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A loose harmony of shifting energies since 13.9B BCE: The Coyotacious Now.

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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 10h
NorCal I love you
Photo: sticker of a werewolf head with a beercan reading “moonlight brewing” clutched in their fangsphoto: a city parking meter with a sticker of a mashup of a mickey mouse body with a big bad wolf head whose bloodshot eyes are in the middle of popping out of their sockets while the fangy wolf’s tongue lolls out to reveal an acid tab with a smiley facephoto: a restaurant window graphic displaying a photo of a bowl filled with small pieces of unidentifiable stir-fried food, with a lot of asian characters above and below and atop the photo, titled boldly “beef loved by my wife” near a small logo and tiny text reading “taste of hunan”
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 12h
Just realized today that my Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon # is officially 2. I used to calculate it to 2 based on production-team colleagues who’d worked with him, til I found out it’s supposed to be an actors-only trail & quit the game. But I just checked & I’m legit Bacon-2. New goal, Bacon-1!
graphic: a circle of ten numbered bacon strips, with one being barely cooked and ten being charcoal, labeled “what number is your perfect bacon”
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 16h
With all due respect, y’all really ought to be washing your grubby mitts BEFORE touching us
photo: sign in restroom reading “please wash hands after touching animals”
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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spotted Lanternflies… should you squish ‘em? 🧪
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Frickin awesome meeting today with the producer of my upcoming H’ween events. It’s sooooo powerfully uplifting to be back in my natural habitat 👹 New start date Monday, which gives me a 3-day weekend to eff off and make mayhem
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Rage Rampage
Alt: Rampage video game monster climbing skyscrapers and smashing the bejonkers out of them
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🔸Bazteki🔸BLFC Dealer 404 @bazteki.com · 01/10/2026
So grateful that there are so many people who still care about and support art, monetarily or otherwise. A single encouraging word can still make my day. I reflect on the culture we’ve built as furries and my heart just overflows. It’s an oasis in a wasteland and idk what I’d do without all of you.
Black and white portrait of a smiling maned wolf.
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A server just asked the bartender here for a Fernet & cream, and I wish you could have seen the poor lady’s face go through the most vivid Kübler-Ross cycle before she very, very reluctantly mixed the abomination 😞
photo: a bottle of Fernet-Branca stands next to a stubby snifter glass almos half-full of an intensely dark liquid
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AKA✵COBS @akacobs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
✻ . Hare ✻ First illustration done for this inktober
Illustration of an hare running with oak leaves, the illustration is done on black monochrome with white lines and some red stars, with a linocut aspect
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That Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s Werewolf Month*! * every month is Werewolf Month really, but October is like special deluxe Orthodox Werewolf Month with spinner rims and ground effects lighting
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the train, testing out my upcoming October commute into San Fran. Grateful that two friends have offered housing options; they are now in a friendly bidding war to try to nab me as a tenant and/or housemate. If Anyone else got some rad eclectic housing ya want me to stink up? I’m v affordable
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Serious question: any of my moots a practicing Animal Communicator? I’d like to ask some questions privately. (yes, talking about telepathy) (if you’re just replying to scoff, I’ll block you and never look back)
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aauughh, yes yes yes. I forget where I saw this whiteboard message months ago, but I also inscribed it inside my planner where I’ll see it whenever I crack the cover and think really hard about however I’m about to invest my time and energy.
photo: a whiteboard reads “today’s reminder: only put energy into things you have a future with.”
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Second entertainment industry friend in the space of two years told me recently that they would cast me as Santa Claus, which I wanted to feel offended by (I am not that old and I am slender), but she volunteered the explanation that I have kind eyes and a jovial but soothing voice.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Given that this site was associated with repeated funerary rituals, it suggests that the brewing was related to the mourning of the dead. Probably a ritual feast. A wake? 13,000 years ago. "Our friend is dead, let's get schnockered in their honor." But there's another intriguing detail...
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Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting
Fermented and alcoholic beverages played a pivotal role in feastings and social events in past agricultural and urban societies across the globe, but the origins of the sophisticated relevant technolo...
