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I think a lot of people who don't often write (or who just don't care) understand how easy it is to spot "AI" text once you've been exposed to it. It's gotten to the point that I can look at a piece of "AI" writing and tell if it was written by ChatGPT or some other LLM. They have "house styles."
December 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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If people admire you, they put your name on buildings. If you have to do it yourself, well… that’s different.
December 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Formally categorised as extinct on the IUCN Red List in 2025
🔴 Slender-billed curlew
🟡 Christmas Island shrew
🟠 3 Australian mammals
🟤 a species of ebony tree and Hawaiian lobelioid
⚫ a cone snail
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the...
news.mongabay.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America:

1. Break up corporate monopolies
2. Continue building union power
3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics

Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
December 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I've waited 3 years to make this post
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.
December 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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2026 is going to be a great year for Filipino books! Here’s some of my most anticipated reads:

📚The Swan’s Daughter
📚The Elsewhere Express
📚The Night King’s Court
📚Clara & the Devil
📚The Second Life of Snap
📚Nest of Tongues

#booksky
December 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Day 1278 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and only 2 more days until the robin quota counter resets for another year
Just time to sneak this one in then 🤗🤭 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
December 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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The look of a girl who got in trouble for punching her dad in the face.
December 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Annie Alexander was born #OTD in 1867. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM

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December 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Seen along the Pinkerton Creek Trail at Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in late October for #MushroomMonday!
December 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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A bold pivot to country music led to the most successful concert tour in the genre’s history and helped Cowboy Carter lasso a 10-figure fortune—becoming just the fifth musician to do so.
www.forbes.com/sites/mattcr... (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Tahoe is a bit snowier, the grass is a bit greener, my kitties are a bit more grey........... BECAUSE THE CHIEFS WON THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!!

#insta #bluesky #superbowl #wewin #webeattger49ers #49ears #toobad
December 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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I think most of us know where this is heading. With a failing POTUS aligning with Russia, an out of control drunken defense secretary, both destroying everything around them, makes for some very uneasy feelings.

www.npr.org/2025/12/28/n...
Russia sends 3 Iranian satellites into orbit, report says
The report said that a Russian rocket sent the satellites on Sunday from a launchpad in eastern Russia.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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This message hits hard.
December 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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David Attenborough [whispering]:

“Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”
December 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Pepper had an ear infection but is feeling much better after getting some antibiotics and steroids.
December 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It would be far less time-consuming to count down the number of times he accidentally told the truth. shorturl.at/j6eU3
CNN’s Daniel Dale Counts Down Donald Trump’s ‘Top 25 Lies of 2025’
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale recounted 25 of Donald Trump's "top lies of 2025," although the journalist confessed it was hard to choose "only 25."
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December 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#Peacock #Butterfly on #Yellow #Toadflax - Our #garden - July 2025

Toadflax is a #native #perennial #antirrhinum ( #snapdragon ). The yellow variety has larger #flowers than the more upright #purple & #pink varieties. All are self-seeding & popular with #insects

#bloomscroll #bloomscrolling #photo
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Osteospermum
April 22nd 2024
December 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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#OTD: 25 December 2021, a perfect launch on #ChristmasDay for the NASA/ESA/CSA James #Webb Space Telescope on #Ariane5 flight VA256 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana 🧪🔭
👉 esawebb.org/images/webb_...

@esa.int @science.esa.int @stsci.edu
December 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Glutamate is the primary molecule that neurons use to communicate with each other.

Previously, scientists have mostly recorded when neurons fire output signals, but now with a new glutamate indicator, they can record the many inputs that causes cells to fire. 🧵

#neuroskyence
December 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM