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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.northsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's spring in the northern hemisphere, the flowers are blooming, the sun is peeking out and the bugs are starting to emerge. You know what that means, don't you? It's almost time for #InverteFest!!! Share your #invertebrates with us April 24-30. www.metrofieldguide.com/invertefest/

What is #InverteFest?
It’s a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, and December over the last 7 days of the month.

Going out?
1. Find invertebrates
2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest
3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event

BONUS: Join our iNaturalist project to contribute to community science

NOT Going out?
• Post your squid painting
• Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife
• Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins
• Write wikipedia pages

QUESTIONS?
ask franzanth / maureenbug / kellybrenner on iNaturalist / twitter / tumblr / instagram / bluesky

MORE INFO AND IDEAS ON: invertefest.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

The neighbor's pest control service, just out indescriminately spraying the lawn "for mosquitoes," the guy told me. Ug.

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

MANDY IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen at Evergreen and Greene Avenues she's chipped: 985113009562581 and six pounds. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT MANDY!

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

March Mammal Madness tournament action begins Monday with the WILD CARD! #2025MMM You can enjoy the play-by-play by following @mmmletsgo.bsky.social There is still time to get your bracket & play along! Players portal libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... (use left panel for Educator & Student Portals)

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a zebra and a cheetah are running in a field with the words headlikeanorange on the bottom

Alt: a zebra engages ANTI-PREDATOR DEFENSES, chasing a felid to try and trample it!

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H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations

Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Suggestion to Americans: If you used a current bank account with funds on a recent tax return, it may be wise to contact your bank and request a change. Account and routing numbers are accessible, and Elon Musk’s staff have access to this information. Stay safe and protect your assets.

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Please share: We’ve received word that Elon Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these.

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Joanna Roye @joannaroye.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Here’s your friendly reminder to plow through the labyrinth of menus in Microsoft Word to turn off all “connected experiences”. That’s their euphemism for scraping every letter you write to train their AI. Here’s how you do it. 🧵

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Here's an idea for the Democrats: Have a victim or two of Assad's torture chambers testify at Tulsi Gabbard's confirmation hearing.

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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

SC wake up. The people you elected are taking more rights away from your wives, daughters and granddaughters. It’s time to show up, speak up, and fight against banning all women’s reproductive rights. #scpol #Demcast

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There are so many good people in this country that I'd like to think that the people here would never let atrocities like what happened in World War 2 occur in the United States. But then a majority of Americans support the mass deportations including 25% of Democrats (Scripps News/Ipsos poll).

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui. Two female and three male alala released after years of preparation in ongoing effort to return species to its home. 🧪🪶 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

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Hawaiian crow that went extinct in the wild decades ago released on Maui

Two female and three male alala released after years of preparation in ongoing effort to return species to its home

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/12/2024

Hello everyone, this is all playing out exactly as we warned: nuclear gets used as a rhetorical empty future promise while big tech companies actively and knowingly increase the climate damage they're enabling today www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/m...

Day after nuclear power vow, Meta announces largest-ever datacenter powered by fossil fuels
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Louisiana facility's three natural gas turbine plants to churn out 2,262 MW
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Richland Parish, an idyllic rural area in northeast Louisiana, USA, is set to host a gigantic new Meta datacenter.

But instead of being powered by one of the on-site nuclear power plants Zuckercorp has previously advocated for, the facility is opting to drive its AI computing workload by burning more fossil fuels.

The 4 million square foot, $10 billion facility, hailed by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as "a game changer," is one of the largest private capital investments in the history of the bayou state and will be Meta's largest-ever datacenter, the Facebook parent said.

As the governor's announcement noted, construction on the facility will "continue through 2030" despite groundbreaking planned for this month - in other words, right in line with Meta's plans to ramp up nuclear power for its next generation of AI datacenters as shared in a request for proposals (RFP) yesterday.

Meta has decided to jump the atomic gun with this project by partnering with Entergy instead. The power generation company plans to construct three combined-cycle combustion turbine (CCCT) plants with a total energy generation capacity of 2,262 megawatts.

CCCT plants burn natural gas, but are configured (and marketed) as less pollutive than traditional natural gas power plants. Along with burning natural gas to spin a gas turbine, combined cycle plants use waste heat to spin a secondary steam turbine, thus creating more watts for their carbon buck. They're still burning natural gas to do so, of course, thus releasing more of the greenhouse gases - an issue Meta has pledged to address (with the purchase of offsets, naturally) by the end of the decade.

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Our resident octopus envelops all eight of its legs around a finger coral and turns itself white as a ghost while seeking a crabby treat 🐙👻🪸🦀 #octopus #colorchange #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #octopod #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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