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Wilderness Watch @wildernesswatch.bsky.social · 35m
Happy National Wildlife Refuge Week! Did you know that Congressionally designated Wilderness areas can be found on 63 national wildlife refuges in 26 states?
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Woodland creature
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Luxomancer 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @luxomancer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Also it is monday so that means Happy #MothMonday / #MacroMonday. I offer this magnificent Orange-spotted Flower Moth, Syngamia florella. A tiny gem. #Nature #Insects #Moths #Awe and #Wonder #ECK
A photo of a yellow and dark orange patterned moth resting on light blue painted wood.  Thew moth's slender legs are striped black and white. Its head is black and yellow, it's eyes large and black, bright yellow scales between, that sweep back, spreading around an area of black scales on the thorax.  The antennae are slender and tan, rising from between the eyes up towards the camera, somewhat out of focus.  The wings are a darkly iridescent orange with large spots of bright yellow throughout and the trailing edge features a delicate fringe.  The abdomen is bright orange with stripes of blue iridescence along the 4th and 5th segments.A close up of the abdomen, showing the bright orange scales and rows of blue iridescence in more detail.  The wing scales along either side are a shine with a rich golden hue.
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bookswain.bsky.social @bookswain.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
For Indigenous Peoples Day, my 1834 edition of the autobiography of Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa, aka Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk indigenous people, one of the earliest Native American autobiographies ever published.
A book opened up. In the left the frontis is an engraved portrait of Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa I western, period clothes with a high collared coat. On tbe right is the title page: LIFE MA-KA-TAI-ME-SHE-KIA-KIAK OR BLACK HAWK, EMBRACING THE
TRADITION OF HIS NATION-INDIAN WARS IN WHICH HE HAS BEEN ENGAGED-CAUSE OF JOINING THE BRITISH IN THEIR LATE
WAR WITH AMERICA, AND ITS
HISTORY-DE-SCRIPTION OF THE ROCK-RIVER VILLAGE-MAN-NERS AND CUSTOMS-ENCROACHMENTS BY THE WHITES REMOVAL FROM HIS VILLAGE IN 1831.
WITH AN
ACCOUNT OF THE CAUSE AND GENERAL HISTORY OF THE LATE WAR, HIS
SURRENDER AND CONFINEMENT AT JEFFERSON BARRACKS, AND
TRAVELS THROUGH THE UNITED STATES.
DICTATED BY HIMSELF.
J. B. Patterson, of Rock Island, III. Editor and Proprietor.
BOSTON
1834.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you liked “Get Confident, Stupid,” you’ll love “Smoke Yourself Thin.”
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Preston Singletary, Tlingit (1963- ), Raven Skyriver, Tlingit (1982- ), Humpback Whale, freehand sculpted and sand carved glass, 9.5 x 18.5 x 6 in, private collection
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuk (Canada), (1927-2013), Preening Owl, 1995, stonecut print, 6/50, 49.5 x 73.7 cm, private collection
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Anke Frohlich Photography @anke-frohlich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
5 Barn Owls on an Upper West Side water tower! 🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉💕 what an incredible Manhattan moment! Photo taken long after nightfall from afar. I pray these beauties never catch a poisoned rat. 💔 Please urge your building manager to use wildlife-safe rodent control! #NYCWildlife #NYC #BarnOwl #owl
Five barn owls perched on the roof of a water tower after nightfall. They are spread out, looking at the viewer. Photo by Anke Frohlich.
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MSmith @suredontknow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Queen of the night. Survivor of strong even though diminished winds of Isaias and likely last bloom of 2026. may a moth meet.
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John Dickerson @jdickerson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
On the occasion of what would be his 80th birthday I’ll look back on a lucky day I got to spend in Nashville with John Prine. youtu.be/jar8wiaE0dw
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John Prine: At home with the songwriting legend
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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MSmith @suredontknow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mikaela Davis step Berthaing at Grateful Drag via nugs at brooklyn bowl
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You're Welcome Back Anytime Lee Munn 2022
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/10/2026
Read more about this image, and how the pinpointing of the host galaxy of this fast radio burst, FRB 20240304B, has identified it as being from a time when the observable Universe was only around 3 billion years old: esawebb.org/images/weic2... Discovery paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/10/2026
This is a new deep-field image from JWST, designed to look for the point of origin of a fast radio burst. The bright, multi-point features are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is an entire galaxy.
The dark of space, featuring a handful of bright, nearby stars, and altogether too many galaxies beyond.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Another very long day. One of the lessons I have learned is that it is not enough to simply do the work of fighting for democracy. Lawyers must show their work to the public and explain the stakes. That is why I started Democracy Docket. Help me grow it by subscribing today. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 08/10/2026
Seattle just said no. It's the first U.S. city to bar big grocers from using your data and AI to charge you more than your neighbor, while keeping coupons and senior and veteran discounts intact. Congratulations to @mayor.seattle.gov and the City Council on setting the standard.
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Wilson signs ordinance banning AI, data-driven price changes at grocery stores
A new law will change how grocery stores in Seattle use shoppers' personal information when setting prices at the register.
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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Music For Longhairs - Various Artists, Design Records (1966) Cover art by Barbara Soloff Levy Lou Rawls - Kiddio (1961) youtu.be/KdYqXSNFeKs?...
Colorful album cover art features caricatures of 1960s hipsters
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Grateful Dead Lyrics Bot @deadlyrics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now what's to found, racing around You carry your pain wherever you go Full of the blues, and trying to lose You ain't going to learn what you don't want to know
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MSmith @suredontknow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Important details within
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This tree is very tall, very old and has clearly Seen Some Things. Also possibly Done Some Things #SpookyNature 🌿
A black and white photo of a big bare tree on a foggy day. It has irregularly shaped and angled branches and is much larger than the trees around it. It looks like it could be some kind of forest spirit.
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Our Public Lands & Waters @publiclandswaters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Support for keeping the Roadless Rule intact is near unanimous and universal. #roadlessrule #roadless #nationalforests #protectpubliclands #publiclands
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Americans Leave 1.6 Million Public Comments on the Roadless Rule Rescission. Over 99% Are Against It.
Public opposition against Trump administration’s proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is near-universal.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hills of Thunder Bay Terry Watkinson 2020
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 05/10/2026
LAST CHANCE to speak up to protect the #RoadlessRule. The public comment period closes Tuesday, Oct. 6. ICYMI: The Trump administration is aiming to undo this landmark rule and remove protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, intact, national forests and 70,000 miles of rivers and streams.
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Protect the Roadless Wild
The Trump administration just released its plan to undo the landmark 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule and strip protections from nearly 45 million acres of wild, national forest and 70,000 miles o...
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you are a new follower and have enjoyed photos/videos of my spectacular dog and daily hiking partner, here is his rescue story. It just passed one million views! 😳😳😳
youtu.be
Rescue dog had best reaction when he realizes he's safe
YouTube video by GeoBeats Animals
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Kind Veggie Burritos @kindveggieburritos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy birthday today, John Perry Barlow.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Lady costumed for the masque, as a rather racy Flora. Painted in miniature by Isaac Oliver. Today is his day.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Post your best trees! Baldcypress along the Pedernales River, Texas.
Portrait oriented photograph of a massive old tree with a huge trunk and sculpted roots dipping into shallow turquoise river water on a sunny day.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking right at you from around 1600: an unknown man, painted in miniature by Isaac Oliver, whose day was today.
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MSmith @suredontknow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So interesting in a lot of ways including if you are a cyclist MB’er
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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
poison apple #joncarling #inktober #art #apple
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 02/10/2026
We're taking the Trump admin. to court to stop it from allowing endangered species to be killed. In September, FWS director, Brian Nesvik, issued a directive attempting to strip imperiled wildlife of protections from activities that can harm or kill them. In the #ESA, this is known as "take."
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Nathan Nun @nathannun.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's one of my cat propaganda posters. If you like what you see please follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thank You, Cats of Yore.
A cat poster done in the style of a mid-20th-century communist propaganda poster. A line of three cat faces face left in unison. Below them is a large crowd of cats marching. They represent various kinds of cats, ages, and jobs. The background is a large red flag. Text at bottom reads: The purrletarians have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite!"
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NationalPoetryDay #Wonder
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 30/09/2026
A WIN! We’ve just learned that Colorado Parks and Wildlife is suspending the practice of killing wolves for conflict with wildlife. This provides some much-needed safety for Colorado’s small and recovering wolf population.
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Vericocum @vericum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Luca Ponsato "By end of day today." #art
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Helen Frankenthaler, American (1928-2011), Snow Pines, 2004, ukiyo-e woodcut printed in colors, 95.3 x 66 cm, edition of 65, private collection
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Evelyndroid's Aperture Science and Bugge-Finding 🏳️‍⚧️🕷️ @apsciencebylyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mr Attidops cinctipes, in a lovely little mossy crevice in magnolia bark. Very small 🤎 #EmotionalSupportSpood
Lumpy brown jumping spider with stripy stubby legs, peering at you from a mossy crevice
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The town of my birth has produced a baseball hat i feel I must now acquire
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Calvin and Hobbes @calvin-and-hobbes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes the simplest wish really is the smartest one. #CalvinandHobbes #QuietMoments
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 29/09/2026
A galactic house of mirrors 🌌🪞 Webb has captured this spectacular view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Its gravity is warping & multiplying the images of background galaxies, which appear like they have stepped into a house of mirrors! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪
A massive galaxy cluster, made of many golden elliptical galaxies with the largest, brightest one in the centre. Heavily distorted orange galaxies appear all around the cluster, the largest concentrated in a large arc around the cluster's centre; these are images of very distant galaxies, created by gravitational lensing. A few galaxies are large and bluish-white in colour; bright, nearby stars are the same colour. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Furtak, S. Fujimoto
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social
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Center for Large Landscape Conservation @largelandscapes.org · 28/09/2026
The largest wildlife overpass in North America was completed in 2025 spanning I-25 in CO. According to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the crossing, and nearby crossing infrastructure, has reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions on the stretch of I-25 by 91%. www.denvergazette.com/outtherecolo...
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Massive wildlife overpass has helped reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions by 91% in Colorado
In December 2025, it was announced that the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had completed the construction of the I-25 wildlife overpass in the area of Greenland, between Denver and Color...
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MSmith @suredontknow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
floating dahlias
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 27/09/2026
Typical Southern California rearview mirror bullshit.
Cherry Street in my rearview mirror as I go up the hill to Signal Hill in Long Beach, California. The sky is a firey red and orange
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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Resharing for #WorldCassowaryDay
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Descent from the Cross, by Rogier van der Weyden, 1435-38
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MSmith @suredontknow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Velvet cascades in dahlia
velvet cascades in dark red dahlia flower
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