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books, beats, bread, justice (not in that order) oh! and pencils! BLM🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ADHD JFT97 YNWA🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 “nobody’s free until everybody’s free” (she/her) #LandBack #CovidIsAirborne

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · Aug 5

i don’t see mohammed here -
one of the reasons i still visit the other place

pls pls give if you can 🙏🏼

marybethbass.bsky.social @marybethbass.bsky.social · Aug 4

Safe Life for Rafif — Help Give Her the Childhood She Deserves chuffed.org/project/1330...

Safe Life for Rafif — Help Give Her the Childhood She Deserves

My name is Abdulaziz Al-Jabour, and I am organizing this campaign on behalf of my brother, Mohammad Al-Jabour, to help save the lives of his baby daughter, Rafif, and his wife.

chuffed.org

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 3h

[relatively speaking, ofc
nowhere near the worst of the world's problems]

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 3h

aaaand just found out my MIL is now scheduled for vascular surgery when we are finally taking this trip

once more it is everything everywhere at once and
i can't help but wonder how it is that i am here again

always do-it-the-hard-way-fc around here

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 4h

one of the reasons it is so hard to go thru my teacher stuff is that some of it includes gently used things that once belonged to my own kids

READ THE ROOM, GRIEF,
NOT NOW

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 4h

the equesticles will be lining up

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iNaturalist @inaturalist.bsky.social · 5h

In today's episode of otherworldly fungi: a close look at Polycephalomyces tomentosus! It's growing right alongside what's likely a species of slime mold.

📷 tannarc on iNaturalist
📍 Australia
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

A yellowish-brown fungus with translucent bluish appendages on it grows out of the substrate.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 5h

Use a low-theory but memorable and true statement: "the enemy travels in private jets, not small boats."

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 5h

The greater noctule bat can, and DOES, hunt and eat freakin ROBINS in midair.

...and then it chews while continuing to echolocate.

Heheheh it "talks" with its mouth full. www.sciencenews.org/article/bats...

Mic’d bats reveal midnight songbird attacks

Sensor data reveal greater noctule bats chasing, catching and chewing on birds during high-altitude, nighttime hunts.

www.sciencenews.org

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 5h

then off to face the basement again 😭

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 5h

potatoes will make things better

(at least a little)

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 6h

yessss 💪🏼

the time+effort for this is so necessary and worth it. i externalize my thought processes as much as possible to model healthy communication

and ofc i learn a lot as well when they call me in/out 🙃

raising good humans is hard humbling work but this is the way

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 6h

vv grateful that even as they get older and are making more+more decisions on their own, we continue to be able to find common ground

direct communication and the willingness to have hard conversations is always so key

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 6h

ty ty - very much appreciated

so much harder when you’re making decisions that affect others

and so so much harder when those decisions are made solo

(tho ofc 16+19 were consulted every step of the way)

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 7h

ty 💜💜💜

we 3 will do the best we can, as we always do, but i was already anxious on multiple levels 🫠

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 7h

timing was always going to be a gamble but fuck me (us) i guess 😬

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 7h

well shit

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 8h

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 7h

and whimsy

always whimsy

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 7h

find and celebrate joy wherever/whenever you can 🫶🏼

two silver stars connected by string, hanging, catching the light and reflecting rainbows

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Chelton's Mushroom Photography @mush-photos.bsky.social · 7h

Russula rhodocephala, the Redhead Russula, is likely what this is. There are so many Russula species. I'm almost never 100% sure!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/5.6, 1/2, ISO 400
Stack of 27 images
9/2/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫

A large and beautiful pinkish-red mushroom grows out of a thick bed of pine needles. Its stipe and cap are the same pretty color. The gills are slightly separated and appear almost page-like, which is common for Russula species, as far as I've observed.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 14h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 9h

A win? Neat.

Can't be roller derby tough if you're a terf.

Judge halts New York county from enforcing trans athlete ban after roller derby league sues

The ban would have affected more than 100 sports facilities in Nassau County, just east of New York City.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 19h

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 8h

Tama Kyoryu (dinosaur) is a mascot for the parks of Tama Hills, Tokyo. It has acorns for eyes, grass on its belly, and flowers and trees growing out of it.

A round green dinosaur character with acorn eyes stands in a park.

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 9h

Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg

The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy.

I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council.

Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 8h

which also means fire weather!!