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Sam

@spinachwrap.bsky.social
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Same spinachwrap as everywhere else. Plants, birds, lizards, crochet, sewing, baking, etc. I will infodump about native plant gardening at any opportunity. She/her but largely irrelevant to me.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 07/10/2026
idk needs work
Picture of hands changing a smoke alarm battery. The text reads: In brightest day. In blackest night. I shall sound with all my might. When there's a fire or when my battery is dead if you forgot to change it. Which you did. Good morning, it's 3AM. Smoke alarms chirp all night! Check the expiration dates on your smoke alarms. Test the batteries. Oath optional.
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ghost Knife fish
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also! If you forget the antihistamines until you are already feeling like liquid death, you can take them afterwards and they probably will help way more than the Tylenol that's the usual recommendation.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/08/2026
Y’know, as an American, I would suffer greatly, but also this would be amazingly hilarious and y’all might want to consider it.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/08/2026
It’s the power fantasy of being able to help people.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 19/08/2026
Oh crap! Uh! I wrote this thing! It comes out next week! It has romance and giant pillbug scholars! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Daggerbound
DELUXE EDITION—a beautiful hardcover featuring bright pink sprayed edges, a foil case stamp and endpapers.New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher r...
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I liked it 👍
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
To continue with the 'perfectly normal days' theme of this week, I have reached the peak Conservation Cryptid status of my career. A feature of Uglymom and our work with sandhill cranes in Popsci! www.popsci.com/environment/...
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Costumed ‘Ugly Mom’ helps orphaned sandhill cranes
Puppets, mirrors, and elaborate costumes all help keep orphaned birds from getting attached to humans.
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FeministFox @feministfox.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Courtney Milan ( as Heidi S. Bond )wrote a Michigan law review about it - Pride and Predators. Recommended after you finish the book repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol119/i...
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"Pride and Predators" by Heidi S. Bond
A Review of Pride and Prejudice. by Jane Austen
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lindsey Graham?? Is Mitch McConnell even in this thing??? Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’ share.google/PWc0MoVaCoVM...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham dies at 71 after ‘brief and sudden illness’
President Donald Trump led tributes to Graham, a leading Republican voice on defense and foreign policy, describing him as a “true American Patriot.”
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Emu Prime: Delivering packages and chaos. We also pecked your welcome mat and ate the eggs your chickens laid this morning. You're welcome.
An emu standing behind two large cardboard box packages in front of a gate.
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 29/04/2026
One of my neighbors has the last name of Pope, and they keep missing their FedEx package so the delivery driver apparently has time on their hands
A FedEx missed delivery slip with a tiny drawing of the popeA FedEx missed delivery slip with a larger drawing of the pope
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
HUNGRY OPINIONATED BABY
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 07/03/2026
THE CLOCKS They're changing. It's time to do the clock thing. That means it's time to check your smoke alarms.
An old-fashioned locomotive covered in clocks hurtling through space. Potato the dog is riding on the back in a space helmet. Potato says, "Potato to Corginia! Come in Corginia!" A small frog in the front of the train says, "Tell them you're bringing a frog in a hat!" The text reads: Hurray! It's the daylight saving time smoke alarm time machine train. Choo! Choo! Choose to check your smoke alarm batteries! Change your smoke alarm batteries this weekend! Replace your smoke alarm every 10 years!
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Female #kakapo are utterly focussed on their chicks. Stella came back to the nest while I was checking her very young chicks two nights ago. Apparently unconcerned by me being there, she jumped in and started brooding them in front of me. #conservation #parrots #birds #kakapo2026
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Foxfeather Zenkova @foxfeather.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Maximum round! Did you know 'borb' shape has a purpose? (Other than looking ridiculously cute) When birds become round fluffs, they trap a layer of warm air in their downy underfeathers, shielded by outer feathers, insulating themselves to stay toasty even in extreme cold! Cute and convenient! 🪶
A fluffed up burrowing owl, very round shaped
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 13/02/2026
This is what it feels like to know things.
Handsome Ron, a European Robin in a purple sun hat, is riding Pegasus through a lightning storm. The clouds are illuminated yellow. The text reads: The power of knowledge. Subscribe for recall emails on CPSC.gov
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 13/02/2026
If you have not witnessed one of our recall emails, they are delightfully sparse, informative, and can be read within seconds. Experience what some users have called, "Wow, something actually useful from the government.": www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/Sub...
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Subscriptions
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Ferbruary #oldknees
A downy woodpecker sits on a spruce on a sunny winter day. "Ahh... Febuary" it says. Close up on it correcting "Febrary" then "Febberary..." then finally "Frebrury"
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 24/01/2026
I saw this a million years ago and could not stop laughing.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 22/01/2026
Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now.
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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Coo coo
We see two house sparrows drinking out of a puddle. The male says to the female: "Good puddle!" to which she replies "I love you but you have low standards". Pigeons arrive in the background, the female says "Ope! Here comes the herd" There is a long horizontal frame of the two sparrows in the midst of a bunch of pigeons cooing around them. The male then says "gentle giants" the female agrees "mhm" and then says "coo" and the male responds "haha. coo!"
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 07/01/2026
Looking for nature valentines cards? Last year's comic is now available as cards! They start shipping Jan 12. topatoco.com/collections/...
A group of six nature valentines. A picture of a bog with pitcher plants, with text saying "Our love is like a bog. Built up over time, resistant to decay, deeply interesting to just a small number of people." A yellow slime mold stretching out and exploring. "Our love is like a slime mold. Collaborative, complex, at times unnerving to behold." A piece of limestone with a small trilobite in the corner. "Our love is like limestone. Layered, useful for many purposes, shaped by the friends we met along the way." A ring-billed gull with a french fry on a beach. "Our love is like a ring-billed gull. Abundant, found in North America, sometimes sustained by french fries." An Atlantic horseshoe crab walking on the sand. "Our love is like a horseshoe crab. Tough, timeless, unrelated to true crabs." A drawing of the phosphorus cycle, with arrows connecting various parts of a scene, including algae and fish and a farm and a river and a forest. "Our love is like the phosphorus cycle. Important, really hard to draw."
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Yes! This (often) works well for badly written exams in general. Certification exams for my job are HORRIBLY designed, awful, we all despise them. So far I've been able to pass them all 1st try with this approach, honed over decades.
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Nambroth @nambroth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"Morning Light on a Carolina Wren" 5" x 7" Oil on panel I just think they're neat
An oil painting of a Carolina Wren. The wren's feathers are fluffed up into a round shape, and it is sitting on a rock, with strong sunlight illuminating it. The artist watermark reads: copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com
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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I read this book at least quarterly.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/11/2025
Black Friday reminder - that product with a great price being sold by a company with a name that's just a bunch of random letters may end up on our website someday because it explodes.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/11/2025
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
If you ever wonder why people say "slippery as an eel" I can confirm that one time we had to hold an eel for a vet to do a blood draw and that eel ended up on the floor 47 times out of 48 attempts
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
media.tenor.com
a skeleton is holding a light bulb in his hand and standing on one leg .
Alt: Skeleton puppet (?) dancing
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
🐺, apparently
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Breaking news: roumd
An elderly and kinda scraggly looking calico tabby cat is lying on a black and white striped pillow, although her butt has been slowly sliding off for a while and is now half on the bed, half on the battery power pack lying on the bed. She is curled up in a tight ball of roundness with her face tucked against her back paws and her tail.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 17/11/2025
Don't do any of this.
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Screenshot of a tweet by emzanotti: My children are not on the autism spectrum because I took Tylenol while pregnant. They're on the autism spectrum because I, a person who will wear only one type of shoe and can't eat food that is "too potato-y," had babies with a man who has an encyclopedic knowledge of European aristocracy but a limited ability to process social cues.
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The best therapist I ever had used cognitive behavioral therapy and the basis of his approach was 1) you cannot control feelings 2) you can control your behavior, including your conscious thoughts 3) you can learn to consciously identify cognitive distortions of your feelings *and not act on them*
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 14/10/2025
Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
yess shirt for me
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Good morning it's chickens
4 month-old hens skittering around the porch. 2x Rhode Island Reds, 1 black sexlink, 1 black Australorp Me with my shoulder chicken and her buddies (4 month-old hens: 2x Rhode Island Reds, 1 black sexlink, 1 black Australorp)4 month-old hens busily eating their baby chicken chow. 2x Rhode Island Reds, 1 black sexlink, 1 black Australorp
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I accidentally drowned my first fuyu persimmon tree by over watering in heavy clay. I'm hoping my 2nd attempt will go better with lessons learned 1st time around. (Do a better job actually amending the soil this time) Anyway, it'll cost less than buying all the persimmons I'd want to eat (KILOS).
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Behold the pretty beans
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It's a good book, I liked it. (Creepy!)
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 24/09/2025
I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
A three-panel comic. The first panel is a scrap from a dictionary that says crypsis, noun: patterning or coloration that allows a bird to remain concealed by blending in to its environment. In panel 2, labeled effective crypsis, an american bittern blends in with a marsh full of tall plants. In panel 2, labeled ineffective crypsis, an american bittern fails to blend in among some short plants, next to a wet floor sign, and behind a stop sign.
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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 23/09/2025
Flat, graphic illustration of a Chipping Sparrow nestled atop a pile of fall leaves.
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@ksonney.redwombat.social.ap.brid.gy Hi! Somehow I thought that the "rent a chick" 2 week visit would be temporary and here we are, 2 days later, researching coops. IF you have time, can you recommend a decent starter chicken coop? We're in SC, so heat is more of a concern than killing winters.
"Dot", also named by 5yo. The roundest chick, fairly shy, rather worried. Dark Amulin, the small mostly black chick, named by my 5yo. He says Amulin is a word he made up.
DA is the best at baby chicken crimes so far. (She can fly about 5" straight up to stand on their water dish, then out of their bin)"Pecky", renamed from "Pecker" because I explained to my 5yo that pecker is a rude word for penis and he might get in trouble at school for talking about his chicken.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 25/07/2025
Bird sounds.
A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Good morning look at these birds
3 stills from Wyze cam pointed at window hummingbird feeder ledge, showing 2 brown headed nuthatches having a dispute on who gets to sit hereA chipping sparrow sits on a hummingbird feeder ledge looking perplexed that this feeder is for hummingbirds and not for sparrowStill from Wyze cam pointed at window hummingbird feeder ledge, showing a ruby throated hummingbird with wings spread
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/06/2025
To a firework, your body is sentient gelatin. Nothing more. Nothing less. Remember that and use fireworks safely this July 4th.
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Sam @spinachwrap.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
39F, medicated for ADHD for 8 days & counting. Thanks to @tkingfisher.com & @rahaeli.bsky.social for talking about adult ADHD diagnosis! Observations: Can start work tasks without having to battle The Horrors 1st Not hungry during the day (inconvenient, adjusting) Less existential dread
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