I drove 2 hours to see desert #butterflies but very few came out to see me. I did see this Dammer’s Blue - actually maybe a couple of them dancing around the Buckwheat. New species for me so I guess it was worth four hours of driving.
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mastodon 4.7.3Well, here we are. This isn’t science fiction; no dystopian future. This is here… now. The question in my mind now is: What do we do now? Not this headless-chicken raging about cabinet appointments. What do we do? What CAN we do to oppose? What do we do to keep those dear to us safe? This is what I want to talk about, when I’m not posting pictures of #butterflies.
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Desert foliage in September. Anza Borrego.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io Create your own FBI profile!!
I live for moments like these. #birds #butterflies
A hummingbird and a Swallowtail share the same Sage plant blossoms.
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@dantheclamman It was a “squid-game” style competition, however judging proceeded at a snail’s pace; all clammed up about their process until the bitter end, by which time we were too conched out to care.
Entertainment Center.
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@heidilifeldman Kudos for calling it a regime rather than an administration. There’s not a whole lot of administering going on right now.
I got a lot of images from today’s #butterfly hunt at Buena Vista Park. Rather than bunching all the good shots right up front, I’m just gonna go through the adventure somewhat serially. First up, the Marine Blue. They were everywhere today, and I didn’t try very hard to get pictures once I knew what they were.
Operation “Escort Empty Tankers” is proceeding.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I think the “worse” interpretation is implied. 😬
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Reason number 781; why men don’t live as long as women.
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@BobLefridge @sundogplanets You know, for years RW conspiracy theorists talked about stupid chemtrails. Now we have this, and no one says a word.
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@Coreyartus@mindly.social Yup! Eucalyptus from stem to stern in this state. haha
And yes, the chaparral is beautiful as it changes through the seasons Deerweed and Mustard yellows to Buckwheat whites through late year Goldenbush. My thing is butterflies, and the wild areas support dozens of different species. And they’re here all year.
Still, I love getting up to Oakland multiple times a year to see the forests and their flyers.
For anyone in the US who uses #biodiesel fuel, what are you paying now for the #fuel? What have #FuelPrices done over the last week in your area, and what state/territory are you in? I'm in #California, and my pump price has gone from $4.69/gal to $6.49/gal in the last week. It makes zero sense to me as this fuel is produced in the US and is not a petrochemical.
Please boost. Thanks.
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@bkahn@beige.party Exactly!
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@broadwaybabyto Nural Amin Shah Alam 😢
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@dgar@aus.social OMG! You’re just stringing us along!
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Number 782.
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@jmccyoung @dantheclamman Nautilus to me, in any case. 😸
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@tim Are you Tucson or south? I would think you’d have to be to even consider coffee.
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@Coreyartus@mindly.social Nice!
Our cool wild city parks are mostly chaparral down here in SD county.
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@EricIndiana I had clues well before that something was going on when she wouldn’t visit us because we were ‘too close to thr Mexican border’ . (We live in northern San Diego county). We tried to communicate but when the 2016 christmas card came saying how trump would fix everything I knew in my heart it was over. I was so depressed that season. But when the Women’s march came in January, it filled me with hope. There are so many other folks out there who understand the stakes and are brave enough to stand up. That really saved me. And I appreciate when I see other families going strong. So thanks for your post. It means a lot. And sorry to drag you thru that story. 😺
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@EricIndiana So happy for you guys. I lost my mom to Trump and FOX in 2016.
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@stephanieburgis@wandering.shop Is a bunch of crows and racoons together a murderous gaze?
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io This is really hard to listen to. I mean, I know even a third of this country’s adults is a lot of people supporting the state-sponsored terrorism and ethnic cleansing going on now. But hearing it like this is so disturbing.
We cannot sleep on this.
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@btanderson@infosec.exchange Wow! We should look into that! 😬
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@gme@enchantment.social @lokester@social.chinwag.org Bladerunners “retire” replicants.
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@lokester@social.chinwag.org Senator Ernst would be such a great spokesperson for them. (I literally thought that was her)
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@ErikUden@mastodon.de Faster than I thought. Better start looking for mass graves.
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@AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social The ONLY place he needs to be is prison.
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@SyHoekstra@tweesecake.social You win the internet today!
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@sunguramy@flipping.rocks Best message I’ve heard today.
Are you from… the future? 😸
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@godpod Who are you talking to? Artillery shells take a lot of resources to make.
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@emptywheel Good article. 👍
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@patpro@social.patpro.net @loadingartist@mastodon.world I thought of this too. 😸
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@benroyce@mastodon.social @chad@mstdn.ca Also stop making so much carbon dioxide.
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social I think you mean “parasitize” rather than “run”, because the only people actually running things are the mid and lower level grunts who haven’t been fired by DOGE.
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Love to know how you snapped such a lovely shot. Camera setup and overall strategy, because I’m looking to step up my game.
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@wonderofscience@mastodon.social This is wondrous.
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@pauldotm Haven’t figured out the swat function yet. 😸
@ChaosSpectre@corteximplant.com AI is like a tyrannosaur. It’s dimwitted, easy to fool, but utterly deadly if you f*ck up and get in its sights.
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@parents4future@climatejustice.global What we need, is to get those would-be holocaust repeaters out of power before they take us somewhere we can’t get back from. tick tick.
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@space_cadet@aus.social Brilliant take down.
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@nosfe I'm inferring then that the original image is preserved in the red layer.
I scanned through some images online that were deliberately infected with bacteria of various kinds, and they don't resemble what's happening here (but this is film, not a final product). Anyway I'm kind of ruling that out now. If what you say is true, then the least stable layer is green, which has moved to the edges of the film, and the blue has been mobilized and reacted in some way, but has some level of geometric stability, much like the "angle of repose" of gravel slopes under gravity. Beyond that, I'd say this is a rather unique piece of natural art.
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social That’s why I decided to be born then. 👍
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@nosfe This is exposed film right? I see repeated frames of actual winter trees. The pattern I see suggests some element coming in from the edges has preferentially moved towards the center of the film along some scratches, and from there is separating the film layers. The blue areas appear dirty, in dots along horizontal scratch lines and at the expanding fronts of the triangles. This suggests that the triangles are filling in, rather than simply growing larger. I think this is the biggest hint that this is predominantly a biological process. Did the film suffer some extreme? Also, see the ghosts if the tracking holes? This means that the (supposed biological) process required some level of anaerobic environment to grow.
This is interesting. On its face, it shows that the #California #voting system works. And one reason why elections take so long.
But there’s a sinister undertone, with the main reason for rejection being late arrival… by USPS. Which means that we were absolutely correct in recommending that voters return their ballots directly to one of the county ballot boxes rather than trusting the mail. Remember this in November!! The feds will try to mess with us.
https://www.ms.now/news/california-nearly-150000-mail-ballots-rejected-in-primary
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social the average person has one breast and one testicle.