Reposted by Raz RasmussenBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 01/10/2025Before you fall asleep poorly tonight, slow down to enjoy one of my cutest videos of Baby Bird Season 2025. It doesn't get much better than this 🥰 🪶 718139
Reposted by Raz RasmussenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2025“Ooh, can you put it on speaker? I want to hear 911 laugh at you.” 1713978731
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I'm not a Bernie-or-bust partisan but this year he's provided such a tireless voice in defense of democracy. IMO the strongest counter to the volatility of the moment would be to replace 99% of responses with this simple, matter of fact message distilled from years of experience.youtu.beIn Wake of Charlie Kirk Murder, Sen. Bernie Sanders Addresses Rising Political Violence in AmericaYouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders 020
Reposted by Raz RasmussenTea’s Emporium & Co. @teasemporiumandco.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Moss absorbs 4x more COz than trees, grows without soil, and helps cool cities. Stop removing it. #moss #CO2 #trees #soil #cooling #leavealone 1116043
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 04/09/2025A community consumed by joylessness within can't sustain life, even its own. We will win. 000
Reposted by Raz Rasmussen29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 30/08/2025If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you 11381452165
Reposted by Raz RasmussenArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.arstechnica.comAuthors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class actionAdvocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry. 98162952335
Reposted by Raz RasmussenWolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025🚨 Wolves Need Your Voice! Congress is considering harmful riders in the upcoming Interior appropriations bill that would strip protections for gray wolves in 44 states and weaken the ESA. 📢 Take action to protect wolves and endangered species: engage.nywolf.org/site/Advocac...engage.nywolf.orgUrgent - Wild Wolves and Other Animals Need Your Help! 8477165
Reposted by Raz RasmussenThe Keeling Curve @keelingcurve.bsky.social · 30/07/2025New comment in @TheEconomist from @Scripps_Ocean's Ralph Keeling on Trump and climate science: www.economist.com/by-invitatio...economist.comDonald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implicationsEven a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling 298
Reposted by Raz RasmussenMichael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This was recorded in a parallel universe where Fox Business exists but batteries do not. 411030185
Reposted by Raz RasmussenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025If you'd like to let the Secretary of the Interior know about this new invention called "the battery," you can contact him here:doi.govContact Interior | U.S. Department of the InteriorHow to contact the U.S. Department of the Interior 62844211
Reposted by Raz RasmussenBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 31/07/2025Good night. 🗺️ 1122432
Reposted by Raz RasmussenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2025This past week, the 79-year-old president announced he’s ended six wars (some that have been going on for centuries), asserted that windmills drive whales insane, called for Beyoncé to be prosecuted, claimed Obama committed treason and complained a convicted pedophile “stole” teenage girls from him. 36980462374
Reposted by Raz RasmussenBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/06/2025Fuck ICE Fuck Trump Fuck war Fuck everything about that. All power to nature and the working class. Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing. Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣 15872139
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Regarding ongoing discussion of training students to evaluate sources of information -- it's heartening to see much serious attention by @eliothiggins.bsky.social and others. But I'm stumped why academics in particular are still so stumped by this! 1364
Reposted by Raz RasmussenEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025We recently reported DOGE created AI tool. It didn’t go well “I would never recommend someone do what my code says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake. Do not drive into the lake” www.propublica.org/article/trum...propublica.orgDOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs ContractsWe obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron... 10370150
Reposted by Raz RasmussenBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/07/2025Yo. Look at how cute this prairie dog pup is. Omg. Taken outside the passenger side of my car window right after it rained, ergonomically painful, but absolutely worth it! Video to be added later 🗺️ 291036170
Reposted by Raz RasmussenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2025THANKS, COLUMBIA! 38823140
Reposted by Raz RasmussenAdam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats @adamlaats.bsky.social · 25/07/2025100 years ago, they came for UNC-Chapel Hill. They accused it of teaching evolution, non-heroic US history, and anti-racism. They threatened its budget. Pres. Harry Chase fought back and won. He told voters that if they wanted a “real university,” there could be no ideological control. 8869254
Reposted by Raz RasmussenThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/07/2025JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news... 1400105855488
Reposted by Raz RasmussenRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 19/07/2025The Phillies did the kiss cam thing to Coldplay 823272495
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025It was a good year to be 12. youtu.be/lvnTsLSGPpcyoutu.be1972 HITS ARCHIVE: Layla - Derek And The Dominos (mono 45--long version)YouTube video by AnotherProf 011
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 18/07/2025This is very hopeful news. Current NSF, NOAA, NASA funding maintained in new Senate appropriations bill - which also explains the critical role basic science plays in US technical & economic progress. 010
Reposted by Raz RasmussenRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/07/2025Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/ 505728870
Reposted by Raz RasmussenDylan Murphy @cotangent.space · 27/06/2025A moment I still remember from undergad classes: in a discussion section for first quarter QM, another student complained that she was tired of the harmonic oscillator. The TA said, "I have some bad news," and then turned and wrote on the board: Everything is a harmonic oscillator 527328
Reposted by Raz RasmussenDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/07/2025"A warning coordination meteorologist is responsible for teaching emergency managers what specific types of weather alerts mean. If those positions remain vacant for, say, half a year, 'you’re really starting to lose your relationship w/local officials.' " www.latimes.com/cali...latimes.comTrump cuts to California National Weather Service leave 'critical' holes: 'It’s unheard of'Some National Weather Service offices in California are among those hit hardest by meteorologist vacancies, heightening concerns as the state contends with the threat of extreme weather. 2196104
Reposted by Raz RasmussenCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Every once in awhile, I think of my favorite “…the fuck did you just say?” phraseology, which is from Homer’s Iliad, proving we have never, ever changed as a species, only less fancily inclined. “What nonsense has escaped the barrier of your teeth now?” 311877439
Reposted by Raz RasmussenAltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Ok, or maybe AltNPS hasn't changed at all lol "Photo credit to an undisclosed source." Yes, an undisclosed source who sent this photo TO PBS NEWS, not the Secret Agent Park Rangers. Shoutout to @knives.motorcycles, who also has the most radical bsky handle I've ever seen 55012
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Idiotic ICE manly-men prepared for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or something. 000
Reposted by Raz RasmussenBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 11/07/2025Imagine going to Ventura county To terrorize a community and murder farmworkers instead of look at dolphins. Just the most soulless fucks in America right now. 3717
Reposted by Raz RasmussenAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/07/2025Capitol Hill just hosted a science fair with a twist: 🔬 Nobel winners & other leading scientists stood by posters showing their work — and the cuts now gutting it. They came from across the country, many paying their own way, to call attention to the serious risks these cuts pose to our future.npr.orgCanceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair'On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it. 8424144
Reposted by Raz RasmussenPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025So glad we all get to experience the Most Ironic Independence Day In American History. 546188402605
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I freaking love this (mom of two pigeons, Peep and Poop) 021
Reposted by Raz RasmussenMichael Buice @mabuice.bsky.social · 03/07/2025The ICE budget is now set to be approximately what the NIH budget was. We’re shifting money from solving real problems to solving fictitious problems. 261000324
Reposted by Raz RasmussenAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/07/2025Hours after Putin spoke to Trump And a few days after the US announced it would cut supplies of Ukrainian air defense 9620871015
Reposted by Raz RasmussenTom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Imagine that there was a US administration whose department heads were competing to see how many people they could kill. It would look just like this one. Rubio and Musk are in the lead, causing thousands of deaths by shutting down USAID. Kennedy is trying to catch up. Trump keeps the leader board. 12511
Raz Rasmussen @lulabeast.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Klahhane Ridge, Olympic National Park, my supremely happy place. 030