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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Otters eating fish for dinner!

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New word & usage (for me): “…but it [AI] is a far cry from such thaumaturgy.”

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nothing to see here, just a bear strolling through our back yard in the middle of the day

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is how we do it in Humboldt County.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just stumbled across these terrific Jim Richardson photos of the annual spring prairie burning in Kansas's Flint Hills. Remarkable to think how native peoples set these enormous fires in the grasslands every year for centuries upon centuries. www.jimrichardsonphotography.com/index/G00002...

In an aerial fire, flames make serpentine patterns at dusk over the rolling terrain of Kansas's Flint Hills.

Two burned trees are silhouetted against a sinuous arc of fire that twists toward the horizon at sunset.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Who said intelligent life destroys itself before developing interstellar travel? Was that the Fermi Paradox? I am starting to believe this hypothesis…

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Not good. “Last week, allegations leaked that OpenAI had broken an industry taboo with one of its powerful new models, GPT-6 Astra. The company is alleged to have trained the model with techniques that could undermine researchers’ ability to find evidence of the model’s deceiving them.”

nytimes.com

Opinion | I Worked on Safety at OpenAI. The Fix Isn’t Hard. (Gift Article)

Even without government regulation, private companies can act on their own to address A.I. safety concerns.

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 10/09/2026

A lot of horrible things going on, but: Last week the Curiosity rover reached a couple noteworthy milestones 1) 5000 Sols on Mars and 2) 1km of elevation gain. A testament to what our innovation and determination can accomplish, when we’re not busy hacking our own country and planet to bits.

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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A study of 177 large mammals (weighing more than 10 kilograms) that went extinct between 1,000 and 132,000 years ago concludes that humans, not changes in climate, may have been the main factor in driving the animals over the brink. www.sciencenews.org/article/huma...

sciencenews.org

Humans have long history with causing extinctions

Data suggests major die-offs of large animals during the last Ice Age were linked to people, not climate.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Contribute to research! What does consciousness mean to you? Researchers are conducting a worldwide study to better understand how people across disciplines and cultures define and think about consciousness. www.whatisconsciousness.io

whatisconsciousness.io

What Is Consciousness? – Defining Consciousness: A global research survey

A worldwide study on how people across disciplines and cultures define consciousness. Anonymous, 10–20 minutes, open to anyone over 18.

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filmpope.bsky.social @filmpope.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly’s passing seems even more poignant as we lose her unconditional kindness in a time dominated by the absolute unkindness of the President.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

😬 “For example, Dr. Hoerger estimated that as of 8/8/26, every 1 in 49 people in California were infected with COVID, although wastewater levels have increased since then.”

drruth.substack.com

Dr. Ruth Report, 8/17/26

The summer COVID wave has arrived, especially in the West and the South, as seen by increasing levels of SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater.

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EF @frohe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

CDC playing around with colors again to make it look like covid is a nothing burger www.tiktok.com/t/ZTD6oJQxA/

tiktok.com

science news

TikTok video by Michael Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Today is International Cat Day so we thought it would be the purr-fect opportunity to share some of the cats from the Ashmolean’s collection.

Ancient statuette of the cat goddess Bastet

A small metal ojime in the form of a cat.

A black and white engraving of a sleeping cat.

A carnelian prism seal carved with seated cat and hieroglyphic signs

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

😑 “The State Department blamed a “team member who hastily altered the slide deck immediately before the presentation.” 😑 “Reuters authenticated it and said a watermark indicated it was generated by artificial intelligence.”

wapo.st

State Dept. apologizing for Africa map that mislabeled every country

The map, part of a presentation Sunday at the AIDS 2026 summit in Rio de Janeiro, purports to show six African countries that are receiving U.S. health funding. It gets each of them wrong.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gift article worth the ⏰ 2 read “The concept of microbial decline did not surprise or puzzle her[curandera]. Of course something was dying inside us, she said. People were turning away from the sacred, and from one another. It did not take microscopes to see that.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/m...

