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Biology professor living in Roslyn. #metabarcoding #fungi #mushrooms
A few beauties from the week so far! šŸŒøšŸŒ±šŸ #botany #orchids #invertebrates #bees #moths #norfolk I’m

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I swear, the media oligarchs are betting that civil war will be great for ratings and their bottom-line.

ā€œThe robust financial backing the right wing content creator ecosystem enjoys, allows extremists the ability to fund professional production teams, social media ad buys, and marketing initiatives that give them a competitive advantage online. In contrast, progressive creators are left to rely on meager donations and crowdfunding efforts to sustain their work.ā€ https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/we-need-to-know-who-is-funding-the
Stop letting right wing influencers cosplay as ā€˜independent’ media

+ Inside a Russian influence operation, a 'Who TF Did I Marry' TV show, TikTok's alien invasion, and why Gen Zs love choking each other out

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Yesterday, coming home from the airport there was a major traffic jam in the opposite direction backing traffic up for miles as people return to Seattle from the mountains. In the traffic I spotted a number of EVs including a couple of Cybertrucks. I was wondering how those vehicles do stuck in slow moving traffic for hours? This jam was around 30 miles of very slow traffic (stop and go) with few ways off the highway.
What Digby said. https://digbysblog.net/2024/08/26/the-act-is-getting-old/. This also seems to be true in Michigan where we are visiting my very Trumpy mother in law. The neighborhood was all crazy Trump in 2020. It's very quiet and about evenly split between Trump and Harris now.
The Act Is Getting Old - Digby's Hullabaloo

The Guardian went to Pennsylvania: As Donald Trump emerged to a thunderous roar of approval in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Rust belt, he was back in his comfort zone among the people who once put him in power. But by the time he stepped off the stage nearly two hours later, even some of the former US president’s supporters were…

Digby's Hullabaloo
We'll bummer. We made it four years into the pandemic and managed to stay #COVID free. Until yesterday when my lovely wife tested positive. Since we had been on a road trip crammed into the car for several days previous, I suspect it's just a matter of time for me too.

TFG is a psycho, but (as Putin will tell us) he is an easily manipulated psycho.

Hair Füror buried the news cycle that probably would have helped himself the most.

Yes, he’s that stupid.

A store with #botany and #books on the historic main street of river city St. Charles

What a wonderland 😊 #photography

Oribatid mites exploring a teeny tiny mushroom... there's a whole world out there on the micro-scale that we don't feature in!

#SoilFauna #SoilEcology #Mite #Acari #Mushroom #Macrophotography