Just worked a *very* remote grid on 20m #FT8: LP04

It's always fun when someone in a cool place responds to your random #CQ

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Three #photos today. Saw this pipevine #swallowtail flittering around the backyard and eventually it zeroed in on the #pipevine I planted earlier this spring just for this species (its host plant). Captured it alighting on it then depositing a clutch of #eggs.

#photography #butterfly #ButterflyPhotography #insects #InsectPhotography #MacroPhotography #BackyardWildlife #nature #gardening

I need to warn you that I have very little patience for people who insinuate that getting out onto the streets and protesting is useless and not worth the effort.

It is terribly fashionable to be cynical about civil, peaceful protest. But it is deeply demoralising and often people can be easily dissuaded from making the effort by that cynicism.

No act that joins people together in protest for a better society is useless, even if only because it makes you feel less alone.

Climate change is already reshaping our energy systems, our health, and even the basic medicines we rely on. But progress continues, and we can help.

⚡ Good news: Global investment in clean energy hit a record $2.3 trillion last year, outpacing fossil fuel investment for the second year in a row.

🦠 Not-so-good news: New research suggests that warming temperatures and drought may be fueling antibiotic resistance in soil, making infections harder to treat.

🌿 What we can do: The Nature Conservancy's free guide offers simple ways to get outside, from bird-watching to planting for pollinators to my personal fav: finding new ways to “wander and wonder.” Pick one thing and give it a try this week!

https://www.talkingclimate.ca/p/how-warming-soils-mean-weaker-antibiotics

Intuit is the US global tech giant whose products include TurboTax, QuickBooks, CreditKarma, & Mailchimp.

Intuit allows Israeli employees like Tom Yacobi to wear their IDF uniforms to work & on Zoom calls with their international colleagues. The company also lets employees like Yacobi take 3-4 months off to go and commit war crimes and genocide.

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/04/28/tech-giant-employees-idf-uniforms/

#Tech #Genocide #WarCrimes #US

Today, former US Border Patrol Fascist in Chief Greg Bovino agreed with a white nationalist as she demonized immigrants and added, "This country was built by settlers, not immigrants."

Is it any wonder that 97.4% of the people his fascist ICE goons rounded up had no criminal record? Is it any wonder more than 90% are Latino?

This is what institutional white supremacy looks like. You don’t reform this. You abolish it. Abolish ICE.