11h

In US, 87% of stock market owned by top 10% (half owned by top 1%; 88% owned by white people). Everything is being done to enrich stockholders, & destroy any safety net & basics of life for the majority: clean air, agriculture, education, healthcare, workers' rights. Out of control war-ICE economy.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 11h

The technofascists made their fortunes thanks to government research to create the WWW and thanks to the generosity & vision of the pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee. They owe their billions to the democracies & universities they are trying to destroy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ber...

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 11h

Invisible net maker was possibly a time traveller, maybe Tim Berners-Lee

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 1d

"We can regain power by building things ourselves: mutual aid or community organizations or independent media or whatever you imagine."

New Q&A from the wonderful & honest Dr. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social:

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 1d

Martin Luther King, Jr., called on educators to practice "creative maladjustment." Resist conformity to structures that perpetuate inequality. "Nurturing generative collectives is at the heart of creative maladjustment."
Stick to the path of justice, a path that invites both precarity and hope.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 12h

Roger's Park, Chicago organizers tell community to wear whistles.

3 short whistles (PRE-PRE-PRE!) means ICE is near.

3 long whistles (PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!!) means ICE is detaining someone.

"Form a crowd, stay loud!"

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13h

Norwegian riot police used pepper spray to disperse a pro-Palestinian protest outside a World Cup qualifier match between Norway and Israel, which the hosts won 5-0. Several activists were arrested.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 12h

Ireland: This flag is for everyone!

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 13h

“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 13h

🇧🇷Anambé-de-cara-preta
🌎Conioptilon mcilhennyi
Conservação:Pouco Preocupante

O anambé-de-cara-preta é uma ave passeriforme da família Cotingidae.

📷 Leandro Rios

Um pássaro de porte médio, com cabeça escura e corpo em tons de cinza e branco, repousa sobre um galho. Seus olhos são escuros e o bico fino. A ave está em meio a folhagens verdes e ramos de árvores, em um ambiente natural iluminado.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

Bangladesh launches typhoid vaccination drive to combat drug-resistant threat reut.rs/48YJz0U

Bangladesh launches typhoid vaccination drive to combat drug-resistant threat

Bangladesh launched a nationwide vaccination campaign on Sunday to protect millions of children from typhoid, a deadly and increasingly drug-resistant disease that poses a growing public health threat.

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 19h

Linda McMahon, co-owner of World Wrestling Entertainment, is not an activist. She uses people. She is facing a lawsuit for ignoring a pedophile ring at WWE. Also had lawsuits from former wrestlers or surviving family members for not protecting them from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

We are reaching the tipping point with continued measles outbreaks throughout the U.S. If they continue (bad news: under this administration, that's nearly guaranteed), we are at risk of losing our elimination status. What that means in the info-graphic, below.

Infographic saying:
Measles Alert. The US is approaching a tipping point - we may lose our measles elimination status.
What is "Measles Elimination"?
"Elimination means no continuous endemic transmission of measles for <12 months despite importations. The U.S. was declared to have eliminated measles in 2000. But elimination is not "forever" - if the virus begins sustained transmission again, the status can be revoked.
Why the US is now at risk:
2025 is seeing the highest measles caseload in decades - over 1,544 confirmed cases as of Sept. 30. Many outbreaks are clustering in under-vaccinated communities. Measles is extremely transmissible, so her immunity needs very high coverage (>92-95%) to block sustained spread.
What losing elimination means - and why it matters:
Measles becomes endemic again: regular spread, more severe outcomes, and greater health impact. The public health burden increases; contact tracing, outbreak response, surveillance costs, and strain on local health systems.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 22h

Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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