The journalists caught in the #ElonJet drama (including myself) have withdrawn their #Twitter appeals and returned to a social media platform that is just too intertwined with our profession to divorce. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/our-feckless-fealty-to-twitter/

Mississippi tornado and storms kill at least 23 https://reut.rs/3z9v2MM

russian invaders are trashing books from the library of the Pryazovskyi State Technical #University in the temporarily occupied Mariupol

“The occupiers are throwing away books from the library collections of Priazovskyi State University. Then they will be disposed of. Just like the Nazis did during the German occupation of the city during World War II. - #Mariupol City Council informed on Telegram.

Source🔗 https://www.weareukraine.info/russians-trash-books-from-mariupol-universitys-library-funds/

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

When it’s -35C but you can sit at your dining room table drinking coffee and watch the dog team race go by #Nunavut #Arctic #DogTeam

Clarification: this happened in 2019 (Still during the DeSantis' admin)

In Florida, they're arresting 11-year-olds for not standing for the pledge of allegiance. Something something something free speech. https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2019/02/14/mother-upset-after-son-kicked-out-of-class-over-pledge-of-allegiance

Next time you're using one of those soggy paper straws, remember that over 200 private jets took off immediately after the Super Bowl. That's the same carbon emission as 3,000 commercial fights.* Private jets should be illegal. Every celebrity who flies in one knows exactly what they're doing, and doesn't give two shakes.

Mass shootings in the US:

2014: 273
2015: 336
2016: 383
2017: 348
2018: 336
2019: 417
2020: 610
2021: 690
2022: 647

In the first seven weeks of 2023: 67

We do not have to live like this. No other country on the planet does.

Another siskin - as opposed to the one I posted a week ago, this one's a female: No black patch on top of the head, white belly with dark dots, generally less flashy plumage.

#birding #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #wildlifephotography

Democrats have their campaign ad made for them.

We absolutely destroyed our day 1 record for this ep. Thank you 🙏 listen here: https://www.porthosmedia.net/qdropped

Masks work, but aren't magic. They can't instantly end the pandemic alone. Anti-maskers exploit this nuance to trick people into not wearing them.

But you make a difference in every space you wear a mask, by making that space more accessible to higher risk people. That's huge!

#COVID #COVID19 #PublicHealth

Title: Snow at Koshigaya

Artist: Hasui Kawase

#HasuiKawase #Hasui #ShinHanga #Winter #Snow #Art #Koshigaya #Saitama #Japan #SilentSunday

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is naked eye visible and easy to find tonight. Follow the outside of the bowl of the Little Dipper up a little way and there it is.

#mosstodon on brick

Juvenile bald Eagle #birdsofmastodon #eagles #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

The way to honor Tyre Nichols is to never stop fighting for justice, to never give up on reform and progress, and to hold fully accountable not only the murderers but the system that gave them the power and the implied permission to take his life so violently and with such evil purpose.

I'm just over here trying to process the fact that the guy who leaked damaging news about Hillary Clinton was literally being paid by Russia, and was instrumental in burying the evidence that he, and many other Republicans, were directly working for Putin.

And we're just... I dunno. Going to work and having bagels and shit.

Russia. Owns. The. Republican. Party. Russia had spies in the highest levels of the FBI. Russia had spies in the highest levels of the NRA. Russia owns US Congresspersons.

But whatevs. It's just a literal takeover of the government by our sworn enemy.

Yesterday's sunrise over Lake Superior was a good one. Vertical shot, so if you see it as horizontal you'll need to click it.

Smash it, boost it and follow.

#Photography #LandscapePhotography #Minnesota #LakeSuperior

Elusive glass octopus spotted in the remote Pacific Ocean. Only its eyes, optic nerve and digestive tract are opaque. This rarely-seen glass octopus bared all recently — even a view of its innards — when an underwater robot filmed it gracefully soaring through the deep waters of the Central Pacific Ocean. Image credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute

Julian Khater, the man who assaulted United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on January 6, 2021, was just sentenced to 80 months — nearly 7 years — behind bars. Officer Sicknick died the following day. Sicknick's mother, Gladys, told the insurrectionist, "You attacked my son like he was an animal. You are the animal, Mr. Khater. How does it feel to be headed to jail because of a bald-faced lie?"