Mark of the Beasts
markofthebeasts.bsky.social
Mark of the Beasts
@markofthebeasts.bsky.social
Science and critical thinking, secular humanism, restoration ecology, biodiversity.
Cathedral City showing up.
June 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Today’s blooms.
May 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
My rainbow hedgehog cactus bloomed today.
May 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Sonoran Desert native milkweed and a monarch has found it.
May 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A muppet was made, of me, today. Ain’t technology grand?
April 21, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The robot vacuum works because I have to clean my house before I can run it. If I don’t, it tangles on things and can’t access all of the floor.
April 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Cacts blooms. They only last a few hours, most of the time.
April 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Justice Riggs won her election for the NC Supreme Court.

Republicans are trying to steal it.
URGENT: MAGA Trying to Steal Supreme Court Seat in NC
The MAGA attack on 65,000 votes — and the judge fighting back.
www.meidasplus.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Winter finally arrived in my area.
March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Musk waves his chainsaw approximately recreating that scene from Idiocracy. #idiocracy
February 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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DUH! It certainly isn't Cheeto
Happy past President's Day
We'll celebrate the next time we get a real President.
February 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Imagine that, an agency that was already finding government waste and saving billions of dollars, not just going after departments that were investigating Musk's companies or headed by the paranoid president's perceived enemies. #StopMusk #SaveOurDemocracy
Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
February 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Just my doggy, looking silly.
February 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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It's really not looking great over in my original home country at the moment, and unfortunately the chaos is not going to be limited to the US. 🧪⚛️
Donald Trump’s second term as US President has begun with staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences in what some see as a new "dark ages" 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/us-science...
US science in chaos as impact of Trump's executive orders sinks in – Physics World
US science hit by staff layoffs, slashed budgets, axed diversity programmes and cancelled conferences
physicsworld.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It’s actually been easier to stay off facebook than I expected.
February 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Suppressing climate data and research doesn’t stop climate change any more than suppressing gravitational data means you can step off a cliff and just float in midair. 🧪 🌎

insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...
Watchdog Groups Anticipate ‘an All-Out War on Science and Scientists’ by the Trump Administration - Inside Climate News
Some federal websites, including the White House’s, have already deleted climate information, including reports on resilience and adaptation vital to U.S. communities.
insideclimatenews.org
January 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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I remember learning that this was going to happen, during my undergrad, well, a long time ago...

It's here. It's happening. The Arctic is melting and all of that permafrost-buried CO2 and methane is going up, up, up.

#ClimateChange #Science 🧪 #Extinction
A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals.
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Trump & GOP's Project 2025 is a manifesto to control women & terrorize anyone who doesn't look like them, worship like them, or lives a lifestyle they deem unacceptable.
#ProudBlue #Project2025 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich #Felon47 #FOTUS #NotMyDictator #Resist
January 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Well they have fascinated the fools!
We are now in the “muzzle the intelligent” phase.
January 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wasn’t all that into Pearl Jam but this is raw and real.

youtu.be/qVePehfEA5Y?...
Pearl Jam - Black (Tower Records, Yonkers, NY, USA, November 14, 1991)
YouTube video by ÁngelErrático__
youtu.be
January 24, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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This is heartening to see! The resistance is beginning.

I know we are tired. I know we are fearful. But we will make ourselves heard and reclaim this country from the grip of MAGA fascism.

I’ve seen the inside of barbed wire prison camps in America. We came back from that and shall overcome this.
The People’s March is moving through the streets of Washington: “We won’t go back!”

A broad coalition of activists — among them climate, women’s rights, immigration, anti-war, LGBT, D.C. statehood, racial justice — are mobilizing in unison against Trump, three days before his inauguration. 🧵
January 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just another thing I saw on my walk in a dying civilization.
January 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM