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Millipede

#lifeinblackandwhite #bnwmood #blackandwhiteoftheday

03.03.2026 00:02 👍 1374 🔁 111 💬 59 📌 14
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Lesser Violetear.

The lesser violetear (Colibri cyanotus), also known as the mountain violet-ear, is a medium-sized, metallic green hummingbird species commonly found in forested areas from Costa Rica to northern South America.

📸: @glopezespina

02.03.2026 19:01 👍 83 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
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Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many.

Since launching a war in the Middle East, the President and his Administration have come up with an array of different, even contradictory, rationales for the attack on Iran. Can Trump win a war if he can’t explain why he is fighting? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/v0yfiN

03.03.2026 01:30 👍 580 🔁 180 💬 59 📌 11
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A Texan who has always voted a straight Republican ticket—and who voted for Donald Trump in 2024—told Peter Slevin that he is done with Republicans. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/1B1Nn7

03.03.2026 03:00 👍 136 🔁 26 💬 19 📌 6
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a preventative skin treatment

02.03.2026 21:20 👍 740 🔁 74 💬 44 📌 5
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Artist: @dccartoonist.bsky.social

03.03.2026 04:19 👍 6305 🔁 1811 💬 115 📌 66
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Happy Saturday! It's the weekend! While the "no new wars" President bombs his 8th country in 13 months, we had heavy fog in New Jersey, so here is a view from Thursday morning looking north. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

28.02.2026 13:45 👍 1429 🔁 176 💬 36 📌 8
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Nederlandse auteursbonden sommeren Meta te stoppen met illegaal gebruik van teksten Meta gebruikt auteursrechtelijk beschermd werk voor het trainen van AI-modellen, maar keert hiervoor geen vergoeding uit. De verenigingen van Nederlandse schrijvers, vertalers en journalisten sturen een sommatie met de eis hier per direct mee te stoppen.

Nederlandse auteursbonden sommeren Meta te stoppen met illegaal gebruik van teksten

27.02.2026 07:24 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

“Dhs illegally arrested me. Please help.”

-- A Columbia University neuroscience researcher who posted this on Instagram in the wake of DHS's actions on campus.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2026/02...

26.02.2026 16:19 👍 80 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 0
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Is Rob Jetten nou zo jong of zijn wij nu zo oud?

www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/i...

27.02.2026 12:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows Israeli forces blocked Palestinian ambulances while a 14-year-old lay bleeding for at least 45 minutes.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

26.02.2026 21:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The first run of this album sent to radio stations to promote the upcoming release. Note the typeset in the upper right corner.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#Music #MusicSky #Vinyl #VinylSky #VinylCommunity #VinylCollectors #VinylRecords #NowPlaying #NowSpinning

25.02.2026 16:39 👍 1220 🔁 80 💬 0 📌 15
Orange and Black clouds at sunset over the Pacific Ocean.

Orange and Black clouds at sunset over the Pacific Ocean.

Nice to get out for the sunset tonight just below Gibraltar Rock above Santa Barbara.

#Photography #Sunset

24.02.2026 02:58 👍 2380 🔁 182 💬 57 📌 15
Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour
Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will launch their Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour across the country this spring, kicking off at Minneapolis’ Target Center on March 31. The 20-date run will feature 19 arena shows, and a final night on May 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.

17.02.2026 19:52 👍 1473 🔁 418 💬 88 📌 50
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The iconic Earthrise photograph. Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took this photo on Christmas Eve 1968.

18.02.2026 15:36 👍 1414 🔁 179 💬 66 📌 14
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The End of Reagan-Era Republicanism Mona Charen on how Trump transformed the conservative movement and what the right got wrong. Plus: Signs of life from America’s guardrails and John Maynard Keynes’s “My Early Beliefs.”

Mona Charen, a contributor at The Bulwark and a longtime conservative commentator, joins @davidfrum.bsky.social to discuss how Donald Trump transformed the conservative movement—and what the right got wrong.

18.02.2026 20:56 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 5 📌 1
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Something worth watching, coming from a Texan...;-)

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

18.02.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Leerdam rijdt met ‘kunstwerk van een rit’ naar het goud waar ze jaren naartoe werkte Winterspelen: Jutta Leerdam koos een individuele route, voelde zich onbegrepen, maar zegevierde in Milaan op de 1.000 meter schaatsen met een magistrale rit. „Ik denk dat als ze deze medaille zien, ze het wel begrijpen”.

Jutta Leerdam koos een individuele route, voelde zich onbegrepen, maar zegevierde in Milaan op de 1.000 meter schaatsen met een magistrale rit. "Ik denk dat als ze deze medaille zien, ze het wel begrijpen".

09.02.2026 20:43 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(thread 1/n)

09.02.2026 15:16 👍 137 🔁 66 💬 3 📌 6

Nog een kopje…!

09.02.2026 21:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Goedemorgen, de natuur stuurt ons hartjes.

Fijne dag🙋‍♀️

08.02.2026 06:38 👍 62 🔁 2 💬 13 📌 1
A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) perching on one leg on a wooden fence.

A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) perching on one leg on a wooden fence.

I'd no sooner posted the jackdaw for #BirdOfTheDay, than I remembered another candidate for #posted - a bird on a post or fence - another grey heron, this time much closer to home than the last one.

#birds #photography

08.02.2026 09:39 👍 962 🔁 50 💬 13 📌 1
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Bad Bunny's entire Super Bowl performance “rebuked the notion that he is some culture-war proxy being foisted upon an American public that wants its stars to shut up and sing,” Spencer Kornhaber argues: theatln.tc/hUu0xoDp

09.02.2026 06:01 👍 363 🔁 81 💬 12 📌 5
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In nature shows they always have a Great White Shark Leaping out of the water in an epic slow motion shot to emphasize its ferocity and power! Coincidently they never show it when it misses completely and floats awkwardly like a fishing bobber wondering where it went wrong!

09.02.2026 00:20 👍 1365 🔁 117 💬 41 📌 16
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Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷

08.02.2026 00:59 👍 6872 🔁 674 💬 193 📌 51
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Voorzitter Rode Kruis: ‘Wat we in Gaza hebben gezien, overschrijdt alle wettelijke, ethische, morele en humane normen’ Mirjana Spoljaric Egger | voorzitter Rode Kruis: Nu zelfs hulpverleners in conflictgebieden soms doelgericht worden gedood, heeft de uitholling van het internationaal humanitair recht alle grenzen ove...

Voorzitter Rode Kruis: ‘Wat we in Gaza hebben gezien, overschrijdt alle wettelijke, ethische, morele en humane normen’ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

07.02.2026 22:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Eindelijk is bewezen dat mensapen verbeeldingskracht hebben Doen alsof… Wie dat kan, kan twee beelden tegelijk ‘zien’: de echte en de denkbeeldige werkelijkheid. Bonobo Kanzi was daartoe in staat, „een wel heel bijzondere aap”.

Eindelijk is bewezen dat mensapen verbeeldingskracht hebben

05.02.2026 19:00 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2

Israëlische militairen doden zeker 21 Palestijnen in Gaza #wtf mostly women and children. When is anybody stopping this fucked regime?

04.02.2026 17:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Multi colored sunset over the Pacific Ocean

Multi colored sunset over the Pacific Ocean

A pano tonight at sunset from high above Santa Barbara.
#Photography #GibraltarRoad #SantaBarbara #sunset

02.02.2026 07:16 👍 1711 🔁 128 💬 21 📌 4
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I am the master of photography

01.02.2026 20:07 👍 179 🔁 9 💬 15 📌 1