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[🦋🐈🤘Strange Amy🤘🐈‍⬛🦋 @pressedfaery]

I'm not leaving here, but if we're moots & have a 🦋 or other, just in case this place crashes, drop it here!

[Anne Louise Avery @AnneLouiseAvery]

The Elderly Squirrel woke rather late & idled a long while with a pot of tea, wondering why he felt so oddly happy. Then he remembered. Old Fox had invited him to a little Midsummer party & that dull daily ache of loneliness, of missing out on the great turnings of life, had been banished.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

France's domestic spy agency has terminated its contract with Palantir.

The news couldn't come at a worse time for Palantir. France is the second country in as many weeks to cancel its work with the creepy surveillance company led by CEO Alex Karp. Several European nations are expected to follow France's footsteps in the coming weeks and also cancel all existing contracts with Palantir.

https://t.co/ui8jD7FTPv...

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A simple but critical dietary-related correction led to the complete reversal of severe dementia-like symptoms in a 61-year-old woman who had been misdiagnosed for five years.

According to a case report published in BMJ Case Reports, the patient experienced profound behavioral changes, psychotic hallucinations, seizures, and cognitive decline. Her symptoms were so severe that she was observed talking to imaginary spirits and walking naked in public. Initial evaluations, including neurological exams and CT scans, showed no obvious structural brain abnormalities, leading doctors to manage her with anti-seizure medications as her condition continued to deteriorate.

It was only after referral to psychiatry specialists in Lisbon that a routine blood test revealed the true cause: severe vitamin B12 deficiency, which had progressed to pernicious anemia. This deficiency impaired red blood cell production and damaged the protective myelin sheath around nerves in her spinal cord and brain.

Following treatment with vitamin B12 injections and supportive antipsychotic therapy, the patient made a remarkable and complete recovery. Her speech became coherent, psychosis resolved, seizures stopped, and she regained full independence in daily activities.

While cognitive impairment combined with psychosis and seizures is a rare presentation of vitamin B12 deficiency, this case highlights the importance of screening for reversible causes in patients with unexplained neurological decline. The authors emphasize that even after prolonged symptoms, timely B12 replacement can lead to dramatic and sustained improvement.

[Silva B, Velosa A, Barahona-Corrêa JB. Reversible dementia, psychotic symptoms and epilepsy in a patient with vitamin B12 deficiency. BMJ Case Reports. 2019;12(5):e229044. doi:10.1136/bcr-2019-229044]

[Scott Snyder @Ssnyder1835]

JRJR, Sale (RIP), Miller, they’re masters whove done every kind of classic design (they invented a lot) - so in recent years we get to watch them experiment to find things they’ve never done. For a lot of us creators, the boldness is incredibly inspiring. Legends still pushing 1/

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1941, someone counted all the wild whooping cranes left on Earth. There were 14.

Fourteen birds, one flock, migrating between the Texas coast and a remote corner of northern Canada. A species that may once have numbered 15,000 to 20,000 had been reduced by hunting and habitat loss to a population small enough to fit on a school bus.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed in a release this June that the winter 2024–25 count for the Aransas-Wood Buffalo population reached a record 557 birds. Nearly all of today's whooping cranes trace their ancestry to that tiny remnant flock.

The population has grown at roughly 4 percent a year for decades, thanks to legal protection, captive breeding programs, cooperation between the United States and Canada, and the preservation of critical habitat on both ends of their migration.

557 birds is still not many. The whooping crane remains one of the rarest birds in North America, and a severe storm, disease outbreak, or other catastrophe could still undo years of progress.

But 557 from 14 is one of the most remarkable numbers in conservation.

Someone counted them in 1941 and refused to let that be the final count.

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

I thanked the large accounts, now let me give a special thanks to the small accounts (no insult meant, I'm one of you).

There are simply too many of you to name. But this goes out to the Sues, the Kellys, the Kristinas, the Harolds, the Ambers, the Stellas, the Loanas, the American Dads, and the countless others who helped promote the #SaveLucy campaign.

