The Brute Choir

Photo of a yellow-green crustose lichen growing flat on reddish rock. The lichen is sort of rectangular and is made up of numerous tiny “islands” of yellow-green with black lines separating the islands. In the top left you can see a tiny bit of similar looking, but grey, lichen.

Rhizocarpon sp #lichen in the process of “taking over” another species of crustose lichen. This Rhizocarpon is the yellow-green colour. The species it is taking over is grey…see top, left of pic. A lichenologist recently explained that several species of Rhizocarpon do this.
#fungi #fungifriends

Why aren't mammals as colorful as reptiles, birds or fish? Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

Talking mammal coloration!
Why aren't mammals as colorful as reptiles, birds or fish? www.livescience.com/animals/why-...

Havana Syndrome: Pentagon Bought and Tested a Black-Market Russian Microwave Weapon That Creates… A 60 Minutes investigation exposes how US authorities acquired and verified a portable directed-energy device on the Russian black market —…

“So, the Havana syndrome investigation has finally moved from the realm of mystery and scare-mongering to a documented and proven security threat.”

No paywall

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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Hey remember when every Team Trump excuse for this proved false and then everyone moved on?

You can unzip a .docx or .pptx file, and find all the images inside at their original sizes and resolutions

I'm a little surprised by us. We got a combination gas/induction range.

We use induction 95% of the time.

Unpopular opinion but gas prices have always been too low.

Cheap gas means urban sprawl, giant useless pick up trucks, shitty transit options, shitty rail options and dangerous or no bike & pedestrian options.

Oh and burning less gas means the climate apocalypse gets postponed

“They are children in mind… They turn their play into great matters and great matters into play … Anger they show … when they become aware, suddenly, that there are other wills in the world beside their own. Then they will be as ruthless as the seawind.”

Anyone with any sense of history has set their watch to this.

Obama made a deal w/ Iran to stop them from getting nukes, but Trump backed out of it bcuz he wanted to own Obama

For a year, Iran kept following the deal anyway, begging Trump to change his mind. Iran then began work on nukes again

Now Trump is threatening to attack Iran bcuz “diplomacy failed”

I still think that this is where we're going:

www.wattpad.com/story/251052...

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The Justice Department has withheld several Epstein files related to allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. It also removed documents from the public database where accusations against Epstein also mention Trump.

Many files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release.

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

The R party hasn't changed since realignment. Clownstick didn't do anything but ditch the euphemisms.

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects
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For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.

“Epstein tried to get dirt on Trump to [Putin via] Lavrov, Lavrov held private meeting with Trump 110 days into his first presidency* with Russian media ONLY, next day FBI Director Comey is fired…” @merket.bsky.social

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Who ordered Epstein's execution?
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Watch this.

Epstein files reveal ties to Catholic conservatives' anti-Francis campaign VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The newly released Epstein files show that Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon discussed opposition to Pope Francis, including a move that Bannon claimed would ‘take down Francis.’

Epstein files and the conservative campaign to oust pope Francis
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Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

Leon Black

Joe Gibbs
Former Washington Redskins coach

Dan Snyder
Former Washington Redskins owner

Larry Summers

George Mitchell

Ted Leonsis & Steve Case: AOL

Bob Goodlatte & Charles J. Colgan

Joseph & Jill Robert: Noted financiers

Prince Andrew

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The Real Origins of the Religious Right They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth White evangelicals in the 1970s didn’t initially care about abortion. They organized to defend racial segregation in evangelical institutions — and only seized on banning abortion because it was more ...

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From Joebin Cummings

"[The word "Don't" is most] likely its because the DOJ is using software to redact any mentions of Don T, to protect Donald Trump and the word "Don't" matched those regex expressions.
Yet more evidence that they are protecting Donald Trump the pedophile.