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… “Her Nibs the #parrot is such a good, funny girl because we did all this stuff and more. It isn’t easy, and I have many bite scars to prove it. If you’re hell bent on getting a bird anyway, foster first to see if you can make it work. Don’t buy; adopt. And get help. You’ll need it.” /parrot speech

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 14h

… “And #parrots will put their natural skills to use taking apart your moldings, removing laptop keyboard keys and remote control buttons, and puncturing every cord or hose in your house in the worst possible place. Then there’s the time commitment… “ 6/8

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 14h

… “And then there’s the mess. Even if you train them to poo in approved places, they’ll still throw their breakfast and the shredded pieces of their toys, and the detritus will end up in places that seem to defy physics. In the wild, #parrots help seed and fertilize the forest floor… “ 5/8

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 14h

… No traveling, either, because #parrot sitters and boarders can be as rare as unicorns that eat cotton candy and fart rainbows. Parrot cages cost anywhere from $700 to thousands, and their toys are ridiculously expensive, so you’ll spend a lot of time making your own… “ 4/8

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 14h

… “No ceiling fans or space heaters with nonstick parts. You need air filters to protect your lungs and theirs, plus screens on all your windows and an airlock procedure for opening outer doors. You need an avian vet who costs 3 times what the dog vet does… “ 3/8

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 14h

… “ #Parrots are NOT pets. They’re a lifestyle. They’re toddlers with built-in bolt cutters who never graduate and move out. Your habits and home have to change radically to accommodate them. No chemical cleaners, nonstick cookware, candles, incense, scent plug-ins, perfume, or dry shampoo….” 2/8

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 14h

Have been traveling for the last two weeks and FaceTiming Her Nibs the #Parrot every night. Our conversation delighted one of my traveling companions, and she said, “Maybe I should get a bird” many times. I never want to inspire someone to get a bird, so I gave her the Parrot Warning Speech…. 1/8

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 12/10/2026

He didn't send agents after a criminal. He sent them after a Congresswoman who talks back. On the eve of an election. That's not law enforcement — that's an abuse of power with a badge. We stand with Ilhan Omar.

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Kacey Musgraves with the lethal clap back to Kristi Noem. 😂😂

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."

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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bryn Celli Ddu for #TombTuesday. This place was designed so that the light would enter at midsummer, but the guardian stone would always stand in the shadows, observing.

A smoothed, tall standing stone inside the burial chamber

Bryn Celli Ddu from outside: stone-lined entranceway leading into the dark mouth of the mound

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🦇 Help us win £5,000 for bats! All you have to do is nominate the Bat Conservation Trust here: movementforgood.com/draws/1000/?... Deadline to nominate is 17 October! Please share widely. (Are you really going to say no to this brown long-eared bat?...) Photo (c) Hugh Clark

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Julie Shiel @forgottenbeauty.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you wash your eyes with elder tree sap, it gives you the ability to see fairies. Similarly, Scottish #folklore says if you stand beneath an elder at Samhain you'll see the Wild Host. 🎨John Anster Fitzgerald redbubble.com/shop/ap/3337... #MythologyMonday #fairytale #art #mythology

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Fairy Hordes Attacking a Bat - John Anster Fitzgerald by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble

Gorgeous painting by John Anster Fitzgerald

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No1Bites @noonebites.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

May be lazy but still at it Folktober Day 12 Orcadian Selkies #inktober #folklore #sketching

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The Dark Almanac @darkalmanac.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Countless Stones at Aylesford, Kent, a tumble of collapsed sarsens, carry a tradition that no two counts agree. First written version: 1946. The archaeologist Grinsell dated the name to after 1690, when the chamber fell. en.wikipedia.org 📷 Roger Smith/Geograph, CC BY-SA

Little Kit's Coty (aka The Countless Stones)

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Mosaic of Orpheus, Roman Period, c. 194 AD. Edessa (Turkey) #Orpheus #Mythology #Mosaic

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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

For all the wonder of statues, mosaics, ceramics & ruined temples, I find few Roman remains more evocative than the roads with their worn paving, rut-marks and an immediately imaginable sense of prosaic life going on with people, carts & animals in the streets. This one is at Morgantina, Sicily. 🏺

A Roman road stretching to the horizon up a gentle slope. The stones are old and lichen covered, there are kerbs to the left and right. Wild plants grow low among some of the stones. Photo: mine, April 2026.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 12/10/2026

Early medieval sculpture from the Scottish monastery of Lios Mòr, founded in the 6th century AD #MedievalMonday This is the first physical evidence of the major early Christian centre, previously known only from historical references and local traditions. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Three fragments of stone, engraved with geometric patterns.

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Mugwort & Moonlight @mitabean.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

19 more days until Samhain. A sinister affirmation card a day until then. #witchsky

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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Leaving you tonight with these words. It's gotta start soon otherwise women will continue to be dominated by men who hate them for no reason. From the Banksy Art Galley.

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As a person owned by an African grey, I say thank you so much for caring for her and reuniting her with her family. I would hope someone would do the same for me if I lost Her Nibs the #parrot.

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mabesgate Longstone: "It's a fairly big thing." - TheCaptain, master of understatement. A 3 metre tall standing stone near the village of St Ishmaels, Pembrokeshire. #StandingStoneSunday 📷 TheCaptain More: www.megalithi...

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have these conversations every time I visit my mom. Gail (my mom’s frenemy, when they remember it): She [my mom] is mean. Me: How so? Gail: She killed my son. Me, gesturing to the man next to her: Gail, your son is sitting right here. See? Gail, flustered: She put pancakes in my bed.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Again. Impeach him.

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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Border Report: The growing number of arrests by ICE outside schools and other community gathering places in Southern California is causing a "state of terror," says Alor Calderon, executive director of the Employee Rights Center in San Diego. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They’ll put pumpkin spice in anything

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The witch is a creature of weather. Wind-summoner. Drought-breaker. Cloud-reader. Flood-flyer. Mist-wearer. She adapts to it, she adjusts the weather to her favour. It's one of her most vital relationships. She wears it on her boots. She wears it on her skin. – #EmilyCBanting #FolkWitchFriday

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As completely deranged and fucked up and wrong as he is, I gotta say it is stressful to have the damn president of the United States constantly attacking my state of Minnesota, sending violence, calling for violence, putting all lives at risk, killing our neighbors. Like it really takes a toll.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 08/10/2026

Jesus fucking Christ

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If he doesn’t know what socialism is, he has no place in government of any kind.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nothing to see here...just the President of the United States inviting the country he illegally declared war on to "take out" 2 major American cities. If that's not treason, what is? 🤬 Law enforcement won't hold him accountable, but we WILL! The beginning of the end is on November 3rd. #VOTE-BLUE 🌊

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Truth 👇 Bomb 💣.........

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I am a witch for all those near broken. I am a witch for those scraped raw by trying to climb high walls, cut by having to walk on glass scattered by hollow-hearted bastards. I am a witch for those needing transformation, bound to pain. For witches understand the bruised. - #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky

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Thea Sabin @theasabin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think of Irish pubs as joyful places. This one looked like a Dickens workhouse.

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