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Bird ecologist and mapmaker turned professional gardener, based in SF. Italian / NYC-Bay Area transplant / Antarctican.

Are you aware it’s #PenguinAwarenessDay?

Celebrate by reading about this newly discovered #emperor #penguin colony, which brings the total number of known colonies on #Antarctica to 66.

https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/new-emperor-penguin-colony-discovered/

Dr. Peter Fretwell, team lead for this #satellite imagery-based discovery: “…whilst this is good news, like many of the recently discovered sites, this colony is small and in a region badly affected by recent sea ice loss.”

New emperor penguin colony discovered - British Antarctic Survey %

Scientists have discovered a new emperor penguin colony at Verleger Point, West Antarctica. The penguins were discovered using satellite mapping technology.

British Antarctic Survey

This is genius Albert Einstein who refused to speak at white colleges and at the end of his life spoke exclusively at black universities
"The separation of races is not a disease of colored people but a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

#Einstein #Racism #Integrity #Equality

@RainofTerra the San Francisco Bay Trail is great, and totally car free.
@SutroTower multiplied. Photo by Stephen Lam for the @sfchronicle.
Amazing photo of lightning strike on #SutroTower in today's rare thunderstorm in San Francisco. Photo by Reddit user u/swingdatrake, slight color correction.
It’s #caturday every day around here

I get that the GOP likes to pretend that MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech is a call for colorblindness (it's not), citing the "content of their character" line, but here's a little secret:

If you're the type of person who feels the need to cling to that line, free from context, then the "content of your character" is pretty apparent, and it's not looking good for you.

For your viewing pleasure, Sacha Layes' Midnight Oil Photography offers up these gorgeous photos from Saturday night's Northern Lights in Fairbanks, #Alaska.
#NorthernLights

Police in the US killed 1,176 people in 2022, which is more people than they have killed in any other year in the past decade. Police do not make people safer. Black people are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people and 1.3x more likely to be unarmed when they are killed.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.us/

Mapping Police Violence

Official home of America's most comprehensive database of police violence. Get the facts about police brutality and how to address it.

Mapping Police Violence