Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialMike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 24mIf Trump croaks before he has a chance to pardon everyone, you're going to see the cockroaches that comprise the GOP turn into Lord of the Flies. 163
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 12h🦜 A monograph of the Ramphastidae, or family of toucans London: Published by the author, 20, Broad Street, Golden Square, [1852]-1854. [Source] 0266
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick 281124983241
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.washingtonpost.comElon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegallyInvestors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa. 13474342543
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed 43081721125
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialLynx Nature Books @lynxnaturebooks.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Around 96,000 kilometres in just 10 months. That is more than twice the circumference of the Earth. 🌍🌊 Meet the Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), a small seabird whose extraordinary journeys deserve the spotlight this World Migratory Bird Day. #WorldMigratoryBirdDay #ArcticTern #BirdConservation 011
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialAndrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026“The opposite of hope isn’t despair. It’s inaction”. Great stuff from @helenpilcher.bsky.social #conservation #kakapo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comCan hope save the planet? An endangered parrot that is beating the odds can help us find out | Helen PilcherA new global biodiversity report strikes an encouraging note. But we cannot rest on our laurels – and resilience is key, says science writer Helen Pilcher 317252
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialStephen Heard @stephenbheard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Barron Canyon, Algonquin Park, Ontario. 100 m deep canyon through Canadian Shield gneisses ("gneiss canyon you've got there") carved when this river was a raging outlet for post-glacial Lake Algonquin. 2333
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 10/10/2026🦃 Les pigeons Paris, [1808-]1811. [Source] 0247
doveseed.bsky.social @doveseed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Well last hummer and last painted lady two days ago. Maybe anticipating a cold front. Maybe zugunruhe. Resident towhee back, patrolling and snurring. Chilies coming in. Change is coming. Time to get ready to hunker down and recharge. 010
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump's suit appears to be part of Jos. A. Bank's Traveler line. The suit is listed as having been made abroad using a wool-polyester-spandex blend. The company describes it as having the "ultimate stretch" and was designed to minimize body odor. 59793601601
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic. 53698133694
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🦤 The birds of Australia, supplement /. London: Printed by Taylor and Francis ... published by the author ..., [1851]-1869.. [Source] 0324
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.propublica.orgKen Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta... 371556785
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Map shows North America about 77 Millions years ago. Saying things like “the US is more divided now than ever before” clearly isn’t factually correct 😜 Source: buff.ly/39psJq2 16613
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026Apple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet.buff.lyI’m Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect GadgetApple’s original music player got many things right. Chief among them: It didn’t connect to the internet. 2641627
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The takeaway from Bo French suggesting Asian students are “foreigners” and the tepid GOP response is that the Trump-era Republican Party is increasingly explicit about its belief that the only good immigrants, and the only real Americans, are white. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1... 311401350
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 09/10/2026🍃 The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands: London: Printed for B. White, 1771. [Source] 0224
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"The security officers were contracted through multinational private security company Prosegur" is not a sentence that should ever be associated with a U.S. election. 1468
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026🦢 The Avicultural magazine Ascot, Berkshire, etc.: Avicultural Society, etc. [Source] 0125
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026🏞️ Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1908. [Source] 073
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’ | Rats fleeing a sinking shiptheguardian.comVeteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’John Murdock had been working for the agency for 18 years and his resignation comes during an exodus of longtime federal workers and scientists 1248
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In the last couple of years, we've seen multiple critical collections (museums, herbaria) close. The IUCN--the global authority on the status of biodiversity--recently published on how important these kinds of facilities are in conservation. Every day, the dead are working to protect the living.iucn.orgFrom collections to conservation: the indispensable role of natural history museumsThe IUCN Species Survival Commission has published a Position Statement on the vital role of biological collections in biodiversity conservation: a formal acknowledgement that natural history museums,... 1173100
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialLast Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 05/10/2026Thank you to Rob Riggle, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, Eugene Cordero, Mark Proksch, Courtney Taylor, Vic Michaelis, Mike Mitchell, and the voice of Jon Hamm for helping us show the less glamorous side of the Secret Service. You guys did the most with the absolute least! 428723
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialGreat Basin Bird Observatory @greatbasinbirds.bsky.social · 05/10/2026So many Brewer’s Sparrows and Green-tailed Towhees up here near the top of Bald Mountain! #MountainMonday #BrewersSparrow #GreentailedTowhee #NevadaBirdCount 091
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialFrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Three years ago today 🌿 South Platte Gaillardia 18612
