ashmiku
@ashmiku.bsky.social
2025 has hands down been my least favorite year of my entire life so far. I have never felt so burnt out and wanting to end it all
November 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
2025 has hands down been my least favorite year of my entire life so far. I have never felt so burnt out and wanting to end it all
I love hayley williams so much but my luck buying concert tickets during mercury retrograde is 0 for 2 so far, so im gonna sit this one out yall have fun in the queues for me
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I love hayley williams so much but my luck buying concert tickets during mercury retrograde is 0 for 2 so far, so im gonna sit this one out yall have fun in the queues for me
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idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!
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Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
www.motherjones.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Starting in September, Gov. Greg Abbott and GOP lawmakers will make it even harder in Texas to prevent school shootings, suicides, and murders by domestic abusers www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I just want to know why some people in my neighborhood get Amazon packages delivered daily… it’s disgusting. Like do y’all ever go to a store? Do you even know that J Bezos made $8M/hour in 2023? Ick. Ick. Ick.
June 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I just want to know why some people in my neighborhood get Amazon packages delivered daily… it’s disgusting. Like do y’all ever go to a store? Do you even know that J Bezos made $8M/hour in 2023? Ick. Ick. Ick.
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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?
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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
June 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.
Their inaction is deadly.
I love a good cool rainy spring. It feels like a forehead kiss from the PNW
May 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I love a good cool rainy spring. It feels like a forehead kiss from the PNW
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Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
May 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Puffins are social, so to attract them to Maine's rocky islands, National Audubon's Seabird Restoration Program put out decoys to attract real birds.
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
This puffin is trying to fit in with his new friend by standing on one leg.
Seabird peer-pressure can be intense.
(📷: Robert F. Bukaty)
oh shit just catching up on #handmaidstale and I’m thinking what if Taylor releases reputation tv on my bday June 13 and it’s a Friday the 13th this year!! ahhhh
May 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
oh shit just catching up on #handmaidstale and I’m thinking what if Taylor releases reputation tv on my bday June 13 and it’s a Friday the 13th this year!! ahhhh
just had a bay-breasted warbler repeatedly singing somewhere out in the area adjacent to my house 🤯
May 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
just had a bay-breasted warbler repeatedly singing somewhere out in the area adjacent to my house 🤯
The biggest week in american birding is so fun. One of these years I want to stay for the full week - or at least multiple days - and do some activities 🙃
May 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The biggest week in american birding is so fun. One of these years I want to stay for the full week - or at least multiple days - and do some activities 🙃
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Did you know?
The richest 10 % of people emit as much CO₂ as the bottom 90 % combined.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
The richest 10 % of people emit as much CO₂ as the bottom 90 % combined.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
www.ipcc.ch
May 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Did you know?
The richest 10 % of people emit as much CO₂ as the bottom 90 % combined.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
The richest 10 % of people emit as much CO₂ as the bottom 90 % combined.
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
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sorry can this wait? i have to look at ducks every 2 hours or i get cranky
April 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
sorry can this wait? i have to look at ducks every 2 hours or i get cranky
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Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
April 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Bird photography tips, an oldie that is hopefully useful for spring migration right now.
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🚨 Good news 🚨 Today, two separate litters of Mexican Wolves were born today. This species was once down to SEVEN (7) individuals. Thanks to diplomatic conservationists, captive breeding, reintroduction efforts, the Endangered Species Act and pure luck, the population is estimated to be 280+ #sej2025
April 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🚨 Good news 🚨 Today, two separate litters of Mexican Wolves were born today. This species was once down to SEVEN (7) individuals. Thanks to diplomatic conservationists, captive breeding, reintroduction efforts, the Endangered Species Act and pure luck, the population is estimated to be 280+ #sej2025
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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
Why?
Because an algorithm said so. 1/
take me to gods country (3D mode immersive spaces on microsoft teams)
April 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
take me to gods country (3D mode immersive spaces on microsoft teams)
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“Everyone knew the river was polluted, but nobody much cared. If anything, it was a badge of honor. As David Newton writes in Chemistry of the Environment, ‘Fundamentally this level of environmental degradation was accepted as a sign of success.’”
And why was the EPA created in the first place, by a GOP POTUS?
Because the Cuyahoga **River** caught on fire. **AGAIN**. In the same year. More than a dozen times in total.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuya...
Because the Cuyahoga **River** caught on fire. **AGAIN**. In the same year. More than a dozen times in total.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuya...
The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969
Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental movement
www.smithsonianmag.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
“Everyone knew the river was polluted, but nobody much cared. If anything, it was a badge of honor. As David Newton writes in Chemistry of the Environment, ‘Fundamentally this level of environmental degradation was accepted as a sign of success.’”
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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FunFact: if the salts, heavy metals, & radioactive components in fracking wastewater get into drinking water supplies...
Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.
Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.
Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News
Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”
insideclimatenews.org
March 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
FunFact: if the salts, heavy metals, & radioactive components in fracking wastewater get into drinking water supplies...
Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.
Most US water treatment plants can not filter them out.
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Please listen: You may not think learning about public lands will impact you, but it will. Our public lands are vulnerable & open to becoming privatized & monetized.
American Conversations: Wes Siler & America's Public Lands with @hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/O6Bch6v...
American Conversations: Wes Siler & America's Public Lands with @hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/O6Bch6v...
American Conversations: Wes Siler and America's Public Lands
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
March 23, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Please listen: You may not think learning about public lands will impact you, but it will. Our public lands are vulnerable & open to becoming privatized & monetized.
American Conversations: Wes Siler & America's Public Lands with @hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/O6Bch6v...
American Conversations: Wes Siler & America's Public Lands with @hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/O6Bch6v...
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Cool we're North Korea now
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Cool we're North Korea now