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NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026

Los Texmaniacs' accordion-driven music is a living history lesson, which just so happens to be perfect for twirling on the dance floor. n.pr/4ytEqHD

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Los Texmaniacs: Tiny Desk Concert

Los Texmaniacs' accordion-driven music is a living history lesson, which just so happens to be perfect for twirling on the dance floor.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I saw a northern short-tailed shrew in the woods. These creatures are fantastic! One of the few venomous mammals in the world. Uses echolocation to hunt. And eats its body weight daily. S/he was making a bunch of noise in the leaf litter and either completely unafraid (or completely unaware) of me.

Features velvety, slate-gray fur, a pointed snout, tiny eyes, and hidden ears. Their teeth are tipped with reddish-brown pigment. Measures 3 to 4.2 inches long from the head to the base of the tail, with a short tail measuring 0.6 to 1.2 inches. Weighs about 0.5 to 1 ounce.

They carry a neurotoxic venom in their saliva. Because they lack fangs, they must chew the venom into their prey using their sharp teeth to paralyze animals like mice, frogs, and insects.

They use a primitive form of echolocation to navigate underground tunnels and leaf litter.

They have an extremely rapid metabolism and must eat nearly their entire body weight in food every single day to survive. Paralyzed prey is sometimes stored alive in underground caches for later consumption.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं । भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Mantra

• Om: The primeval sound of the cosmos.
• Bhur: The physical plane; earth; existence.
• Bhuvah: The mental realm; atmosphere; vital energy.
• Svaha (Suvaha): The spiritual realm; heaven; divine mind.
• Tat: That (referring to the Supreme Reality).
• Savitur: The radiant Sun; creator; source of life.
• Vareñyaṃ: Most adorable; excellent; worthy of worship.
• Bhargo: Divine splendor; the light that destroys ignorance and sin.
• Devasya: Of the divine or radiant source.
• Dheemahi: We meditate upon.
• Dhiyo: Intellect; understanding.
• Yo: Who; which.
• Nah: Our; of us.
• Prachodayāt: May illuminate; inspire; guide.

Core Translation: We meditate on the supreme, adorable divine light of the solar source. May it guide, inspire, and illuminate our intellect.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

30 hours hiked, 30 dedicated meditations (often w/japa), and 30 yoga/mat practices (14 w/weights) #monthlyfitnessgoals #hagstrong #witchywellness

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Good goddess! I kicked up into Pincha Mayurasana without touching the wall and balanced in the pose for the first time in ~15 years (I once fell out of it and broke my coccyx, and had not balanced without the wall since). 💚💙🩵 #YEEEHAAAW #InversionInvigoration

This is not me. This is some cutie. But this *is* what the pose looks like ♡♡♡

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः oṃ pūrṇamadaḥ pūrṇamidaṃ pūrṇāt pūrṇamudacyate pūrṇasya pūrṇamādāya pūrṇamevāvaśiṣyate oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ageratina altissima (white snakeroot, richweed, white sanicle) #PoisonPlants #MilkSick

White snakeroot contains the toxin tremetol; when the plants are consumed by cattle, the meat and milk become contaminated with the toxin and that poison is passed on to humans who consume it. If taken in large enough quantities, it can cause tremetol poisoning in humans.

The poisoning is also called milk sickness, as humans often ingested the toxin by drinking the milk of cows that had eaten snakeroot. Although 80% of the plant's toxin, tremetone, decreases after being dried and stored away for 5 years, its toxic properties remain the same.

During the early 19th century, when large numbers of European Americans from the East, who were unfamiliar with snakeroot, began settling in the plant's habitat of the Midwest and Upper South, many thousands were killed by milk sickness.

Notably, milk sickness was possibly the cause of death in 1818 of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln. 🥛🐄🍼🌱

Above as per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageratina_altissima

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An album for the hours of 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. ♡

"I Could Live in Hope" helped pioneer the genre slowcore, which has been described as "stretch[ing] a simple melody into a 10-minute meditation that gently pulls [the listener] out of linear time."

A reaction to the abrasiveness of alternative rock in the early 1990s, when grunge had reigning popularity, Low "eschewed conventional songwriting in favour of mood and movement."

Influenced by Brian Eno and Joy Division, the band, collaborating with long-time producer and New York underground mainstay Kramer, favored slow-paced compositions characterized by minimal instrumentation and an economy of language.

Above from:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Could_Live_in_Hope

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ganesha graha nakshatra Yogini rashi rupinim Devim mantra mayim naumi Matrikam pitha rupinim 🤍🐘🤍🐘🤍

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Peter Sillin @psill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If LeBron keeps it up, someday he’ll be known as the Carol St Clair Johnson of the NBA.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The 'Correct the Map' resolution ...supported by the African Union, was adopted on Friday by a vote of 164 to one, with six countries abstaining. The United States was the only country to vote against it." www.npr.org/2026/09/04/n...

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The U.N. backs a new world map showing Africa in its true relative size

The U.N. has backed a new map showing Africa in its true relative size, with the U.S. standing alone in opposition.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I very nicely asked my kitty to finish my workout for me. She stared at me for a beat, and then she turned and walked right out of the room. #LazyLittleBitch #sheNEVERworks

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

31 hrs hiked🚶🏼‍♀️; 31 dedicated meditations🧘🏼‍♀️; 31 yoga/mat classes🤸🏼‍♀️ (15 w/resistence training🏋🏼‍♀️) #monthlyfitness

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

These poor pilgrims. What a nightmare to believe that you will visit God or the divine or transcend only to meet Wrath instead. I take (freezing cold) comfort in the fact that some pilgrims wish to burn through as much karma as quickly as possible in this life. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/u...

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Before Nepal’s Floods, Hindu Pilgrims Sought the Divine at Mount Kailash (Gift Article)

For many, the trek to Mount Kailash on the border of Nepal and Tibet is a once-in-a-lifetime trip to find spiritual awakening.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I just watched a mama raccoon climb out of a cherry tree; then, three little juvenile coons followed her out like an inverted, furry parade. So frick-fracken cuuuute!!! 🥹🦝💛🩶🩶🩶

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Gaillardia pulchella (Indian blanket, firewheel, girasol rojo)❤️‍🔥

Firewheel or Indian blanket is a popular annual growing 1-2+ ft. tall. The hairy stem is usually much-branched and becomes woody at the base late in the season. Branched stems, mostly leafy near the base, have showy flower heads with rays red at base, tipped with yellow, each with 3 teeth at broad end. The well-known flower heads are 1-2 in. across with a red center and a yellow outer band. Occasionally the three-cleft rays are solid orange or yellow. The disc flowers in the center are brownish red.

Frequent along roadsides in the Southwest, these wildflowers stand like hundreds of showy Fourth of July pinwheels at the top of slender stalks. Varieties are popular in cultivation, for they tolerate heat and dryness. Among several species in the Southwest, some flowers are entirely yellow.

From: https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=GAPU

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The flowers at Dolly's memorial are now so numerous that they fill the sidewalks. Her music reverberated in the streets. I left her yellow roses (her favorite) & other flowers grown in her beloved Appalachians. Mourners gathered. Others drove by w/shouts of "We love you, Saint Dolly!" So beautiful ♡

Flowers I gathered for Dolly from the mountains. Even the jar was uncovered from the mountain soil. ♡

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

titties at half mast, everyone

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We're playing Dolly's music to her mountains and missing her so much already.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Can verify: @applescruff909.bsky.social has endless knowledge and boundless discernment 📽🎞🎞🎞🩶

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cortinarius iodes (Spotted Cort or Viscid Violet Cort) 💟

Cortinarius iodes, commonly known as the spotted cort or the viscid violet cort, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Cortinariaceae. The fruit bodies have small, slimy caps which are up to 6 cm (2+1⁄4 in) in diameter and purple, developing yellowish spots and streaks in maturity. The gill color changes from violet to rusty or grayish brown as the inedible mushroom matures. - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius_iodes

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Tipularia discolor (crane-fly orchid) is a unique native terrestrial woodland orchid found across the eastern and southeastern United States.

The crane-fly orchid (Tipularia discolor) is a unique native terrestrial woodland orchid found across the eastern and southeastern United States. It features an inverted life cycle with winter foliage and summer blooms resembling flying insects.

Foliage: A single oval leaf emerges in autumn, stays green through the winter to catch sunlight on the bare forest floor, and withers by late spring before the plant blooms.

Leaf Appearance: Dull green on top, sometimes with dark purple spots, and a striking solid purple or crimson red underneath.

Flowers: Slender, leafless stalks grow 8 to 26 inches tall in mid-summer to fall, bearing 20 to 30 small, delicate purplish-green or brownish flowers with long nectar spurs.

Pollination: Specialized pollinia attach to the compound eyes of nocturnal noctuid and armyworm moths as they feed on nectar.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

DISINTEGRATION by The Cure (There is nothing new I can say. I can only marvel and be thankful for its existence.)

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

if you missed this back when i posted about it, it’s now expanded well beyond the MTV universe (Eurovision! Tiny Desk! Austin City Limits!)

