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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The colder autumn nights in Germany coaxes this magnificent eagle, Oropherion, to spend his nights in his heated indoor winter aviary. This is an African Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus), the largest eagle species native to Africa. (Cr @birdsofprey_nathalie_denolf) #birds #eagle

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First: fuck ICE and everyone associated with it. Second: we need much more support for food-insecure people, ASAP. Third: long-term herd reduction helps the climate, the land being grazed to death, animal welfare, and human health. Beef is delicious but enormously wasteful as a food source.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm upping my p(bloom) It is fall and the season for asters and goldenrods is almost upon us. Meanwhile, enjoy Claire Curtis mums and orange coneflower from last week.

A top-down view of part of my garden. On the left are the mums, with slender pink petals and yellow centers; on the right are the orange coneflowers, aka brown-eyed susans, with short fat yellow petals and black centers. Around them are sprays of goldenrod buds and the single buds of New England asters.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Imagine you're shrunk down to amoeba size & could observe a tiny plant root under the soil. The first thing you might notice is that the root isn't all plant cells. Both inside & outside the root are symbiotic fungal cells (grey in photo) in close association, working together. (🔬:Eye of Science)

It looks like giant dried cells with visible cell walls in brown and yellow, with green phloem tissue, but the grey stuff, which looks all sort of wispy and tangled, are the fungal cells that are in partnership.

Endomycorrhiza in grass root, SEM
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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Brewster's Woods Wildlife Sanctuary, in Concord, MA. This was my first time at this out-of-the-way, modest little Audubon sanctuary. (Most people in Concord go to Walden, Estabrook, Old North Bridge, etc.) I didn't see a single other human. Also, wolf trees are SO COOL. Must have been pasture once!

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 08/09/2026

Flat illustration of a Common Loon wading through black water- white mono-line ripples silhouette their body

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fuzzbutt with her head deep in a New England liatris. Looks like she's literally hugging the flower.

Closeup of a flower that looks like a lavender koosh ball. A bumblebee clings to it as she sticks her head into the center.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Hoff Crab is neither a crab nor is it David Hasselhoff. It is a Yeti Crab, which is neither a Yeti nor a Crab but a sub-group of Squat Lobsters, which are not lobsters, they're Anomurans, like Mole Crabs, which are neither moles, nor crabs.

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hello new followers from the Naturalists starter pack! I promise I will post more plant content! Was in Burlington VT last week, and took a short hike through Rock Point. Geology is weird there, and the cliffside plant community is more calcareous-leaning than most. www.uvm.edu/place/burlin...

A looking-down photo of scruffy trailside plants. The assemblage includes early meadow rue (Thalictrum dioicum), Solomon's plume (Maianthemum racemosum), bigleaf aster (Eurybia macrophylla), blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia), maples, sedges, and invasive buckthorn.

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some of her pins from previous campaigns have become favorites of mine. And who can argue with parrots and hummingbirds? Foxfeather does good wildlife rehab work, and this is worth backing.

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What he said. Protect your own soul. The schadenfreude feels great for a few minutes, but I recommend you let it pass and move on to... well, however you feel about the entire ICE project, regardless of the identities of its victims.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This gallery of ICE crop/seed art at this year's Minnesota State Fair is incredible, especially the one based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica by Jennifer Nelson, which features the last words of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Morse code: www.cropart.com/Resist.pdf

A seed art entry in the 2026 Minnesota State Fair based on Pablo Picasso's Guernica. It features a loon, the words "Ice Out" and two representations of Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s. Notably, the mouths of Good and Pretty include their last words in Morse code:
‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” The artist is Jennifer Nelson.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

dolly parton was many things, but what i think resonates so deeply is that she was kind. ACTIVELY kind. when i talk about proving love, this is what i mean. ACTIVE kindness. ACTIVE love. it can be easy to dismiss kindness, but i think the reaction to her passing shows it is not at all a placeholder

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

osprey like what up

osprey head and neck periscoping out of nest

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

And for a quick hit here’s one from my personal library of obscurely comforting TikToks.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/08/2026

I was literally JUST doing a talk about this with @mcmanlypants.bsky.social an hour ago! The thing is that the Rockies are so much bigger than you that they don’t notice if you exist. But the Appalachians are so much older than you that if they notice you, bad shit’s about to go down.

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Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com · 13/08/2026

My favorite photo from today's eclipse. 📷 Andrew McCarthy cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea-sha...

From the photographer: "My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea"."

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Scott 𐚁 🦇 Cave 🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

Cardinal flower, Lobelia cardinalis. The little blue structures up top gently boop pollen onto the heads visiting hummingbirds, who are attracted to the bright red color.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trying to look up a thing online this morning (how to make ink from the seeds of the sunflowers that I grew), I really felt the toxic shift from search/index to chat/summarize. Google and the others are trying to convince us that authorship doesn’t matter. That we don’t matter. 1/?

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 07/08/2026

I feel like most people don't even know half of what Dolly is doing because she's too busy doing it and if you aren't paying close attention you'll miss it!

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ESO @eso.org · 28/07/2026

The conclusion of a century-long quest 😲 Our VLT obtained firm evidence that Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star in the Orion constellation and one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone! 🔭 🧪 1/4

A collage of various astronomical images. The background image shows a wide view of a starry night sky, with blue lines connecting the stars of the Orion constellation. An inset image zooms into the star Betelgeuse, showing its orange surface. A second inset shows a bright companion next to the star. Image by ESO/M. Montargès et al. Background: N. Rissinger (skysurvey.org).

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grrms 🦠 @frrms.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026

Boston / Bay Staters, the LUCE Hotline is 617-370-5023. Call them, not your local police, as cops will probably help cover up whatever abuses ICE commits.

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Chris Pink Moss @christoptomus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Usually, when we garden we want perfect leaves, lush growth , big flowers, and no problems. There are whole breeding programs devoted to providing consumers with all those things. A lot of big box stores carry things like "proven winners" and such. There are multi-billion dollar industries 🧵

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A swamp milkweed flower in my artificial pond. I have no idea what's up with the mottling in the petals, but it's really cool and I hope it propagates. #nativeplants

A closeup of a swamp milkweed inflorescence, made up of a couple of dozen tiny flowers. Each flower has five reflexed petals that are pale pink with dark pink mottling.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 28/05/2026

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

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Woodland Park Zoo @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's berry season and you have the tiniest friends. These critically endangered babies are Egyptian tortoises that hatched on July 4 and 6, 2026. Currently, our Egyptian tortoises are living behind the scenes in a warm and cozy habitat with lots of attention from their dedicated animal keepers.

Two small Egyptian tortoises are positioned on either side of a bright red raspberry on a gravel surface.

A small tortoise is on a sandy surface, next to a plump blueberry

An Egyptian tortoise is close to a blueberry on a sandy surface.

Two small tortoises face a large blackberry on a gravel surface.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 13/07/2026

Flat illustration of two female American Goldfinches eating thistle seeds as they drift around in the wind

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

You're looking at a 200 year-old wisteria vine at Byakugou-ji Temple in Tamba, Hyogo, Japan. The delicate pink/purple blossoms create an otherworldly place where magic can happen. But here's an interesting fact: wisteria are in the legume family (Fabaceae). This is a magic beanstalk.

Taken from a Reddit post, a framework supports purple-pink blossoms that blot out the top of the photo, shading the light a magical color, with a dark vine stem in the distance.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don't think these times have been a solvent for decency at all. This has been a precipitation process. It has made decent people coalesce & show themselves. We're also seeing how many people had just been superficially feigning decency, because that used to be a social/professional expectation.

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Nikki Stewart @nikkijstewart.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

@universalhub.com

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scaryr🦊 @merveille.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Boston's 4th of July had a drone show for the first time ever this year and absolutely the best part of it was getting to tell "Fuck your tea!" with my fellow idiots on the Cambridge side of the river.

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Feel free to ignore the DC nonsense tonight. In Boston, we did “Stars and Stripes” in the rain, with confetti cannons (presaging the real cannons a few minutes later), and a Black piccolo soloist in space. Happy Fourth.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Farmer & farm worker tips on working outside in hot humid weather: First, the normal stuff. Stay hydrated. Take breaks in the shade. These are the basics! They'll get you pretty far & you won't make it without them! They are also not enough to get through a day on the farm IME!

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Enjoy my feral Hypericum punctatum, growing in an inconvenient spot in my back yard. The big poofy flowers on the shrubby St. John's wort will bloom next week, it looks like.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Is sex a binary" is not a philosophical question, much less a political one. It's a scientific one that can be answered in a completely dispassionate manner... the answer is "no" and anyone who disagrees must contend with their refusal of totally uncontroversial medial science.

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jon5cents @jon5cents.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

For #InsectThursday, a tiger swallowtail #butterfly close up on a button bush. #macro #photography #butterflies

A close view of the upper body and head of a black and yellow butterfly, with some of the wing visible. It is on a round flower with its proboscis in it. Its antennae are pointing up.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/06/2026

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I adore suburban Porchfests. Block parties everywhere, dad rock, kids dancing, great vibes.

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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yes! I've been working on this for years in our little corner of the Boston inner suburbs. This summer we have nesting cardinals and catbirds, orioles passing through, fireflies, 2 kinds of swallowtails and their host plants, countless tiny native bee and wasp species that I can't even identify. 💚

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Oeming @oeming.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

World Cup might be the closest thing we’ll get to world peace

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Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit @jtidwell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This clever girl just tried to drop a zucchini on the parakeet. It was a very small zucchini, and she'd eaten half of it. But when her annoying little brother came over and tried to be social, she stalked to the edge of the cagetop, held the zucchini out just so, and dropped it. (She missed.)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/06/2026

Humans are pretty good at finding solutions to problems when the will is there, and I do in fact believe we can find ways to counter climate change while also using air conditioning technologies to ensure millions don’t cook to death in the process.

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