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialMongabay @mongabay.com · 05/10/2026The IUCN has assessed the brown clockfig, a rare succulent in Namibia and South Africa, as critically endangered. Overgrazing, green energy projects, and diamond mining threaten its desert habitat, with up to 100% of the population projected to be lost by 2052.mongabay.ccRare Southern African succulent listed as critically endangered amid mining threatThe brown clockfig, an extremely rare succulent growing in the hot, arid border region of Namibia and South Africa, was recently assessed as critically endangered by the IUCN, the global wildlife… 0197
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026🐃 Die fremdländischen Stubenvögel Hanover: Carl Rümpler, 1875- [Source] 1245
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialPatrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026MeanCat doesn’t think about us at all. But if he did, he would be very very very disappointed in all of us. 2259821
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.social#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 01/10/2026Every reporter who credulously repeated that Elon was "stepping away" from politics needs to go on a public apology tour. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comElon Musk to return his attention to government, advise Pentagon on future of warMusk will join Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on a panel for what the Defense Department is calling Project Meridian. 77318
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBrent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MAGA Farmers Right Now 41817219
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialCenter for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/09/2026A WIN! We’ve just learned that Colorado Parks and Wildlife is suspending the practice of killing wolves for conflict with wildlife. This provides some much-needed safety for Colorado’s small and recovering wolf population. 413741
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Washington, D.C. mural to suffragette Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (李彬華), who campaigned for women to get the right to vote even though she herself was unable to vote because of the Chinese Exclusion Act. 0299
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026BREAKING: MS NOW EXCLUSIVE. Republican Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway. GOP Judiciary staff told Schmitt the texts — obtained from the Trump DOJ — were "unvetted." Schmitt still used them.ms.nowEric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted. 2692647775
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy. 581294256
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026🦤 The dodo and its kindred;. London, Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848.. [Source] 0103
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 30/09/2026I wrote about iced coffeetheringer.comHow “Can You Bring Iced Coffee to a Job Interview?” Became Society’s Ultimate Litmus TestAmerica is divided. Generations are at war. Where do you stand on the most urgent debate of the past week? 910520
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026Trump White House misspells “United” on the official “super intelligence” document with AI executives. Instead of “President of the United States,” it reads: “President of the Unites States.” Nothing says “super intelligence” quite like misspelling the name of the country. 61380862356
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialGovernor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 29/09/2026I just signed legislation to protect California's coast from expanded offshore oil drilling and to expand access to public parks and outdoor spaces. While Donald Trump tries to throw America's public lands away to private developers, California is doing the exact opposite. 1231866
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2635210105726
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialHELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026Seriously though. If a Senator accuses a sworn witness of perjury for saying he wasn’t at a particular game in Atlanta, and then it turns out he wasn’t at that game in Atlanta but actually in Maryland (700 miles away), then I suggest there should be a penalty beyond general mocking and derision. 1130161
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The funniest part is @ericschmittmo not wanting to leave the Jack Smith “Hawks” game texts up long enough for anyone to read them because he knows he’s full of shit 🤡 😂 @aaron.rupar @ronaldfilipkowski 38638153
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBill Thornbro @billthornbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sen. John Kennedy, R-Petticoat Junction, just asked Jack Smith these questions: "Do you believe in the Tooth Fairy? Do you believe in the Easter Bunny? Do you believe Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes?" Kennedy is a clown. And this hearing is revenge against a public servant who did his job. 173
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026scenes from an extremely weird cult of personality history 104917189
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.] 161965607
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialBiodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026🧠 Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Alert' 1881-2. London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1884. [Source] 0186
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialLCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 28/09/2026There has never been an American administration so committed to destruction and making life worse for all living things.theguardian.comTrump officials move to dismantle key protection for US endangered speciesFish and Wildlife Service memo calls for change in what it means to ‘take’ an endangered species 02815
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialMike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is how I know the US is head for Bastille Day-level event in the near-future. 52615
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialDakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hurricane Polo looks simply spectacular from space. A Category 5 beast. 08319
Reposted by @doveseed.bsky.socialDakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Eastern Pacific is printing major hurricanes. A spectacular satellite view of Hurricane Nolo this evening. 16620