nytimes.com

The Unknown Universe Inside Your Gut

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Threatening to kill the ppl you are trying to negotiate with…. MUST.BE.REMOVED. “You close it and you won’t have a country,” Trump said he told Iranian officials about the critical waterway. “You won’t even make it back to your f**king country.”

share.google

Live updates: Trump threatens Iranian delegation while Vance holds talks with them | CNN

High-stakes talks between the US and Iran, mediated by Pakistan and Qatar, are now underway in Switzerland. Follow live updates.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

“[Hegseth] described the flu vaccine requirement as “absurd, overreaching” mandate that had served to “weaken our warfighting capabilities.” “In the aftermath of the outbreak, the Air Force issued an exception to the voluntary vaccine policy, requiring that all recruits at Lackland get flu shots.”

nytimes.com

Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

😮! A woman in her 80s with advanced Alzheimer’s could barely speak, had flat affect, was incontinent, & could not walk. After taking a high dose of psilocybin, she initially went into a sleep-like state and then woke up 19 hours later able to speak in full sentences, sharing detailed memories.

substack.com

Frontiers | Transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report

BackgroundAdvanced Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is generally regarded as a stage of irreversible functional decline. Psilocybin is known to transiently alter lar...

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Ariel Waldman @arielwaldman.com · 04/06/2026

Binge LIFE UNEARTHED on PBS, Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. www.pbs.org/show/life-un...

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“Donald Trump frequently demonstrates a level of malignancy that still manages to shock. He doesn’t try to hide it, but unfortunately, the mainstream media covers his disordered thinking as a colorful “quirk” — Trump being Trump — rather than a serious, escalating threat to the nation.”

open.substack.com

Why does the media ignore Trump’s madness?

His Truth Social posts show he's better suited in a mental institution than at a negotiating table.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you didn’t know better, you might think this is an intelligent cat. I know better.

A grey tabby cat with a white throat and paws and pale green eyes is staring into the camera with a kind of, sort of, “look” that says “I am thinking about something”

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

“But mistakes can happen…and a nuclear disaster on the moon would be, in Middleburgh’s words, “a humanity-defining shit show.”

scientificamerican.com

NASA’s plan for a nuclear reactor on the moon isn’t as crazy as it sounds

To build its moon base, NASA needs a lot of power

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I decided it’s a banana, zucchini, walnut, Ghiradelli dark chocolate chips day...if I could bottle the smell of this baking, I might be rich.

Zucchini banana walnut bread with Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips in a 9” silver loaf pan

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“The Trump regime continues to weaponize the levers of government, targeting the president’s political foes, as well as Black and brown people, LGBTQ+ persons, women, immigrants, protesters, and anyone who challenges Trump or the regime’s vision for a white Christian nationalist theocracy.”

impactivize.org

Freedom 250 spokesperson says Trump’s hijack of America’s birthday is ‘inherently nonpolitical,’ as performers drop out saying they were misled -

A wave of musical performers have dropped out of the Freedom 250 Great American State Fair, saying they were misled to believe the project was nonpartisan. Freedom 250 is the White House's hijack of A...

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🤬🤬🤬 “The result is a horror show for US science research. Not only is peer review made a secondary consideration, but the new rules would allow any federal agency to cancel any grant at any time based on the vague assertion that it isn’t in the “national interest.”

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"He continued, “Whatever your chosen profession is, please don’t let AI rob you of the fun part of it. Your generation’s upcoming battle won’t be humans against AI [...]… It’s going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge. It’s going to be mastery versus faking it."

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Great interview. 👽 Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a wonderful communicator.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

🧐 “Gabbard is the fourth Cabinet member to depart the Trump administration after Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Kristi Noem, and Pam Bondi both left the administration earlier this year.”

bbc.com

Tulsi Gabbard resigns as US director of national intelligence

Gabbard who has been largely out of public view during recent US operations says she is leaving due to her husband's illness.

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Parri @parri.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

What weirdo is this? About an inch long on the outside door jamb.

A brown spider approx 1 inch long with very long front legs

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