Adam
@beardedenviro.bsky.social
Wannabe Lorax. Michigander. I probably subscribe to your podcast. Learn more about the Michigan PBB Registry here (trust me, you will want to know more): https://sph.emory.edu/pbbregistry/index.html
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The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The people who are trying to destroy universities when it comes to inclusion around race and gender are also opposed to inclusion around disability. This bullshit gives them cover. Once again, legacy media laundering far right complaints because it makes elites feel smug.
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What’s being done to keep whitefish from disappearing? Why do chefs at a restaurant in our region forage for your food? And how did the Erie Canal shape the world we live in?
Find out in our latest episode: youtu.be/cDasyGwwVMM
Find out in our latest episode: youtu.be/cDasyGwwVMM
The Fight to Save Lake Whitefish | Great Lakes Now | Full Episode
YouTube video by Great Lakes Now
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November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What’s being done to keep whitefish from disappearing? Why do chefs at a restaurant in our region forage for your food? And how did the Erie Canal shape the world we live in?
Find out in our latest episode: youtu.be/cDasyGwwVMM
Find out in our latest episode: youtu.be/cDasyGwwVMM
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Redear sunfish look similar to a couple of familiar sunfish: the bluegill + pumpkinseed.
How to tell these cousins apart? Bluegill lack the redear’s orange spot on the black ear flap, while pumpkinseeds share the orange ear flap spot but have wavy bluish lines on their cheeks #25DaysofFishmas
How to tell these cousins apart? Bluegill lack the redear’s orange spot on the black ear flap, while pumpkinseeds share the orange ear flap spot but have wavy bluish lines on their cheeks #25DaysofFishmas
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Redear sunfish look similar to a couple of familiar sunfish: the bluegill + pumpkinseed.
How to tell these cousins apart? Bluegill lack the redear’s orange spot on the black ear flap, while pumpkinseeds share the orange ear flap spot but have wavy bluish lines on their cheeks #25DaysofFishmas
How to tell these cousins apart? Bluegill lack the redear’s orange spot on the black ear flap, while pumpkinseeds share the orange ear flap spot but have wavy bluish lines on their cheeks #25DaysofFishmas
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Rudolph, the red-eared reindeer! 🦌
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Rudolph, the red-eared reindeer! 🦌
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
With ears so bright, the Redear Sunfish (Lepomis microlophus) guides us into Day 2 of #25DaysofFishmas! This member of the sunfish family found throughout the southeastern US is a warm-water loving ray of sun on a cold winter day ☀️
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The Nutcracker? Psh, I prefer The Shellcracker!
Other common names for the redear sunfish include “shellcracker” (from the specialized teeth in their throat that enable them to crush the shells of snails + mussels) and “stumpknocker” (from their tendency to congregate around logs) #25DaysofFishmas
Other common names for the redear sunfish include “shellcracker” (from the specialized teeth in their throat that enable them to crush the shells of snails + mussels) and “stumpknocker” (from their tendency to congregate around logs) #25DaysofFishmas
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Nutcracker? Psh, I prefer The Shellcracker!
Other common names for the redear sunfish include “shellcracker” (from the specialized teeth in their throat that enable them to crush the shells of snails + mussels) and “stumpknocker” (from their tendency to congregate around logs) #25DaysofFishmas
Other common names for the redear sunfish include “shellcracker” (from the specialized teeth in their throat that enable them to crush the shells of snails + mussels) and “stumpknocker” (from their tendency to congregate around logs) #25DaysofFishmas
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Pippa Durham, 28, was attending a comedy night when the comedian on stage asked if she’d travelled far to be there. Eyewitnesses reported Durham responding: “I guess it depends on how far back you go,” before beginning with the industrial revolution.
Amazing! Autistic woman’s life story somehow longer than actual life
An autistic woman who started telling her life story 45 minutes ago has only just got to the moment of her conception, sources have said. Pippa Durham, 28, was attending a comedy night when the…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Pippa Durham, 28, was attending a comedy night when the comedian on stage asked if she’d travelled far to be there. Eyewitnesses reported Durham responding: “I guess it depends on how far back you go,” before beginning with the industrial revolution.
