Dr. Lucky Tran 
A chilling reminder that American science denial does not just affect people in the US, it kills people globally.
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Liberal boomer, atheist, married, she/her, Oregon. I love the birds in my yard. I love cats, too, but please build them a catio or keep them indoors.
Owner of a Great Pyr Mix.
I have a Certified Backyard Habitat in my yard.
Nowhere GirlI want to make the point that Zohran Mamdani talked about affordability while also supporting trans kids and immigrants and refusing to endorse genocide and he won against the heavily favored Democrat despite an avalanche of racist, Islamophobic hatred and zillions in dark money. Candidates can do all these things and win. It's just the Democratic Party is full of sellouts, cowards, and bigots.
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🍽️ Droughts can reduce the caloric value of flower nectar by up to 95%, study finds
Droughts can reduce the caloric value of flower nectar by up to 95%, study finds
A study indicates that projected droughts by the end of this century could reduce the caloric value of flower nectar by up to 95%. This would harm pollinators, such as bees, as well as plants that depend on cross-pollination to reproduce and bear fruit, such as zucchini (Cucurbita pepo). In a less drastic scenario with a 30% reduction in rainfall, the drop was 34%.
Coach Pāṇini ®#DanielPink on #ViktorFrankl via #LinkedIn:
Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz.
Then he wrote one of the most powerful books ever written: Man’s Search for Meaning.
Here’s what he discovered—and why it still matters today.
Frankl’s core idea:
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
It reshapes how we think about suffering, success, and what it means to truly live.
Frankl wasn’t just a survivor.
He was a psychiatrist who introduced a radical idea:
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Jeff MacKinnonI still can't figure out the best way to edit photos on this Android phone, so here's an unedited photo straight from my camera.
Erik MoellerJD Vance is now on Bluesky (yep, really).
I'm pretty sure any Masto instance that hosts him would get de-federated rapidly.
Let's see how Bluesky handles the paradox of tolerance.
Brian JopekIt was only a matter of time before the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants reached the wine community. That happened Thursday morning, June 12, at about 5:30 Pacific time as ICE agents seized the owner of a vineyard management firm as he left his home in Newberg, Oregon, in the heart of the Willamette Valley wine country. - Dave MacIntyre
https://dmwineline.substack.com/p/ice-wine-arrests-stun-willamette?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLAAANleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiVaL2H1c5d649JMDibNR97sf4Ea1RbmzMNggM7NTWSzjNXp3l3hLKJLNZyo_aem_LPwERU2A9YxH66k3IOG6KQ
https://dmwineline.substack.com/p/ice-wine-arrests-stun-willamette?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLAAANleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiVaL2H1c5d649JMDibNR97sf4Ea1RbmzMNggM7NTWSzjNXp3l3hLKJLNZyo_aem_LPwERU2A9YxH66k3IOG6KQ
Kiernian@RickiTarr I grew up a right winger in a right wing household. My parents were blasting Rush Limbaugh from the late 80's onward. In the early 90s we moved from the semi-rural Midwest to a city with a population of a few hundred thousand. We were in one of the poorer suburbs.
That's when I started realizing that all this "Welfare Queen" stuff was utter nonsense and started questioning everything else I was being told.
That got me in trouble with Pastors when I would point out where we, as a church body, were blatantly violating scripture and they were doing worse than that by not calling it out themselves in their leadership role.
Then I turned 18 and quit going because it was clear they were complacent and the status quo was more important than what they professed to believe.
It took a long time to unravel all of the BS I was force-fed as a result of being home-schooled, and I'm still finding bits of casual bigotry that were sprinkled on my formulating brain, but I spent most of my 20's and 30's working within myself to locate the last vestiges of that outlook on life in order to rid myself of it and the more of my own indoctrination I dug up, the more liberal I became.
Now, in my late 40's, having spent most of the Clinton era thinking we were going to get better as a species and maybe start approaching the acceptance levels of Star Trek TNG, I find myself continually unable to understand how someone can maintain a bigoted mindset in an information age like this.
I guess paying attention to reality made me liberal. Looking at actions instead of just listening to words helped, too.
NatYour heart will go on loving even when you have to build a moat around it. Your heart will go on loving because that is what your heart does. Your heart is fierce and magical.
Your love was real, even if they weren't. Your heart is real, even if it tries to numb the grief. And you will go on loving, boldly and fully, because you are a being of love and truth.