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

55 miles skated🛼; 21 hours hiked🥾; 31 dedicated meditations🧘🏼‍♀️; 31 yoga/mat classes🤸🏼‍♀️(15 w/weights🏋🏼‍♀️) #monthlyfitnessgoals

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Chris Fleming is our Andy Kaufman, and I am so grateful to him for sharing his brilliance with us ♡♡♡ youtu.be/E2I0tqgaEVo?...

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Dipsacus laciniatus is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family known by the common name cutleaf teasel. It is native to Europe and Asia. It is present in North America as an introduced species and invasive weed. - Wikipedia

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I am jealous of the confidence of the parents who named their daughter Cassiopeia (a very mild mannered young woman in line behind me at the doctor's office). I suppose that is one way to avoid fatal arrogance and vanity 🌠

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Well, Mack-the-Finger said to Louie-the-King, "I got forty red-white-and-blue shoestrings and a thousand telephones that don't ring; do you know where I can get rid of these things?" 🛣

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Random thing I learned today: Shirley Temple's youngest child played bass for the Melvins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Bl...

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Lori Black - Wikipedia

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Pleurotus pulmonarius (lung oyster) looking lovely after the rain

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Monotropa uniflora (American Indian ghost pipe plant often shortened to ghost plant, ghost pipe, American Indian pipe, or Indian pipe) is an herbaceous, parasitic, non-photosynthesizing, perennial flowering plant native to North America. #PrettyParasites

Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll. Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family. Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the fungal web of mycorrhizae, the M. uniflora roots ultimately sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the photosynthetic trees. The clustered node roots of this plant are covered in hairs called cystidium. The cystidia found on these roots allow easy attachment to fungi hyphae, such as can be seen in ectomycorrhiza. Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments like in the understory of dense forests. The complex relationship that allows this plant to grow makes propagation difficult.

The Cherokee of North America feature the "pipe plant" in some of their creation stories. The legend states that the plant was named "Indian pipe" due to a group of chiefs quarreling without resolution, while passing a pipe around during the dispute; the Great Spirit then turned the chiefs into the plant, as they should have smoked the sacred pipe after making peace with each other. The plant is said to grow wherever friends have quarreled.

Above from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Goodyera pubescens (downy rattlesnake plantain) is a native North American orchid known for its evergreen, basal rosette of dark green leaves with distinctive white veins that resemble rattlesnake skin 🐍

Goodyera pubescens, the downy rattlesnake plantain (also known as Peramium pubescens), is one of the most common orchids native to eastern North America.

Goodyera pubescens flowers in mid July-early September with a small spike inflorescence of between 10 and 57 cylindric flowers. The leaves have the white-green marbling in the form of veins throughout, broadly elliptic to broadly ovate (2.1-6.2 x 1.3–3 cm), with either an acute or obtuse apex. The peduncle (stem that connects the stalk to a floret) is 11–35 cm long. Flowers: Lateral sepals 3.1 - 5.3 mm long with distinct petals of 3.6 - 5.7mm. The petals lip is scrotiform (pouch shaped) 2.5 - 4.2 x 2.2 - 3.5mm in size with the apex reflexed (bent outwards) with a slightly tuberculate (bumpy/rough) outer surface. The inner surface is smoother but has thicker veins throughout. The anthers are inflexed (bent inwards) within a cup-shaped clinandrium (an orchid structure beneath the anther). The white flowers are usually atop a leafless stalk.

Above per Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyera_pubescens

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Grylloprociphilus imbricator is a woolly aphid native to North America that feeds on the sap of American beech trees. Famously, colonies will rhythmically sway their bodies when threatened, thus earning them the nickname "boogie-woogie aphids." 🤣 youtu.be/FHr9KRqewpU?...

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Beech woolly aphids do the boogie-woogie (2020)

YouTube video by Bug of the Week

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The blue sky in extreme abundance 💙🩵🤍💙🩵

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lilium superbum (Turk's-cap Lily) in extreme abundance 🧡🧡🧡

A striking and native North American wildflower recognized by its dangling, orange, heavily-spotted petals that curl dramatically backwards to form a turban-like shape . It typically thrives in moist forests, swamps, and meadows.

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Baba Yogi-a🍂👁🦇 @contrayogini.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hiked 21 hours🚶🏼‍♀️; skated 64 miles🛼; 30 dedicated meditations🧘🏼‍♀️; 31 yoga/mat practices🤸🏼‍♀️ (including 15 strength trainings🏋🏼‍♀️) #monthlyfitnessgoals

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