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These companies should be banned from receiving govt subsidies or tax credits
But instead, Amazon got a tax deal worth an estimated **$100M** to build a warehouse in Fall River, so that we could then subsidize Amazon *again* by feeding its workers
But instead, Amazon got a tax deal worth an estimated **$100M** to build a warehouse in Fall River, so that we could then subsidize Amazon *again* by feeding its workers
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
These companies should be banned from receiving govt subsidies or tax credits
But instead, Amazon got a tax deal worth an estimated **$100M** to build a warehouse in Fall River, so that we could then subsidize Amazon *again* by feeding its workers
But instead, Amazon got a tax deal worth an estimated **$100M** to build a warehouse in Fall River, so that we could then subsidize Amazon *again* by feeding its workers
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to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
to diminish the humanities is to miss out on a lot of little guys. that’s no way to live.
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This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”
DOGE Isn’t Dead. Here’s What Its Operatives Are Doing Now
Contrary to popular reports, DOGE has “burrowed into the agencies like ticks,” government sources tell WIRED.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This sounds a lot like Office of Faith-Based Initiatives under GW Bush. Big roll-out, lots of controversy, erroneous reports of its evaporation even as it settled in across gov't. Good reporting here.
Was shoveling snow late yesterday & I kept using my plastic shovel instead of the metal one because it was quieter. Had it been daylight & I wasn't worried about waking people up or setting off the various dogs who bark at everyone locking/unlocking their car I could have been done in half the time
December 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Was shoveling snow late yesterday & I kept using my plastic shovel instead of the metal one because it was quieter. Had it been daylight & I wasn't worried about waking people up or setting off the various dogs who bark at everyone locking/unlocking their car I could have been done in half the time
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🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas🎶
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎶It’s beginning to look a lot like #Fishmas🎶
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
There’s no better fish to kick off this year’s #25DaysofFishmas than the aptly-named Christmas darter (Etheostoma hopkinsi)! We get our road trip started down in the southeastern US with this small species of fish who has big holiday spirit all year long
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The Christmas darter is one of ~200 species of darters (fish in a group called Etheostomatinae) that are all native to North America + mostly found east of the Rocky Mountains. Christmas darters are Tiny Tims, typically only growing <2 in (5 cm) long #25DaysofFishmas
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The Christmas darter is one of ~200 species of darters (fish in a group called Etheostomatinae) that are all native to North America + mostly found east of the Rocky Mountains. Christmas darters are Tiny Tims, typically only growing <2 in (5 cm) long #25DaysofFishmas
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The Grinch wasn't *stealing* Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for raining his AI model
Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the Whoville Data Center
Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the Whoville Data Center
"There's a perfectly innocent explanation for my possession of the town's entire Christmas, Officer Who"
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The Grinch wasn't *stealing* Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for raining his AI model
Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the Whoville Data Center
Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the Whoville Data Center
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Americans can now become famous by turning in shitty homework
November 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Americans can now become famous by turning in shitty homework
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One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
Listening to Mexican folk music on Youtube and they're running this horrible ad urging people to self-deport.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
Fuck you Kristi Noem, and fuck you Google for taking her money.
December 1, 2025 at 12:58 PM
One point that may have been lost: I’ve never seen this ad before.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
It’s only when I searched for Mexican folk music tonight that YouTube started running it.
Google’s surveillance technology has enabled the government to selectively terrorize specific groups in service of white supremacy.
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It is both.
It’s about both these things. They’re fundamentally nested subjects.
Conservatives want their subjective opinions to be weighted evenly with objective, evidence-backed truth, that they refuse to even engage with. One of those subjective opinions is “there are only two genders”.
It’s about both these things. They’re fundamentally nested subjects.
Conservatives want their subjective opinions to be weighted evenly with objective, evidence-backed truth, that they refuse to even engage with. One of those subjective opinions is “there are only two genders”.
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is both.
It’s about both these things. They’re fundamentally nested subjects.
Conservatives want their subjective opinions to be weighted evenly with objective, evidence-backed truth, that they refuse to even engage with. One of those subjective opinions is “there are only two genders”.
It’s about both these things. They’re fundamentally nested subjects.