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No cheating, post your lock screen: A black rabbit rescued me from the space between death and rebirth. Wish I could remember or find the original artist of this piece 🖤🐰🖤
Phone screencap: lock screen image of the current date and time superimposed on an illustration of a very black rabbit against the backdrop of maybe a moon white circle defined by reddish paint around its perimeter
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great Aunt Wildred is just sitting here asking her phone questions it does not have the ability to answer, getting an answer that makes no sense, then asking the same question again louder. Kiddies don’t let yer elders grow up to use A.I.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
Cat Internally Debates Whether Or Not To Rip Head Off Smaller Creature It Just Met theonion.com/cat-internally-debates…
Cat Internally Debates Whether Or Not To Rip Head Off Smaller Creature It Just Met
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Halfway thru my interstate move, last-minute detour to visit Great Aunt Wildred. I’m glad I’m here but her current mental state takes every ounce of mental and emotional energy to manage. Heart goes out to y’all helping family w/advancing dementia.
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Cheetah Conservation Fund @cheetah.org · 21/09/2026
Do you know a #cat with a big PURRSONALITY? Enter the House Cheetah Photo Contest sponsored by meowbox! Every entry supports #cheetah #conservation! Winners recieve a 6-month meowbox subscription, FAHLO bracelet, and a CCF calendar feature! Read more: ➡️ www.gogophotocontest.com/meowbox
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Memento mori
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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kit puppy @estrogendog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Day! 9/25 💖
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Dolly Parton
ALT: Dolly Parton
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I had the very mostest deliciousest werewolf dreams last night 🌕❤️‍🔥
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iisaw @iisaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Dog Days at the Louvre. 1-Le Louvre... 2-...is not for wimps! Things you might not have known 3-Etruscan galloping tentacle monsters 4-Egyptian griffins 5-Canopic... Mini-mummies? 6-Beadwork hieroglyphs 7-Spot the pharaoh hound 8-Fire breathing dog
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-s…
Dog Can’t Believe Guy She Hooked Up With 10 Years Ago Now Head Of FBI
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KeelahButts @cruxfat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OMG!! Partial T. Rex MUMMY with INTEGUMENT, ARE YOU KIDDING ME RN!?!?!? Paper to release in 2027 I am freaking out!!! #dinosaurs #trex 🦖
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Found On Newcastle Ranch, 'Rex Jr.' Could Be Most Important T. Rex Ever Discovered
"Rex Junior" is a partial but perfectly preserved Tyrannosaurus skeleton found on the Zerbst Ranch in eastern Wyoming. A paleontologist said that the…
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TabbieWolf @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com · 24/09/2026
If you have a character who’s into any of these kinks, give me reference, they might get drawn next month!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's Pillar 43, the "vulture stone". It's thought to be the world's first pictograph. One interpretation is that the vulture holds a human head in its outstretched wing. 🐦‍⬛💀
Vulture Stone, Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa, South-east Anatolia, Turkey The Vulture Stone is thought to be the world's first pictograph. It depicts a human head in the wing of a vulture and a headless human body under the stela. There are various figures like cranes and scorpions around this figure.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's pillar 27: A carved lion? stalks a boar, or approaches one it has killed. Pre-pottery, pre-agriculture, invoking the ritual magic of kitty + piggy.🐖🐈
Pillar 27, Enclosure C: predator (perhaps a felid) hunting a boar.[94]
Dosseman - Own work
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm deep down the rabbit-hole on Göbekli Tepe, a Neolithic ritual site with these carved columns, the oldest known megaliths. And I love the carvings. ART from 10,000 years ago. This one (Pillar 12), my dear friends, is decorated with DUCKS. 😀🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
Pillar 12, Enclosure C: ducks and boar
CREDIT: Dosseman - Wikimedia

"Building C feature at least two, more likely three, concentric walls. It has a round-oval ground plan and has a diameter of some 30 metres. As such, it is the largest of the excavated megalithic monumental buildings so far discovered at Göbekli Tepe. Its two central T-shaped pillars appear to have been destroyed in antiquity, when a large robber pit was excavated into the building and the two monoliths intentionally destroyed. It is still unclear when this destruction occurred, but most likely in the prehistoric (Neolithic?) period. Remarkable for this building and also for Building D, is that the two central pillars were slotted into two carefully carved pedestals. These pedestals had been worked from the natural limestone bedrock. The floor of this building is the equally carefully smoothed natural rock surface of the limestone plateau. The western central pillar was partially restored in 2009. On its left broad side there is the depiction of a large fox (in low relief). The bottom part of the eastern shaft was found in-situ, i.e. still inserted in its carved podest. This pillar is still preserved to a height of 2 metres, though its original height was probably around 5 metres. It appears that this pillar had also been subjected to burning at the time of the deliberate destruction, as testified by its flaky appearance. All other T-shaped pillars belonging to Building C are found at more or less regular intervals within the two inner concentric walls of the building. Eleven pillars have so far been found in the inner ring, while the second ring features seven pillars. This number would very likely increase if excavations were continued. It dates from the 10th-9th mill. BC"
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the things I dislike about staying in urban L.A. or Oakland is being woken up by nearby gunshots. They land differently than gunshots I hear out in the tules. Rural gunshots are rarely assumed to target humans. City gunshots are largely targeted to take lives. anyway sweet dreams cityfolk
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Merystic @merystic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
20-somethings, I need to give you some advice. I just took a walk down memory lane, thru photos from when I was an insecure, worried, depressed 20-something. 1…yes, it will actually get better. 2…LISTEN to those who lift you up and tell you you’re beautiful. You’ll look back someday and agree.
