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Phil Toolin @philiptlin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Martin Johnson Heade 18 / 48Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds, 1871

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GirlFuturist @girlfuturist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Liu’s Cute Berry Phalaenopsis orchid

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Uncletimrob @uncletimrob.bsky.social · 18h

A few more of my wife's orchids. Photos taken a few minutes ago - western Brisbane. #orchid #plants #flowers #photography

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dustthebaseboards.bsky.social @dustthebaseboards.bsky.social · 12h

More orchids. The colors were so vibrant! I really do want to learn to care for orchids. #BloomScrolling #Flowers #orchids #花

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Suara Orchids @suaraorchids.bsky.social · 11h

This was a pleasant surprise. I wished I got it when it opened. Cattlianthe Chloris (Gur. bowringiana × C. maxima) #orchid #orchids #orchidlover #orchidphotography #flowerphotography #macrophoto #plantcommunity #bloomscrolling #nature

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 9h

Granite outcrops are such an amazing environment to explore… they may look rather lifeless and boring at first glance but they’re actually bursting with biodiversity #ozflora #orchids #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a granite outcrop with patches of moss and low green grassy-like areas with a wooded area in the distance

Thelymitra antennifera - lemon-scented sun orchid

Utricularia multifida - pink petticoats- an almost all white version of the usually pink bladderwort

Elythranthera brunonis - purple enamel orchid

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

Karoline Leavitt isn't "fierce"—she's dishonest. And Karoline Leavitt isn't "nimble"—she shamelessly dodges both questions and the truth. She is the same type strenuously unhelpful liar Trump has always had for his press secretaries.

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Lana 🌺 ❤️💛💚💙💜 @mahalomalama.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Good Night #BlueSky from the orchid display at Maui County Fair, QKC. #orchids #nature #photography #Hawaii #Maui

Orchid on display at Maui Vounty Fair 10/3/26

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The Mathers Foundation @mathersfoundation.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Rossioglossum grande sometimes known as tiger orchid growing in the nursery 🌿 #orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s always a treat when your bush walk ends at a stunning beach but to then find Cowslip Orchids (Caladenia flava subsp flava) growing on the beach makes it extra special 💙💛🌿 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #Walpole #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

View of a sandy path through thick green bush to a beach and a calm sea ahead

Picture of a single yellow orchid flower with red stripes on the upper sepal and petals. The orchid is growing in a sand

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Boothby @uk-boothby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Platystele misera [ (Lindl.) Garay; 1967], native to cloud forests from Columbia to N. Peru, coming into flower. Flower width ~ 3 mm #Orchidaceae

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Boothby @uk-boothby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Masdevallia Haven Patricia flowers most of the year. The colours of M. notosibirica are carried forward in this hybrid, with the flower shape coming from M. fuchsii #Orchidaceae

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Suara Orchids @suaraorchids.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This bloomed again. Ctt Orquidacea's Orange Doll x (Ctt Chocolate Drop x C xanthina) #orchid #orchids #orchidlover #orchidphotography #flowerphotography #macrophoto #plantcommunity #bloomscrolling #nature

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j1975m.bsky.social @j1975m.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The last time my orchid was in bloom was before the pandemic, but I finally got her to bloom this summer and she’s so pretty!

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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ghost Orchid Anton Kerner von Marilaun

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Shira Turrentine @hawaiishira.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sunday's Sunrise & Oncidium Orchid 'Volcano Midnight Queen'

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Nobody knows more about demonstrating the Dunning–Kruger effect than me.” —Donald Trump

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

remarkable piece of journalism. really worth reading.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Michael Craig @mykahllc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My first Paphiopedilum, from years ago... Paphiopedilum Wolf's Folly

A lime green slipper orchid bloom with an ivory and green dorsal sail, against a black background and labeled 'Paphiopedilum Wolf's Folly'

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Gertie @maufie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Beautiful rock orchids growing in the wild spotted today. 😊 #flowers #bloomscrolling #orchids

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CitSci @deadinlongrun.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy to find lots of these in full bloom up the back of my garden. Australian tongue #orchid (Dendrobium linguiforme, syn. Dockrillia linguiformis). #nature

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Nick in NC @nicknc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Science fiction authors designing aliens need to aspire to at least the level of weirdness of a real bucket orchid. Coryanthes macrantha in my greenhouse this morning. Flower is approx 15 cm wide, 10 cm tall. 🌴🌱

A bucket orchid in shades of orange and yellow. The bucket is formed from the distal end of the labellum and the column. Glands drip liquid into the bucket. Bees falling into the bucket can only escape through a hole at one side where they will be forced into contact with the pollen and stigma at the end of the column. The hole is pretty large, so the bees must be equally big. The sepals look like big wings made of tissue paper that counterbalance the bucket. The base of the labellum where it connects to the rest of the flower looks like a weirdly ridged orange alien penis.

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trixie-and-ames.bsky.social @trixie-and-ames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cattleya Orchid, 1992, Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Scott Kissinger @scottkiss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In the conservatory at Denver Botanic Gardens. 105mm Micro at f/4.5, worked against the dark of the planting behind so the orchids sit on black. The palm frond in the corner is the one bright thing that isn't a flower. #Orchids #Macro

A spray of pale purple orchids fills the right and center of a square frame against a dark background. The blooms have broad rounded petals in lavender with deeper magenta toward the throat, and small speckled lips at their centers. More flowers trail off to the left and downward, some turned away and partly in shadow. A bright green fan-shaped palm frond crosses the upper left corner, its segments catching light.

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Pout Mask Replica 👄🇦🇺 @cicerofgrey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nice. How ya like them orchids?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Michael Wolff says that Trump has threatened all his former schools to hide his records because one of his greatest fears is people finding how dumb he is. (As if we don't witness this on a daily basis. 🙄) www.rawstory.com/trump-alma-m...

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Trump team threatened alma mater to bury his deepest insecurity: biographer

President Donald Trump's camp threatened his alma mater in 2016 to bury his deepest insecurity, according to biographer Michael Wolff.Wolff made the claim that Trump has been trying to hide his academ...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...

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Trump Turned His Beloved Golf Hub Into a Ghost Town

In Doral, there are empty tables, shuttered businesses, and families struggling to survive after their loved ones have been thrown in detention.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

vivek’s a republican, shouldn’t he be better at grabbing kids

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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We Have No Supreme Court

The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If this reads like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails, it’s because it’s exactly like one of those Nigerian prince scam emails

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