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Richard Summerbell
@acremonium.bsky.social
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Medical and environmental mycologist, mushroom identifier, bird watcher, philosopher of opportunity and choice, LGBT essayist, novelist and songwriter.

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Richard Summerbell @acremonium.bsky.social · Mar 5
Trump's threats to annex democratic countries even though their citizens do not vote for this move show that he has mentally abandoned democracy and thus severed his government from the Constitution. No American owes his government loyalty if he invades.
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ICE Begins Warehouse-Buying Spree in Small Towns
To use as detention centers. This is alarming!
I gifted this so you can read it

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
January 30, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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shortstackfella.bsky.social
And since the US is doing everything it can to hinder Ukraine and to let Putin off the hook, I made a 2nd #FiverFriday donation to @wildhornets.bsky.social
They have a fun draw going at the moment — a $10 donation gets you an entry.

🇺🇦🐝

#NAFO #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

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A receipt for a ten dollar donation to FPV Wild Hornets.
January 30, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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miasalonen.bsky.social
#Birds 🪶🐦
📍Dalarna, Sweden

Crested Tit

#nature #photography #birdphotography #wildlife #outdoorphotography #naturephotography #birdwatching #BirdOfTheDay #FavouriteOfTheMonth or #Blue
Standing at the feeder with a seed.
January 30, 2026 at 12:18 PM
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steve-sando1.bsky.social
White throated kingfisher.
Sri Lanka,
#birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturephotograhy #Naturelovers #Wildlifephotography
January 30, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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lynnmiclea.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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wolfgangcharlotte.bsky.social
Trump is going after journalists❗️
Good Watch 👍🏻
👇
open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Arrests Don Lemon, Trump Calls Pretti an Insurrectionist, a Major First Amendment Attack
Good morning everyone.
open.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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pergamic.bsky.social
Upcoming @idsainfo.bsky.social Immunocompromised Host COP and @msgerc.bsky.social webinar:

Feb 10, 2026 10:00 AM Central

"Testing Rationally in Mycology: Using Fungal Diagnostics to Drive Better Antifungal Decisions"

Sign up here:
societycentral.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 30, 2026 at 6:34 PM
acremonium.bsky.social
Our small hotel in San Miguel de Allende, Casa Mision (not an LGBT specialized operation), has an intriguing parking lot mural showing a nearly naked young man eating soup.
An unclothed young man, strikingly handsome, wearing only something looking like a belt (undone swimsuit? Shadow?) lies on his back upright against a wall, holds a steaming bowl whose steam integrates with an abstract maritime looking blue watery haze over his legs.
January 30, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser: video of birds enjoying the birdseed I put out during the snowstorm Monday. I was able to see two different woodpeckers in the same video! I saw at least 3 types of woodpeckers, including downy or hairy (I was too far away to tell), northern flicker, and I think red bellied.
January 30, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
"I begged my wife for the last two months to stop calling me flaccid. That kind of rhetoric needed to stop. I said to her in March--if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be a black eye. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anyone with a black eye. But I warned her."
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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persagen.bsky.social
🇺🇲 Trump2 trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed
www.advocate.com/politics/imm...

New transfer agreements, court tactics allow U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings
Risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, execution
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Trump admin is trying to deport LGBTQ+ asylum-seekers to countries where they'd be killed, lawyers say
Attorneys say new transfer agreements and court tactics allow the U.S. to sidestep asylum rulings, risking removals to countries where LGBTQ+ people face imprisonment, torture, or execution.
www.advocate.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:18 AM
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isibb.bsky.social
The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.
January 29, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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coralcitycamera.bsky.social
Barred hamlets rise up together in a coital embrace. Rare amongst vertebrates, hamlets are simultaneous hermaphrodites, meaning pairs take turns mating with each other as male and female! Thank you for your service #coralcitycamera
January 27, 2026 at 4:58 PM
acremonium.bsky.social
San Miguel de Allende in the imminence of sunset.
Two Mexican style towers, one a church dome and one a narrower structure, rise illuminated above the trees of the neighborhood where our small hotel is situated.
January 30, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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watchinthesky.bsky.social
I just realized that this is the wide boi photo I intended to show. Definitely more floof and the shadow is much wider. Nice of Ravi to smile for the cam 🙂
Ravi the #roadrunner #birds SoCal
A visiting roadrunner is on our concrete patio standing with its back directed at the sun to warm up. The image is from mid morning and it was cool overnight. The bird is looking at us and is very fluffy to accept the warm sunlight.
January 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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econanalytica.bsky.social
Bondi says ICE will leave Minnesota if the state gives the Trump administration their unredacted voter rolls
January 25, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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amarhss.bsky.social
Lesser Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna javanica)
#BirdsSeenIn2026 #Ipoh #Perak #Malaysia #birds #nature #wildlife @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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franzanth.bsky.social
I wish my local doctors would catch up already. 4 years later I still have no idea why inhaling fur instantly inflames my bronchi and makes me cough up blood. I feel like a freak when I mention this because nobody else has this problem.
mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez @mvgutierrezmd.bsky.social · 2d
“We have seen asthma, allergic rhinitis, hives/urticaria, environmental and food allergies, with the most common being asthma. But then there is also a good subset of patients developing mast cell activation symptoms,” -me

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Long COVID Linked to New-Onset Allergies
Mounting evidence points to a link between new-onset allergies and Long COVID, with mast cell activation syndrome as a potential culprit.
www.medscape.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BrownIsBeautiful and Ms. Brown-headed Cowbird def proves that!

#birds #becurious 🪶
photo of a female brown headed cowbird standing on a branch. there is dappled sunlight. she is in profile facing left with her head turned back to the right in 3/4 profile.
January 27, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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sailorgirl2017.bsky.social
Chris Green at Atlantic News in Halifax posts PM Carney's Davos speech.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV7o...
Why this American shop owner posted Carney's speech on his door
YouTube video by CBC News Nova Scotia
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January 28, 2026 at 5:04 AM
acremonium.bsky.social
I didn’t expect my first-ever sighting of a phainopepla to be 30 cm away from me. Barely visible behind twigs in a bush, it made the right choice and flew up a ways for iPhone 13 mini photography. Charco del Ingenio Botanical Gardens, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
January 28, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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twmcltd.bsky.social
Good morning world, though the world seems to be sleeping as Russia grows in confidence it can continue to commit war crimes with impunity

It's the daily Ukraine thread, Day 1434 - all the important, fact-checked news in one handy thread.
Every. Single. Day.
Coffee welcome☕️🙏
January 27, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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robertbohan.bsky.social
Most ppl are educated in school about the Shoah - when 6m Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. There were also hundreds of thousands of Roma & tens of thousands* of Queer ppl. Each group, was chosen to be erased from Europe forever. Despite the slogan ‘never forget’, the… [1]
gcnmag.bsky.social Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social · 4d
27th January: Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 gay men were imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps and 98 of them were sent to Auschwitz. #OnThisDay #Queerstory 👉 buff.ly/8dPDaRg
January 27, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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I haven't had a TV in many years so I don't know how stuff works, but — can you "mute" or "block" a whole network from your TV these days? As if it were a social media account, poof, bye?
January 27, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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bluedotin.bsky.social
(WaPo: last free article) The Chief Judge in Minnesota has had it and is requiring the head of ICE operations to appear in Court on Friday. Highly unusual, but necessary due to the impudence of Trump ICE officials. Look for a tense hearing on Friday.

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U.S. judge orders ICE chief to appear in court, threatens contempt ruling
Minnesota’s chief federal judge demands that the head of ICE personally appear in court Friday to explain repeated failures to comply with court orders.
wapo.st
January 27, 2026 at 2:12 PM