Richard Summerbell
acremonium.bsky.social
Richard Summerbell
@acremonium.bsky.social
Medical and environmental mycologist, mushroom identifier, bird watcher, philosopher of opportunity and choice, LGBT essayist, novelist and songwriter.

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Trump's threats to annex democratic countries even though their citizens do not vote for this move show that he has mentally abandoned democracy and thus severed his government from the Constitution. No American owes his government loyalty if he invades.
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#StillDoinCDs The Meters are THE classic bayou funk band from New Orleans, whose 8 albums (1969-77) never broke the top 100 in pop, but who were beloved by critics & connoisseurs, & whose music has been consistently reused & sampled ever since. “The Hits,” 1997, brings it all home.
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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It’s the same old same old. Republicans do a tantrum and break the dishes. The Democrats clean it up. It’s an abusive relationship.
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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My minimum goal is 100,000 signatures for my petition. I will be spamming, yapping, doing everything I can to get to that goal. We need to make it clear where we stand. c.org/xqYKGJhbs2 bsky.app/profile/rave...
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
From the summer, but I have another bottle ready in the fridge. Slava Ukraini i LGBTQi!
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Ima break open my best bottle of Ukrainian champagnoid spirits over this piece of news. (See next post)
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Hot wings

Rainbow Lorikeet
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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UPDATE: Canada has announced that it has lost its measles elimination status.

This is a direct result of the increase in anti-vax disinformation, which has caused large, sustained outbreaks in the country over the last year.
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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News coverage of this has focused on the pardon of those involved in the fake electors plot.

But the pardon also extends to key figures who participated in the unauthorized breach of voting systems in Coffee County, Georgia

My reporting on the breach: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Spotted the instantly recognisable silhouette of this grey heron on a rooftop as I was driving. Pulled over into a convenient lay-by take these.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Good morning! 🪶
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Amazing lighting today. No adjustments just screenshot and cropped. #chickadee #bird
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Even 7 years later, a poignant in memoriam to an American worker who lived in her car and “toiled for the mouse” (Disney).
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#StillDoinCDs Toronto-based Haida/Cree artist Kristi Lane Sinclair gained nominations for best Canadian Indigenous folk songwriter in the 00s, but by this 2018 EP “The Ability to Judge Distance” had turned toward punk-influenced atmospheric alt-rock, reaching a fine, lofty stratosphere. On bandcamp
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
AI-generated anti-immigrant hate songs being pumped by bot support are said to be topping the Dutch-language Spotify charts at the moment.

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November 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Booted eagle - Aigle botté
France

See credit below
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/630865...

#BirdsSeenIn2025
ML630865552 - Booted Eagle - Macaulay Library
Macaulay Library ML630865552; © Paul Maury; Gard, Occitanie, France
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November 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Silver-throated Tanager at Casa Dowii, Cartago, Costa Rica #birding
November 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Christianity: For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink.

Judaism: You shall leave [the edges of your field] for the poor and the stranger.

Islam: The righteous are those who feed the poor, the orphan and the captive for the love of God.

Trumpism:
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StandingOnThings except the Floor, and the Alternative is #Gulls (Set by @robcrank68.bsky.social )

Shag (Gulosus aristotelis), standing on a buoy, Sound of Ulva, #Mull, #Scotland. May 2025

#Birds #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Where is the SNAP money?
A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices
November 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Video of my interactions and the arrest of a peaceful protestor here: youtube.com/shorts/8pMp4...
Protesting ICE in Broadview — police lied to us then Arrested a peaceful protestors
YouTube video by Qasim Rashid
youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Pressure GOP-run states to redraw their congressional maps outside the usual once-a-decade schedule

Appealing to SCOTUS to gut the 1965 Voting Rights Act

Cuts to agencies protecting elections from physical & cybersecurity threats

Demand states hand over sensitive voter data & purge voter rolls
Trump’s assault on voting intensifies as midterms loom:‘a wholesale attack on free and fair elections’
White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midterms
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Noticing #Nature Barnacle Geese /#Solway
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM