BiodiversityDad

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Reflections on Nature, live music, and my favorite sports teams. Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

Huchiun Ohlone territory, CA

This times a million gazillion - I think Canada has it right by shutting down TikTok by the end of 2024, but our work runs far deeper than just that nefarious Chinese spyware platform... https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/democrats-need-to-compete-in-the-new-media-landscape-or-keep-paying-the-price
Democrats Need To Compete In The New Media Landscape — Or Keep Paying The Price

As always happens after a bad election loss — and is compounded when that loss is sweeping, and to the man who launched a coup against the country — the losing side is in full panic mode.

TPM - Talking Points Memo
In today's surprising & cool news: Researchers find a new use for #biochar: filtering microplastics from farm soils: In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from soil samples. https://shorturl.at/PJYSD
Researchers find a new use for biochar: filtering microplastics from farm soils

In initial experiments, they found that the biochar was able to remove a striking 86% to 92% of the plastic particles from soil samples.

Anthropocene
I maintain a backyard naturalist observations spreadsheet, and following nature’s clock, they (along with white crowned and white throated sparrows) return the same week every year. They’ll be here until April 25 or so… https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Sparrow/overview
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Golden-crowned Sparrow Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The large, handsome Golden-crowned Sparrow is a common bird of weedy or shrubby lowlands and city edges in winter along the Pacific coast. Though it’s familiar to many during winter, Golden-crowned Sparrows vanish for the summer into tundra and shrublands from British Columbia to Alaska, where little is known of its breeding habits. Gold-rush miners took cold comfort from this bird’s melancholy song, which seems to reflect the bleak beauty of its surroundings.

Saw my first golden crowned sparrow of the season yesterday evening on the ground below our bird feeder, freshly arrived from its summer grounds up in the tundra. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Golden-crowned_Sparrow/overview
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Golden-crowned Sparrow Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

The large, handsome Golden-crowned Sparrow is a common bird of weedy or shrubby lowlands and city edges in winter along the Pacific coast. Though it’s familiar to many during winter, Golden-crowned Sparrows vanish for the summer into tundra and shrublands from British Columbia to Alaska, where little is known of its breeding habits. Gold-rush miners took cold comfort from this bird’s melancholy song, which seems to reflect the bleak beauty of its surroundings.

Battery Report @RockyMtnInst : "Accelerating the trend along six key solutions...means we can reach net-zero mineral demand in the 2040s. At that point, end-of-life batteries will become the new mineral ore, limiting the need for any mining altogether." https://rmi.org/insight/the-battery-mineral-loop/
The Battery Mineral Loop

A comprehensive strategy to address the rising demand for battery minerals.

RMI

Reminder to folks to please check your voter registration (in swing states especially given shady voter registration purges that are occurring)! And of course, register to vote. You can do both at HeadCount.org

Please check again in Sept and Oct. Reminders to come...

The Harris campaign use of the word “weird” has to be viewed in the context of who they are talking to and what message they are trying to convey.

The conservative brand is built on being traditional/normal/mainstream/straight/typical/etc.

“Weird” is a direct attack on their brand, and it eviscerates it. At no point is the campaign saying weird is bad. It’s whispering “hey conservatives— these people aren’t what you think.”

“Creepy” is an attack that causes reflexive defensiveness.

@chopaganda
- Praising Hannibal Lecter is weird.
- Ending vaccinations for kids is weird.
- Trying to murder your VP is weird.
- Pretending you won an election you lost is weird.
- Attacking war heroes/gold star families is weird.
- Being chummy with Vladimir Putin + Kim, Jong-un is weird.
-JD Vance is weird.
- Claiming Obama was born in Kenya is weird.
- Telling anyone you grab women by the p***y is weird.
- Hiding govt docs from the FBI is weird.
- Etc, etc
Politely speaking: TFG is weird
A roundup of common myths about EVs -
These articles will help you sort fact from fiction…https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/a-roundup-of-common-myths-about-evs/
A roundup of common myths about EVs

These articles will help you sort fact from fiction.

Yale Climate Connections
A roundup of common myths about EVs -
These articles will help you sort fact from fiction…https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/a-roundup-of-common-myths-about-evs/
A roundup of common myths about EVs

These articles will help you sort fact from fiction.

Yale Climate Connections