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Jennie Dusheck

@solenodon.bsky.social

1.9K followers 1.9K following 3.8K posts

Firewise community leader Climate policy, climate action, health, flying less, forestry. - Here I am, placing my grain of sand when I can. - Known to have independent thoughts Freelance science writer/editor UC Berkeley & UC Davis: Eco Evo UCSC: SciCom

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 34m

Oh, that's sounds tough and potentially really similar.
Hugs back!

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 40m

Thanks! I'm good now, decades later.

But that parentifying dad... takes me back.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 43m

One of my absolute favorite exchanges!

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 46m

Oh, good point!

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 53m

Ugh.
When my mother died (my dad's bad driving), he made my sister to drop out of college and keep house for him. She moved 3000 miles away. That left me to get up to speed on shopping, cooking, etc while finishing middle school & high school. He also kept crying and asking me to comfort him. Nope.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 1h

Vallejo = "VALee Joe"
San Jose = "San JOE'S"
Soquel = SAW quell

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 1h

OMG. My peeps.
I hate getting scolded for "interrupting" for a 1 second interjection.

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 1h

I want an inflatable cossack costume, like the frog.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 2h

I am also a fan of good noses. I even like cats with big noses.

(Pam Bondi's nose makes me shudder though.)

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Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 4h

"Research shows wildfires are 4x more likely in areas w/roads than in roadless forests...and >90% of wildfires occur within 1/2 mile of a road. Even USFS's own research undercuts the argument that repealing the roadless rule would have a positive effect on fire mgmt."🌍 www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

The Trump administration’s latest attack on cherished public lands | Opinion

“For more than two decades, the Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres of our national forests from industrial development.”

www.sacbee.com

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 2h

I'd fall asleep too if I had to listen to that guy.

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 2h

She appears not to know either!

He at least has dementia and is just a failed real estate developer, conman, and extortionist.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 2h

I love how much your sugar factory looks like the one in San Francisco Bay (C&H in Crockett).

Sunlit C&H sugar factory reflected in the water, in Crockett, California

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 2h

The 8 year old probably could have handled nearly everything better than her father did.

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 4h

Hard on city wildlife and pets, too.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 4h

Apparently, their circumstances changed!

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Dr. Az Klymiuk @klymiuk.ca · 4h

In totally unrelated news, the only thing worse than outright ghosting a prospective PI is sending them an email 14 months after the fact, in which you demand entrance to their research program AND a stipend at rates 62% above what any other graduate student receives.

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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 7h

Tapirs are horse-adjacent, but are often underestimated because a) they're pretty shy in the wild, and b) their legs are much shorter so they appear small, though they're the biggest native land animal in the Americas, south of Mexico City.

Photo of Chupi, a lowland tapir. It's mainly his head that's visible, as he looks over a partition in his stall, eyeing a half-eaten breakfast sandwich (biscuit with cheese and egg?) in a person's hand, in the foreground. Chupi has a long snout, and large white teeth are visible as his lips are pulled back a bit.
Photo by Chupi's keeper, bobrossfanclub15
https://www.reddit.com/r/tapirs/comments/cu1xut/when_youre_eating_a_nutritious_breakfast_but/

Chupi's keeper notes that Chupi found a package of Pop Tarts in their pocket and has been checking for snacks ever since.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 5h

"The disbelief that Trump could rise in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait; it’s a confession. A confession that you weren’t listening when Black and Indigenous people tried to tell you what this country is."

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 6h

That's great! Thanks for letting me know.

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 8h

Correction: Wired says both 14 and 4 .
It's probably "as young as 14."

Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 8h

Subsequently, however, an ICE agent directly pepper sprayed the frog's air intake. ☹️

Hopefully, there's a way to add a filter there.

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 8h

DHS is collecting DNA samples from virtually everyone they detain, even children as young as 4.

The resulting backlog of roughly 650,000 unprocessed kits means that actual potential criminals "could be released before DNA checks produced investigative leads."
www.wired.com/story/dhs-ha...

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

www.wired.com

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 8h

Yesterday the Supreme Court saw arguments for reversing bans on conversion therapy. @veraeikon.bsky.social brings us the real statistics of this deeply harmful practice.

The Unscientific Nonsense of Conversion Therapy — Assigned

Conversion therapy is not only ineffective at its purported goal, but also only serves to amplify psychological distress.

www.assignedmedia.org

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