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typhlonectes

BIG ASS STURGEON

flyingcodfish

I love reblogging this sturgeon

dovewithscales

Fun fact: Sturgeon are native to the James River in Virginia but for a little bit in the 90's people thought they were all gone until my cousin and I found one and my uncle called a contact in the Fish and Wildlife Service to document it. They're making a comeback now.

dragongirltongue

Holy shit, for real?

dovewithscales

Yep. We were just walking by the river and saw this bizarre dinosaur-looking fish washed up on the beach and pointed it out to my uncle, who knew they were believed to be extinct in that river, and knew the right folks to call because my aunt and uncle worked for the park service. I never heard any more about that incident. I know it wasn't until years later that they were actually added to the endangered species list, so that wasn't directly because of us, but there obviously were no conservation efforts at all before our find.

mangled-by-disuse

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

lgbtlaughs

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

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@ goodgoodgoodco

h00pqueen

https://wigreenfire.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Big-Tech-Unchecked-Toolkit_final_rev19Dec25-resized.pdf

Link to the pdf of the tool kit

Love you guys, stay safe!

suddenmassiveexistencefailure

HOT DAMN IT'S THE QUEER SUMMER JAMS PLAYLIST

Every year I ask my friends to send me summer bops by queer & LGBT+ musicians. I also keep my ears open throughout the year for potential additions. Then, I collect the songs into a playlist that has exactly 69 songs and runs approximately 4 hours and 20 minutes.

In past years I collected bops on Twitter but uhhhh i'm not on the apps anymore so here we are.

Send me your favorite summer jams by queer & LGBT+ folks! You can submit as many as you like!

Bonus points for music released BEFORE 1970! History is vital & queer music has always existed.

Submissions are anonymous and I won't share any of your data etc etc

You can find past playlists here: https://queersummerjams.carrd.co/

(pls rb - Share & Enjoy and all that!!)

suddenmassiveexistencefailure

Volume 8 (2026) is live NOW go listen!

Song submissions open all year round.

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countessravengrey

These kinds of things give me hope

calciumlimerust

Milwaukee retiree Larry Jones, 85, came to a legislative hearing supporting a ban. He changed his mind after hearing from transgender youth.

brightlotusmoon

“I have very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there, so when I came here, my eyes were opened,” he told the state Assembly’s Health, Aging and Long-Term Care Committee just after 9 p.m. “I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders, so I got an education that was unbelievable. And I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people has changed. … I’d like to apologize for being here, and I learned a very lot about this group of people.”

After he spoke, several attendees applauded.

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transmechanicus

loyal knight

geek-ramblings

https://glaad.org/fcc/

meangirlnurse

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dogposts

A herding dog at work

omegasmileyface

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

HOLY SHIT

definite-human

"The Montana court separately declared that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause. In legal terms, a suspect class is a group that has historically faced such severe discrimination that any law targeting them must meet the highest level of judicial scrutiny to survive—the same standard applied to laws that discriminate on the basis of race. [...] The practical effect is sweeping: any Montana law that singles out transgender people will now face strict scrutiny, meaning the state must prove the law serves a compelling interest and is narrowly tailored to achieve it—a standard that laws almost never survive.

"Because the decision rests entirely on the Montana Constitution, it is insulated from the U.S. Supreme Court. Under the principle of adequate and independent state grounds, the federal Supreme Court cannot review a state court's interpretation of its own constitution, so long as that constitution provides more protection than the federal one. [...] What this means in practice is that Montana's transgender residents now have a constitutional shield completely independent of the Supreme Court of the United State’s decisions."

(emphases mine)

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adamsmasher

What I love about this is seeing that he's clearly a hockey skater. Now, I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to cold slippy antics, but what I notice is different between hockey skaters and nearly all other skaters is that hockey skaters essentially run on the ice. Any other skater is trying to glide, perform, or be otherwise smooth. Create a new type of mobility, but on ice. But hockey skaters? The floor is slippery but that's why they've got knives on their feet, so it's running time. Run run run run.

So this is like playing tag on ice, except the one guy you're trying to get is magically not on ice. And I think that's pretty neat.

jackironsides

He’s also making really good use of the stoppers on the front of his skates. You can clearly see several times that when he starts juking and running he’s not actually running with the wheels in contact with the ground – he’s tipped forward to run on the rubber stoppers, which will give him more traction on the slippery surface. He can change direction faster because none of his kinetic energy is going into countering the inertia of spinning wheels.

I don’t know if the picks on the front of ice skates are used similarly (because ice hockey is not so much of a national pastime in Australia) but I wouldn’t be surprised. But I spent a bit of time with a roller derby team, and I recognised that particular stopper run :)

brightlotusmoon