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melly-moon.bsky.social
@melly-moon.bsky.social
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I enjoy cats, reading, tea, baking, cooking, and swimming.
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year.

Y'all this isn't sustainable.
La. regulators approve Entergy power plants for Meta’s AI data center
Louisiana Public Service Commissioners voted four to one to approve Entergy’s three new gas plants to power Meta’s largest-ever data center.
www.kplctv.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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mauracunningham.bsky.social
Bring back the President's Physical Fitness Test?!? Clearly no one in the Trump Administration has listened to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social absolutely DEMOLISH it in one of the first Maintenance Phase episodes.
The President's Physical Fitness Test
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 10/20/2020 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
My semi-regular reminder of a really important reality about cities, density, services and taxes.

Any questions?

Graphic recently cleaned up by @kathrynmathias.bsky.social. #CityMakingMath
Venn diagram showing you can’t achieve stable services, low density and low taxes at the same time.
July 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social
A helpful reading guide to expand your TBR – and your imagination – this #Juneteenth and beyond!
Colorful graphic with a black, green, red, and gold pattern along the top and bottom borders. At the center, against a black background are the words: “A Reading Guide: Books to Celebrate Juneteenth”.
June 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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astrokatie.com
10/10 for me but some of them required a pretty careful look. The analysis of what to look for in each was useful, though there’s no guarantees the “tells” will persist as the image generator algorithms improve, and even now not all generated images have them.
May 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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timosborne.ca
Happy International Beaver Day! #wildlife #beaver
A beaver in the water, facing towards the viewer, chewing the bark off a small twig.
April 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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kateammann.bsky.social
Happy International Asexuality Day!!!🖤🩶🤍💜
Digital illustration of a crow holding an asexual pride flag in its beak.
April 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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foxes-in-love.bsky.social
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue turns around to look at Green, and the foxes look at each other in confusion. Blue: What was it that we needed from the grocery store? Green: Oh right! Blue: It was something important, wasn't it? Green: I think so, too. The foxes ponder, frowning in contemplation. Blue: Any other clues? Green: Nope. Giving up, the foxes return to look at each other. Blue: We're only going to remember once it's too late, aren't we? Green: The consequences will be devastating.
March 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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marygemignani.bsky.social
Sandhill Crane 2024
#Birds #photography #nature
#SandhillCranes #AntigoneCanadensis
Large gray and white bird with a red crown and amber eyes standing tall.
March 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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csonkatroy.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
I’m sorry you’re having one of those days. I know the feeling.

Take a moment and think of a person you’d give anything to protect. That person, those people, are your point.

Today, take care of yourself for them. Love yourself so you can love them. One day, and then another day, and then—
kodoandsangha.bsky.social Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · Mar 6
@theferocity.bsky.social Saeed, may I trouble you for some pearls of wisdom? I am feeling a great amount of despair today. Very what’s the point. I’m so over being ruled by classist elites who are more interested in filling their coffers than do anything to help us.
March 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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astrokatie.com
Missed the start of Lent? Might as well give up now.
March 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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stevewaycott.bsky.social
Spotted Sandpiper making its way along the riverbank.

Sheffield, #NewBrunswick, Canada
July 2024

📸 #birds #sandpiper #SPSA #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A medium-sized sandpiper with a spotted white breast is wading from right to left at the water's edge, with grass in the background.
February 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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alexjamesfitz.com
If you're worried about aviation safety, these NOAA/NWS cuts are just as alarming as anything happening at FAA.
weatherwest.bsky.social Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Feb 27
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
February 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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volts.wtf
Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.
February 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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uk501.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Babes, don't use allonormativiry or amanormativity as your baseline. Be joyous in your queerness. Asexuality and aromanticism are so freeing. Define yourself as you see fit, not how some bigot perceives you.
dadstoyevsky.bsky.social Cody Daigle-Orians @dadstoyevsky.bsky.social · Feb 17
It pains me how many ace and aro people defend the idea that some people are “normal” and we aren’t.

Internalized aphobia is something I run into far too much.
February 18, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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neorsd.org
our annual Presidents’ Day lesson remembering the 3 US presidents who died of a waterborne illness.
February 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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pierpaolo.bsky.social
February 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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armandsarlangue.bsky.social
Icebergs floating at sunset, captured at the famous Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon in Iceland.

#bluesky #photography #nature #art #landscape #sunset #travel #iceberg
Sunset scene showing floating icebergs at the Glacier Lagoon. The iceberg in foreground have pointy shape, with dark reflection in the water. In background we see the glacier layers and the red clouds.
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
I took a very long drive for some round birds. These are Willow Ptarmigans up in Quebec, aka Awebo birds. I love them so much.
A willow ptarmigan in a blizzard perched in some branches. A willow ptarmigan in a blizzard perched in some branches, facing the camera. A willow ptarmigan in a blizzard perched in some branches, standing behind some of the branches and showing off its fluffy feet. Two willow ptarmigans standing in the snow. One is nibbling a bud from a branch.
February 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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ericholthaus.com
Trump and Elon have placed new restrictions on NOAA & the National Weather Service, putting routine weather forecasts at risk.

"...it’s going to be a crackdown on climate,” said a senior Noaa scientist. “People are just somewhere between disturbed and terrified.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts
‘Crackdown on climate’ predicted as oversight enacted over agency staffers’ email and meetings with foreign nationals
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM