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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 2h

5th of Owltober! Long-Eared Owlet "Ginette" had surgery for a broken wing, with metal pins placed to stabilise the fracture. Clinic Erminea in Switzerland reported she was doing well. Link to donate to Erminea: erminea.org/index.php?na... Source: fb.com/299762959379... #owlsintowels #owltober💛🦉

Arranged in a nest shape is a dusty-burnt-orange towel (in colour only; the cloth is untarnished by earth or flame). Within that nest is a Long-Eared Owl chick draped in a juvenile coat entirely made of ashy-white feathers, with the exception of a bat-shaped mask of brownish-black around her eyes. On the topic of eyes, they're bright orange, like buoyancy rings, around pupils as wide as saucers.

An x-ray output (post-surgery) shows a long thin metal rod stabilising the bébé owl's humerus. The metalwork is bright white compared to the rest of the owl's skeleton, glowing pale green on a dark background. The owl's bone structure is surprisingly small, illustrating that owls are 99% fluff. A few dozen feathers are radiodense, likely due to having blood supply as they grow, and so the spines appear bright and rather like fish bones or wide-tooth combs. A cone mask for the anaesthesia is placed around the owl's head. The text "Gauche" appears below the pinned wing which might seem odd commentary from the radiographers, had one not just learned the French word for "Left".

Back in the visible spectrum, the Long-Eared Owlet rests on red and orange towels inside a dark-walled container, peering up at whomever is peering down. A pink gauze wrap with purple splotches is around her now pinned Guache wing. She appears startled, and her buoyancy-ring eyes look more lemon than orange in this light.

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

4th of Owltober! Coda the Eastern Screech Owl, an ambassador at BeWild Reptile Rescue in North Carolina, is pictured shortly before getting his beak trimmed with the help of summer interns. Want to donate to BeWild? bewildnc.org/support-us/ Source: fb.com/752793290801... #owlsintowels #owltober 💛🦉

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Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

3rd of Owltober! An Australian Boobook at South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter fell victim to an attack from a mob of Magpies. A reminder to take care around nesting Magpies this season, be you feathered or not! Want to donate to SOWS? sows.org.au/donate via: fb.com/833886482101... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

A Boobook looks positively terrified... mortified... petrified... stupefied. Which is fair dinkum for any Magpie victim, but then again, it may just be RBF (Resting Boobook Face). Regardless, this owl has a shocked expression and mismatched pupils, with a pair of wide eyes the hue of a dark forest floor, or a kiwifruit that's gone a bit soft past its prime. She's wrapped in a blue tea towel which, along with her brown plumage, collects wayward strands of grass and leaf litter. Her feathers are the same tone as Chewbacca's fur, though not quite as long. In a word: Boobookiee.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I need this sticker for myself

A machine with a sticker on it that says 'works, but makes sad noises'

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Emily Sedai @jellykelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People must look at my pretty photo

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

we have to tap Mike Tomlin into Minecraft mods. this guy needs all the crazy furniture mods and stuff

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was the argument of my grandfather's book, Capital Punishment: The Inevitability of Caprice and Mistake Says right at the beginning, he's against it absolutely for moral reasons, but he ain't here to talk about any of that Published in 1974

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.newsweek.com/nurse-helped... I hope there is a gofundme for this hero nurse who no longer has a job. Anyone know?

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Nurse Helped Injured Mexican Escape ICE Custody at Hospital: Feds

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whatever one’s opinion of the death penalty in the abstract, the particulars of how it’s implemented and who it’s applied to in the US are moral abominations

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ace tilton ratcliff @mortuaryreport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in fact speaking from a place of privilege to call out bullshit behavior is Acutely Uncomfortable & basically verboten in our society & it takes a lot of practice & also knowing you will almost absolutely end up with an Uncomfortable Outcome or indeed Completely Removed from whatever scenario

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In the Quick and the Dead there's these moments when the gunslingers square up before the shootout at high noon and watching the lead up to the midterms is like seeing two of these doofuses both put 3 in their own balls before the clock sounds. Are either of you dingdongs even trying to get the W?

Post from Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com that says:

Yet another Democrat has released an ad decrying "boys in girls sports."

This Democrat is NY-21's Democratic candidate for congress, Blake Gendebien.

You can watch his full ad in our latest story.

He joins several other Democrats releasing similar ads this cycle.
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Post from Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com that says:

Rep. Greg Murphy on Republicans' pitch to voters: "I'm betting on the understanding of the American people that tough times need to be gone through to get to good times"

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not just the awful ads. It's not just the grave threat of a tyrant who can spend w/e he wants from the treasury. It's knowing that they stole the money from already dedicated funds and based on past precedent it'll likely be a fund meant to feed impoverished children or something akin to that.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay so the "The Marines were not seriously injured but they got traumatic brain injuries (TBI)" line where is this coming from? What is the threshold being used for "seriously injured" by media reporting on this and why have they concluded the Marines TBIs from the missile attack don't meet it?

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump referring to Fairford airbase in the UK as "our fort" is likely the most honest, factually accurate thing he's said this month considering who is on the base and using it.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

for fucking REAL. the depth of trauma for those undiagnosed with ADHD is real. not just the way we feel like we're constantly failing (because everyone is telling us we are) but not understanding WHY because we have no context to understand other people aren't struggling with the things we are.

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Karen de Lange @karendelange.co.uk · 27/09/2026

No thoughts. Only blep.

A white-and-tabby cat with her green eyes half-closed and her pink tongue sticking out.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

DHS claiming something happened is currently confirmation it never happened. "Video of the incident was shared with Channel 3. It shows the agents wearing face coverings and judicial marshals assisting them as they ordered advocates and community members out of the courthouse."

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Questions raised over legality of ICE arrest at Meriden courthouse

A man is in ICE custody after being detained inside the courthouse in Meriden on Wednesday, and questions remain over the legality of the arrest and whether ICE agents broke the law.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Unfortunately the cohort of Bluesky that functioned as rightwing pawns for Jesse Singal isn't interested in the truth. I've seen when confronted w/this text from Last Ditch IG they reject it. They'll gaslight the person who tags or replies to them w/this text claiming it doesn't refute the article.

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Liz oOooO ~Promaja~ OOoO Roderick @talesfrompurgatory.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’ll be cutting back here and sending cash assistance to my fam and friends in the country. This is what the US has come to: people working in Bosnia and Mexico and sending money back

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't agree at all with Senator Duckworth's don't impeach thinking. That said the American electorate bears a considerable amount of blame for this considering how they responded to the twice impeached convict by giving him power again. Easy based on that outcome for Democratic officials to

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

caught them holding hands this morning

picture of a black hairless cat and a white fluffy cat, they are laying on a blanket and their front paws are resting on top of eachother. very cute.

picture of a black hairless cat and a white fluffy cat, they are laying on a blanket and their front paws are resting on top of eachother. they are both looking up with a sweet expression that masks their true nature

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Aminata Seck, 26. The cruelty is the point. More bluntly, the cruelty inflicted primarily on BIPOC at the orders of white supremacist ethno-nationalists is the point. BTW, reminder everything is political, even sports. All the things we insist are not political are in 1 way or another.

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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gonna keep sharing this one because it’s an assignment I’m still very proud of. ☺️

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just because people come to the same conclusion about something, it doesn't mean that our interests are the same and it's dangerous to assume they are.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if you liked the thread about “everyone on the bus has realized the driver is going the wrong way,” you will love “hundreds of confused Portlanders ditched by crew and stranded in Iceland” I have to go to bed but I need to know if Sarah makes it to her flight!!!

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you ever struggle with worldbuilding just remember the German name for the Rhinoceros is Nashorn (nosehorn).

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Pulsar @pulsarbird.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every Millennial was given one of these

Sketch of a hand holding a business card. It has 10 slots labeled "once in a lifetime event". Seven of them are punched out. The center of the card reads: one free Armageddon with completed card

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine

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Erica @erohealthcomms.com · 19/09/2026

The House of Representatives has worked 45 hours and 16 minutes in September. The Senate has worked 18 hours, 17 minutes, and 6 seconds. They would not qualify for SNAP or Medicaid based on their own imposed work requirements. And yet we continue to pay their $174K salary.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

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Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

But we understand images by means of reference to other images (this is one way of understanding how images produce meaning), and within the US, the visual context for this ad is empirically undeniable.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've always lamented the lack of required education in art history (or visual studies, if you like), in public secondary education. Without this requires grounding, many people see images as nothing more than Rorschach Tests, & so images like this one get to protest plausible deniability.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolutely something worth teaching in a class devoted to the visual legacies of slavery and Jim Crow. But one wpuld need to engage in a lot of conscientious framing. And yet Converse just….advertised it out.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I always bring in advertisements on the first day of my Intro to Art History class to convey how powerful images are and how empowering it is to be able to articulate verbally what they’re doing. The visual violence of the Converse ad is such that I wouldn’t even dare to show it in that class.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is the answer (the question being: what is the opposite of pussy riot)

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I decided I'm going to start a thread of things I love to add to now and then, just because. Music, art, games, whatever. First up: the viscacha, a rodent native to South America. They like to sit on rocks and warm themselves in the sun, which I can greatly emphasise with

A viscacha, which kind of looks like a spherical rabbit with brown and grey fur, sits on a rock and looks very chill.

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TERF: "All trans people are mentally ill" Me: Only a Cis deals in absolutes

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badger @badgertastical.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

starting to think at some point i must have been cursed by a fucking witch, and not the etsy kind

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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