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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · 02/10/2026

Painting number 6 in the Feline Flows and Poses Collection, "Excuse Me"! This void kitty just demanded to be painted! #blackcat #cat #art #painting #catart

Painting of a black cat with vacant yellow eyes sticking his right hind leg straight up in the air. There is an orange and yellow circle behind the cat and the background is purple. The artist's signature and @joyousjoyfuljoyness watermark is on the bottom right.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A bounty of asters along my #cycling route in my beautiful city #kw #kwawesome #waterloo #wildflowers

White asters in the foreground, with patches of vivid purple New England asters in the background, receding towards a line of evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs that are still mostly green leaved.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Asters along my bike route this week. I have to resist stopping multiple times to snap pics! 😍

A dazzling patch of New England asters in a rich purple hue.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Snapping turtle hatchling on the bike path today. I helped him across, of course. #turtle

Tiny baby snapping turtle, on a gravel path

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Paridae. This tufted titmouse was a sweet and entertaining visitor on our winter camping trip to #Pinery provincial park.

Small grey bird with a perky crest, white belly and throat, with chestnut sides. It is perched on the edge of an ice covered picnic table.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#ODG is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay so I’m posting this snowy owl we found one spring along the shores of Lake Huron. #birds

A striking white owl with light barring sits on stacked straw bales. Its piercing yellow eyes are staring directly at the photographer

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🪶 Alan has chosen #ODG as today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme; any Owl, Duck or Goose No Alternative today A flock of four Tufted Ducks backlit by the golden sunset #birdphotography #ECK #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Autumn is a time for berries so today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdsWithBerries Any bird captured with berries, like this beautiful Bohemian waxwing 📷️ 🪶 ❤️ Alt: #BirdyLongLegs Any bird with legs that look way too long for its body! I'm heading out shortly but I will catch up later. Happy Wednesday! 😊👋

A photograph of a Bohemian waxwing bird perched amidst a dense thicket of cotoneaster branches heavily laden with clusters of vibrant red berries. The bird is positioned near the centre of the frame, facing right as viewed, and has just eaten a berry. Its smooth, greyish pinky brown plumage has a soft, almost velvety texture. The waxwing features a prominent, swept-back crest on its head and a distinct, sharp black mask running across its eyes down to a black throat patch. The bird's wings display intricate markings, including a bold black band outlined with bright yellow stripes along the primary feathers. Its short tail ends in a brilliant, crisp yellow band. The background is a complex network of tangled branches, leaves and berries. While the immediate surrounding branches and bright red berry clusters are sharply in focus, the foreground and background blurs out softly.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Atlantic Birding’s theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #silhouette and the alt is #finches, so here’s my purple finch from a spring #camping trip at #MacGregorPoint provincial park.

A finch is perched on a branch, high in a tree, with its head cocked quizzically. Its belly is white, with streaks of pink, darkening to red on its chest with an even redder head

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Pat Rodgers @patrodg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Palm Warbler caught in the dramatic glow of a sun bow 🌈 #BirdOfThrDay #Silhouette #Birds

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This floofed up American Goldfinch makes me think of Sesame Street's Big Bird! #birds #birding #Algoma

An American Goldfinch is perched on a thin branch running horizontally across the photo. He's on the right side of the photo, looking left. He's floofed up, making him look larger than he really is. The background is blurred out green leaves with patches of blue sky between.

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Atlantic Birding @atlanticbirding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🪶 Good Morning, Happy Tuesday Everyone! Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #Silhoutte; any bird in silhouette Alt. is #Finches; any bird from the finch family - A Tufted Duck heads home across the lake at sunset - A Linnet in song in the sunshine #birds #ECK #birdphotography #naturephotography

A Tufted duck in silhouette, paddling away from the shore at sunset. The bird is in the centre of the shot, paddling away from camera with its head turned back to the camera over its left shoulder. Its reflection can be seen in the water behind it.
The setting sunlight on the water gives off a metallic gold/bronze effect. In the foreground are vertical reed stems, also in silhouette, coming up a quarter of the frame on the right and about halfway on the left.

A Linnet perched on the top of a bramble bush in the sunshine. The bird is left of centre of frame, its right side is visible and its beak is open in song.
The bramble takes up the bottom third of the shot, mostly fresh green leaves and shoots with the occasional old white branch or fresh flower buds throughout.
The bird has a grey head and red forehead with a bright red chest. It has a brown back and wings, which turn to black with a white stripe at the end. Its underbelly is pale with brown streaks.
The bright morning sunshine is shining from the right and casting a warm light on the bird and the brambles.
The background is of an out of focus field of grass and is a uniform green throughout.

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Froure @froure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This #Black and Grey hooded crow has quite the #Mouthful lol. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

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FrameToFrameNature @frametoframenature.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Mouthful; any bird with anything in its beak. Here is a Brown Thrasher with a mouthful of insects for it's nestlings. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography #Ontario #Canada

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@atlanticbirding.bsky.social says the #BirdOfTheDay theme is #mouthful and I am happy to join in with this black-capped chickadee found at #MacGregorPoint provincial park on a June #camping trip.