Conservatives want their subjective opinions to be weighted evenly with objective, evidence-backed truth, that they refuse to even engage with. One of those subjective opinions is “there are only two genders”.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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you have to be able to look bad faith in the eye and say absolutely not, even if that bad faith is coming from the highest levels of government
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
you have to be able to look bad faith in the eye and say absolutely not, even if that bad faith is coming from the highest levels of government
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Need something to listen to this Sunday?
Why not listen to us talk about ”gender fuckery” (as we say at some point in the episode) in history and ASOIAF?
Why not listen to us talk about ”gender fuckery” (as we say at some point in the episode) in history and ASOIAF?
New episode!
This time we talk about something that’s v on brand for us:
Gender nonconformity in history and ASOIAF!
We discuss everything from genderfluidity during the Viking age to Joan of Arc, trans saints, and ”gender criminals”. And Brienne, Arya, Alleras etc!
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kksht-...
This time we talk about something that’s v on brand for us:
Gender nonconformity in history and ASOIAF!
We discuss everything from genderfluidity during the Viking age to Joan of Arc, trans saints, and ”gender criminals”. And Brienne, Arya, Alleras etc!
www.podbean.com/ew/pb-kksht-...
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Need something to listen to this Sunday?
Why not listen to us talk about ”gender fuckery” (as we say at some point in the episode) in history and ASOIAF?
Why not listen to us talk about ”gender fuckery” (as we say at some point in the episode) in history and ASOIAF?
Some hero just did a lap around the block with anow blower & I couldn't be happier (I woke up early to go do the same thing but with shovels) so now I can focus on the driveways.
Thank you person who probably got sad at how little snow we got last winter so they jumped at a chance to use their toys
Thank you person who probably got sad at how little snow we got last winter so they jumped at a chance to use their toys
November 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Some hero just did a lap around the block with anow blower & I couldn't be happier (I woke up early to go do the same thing but with shovels) so now I can focus on the driveways.
Thank you person who probably got sad at how little snow we got last winter so they jumped at a chance to use their toys
Thank you person who probably got sad at how little snow we got last winter so they jumped at a chance to use their toys
Bought a cardigan several years ago when I thought I could pull off the look (I cannot) but couldn't find any of my friends who were regular cardigan wearers until seeing a friend at work while wearing one and immediately asking if they wanted a fun sweater with extra long arms and a little dragon
November 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Bought a cardigan several years ago when I thought I could pull off the look (I cannot) but couldn't find any of my friends who were regular cardigan wearers until seeing a friend at work while wearing one and immediately asking if they wanted a fun sweater with extra long arms and a little dragon
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A planetary system feedback from DAC that I had not yet considered: If we manage to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere at an industrial scale, it would cause the CO2 in ocean and land sinks to flow back towards equilibrium and into the atmosphere. Hard to make progress against that tide.
More reasons why OVERSHOOT of 1.5 is a terrible idea:
"[Carbon] removal would set off a process of outgassing, from oceans and forests and other spheres: sinks would somersault into sources...the more that is removed, the more will be outgassed...lending this project, too, a Sisyphean character."
"[Carbon] removal would set off a process of outgassing, from oceans and forests and other spheres: sinks would somersault into sources...the more that is removed, the more will be outgassed...lending this project, too, a Sisyphean character."
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 AM
A planetary system feedback from DAC that I had not yet considered: If we manage to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere at an industrial scale, it would cause the CO2 in ocean and land sinks to flow back towards equilibrium and into the atmosphere. Hard to make progress against that tide.
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As someone whose spent a decade-plus covering social services in NY and TX, let me say this has nothing to do with immigration — and everything to do with government outsourcing delivery of key services to non-profits it cannot properly supervise and politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 PM
As someone whose spent a decade-plus covering social services in NY and TX, let me say this has nothing to do with immigration — and everything to do with government outsourcing delivery of key services to non-profits it cannot properly supervise and politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...
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“The communications could help prove what’s known as “willful” infringement, which triggers significantly higher damages of $150,000 per work.“
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“The communications could help prove what’s known as “willful” infringement, which triggers significantly higher damages of $150,000 per work.“