Want a reliable way to tell the two cryptic giant hummingbird species apart while birding in the Andes? Use your ear! πΆ In a new @fieldornith.bsky.social J. Field Ornithology paper, we show how their vocalizations differ clearlyβmaking sound a slam dunk for identifying them in the field.
06.03.2026 19:50
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05.03.2026 22:45
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A LOTR and Hobbit cube would be amazing!
06.03.2026 05:13
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So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
05.03.2026 17:31
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So I guess it was either World War III or drag queens reading books to our children.
05.03.2026 16:48
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Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."
05.03.2026 02:26
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The cancer cure that almost didn't happen
YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson
I love this guy and he works his butt off on making amazing videos so I sponsored this video he made about the* cure for cancer**.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHOu...
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04.03.2026 00:51
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I tried to give Nintendo the benefit of the doubt, I tried looking at the positives, but really it's just arse and another step the industry is pushing us towards game leasing and not game ownership.
The global trend of companies pushing us all to lend over own is not healthy.
03.03.2026 13:50
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They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.
04.03.2026 03:50
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CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
03.03.2026 03:25
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#SendBarronToWar
03.03.2026 00:02
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Seems to be the patternβ¦
28.02.2026 23:19
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I prefer non-lethal distractions from the tRUMPSTEIN Files like renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making Canada the 51st state & buying Greenland. Sure it was hugely offensive to longtime friends & allies, but at least no one died.
01.03.2026 19:39
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A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nationβs people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustnβt let this war do so.
01.03.2026 23:01
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09
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CONGRESS declares war.
NOT President tRumpstein.
28.02.2026 19:28
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youtu.be/PyM4uAJBujA?...
26.02.2026 21:39
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And there are hummingbirds even higher up in the Andes
27.02.2026 18:43
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Well this is fcking crazy. Work from @msbbirds.bsky.social and others found that Black Metaltail hummingbirds can drop their body temperature down to 3 Β°C (37 Β°F) during torpor. π€― Turns out birds aren't warm-blooded after all! royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article...
π· Steve Juhasz
27.02.2026 18:27
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Trump's self-dealing is truly off the scales β eclipsing even the biggest corruption scandal of the First Gilded Age.
It's a new Golden Age for grifting. [@brennancenter.org]
25.02.2026 21:15
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In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.
25.02.2026 05:43
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The grift that keeps on grifting.
23.02.2026 21:47
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Screenshot of an X post from Blue Georgia stating that the βbirthplace of food stampsβ is McDowell County, West Virginia, which is described as deep-red and majority white. The post quotes a 60 Minutes preview about poverty and lack of drinking water in the county, with an aerial image of a rural landscape at sunset.
Worth remembering and noting.
23.02.2026 19:30
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$10B for Trump's "Board of Peace"
$10B for Trump's IRS lawsuit
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$135M for Trump's golf outings
The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.
20.02.2026 19:45
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Awards and travel funding
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Do you have caregiving responsibilities at home that make attending scientific meetings more challenging? Apply for a Caregiver Grant by by March 1 to offset caregiving-related expenses to attend #AFOWOS2026!
20.02.2026 20:00
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Yet another sad reminder that there is a two-tiered justice system in America: One for the rich. Another for everyone else.
If elites can be held accountable in other parts of the world, why can't they be held accountable in America?
19.02.2026 16:07
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.
I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
17.02.2026 17:45
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I am reading KC Davisβ βHow to Keep House While Drowningβ (reframing cleaning as morally neutral) and my favourite reframe so far is:
Itβs so messy in here! β This space has reached the end of its functional cycle
which is DELIGHTFUL to me but my family thinks sounds ridiculous.
I β€οΈ it so much.
16.02.2026 16:09
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If this country was truly βpro-life,β we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.
The right-wing agenda isnβt about βlife.β
Itβs about control.
15.02.2026 23:00
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