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into writing, arting, music obsessing, flora+fauna reposting, AuDHD wrangling; also, clean air, disability rights, intersectional feminism (she/her) 🟥🟪🟦🌈🐦‍⬛🖖😷 pro-landback settler on unceded Coast Salish territories (#yvr) no political darlings

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 7h
🦧 Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis Paris, L'an VII (1797). [Source]
Lemur illustration from historical archives
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h
The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)
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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 15h
How can they continue to ignore these warnings? "Just one major oil spill would jeopardize livelihoods on both sides of the border, “pose irreversible harm to the ecosystems we have worked hard to protect” and threaten tribal treaty-protected resources in the United States."
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Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says | The Tyee
A letter obtained by The Tyee shows the state’s Ecology Department has serious concerns about spill risks and tanker traffic.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 15h
What is residential school denialism? University of Manitoba professor Niigaan Sinclair explains that it isn’t the denial of the existence of residential schools – it’s the downplaying of experiences that have been proven time and time again.
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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 15h
Please share and help them feed families today.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 13h
And another Wrensday Wednesday offering. A splendid fairywren at Gluepot Reserve. #wrensday
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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 15h
Front & back
Canvas print of spider artThe back, with a tag that reads: the messenger at midnight, Jill H Marble 2026
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 14h
A Green Heron wearing raindrops
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Brian ☀️🌏🌘 @balail.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Osprey, backlit by the morning sun and rising from the water with a Mullet... #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Black-fronted dotterel. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia. #birdsseenin2026
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A Sandhill Crane calls at other Sandhill Cranes that are passing by overhead. I can tell this a male as they throw their head back 90 degrees while calling, while the females throw their heads back 45 degrees.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I was stumbling around in the mallee, surrounded by budgies, I looked up to see this wedge-tailed eagle cruise right over me. It was probably looking for budgies too. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.
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TAKAO★WATANABE🌿10/23-28Exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's take a close look at the underwater world today! #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls
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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canada is preparing to spend tens of billions building a pipeline the oil companies themselves won’t finance. If this project made economic sense, industry would be leading it. Instead, the public is being asked to take the risk while foreign-owned oil companies collect the returns.
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Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it
Seniors for Climate Action Now! is calling on the Carney government to reject the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, arguing the project has no credible economic, moral, reconciliation, or climate case...
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Robin L Turner @robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👩‍⚖️ MOTION CARRIED
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us
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Developer Soup @developersoup.net · 28/09/2026
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Star Trek Vi The Undiscovered Country
Alt: Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country gif: Chancellor Gorkon says "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon."
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A small sand goanna at Gluepot Reserve. It didn't give me much of an opportunity to get photos. They don't tend to hang around 😄
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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today in “AI is not a technology but a political project steeped in hierarchy and dominance.”
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debmaluk.bsky.social @debmaluk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Migration Moon #birds
The full Moon with 5 Canada Geese in silhouette on the bottom right.mostly Full Moon rising over a lake above the trees.  The moonlight is reflecting on the water.
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Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center @anzaborrego.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Kit fox pup in front of den (Photo: Sicco Rood).
Kit fox pup standing in front of den on sand and just ears lit up by rising morning sun.
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TAKAO★WATANABE🌿10/23-28Exhibition @watanabetakao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alright, let's race a flying fish today! #Illustration #CommentPls #RTpls
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ONLINE LESSON | Poles at Auschwitz Learn about the creation of Auschwitz, the reasons for the incarceration of Poles & the plans for the development of Auschwitz into the main camp in German-occupied Poland: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_pol… All lessons: lesson.auschwitz.org
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Blaze Ward @blazeward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stop calling them "AI Artists." They are "Sloperators." Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Declan Troy @troydeclan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Incoming Pelagic Cormorant, the most widespread shag of coastal #Alaska. This one retaining some of the white flank patch more typical of the breeding season. Alaska Maritime NWR #BirdsSeenIn2026 🪶🦑
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Hope For The Planet @h4tp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
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Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation | The Optimist Daily
A major Ecuador study finds cleared rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity in just 30 years, as long as humans leave the land alone.
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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In perfect response to @ubiquity75.xyz’s question! “Does anyone know of a good ‘why and how to leave Substack’ FAQ that has some element discussing the political issues related to what it means to use it as well as logistics?”
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Gay Bitterskeets @gaybitterskeets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I say that techbros have stolen our future because they think they can impose a puerile sci fantasy on the world, this is exactly what I mean. They envision futures for androids on other planets because their idiocy is foreclosing the possibility of a good future for humans on this one.
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Look, obviously Sisko would have used the One Ring in a flash, as evidenced by THE EPISODE THIS STILL IS FROM, but it wouldn’t have corrupted him. Like, the Ring would have retired hurt.
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Guillermo Esteves @allencompassingtrip.com · 26/09/2026
Moose, Gros Ventre Road, Grand Teton National Park. January, 2019. 📷 Fujifilm X-T3 + XF100-400mmF4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR 🎞 115 mm – 1/2400″ – f/8 – ISO 1600 🏷️ #Moose #Photography #NationalParks #Wildlife
A bull moose walking in the snow along the Gros Ventre Road, with Blacktail Butte in the background.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Duncan @goblinville.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Invader
Digital painting of a creature with a flat disk-like head. It's head is starting to split horizontally revealing many small teeth
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NGC 6188 and NGC 6193 in Ara - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/cgYXQu
NGC 6188 is a large emission nebula located some 4000 light years distant in the Southern constellation Ara. This giant molecular cloud is being illuminated by the young star cluster NGC 6193 which in this image appears in the centre almost as if suspended in front of a blanket of nebulousity littered with thousands of other dimmer stars in a multitude of colours. 

At the centre of this cluster lies an intensely bright pair of stars; the O-type giants HD 150135 and HD 150136. The latter is in fact itself an extremely close binary with a confirmed third component in an outer eccentric orbit of between 2950 and 5500 days. This triple star system is one of the most massive in our galaxy with the three components containing 64, 40 and 35 solar masses respectively. The cluster is very young, not older than 3 million years, and the intense radiation from the massive stars is slowly eroding the surrounding gas and dust away, sculpting it into the striking forms seen in this image. Within these clouds new stars are currently being born and in places some have already begun to light up the nebula from within. 

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Date: 12th, 13th and 14th June 2012 
Exposure: LRGB: 250:105:105:105m, total 9hrs 25mins @ -30C 
Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian 
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider 
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2 
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.
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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Caterpillar pal who was seriously hauling ass across the forest floor today.
A photo of a fuzzy yellow caterpillar with black stripes and fluffy fronds all around its sides, back, and front. It’s partially behind a stick, because it was moving so fast I could hardly get a clear shot of it!
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Great Blue Heron standing on water lily roots in the rain. This bird had just had a huge fish for a meal; the fish looked like a Bowfin and was around 2 feet long. No photos of that action as the heron flew back into the bushes to eat (wanted to dine privately.)
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm not sure if it was a fish or a frog that this Green Heron spotted, but it was something exciting enough to make the bird go into mohawk mode.
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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 15/08/2023
Anger is a poison, and like many poisons, it can also be made into medicine.
A digital pencil drawing of a face obscured by smoke and fire. A snake with its fangs bared and several red blooms surround the image of the person.
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danielle taphanel @treelet.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Old commission for @artbyciel.bsky.social! #objecthead
A digital portrait illustration of a pink bunny-eared tv head character with several different types of flowers and greenery growing out of their head. Their screen reads, ". . ."
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Using her aquaria, she studied the paper nautilus (Argonauta argo), a pelagic #octopus. Villepreux-Power proved that the females secrete their own egg-case shells, debunking Aristotle's myth of shell theft. A pioneer of #cephalopod science! #MarineBiology #WomenInSTEM
Vintage 19th-century scientific illustration of the female paper nautilus octopus (Argonauta argo), depicted in delicate watercolor style. The cephalopod is shown in side view, partially emerging from its translucent, spiral, papery shell with a scalloped, frilled edge resembling a nautilus shell. Its body is mottled in shades of blue, pink, and beige with textured skin and numerous small suckers visible on the arms; large, expressive blue eye prominent; eight arms extend outward, one elongated and trailing downward. The artwork highlights the fragile, self-secreted egg-case shell that Jeanne Villepreux-Power famously studied and proved was produced by the animal itself.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A young Red-tailed Hawk preening while perched over the nature trail.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Out of all the hundreds of times I have checked tree cavities, I have found owls twice. This is the second time, and this one was hunkered down and giving me some serious side-eye.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m just not sure I trust that his wife will protect our oceans while her husband is building yet another crude oil pipeline towards those same oceans and expanding ports that will result in the extinction of our resident orcas! The whole thing feels a bit icky. I mean this clip….
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Orca Yacht Party @orcayachtparty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Carney is doing his own version of Trumpififation. Carney is only interested in profits for his parasite friends at everyone else’s expense. The Carney Cult claps for their own austerity while the investors drink champagne.
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