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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 7h

Per Rob Crank: Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. So many amazing photos! My favorite is the same Great Blue Heron as yesterday, here poised to strike

A gray and brown heron poised on the edge of a wooden pier, intent on the green water below

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 12h

😸😽🎃🤍..

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Great Blue Heron fishing off a pier. I think this may be a youngster Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #EFG, birds beginning with any of those letters (1st name).

A heron posed against a white backdrop, balancing on one foot

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/09/2026

By Chris at lyonkid: www.instagram.com/lyonkid.art/

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San Francisco Zoo & Gardens @sfzoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wolverine Molly had first dibs on some new log enrichment but Edward quickly showed her how to best use it for maximum scratchies! 🎥: Sammy C.

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pelicans in formation Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seabirds- any bird found at sea or the coast The alt. is #Airborne- any bird in flight.

Three pelicans soar in a line under the blue sky

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hunger has become so severe that there are already reports of people being forced to eat dog meat to survive.

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Explains why I keep staying up late

Top caption:Pause to reveal your medieval creature
Picture: a medieval illumination of a brown bat standing upright, in a blue frame with the word bat underneath
Bottom caption: You're not afraid of the dark

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

*airhorn* The ebook edition of @marthawells.com's PLATFORM DECAY is $2.99 USD at Bookshop, Kobo, B&N and Amazon. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

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explore.org @explore.org · 26/09/2026

Sit down Saturday.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

43 years ago, on the 26th of September 1983, the Soviet nuclear early warning system reported a missile launch from the United States. Russian lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov judged the warning to be a false alarm and disobeyed military protocol, preventing a retaliatory attack. #otd 🗃️

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Twofer. Hooded crows are among my favorite birds and I was happy to visit them Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs, photos with pairs of the same species in them. The Alt theme is #Green, photos with Green in the backgrounds not on the birds.

Two hooded crows, with gray bodies and black wings, tails, and "hoods" appear to be gossiping on a lawn

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the Russian Shaheds downed over Ukraine has ended up as decoration in a local supermarket.

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme alternative is #Brown This California quail has borb aspirations but is not quite a borb

California quail, small, brown, plump, with white-speckled belly and glamorous long plume that makes it look like older Elvis. It stands on the pavement, next to a grass border

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Stars are the birds of the sky!

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Bottoms up! Let’s celebrate #TheDivers for #BirdOfTheDay today 🪶

Seven small brown and white geese in wetlands of grass tufts and light blue water. One is gliding, two are in the process of dipping their fingers necks, and of the other four only the tails are sticking out of the water

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Red carpet ready: A red-shouldered hawk perched on a low branch and ignored a half-dozen people gathered to take photos. #BirdOfTheDay. #raptors

A raptor in shades of reddish brown speckled with white, with long brown tail with white bars, sits on a tree branch. Its back to the camera, but it casts an indifferent glance over the shoulder

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Space and the Universe (1996). Apps had so much character in the 90s. If this screen were created today, it would just display the planet's names as a list.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the summer of 2026 russian attacks destroyed 13 million books in Ukraine. Perhaps this line will make it into history books. Today, I saw the program aimed at supporting small Ukrainian publishers. Please read, and maybe you’ll become a donor too. foundation.kse.ua/en/projects/...

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"All right, one more time from the top." Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #CaptionThatBird.

A sandstone cliff with a pelican gesticulating at the top and coromorants a few feet below looking up

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Elegant, and what bird is more elegant than a swan

White swan floats majestically in a pond. Behind it is a crumbling stone wall wreathed in ferns and moss

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Photo by Kevin Gaston: "Having photographed hummingbirds for more than a decade, this is the first time I have documented one taking a bath on dew covered leaves."