Tiny little bird with a jet black cap and throat, white cheeks, and a greyish belly, perched on a slender branch with new spring leaves. The chickadee has a green caterpillar in its sharp, black beak.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#AmericanRedstart for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #ABCD. The redstarts are among my favourite warblers in part because they are easy to find. 😁 #Camping at #MacGregorPoint provincial park in the spring always leads to me spotting these little beauties.

Tiny warbler perched on a branch with new leaves unfurling. The bird is jet black, with a white belly and striking orange accents.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I believe this is trooping crumble cap, at #PointFarms provincial park on the weekend. #camping #fungi

A multitude of tiny mushrooms that are grey and dirty white.

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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdNaps Any bird caught snoozing, napping or just looking incredibly sleepy! 😊 💤 Here's a lovely hummingbird I spotted sleeping In Costa Rica 📷 🪶 💚 Alt theme: #BrightAccents birds with vivid, contrasting patches of colour that stand out against the rest of its plumage!

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good morning birders and buddies. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #FlowerPower any bird capture with a flower in view. Hope to add some colour to our day. #BirdsOfAFeather Any capture of a flock of birds. A Grey #Heron taken last week. #birds #photography #ECK

A Grey Heron poised for takeoff, wings spread wide and its long neck extended forward. Its grey, white and black plumage stands out against a dark, blurred background, while bright pink wildflowers frame the bird on the right.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsUpClose and this barn swallow was about as close as it could get, for a few brief moments. Taken at the viewing tower above the marsh boardwalk at Point Pelee National Park.

Barn swallow up close, perched on a wooden rail. Its back is an iridescent blue and its throat and forehead are rusty orange.

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Green heron for #BirdOfTheDay theme #Coastal&River in tall mode at MacGregor Point Provincial Park a few springs ago

Green heron perched on a dead branch at the margins of a marsh. Its rusty coloured neck is extended straight up, making it look quite tall

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

@helenbennett.bsky.social Can anyone join in on the fun #BirdOfTheDay posts? I’ve been enjoying the pics in my feed and want to join in with this chickadee enjoying #NaturalSeeds

Chickadee perched on a large sunflower head with a seed in its beak, colourful nasturtiums in the background

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Liz Smith @justwannacamp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Red-spotted purple at Point Farms Provincial park last weekend #butterfly #camping

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 16/03/2026

Signs of spring, ranked. An older comic. Feel free to argue with my ranking.

A six-panel comic called Signs of Spring, Ranked. In panel 1, #10 is Robin, showing an american robing standing on a lawn - not always a useful sign since robins are quietly present in winter in many areas. In panel 2, there's #9: Daffodil - nice, mundane, #8: Skunk Cabbage - unusual, cool, and #7: Dutchman's Breeches, a flower that looks like a pair of underwear with a hole - lol. In panel 3, there's #6: Turkey vulture migrating - gloriously ominous, a humbling reminder of life's transience, and #5: very very small bunny - wow, the little ears. In panel 4 there's #4: Snake sunbathing, with a gartersnake warming itself - underappreciated, looks cozy, and #3: Woodcock going peent - the perfect sound. In panel 5 there's a wood frog calling from a pond, and #2: small frogs yelling as loud as they can, with a wood frog floating in a pool inflating itself to make a loud quack - they crave love, or at least they crave the external fertilization of 1500 gelatinous eggs. In panel 6, there's a drawing of a spring peeper and #1, Even smaller frogs yelling, with a spring peeper sitting on the ground making loud calls - yes, YES.

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Alex Falcone @alexfalcone.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

More ways to spot nutrition grifters

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/01/2026

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

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Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes

The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Next week the days start getting longer

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

“If you can’t win on the field you can always play quarterback for the culture war” aka The Failing at Life-to-MAGA Influencer” pipeline LOL

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

When a parrot wanted to connect with a distant friend, a touchscreen showed a selection of other birds available online. The parrots learned to activate the screen, designed specially for them, by touching it gently with their tongues rather than pecking aggressively with their beaks.
"We had 26 birds involved," said Hirskyj-Douglas. "They would use the system up to three hours a day, with each call lasting up to five minutes." The interactions ranged from preening and playing with toys to loud vocal exchanges.
"When we went through the data, we found that most of these parrots had favourite friends," said Hirskyj-Douglas.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.

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Wild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Wild to be up against naked fascism and the dismantling of human rights, separation of powers and free speech and be like man these guys kidnapping people and sending them to camps are making me just as worried as the wokes who hate when you say slurs. American centrism is awesome

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 14/02/2025

the latest episode of Severance featured 3 seconds of "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in the opening, so naturally this morning I woke up and wrote 2000 or so words about Gord, labour, and the stories in scars www.anxietyshark.ca/does-anyone-...