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Anna Drehel @annadrehel.bsky.social · 16h

This is the most unusual Slime Mold I have ever came across. I needed assistance in identifying it and the verdict was it is a False Puffball Slime Mold. The color is so shiny and unnatural I actually smelled it to make sure it wasn't painted. #Hedgewatch #slimemold #fungi

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Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 16h

Autumn lace ...

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California Curated @californiacurated.bsky.social · 4h

In light of the amazing news of all the Nobel prize winners this year from the University of California, here’s a story about one of the great discoveries in earth’s history, which was also made at Berkeley by a father and son team. californiacurated.com/2025/03/04/b...

Berkeley’s Cosmic Breakthrough and the Alvarez Discovery That Rewrote Earth’s History

The Alvarez’ work led to one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century: the discovery that a massive meteorite impact was responsible for the extinction of the dino…

californiacurated.com

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Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 4h

Today I learned the US Navy spent years looking for Dorothy, the "leader of a vast ring of gay military in Chicago", thinking if they found her she would reveal the names of gay Navy personnel. Like antifa, she never existed.
#RWNJ #GayHistory #ConsiracyTheorists
www.mentalfloss.com/posts/friend...

How ‘Friend of Dorothy’ Became Code in the Gay Community

In the 1980s, the U.S. Navy carried out a futile search for the “real” Dorothy.

www.mentalfloss.com

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 5h

Is it a J Comey mushroom?

lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 11h

Here is a nice mushroom

A tiny brownish mushroom of incredible delicateness grows tall from between hairy moss fronds. Teeny hair covers its stem in fuzz, and dew glistens on its cap. All photos by me

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus): This brilliantly coloured 21cm (8.3in) woodpecker species is native to forested areas with oaks from south west USA to Colombia. Remarkable photo by Jay Spring taken in Orange, California, USA. For more of Jay's shots see: www.springphotos.net #woodpecker

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 5h

Counted the wilted spinach in my soup yesterday and today’s spinach salad. 52 leaves 🍃 total. Will try to increase the total tomorrow

nosé @lightblanket.bsky.social · 6d

We’re getting rid of leaf blowers by eating 50 leaves a day each. Get out there

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 5h

More cool research

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 9h

In new research, Montana State scientists explore how viruses replicate and infect.
www.montana.edu/news/24830/i...

In new research, Montana State scientists explore how viruses replicate and infect

Matthew Taylor and Gary Dunn examined how different producer cells can result in differences in the viruses they are used to cultivate.

www.montana.edu

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 8h

A white nonnative Corydalis in PK’s garden

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to April 8 🌿

White flowers with long spurs rising behind them

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TheSnarkyFarmer @thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social · 7h

#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨‍🌾🦋
Monarch Watch monarchwatch.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 6h

Arm relics and ravens. Who could wish for more

Oswald's Raven @oswaldsraven.bsky.social · 15h

I'm giving an online lecture next Thursday evening, in aid of Peterborough Cathedral. I'll be talking about Oswald's cult at Peterborough and his continental connections. There will be arm relics and ravens! 💪 #MedievalSky

To book tickets: peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/event/in-per...

ppt slide. Title "The surprising afterlife of a Northumbrian king: the cult of St Oswald in Peterborough and beyond". Image from a medieval German manuscript shows Oswald and Aidan at the Easter feast, with beggars. Gold background and architectural frame.

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 6h

MacArthur Genius award winners do amazing things. I love reading about them every year

Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 8h

Congrats to @tobykiers.bsky.social on her MacArthur Genius award!

I wrote this @nature.com feature on her novel research a couple of years ago.

Invasive palms and WWII damaged an island paradise. Could fungi help to restore it?

Researchers ventured to the world’s most remote island to study how fungi in soils could help to revive damaged ecosystems.

www.nature.com

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 10h

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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 7d

Top: snake and mouse see a ghost. Snake says “OMG a ghost!” Bottom: mouse notices the ghost’s spots, and says “Cute sheet.” Ghost replies “Thanks! I was a leopard.”

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 6h

Now everyone feels good

Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 7h

Top: a red panda hesitates to carve a jack o lantern. Hedgehog asks “are you going to carve that pumpkin?” Red panda replies “I dunno. I feel kinda bad stabbing it in the face.” Bottom: red panda and pumpkin cuddle under a blanket with hot cocoa and a spooky book. Panda has drawn a happy face onto the pumpkin with a sharpie.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 1d

I was trying to photograph Groove-billed Anis this morning, but I was photobombed by his scofflaw.

At @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapirs #birds #nature

A tapir resting in green grass with two small black birds nearby—one perched on its back and the other on the ground in front.

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 15h

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 9h

"...The VP of the US, suggested going further: Why limit deportation merely to immigrants? Why not permanently expel troublemakers of every sort?...”

Permanent expulsion has already been floated

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 16h

Welcome to the era of “Kavanaugh Raids.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 15h

That’s very sensible of them.

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve lived in California most of my life and didn’t know this bit of history.

California Curated @californiacurated.bsky.social · 15h

Most people, even Californians, don’t know that the Salton Sea is actually the result of a huge human triggered accident. Here’s the story. californiacurated.com/2025/07/15/c... #california

The Salton Sea Was California’s Strangest Catastrophe

Support California Curated with a small donation. In California’s southeastern desert, the Salton Sea stretches across a wide, shimmering basin, a lake where there shouldn’t be one. At about 340 sq…

californiacurated.com

foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 23h

“Scientists finally reveal what’s behind long COVID’s mysterious brain fog”

Headline should be “Scientists finally DISCOVER”.

Either way it’s great news

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. The findings confirm brain fog as a measurable, biological condition and reveal new targeted for treatment.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists finally reveal what’s behind long COVID’s mysterious brain fog

Researchers in Japan have pinpointed a biological cause of Long COVID brain fog using advanced PET brain imaging. They discovered widespread increases in AMPA receptor density linked to cognitive impa...

www.sciencedaily.com

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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 1d

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 1d

Seasons for these events are lasting longer, the extent of areas that are seeing these events is bigger, and the storms that occur are seemingly more intense and therefore more destructive,” noted the Rand study, produced for the Pentagon.

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 1d

"The Trump administration, meanwhile, rejects the science showing that climate change is worsening natural disasters and has ceased Pentagon efforts to plan for such impacts or reduce its own carbon footprint."
#ClimateChange #Politics
#WhatNext
arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Natural disasters are a rising burden for the National Guard

New Pentagon data show climate impacts shaping reservists’ mission.

arstechnica.com

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foster198.bsky.social @foster198.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been reading The Oatmeal since he started his email list. This is said (seen) better than all of the articles I’ve read

Carolannie 🧹🪄🎃👻🧙‍♀️ @carolannie.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much this: AI "art" has no heart
#Art #ArtificialIntelligenceArt

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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