Barbara 🇺🇦 @babs_at_masto@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
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The podcast that I listen to both regularly and inexplicably is the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s ‘Fish of the Week.’ If you would also like some random piscine goodness in your life, the episode on the Mexican tetra (‘the most phenotypically dichotomous fish’) is especially great, and not just because the host describes what Odysseus did to Astyanax as ‘yeeting’:
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5/ Michael Beschloss thread:
Tennessee legislators have just taken a crowbar against American democracy.
What is happening to our country?
What we are seeing in the Nashville legislature is an authoritarian scene worthy of the bleak history of Europe in the 1930s.
And the whole world is watching.
"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal'..." -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
More....
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I've been a member of the xerces society for about two years and I'm really happy with their work. They are a charitable organization focused on invertebrate conservation. If you become a member not only will you be supporting a good cause but their magazine is amazing. They also have lectures and other events you can attend.
Invertebrates are often overlooked so I'm glad they're out there.
(If anyone know of an ant conservation group lemme know~)
@johannneem At LEAST since Reagan, I meant to say. Maybe it started with Nixon.
@johannneem And BTW: this poor-me-the-left-hates-us stuff has been going on since Reagan and Rush Limbaugh. Right-wing media has carefully cultivated and grew this feeling of "victimization" for more than 40 years; Murdoch has made millions from it because everybody loves to claim to be oppressed. FOX catered to this group in particular and nursed its grievances. Now it's their central identity: being hated and put-upon (as if nobody had anything better to do). Pretty sad, really.
@johannneem Nobody cares about their being "rubes." What we care about is that they elected an unprincipled and amoral thug who cares about nothing but himself and who'd happily bring the country itself down to save himself.
@ketan Hard to think this matters at all. The hard right are hard-core anyway, about everything - and never, ever change their minds.
Everybody else is somewhat normal and persuadable. And as the evidence mounts, they will see it.
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I found this interesting estimate of the number of future deaths from global warming, something I'd always wondered about.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02323/full
They estimate (only) a billion deaths projected if we can stay under 2C of global warming (which is optimistic and would require becoming a more energy efficient society and diverting from our present path but not totally leaving civilization). Based on that scenario, they estimate that 1000 tons of emissions kills about one future person. That means the average Canadian, who burns about 20 tons per year, is killing about 1-2 people during their lives. From a slightly more positive stance, by not driving and living frugally I'm only killing about 1/4 to 1/2 of my future grandchildren, which is still pretty sad, but I'm also saving approximately one of their lives, which is pretty cool!
Of course these estimates are very inaccurate, as they say, but they're better than making random guesses and being off by orders of magnitude (such as thinking your lifestyle is only killing a tiny fraction of a person so is fine, or thinking that humans will all be wiped out by our lifestyles).
@kityates The "Fosbury Flop."
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As of now, 256 wolves have been killed in Montana's controversial wolf hunt.
With snares, traps, and bait, people are killing these wolves for fun.
It's outrageous that in the 21st century, bloodlust continues to drive the wolf management policies in states like Montana, Idaho, & Wyoming.
Call on the US Interior to prioritize conservation over bloodsport by relisting wolves in the N. Rockies to protect them from this cruelty.
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RT @AschbacherJosef: An ESA-led project processed billions of radar images over the entire Amazon basin and converted it into a data cube, finding that in a period of less than 4 years over 5.2 million hectares of forest were lost. That's about the size of Costa Rica. https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Using_a_data_cube_to_monitor_forest_loss_in_the_Amazon
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1635390670197379072
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So cool! A map of every neuron in an insect brain https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brain-insect-fruit-fly-detail-nerve-cell
A simple reason not to register at #Spoutible: the name. I like Mastodon BECAUSE people aren't "spouting off."
Who needs more of that? Spouting off is the big social media problem.
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Deeply troubling story that I think should make it clearer at the top that this about a bunch of racist, snowflake goons terrorizing a bakery and its young employees because they did a nice thing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2023/03/10/red-truck-bakery-protests-warrenton/
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This bobcat spent two hours hunting in our yard yesterday. Such a privilege to be in its presence for so long.
#bobcat #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #nature #NewHampshire
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Much of the GOP doesn’t even agree with Tucker Carlson on Jan. 6.
Church in Amazonia decries murder of indigenous activist in Ecuador
Catholic leaders in the Amazon denounce the assassination of Eduardo Mendúa, leader of the indigenous Cofan people who fought against oil extraction in the Amazon forest, and call for justice.
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Here's Canada's most embarrassing citizen, Jordan Peterson, on Musk's hellsite actually telling the POPE that Christianity should mean that if they are hungry then cut benefits to programs that feed them, and if they are sick deny them health care.
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🧵 Did you know that young Jimmy Carter heroically saved Canada from a nuclear meltdown when he was a naval officer?
It's true!
The world’s first nuclear reactor meltdown occurred right here in the Ottawa Valley — and a young U.S. naval officer (future U.S. president Jimmy Carter) was brought in and put in charge of the team containing the disaster — 70 years ago.)
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Looks like someone got cold feet.
