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Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Americans Are Uniquely Infatuated With Bald Eagles. Too Bad Most of Us Have No Idea What They’re Actually Like. For one thing, there's the sound they make.

This is a delightful profile of bald eagles, which are kleptoparasites (they steal food from others), have talons the size of your thumb that lock onto prey, and sound like they're ... giggling. slate.com/technology/2... by @bittelmethis.bsky.social on @slate.com

Going to the White House isn't political, says the guy who let the FBIs very own Make A Wish kid chug a beer with them in the locker room while the President called on speakerphone to shit on the Women's Team

It's official: US Gold Winning Olympic Hockey team declined invitation to be political props for Trump at the SOTU tomorrow

The women, that is

The men are still too stupid, self-absorbed and misogynistic to realize that going, will stick to them permanently

a man in a tuxedo says " you know what? nevermind, man " Alt: Will Smith from Fresh Prince. He says "You know what? Never mind, man."

Me, watching Heated Rivalry: "Maybe I'll get into men's hockey."

Me, seeing the men's Olympic hockey team celebrate with a fascist:

Here’s a screen recording of the video where Kash Patel has Trump on the phone with the U.S. men’s hockey team and Trump invites them all to the SOTU, adding that he’ll have to invite the women’s team as well (to laughter from the men) or else he’ll be impeached

We're kicking off a webinar series on AI and climate change.

Join us tomorrow, February 24, at 12pm ET! RSVP: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I was delighted to speak at the Symposium der Ombudspersonen für Gute Wissenschaftliche Praxis in Deutschland about the challenges posed by #papermills.

Commercialization of fraud threatens research integrity, undermines the reliability of data,& leads to significant losses of time & resources 1/3

What if I want to do an assignment myself?

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The Washington Post and the tragic decline of newspapers And, just maybe, of climate journalism.

Source is former Washington Post climate reporter @chrismooney.bsky.social's devastating account of the decline of climate coverage. reportearth.substack.com/p/the-washin...

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Extreme Cold Is a Billion-Dollar Problem, Too If you’re a climate-change denier in the eastern US, including the president, then the past few weeks have been a dream. It’s cold and snowy where I live, you might say, colder and snowier than in yea...

For the deniers: Just because you can make a snowball today, that doesn’t negate the reality of climate change

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Here’s last night’s story about Twitter, how it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, and the real reason why John won’t be tweeting in the future. Hint: it has something to do with his amazing feet. youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI

Fact-check header image reads: "Are trans people most likely to commit mass shootings?" FALSE with red banner covering flawed data shared on social media

📊I usually do not sign non-climate pieces any more but felt this one was so important to share on Bsky considering the harmful narratives that have been going viral. This graph that's been doing the rounds online is absolutely flawed, crime experts and statisticians tell me: u.afp.com/chartshootings

To pretend the entertainment industry is not affected by politics is to live in a fiction of one’s own making And why Stephen Colbert has more fortitude than most celebrities at the moment.

To pretend the entertainment industry is not affected by politics is to live in a fiction of one’s own making

… And why Stephen Colbert has more fortitude than most celebrities at the moment

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Sketchbook page of 5 drawings of Flamingoes in red pen. At the top is the text 8/3/25 and Flamingo. At the top left is a flying Flamingo in profile with its neck outstretched and the text Streeetch! To the right is a Flamingo looking up and stretching out its wings with a heart and a star. To the left is a preening Flamingo on one leg. At the bottom right is a closeup of a Flamingo's head. Below is a baby Flamingo and a heart with the word Baby!

Detox Doodles!

These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-...

This page is all about Flamingoes!

#art #flamingo #bird #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Trump EPA Abandons Climate Working Group Report in Endangerment Finding Repeal Emails from the hand-picked, secretive group of climate crisis deniers revealed flaws in their methods and “animus” toward leading scientists.

It is so funny that the Trumpies tried to pull together a passably credible group of denialist climate scientists & the whole affair was such a clown show that they had to just cut bait & abandon it entirely.

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Sketchbook page of 5 drawings of lions in blue pen. At the top of the page is the text Lion and 7/31/25. Top left drawing is of a somewhat sad male lion. To the right is a roaring lioness facing to the left and two exclamation points. Below the lioness is a baby lion cub. At the bottom left is a lion closing his eyes as wind blows his mane and the word Wimdy! To the right is a lioness face and neck in semi profile.

Detox Doodles!

These animals are from my 100-day journey to swap scrolling for sketching: www.joyousjoyness.com/pages/detox-...

This page is all about Lions!

#art #lion #lioness #BigCat #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

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Arctic melting heavily influenced by 'atmospheric blocking,' find scientists A team of scientists led by François Lapointe, a research associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has combined paleoclimatic data from the last 2,000 years with powerful computer modelin...

yes - phys.org/news/2024-06... and research.ncsu.edu/increasing-h...

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God forbid women do anything

My colleague Gwen Roley has written for AFP about a misidentification (yet again) of a person after a tragic mass shooting that happened at a school in BC, Canada. Read her report: factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

NYC officials plan to reraise pride flag at Manhattan’s Stonewall monument after Trump administration removed it

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