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[Preston Education 💎🦉📚💻 @prestonedu1]

@ConSelfOwns

[Savage Dragon Studio 🇺🇦💙💛 @SDragon_Studio]

Just finished a digital painting of my sister-in-law's parents for her birthday. Really love how it turned out and may they forever look this young. RIP.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump just said:

“When I get out of office in, let’s say, eight or nine years from now…”

His current term ends in 2029.

Eight or nine years from now is 2033 or 2034.

The 22nd Amendment limits presidents to two terms.

His own judicial nominees refused to confirm that on camera this week.

He’s not hiding it anymore.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

Quand tu vois des abeilles comme ça, n’aie pas peur ! N’appelle pas les pompiers ni la protection civile, ne les déplace pas, ne les empoisonne pas, ne les tue pas !
Ce sont des abeilles en déplacement. Elles ne vont pas te faire de mal. Elles ne s’arrêtent que pendant environ 24 heures. Ne les dérange pas et évite de t’en approcher.
Si tu veux les aider, tu peux placer une assiette plate ou un récipient peu profond avec une fine couche d’eau sucrée. Observe-les se nourrir, reprendre de l’énergie, puis repartir sur leur chemin.
Nous devons tous protéger les essaims voyageurs. Les abeilles sont notre assurance de survie.
Si les abeilles meurent, nous mourrons ensuite. Sans abeilles, aucun être humain ne restera sur la surface de la Terre.
S’il te plaît, fais attention et ne tue pas les abeilles !
Crédit : propriétaire original
#fblifestyle

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.

The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.

Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.

On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."

That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.

The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.

The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.

Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.

Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"

Now there's no board to answer to.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"

That's the actual question.

Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.

RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Evangeline Lilly has called out Disney for being “disgusting and horrible” after they laid off almost all of Marvel's visual development team.

“SHAME ON YOU for turning your back on the people who built the power you are now using to throw them away.”

[astrid ✧ @astriddles]

@Orihime_chan0 Original Video on Youtube: https://t.co/fSgwO3FG2P

Directors : Camille BARDAUD - Xiaoning LIU - Yanfeng NIU - Julie SIBILLE - Tianying ZHANG

[Orihime @Orihime_chan0]

Actually tearing up at how well this animation shows what breaking the cycle of trauma feels like.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds.

The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic pigeons bred to be small and white, and they have no survival skills outside a coop.

DIY releasers often buy white Ringneck Doves or King Pigeons, which have zero ability to navigate home. Nearly all of them die.

Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons kill birds. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. They get lost and starve.

Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, broken legs, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated the birds can barely stand.

One rehabber described treating a white pigeon from a release whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull.

There is no version of this tradition where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing story. The reality is that you paid to traumatize and usually kill a domestic animal for a 15-second photo moment.

If someone you know is planning a dove release for a wedding, funeral, or celebration, tell them. Bubbles, sparklers, dried flower petals, or ribbon throws all photograph beautifully and don't kill anything.

The birds are not props, they are live animals that need proper care.

[NASA @NASA]

It's our home.

This Earth Day, see our planet as our Artemis II astronauts saw it with these new images from the mission.

[Storm™ @dilophosaurid]

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

It’s only fair this way, agree?🚀

[Altorina @Altorina4]

«A Patchwork of Hope» 👎
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#projecthailmary #amazeamazeamaze #ryangoslin

[Eileen Steinbach @SG_Posters]

I create movie posters for a living, but I also create them for fun.

[Lucius Merryweather 🖊️🐶 ASTRALINE @Merrydawg]

The Amazing Digital Circus fandom is one of the most well served fandoms that I have ever seen. Free global youtube releases for every episode is something most fandoms could only ever dream of.

I really hope you start to show some more appreciation for the creatives who put their blood, sweat, and tears into making your show. Frankly, I'm embarrassed at the entitlement I've witnessed. I understand it is likely that many of you are young and have never had to experience the inconvenience of partial releases. I once had to wait a full year to watch a movie for my favourite franchise and had to dodge spoilers the entire time. Could the animation studio have just released it on YouTube for free? Yes. But that would have led to an intense loss in revenue. The fact that indie animation studios like Glitch have been able to make that happen for you is a miracle. It's something you should celebrate. Not use against them the second they want to, just once for the finale of their show, do an early release in theaters, which is a historic achievement for indie studios, by the way.

They had every right to want to monetize and reward themselves. And yet, they STILL pushed and pushed to get you the free release as early as possible, in spite of the protestations of the cinema corporations that have every right to want it to be exclusive for longer.

That is a studio that truly loves its global fandom. I wish more of you realized that.

[Fef @Flixanoa]

❗️ARTIST BEWARE ❗️
New scam!! Person sent me a reference sheet file that turned out to be a script, my partner (in cybersecurity) found it to likely be an Info/Crypto Stealer and would steal all your passwords, and hides itself via windows scheduler

DO NOT open VBS files