Petition - Urgent Reform for Transgender Healthcare in Ireland 🇮🇪 If you're an Irish citizen or resident of Ireland I'd appreciate if you'd take a moment to sign this petition. "The state-run National Gender Service (NGS) has effectively collapsed, with waiting lists extending beyond a decade." Please boost to help :boost_requested: (and if the site is overloaded, do please try again later)

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#Ireland #Healthcare #Trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #mastodaoine

Nature moment 📷 by Gukraiz Ghouri The Golden Pheasants or Chinese Pheasants (Chrysolophus pictus) are native to forests in mountainous areas of western China. #Photography #Birds

You needed to see a video of a hare displaying vertical take off and landing (VTOL) capability when scared by a curlew ... Source -

Yorkshire Post

Watch the moment curlew frightens a hare which wandered too close to its nest

This is the moment a Eurasian curlew frightens a hare as it wanders too close to its nest.

"Peak Victorian-era town planning efficiency" (irl - it's Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcestershire, UK)

Greek artist Danae Stratou 🇬🇷 "Desert Breath" (1997) a collaborative large scale land art installation in the Egyptian desert covering 25 acres #WomensArt

For all the hot people out there ...

You don't see toys like this around anymore. The Atomic Energy Lab set was available from 1951 to 1952 and sold for a whopping $50. "The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source, a pure beta source, a gamma source, a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber, an electroscope, a geiger counter, and a manual." More here 🤯:

Interesting Engineering

World's most dangerous toy with real uranium up for auction

The radioactive atomic energy kit, known as Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory, is now being sold by a Boston-based RR Auction.

#Science #Toys

Scientist's cat helps discover a rare virus — yet again > I love the "yet again" as though this is absolutely normal for a cat ...

Live Science

Scientist

Pepper the cat, whose owner works at the University of Florida, gathered a specimen containing a never-before-seen virus for the second time.

#Cats #Science 🐈

Silk embroidered fox by Helen Richman, professional embroiderer, UK #WomensArt The fox appears in the folklore of many cultures and is associated with cunning, playfulness and tricks or as a familiar animal possessed of magic powers #Folklore

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." – Dolly Parton