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Heron at Dawn

I saw this great blue heron (Ardea herodias) on the beach and Gulfport, Mississippi. There were a few of them on the beach, pretty much evenly spaced on the shoreline as if they each had their own territory.

I don't post all of the photos that I post here to my Pixels gallery, but I post the photos I like best. Some don't make the cut. I usually wait a couple of days and see how I feel about it then.

You can check out my gallery at:

swede1952-photographs.pixels.c…

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #birdphotography #GreatBlueHeron



Cibo onnivoro e calorico.

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For those who might have missed this excellent piece by Timothy Snyder over the weekend. Excellent piece. Excellent context. More than worth your time.
#politics #history

snyder.substack.com/p/trumpomu…



in reply to V Martín

@sharponlooker
“American Humane Association monitored the animal action. All animals were harmed in the making of this production.”



Do you want to see more nonprofits exploring alternative social platforms, instead of sticking on platforms where they have the most followers?

Let us know what you think and why 👇

#Fediverse #SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Mastodon #Poll

  • Yes! (84%, 16 votes)
  • I'm not sure. (15%, 3 votes)
  • No, definitely not. (0%, 0 votes)
19 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago



French PM forces budget bill through parliament in move expected to trigger vote of no confidence in government —BBC


Strongly disagree. The electorate does not organically care about trans people, because just a few years ago they were *against* bathroom bans. A focused campaign go demonize trans people did this. There was no counter to this, and I don’t (just) mean nobody refuted the false attacks. Nobody pushed a commensurateky effective true campaign. They need to be constantly hammering home the Republican history of child abuse & exploitation with the same ferocity, saying “they support child predators”.

RE: threads.net/@fredbenenson/post…



En antiimperialistisk stafettpinne. Nytt avsnitt av Apans anatomi. Torkil Lauesen om Sveriges roll i det imperialistiska systemet. Vad kan solidaritetsrörelsen av Palestina lära sig av den historiska antiimperialismen?

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After a miserable summer of foraging in drought-ravaged woods, I've been finding a few gems this fall. This morning I found oyster mushrooms, frozen solid, on a tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) that I treated with herbicide to kill. So can't eat them, but it was great to see them. And a few weeks ago I found the nicest flush of lion's mane I've seen to date on my land. #MushroomMonday #fungi #mushroom #athensohio



Using a range of computational method, P307 was screened against the pool of proteins produced by the bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii.

This revealed five bacterial peptidoglycan hydrolases, two of which had the potent ability to kill harmful species of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria
both in vitro and in mice.

They retained this ability even after having been exposed to high temperatures,
with further experiments pointing to unique structural properties underlying this stability.

Taken together, these findings highlight an effective method to identify new bacterial-derived peptidoglycan hydrolases that could serve as antimicrobial agents

elifesciences.org/digests/9826…






What movie type does your life resemble most?

  • a comedy (0%, 0 votes)
  • a drama (66%, 2 votes)
  • a thriller (0%, 0 votes)
  • an adventure (33%, 1 vote)
  • porn (?!) (0%, 0 votes)
3 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago



–10° (13°F for you Imperials) in my little town this morning. Big boy pants it is then

#winter #cold #goodbyeshorts

in reply to James Endres Howell

I remember watching an episode of Bear Grylls in Siberia as a kid.

He said something like, "it's super cold here, the temperature at night could fall as low as –20°C". And I thought, WTF, it's not even that cold :D You should've come in winter!