Birder K

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She/her Just another broke girl w/binoculars. Will answer bird feeder & bird ID questions!
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Investing a billion dollars to train a model that is 10% better at generating a picture of Garfield with an ak47 and giant cans for the low price of boiling an entire lake www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

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I love baby bird season! I remember thinking there was NO way this red-winged blackbird could eat that mantis whole. I was wrong. Good job mama bird! Huntley Meadows in VA, 2021. #birds #birding

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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Thank you so much for sharing this! I got 18 replies, but I'd love to get a nice, even 20 or even more!

Are you a Gen-Z anime fan? (Born in 1997 or later.) If you'd like to help me with an article, please complete my short survey! forms.gle/4akMVJWnXxWo...

Lauren's Questions for Gen Z Anime Fansforms.gle Please answer some questions for my next article! Your answers will only be seen by me. If I want to use them in my article, I will ask permission first.

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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Yo! Side Quested is up, and Charlie might be experiencing serious some ups and downs... sidequested.com/page/176/ #webcomics BTW, happy 2nd anniversary for Side Quested! Go check the amazing celebration art on our Blog! 🎉

Charlie's heart going full rollercoaster. - Side Quested Webcomicsidequested.com

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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If you see a penguin stealing food from a restaurant, no you didn’t.

Important penguin news

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"coronavirus is “like throwing a bomb in your body,” said Dr. Ken Cadwell, a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania who studies how Covid affects the gut. “You’re going to feel that in multiple different organs, not just the lungs.”" (Gift link)

This May Be the Most Overlooked Covid Symptomwww.nytimes.com Gastrointestinal issues are a common but often unrecognized sign of infection.

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To celebrate my having 1000 followers: 10 copies of one of the best books I've read, SUMMER IN ORCUS, by @tkingfisher.com. Between DIGGER and this, I knew she was a fantastic author. This is a strong, impactful, independent book. Read it. #KindleBookGiveaway

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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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The Heron- A pond study

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He doesn’t even bother to disavow Project 2025’s aims, but the fact that they’re shying away from direct association with it demonstrates that it’s a vulnerability. If the press is looking for something new and substantive to report on, they could start with the dystopia that these folks want for us

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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HEY! Today is Side Quested's 2nd anniversary, and I asked @vinwerneck.bsky.social to do this ADORABLE art of Robin to celebrate! Happy anniversary to us!!! sidequested.com #webcomics

Yay! Happy anniversary!!

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IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN! If you're a U.S.-based comics creative - aspiring, working, or otherwise - and you do ONE thing to help out your fellow creators this year, let it be filling this survey out!

It's time for the 2024 Comics Worker Survey for US workers! Pay transparency is crucial to uncovering patterns in pay inequity & learning what publishers and clients can ACTUALLY pay us. Submit your info and encourage your peers to do the same! cartoonist.coop/2024USsurvey (art by Phil McAndrew)

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

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My god, the Finns are right, sauna DOES cure everything!

This is so cool! Frog & amphibian have been dessimated by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by a fungal pathogen. Researchers have realised that the fungi is heat intolerant so little brick saunas for frogs can help kill the fungi! Recovered frogs more resistant to further infxn 🧪

These frog 'saunas’ could help endangered species fight off a deadly funguswww.nature.com How a hot resting spot can help frogs survive chytridiomycosis infection, and the decades-long hunt for dark matter in black holes. Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 3 July 2024

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What a coincidence that Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post and it is part of the deluge saying to dump Biden, who is one of the most pro-union, Prez in a long time. Just a coincidence that meanwhile Trump's minions are promising to dismantle OSHA.

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The Black Panther Party learned that sickle cell anemia was a neglected genetic disease affecting mostly people of African descent. Although disease had been known since 1910, it attracted little govt attention and even less funding. So the Panthers set up a screening program. #BlackSky #Disability

"Approximately 1 in 365 African American children are born with sickle cell, according to the CDC.. Tens of thousands of lower-income families with children suffering from sickle cell disease have applied for SSI. But roughly 76% of those applicants had their requests denied between 2015 and 2020."

Thousands of Black children with sickle cell disease struggle to access disability paymentswww.cbsnews.com New data show how one federal safety net program has been out of reach for thousands of children who need it most.

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Like fr if you cancel your #amazonprime subscription today let them know it’s on account of worker mistreatment at Amazon PDX9.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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I had a chat with the conservative mom of a friend today. We talked about a bunch of stuff and I learned several interesting things, among them, that religious conservatives are often PRO-CHOICE AND THINK THE SUPREME COURT IS INSANE. Run on Dobbs. Run on justices and court reform. Do it.

Organizers got enough signatures to put a measure protecting abortion on the ballot in Arkansas. In *Arkansas*. They had *no national support*. Ignore the pundits melting down over not being treated as Very Special Boys. Dobbs has fundamentally changed elections. Everything they know is wrong.

Arkansas abortion rights groups collect enough signatures to advance ballot measurewww.nbcnews.com A measure to enshrine abortion rights in the ruby red state’s constitution is now one step closer to making the November ballot — but major obstacles remain.

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Barreling and booping into the weekend like www.instagram.com/reel/C9ECZ_l...

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A willie wagtail in the Clare Valley. These gutsy birds are everywhere (even in the harshest environments) and they have no fear. They come up to me and get in my face to see what I'm doing. And they'll torment huge birds of prey. Love em. Archive shot. 🪶 #birds

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Crows are such amazing ecological generalists. For several years I've watched various birds in the Seattle area that have learned to pluck fish from the water, sometimes swooping and scooping, other times, hovering almost like a tern. Below, some very jerky video (hand-held 800mm lens). 🪶

crow fishingyoutu.be This American crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) has learned to pluck fish from the water of Seattle's Lake Washington.This is very shaky video, because it's hand-...

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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.

This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.

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This is still going for another two hours. Currently there's an interview with a doctor. If you scroll back through the livestream you can see Dianna's husband and friends share info, answer questions, conduct interviews and more. 🧪 #LongCovid #ME/CFS

Please excuse a non-nature post. This is happening now to bring awareness to Long Covid. I've been watching for half an hour and already learned a lot. Dianna Cowern is an incredible science Youtuber who's been in bed with Long Covid for almost two years. Hosted by Simone Giertz & others. 🧪

Physics Girl LIVE with long Covidwww.youtube.com Dianna is Live streaming a day in her life as someone suffering from long COVID and ME/CFS. The purpose of the Livestream is to raise money and awareness for...