🌍🌎🌏 👋 “Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” – Chief Seattle, Duwamish
Acknowledging that I live on the land of the #Atfalati tribe of the #Kalapuya people who inhabited this land before colonial settlers arrived
#PNW #Cascadia #knitting #crochet #gardening #BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #LichenSubscribe
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"Terminated #NIH grants are being reinstated almost entirely in blue states."
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/03/nih-cuts-grant-restoration-complicated-by-limits-to-court-order-trump-dei-restrictions/
(#paywalled)
PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.
#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
"After severe flooding in non-evacuated areas in Texas has left at least 24 dead with dozens more missing, including several young girls at a summer camp, Texas officials are blaming their failure to act on a faulty forecast by Donald Trump’s new National Weather Service gutted by cuts to their operating budget and most experienced personnel."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #weather #Texas #flooding #NWS
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/texas-officials-blame-agency-gutted
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Edit: Added additional alt text to describe the fediverse symbol 🩷
#WhatPrideFlagIsThat #SoAreYouGayOrSomething #sarahmhops #meme #memes #fediverse
Per the article☝️, the population of American birds has declined by 30% since the 1970s. To help, you must support the bugs that the birds need to reproduce. But only 14% of #NativePlants generate 90% of the yummy caterpillars that drive food webs!
So are you planting these?
At the link provided, you can pull up a list of what *you* need to plant in your ecoregion. Scroll down and click on your list.
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#Gardening #Environment #Birds #Biodiversity #Science
https://www.nwf.org/Garden-for-Wildlife/About/Native-Plants/keystone-plants-by-ecoregion
Monarch feeding on Butterfly Weed in my garden.
I'll need to check to see if there are any eggs or larva. Their caterpillars feed on the leaves.
#InsectSaturday #InsektenSamstag #Lepidoptera #Nature #Butterfly #BiodiversityGardening #Gardening #HabitatGardening
@faraiwe lol! what is that absolutely monstrous powerpoint slide?!?
Cartoon shows two men on a stage. one is in all black and wearing a headset microphone like steve jobs, the other looks like a reporter with notecards. M.I.B. says "Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech, I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors."
Behind them, on a large screen is a cross section of a human head showing the brain and an uncanny valley smile. There's a computer and a phone with arrows pointing to a bottle or something that looks like it has wires going to the diagrammed brain.
#alt4you
The image is a New Yorker-style cartoon with a bespectacled interviewer in a suit and a stubble-beared man in casual clothes. Behind them is a projected image of a human brain with embedded wires leading to a device and with a laptop and a cell phone with arrows pointed at the device.
The caption reads: "Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury. Like so many others in tech I draw inspiration from completely misunderstanding those authors."
@jackwilliambell third member of the alt txt mafia, this is getting entertaining.
It's akin to crossfitters or keto diet people's irresistible urge to let everyone know they're crossfitters ir ketoers.
No. It's people with a moral center pointing out a moral failure.
Your attempt to diminish it is yet another indication of how you place your own ego and comfort above those of others. There is a word for that.
no need to be a dick
it doesn't take long to add #AltText, and is a small act of generosity and intent to include others in the joke
Exactly.
I'm old. And the one REALLY USEFUL piece of wisdom I've learned from my years on this rock? It doesn't hurt you to be kind.
FWIW? I also believe calling people on their shit is a form of kindness. If it happens often enough they might find themselves doing the self-reflection they need.
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social We should probably recognize that there's a significant number of people who come away from dystopic fiction with entirely the wrong message. It's like watching "School of Rock" & having your takeaway be how easy it is to kidnap a bus ful of children & learning from "Dirty Harry" that the best way to get them to sing "Row Your Boat" is pointing a gun at them.
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