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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 7d

She truly was. I had the great fortune of meeting her and Sylvia Earle at the same time, behind the scenes of an event at COP21. It was like the singularity of conservation wisdom 🤯

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 7d

She built a legacy that wove science AND emotion together to help us better understand ourselves, our primate cousins, and nature. She was a giant and it’s on all the people she inspired and influenced to keep her work and her values alive. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Jane Goodall, famed primatologist and conservationist, dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the most prolific primatologist of a generation, has died. She was 91 years old.

abcnews.go.com

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 7d

Oh get their a$$es Merriam

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 8d

climate change made a new bird i guess? www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

So what should we call this – a grue jay?

Biologists, who have reported discovering a bird that’s the natural result of a green jay and a blue jay’s mating, say it may be among the first examples of a hybrid animal that exists bec...

www.eurekalert.org

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 10d

Pictured: The Baltimore Ravens

A photo of a rusted-out, burned-out car in a field with weeds and shrubs growing through it

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 17d

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended.

It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 17d

Oops he’s done it again

Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · Aug 3

Ooh, the wheel of Akin keeps on turnin'
I know he'll be tomorrow

The vicious cycle meme, which is a series of four chasing arrows in a circle. It’s titled in the center, “The Wheel of Akin” with a photo of Keegan Akin.

Text with a straight arrow that reads “we are here” points to the first step in the cycle: “On the roster”.

The text at the next step reads: “a series of disappointing outings”.

The text at the third step reads: “Sent down to the minors”.

The text at the last step of the cycle reads: “All our pitchers’ elbows explode.”

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17d

What a joy to celebrate “Sun Day” w/ @billmckibben.bsky.social @sandynurse.bsky.social
@solaronenyc.bsky.social @brooklynsolarworks.bsky.social & climate activists across the globe.

With clarity about the emergency we face, and hope for our capacity to rise to it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19d

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

www.propublica.org

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 20d

I instinctually knew this would be untrue and the lede sentences are:
“Nonprofit environmental organization the Ocean Cleanup has announced that it's on track to eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by 2034. If it can get the necessary funds, that is.”
futurism.com/the-byte/oce...

Cleanup Group Says It's on Track to Eliminate the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Nonprofit environmental organization The Ocean Cleanup has announced that it can clear the Great Pacific Garbage Patch within a decade.

futurism.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 20d

With full alt text

Are you mad at me? @bradys.bsky .... 10h
I have been a social media manager for 10
years. If you are upset with a company I BEG
you to write a physical letter and put it in a
mailbox. 10000 social media comments are
a meaningless annoyance that executives
brush off. A single letter can send a
company into a panic.

Cass Morris
@cassmorriswrites.com
The address to target is:
Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and
Television Distribution
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-3515
Are you mad at me?

@bradys.bsky .... 10h
I have been a social media manager for 10
years. If you are upset with a company I BEG
you to write a physical letter and put it in a
mailbox. 10000 social media comments are
a meaningless annoyance that executives
brush off. A single letter can send a
company into a panic.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20d

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 22d

For no particular reason, here’s a question I’ve found helpful to use in most situations where somebody is irrationally upset. “What expectations of yours am I not meeting?”

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 24d

www.reuters.com/business/met...

Meta plans fourth restructuring of AI efforts in six months, The Information reports

The company is expected to divide its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, into four groups.

www.reuters.com

Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 24d

Not a great sign for the AI industry that companies keep having to “reorganize”
www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article...

Elon Musk’s xAI startup lays off 500 employees in major reorganization

The cuts, which began late Friday, were announced in emails to employees describing an immediate “strategic pivot” away from generalist roles.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 26d

Oh my bad. Have you tried unplugging the power supply and then plugging it back in?

a cartoon dog is covering his mouth with his paw

ALT: a cartoon dog is covering his mouth with his paw

media.tenor.com

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 26d

It is the year of our lord 2025 and ye hasn’t a vpn?

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Kevin Connor @kevintconnor.bsky.social · 26d

Did we send the national guard into Utah to stop all crime yet? That’s how this works now right?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 26d

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.