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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 22h

Y'all! Read this editorial! Seriously. Even if this were not my newspaper (which it is) I'd say - Read this editorial! Note: Hobart was very much NOT some "surprisingly enlightened man of his time" or anything. He was a lifelong bachelor, a logger-- 1/2 upperrogueindependent.com/2026/09/30/1...

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1965 Editorial by Al Hobart – Smokey, the Disappearing Bear - Upper Rogue Independent

1965 Editor’s note: Al Hobart, the man from Winding Trails, Don Lewis, and myself were discussing bear hunters the other day and the subject matter turned to the approaching extinction of the species....

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

abolish the death penalty

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1h

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 18h

Royal tern in LaJolla. 🪶

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pass a law clarifying that the supreme court’s appellate jurisdiction does not begin until a final ruling has been made by district and appeals courts.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Junior making a 1:00 visit. Started out getting snacks off the ground then hopped up on the snack table for more from the bowl. Then, of course, off to get a drink. 🪶 roadrunner

A roadrunner entered the yard and came up to a backyard patio. The bird looks expectedly at the camera hoping for mealworms

After snacks, the roadrunner leaves the patio to get a drink of water from a clay bowl in the yard.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

From the Fort Worth Zoo: Raani the Indian gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) admires her baby, newly hatched. The Fort Worth Zoo had 8 (!) babies hatch this season. The population of these critically endangered crocs is less than 1000 globally, so every hatchling matters. (📷: Fort Worth Zoo)

From a 2023 Facebook post by the Fort Worth Zoo:
"HISTORY IS MADE🚨
The Zoo is thrilled to announce this monumental conservation success - the hatchings of four critically endangered gharial crocodiles. The Fort Worth Zoo is the only institution in the United States to have produced multiple offspring of this critically endangered species. (To date, only one other institution has produced a single offspring in 2016.) In the wild, it is estimated that only about 200 reproducing adults remain. We are so proud of our ectotherms team for this historic achievement!"

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #TheDivers pic of any diving bird. Alt theme: #BirdStare Any bird captured staring right back at you! Ms.Ganser in Torpedo Mode! #birds #becurious 🪶

photo of a female merganser zooming through the water of a river. she is moving to the right of frame. the water is displaced in a clear tunnel over her head and shoulders, breaking into a splash over the rest of her body and behind her.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

93% illuminated waxing gibbous phase #Moon tonight. Still three days til Full Harvest moon.

Almost full bright moon in a black sky tonight.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pretty sure this is Junior. Hanging out for 30 minutes - so far. 1- grooming itchy feathers 2- so much floof 3- “anything in this clump of native grass?” 4- “can someone help scratch this itch?” 🪶🌿 roadrunner

A roadrunner is standing in a corner of the yard in the shade. The bird is grooming its feathers, might be molting and getting new itchy feathers.

The roadrunner has fluffed up its belly feathers so the bird looks twice as big.

The roadrunner has jumped into a large clump of native grass facing away from the camera. The bird has good camouflage in the shadows.

The roadrunner is reaching around with its beak to groom near the base of its tail feathers.

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I haven't been sharing much lately but here is the after work swarm.

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Spent many hours on Battlezone.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Army ants (Eciton mexicanum) are specialist predators of other ants. Here, a group of workers take down a Neoponera huntress ant in an Ecuadorian cloud forest.

Macro photo of four dark red ants with orange casters surrounding a larger metallic blue/black ant on a mossy rock.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Man, I wonder why there aren't more headlines about this imaginary thing that does not happen?

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

When my grandfather used to say the world was going to hell in a hand basket I'd think he was a grumpy old man. Now I'm his age and the grumpy old man is me.

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Chef refused to break the spaghetti.

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I talked to a co-worker about where I was 25 years ago and he says he wasn't born yet, I was 31 when it happened.

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Oh Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption)

Alt: Oh Brooks Hatlen (The Shawshank Redemption)

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A couple young female are checking out the sugar bar. I saw three earlier today. No adult males seen the last 5 days, I guess it’s time to call it. The males are gone. The young and females will be leaving in a week or two probably. They will all be back in March. 🪶

Two young female hooded orioles are seen on and near backyard feeders. A large green shrub is behind them.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 03/09/2026

I'm working on my monthly newsletter again. As the internet continues to spiral into chaos, it's the best way to keep up with me beyond figuring out how to catch me in a net and affix a motus tag buttondown.com/rosemarymosco

A drawing of a turkey vulture happily carrying a paper letter against a blue sky with fluffy clouds, with text saying Join my mailing list flight club, buttondown.com/rosemarymosco. It's short, monthly, and contains a weird bird of the month.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This ancient Egyptian bronze of a mother cat nursing her kittens is a scene which feels instantly familiar thousands of years later! 🐈‍⬛ 🐾😍 The cat represents the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet in her role as protector of mothers and children. 📷 Brooklyn Museum #Caturday #Archaeology

This Brooklyn Musem image shows a small bronze group of a mother cat and four kittens set on bronze base, which is in turn set on a wooden base. The mother cat is reclining on her left side with legs outstretched and her head at right. Her left fore and hind legs lie forward while her right fore and hind legs are drawn back. Her tail is draped over her right hind leg. Her head is upright perhaps tilted back slightly as one of the kittens, set between her forelegs, playfully climbs toward her neck. The next three kittens are being nursed by the mother cat. Two are between her fore and hind legs, the last is between the cat's tail and left foreleg. Mother cat wears a necklace which is indicated by an incised line running around her neck. On the front of the bronze base toward the right side (below the cat's left paw) is an inscription ‘Bastet, given life’, showing that the cat represents the goddess fulfilling one of her roles as protector of women and children. Dated circa 664-30 BC, Dynasty 26 or later. Said to come from Saqqara. The museum gives the dimensions as 6.1 x 8.8 x 5 cm.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Given rising interest in the rapidly strengthening El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean, I've created a one-page fact sheet succinctly describing what El Niño is, this year's (remarkable) forecast, and potential impacts from California to global scales. [Thread]

JPEG version of a 1-page Factsheet: El Niño 2026-2027: A Potentially Historic Global Climate Event
By Daniel Swain, PhD | August 2026

There is a banner image depicting projected warming of the Pacific Ocean by early winter.

The content begins:
"What is El Niño?
El Niño is the warm phase of a natural cycle, known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), that occurs roughly every 2-7 years in the tropical Pacific Ocean. During El Niño events, the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean warms to well above typical levels. El Niño directly affects local climate in the countries closest to the unusually warm ocean waters, but can also indirectly influence the climate of distant regions thousands of miles away. During the strongest events, El Niño can profoundly affect climate even on global scales, causing temporary planetary warming and disrupting large-scale precipitation patterns..."

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

ICYMI - We're doing an educational know-your-rights series - here on your rights not to answer or follow commands of law enforcement. Check it out!

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A little monsoonal rain passing through, not enough to break this muggy weather (74°f at 4 am this morning)

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 26/08/2026

As a tribute to Dolly, why not donate a book? Leave one is a free library. Give one to a friend or neighbor or child. Buy one for a teacher’s wishlist. If you have book donation ideas, add them to this thread. Dolly would love to see people getting books!

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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 25/08/2026

God dammit, Dolly Parton has died. From everything I've ever learned, she was a genuinely good person who used her fortune to make the world a better place. A study even confirmed it earlier this year skepchick.org/2026/02/stud...

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Study: Dolly Parton is the Greatest

Everything is terrible, obviously, and I have been getting particularly fed up with the general state of literacy I’m seeing in the world. And considering that for some reason my video about the Fo…

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The five Simpsons lines I've uttered most: 5) "I, for one welcome our new insect overlords" 4) "money can be exchanged for goods and services" 3) 🎶"I am so smart, S,M,R,T, I mean S,M,A,R,T"🎶 2) "d'oh" 1) 🎶"You don't win friends with salad."🎶(every time someone serves salad for dinner)

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/08/2026

Hummingbirds.

A four panel comic. In panel 1, a rufous hummingbird flies down toward a large hummingbird feeder with as many as 6 holes on top. He thinks "The humans put up a new feeder!" In panel 2, he lands on the feeder and gazes down at it. He thinks "It's huge. Many of us could feed here at once." In panel 3, we see a close up view of the hummingbird, and he's thinking "This could end the ancient rivalries. Usher in an era of peace. Interesting." In panel 4, an Anna's hummingbird hovers over the feeder and says "Hey, can I have some necta-" and the rufous hummingbird says "No."

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ACLU @aclu.org · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: We’re suing over South Dakota’s implementation of a new law requiring voters to provide documentation of their citizenship or lose the opportunity to vote in state and local elections. Politicians should be making it easier, not harder, to vote.

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Another movie I haven't seen since I was in High School "Something Wild" 1986 I didn't get it then but I really enjoyed it today.

Movie Poster for "Something Wild" Image of a woman in a drivers seat of a car above an image of the same woman and a man sitting in the front seat of a car.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

standard. SCOTUS allows Trump to continue to create literal facts on the ground while they 'consider' his his meritless challenge. nothing is more important than reforming the court and ending its corruption.

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay is #FlyingHigh Love a good flying Pelican because...come ON - it's impossible! "Mary Alice Louise, no. This is a land yacht." IYKYK #birds #becurious🪶

photo of two white pelicans in fight. They do not look graceful.

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Patrick @watchinthesky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mr Black-chinned hummer getting a purple boost from a lens flare on the #BirdBuddy. His gorget shows a purple glow from iridescence. 🪶

A male Black-chinned hummingbird is hovering at a feeder. The bird’s throat feathers are glowing purple.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

it's monday morning and the game's afoot www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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The detective-in-chief

A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.

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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Life has a sense of humor. Met one goal and another showed up. ANY tiny donation helps - I see more vet bills in my immediate future. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has helped so far! ❤️ bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Michael Davis @miklextic.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"We're going to need a bigger fence"

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Remember when Todd Blanche vowed to return the DOJ to normalcy? That was yesterday.

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