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Erin Webb

@birbween.bsky.social
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Maynard MA | conservationist & gardener | one polite goblin

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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I have a joke about Paige Guthrie, but the thought of telling it makes me feel like I'm coming out of my skin. is this anything
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I haven't read this yet, but based solely on the blurb, a conclusion that makes just as much sense is that children with high SOCIAL aptitude flourish in the traditional school environment.
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Ahead of its time
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It’s the 57th anniversary today of French researcher Michel Gauquelin offering the people of Paris free personal horoscopes — and then sending all 150 respondents the horoscope of Marcel Petiot, France’s most notorious mass murderer
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Odd this day
Well, it’s 55 years to the day since French researcher Michel Gauquelin put this advert in Ici-Paris offering free personal horoscopes…
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Meaty Mike @meat-master.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
i have written a roughly equal number of poems about love and poems about buses
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Dream on, Sluggo
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
this asshole snoozing it up while I file our taxes 👺 #dogs
Handsome tan & white pit bull snoozing on a couch in the sunlight
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Not to downplay the beauty of nature on its merits, but I do think the wood in the foreground looks like an anthropomorphized rabbit playing a guitar #MaynardMA
Wooded scene featuring a moss-covered chunk of deadwood
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It really says something about the repression present in american society that I am not constantly being stopped on the street by people who want to tell me how beautiful I am????
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Photographer Lee Miller (left) and Tanja Ramm, breakfast in bed at Lee’s Paris studio, 1931 #womensart #SundayMorning
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
this is objectively hot, right? it's not just me
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
That’s the distinction between Star Wars and Star Trek. In Star Wars the ultimate evil is a tempter figure, it’s Satan, it’s someone whispering look what you can have if you learn to hate. In Star Trek the ultimate evil is a voice impassively telling you to stop caring, it doesn’t matter if you care
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New York Botanical Garden @nybg.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
✨Plant Spotlight🔎✨: Aristolochia arborea is a tree native to El Salvador, Guatemala & Mexico, w/ flowers that mimic the appearance & scent of mushrooms 🍄‍🟫 This attracts fungal gnats that carry pollen from plant to plant, aiding in the pollination of this species 🪰🌸 #plantappreciationday #NYBGscience
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It is simply a real mistake to let the evil heartless people in the world cause you to become more evil and heartless
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
UK artist Jane Perkins creates artworks by #recycling found and waste materials such as plastic toys, beads, buttons and shells #WomensArt
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Toby, the Learned Pig
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Ruth Miller, artist who creates hand-embroidered portraits from her studio on the Mississippi Gulf Coast #womensart
Pictorial embroidered artwork featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman facing left with short hair yellow top and smiling, the subject is presented within a decorative circle and with embroidered patterns to the left
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Look at that face. St. Lawrence was an early treasurer of the Church, and when the Roman emperor Valerian demanded he hand over the riches, he gathered a bunch of poor people, disabled people, widows etc, and said, "this is our true wealth," and now he's the patron saint of COMEDIANS
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This whole thread is A+.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
you're gonna wanna see this
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Remember that guy whose wife got picked up by ICE and he was like “this is a nightmare, this is awful, still support Trump though!”, I don’t think people learn from suffering in a rational way, certainly not in a way you can predict, goading on suffering might do the exact opposite of what you hope
No one wants suffering, by anyone. But the sad truth is that those who voted for and support him will NEVER realize the reality of their folly until they or their family members are directly harmed by his whims and feckless policies. We sounded the alarm, he told them the truth, and yet .....
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Without saying your age who was your animated crush
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a cartoon of care bears with hearts and the words care bears world
ALT: a cartoon of care bears with hearts and the words care bears world
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
wondering if it's worth doing a psychological deep-dive on a character who has reached higher echelons of a secret society and also reads his young daughter's diary and then gloats to her about it
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 11/04/2025
Signs of spring, ranked.
A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.
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Maya Norton @mayanorton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Arundhati Roy, "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
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Bips McCallister @hoomph.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
One time I found a magic pen and this happened
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"How can the new world come?"
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This video is funnier without context, but it is worth noting that Myra is vibing here despite a scary thunderstorm outside. (Song is "Smile Jamaica" by Chronixx.) #dogs #reggae
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Weird: on either side of this mural there is a child with water (?) gathered in its skirts, being pulled away from the naked man by its hair
detail from Giotto's "St. Francis Renouncing his Worldly Goods"
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Rebecca McMackin @rebeccalovesplants.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Urban trees, even small ones, can reduce water run off by 25%!
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An evaluation of the stormwater runoff reduction of two distinct tree species to support urban greening as nature-based solutions
Trees, as a vital element of urban greening, have been increasingly recognized for their hydrologic contributions to stormwater management. However, t…
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The raised hand is reportedly meant to indicate blessing, but this sure does look like world-spanking.
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
.... Sciatica?
Screencap of an article from Axios: " The s-word rippling through Wall Street and Main Street."  The accompanying image is Uncle Sam with his hand on his lower back with a radiating pain glow, for some reason, even though the s-word turns out to be "stagflation."
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
What services do insects provide, and what would the world be like without them? 🪲 Watch the interview on pesticides and #InsectDecline with @paneurope.bsky.social and @davegoulson.bsky.social 🔽 www.pan-europe.info/blog/pestici... #Entomology #SaveOurInsects #InsectScience
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Pesticides threaten the bulk of life on Earth - Interview with Prof. Dave Goulson
Insect and other arthropod populations are rapidly declining. This alarming loss of biodiversity jeopardises our joy of life. After all, what would the world be like if children grew up without the jo...
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Happy 97th birthday to this diary entry and #LifeGoals moment from Virginia Woolf
31 March, 1928
I have drunk a bottle of wine for dinner, and the world goes gently up and down in my head.
—Virginia Woolf
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
You have to wonder if anybody in the 40s read this and was like ugh, virtue-signalling, can't I just read about a guy punching airplanes in peace
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"we stand for the rule of law."
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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
This is true. We don’t know the lifespan of Yellow Birch because they are commonly hollow. Despite this, we have documented one at 363 years and another one that is 406 years. Although dead, we have documented 4 of 10 Paper Birch 210-223 yrs
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Venus fly-trap (Dionaea muscipula) flowering at work today :)
A little potted Venus fly-trap plant with a long noodly stem leading up to a small white flower with a chartreuse eye
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The face I make when I finally admit my tech start-up can't cover its expenses and I must return to the home of my human, whom I loathe.
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
this is another thing I'm going to start saying
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
gonna start saying this to myself
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Big Worker @bigworker.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Is Team Rocket opposed to that system though? Sort of a Trumpian justification to say "our society is problematic in how we treat these Pokemon, therefore it's cool for me to commit lots of unrelated crimes"
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Honey bees are domesticated animals introduced from Europe — and aren't endangered, unlike many of North America's over 3600 species of native bees. Honey bees crowd out native bees from food & spread diseases to them. Instead of adding another hive, plant native flowers! xerces.org/blog/want-to...
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Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees
Keeping honey bee hives will not help the 3,600 bee species native to North America. In fact, it might do the opposite. The best solution to bee declines is to address underlying causes like habitat l...
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Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 26/03/2025
Thursday, April 3: Join me for a virtual workshop exploring how poets/artists can meet this moment. I don't have answers, but will share examples, tools, tactics. It's part of this @buttonpoetry.bsky.social series: you can register just for mine, or explore others: buttonpoetry.com/product/butt...
A flyer with a green vine on a black background and the text “kick of national poetry month with a virtual workshop on the question ‘how can poets and other writers meet this moment?’ thursday, april 3 2025 7pm central via zoom"
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Erin Webb @birbween.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
What is it about the jumping spider that tips it over from freaky and terrifying to goofy and adorable? It is definitely not the jumping
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