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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One bear loaf pls. Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge #photography #wildlife

A black bear with a velvety coat is laying down like a little lamb along the grassy side of a gravel road. Her background is a wall of tall weedy grasses and shrubs. Her ears point towards the camera as she watches peacefully.

Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Two of the wild horses of Sable Island - a stallion and a mare - share a quiet moment together. #photography #wildhorses

In this black and white image, we have a close-up of two horses with very shaggy manes and forelocks facing each other with their faces very close together. On the left, the stallion has a blaze and a gentle expression, and on the right the mare points her ears towards him. The background is the sky showing white in the monochrome.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A white nosed coatimundi in the Boyce Thompson Arboretum, pausing for a moment on his scamper up the canyon walls #photography #wildlife

In this vertical image, a coati faces towards the camera atop a rocky ledge, with an out of focus red-fruiting tree behind him. His gaze looks down past the lower right corner of the image and there is a frond of a cottonwood out of focus in the upper right foreground near his shoulder.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This gal is one of the Shawnee Creek herd members in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, chilling along the banks of the Current River on a summer day. #photography #wildhorses

In this summer scene, a white-gray mare with a pink mottled muzzle, some dirt in her coat, and a couple of very long wind knots in her mane is standing next to a riverbank. She is in a grassy meadow and across the river we see an oak and hemlock forest. A little bit of mist rises off the water next to a sandbar.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A winter evening along Sabino Creek in Sabino Canyon #photography

Cottonwoods in fall colors flank this rocky creek bed in a deep canyon, in evening shadowy light. A very large boulder occupies the center-right of this vertically oriented image, and we can see the tops of the canyon walls under a darkening blue sky at the top of the image.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In Theodore Roosevelt National Park one summer morning, Arrowhead's band stands together on this ridge to catch the breeze and swish flies together. #photography #wildhorses

Six horses in a range of roan and gray colors stand close together atop a grassy ridge, generally facing left to right in the frame, under a light blue sky with wispy clouds. We can see their names and tails lifting in the wind.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Everybody involved with this decision is an actual monster

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

that is unforgivably rude weather

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m always torn between “how has somebody this stupid not lost everything to the first scam they ever encountered” and “gleefully propagating something they know is a vicious lie” both very bad options

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the option of not being scoldy towards people who think genocide is bad was available to him and yet

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, I thought it was because I am trapped in the mirror universe.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agree about the glasses, it's an ULTRA cool look

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As I scroll and land on this I am literally watching a Discovery scene with Culber and Stamets after they've just fished Culber out of the mycelial network and thinking I have been so grateful to have them on Trek!

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In the Heber herd in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, a stallion checks in with one of the smaller members of his band. #photography #wildhorses

We have a head and shoulders view of a buckskin stallion wearing his fuzzy winter coat, facing left to right in the frame as he arches his head slightly to snuffle at the muddle of a chestnut foal. The foal has a blaze and is looking with affection and curiosity towards the stallion as their noses approach touching together. The background is out of focus pine and pinyon-juniper forest.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The McCullough Peaks wild horses treated me to this moment that somehow always reminds me of a Rosa Bonheur painting.

In this black and white image, a band of wild horses travels across some flat ground under a sky full of fluffy cumulus clouds. As the move left to right in the frame, a gray stallion in the back of the group rears on his hind legs as he urges the group forward. Dust kicks up under their feet.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A desert cottontail at the Gilbert Riparian Reserve in Arizona #photography #wildlife

This is a head-and-shoulders-and-ears portrait of a rabbit with a light brown coat and large ears. The rabbit is sitting with its back to the right edge of the image, looking towards the left corner. The background is mottled out of focus underbrush of a desert riparian area. A leafy twig, out of focus, is in the right foreground in front of the rabbit.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A red fox out hunting for second breakfast in Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge #photography #wildlife

In the lower left of the image, a red fox stands intently looking at the ground ahead where something might be moving. The fox is in a puddle of sunlight and is surrounded by tall grasses with an out of focus line of trees and brush in the background, along with the reddish and purplish shapes of early fall wildflowers.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A snuggly moment with mom (and probably dad) in the Salt Wells Creek herd #photography #wildhorses

Looking uphill, we see a palomino foal snuggled up against his palomino mom, who is wrapping her neck around the head and neck of her foal in a horse hug. Behind them is a smoky buckskin stallion. Their setting is a hilltop covered in sagebrush and grass under a bright blue sky with a few streaks of clouds.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I met this handsome fellow with his band in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest #wildhorses #photography

A compact looking chestnut stallion walks across winter-dry ground and short grass, with a background dotted with pinyon-juniper, and an out of focus grazing bay horse. The stallion has a blaze and is walking purposefully left to right in the frame, crossing an existing trail formed by horses walking routine routes.

