Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

A rare Texas oak, Quercus tardifolia, is not extinct after all.

#Biodiversity #Quercus #Texas

https://www.kut.org/texas/2023-07-24/big-bend-national-park-oak-tree-quercus-tardifolia-discovered-thought-extinct

As some of you know, I've been on the kidney transplant list for a while, since 2019, to be exact. I'm listed at 1 hospital, & am working on getting listed at another. In the meantime, you can help! Kidneys from living donors are healthier and last longer on average than kidneys from deceased donors. Can you help me find one? I know it's a big ask for a stranger on the internet, but maybe you or someone you know could be the one to give the gift of a better life! Blood type O+. Please share far!

Librarians are more than just book jockeys, they are experts in various fields and are currently defending readers' and writers' rights in the battle against censorship and book bans.
https://theconversation.com/how-book-banning-campaigns-have-changed-the-lives-and-education-of-librarians-they-now-need-to-learn-how-to-plan-for-safety-and-legally-protect-themselves-205743
#Libraries #BookBans #LibrarianPower

Yay, my nut-free Paris-Brest is out now! Chocolate pâte à choux, mango chantilly, dark chocolate ganache, mango gel, milk chocolate Rice Krispies, and chocolate leaves 😌

#MardiPatisserie #parisbrest #pastry #food #nicebrests

From pollution to the climate crisis and wildlife extinctions, animal cruelty to human hunger and malnutrition. Take a closer look at almost any global challenge, and you’ll find food at its core.

In intensive farms, billions of animals are cruelly confined or bred for unnaturally fast growth or high yields. 40% of global arable land is used to feed animals instead of people – driving deforestation and massive loss of wildlife habitats.

https://ciwf-uk.end.it/sign/?utm_campaign=factoryfarming&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=ciwf

Digital sundial

Why do some online communities switch social networks and some stay put?

A research project mapped the platform migrations of nearly 2,000 people over a period of almost two decades, and provides some useful insight into whether #Threads (or #Mastodon) will be "the replacement Twitter".

A fascinating updated article by @cfiesler
https://theconversation.com/metas-threads-is-surging-but-mass-migration-from-twitter-is-likely-to-remain-an-uphill-battle-209367 #TwitterMigration

The climate crisis, city biodiversity, ‘plant a tree’, ‘if the bees die, we die’ – all the consciousness-raising nudged me into a nervous attempt at a balcony garden. After a lifetime of believing I was incapable of keeping a houseplant alive, I was unprepared for the joy of waking up to discover that a plant has bloomed its first-ever flower while I was asleep. I am not even the tiniest bit embarrassed about how happy this has made me.

#ClimateDiary #Aarhus
#Bloomscrolling

If you were to set up the conditions by which powerful humans can continue to pollute the planet for profit despite years of warnings and everyone actually experiencing a warming, degrading environment. You’d probably want to ensure that people couldn’t trust any of the information they were receiving until they were thoroughly confused and remove any routes to organising that counter-movements might have.

That #AI and Twitter / Threads seem to be on exactly that path is frankly terrifying. #ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis

Look at this frog, just look at it. It's glorious.

The fact that this came from someone in a position of power always struck me as remarkable.

The multi-million dollar underground parking garage carved into the shore of Lake #Ontario that the Doug Ford Conservative govt is building for #ThermeSpa will accommodate 2000+ vehicles.

There will be only ONE exit.

For comparison, the lot under #Toronto City Hall has 3 exits for approx. the same number of vehicles.

#MistakeOnTheLake #TrafficJam #onpoli #topoli #OntarioPlace @ONPlace4All

There are two types of cats: murder and doofus.

#caturday #cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #murdercat #humor #humour #funny

The water has to go SOMEWHERE. So when we fill in #wetlands to build #houses we end up building #stormwater ponds. In a pair of papers led by Waverley Birch, we showed that this is happening across 7 municipalities in Ontario and predicted the rate of future #wetlandloss. The wetlands being destroyed are mainly small and the stormwater ponds replacing them are even smaller. You can read about that paper in @thenarwhal https://thenarwhal.ca/southern-ontario-wetlands-study/