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Breakfast cereals with SUGAR in the name. Honey Smacks was still called Sugar Smacks when I was a kid. Frosted Flakes was Sugar Frosted Flakes.

The fact that I have heard almost identical stories from Native students from probably every single ivy league college is so damning. Often the same claim—“we can’t find someone to assess your knowledge” what they mean is they can’t find someone w a PhD and fluency in the Indigenous language

Carbon transport, by squid

This is a Teuthowenia pellucida, according to Rachel Chen, from the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors team. After glass squids make the daily trip to surface waters to feed, they return to depths, transferring carbon from the surface ocean to the deep sea.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.

Sylvie, Teah, Pirate

Lichen are unique organisms made up of a combination of fungi and algae that are symbiotic, supporting each other. The algae makes food through photosynthesis, which helps the fungi. In return, the fungi provide structure and retain moisture for the algae. Together, they form a self-sufficient partnership. Lichen can grow on non-living things like rocks, powerlines, or fences but are often found on tree bark. Trees that grow slowly tend to have more lichen on their trunks and branches. Faster-growing trees produce new growth rings each year, causing the bark to expand and any lichen on the surface to fall off. Slower-growing trees don’t expand their bark as much, allowing more lichen to grow. Identification There are many types of lichen around the world, with a wide range of textures and colors. Some lichen form long, ornate structures up to two inches tall. Others create small cup-like shapes or grow flat like leaves. Different species of lichen can often be found in the same area, looking like a colorful coral reef. Lichen colors often become more vibrant after it rains. A common lichen you may find in the environment is the cracked-shield lichen,Parmelia sulcata. It is light blue, almost white, with a flat, bark-like texture. Another common lichen found in Texas is the slender orange-bush,Teloschistes exillis, which is bright orange and grows very low, sometimes blending in with the rocks. Management Lichen are self-sustaining and do not harm trees or people. While some people remove lichen to improve aesthetics, this is only a temporary fix, as lichen may continue to grow over time. It’s best to leave them alone. They provide food and shelter for many small animals and nesting material for birds like hummingbirds and warbling vireos. Throughout history, people have used lichen for food, dyes for clothing, and medicine. Many lichen are sensitive to pollution and if present, can indicate that air quality is good.

Orange/yellow colors in lichens indicate it contains usnic acid, a molecule supposedly used by the human body to convert consumed protein into muscle mass. Info in alt
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A group of about twenty purple and wavy tentacle-like fingers rise from orange fir needles covering the ground. This fungi is named purple spindles for good reason. This group of spindles stands about eight inches tall at its highest.

This weird fungus is Alloclavaria purpurea, better known as purple spindles. They're so tentacley!

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM
M, f/8, 1/4, ISO 400
Stack of 5 images
11/9/24
Northern Oregon Coast

#mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms

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TL;DR there was a group who first called for the boycott back in February 2025 - they say it's still on.

There's a pastor who called for it in March 2025 - he says it's off.

And then there's lots of people who just stopped shopping at Target in January 2025 after they rolled back DEI.

Today's ocean

Yesterdays ocean

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2026 The big picture on how many people are locked up in the United States and why

We bust more myths about the criminal legal system in our new report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 👇

Cork Stryker plants hit by suspected global Iranian-linked cyberattack Stryker operations worldwide jammed by hackers

Medical device maker Stryker reportedly hit with cyberattack from Iranian hacktivist group. So far only Irish news reporting, not here in US. "many employees have had their device data wiped and cannot access their accounts" Stryker makes surgical equipment, defibrillators, imaging equipment

The picture shows a piece of limestone with a drawing of a mouse sitting in front of a table of offerings, smelling the fragrance of a lotus flower which she holds in her hand. Opposite of the table is a cat, holding a fan.

A charming #Egyptian drawing of a #cat acting as a servant to a #mouse. Drawings of animals acting as people were meant as satire of the society and politics.
Dating 13th/12th century BC, probably from Deir el-Medina, #Egypt.

📷 Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy

This feels like MORE WORK
FOR MOTHER by Ruth Schwartz Cowan, which explored the irony that many of the technical advances in housework and the kitchen did nothing to ease the burden on women but instead increased it.

When a friend shares a post and you KNOW they were thinking of you.

Planted a tiny plug of bog sage in Sept. Bought it for the blue flowers and climate resilience. All the stuff I'd seen online suggested it's only half-hardy, will die back to the crown in winter, etc etc. Failed to take into account that the PNW is a goldilocks zone for a lot of finicky plants...

Photo of a shallow square glass box on a cutting mat. Inside the box is a white foam core board cut with some space around the 4 edges. 3 opalized fossils sit on the board in a pleasing arrangement.

The same glass box with the lid open, the 3 fossils are now nestled down in blue velvet. The colors look much nicer in this photo, with purple being dominant in two pieces, but also shimmers of bright blue and green.

Another look at the book from a higher angle with the lid closed. The fossils are upper left a purple cockle shell, to the right a section of white and crystal opal belemnite (an ancient squid) with flashes of red, and the lower portion, a large fragment of unknown species with purple tones and bright green/blue iridescence.

Did a bit of stress crafting and finally made a little display for the opal fossils I got in Coober Pedy last year. I used two layers of foam core, and cut spaces for each piece out of the top layer. Then wrapped in velvet and placed in the glass box. Fossils are low enough to not touch the glass.

The ruling class is in a permanent tax revolt, but not because its members fear higher taxes. They successfully evade taxes set at any level. What worries them is the proliferation of public goods, which tends to enhance the independence of the working classes.

Cranky princess with a blaster. Nothing else mattered.

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist.

He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

For my Gen X girlies that remember asymmetrical haircuts did you talk to your doctor about HRT yet? I did. My sleep can be fixed.

A pudgy creature with a squid body for a head

Squip

(A concept I'll return to one day, I just wanted to get them down.)

An entire generation has been convinced online that Kobe Bryant was “found innocent,” and I cannot express how much that did not happen.

His victim stopped cooperating with prosecutors because she was getting so much harassment, and he begged her to settle.

A medium black dog with a green break in her mouth leaning forward through the center console of a car looking eagerly out the windows

I don't know how parents do it. I mean, I only have a dog whose the same age Cricket was when shot by Kristi Noem for being untrainable.

Teaho stole this ball from another dog on the beach. Don't worry. She's still alive & loved.

The woman in these photos of James Baldwin dancing is often misidentified online as Lorraine Hansberry. In reality, Baldwin was dancing with Doris Castle of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality). Steve Schapiro took the pics of Baldwin and Castle during a light moment in New Orleans, 1963. #photography

Thornwolf Shop — Thornwolf Creative Services Original artwork, stickers, prints, pins, bandanas, and apparel by Nicole "Thornwolf" Dornsife

Oops I owe more taxes than I withheld bc...sure why not. That tracks. Anyway if you got your return back and want to put it back into the community, I have a lot of stickers, prints, apparel, and other goodies for sale in my shop and would be very appreciative of the boost!
thornwolf.com/shop #BSNM

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Everyone stop what you're doing, the Mariners are selling fries, nachos, and fish and chips in ferries now. www.mlb.com/mariners/bal...