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[Kelly 🌺 @KellyR2266]

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@aHeartSoFull Thanks! I took this photo last year at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Maryland. 💜

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[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Goldfinches are one of the only songbird that feeds its babies seeds instead of insects. The dead flowers you didn't cut down can raise a whole brood of them.

When the petals drop off your coneflowers, sunflowers, and black-eyed Susans this summer, leave the dried heads standing. Each one is a packed seed dispenser, and goldfinches will ride the stalks and pick them clean into winter.

The neat gardener clips all that away for tidiness and hauls the food to the curb. The lazy one leaves it up and gets the birds.

A spent flower isn't finished. It just stopped working for you and started working for them.

[The Marine Mammal Center @TMMC]

Current patient Guadalupe fur seal Googly 👀

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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Nashville Zoo has launched a public campaign to block construction of a proposed 69,000-square-foot AI data center that would sit directly adjacent to habitats for endangered animals, including vulnerable clouded leopards.

Zoo officials warn that the facility’s constant noise, bright artificial lighting, and electrical hum could seriously disrupt animal behavior, stress levels, and long-established breeding programs. The zoo is home to more than 3,700 animals representing over 350 species and maintains one of the most important collections of rare and endangered wildlife in the United States.

This conflict highlights a growing backlash against the rapid expansion of data centers driven by the AI boom. These facilities require massive amounts of electricity and operate 24 hours a day, prompting communities nationwide to raise concerns about energy consumption, water use, noise pollution, and environmental impacts. Wildlife conservation groups are now joining the resistance.

More than 180,000 people have already signed a petition opposing the project.

The developer behind the data center states that it will use waterless cooling systems, meet all local noise regulations, and comply with environmental standards. However, zoo leaders argue that the location itself, immediately next to sensitive animal habitats, makes the project unacceptable regardless of technical mitigations.

The dispute underscores a broader challenge of the AI era: how to build the vast digital infrastructure needed for artificial intelligence without placing undue pressure on local communities, ecosystems, and wildlife.

[The Marine Mammal Center @TMMC]

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[Kelly 🌺 @KellyR2266]

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[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

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[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Monica 💙🌻🏳️‍🌈 @softtail65]

Have a great Wednesday, Beautiful Souls! 🥰

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

Make this toy for your cat, he'll love it for life 🧬

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Look at my beautiful cat.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.

[Kelly 🌺 @KellyR2266]

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[Dry Tortugas National Park @DryTortugasNPS]

It's World Reef Day! 🌊 Protect Dry Tortugas reefs: don't touch corals, use reef-safe sunscreen, and disinfect snorkel gear. Learn more: https://t.co/QbaKPBNUyK #DryTortugasNationalPark #WorldReefDay #LeaveNoTrace

[Kelly 🌺 @KellyR2266]

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