I suspect I will never know for certain what exactly brought Lucy back home. The machinery that nearly took her from me was too opaque, and the forces that reversed its course were too tangled for any single explanation to feel complete, but I know that without your contributions, we'd have had a far lower likelihood of ever seeing her curled up in her spot on the rug again.

What ultimately moved the needle, I strongly believe, was the power of the prayers offered by millions of you, all around the world, people who have never met me or my dog but refused to stay silent.

Please accept my humble and deep gratitude.

#SaveSnuggles

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

I have had 3 'trapped in netting' calls today, and it's only 9.30am.😰
Do you have any netting in your garden?
Pea and bean netting?
Fruit netting?
A football goal?
A tennis net?
Anti-heron pond netting?
Please go outside now and roll it up and tie it so that it is 30cms (1 foot) off the ground.
I spent a tense time yesterday afternoon cutting free yet another hedgehog who had become so entangled in some carelessly draped fruit netting that every movement shut off his air.
All he could do was hang there, keeping dead still, terrified of being predated alive by birds, slowly dying of suffocation and dehydration.
The owners were away, and if it wasn't for a pest control man they'd employed, coming to check the estate of this posh house, he would have had an unimaginably cruel, long slow death.
Please, I beg you, go and check your garden now.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 BREAKING: The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is being drained.

Just days after refilling the newly painted "American flag blue" pool, crews are emptying it again after a major algae bloom turned the water green and reports emerged of blue paint peeling from the bottom.

Officials say they need to repair a broken water line, inspect the coating system, address peeling paint, and rethink their algae-control strategy.

A $15 million renovation was supposed to turn the pool blue for America's 250th birthday.

Instead, it turned green.

Now they're starting over.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

ICE spent over $1 billion buying 11 warehouses to cage human beings. Now it’s quietly trying to sell or give away seven of them, more than $700 million gone, with not a single facility open and an inspector general investigation hanging over the whole mess.

This is the waste they swore they were elected to root out.

The fraud, the abuse, the blank check spent without a plan.

They bought industrial buildings at up to $145 million apiece, before renovations, with no environmental review, no community buy-in, and no real strategy for what came next. Even Republican officials told them to stop. Taxpayers are left holding the bill for warehouses that detained no one and accomplished nothing but fear.

It’s total hypocrisy.

An administration that lectured the country about efficiency lit $700 million on fire as part of Stephen Miller’s cruel fantasy of mass detention. Imagine what that money could have done for veterans waiting on housing, for families crushed by costs, for the working people they claim to serve.

I’m glad this plan is dying. It was inhumane from the first day, designed to warehouse people far from the rule of law and basic decency. But being glad it failed does not erase how it failed, recklessly and expensively. We must have full accountability for the officials who pushed it.

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[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Dr. Hotez is right on the science. But the more clarifying moment in this clip is what happened when Johnson was asked for a source. He said he just read it, then said don't quote me. That's a United States senator claiming on television that vaccines kill babies, and then declining to be quoted on it in the same breath.

The disinformation runs fine on that network regardless. The senator gets to plant the claim and disclaim the accountability at the same time. Hotez has been doing this correction work for years against an audience that isn't actually interested in the correction.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is not The Onion. This is not AI. This is not even Idiocracy.
This...is John Cafaro, the guy who got the no-bid contract to re-do the defecting pool's circulation and filtering system.
He's Trump's Florida neighbor, he's a Trump donor, and he's been linked to bribery scandals.
The name of his company? Greenwater Services.
You cannot make this stuff up

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

8 weeks ago Rocky was rescued just hours from death.

He was alone, incredibly sick and in agony.

Today he was getting a little special treat… (1/7) 🧵

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Trump audibly farted twice in a press conference the other day, with Rubio and Lutnick right behind him.

It's becoming clear at Trump's rambling press conferences that even his cabinet members are aware of his lack of control and declining capacity.

We listened to MAGA drag Joe Biden for four years about cognitive decline.

Joe Biden never farted on stage while talking about war. Joe Biden also never started a war.

It is time for America to turn the page from this era. We must restore dignity, leadership, trust and respect to the highest office.

America cannot be the fart heard around the world.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Leaving your bird feeder up in summer won't make the birds lazy, dependent, or late to migrate.

This idea gets repeated constantly, especially in fall, but decades of research tell a different story. Birds don't migrate simply because food disappears. For most species, shortening days trigger hormonal changes that set migratory behavior in motion. A well-stocked feeder doesn't override that ancient clock.

Wild foraging doesn't stop when feeders are present, either. Studies of feeder birds consistently show that they continue hunting insects, searching for seeds, and using the landscape much as they always have. The feeder is a supplement, not a replacement.

And during the nesting season, that supplement can make a real difference for the birds. Parents may make hundreds of feeding trips a day, and a reliable source of calories can help them meet the demands of raising young. Feeders also support species that remain year-round and, admittedly, keep the birds in your yard where you can enjoy them.

So if you've been worrying that leaving the feeder up will keep the migrants from migrating, you can relax.

The feeder can stay up. The birds have been doing this for millions of years. They know what they're doing.

Just remember to keep feeders clean and, if disease outbreaks are reported in your area, follow the guidance of your local wildlife agency.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

JD Vance’s spin on Trump & the Epstein Files is absolutely bonkers.  

Trump and Epstein were close friends for nearly a decade. That’s not up for debate. 

Trump only signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the bill that forced him to release the files, after immense political pressure, including from members of his own party. That’s not up for debate either. 

Trump was not the reason Jeffrey Epstein was ever caught or prosecuted. That’s also not up for debate, and it’s as preposterous as it is false.  

Donald Trump and his Administration have gone above and beyond to protect predators and stand in the way of justice for the survivors. Anyone claiming otherwise is lying, full stop.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: France just threw a major roadblock in front of Trump’s Iran deal.

French officials say they will not approve lifting U.N. sanctions on Iran until they are satisfied with a final agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program. As a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, France has veto power over the process. (Reuters)

Trump may have signed a deal.

That doesn’t mean the rest of the world is ready to sign off on it.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The detail that actually mattered in this story got buried under the strip club jokes. A tipster told the Secret Service that Ryan Fournier and his friend planned to bring guns to the UFC event on the White House lawn. That's the line that triggered the raid, not the fake badge.

Everything else is almost too absurd to be real. A replica Secret Service badge used to skip nightclub lines, scare Uber drivers into running red lights, and convince a CityCenterDC receptionist to hand over a master key at 3 a.m. A grown man telling a woman he could borrow the Trump family jet.

But Fournier is also out on a GPS monitor right now for allegedly threatening to cave in his girlfriend's head with a lamp, with a prior assault charge from 2023 involving a different girlfriend. The badge story is funny. The pattern underneath it isn't.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason gardeners recommend against watering at noon in June has nothing to do with burning the leaves. That myth has been busted.

The idea that water droplets act like tiny magnifying glasses and scorch foliage has been around forever, and it sounds plausible. Researchers at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest actually tested it.

On smooth leaves, which most garden plants have, water droplets do not focus sunlight in a way that damages the tissue. Under very specific conditions, some hairy leaves can experience minor effects, but for the tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and flowers in your garden, the old warning doesn't hold up.

The real reason morning watering is preferred is simpler: it's more efficient. Cooler temperatures and lower winds mean less water is lost to evaporation, more has time to soak into the soil, and any moisture on the leaves dries quickly, reducing fungal disease pressure.

But if your plants are thirsty on a hot afternoon, don't wait until evening because you're afraid you'll burn them. Water them.

[Andy Marshall 📸 @fotofacade]

Great Coxwell barn in Oxfordshire was built in 1292. Dendrochronology has shown that some of its timbers were felled in 1256, whilst the majority were felled in the winter of 1291. It was part of a Cistercian abbey founded by King John. I forgot all that when I first saw inside - jaw dropping..