Tiffany Arndt

Not asking for the world—just a warm bed and a hand to hold. Let's share this and help this sweet pup find their forever home. 💔🐾 #RescueDog #AdoptDontShop #DogShelter #AnimalWelfare

@yousef_ki1 .

Can't wait to see the video proof in two weeks. All I’ve seen is vandals driving heavy SUVs over it.

@DisavowTrump20 ❤️❤️❤️

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@angels4strays What a sweet baby!

Meet Carol 💛 She has the sweetest smile, but everyone keeps scrolling past her. Can we get some "hellos" in the replies to show this sweet girl she’s not invisible? #RescueDog #DogLovers

Wildlife-vehicle collisions cost the US around $8 to $10 billion annually. 200 people die in these collisions every year, and over a million large animals are killed too. A wildlife crossing with fencing costs about $5-15 million to build. If the US spent $8 billion a year on building these overpasses, we could build around 800+ a year. Banff National Park built 44 crossings over 30 years. Wildlife-vehicle collisions along treated sections of highway dropped by 80%. The crossings paid for themselves in avoided property damage and injuries within a few years. The evidence is strong: wildlife crossings save human and animal lives and often pay back substantial costs over time. The remaining challenge is finding the will to build them.

@brendanmjones I just sent an email (partial posted here). I hope Snuggles will come home soon 😢 #SaveSnuggles

Fact: Snuggles has been locked up for nine months, nearly half his life. Fact: The family has had to pay Pima County nearly $20,000 in boarding fees. Fact: Snuggles has had only one biting incident and it occurred on his own property and involved a family member who desperately wants Snuggles to be returned. Fact: At the time of the incident, Snuggles was agitated because of predators trying to intrude onto the property where he protected his animals. It was not simple aggression. Fact: Snuggles is a livestock guardian dog, bred to be protective. He lives on a small ranch where he guards farm animals. He was doing his job. Fact: Snuggles was an intact male at the time of the incident. Neutering Snuggles would almost certainly prevent any similar incidents from occurring in the future. Fact: This is a great family. I know them personally now. This dog and this family do not deserve to live through any more of this hell. #SaveSnuggles

A pharmacist in Taipei walked off a trail in 2022 and photographed a 1mm blue mushroom on a piece of wood. It turned out to be one of the smallest mushrooms ever described. Eric Cho was told by a friend that there was a "special tiny mushroom" on a trail in Shilin District. He went looking, found one on a piece of wood, took it home, and was initially disappointed because it wasn't glowing in the dark like he'd hoped. He posted the photos to iNaturalist anyway. The images went viral globally. Mycologists at Taiwan's Academia Sinica formally described the species in 2023, citing Cho's photographs as part of the documentation. The mushroom is now called Mycena subcyanocephala. It grows on decaying wood in Taiwan's subtropical lowland forests. Its cap is about 1mm wide, the whole fruiting body just a few millimeters tall. When young, the cap is intensely blue and fuzzy. As it matures, the blue fades to a pale whitish color. It has been formally documented in the wild only a handful of times. Most new species described in the last decade weren't found by professional biologists in remote jungles. They were found by amateurs with smartphones in places you'd consider well explored. The forest behind your house may still be full of things nobody has named yet.

This may be the biggest test to American democracy ever. Will you stand up for Jon Ossoff and Ralph Warnock?

The word "organic" on a pesticide label doesn't necessarily mean it's pollinator-safe. Neem oil is derived from a tree. It disrupts insect hormone systems and kills caterpillars, including monarch and swallowtail larvae, on contact when sprayed on host plants. Pyrethrin comes from chrysanthemum flowers. It's toxic to bees, fish, and aquatic invertebrates and breaks down quickly, which is often cited as a reason it's safe, but quickly still means hours, and hours is long enough for a bee to land on a treated flower and die. Spinosad is produced by a soil bacterium. It's highly toxic to bees for several days after application. Copper fungicide is mined from the earth and accumulates in soil over time, becoming toxic to earthworms and soil organisms with repeated application. None of these are safe to spray broadly on flowering plants while pollinators are active. The organic certification means the inputs met certain source criteria, not that it's ecologically neutral. The only truly targeted, natural pesticide is you. Hand-pick beetles, caterpillars, and slugs in the morning when they're slow. Knock aphids off with a hard stream from the hose. They can't climb back up. Pick off egg masses from the undersides of leaves before they hatch. Cut out infested stems and bag them. All things that work and don't impact non-target species.

@sharon2go @adgirlMM Good point

@adgirlMM I’m at the point right now where I wish he really did win 2020 because we’d be done with this shit already.

So in a completely expected and predictable move as part of his ongoing effort to try to steal the midterms, Trump is addressing the nation Thursday to propagate new lies about the 2020 election. This will include "newly declassified" intelligence reports related to foreign interference in the 2020 election. And by "declassified," that means carefully orchestrated, White House coordinated, and falsified "evidence" that Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel have been working on for months, and that new "acting" Director and Trump bootlicker Bill Pulte was installed to solidify. This is to sow doubt and stir chaos with the base, and force Congressional Republicans to intervene with legislation. Exactly as expected. And now you're caught up. 🥱

I’m demanding an answer for why toxic chemical cleanups at Arizona military bases keep getting delayed. Drinking water at military bases across the country is contaminated with PFAS—forever chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and an array of other health issues. @LukeAFB had to give out bottled water to military families due to PFAS contamination, yet DoD delayed their cleanup by years. Same story across the Arizona—Tucson, Yuma, Sierra Vista, Flagstaff.

Taiwanese women defeat Thailand’s men in a viral tug of war, proving technique can beat brute strength.

And it's being repaired (!!$$!!@) by the same dumb fucks that the chief dumb fuck hired.

Yep. These are tire tracks in the reflecting pool. Sediment has built up on the indents. You can see where the front tires turned in unison. 10 years prison for Trump!

@yousef_ki1 .

If you see this photo, put a dot to break the algorithm.

This seems pretty crazy: Just handing over a U.S. Senate seat to a completely unqualified SISTER of the senator who just died? Shouldn't voters have a say in this? Or are we back to "royal bloodlines" now?