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Flaptastic news for Club D.W.. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
screencap of Variety social post featuring a noir illustration of Darkwing Duck in the rain, captioned “Darkwing Duck series set at Disney Plus with Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, and Lizzy Caplan in voice roles”
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Video from Maura Hennelly captures her sunbeam snake named 'Vespira' in all her glory. Sunbeam snakes (genus Xenopeltis) are non-venomous snakes from SE Asia that kill small prey (frogs, rodents) by constricting. They burrow through soft dirt or leaf litter in humid jungles. (📷:@maurahennelly IG)
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Joyous equinox! The change of season is at its quickest; in the northern hemisphere, we’re now racing toward the darkest time of year. Enjoy the summer’s abundance, and as you set aside stores for winter and seeds for spring, focus on what you wish for the coming new year.
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Linus & Snoopy Play in Fall Leaves
Alt: Animation: Linus & Snoopy Play in a pile of Fall Leaves
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026
NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets theonion.com/nsfw-artist-struggling…
NSFW Artist Struggling To Improve On Sexiness Of Regular Muppets
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HiddenStash @hiddenstash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🍁 happy autumnal equinox bbs 🍂
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear it, but THESE ARE NOT JOANNA EGGS ktla.com/news/califor... from @ktla.com
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Sea turtle nests on Southern California beach for first time in recorded history
A sea turtle currently nesting on a Southern California beach is the first known sea turtle on record to nest naturally anywhere on the West Coast, according to NOAA Fisheries. An olive ridley sea …
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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“You’re 45, so it’s time to get a colonoscopy.” Cold. Impersonal. Uninspiring. “Two score and five autumns have cooled your brow, so we must search your corn-maze for haunts.” Mysterious. Fun. Seasonal.
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 12/09/2023
Reducing light pollution at night helps migrating birds. Turn off the lights for them!
Illustration of bird silhouettes with stars overlaid. Text reads "Lights Out For The Birds"
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/09/2026
Have you had it with being tracked everywhere you go? Show your opposition to invasive surveillance with this bold new EFF sticker featuring a striking black, white, and red design. Speak out for your privacy, and help support EFF!
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Surveillance Is For the Birds Sticker
Your movements are your business. Show your opposition to invasive surveillance with this bold EFF sticker. Featuring a striking black, white, and red design, it’s a reminder that our movements should...
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
dude at beerhall: Oh wow, he really likes you! He’s always super shy. Just ran right up to you like you’re old friends me: We are! d: You met Winston before? me: Not in this lifetime. *2 more random dogs run up to me* d: Okaaaayyy then, mr dog…god? Please bless my Winston? me: He already is ✨
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Since first moving to New Mexico, I’ve long lamented how poorly dogs are treated there, to the point where culturally dogs in general seem to approach strangers with suspicion bordering on thinly veiled hostility. I’m a dog magnet elsewhere, but in NM I never initiate contact.
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Achai @achai.bark.how · 19/09/2026
i am overwhelmed. porch time
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