Kingfisher & Wombat

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Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her

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Oh no! I just got an ebook I’d pre-ordered, and the file delivered is an ARC with “TK” in all the map spots. I am cringing so hard in sympathy with this poor author.

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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The Audible pre-order for @tkingfisher.com's "A Sorceress Comes to Call" is up!

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Ayn Rand: oh my god... I see now how wrong I was.. Me with a time traveling xbox: they also made a second one where you can duel wield plasmids and guns but I gotta switch discs

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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.

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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out here finding the weirdest little guys I never knew existed. what even is a leptostracan or a tanaid

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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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Meanwhile, Biden HAS quietly delivered $1 billion to communities for climate shocks resilience. 👇 (My previous post had "trillion", an autocorrect. It would be good to imagine what level of funding could do, on the USAID budget too.)

Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

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Daily bunny no.2542 is out on a calm empty sea

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Sliced bread first went on sale 96 years ago today and — here’s the fun bit — was promoted as being the greatest thing since WRAPPED bread.

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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.

Good morning, Finland! My last full day here, and we have gone to see the new church, which is a mere 200 years old.

…huh. In an MtG Arena game, quite early on, my opponent casts a spell that causes each player to discard their hand and draw 7 cards from their opponent’s library. He draws the cards from my library, looks at them, and promptly concedes. At full health. …honestly, I’m a trifle insulted.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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Urgent help is needed here. Tobias has vetted that the money will go straight to the islands.

Hello social medias... You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique. The devastation is tremendous. The need is great. You can help and make a difference: www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

Help the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover, organized by Marine and Yachting Association of Grenada MAYAGwww.gofundme.com On 1 July, the eye of Hurricane Beryl bore down on two tiny i… Marine and Yachting Association of Grenada MAYAG needs your support for Help the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover

Relevant to an offline conversation, can anyone with better Google skills find a skit from the ancient show Kwik Witz, which showed incredibly late at night where you’d see it if you stayed up late smoking weed after Xena, which was called Nietzsche & Costello?

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I have walked 12 miles in pouring rain through muddy fields, brambles, and some unnecessary hills. 14 miles to go. My boots are squelching . My bones are wet. Goddamn sponsor me, I'm earning it.

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Take this, it’s dangerous to go alone.

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if the media could go ahead and treat this claim the way they treat Biden saying "I'm fine" - aka, as a lie that requires days on end of front page stories to debunk - that would be great we'll be over here waiting

Trump is trying to get ahead of the reality that he and the heritage foundation are working to destroy America and institute a fascist dictatorship. He is lying and expecting the media to gaslight America for him.

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Hey, remember how librarians and I were warning everyone that mass book-banning is just step one of a fascist government takeover? Well, some of the same book-banning orgs we warned you about are on the advisory board for Project 2025, whose leader calls it a "second American Revolution.”

Good morning, Finland! The 20 hours of light is messing with me. Woke up at 3:30 and my brain kept screaming it was time to get up, look at the crack of light at the edge of the blackout curtains, UP UP UP!

We are having dinner at what I am assured is an absolutely accurate completely fake Viking restaurant!

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admire when bees have little chicken nuggets attached to their legs…

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If there was a world deadpan championships it would be very hard to tell if the Finns cared

Good morning, Finland! Today I am going somewhere and seeing something but I can’t spell where it is phonetically so we’ll all find out when I get there. I believe there is a tower!

Last time I played MtG Arena, I killed a man with Lembas.* I do not know if I can ever top that high. *He had 3 life and an army, I had 2 mana and Vito of the Dusk Rose.

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Relevant to that NYT piece that's going around...if your vote didn't still matter, they wouldn't be trying everything to convince you it was worthless.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

Travel Tip #74: Never try to outlast a Finn in the sauna.