This is just a closer-up zoomed-in image of the stallion, capturing his head, shoulders, forelegs, barrel as he continues his march across the frame.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy #Caturday! With this pretty girl, one of the Sweetwater Wetlands bobcats. #photography #wildlife

A close-up catching head and shoulders and forelegs as a bobcat walks calmly from left to right in the frame. The bobcat looks straight ahead of her, towards the right edge of the image, with her ears pointed in that direction. Her background is out of focus trees and shrubs.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think that since last I saw them, Johnny's Star has ditched Dewey for her pals in the developed area of Assateague Island but this is a set of images from last fall, with her yearling Peytona Star. #photography #wildhorses

A bay pinto mare with a star and snip stands atop a grassy and weedy sand dune gazing peacefully towards the camera, with a stormy cloudy sky above her.

A bay pinto pony stallion with a crooked blaze grazes up at the top of a grassy sand dune, with the wind whipping his mane and tail. He is looking towards the camera with one blue eye, and the sky looks stormy and cloudy.

A bay pinto two year old pony who looks a little bit gawky strides across a dune as the tall grasses blow in the wind. We see a distant line of tall loblolly pine trees under a cloudy sky.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Muddy Creek Falls tumbles over this bluff as the creek makes its way to meet the Youghiogheny River in Swallow Falls State Park in western Maryland. #photography

A wide angle image of a waterfall, situated in the center of the image as it falls over a 30 foot or so bluff, surrounded by the rocky bed of the creek below, tall boulders flanking the creek, and trees in fall colors along with eastern hemlock.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lost Creek stallion Looking Glass: if you're on insta stay tuned with Wild Horse Photography Collective as next week we have a takeover with Carol Walker who will share her knowledge of the Red Desert herds as yet another BLM roundup approaches. (link in first comment) #photography #wildhorses

A leopard-appaloosa stallion stands tall and proud on a flat expanse of grass, with a stormy sky roiling with clouds above him.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A Sable Island stallion is working HARD to shift his mares away from the gaze of another stallion, he was so frustrated and finally lit a fire under them to move. #photography #wildhorses

Three dark bay horses gallop side by side, one slightly trailing after the other, across a landscape of a grassy dune. The image is zoomed in close and the horses travel left to right in the frame.

Just half a stride later, as the mare in the lead has stretched her left front hoof out, reaching for the next step. Their manes fly in the air behind. We can make out that the stallion in the rear has his ears pinned.

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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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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that's a beautiful essay, thanks.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Birds are so consistently rude! Nice image though!

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I usually do a week on epistemology in my STS classes & DANG some of the stuff women students report hearing from men profs about their existence at a university is somehow still mind-boggling to me. almost like the "oppression" of anti discrimination isn't slowing these guys down AT ALL.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A sandhill crane soars over the marsh at Whitewater Draw, looking down for a moment to squawk at all the cranes gathered on the ground. #photography #birbs #wildlife

A sandhill crane is in a glide path in the air, with a light blue sky background. The crane's bill is open as it looks slightly towards the ground and calls out to other cranes. The wings are straight out side to side with the tip feathers flared out.

A moment later as the crane flies above the camera, traveling left to right in the frame, with the sun lighting its head and neck.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A wild burro jenny and her foal, in Lake Pleasant Regional Park

Among desert vegetation and a few yellow flowers, a dark chocolate brown burro turns her head around to watch her fuzzy gray foal nurse.

As her foal nurses, the dark brown jenny gazes peacefully towards the camera

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For Foal Friday, a scene from Lost Creek, from my visit a couple years ago. The BLM has scheduled a roundup/removal for the Red Desert complex, of which Lost Creek is one of the HMAs. These beauties are probably going to lose their freedom. #photography #wildhorses

Against the backdrop of a vivid and somewhat stormy sky, a dark gray stallion is herding a young mare, her foal, and her yearling from right to left in the frame. The yearling's and foal's mouths are open as they champ their teeth to say "we're just babies, be gentle!" while the mare trots with one eye on her kids.

A moment or two later, as the stallion continues driving the mare and her foal and yearling forward.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"fueled by coffee and 2 other items" wow yeah that's super unique

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A sandhill crane and a colorful sunrise at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge #photography #birbs #wildlife

Against a backdrop of a vivid pink and purple sky, a sandhill crane flies from left to right in the frame, its bill open as it squawks to its family and the other cranes below in the marsh. The crane's wings are caught in the downward sweep of the wing-flapping cycle. At the bottom edge of the image we can see the tops of distant hills.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A pretty bay mare in the Little Book Cliffs range, with a view of the beautiful landscape there #photography #wildhorses

Smallish in the frame, a sleek bay mare steps down a short steep slope to a creek bed which is mostly just out of the frame to the left. She is surrounded by sagebrush and sparse grasses and rocks, and in the background we see the walls of a long cliff rising above the scene.

The bay mare steps closer to the little creek with its rocky bed, which flows through the lower-middle of the image; she is approaching from the right side of the frame and we can see the small star marking on her face.

Here we zoom out again to see more of a rocky foreground as the mare steps across the creek, the wall of the cliff in the background

Coming in closer again as the mare steps purposefully across the creek, a large boulder in the foreground.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Really unfair that the woke dei crowd is writing novels that readers love, what in the heck is the world coming to

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I find it Really Big Yikes that a whole big part of this industry holds hands with the same kind of race science ideology that brought us skull measuring

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New Orleans to its own residents: go ahead and die or whatever, we don't give a shit

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#booksky Finally got "Ode to the Half Broken" by @zanzjan.bsky.social from my library and it was SO worth the wait! I loved these characters so much and I guess it's possible for a novel to be both cozy and postapocalyptic at the same time. bookshop.org/p/books/ode-...

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Ode to the Half-Broken

"A refreshing ray of hope in the darkness." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) As seen on LitHub's "May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books" In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after...

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A vermilion flycatcher, a bit wet from making multiple splashy cannonball dives into a nearby water feature to take a really thorough bath. Sweetwater Wetlands, Arizona #birbs #wildlife

A bright red songbird with a black wing and tail, small black bill and black mask over its eyes perches at the feathery top of a reed that sways gently with the bird's weight. Another reed top floats nearby in the background, with an out of focus wall of sage green reeds behind.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Sand Wash Basin roundup/removal is starting this week, focusing first as I understand it on the out of bounds bands who live outside of the boundary fence. #photography #wildhorses

A dark gray mare stands close together with a dun stallion, facing generally left to right in the frame, among grass and sagebrush. A fence made of wire and vertical wooden slats is seen just behind them, entering the image from the left edge, and the sky is a clear light blue.

Zooming out, the fence is in the lower left foreground, extending towards the upper right corner of the image. The mare and stallion of the previous image are standing to the right of the fence, while on the other side of the fence a band of about 5 horses are variously grazing or looking towards the mare-stallion pair. From this angle we can see a distant low mountain ridge in the background.

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The current configuration of Assateague Island's state line band: half sisters Coco and Sapphire, and stallion Foxy's Gift. I met up with them on this very very buggy summer day. Poor Coco was getting hit the worst with the deer flies. #photography #wildhorses

A smaller buckskin pony mare and a stout bay mare stand side by side on a beach, with some low dunes in the background under a light blue sky, looking right at the camera. The bay is looking cheerful while the buckskin looks vaguely miserable with the biting flies.

The buckskin mare leads the bay mare on a walk along the beach surf, with a chestnut pony stallion following a few lengths behind the bay mare.

The three ponies have stopped to stand right by the shallow water of the surf, swishing flies. This is a wider angle show that shows a tongue of ocean water sloshing up towards their feet.

The buckskin mare, Coco, walks purposefully along the surf, absolutely covered in biting deer flies.

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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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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

An anna's hummingbird works these pretty flowers in the Boyce Thompson Arboretum #photography #birbs #wildlife

A hummingbird with iridescent magenta feathers on the side of its face is hovering under a downward facing orange flower blossom, bill stuffed deep into the flower. The wing motion is caught with a bit of a blur. The flower takes up most of the image with some darker green out of focus background peeking through.

Just a moment later, the bird has moved slightly for another angle at the flower, wings caught in a swept-back position as it hovers in the air

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A buckskin mare and her foal, Salt Wells Creek #photography #wildhorses

A buckskin mare canters across a gentle broad valley of grass and low sagebrush, traveling left to right in the frame as she catches up with her band. Her buckskin foal canters at her side. buckskinAt the top edge of the image we can see the lower slopes of a distant mountain ridge.

Same mare and foal just one half stride later

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Jen Britton @jenbritton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A wild burro yearling, in South Dakota's Custer State Park #photography #bonkersforburros

A young burro with a white coat walks towards the camera on a slight oblique angle. Her setting is a gently rolling grassy prairie, under a stormy gray-blue sky.

Just a moment and a step later as the burro continues walking towards the camera.

This is a closeup of the young burro, in which we see a head-shoulders-barrel of her left side. She is pointing one ear at the camera.

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