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Start your weekend with an amazing video. This scuba diving fly lives in a lake 3X saltier than the ocean! kqed.org/science/1983796/this-

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@souvlaki @androcat I think that the blame problem arises from exploitation of economic castes by oligarchical elites. People who are struggling just a few economic steps ahead of those eligible for services are primed to focus their resentments downwards rather than towards the idea a more equitable system would offer them benefits too.

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@jwildeboer @reticuleena @smiddi @dkloke I think that the problem arises from time frames and the finite size of Yellowstone. The initially reintroduced wolves can get fat and happy on wildlife like deer that are plentiful and unused to their presence. So they have lots of pups. Which eventually leave to travel
downhill to discover other food sources like rancher's livestock. Expandng range is a natural thing to do. Pre-settlement, the river valleys below Yellowstone were lush ecosystems inhabited by large wildlife like bison, grizzly bears and wolves. And there was no "wild" devoid of people. Native Americans were there.

Also, especially if the Yellowstone ecosystem is not grazed by herbivores, wildfire will increase, taking out at least the under story plants and the wildlife utilizing them. But the forests are predominately lodgepole pine, which depend on fire. Nothing is static.

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Alex Wild

If you or I went into a state park and incinerated 4 acres and killed a pile of protected wildlife, we would face all sorts of fines, or even prison.

But Elon Musk gets to kill whatever he wants, with no consequence.

#Biodiversity #Texas #Musk #SpaceX

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drjudystone

My latest: Public Pushes Back On #CDC’s Plan To Weaken Infection Control via
@forbes
Recap of the #HICPAC meeting
forbes.com/sites/judystone/202
#Covid #CovidIsAirborne #LongCovid #disabilities #ADA #aerosol #ventilation

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Augie Ray

I try to be patient that are misinformed. I really do. But for around the 25th time in the past two years, I've had someone tell me how Sweden was a #COVID19 success story despite having no restrictions. It is just an idiotic claim. Sweden had a MUCH higher death rate than comparable Nordic nations. It was a failure, not a success. (Also, the fact Sweden had no national mandates didn't mean people didn't choose to mask or isolate.)

ourworldindata.org/explorers/c

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Gaythia Weis

@tess_machling The flower may be gone in a day, but the seeds are a problem in many areas, where morning glory is considered an invasive plant.

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Matthew Rimmer

Australians urged to prepare for most significant bushfire season since black summer theguardian.com/australia-news #climate #heatwave #bushfire

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joey ayoub 🏳️‍🌈

Not only are the Saudis mass murdering Ethiopians, but the Ethiopian regime, not content with committing genocide against Tigrayans, is denying that the Saudis are mass murdering Ethiopians. Both KSA and Ethiopia are invited to join the so-called BRICS while the Saudis are literally shooting Ethiopians for sport. Read this.

journa.host/@zekuzelalem/11094

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Ben Werdmuller

Less than a quarter of Americans know they don't have meaningful privacy protections on the internet. The first step to changing this fact might be to change this number. #Democracy techdirt.com/2023/08/25/just-2

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AmFem101

This should only boost his chances of being the Repuglican nominee…
newrepublic.com/post/175189/vi

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Amber Alex

@schratze hypocrisy is the highest accomplishment to fascists. It's the ultimate freedom from consequences and rules, they're free from even being held to their own words.

Or, a Sartre quote:

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, “Anti-Semite and Jew” (1944)

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drjudystone

Important read from @austiejfish on #EnvironmentalJustice #racism #airpollution

They all oppose the air quality regulation that is meant to prevent and mitigate the effects of things like the Atkore United Poly Systems fire.

sourcenm.com/2023/08/17/albuqu

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M

This summed up my thoughts in a pithy format.

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Zack Labe

Terrible news from a study out today on emperor penguins in the Antarctic (nature.com/articles/s43247-023):

"Of the five breeding sites in the region all but one experienced total breeding failure after sea ice break-up before the start of the fledging period of the 2022 breeding season. This is the first recorded incident of a widespread breeding failure of emperor penguins that is clearly linked with large-scale contractions in sea ice extent."

More here: bas.ac.uk/media-post/loss-of-s

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

After decades of fighting for our right to love and live freely, the LGBTQ+ community should be long past discrimination. And yet, the scapegoating of our community continues. As a Japanese American who experienced forced relocation and internment as a child, this déjà vu is both alarming and heartbreaking. We must remember the past, demand change, and act to safeguard our future. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

All these red states are now boasting about how they are withdrawing from the American Library Association. They aren’t just satisfied with banning books, they want to get rid of the places that keep and lend them, too. The Christian Right is on the march.

Carl Sagan once warned us of the “dumbing down” of America. He warned of a time when our “critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...”

That time is upon us. We must do all we can to prevent that darkness from taking hold.

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Melanie Sill

The NYT team here might read the paper's own editorial from this morning, which points out that Trump was indicted not for what he said, but what he did, and lays out those charges. Instead, this piece frames the indictments as prosecution of the former president for lying. This is not accurate and is in fact misleading. Hard to figure. Also still missing: historical context (which editorial offered). nytimes.com/2023/08/02/us/poli

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Dr. Jorge Caballero

The great thing about being the self-appointed "paper of record" is that you get to write your own revisionist history that completely ignores the role your editors and reporters played in minimizing the threat of COVID— time, and time, and time, and time again

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Tony the Mechanic

I have that book for my daughter. It’s fantastic. If anything, the book teaches children to be unashamedly themselves.

Telling someone they can't be who they are is wrong. The fact that we are in such shortage of teachers and she was fired for it is ridiculously short sighted.

Being open to acceptance, understanding, empathy, and inclusion benefits everyone.

A Georgia school board fires a teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity |
apnews.com/article/georgia-tea

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