Yet another Matt
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Love birds, bees, butterflies. Also pretty much everything else. If you have any ID suggestions on any of my photos I would love the help and info. They/any.
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It’s been 5 yrs since the coup in Myanmar and the military junta’s reign of terror continues - 7,427 people have been murdered and another 22,587 have been wrongfully imprisoned.
Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s been 5 yrs since the coup in Myanmar and the military junta’s reign of terror continues - 7,427 people have been murdered and another 22,587 have been wrongfully imprisoned.
Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
Just this month, the junta bombed a Festival of Lights in Sagaing, killing 20, incl children 💔
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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This Halloween in Wheaton 👻🎃
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This Halloween in Wheaton 👻🎃
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Wheaton! It’s good!
October 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Wheaton! It’s good!
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Mutual Aid Fall Fest is TODAY, Saturday 10/11, from 2:00-4:30pm, 10700 Georgia Ave in Wheaton. Costume swap, winter coat swap, potluck, repairs, harvest share, health supplies (including free covid tests!). Come by and help our community stay strong & connected! #silverspring #takomapark #mutualaid
October 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Mutual Aid Fall Fest is TODAY, Saturday 10/11, from 2:00-4:30pm, 10700 Georgia Ave in Wheaton. Costume swap, winter coat swap, potluck, repairs, harvest share, health supplies (including free covid tests!). Come by and help our community stay strong & connected! #silverspring #takomapark #mutualaid
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See you at 2pm in Wheaton!
Mutual Aid Fall Fest is TODAY, Saturday 10/11, from 2:00-4:30pm, 10700 Georgia Ave in Wheaton. Costume swap, winter coat swap, potluck, repairs, harvest share, health supplies (including free covid tests!). Come by and help our community stay strong & connected! #silverspring #takomapark #mutualaid
October 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
See you at 2pm in Wheaton!
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MCPS is redrawing school boundaries before Woodward HS opens in 2027—while Bethesda-area schools will largely stay the same, high schools in Silver Spring will become even more segregated by class and race. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/09/w...
New Woodward High boundary options keep current Whitman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase attendance zones
Attendance zones for Walt Whitman and Bethesda-Chevy Chase high schools would remain the same while those for schools such as Walter Johnson High and Northwood High School would shift.
bethesdamagazine.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
MCPS is redrawing school boundaries before Woodward HS opens in 2027—while Bethesda-area schools will largely stay the same, high schools in Silver Spring will become even more segregated by class and race. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/09/w...
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With probably the best common name for a wasp, the Smoky-winged Beetle-bandit wasp is quite small and very cute. This one was loving this goldenrod along with many other wasps and bees. 🌿🐝
October 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
With probably the best common name for a wasp, the Smoky-winged Beetle-bandit wasp is quite small and very cute. This one was loving this goldenrod along with many other wasps and bees. 🌿🐝
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Enjoy audiobooks? Pick up my latest and help an indie in the process.
When the Earth Was Green Audiobook on Libro.fm
“You'll root for these creatures and their survival. A marvelous narration.”—Booklist “Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehist...
libro.fm
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Enjoy audiobooks? Pick up my latest and help an indie in the process.
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hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless Democrats agree to ban all trans health care
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/trans-care-ban-government-shutdown/?utm_content=1759153201&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump threatens to shut down US government unless all trans health care is banned
The US government's looming shutdown hinges on anti-trans measures after Donald Trump refused to speak to Democrats unless they were passed.
www.thepinknews.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.
Metallic-green sweat bees are my absolute favorite bees... Maybe even my favorite insects. This one is really helping out this New England Aster, as it is a very messy eater.
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Metallic-green sweat bees are my absolute favorite bees... Maybe even my favorite insects. This one is really helping out this New England Aster, as it is a very messy eater.
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google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!
a bald man wearing a scarf and a vest is sitting in front of a window and saying bye .
ALT: a bald man wearing a scarf and a vest is sitting in front of a window and saying bye .
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!
A tiny Coelioxys bee getting ready for bed 😍
September 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
A tiny Coelioxys bee getting ready for bed 😍
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"The losses have been immense, yet I find myself clinging to a fragile gratitude: we are still alive."
One of our previous fellows in Central Myanmar was lost her home in the April earthquake. Here, she wrote about her experiences as well as of her neighbours.
kite-tales.org/en/article/l...
One of our previous fellows in Central Myanmar was lost her home in the April earthquake. Here, she wrote about her experiences as well as of her neighbours.
kite-tales.org/en/article/l...
Life in the wreckage: Earthquake Survivor
kite-tales.org
September 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"The losses have been immense, yet I find myself clinging to a fragile gratitude: we are still alive."
One of our previous fellows in Central Myanmar was lost her home in the April earthquake. Here, she wrote about her experiences as well as of her neighbours.
kite-tales.org/en/article/l...
One of our previous fellows in Central Myanmar was lost her home in the April earthquake. Here, she wrote about her experiences as well as of her neighbours.
kite-tales.org/en/article/l...
It's been a good week for wasps!
September 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
It's been a good week for wasps!
Chechov's plant wasn't even in tonight's Alien: Earth...its got a lot of catching up to do, gory-death-scenes-wise in the final episode next week...
September 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Chechov's plant wasn't even in tonight's Alien: Earth...its got a lot of catching up to do, gory-death-scenes-wise in the final episode next week...
The bottom half outshines the top half so hard its wild. D) wins by a league for me, India, China, Myanmar, and Japan all in there. Southern Italy, and various mediterranean cuisines too.
Would miss biscuits n gravy a LOT, though.
I'd like to see a discussion with a better version of this map.
Would miss biscuits n gravy a LOT, though.
I'd like to see a discussion with a better version of this map.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 16, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The bottom half outshines the top half so hard its wild. D) wins by a league for me, India, China, Myanmar, and Japan all in there. Southern Italy, and various mediterranean cuisines too.
Would miss biscuits n gravy a LOT, though.
I'd like to see a discussion with a better version of this map.
Would miss biscuits n gravy a LOT, though.
I'd like to see a discussion with a better version of this map.
Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score.
I will never not bring up Surf Ninjas when a chance presents itself.
I will never not bring up Surf Ninjas when a chance presents itself.
September 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score.
I will never not bring up Surf Ninjas when a chance presents itself.
I will never not bring up Surf Ninjas when a chance presents itself.
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The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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i am getting kind of sick of seeing anecdotes like “kids can’t read or tell time or tie their shoes—even in high school” and the problem being framed only as kids and parents and not you know, an entire failing school system, and an economy where parents are underpaid, unsupported, and overwhelmed
September 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
i am getting kind of sick of seeing anecdotes like “kids can’t read or tell time or tie their shoes—even in high school” and the problem being framed only as kids and parents and not you know, an entire failing school system, and an economy where parents are underpaid, unsupported, and overwhelmed
Make a band singular:
Trampled by a Turtle
Trampled by a Turtle
Make a band singular:
Soundflower
Soundflower
Make a band singular:
1 Maniac
1 Maniac
September 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Make a band singular:
Trampled by a Turtle
Trampled by a Turtle
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People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
Im calling it, Eyeballtopus is going to be the surprise hero of Alien: Earth. They'll deliver Boy Cavalier's comeuppance.
September 4, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Im calling it, Eyeballtopus is going to be the surprise hero of Alien: Earth. They'll deliver Boy Cavalier's comeuppance.
Watched this week's episode of Alien: Earth before bed, and now I can't sleep.
Not because it was scary, but because I can't stop thinking about their home planets ecology.
How and why did an intelligent and horrifying/adorable Eyeballtopus evolve?! What's its personal beef with xenomorphs?
Not because it was scary, but because I can't stop thinking about their home planets ecology.
How and why did an intelligent and horrifying/adorable Eyeballtopus evolve?! What's its personal beef with xenomorphs?
September 4, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Watched this week's episode of Alien: Earth before bed, and now I can't sleep.
Not because it was scary, but because I can't stop thinking about their home planets ecology.
How and why did an intelligent and horrifying/adorable Eyeballtopus evolve?! What's its personal beef with xenomorphs?
Not because it was scary, but because I can't stop thinking about their home planets ecology.
How and why did an intelligent and horrifying/adorable Eyeballtopus evolve?! What's its personal beef with xenomorphs?
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Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.
JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![[cite_start]A screenshot of the first page of a court document from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[cite: 3]. [cite_start]The document is titled "MEMORANDUM AND ORDER" [cite: 43] [cite_start]and was filed on September 3, 2025[cite: 1].
The document lists two related civil actions:
* [cite_start]**Civil Action No. 25-cv-11048-ADB**: President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants[cite: 4, 5, 14, 17, 21].
* [cite_start]**Civil Action No. 25-cv-10910-ADB**: American Association of University Professors - Harvard Chapter, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States Department of Justice, et al., Defendants[cite: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 36].
[cite_start]The order is from Judge Burroughs, D.J.[cite: 44]. [cite_start]The text begins by identifying the plaintiffs in the consolidated cases[cite: 45].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreiaefziiwcjq4laze5iymzn45j4qfm3lc226u27qrdhlxqxjixzxae@jpeg)
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Oh look. When you fight instead of capitulating, you can have your funding restored.