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low-vision creature lurking in the undergrowth

Gardening for wildlife in USDA zone 6 (previously 5! climate changed!) #NativePlants; she/her

PFP: passionflower in the garden
Banner: bullfrog in the pond
Pinned
Native to eastern North America, the purple-flowering raspberry (Rubus odoratus) is a magnificent, thornless perennial shrub
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #NativePlants
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Fifty different problems in the world just locked into one big uniform piece like a Rubik's cube in my head.
December 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The estimated median net worth of who’s running the country:

House: $1.0M – $1.5M
Senate: $1.7M – $2.5M
Supreme Court: $4M – $6M
White House Cabinet: $15M – $50M
President: $5.1B – $7.1B​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
"Do the rich have too much political power?"

Yes: 80%
No: 8%

YouGov / Dec 8, 2025
December 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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DHS used a wide variety of weapons against people in Elgin yesterday, not only tear gas. Some wild photos in this writeup from @domguan.bsky.social:
ICE Tear Gasses Residential Area During Multi-Hour Elgin Apprehension
About 30 to 40 federal agents, about half marked as ICE agents, deployed at least six tear gas canisters, pepper balls, and foam rounds at over 200 protesters in a residential neighborhood on Maple…
bluecollarjazz.org
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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A male rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in winter plumage.

Ptarmigan is from Gaelic 'tarmachan' meaning "croaker". The p- was added when people mistakenly assumed it was a Greek word.

A bird forever warning people: "A werewolf!" (just in case of werewolves).
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Tense afternoon in Kenner, outside of New Orleans, as protesters followed Greg Bovino and Border Patrol around a neighborhood around 3pm today.
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Just checked and mine was turned off too
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Grippers engaged! The next photo in the series.

(Red-tailed Hawk) #birds 🌿
November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Bought the poster and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with the corrupting effects of credentialism in the ancient martial arts
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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There was a thread of crabs going around with AI images that fooled a fellow marine biologist who isn't a specialist in them. It is so damn insidious - like what am I missing in all the things I'm not expert at recognizing?
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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*record scratch*
Yup, that's me
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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The oldest brewing school in the U.S. is leaving Chicago for Canada, citing Trump visa restrictions. blockclubchi.co/4oaLGmn
November 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos.

I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.
November 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The UN climate change conference (COP30) having rooms shut down both to flooding and an extreme fire is a bit metaphorically excessive.
🚨If you are at #COP30, evacuate the Blue Zone immediately.

(from a source)
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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November 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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shout out to Andrena krigiana, who got doubly screwed over by being a specialist in an incredibly rare plant that also looks like a dandelion, and therefore is under-conserved

life isn't fair
November 20, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I live in a village with no shops and no public transport to other towns, and was wishing for some kind of mobile konbini. Then I searched for that term and of course they exist already in Japan

www.japan-experience.com/prepare-trip...
Mobile convenience stores in Japan
Grocery trucks travel through the less populated areas of Japan, to provide the few inhabitants with food.
www.japan-experience.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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"There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics," Musk says, conveniently replacing the word "me" with the better-testing "everyone."
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Chicago local newsrooms out with a powerful investigation today: Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop. Most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/f...
Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders.
blockclubchicago.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM