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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In troubling times, people experiencing high stress or crippling anxiety deal with it in different ways. Some have a therapist, some have a deep breathing exercise & some even have a personal mantra. I have a Mabel.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I loved it in Pinocchio, but in real life... not so much. 👀 😱 #WhaleOfA-Tale

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

"It's almost impossible to believe he exists. It's as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it off the floor, put it in an old hot dog skin & taught it to make noises with its mouth" #PRESIDEMENTIA

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

I fear there is deep truth here.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Democracy means allowing the peaceful transfer of power even when your side loses, in case anyone needs a reminder.

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Dr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

In today's lunchtime walk, my jacket colour matched this cute fungus. Looks like witches' butter to me 🧡

A close up of a yellowy orange jelly looking fungus growing on deadwood.

A selfie of Sara in an orange jacket crouching and pointing at a yellowy orange jelly like fungus growing on deadwood on the other side of a wire fence.

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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The world rushes past below, seen from aboard the ISS on December 23, 2024, somewhere above China (likely taken by astronaut Don Pettit, though I can't verify).

A view of lights streaking past on the Earth below, seen from orbit, aboard the International Space Station, with sections of the ISS and supply modules visible.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Oh this is wicked, I like it very much.

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𝑀𝒶𝓎𝓇𝒶°❀⋆.ೃ࿔*:･🫧 @lepapillonblue.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Last minute Christmas gift ideas. 😉

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Photograph by Ali Zolghadri @alizoghadrii on IG ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

The image shows a black cat sitting on a tiled floor against a white wall. A prominent, jagged crack runs vertically from the top of the wall down to the cat's head, creating the humorous illusion that the crack is originating from the cat. The wall is plain, with a textured surface, and the floor tiles are light-colored, contrasting with the dark cat and the crack.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The news is shit. The news will be shit for another four years, often. You are not obligated to stay tuned all the time. Breaks are good--necessary, even. You are not failing the cause by making sure your soul remains intact. Survival is enough, sometimes.

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Another jaw-dropper from JWST, from a survey of planet-forming disks in the star-forming region NGC 346, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. 🧪 🔭 Source: webbtelescope.org/contents/new... Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)

$False color image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Delicate lanes of gas are dotted by bright stars in this image produced with JWST's NIRCam instrument. The dominant colors of the gassy regions are purple and orange. Stars show the characteristic six-fold diffraction spikes produced by JWST. Exposures in four wavelength ranges were colored Red, Orange, Cyan, and Blue and then combined.$

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Who here agrees? 🖐🏾

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕘𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥🌴🐦𝕊𝕜𝕪𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕕 ℍ𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟🦋 @margaretsiegien.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Little Blue Heron are known to eat a variety of prey, including frogs, fish, insects, small mammals, reptiles, and birds. 📷❤️ #birdwatching #bird #photographer #phptography #birdphotography

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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Snow egret showing off its yellow feet. #birdsky #wildlife

As snowy egret showing off its yellow feet.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The worm turns...on us.

Left panel--RFK Jr. says, "Vaccines cause autism!" Woman says, "I'd like a second opinion."

Right panel--Worm in RFK Jr.'s brain pokes out through his forehead and says, "Vaccines cause autism!"

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☠️ Skulls and Sheets 👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A mari singing into the night Inspired by stained glass etching

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Want my wedding ring? Come and try to take it.

Tweey from state Rep. Josh Schriver:

Make day marriage illegal again.

This is not remotely controversial, nor extreme.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

something that is especially clear if you have studied colonialism a bit: a load bearing aspect of maintaining even a semblance of democracy (or defending a sitting autocracy from democracy) is having a military that is unwilling to kill its own citizens

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The Darklady @thedarklady.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Ethical Porn Appeals 2 Human Gaze, Conscience & Fans Now > Ever Ethical Porn is the Right Kind 2 Shoot - Darklady tinyurl.com/mpvwwtyc There’s never a bad time 2 treat ourselves & others w/kindness & respect. It’s especially important when involved w/creating sexually explicit performances...

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“Ethical Porn” Appeals to Human Gaze, Conscience, and Fans - Fleshbot

Women, couples, and queer folk have a hard time finding content designed for them but many ethical porn creators exist!

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

saw several folks responding to the first part of the ask, but not that many responding to the second. cis folks, what *are* you willing to *do* to defend us? will you brave uncomfortable conversations with friends and family and coworkers? will you shelter us, if necessary? help us move?

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 15/11/2024

Resharing with alt text, because it's an important message that everyone deserves access to: We need action to ensure that our legal rights, access to medication, freedom of movement, our very lives are protected. We are human. We deserve human rights. We belong. Simply being aware isn't enough.

Four panel comic captioned Trans Awareness Week

Panel 1: SOMETIMES, PEOPLE SAY: "I'M ALREADY AWARE OF TRANS PEOPLE. I DON'T ACTIVELY HATE, HARASS OR KILL THEM. ISN'T THAT GOOD ENOUGH TO BE AN ALLY?"

Panel 2: HERE'S THE THING: THE PEOPLE WHO DO TARGET AND HARASS US ARE CONSTANTLY GETTING AWAY WITH IT, AND TREATING IT AS AN INDIVIDUAL LACK OF EDUCATION ON TRANS ISSUES SHIFTS THE RESPONSIBI- LITY ONTO TRANS PEOPLE THEMSELVES AND DOESN'T PROTECT THEM FROM ANYTHING.

Panel 3: THAT'S WHY BEING "AWARE" OF TRANS PEOPLE ISN'T ENOUGH. YOU NEED TO ACTIVELY MAKE SURE THAT TRANSPHOBES ARE TOO AFRAID TO PERSECUTE US. POSITIVE THINKING WON'T CHANGE THE DEATH TOLL.

Panel 4: WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT FOR TRANSPHOBES TO CHANGE THEIR MINDS. EVEN THE AUTHOR OF THESE COMICS GETS DEATH THREATS EVERYDAY, CAROLE. THE CLOCK IS TICKING.

SOPHIE LABELLE

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Madame🦋Butterfly @imspeaking.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"Islands of coherence in a sea of chaos." How I love that. My island 🫶s your island.

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 26/11/2024

Video of pollinating Ethiopian wolf. 🧪 🦊 🌍 bsky.app/profile/oxfo...

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 20/11/2024

Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 🦊 🐝 🌸

a) Ethiopian wolf lapping nectar from a Kniphofia foliosa inflorescence; (b) nectar foraging in a large K. foliosa field of the Web Valley, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia; (c) deposition of a relatively large pollen load on the wolf's muzzle; (d) female adult (left) and female subadult (right) Ethiopian wolves foraging together for K. foliosa nectar. Picture credits: Adrien Lesaffre.

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