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Transferring 5 #kakapo chicks from Whenua Hou to Anchor this week means that some more two-chick nests were created. With a more reliable food supply, most chicks on Anchor are growing fast - like these in Hine Taumai’s nest. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds

I've read several (important) articles about Sudanese who were under consideration for UK scholarships and insist they'd return. I haven't seen these mention what happened to those who returned, like former Chevening scholar Alwaleed Abdeen who was imprisoned & starved to death by the RSF last year.

Comic.[A gantry straddles the intersection of two tectonic plates, one under water and the other on a mountain. A tether connected to a winch on the gantry making a “click click click” sound is connected to the oceanic crust and is pulling it up, causing it to fold. Two people are standing on the fold next to the hook, looking down toward the space between the subducted crust where a shining object sits.] [caption] PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it.

Subduction Retrieval

xkcd.com/3218/

It's important to remember this whenever somebody tries to describe this as "democratizing" technology - they're parasites, their business model is extracting other peoples work, drowning everything in garbage and selling part of the source material in a shittier, controlled manner via subscription.

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

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I ask because I assume Iran can do math as well as me and if they know 'global economic catastrophe in roughly 40 days' that's a big incentive to hold out for 41 days if they can.

And I suspect they can.

seine excellenz pedro sánchez in einem wunderschoenen blauen anzug mit roter kravatte im hintergrund die flagge europas

friedrich merz mit hesslichem anzug und hesslicher kravatte im bundestag

seine excellenz pedro sánchez
- fuehrungsrolle in europa
- heimat bekannt als obstkorb europas
- sandstraende & palmen

friedrich merz
- weisungsempfaenger oel- und autolobby
- heimat bekannt fuer Raststaette Sauerland West (Esso)
- tagebau & industrieruinen

Comic. [Person with microphone in front of three people standing behind their own desks with drawers and a round box on top. The boxes of the first and last are shaking with their lids slightly raised.] PERSON WITH MIC: And now, for the final round, you have each been given a skunk with a hangover and chewing gum stuck to its fur. You have 30 minutes. Good luck. [caption] The Home Remedy World Championships

Home Remedies

xkcd.com/3217/

A Kākāpō chick being weighed in a bag. Credit: Andrew Digby

A Kākāpō chick being held during a health check. Credit: Andrew Digby

A health check for #kakapo chick Tiwhiri-A3 two nights ago. This is a genetically valuable (rank = gold) chick, so it gets more frequent health checks. It’s doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

do we know how Vori-A1 and Nora-A2 compare? probably not quite as good if Vori-A1 is being moved?

You know that feeling when you're struggling to stay awake? #kakapo chicks Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 in Tiwhiri's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Both around two weeks old, and doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

Kākāpō Cam: Rakiura the kākāpō – 2026 nest YouTube video by Department of Conservation

new favourite thing today: the ranger checking rakiura's nest calling base with the words "ground control from ranger tom" 😂❤️

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All places named with a lot of vowels must be tropical paradises. Don't disillusion me, Ohio.

Dana White had copies of my articles on the UFC printed so that he could put them in a big binder of work by people he hated, and in truth, being hated by that guy is one of my proudest accomplishments

(My own apartment also seems to be within the evacuation area.)

Female #kakapo are utterly focussed on their chicks. Stella came back to the nest while I was checking her very young chicks two nights ago. Apparently unconcerned by me being there, she jumped in and started brooding them in front of me. #conservation #parrots #birds #kakapo2026

‘The plane flew and started spraying’: Israel accused of poisoning Syrian farmland with chemicals Villagers report dying fields, damaged livestock and fears for their livelihoods

The difference is striking: one side green, the other brown. It is the result of what local residents in Quneitra say was the spraying of chemicals by Israeli planes inside Syria in late January, destroying grazing areas and farmland.
@sallyhayd.bsky.social
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A small kākāpō chick and a hatching egg in a nest. Credit: Andrew Digby

Checking on #kakapo Waa's nest on Anchor Island a couple of nights ago: a day-old chick (Waa-A3-2026), and an externally-pipped egg, which hatched a few hours' later. #conservation #parrots #birds

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”

this is not about sports, this is about erasing every trans person from public life and forcing them to detransition or worse, driven by people who would prefer the latter

this is what every “just asking questions” or “just following the science” concern troll leads to

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...

"Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths" - CPJ cpj.org/special-repo...

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fujinokawa at maegashira 2! march is going to be epic 🔥

www.sumo.or.jp/EnHonbashoBa...

It's honestly funny because I tend to think of myself as something of an older, stodgy kind of historian, interested mostly in political, military and economic history.

But I insist on describing it as it actually was, which is apparently radicalizing me into the Woke Antifa Resistance. 🤷‍♂️

hands down the most glorious headline of the day

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

For anyone who has not seen it, my research, along with the suicide statistics he apparently tried to cover up, show very clearly that Streeting is NOT putting children’s safety first in any way whatsoever. Trans kids are very likely to to suffer trauma well into adulthood, if they make it that far.

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we'd pay for that, right?

New Past Lives: Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America. While the horrors of the Transatlantic trade are well known, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were trafficked into slavery in North America as well. Moll was one of them. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...