Jai
taciturnforest.bsky.social
Jai
@taciturnforest.bsky.social
Person shaped
April 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Why does this echidna look like he’s about to drop the hottest jazz piano album OF THE YEAR
April 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
April 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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They're eating the 401ks!
They're eating the Social Security!
They're eating the retirements of the people who live here!
April 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Did I just buy $100 of detergent because the economy is in shambles? Yes. Also tea and coffee.
April 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Wisconsin's Supreme Court race is now the most expensive court race in U.S. history — largely due to donations from out-of-state billionaires.

As Justice Louis Brandeis said, we can have great wealth in the hands of a few, or we can have democracy, but we can't have both.
March 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Golden-headed lion tamarin #photography
March 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Makin a small run of Gigasauruses out of my hardwood cutoff pile. If they sell I’ll do a larger run, so check back if you want one

#woodworking #bsnm 🧶
March 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Every once in a while criticisms of American foreign policy are met with an insistence that actually the US does a lot of good in the world, citing work by organizations like USAID. The current administration seems determined to completely destroy that argument.
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Brown pelicans, Dana Point Harbor #birds #photography
March 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
March 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
March 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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This is terrifying.
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Monk parakeets #birds #photography #feral
February 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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File under "best news you've heard in a while". Wisdom the albatross has a new baby ❤️ #birds 🌿 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
See the Adorable Video of Wisdom, the World's Oldest Wild Bird, Tending to Her New Chick at Age 74
First banded in 1956, the Laysan albatross has become a mother once again at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Works as advertised
February 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Bottlenose dolphins at SPI 2024 #dolphins #photography
February 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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W
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Have this friend who is newish to #astrophotography here in Sydney. He did 40-hour mosaic on the Vela Supernova remnant in h-alpha/[O-III] …. And holy heck it is incomprehensibly magnificent!

Those are exploded star gutz. At its heart is the Vela pulsar. 🔭

Shared with permission.

📸 David Elford
February 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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February 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Important PSA
Add F*cking to Your Google Searches to Neutralize AI Summaries
Google will probably close this loophole soon enough.
gizmodo.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
February 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I love grackles, even if they are just avian trash pandas #grackle #birds #photography
February 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM