Jill Beim
@jillbeim.bsky.social
📷Capturing birds, dark skies, and untamed beauty on Lake Superior's North Shore. Pro-democracy (FDT). 🇺🇦🇨🇦
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#PhotographersUnited #birdphotography
No DMs please.
#PhotographersUnited #birdphotography
We don't often see Trumpeter Swans on Lake Superior as they prefer smaller lakes and marshes with dense vegetation. So, it was a treat to see these juveniles during fall migration.
#birds #trumpeterswans
#birds #trumpeterswans
October 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We don't often see Trumpeter Swans on Lake Superior as they prefer smaller lakes and marshes with dense vegetation. So, it was a treat to see these juveniles during fall migration.
#birds #trumpeterswans
#birds #trumpeterswans
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
August 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A peregrine falcon fledgling takes flight over Lake Superior.
#addbirder #birds #falcons ##birdphotography 🪶
#addbirder #birds #falcons ##birdphotography 🪶
August 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A peregrine falcon fledgling takes flight over Lake Superior.
#addbirder #birds #falcons ##birdphotography 🪶
#addbirder #birds #falcons ##birdphotography 🪶
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If everyone lived like we do in Canada or the U.S., we’d need 5 planets to support us all. Australians & Koreans would each require more than 4 Earths. We are depleting nature’s ability to support life about 70% faster than it is able to regenerate. That's why I think every day should be Earth Day!
Isn’t every day Earth Day?
Cooking for the climate, counting Earths, and tracking time in nature
open.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
If everyone lived like we do in Canada or the U.S., we’d need 5 planets to support us all. Australians & Koreans would each require more than 4 Earths. We are depleting nature’s ability to support life about 70% faster than it is able to regenerate. That's why I think every day should be Earth Day!
As Earth Day comes to a close, keep in mind that 112 bird species have experienced steep population losses over the last 50 years.
Please do what you can to help. Use native plants in your yard. Turn off outdoor lights at night, use window clings to prevent strikes and keep your cats indoors.
Please do what you can to help. Use native plants in your yard. Turn off outdoor lights at night, use window clings to prevent strikes and keep your cats indoors.
April 23, 2025 at 3:04 AM
As Earth Day comes to a close, keep in mind that 112 bird species have experienced steep population losses over the last 50 years.
Please do what you can to help. Use native plants in your yard. Turn off outdoor lights at night, use window clings to prevent strikes and keep your cats indoors.
Please do what you can to help. Use native plants in your yard. Turn off outdoor lights at night, use window clings to prevent strikes and keep your cats indoors.
A few more spring migrants: Red-bellied woodpecker, American Tree Sparrow and winter wren.
April 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A few more spring migrants: Red-bellied woodpecker, American Tree Sparrow and winter wren.
Spring migration is underway. A few of the birds that just arrived: yellow-rumped warbler, Eastern Phoebe and yellow-shafted Niethern Flickers.
April 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Spring migration is underway. A few of the birds that just arrived: yellow-rumped warbler, Eastern Phoebe and yellow-shafted Niethern Flickers.
This would be a really good time for the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on DT, his administration, and the president of El Salvador for human rights violations.
April 15, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This would be a really good time for the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on DT, his administration, and the president of El Salvador for human rights violations.
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i’m of the view that it would be genuinely idiotic for the white house to invoke the insurrection act if it wants to stay in power. if you are going to call out troops to confront throngs of protesters, you need to be extremely confident that they will obey every order given to them.
"So, when we first hear about the Insurrection Act, it may trigger our alarmism. But better to face it now, before it comes, than learn about it on-the-fly."
What to do if the Insurrection Act is invoked
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold and the strategic ways to respond.
wagingnonviolence.org
April 8, 2025 at 7:57 PM
i’m of the view that it would be genuinely idiotic for the white house to invoke the insurrection act if it wants to stay in power. if you are going to call out troops to confront throngs of protesters, you need to be extremely confident that they will obey every order given to them.
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Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
March 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.
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I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing.
But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.
But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.
March 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing.
But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.
But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.
March 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I was hoping to photograph the eclipse last night, but clouds made that impossible. So, to honor the occasion, I dug up my very first try at photographing a lunar eclipse back in 2014.
#lunareclipse
#photographersofbluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#lunareclipse
#photographersofbluesky
#PhotographersUnited
March 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I was hoping to photograph the eclipse last night, but clouds made that impossible. So, to honor the occasion, I dug up my very first try at photographing a lunar eclipse back in 2014.
#lunareclipse
#photographersofbluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#lunareclipse
#photographersofbluesky
#PhotographersUnited
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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
March 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.
With all the chaos happening in America right now, I'm so grateful to still be able to enjoy a sunrise in the morning.
February 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
With all the chaos happening in America right now, I'm so grateful to still be able to enjoy a sunrise in the morning.
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i don’t think we realize just how MASSIVE things in space are
February 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
i don’t think we realize just how MASSIVE things in space are
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Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "
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Google: What’s the quickest way to lose trust and the good will of our customer base?
Answer: This shit 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽
Answer: This shit 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽
February 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Google: What’s the quickest way to lose trust and the good will of our customer base?
Answer: This shit 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽
Answer: This shit 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽
It's not like I'm in denial of what's happening in our country. It's just that I need a little normalcy in my life, too. So here's a picture of Gooseberry Falls for Waterfall Wednesday. Lift each other up today.
February 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It's not like I'm in denial of what's happening in our country. It's just that I need a little normalcy in my life, too. So here's a picture of Gooseberry Falls for Waterfall Wednesday. Lift each other up today.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
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The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS