Mary (geographile)
@geographile.bsky.social
Natural/scientific pantheist, I homeschool, I am an earth sciences fan if I define earth science to also include the science of things on the Earth and in the cosmos.
Disabled queer parent.
Lots of speech to text errors!
No unsolicited DMs please.
Disabled queer parent.
Lots of speech to text errors!
No unsolicited DMs please.
Pinned
Once again I ask activists and allies to watch this documentary. It's on Netflix in the US, find it where you can. It is so well done and shows you what we're fighting for.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crip_Camp
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crip_Camp
This feels like modern capitalism in such a gigantic way.
Glanbia shares slide as analyst warns of reversal in ‘proteinmaxxing’ trend
Glanbia shares slide as analyst warns of reversal in ‘proteinmaxxing’ trend
Bank of America said global ‘proteinmaxxing’ trend could reverse in near future
www.irishtimes.com
September 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
This feels like modern capitalism in such a gigantic way.
I'm saving this to share with the high school age homeschool community I'm familiar with.
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Course: Becoming a Climate Champion | One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
More: unccelearn.org/course/view....
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Course: Becoming a Climate Champion | One UN Climate Change Learning Partnership
We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!
More: unccelearn.org/course/view....
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Becoming a Climate Champion
This course offers digital certification.
The “Becoming a Climate Champion” e-course strives to empower you to put in place or ramp up your climate initiatives by enhancing your skills in five key areas: leadership, project management, resource mobi
unccelearn.org
September 18, 2026 at 3:11 PM
I'm saving this to share with the high school age homeschool community I'm familiar with.
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The Natalie Harp story is very instructive about the state of the coverage of Trump. Many legitimate questions raised, none answered, and the press more or less just moved on as she is continues to be weirdly ever present at his side.
September 18, 2026 at 2:58 PM
The Natalie Harp story is very instructive about the state of the coverage of Trump. Many legitimate questions raised, none answered, and the press more or less just moved on as she is continues to be weirdly ever present at his side.
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🇺🇸 🧑🌾 TRUMP-SUPPORTING FARMER: “We had no idea he was gonna pull this prank (🤦🏼!!) with the Strait of Hormuz…”😕
September 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM
🇺🇸 🧑🌾 TRUMP-SUPPORTING FARMER: “We had no idea he was gonna pull this prank (🤦🏼!!) with the Strait of Hormuz…”😕
Plenty of high school girls don't have regular menstrual cycles. (And of course, plenty are happy to swim while they are menstruating.)
Just let kids say when they need a day off for something. Have alternative activities available.
Just let kids say when they need a day off for something. Have alternative activities available.
This is straight out of Handmaids Tale.
A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle.
Don’t comply? You lose a grade.
There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle.
Don’t comply? You lose a grade.
There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
September 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Plenty of high school girls don't have regular menstrual cycles. (And of course, plenty are happy to swim while they are menstruating.)
Just let kids say when they need a day off for something. Have alternative activities available.
Just let kids say when they need a day off for something. Have alternative activities available.
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This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft.
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
September 18, 2026 at 12:31 PM
This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos.
Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
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Last year, nearly 20,000 VPN users mobilized with us to demand safe and private browsing but the threat against VPNs is escalating with the global rise of social media bans & “age verification” bills. Either we win against online censorship bills & VPN bans, or we lose our right to anonymity online.
September 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Last year, nearly 20,000 VPN users mobilized with us to demand safe and private browsing but the threat against VPNs is escalating with the global rise of social media bans & “age verification” bills. Either we win against online censorship bills & VPN bans, or we lose our right to anonymity online.
The secret service isn't reading my account, right?
Trump: "If I'm in an electric boat and I see I'm going down and the water is pouring in, so I know I'm going to be electrocuted, but 5 yards away there are sharks. Do I take the electrocution or do I go swimming with the sharks? I'll take the electrocution."
September 18, 2026 at 2:25 AM
The secret service isn't reading my account, right?
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And all of us better start reading our software terms of service contracts a lot more carefully. God knows what’s going to appear in that crap over the next couple of years.
Everything about genAI is the opposite of consent, man. Like EVERY. SINGLE. PART. OF. IT.
It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools.
It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools.
September 18, 2026 at 2:24 AM
And all of us better start reading our software terms of service contracts a lot more carefully. God knows what’s going to appear in that crap over the next couple of years.
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Israel triples size of key West Bank settlement, testing von der Leyen’s ‘unacceptable’ rebuke
Israel triples size of key West Bank settlement, testing von der Leyen’s ‘unacceptable’ rebuke
The revelation of the West Bank expansion plan came the same day European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen condemned the original, smaller scheme in her State of the Union speech in Strasbourg.
euobserver.com
September 18, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Israel triples size of key West Bank settlement, testing von der Leyen’s ‘unacceptable’ rebuke
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Happy National Birth Center Week!
I look forward to continue working alongside birth centers like Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity to build a future where every mom and baby survives child birth in our country.
I look forward to continue working alongside birth centers like Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity to build a future where every mom and baby survives child birth in our country.
September 17, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Happy National Birth Center Week!
I look forward to continue working alongside birth centers like Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity to build a future where every mom and baby survives child birth in our country.
I look forward to continue working alongside birth centers like Birth Detroit and Birth Center Equity to build a future where every mom and baby survives child birth in our country.
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Mad bc cats are Gods perfect killing machines and we keep picking them up and kissing them
dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.
September 17, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Mad bc cats are Gods perfect killing machines and we keep picking them up and kissing them
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I'm disputing President Obama, but go to vote.org -- it's the usual website for checking registration, doesn't sell your data, and has the requirements needed to register to vote.
Have a plan to get to the polls. If you can get the day off, and can drive people to the polls, offer to do so.
Have a plan to get to the polls. If you can get the day off, and can drive people to the polls, offer to do so.
September 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
I'm disputing President Obama, but go to vote.org -- it's the usual website for checking registration, doesn't sell your data, and has the requirements needed to register to vote.
Have a plan to get to the polls. If you can get the day off, and can drive people to the polls, offer to do so.
Have a plan to get to the polls. If you can get the day off, and can drive people to the polls, offer to do so.
And if we don't need to protect their habitat, and if he's killing off wetlands....
Everything terrible they can do, they do
President Donald Trump's administration will no longer treat the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful, officials confirmed Thursday, in a shift conservationists say could gut the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
u.afp.com/SjRf
u.afp.com/SjRf
September 18, 2026 at 12:51 AM
And if we don't need to protect their habitat, and if he's killing off wetlands....
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𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 #𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔k𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼.. 👁️
American tourist complains about #Starbucks employee wearing Mexican headband—in #MexicoCity.
It was #Mexico's #IndependenceDay.
U.S. woman claimed it "violated the law"—because Starbucks is an "American place."
American tourist complains about #Starbucks employee wearing Mexican headband—in #MexicoCity.
It was #Mexico's #IndependenceDay.
U.S. woman claimed it "violated the law"—because Starbucks is an "American place."
September 18, 2026 at 12:49 AM
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 #𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔k𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁, 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗼.. 👁️
American tourist complains about #Starbucks employee wearing Mexican headband—in #MexicoCity.
It was #Mexico's #IndependenceDay.
U.S. woman claimed it "violated the law"—because Starbucks is an "American place."
American tourist complains about #Starbucks employee wearing Mexican headband—in #MexicoCity.
It was #Mexico's #IndependenceDay.
U.S. woman claimed it "violated the law"—because Starbucks is an "American place."
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Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, the former local TV anchor challenging GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, responds to her ad: "She owns all of these deportations, ICE harassment and racial profiling. She voted for all this. She gave Trump the money and the tools to do this." #FL27
September 17, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, the former local TV anchor challenging GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, responds to her ad: "She owns all of these deportations, ICE harassment and racial profiling. She voted for all this. She gave Trump the money and the tools to do this." #FL27
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Just send the meteor already
September 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Just send the meteor already
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Minnesota Republican Rep. Bidal Duran opposes free school lunches because he says hungry kids are a myth 👇
DURAN: We should not be letting a kid go to school hungry. I realize that. But--
HOST: I don't think in this state that happens
DURAN: I have yet to hear of one
DURAN: We should not be letting a kid go to school hungry. I realize that. But--
HOST: I don't think in this state that happens
DURAN: I have yet to hear of one
September 17, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Minnesota Republican Rep. Bidal Duran opposes free school lunches because he says hungry kids are a myth 👇
DURAN: We should not be letting a kid go to school hungry. I realize that. But--
HOST: I don't think in this state that happens
DURAN: I have yet to hear of one
DURAN: We should not be letting a kid go to school hungry. I realize that. But--
HOST: I don't think in this state that happens
DURAN: I have yet to hear of one
We have to change something, besides citizens united. Something else has to change.
We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.
September 17, 2026 at 8:26 PM
We have to change something, besides citizens united. Something else has to change.
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Researchers have identified a very rare genetic variant that is associated with higher odds of lung cancer in "never smokers." www.statnews.com/2026/09/17/r...
Why do ‘never smokers’ get lung cancer? In some cases, rare genetic variant may be a factor
Researchers have identified a very rare genetic variant that is associated with higher odds of lung cancer in "never smokers."
www.statnews.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Researchers have identified a very rare genetic variant that is associated with higher odds of lung cancer in "never smokers." www.statnews.com/2026/09/17/r...
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September 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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When a woman learns to calculate the value of her time and says, “This is evidence, and they must answer,” a permanent shift takes place for her and the community.
When the tap runs dry: Women carry more than water in Kazakhstan
When a woman learns to calculate the value of her time and says, “This is evidence, and they must answer,” a permanent shift takes place for her and the community.
globalvoices.org
September 17, 2026 at 6:40 PM
When a woman learns to calculate the value of her time and says, “This is evidence, and they must answer,” a permanent shift takes place for her and the community.
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Republicans have apparently concluded that voters don't mind skyrocketing gas prices as long as Trump gets to stick his name on a building, his kid gets his wedding party paid for by a Putin pal, the statues of DC turn gold, and RFK Jr. investigates chemtrails.
September 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Republicans have apparently concluded that voters don't mind skyrocketing gas prices as long as Trump gets to stick his name on a building, his kid gets his wedding party paid for by a Putin pal, the statues of DC turn gold, and RFK Jr. investigates chemtrails.
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An impostor managed to get a news article published in Science under someone else's byline, by pretending to be her in the pitch to the editor. They pitched other publications as well, but editors who were familiar with the REAL Caroline noticed something was off. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Fake Caroline update:
The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it!
I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email…...
Fake Caroline update:
The person who was impersonating me managed to get an article published in Science, under my by-line. And they got paid for it!
I've seen the pitches (bad), and the email chai...
www.linkedin.com
September 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
An impostor managed to get a news article published in Science under someone else's byline, by pretending to be her in the pitch to the editor. They pitched other publications as well, but editors who were familiar with the REAL Caroline noticed something was off. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
I just saw a comment on a Michael Snyder weather video asking if El niño for Southern California is going to be a bust, because there isn't much rain headed for us today
September 17, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I just saw a comment on a Michael Snyder weather video asking if El niño for Southern California is going to be a bust, because there isn't much rain headed for us today