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The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

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...in the meantime (timeline cleanser) Jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) with pollen John-Oliver Dum www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/20...

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Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Here's a reminder for my stream with Alex Gibney, happening this Tuesday at 9 am Pacific/Noon Eastern. Add it to your calendar, and let's make this the biggest stream the AT Protocol has ever seen!

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Here's how Amazon broke the economy: first, they locked in a key group of shoppers. The vast majority of affluent shoppers in the USA have Amazon Prime accounts.

From F-Droid to independent devs, the entire Android ecosystem is under threat from Google's new mandatory registration decree. See why 67+ orgs are saying no: keepandroidopen.org

Join healthcare workers, activists, and organizations worldwide in demanding the suspension of the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association, and to boycott Teva.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”

ONE YEAR of melting at Morteratsch Gl.! 😱 10 meters of ice thickness loss has been measured here at 2200 m asl! 🧊🔥 The massive cliff and the huge ice cave I was contemplating last October are gone... 😢 Webcam @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

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There's less need to stress about advertisers following where you go online when you have Privacy Badger installed. privacybadger.org/

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

@doctorow.pluralistic.net flips it around, that too many of us humans are hallucinating about Claude having intent. He pushes us to be AI atheists. It is a provocative, but welcome, stance. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...

@stellastarshine.bsky.social @mrriddle0.eurosky.social ok, but then we should find a name for those subset of feminists who think that the human race should go on without males. Also: probably we should be "humanists", not fem* or what else. Isn't it? And: why block comments?

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

At least 3 decisions to dropout from Ed Sheeran's tour since the news announcing that Macklemore would be dropped for his performance of Hind Hall and his stance in support of Palestine. A powerful display of solidarity in the arts. 🍉

This is cool— apparently @adamtranter.bsky.social transformed a street parking space into a parklet (mini park/public space), but the municipality removed it because it wasn’t a mother vehicle. So he did this. Nice job. And dumb interpretation by city hall. Via Marco Te BrommelStroet on LinkedIn.

Amazon's own balance sheet presents the most compelling evidence that we are stuck in the Enshittocene, the era in which everything is turning into a pile of shit, because the worst ideas of the worst people now make the most money. 1/

BURN YOUR TOKENS!!! BURN THEM ALL!!!

Launchpad xkcd.com/3291/

Nine months ago, I wrote a Substack post about Google Maps and London's restaurants algorithm and offered an alternative map. The Guardian made a video about it. Google wouldn't comment. Today they've finally written to me about section 3.2.3, "No Scraping." Communication at last lol.

The sheer force and scale of the Nepal landslide is far beyond anything I've seen before. New footage from @ pilulaespacial on IG.

spending 250 million to burn art in the desert instead of working to transform your everyday lived environment into a drug fueled rave sculpture orgy is bad

And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!

Censored Amnesty International UK report (345.47 KB) A report by Amnesty International UK, documenting the threat posed by the anti-rights movement composed, which was censored after J.K. Rowling made legal threats. ddosecrets.org/article/cens... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

1/6000 Pentax K1 + MTO500 Maksutov 500mm F8 47.036900, 15.372528 2026.08.12 ~20:15

⚡️Podcast | Crossing at Ceuta The Bridge Troll Goes to Africa: Ceuta, the Tarajal, and How a Migration Crisis Hacks Our Minds Everything I learned on a wooden bridge in eastern Ukraine between 2015 and 2018 played out this week on a breakwater… www.decodingtrolls.net/p/podcast-cr...

Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks

Meet a giant and its buddy!  This video takes you to the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, where our VLT has obtained the clearest image yet of what likely is a companion star orbiting it: Betelgeuse B. The discovery of Betelgeuse B solved a century-old mystery. 🔭 🧪 1/2

Quanto durerà l’ondata di calore? Il picco di questa nuova fase di caldo anomalo è atteso la prossima settimana, in particolare tra mercoledì e sabato, quando le temperature massime raggiungeranno diffusamente i 38-40 °C in Val Padana e nelle zone interne del centro, del sud e delle isole. 1/4

Wer auf diesem Foto „brutale Invasoren“ sieht, statt überglückliche Jugendliche, mit dem stimmt etwas ganz gewaltig nicht. Und darüber müssen wir reden. 🧵

The Gaza Strip concentration camp, nowadays. #neverforget

The world’s biggest eye on the sky is taking shape 🤩 Watch a year and a half of progress unfold in this time-lapse of our ELT — now more than 75% complete! What have been the main construction milestones since 2025? 📹👇 🔭 🧪 1/2

⭕Les dispositifs de vidéosurveillance algorithmique #Flock, déployés aux #États-Unis, détectent les téléphones alentour, aspirent leurs identifiants et tracent les individus. Un militant anti-surveillance en fait la démonstration. #Tribune_Populaire

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

25 years ago, almost to the day.

This is a CN rail train driving through the flames. The video is insane. But Trudeau's plans were too expensive and divisive, right? God - I loathe Carney more every day.