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3446 is not left-handed

Bunnies re-enact the duel between Inigo and Wesley in "The Princess Bride", with a masked bunny fighting against a dashing shaggy bunny with a gold sword. The masked bunny is cornered, near the edge of a rocky cliffside, but still has a trick up his sleeve

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A white pigeon for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme #Pigeons&Doves

A large white pigeon with gray and white accents. The stone wall behind it has openings in which other pigeons are visible

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

They warn you about symptoms to watch for as you get older, but no one mentions that these include sudden onset bird watching

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Merlin says these are Brant Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG (owl, duck, goose).

A fowl duo, small geese with brown backs, light bellies, and while tails, paddle side by side. Each has a distinctive white "bandana" on its brown neck

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explore.org @explore.org · 17/09/2026

We heard that Fat Bear Week is coming! Stay tuned for the brackets.

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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

343 years ago, on the 17th of September 1683, Dutch scientist Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek wrote about his observation of microbes to the Royal Society, which is the first known observation of bacteria in history. Van Leeuwenhoek referred to them as 'diertjes' (Dutch for 'small animals'). #otd 🗃️

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek. Mezzotint by J. Verkolje, 1686

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The fluffy quartet Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme: #Silhoutte; any bird in silhouette

Silhouettes of four tiny, fluffy ducklings making circles on green and shiny pond surface

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Good morning folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Mamas&Papas, male & female of the same species in the same photo. The Alt theme is #Robins, any of the Robin Species. #birds #ECK #ForJanet #photography #ukbirding #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #birdphotography #NatureTherapy #BirdLife #wildlife

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I'm an entry level bird watcher, so there aren't many species I am confident in getting right Rob’s #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Mamas&Papas, male & female of the same species in the same photo. Who's Rob? 😳

A pair of mallard ducks stand in the grass. The female, in beautifully patterned brown, is on the right, looking at the male. He turned his iridescent green head away from her and looks vaguely guilty

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Russians are starving the occupied town of Oleshky right now, killing Ukrainians under occupation and burying them in mass graves, jailing them, kidnapping Ukrainian children, raping, looting, torturing. It's shocking and infuriating to me that anyone would advocate for Ukraine

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This grey heron needs to stop doomscrolling #AngryBirds #MyBestSide

A grey heron stands in the grass looking a bit grumpy

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It is women’s festive attire. Kyiv oblast. Late 19th - early 20th century. Yes, I got to the museum today. There were no alerts, but I was told that this museum is open during yellow (drone) alerts for now.

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My initial thought is that it still drops the reader into the middle of action, where we experience the daily life in a world with magic pollution. There is a single sentence of description and then you are invited to interact with the world

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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

⸙࿔*:・༄˖°

A drawing of a crow standing in the rain. The caption reads, "It's okay to just muddle through right now. "Good enough" is, in fact, good enough."

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 04/09/2026

New commandment

Medieval rendition of the “You are not immune to propaganda” Garfield meme. Garfield is drawn in a lithograph style on a blue background, and the text says “Thou are not immune to propaganda.”

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Young soldier enlists three friends to retrieve jewelry

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These russian barbarians have destroyed another warehouse full of books. Me? Going to the bookstore for a book or two. Or more. And no drone will stop me.

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Trymon wasn't his most memorable role but he was memorable in it GNU Tim Curry

Tim Curry as Trymon in Color of Magic. His robes and hat are of red velvet, he has a black goatee, holds a staff, and you can tell he's an evil wizard just by the tilt of his eyebrows

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wish I found out from this post and not the one I actually found out from

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It happened. St. Sophia of Kyiv now has a virtual tour. You can explore the 11th-century cathedral, bell tower and other buildings online, with an English version and audio guides. sofiia-kyivska.emuseum.ua/en/

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Do I have to? @gelithem.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Murderbot being relatable again

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 21/08/2026

People, young and old, came to the witch for directions. "I seek adventure." "I seek wisdom." "I need a place to feel at home." "I feel like I need to cry, but I can't." The witch listened, and told all where to find what they sought. And the local library thrived. #CrossRepost

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