Ace of James
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Ace of James
@three-crows-squad.bsky.social
James or Crow, he/they, corvid enthusiast
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
July 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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The #ICE #budget will be bigger than FBI, Bureau of Prisons, DEA & others COMBINED. $150 BILLION over 4 years. Bigger than most countries’ militaries. Let that sink in.

The police state just got its backing with money that could have been used to build healthy and safe communities for everyone.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie).

Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development
CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs
The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.
www.cbsnews.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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April 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Can anyone decode this crow call? Is s/he mad at me? 🥲 🪶 #crow #americancrow #birds
April 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#bingsphotos #photography #filmisnotdead #lomography #PhotographersUnited #believeinfilm #crow #birds #bird

📸 Agfamatic 6008 makro pocket
🎞️ Lomo Color'92 110 ISO 400

'Crow'
April 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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"Oh, no - we love it when an unexpected caller comes to see us. Don't we, my love?"

#NaturePhotography #jackdaw #London #photography #birds
April 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Counting crows
#crow #bird
April 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Scene: It’s the U.S. in the 2020s and the continued undermining of U.S. vaccine program leads to a polio outbreak in New York City.

RFK Jr: Everyone, calm down. Just flee to your estate in Hyannis Port and ride it out, and stop eating seed oils, peasants.
April 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.
Supreme Court sides with administration over Education Department grants
By a 5-4 vote, the justices allowed the administration to freeze millions of dollars in grant funding for diversity and instructional programs at public and private universities.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Whether you're a shopper or a seller, a worker or a business owner, you likely have a lot on your mind when it comes to budgeting, planning trips or big purchases. And we want to hear all about it.
How are tariffs affecting you? NPR wants to know
Whether you're a shopper or a seller, a worker or a business owner, you likely have a lot on your mind when it comes to budgeting, planning trips or big purchases. And we want to hear all about it.
www.npr.org
April 4, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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PSA from @johncusack.bsky.social: Democracy is under attack — and paywalls shouldn’t stand in the way of accessing vital public records.

News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting.
@wired.com did it. @404media.co did it. Now, it’s your turn.
John Cusack: Time to drop paywalls for FOIA reporting
YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation
www.youtube.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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An executive order from President Donald Trump this month, which gutted the U.S. Agency for Global Media, could endanger journalists who are jailed in several countries. Their employers provided them with financial support and advocated for their release.
Trump cuts threaten reporters with return to repressive regimes - ICIJ
Reporters for Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Voice of America grapple with the threat of returning to repressive countries following cuts to the federal agency that oversees…
buff.ly
April 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Here are examples of specific cuts in North Texas libraries. Keep calling your Congress about IMLS. The 5calls app has a helpful script. www.star-telegram.com/news/local/f...
North Texas libraries face a new threat of federal cuts that extend well beyond books
Libraries across the Metroplex risk losing grants that deliver books to seniors, digitize historic archives and help people find jobs.
www.star-telegram.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

www.404media.co/nih-archives...
Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever
Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."
www.404media.co
April 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Agency to Preserve Research Websites in Reversal
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency will preserve access to websites tied to its research division, after previously moving to cancel a cloud web services contract that supports many of its...
www.bloomberg.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.
April 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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If you benefited from the severe thunderstorm & tornado watches & warnings yesterday, call your Congressional reps and tell them to keep the NWS funded & staffed. Last week, NWS were informed that up to 25% of their staff may be let go - this after they were already chronically 10% *under*staffed.
National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000.

With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift):

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Weather Service Merges Offices as Staffing Pressure Mounts
The US National Weather Service will merge two of its largest forecasting units as it prepares for the loss of as many as 1,000 staffers.
www.bloomberg.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Awww yeah it’s Friday night and if you see this it means you love to read and Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was “accidentally” kidnapped and rendered to an El Salvador gulag, still has not been returned home because, get this, he’s not under US jurisdiction now!
April 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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My writing is for everyone who needs it, but if you think empathy is a distasteful idea then maybe it's time for a little self-reflection, friend.
You can be better than this.
January 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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All of this thread, especially the “fuck you”
From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.
February 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM