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Researching biodiversity. I like frogs, communism and ending animal ag. He/him
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junlper.beer
the US war escalation in the southern hemisphere is 100% about trying to destablize and control venezuela and cuba leadership. classic neo-con “spreading freedom” type agenda
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WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
December 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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cosmicktrigger.bsky.social
I've had these "Comrade Ariana Grande" memes for years now. I don't even know who started the trend or why
December 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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nerdjpg.com
I will always tell leftists to read the Jakarta method and killing hope and really process what we will be up against and what that means for the movements we build
The fourth way that anticommunist extermination programs shaped the world is that they deformed the world socialist movement. Many of the global left-wing groups that did survive the twentieth century decided that they had to employ violence and jealously guard power or face annihilation. When they saw the mass murders taking place in these countries, it changed them. Maybe US citizens weren't paying close attention to what happened in Gua-temala, or Indonesia. But other leftists around the world definitely were watching. When the world's largest Communist Party without an army or dictatorial control of a country was massacred, one by one, with no consequences for the murderers, many people around the world drew lessons from this, with serious con-sequences. This was another very difficult question I had to ask my interview subjects, especially the leftists from Southeast Asia and Latin America. When we would get to discussing the old debates between peaceful and armed revolu-tion; between hardline Marxism and democratic socialism, I would ask: "Who was right?" In Guatemala, was it Arbenz or Che who had the right approach? Or in Indonesia, when Mao warned Aidit that the PKI should arm themselves, and they did not? In Chile, was it the young revolutionaries in the MIR who were right in those college debates, or the more dis-ciplined, moderate Chilean Communist Party? Most of the people I spoke with who were politically involved back then believed fervently in a nonviolent approach, in gradual, peaceful, democratic change. They often had no love for the systems set up by people like Mao. But they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead. They often admitted, without hesitation or pleasure, that the hardliners had been right. Aidit's unarmed party didn't survive. Allende's democratic socialism was not allowed, regardless of the détente between the Soviets and Washington.
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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nerdjpg.com
Capital has not been threatened seriously in many decades in this country. As a socialist movement grows - even a soc dem / dem soc one - their claws will come out. They have trillions to blow on crushing it
November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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race2extinct.bsky.social
Islands aren’t just in the ocean anymore. By carving up landscapes with roads, fences, and sprawl, we’re creating “mainland islands” — and with them, the same extinction risks. 🧵
Islands aren’t just in the ocean anymore. By carving up landscapes with roads, fences and sprawl, we’re creating “mainland islands”—and with them, the same extinction risks.
October 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
We both didn't do our research
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Brought my hardcat out for some fresh air and sunshine and he is NOT INTERESTED.
Photo of a small Russian tortoise in a carrier with some Timothy hay on the bottom of it. He is in the furthest possible corner from the open door, which leads out to a lawn with fallen foliage on it.
September 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social
A #OneHealth approach committed to the health of our planet, non-human animals and human animals is powerful.

A #OneHealth approach that is only concerned with non-human animal "health" so we human animals can continue to safely exploit them, has made a terrible error.

@sentientism.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/
Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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theonion.com
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/
Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work
September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.
September 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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theonion.com
Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You’re Fucked
September 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bluefin tuna are miraculously returning to UK shores – only to be tormented for ‘sport’ | George Monbiot
A tournament in Cornwall will pit anglers against these magnificent creatures, as part of a rising trend for so-called ‘sportfishing’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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jamiewoodhouse.bsky.social
The @sentientism.bsky.social Worldview, like other worldviews, answers the deepest questions - what's real & who matters.
#Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings". Five year olds understand it - I know because I run worldviews workshops with them.

4/n
September 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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armormodekeeg.blacksky.app
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy
August 30, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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rningscissors.bsky.social
I think 182 year old research articles should be free

I want to read about the man
RESEARCH ARTICLE • Volume 39, Issue 1001, P221- 222, November 05, 1842 A MAN WITH THREE TESTICLES. F. Macann
September 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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guyshrubsole.bsky.social
The only newsworthy aspect of the far-right anti-migrant protests currently is how pathetically small they are.

Last summer 60,000 people came to the Restore Nature Now protest in London, and the BBC didn’t even report on it.

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sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 22
Times: "Asylum protests swell across the UK " headline, reporting an underwhelming wave.

Leeds "draws 70"
Cardiff "disorganised + small"
Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200"
Cheshunt about 250
Chichester: about 100
Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
August 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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wizentrop.bsky.social
watch a tiny crab getting excited about a new hat
k-hermit.com でんか @k-hermit.com · Aug 16
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August 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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August 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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veganhorizon.substack.com
This is something most people don’t know — pass it on! 🌎
August 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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astrokatie.com
As a physicist I can easily calculate time dilation from relativistic motion (time slows when you're moving fast) or proximity to a massive object (time slows in gravity) but I have yet to find a solution for emotional time dilation (the task takes five minutes to complete but six weeks to start) 🫠
August 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM