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colorado-wildlife.ghost.io; working on local climate resilience and food systems; PhD in archaeological science 🏳️‍🌈🏔️✈️

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 6h
Mandatory snowy Pikes Peak photo
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13h
Here's Backpack as a yearling in 2007, unable to put weight on the injured paw. Holly took her cub & moved upriver, away from aggressive bears who might harm him at Brooks Falls. Fishing was harder for the pair, and she risked both of them struggling or starving, but he was SAFE.
Backpack in 2007, nursing an injured paw that is turned under, so that he can't put any weight on it.  If you're wondering why they didn't provide vet care, it's their policy not to interfere when an injury is natural and not caused by human activity.

I think this photo is by David Kopshever, National Park Service?  It's on a blog linked below.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love this

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@SoxTranslator
Munetaka Murakami on how he deals with high pressure situations like the postseason: 

"I think it’s important to just be honest with yourself about how you’re feeling in that moment. If you’re nervous, I don’t think you need to force yourself to not be nervous. And if you’re feeling the pressure, you don’t need to convince yourself that you’re not. What’s most important is to recognize and sort through those feelings, even while you’re out there on the field, and still be able to compete calmly. More than anything, I think it’s about trusting the preparation you’ve put in and everything you’ve experienced and fought through over the past year, and just continuing to do that without changing anything. That’s what I think is most important.”

#WhiteSox
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23h
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"what do you expect to happen? have every rapist fired from their job and ruin their life?" uh yeah that'd be a good start
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Kevin Moore @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Melinda Beatty @melindabeatty.com · 29/09/2026
Bear with me, this is a doozy, #kidlit folks. Censorship is alive, even in blue states.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You know what's messed up is this is like the fourth time in twenty years I've read this exact headline
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is the rape culture btw. the one women have been warning you about, and were told we were hysterical and over-sensitive and couldn't take a joke, and that rape allegations ruin men's lives, and now we live in a meritocracy where the only "merit" is who has hurt the most women
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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 28/09/2026
Opinion | "It’s beyond sad that St. Mary’s Glacier is completely gone and may never return. The current administration’s views on climate change won’t help the situation."
denverpost.com
We caused St. Mary’s Glacier to melt away (Letters)
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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Chase Woodruff @chasewoodruff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The water thing seems mostly overblown/solvable outside the West, but it's ridiculous to say that municipal utilities don't need to sweat decisions at a scale like this because an extremely diffuse constellation of other water managers are making decisions at a much larger aggregate scale.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 28/09/2026
Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center
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Pepper spray, health crises and rotten food: Inside Colorado’s only immigrant detention center
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i'm just bix @bix783.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i've been blocked by five people today for Colorado River posting, truly I will dine in the halls of Valhalla
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hello Saturday. 🐇 A little marginalia. #InternationalRabbitDay
Rabbit sat reading, marginalia.
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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
portrait of the criminal mastermind
A chipmunk perched on a rock

This is a tiny brown ground squirrel with a fluffy tail, round ears and black eyes. It has black and white stripes across its back and face. It's incredibly adorable.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
forbiddenstories.org
The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026
Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City
Porco in the cockpit of his plane smoking a cigarette and giving a thumbs up
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 24/09/2026
Mass lesbian bar masking story is getting Oberlin cafeteria levels of coverage, meaning it will define reactionary and reactionary-fearing centrist politics for the next 15 years
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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to
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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The dam removals that get the most press tend to be superlative western ones, like the Klamath and Elwha—big rivers, big fish. For @biographic.bsky.social, I wrote about some equally vital, under-the-radar projects now restoring eastern streams, one old mill dam at a time. #AlewivesAreTheNewSalmon
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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Largest wildlife overpass in North America located in Colorado with 91% reduction in collisions: "Big success"
A wildlife mitigation system made up of North America's largest wildlife overpass, five wildlife underpasses, and fencing to guide animals to the crossings has led to a 91% decrease in wildlife collis...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.
An adorable female Rottweiler named Maeve
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The worst men alive all absolutely love AI and hate trans people. Huh. Probably no lessons for me to learn there.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 22/09/2026
@socialaskan
If you are a Young Officer from Puerto Rico, Alaska, or Hawaii, listen to me: They are not delusions if the grandeur is real. Google
Napoleon
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
🐅 Every day, veterinarians and zookeepers make their way to Cuba's National Zoo however they can, determined to not abandon the nearly 1,000 animals in their care and help save species at risk of extinction -- including an extremely rare white tiger 🇨🇺 🎥 u.afp.com/SjFX
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
15 years ago today, Troy Davis was murdered by the state of Georgia. I still think of him today. I wonder if he knows how many people were transformed by his life and death.
A yellow button with a photo of a Black man with glasses and the words “FREE TROY DAVIS! Campaign to End the Death Penalty” in black text.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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i'm just bix @bix783.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
dudes rock?
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Daily bunny no.3348 finds a creature out of time
Four bunnies encounter a microraptor, a small dinosaur with colorful feathers. They are standing around the microraptor, who regards them with a curious bird-like grin
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Peter Nguyen @dptbirder.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Migration is full force on! Last week we had very few warblers. Now there are rare and uncommon birds in every corner of the county! Here a blackpoll warbler and Wilson’s warbler are sharing a natural bird bath! 📷🌿🪶
Blackpoll and Wilson’s warbler on ground next to each other
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Two all the way, a coffee milk, and a Del's @ri.oldfolkshome.org · 21/09/2026
Google eliminating Google Reader is why the United States is on the verge of becoming an outright fascist state. (I think only about 25% /s)
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As there is a new cat, so is there a new mouse. The cycle is unbroken
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20/09/2026
everyone always wanna get van helsing when draculas are about but here’s the thing: dracula was killed by a cowboy…if you’re a transylvanian peasant your ass needs to get to the rodeo
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i'm just bix @bix783.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm obsessed with electric airplanes and I am so excited to see the success of this test flight!!
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
The imposing Callanish Stones stand talk with their shadows spanning out across the glass.  It's a super clear sky, but looks cold. Above the central stone is a strange figure-of-8 shape of dots.  This is the location of the Sun, at noon, on various different days across the year.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 20/09/2026
The remaining bits of snow and ice of St. Mary's Glacier melted away last week, leaving hikers, skiers and tourism officials mourning the loss of one of the state’s most accessible and beloved glaciers — even if it’s technically not a glacier.
denverpost.com
St. Mary’s Glacier melted away. Will Colorado’s iconic snowfield ever return?
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