Reposted by @thebluemango.inHAD @havehashad.com · 6hkicking off acceptances from Cletus Crow's haiku call today with three from @ezhang77.bsky.social ! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thr... 0136
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 4h12 critically endangered Nubian giraffes were relocated from Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park to make way for oil extraction. As economic priorities increasingly undermine protected areas, how safe is critical biodiversity inside national parks? Watch more 👉️ mongabay.cc/Conservation... 02919
Reposted by @thebluemango.inElena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 6hHappy to have three haiku up in @havehashad.com today! 23112
Reposted by @thebluemango.inRo 📷 @roshn.me · 6hTwo Painted Storks #nature #wildlife #birds #photography 📷 zeens.app/profile/roshn.me/post/3mw… 0154
Reposted by @thebluemango.inRo 📷 @roshn.me · 6h#scape #nature #landscape #photography 📷 zeens.app/profile/roshn.me/post/3mw… 0144
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLiz Butler @lizlagomorph.bsky.social · 9hThanks for joining in by creating work, sharing posts & supporting artists during #SciArtSeptember! I love this yearly opportunity to reconnect with friends & meet new folks. 🌟 - While I’ll be posting less during the rest of the year, please reach out any time if you have ideas for collaborations. 🌱 0156
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 23hFrom saving DNA to cloning Przewalski's horses, biodiversity banking helps preserve genetic diversity against extinction. Conservation leader Katie Heineman discusses how San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is expanding biobanks to partners in Kenya, Vietnam, Peru, & Hawai‘i. Read the full interview.👇️mongabay.ccPreserving wildlife DNA for the future: Interview with the Frozen Zoo’s Katie HeinemanKurt, a Przewalski’s horse, was born at in Texas in August 2020. Less than three years later, Ollie followed. Out in the wild, their species had gone extinct in the 1960s. Both individuals, born of a… 074
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMilli Vanilla @millivanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026You have the right to pursue happiness, or an air mattress. But not both at the same time. 0842
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 10hDeforestation across the Mekong region fell in 2025 due to fewer wildfires and enforcement, continuing a multi-year drop. However, total tree cover loss reached 746,168 hectares, with nearly 200,000 hectares destroyed inside protected areas. @geraldrflynn.bsky.social reports for #Mongabay.mongabay.ccDespite a drop in deforestation in 2025, forest losses pile up in the MekongBANGKOK — Over the course of 2025, the Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined 746,168 hectares (1.8 million acres) of tree cover, an area roughly equivalent… 01411
Reposted by @thebluemango.inAlma Katsu (pre-order INCARNATE now! Coming Sept 22 in US) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 11hI don't want to get anyone in a tizzy but I just filed on competing claims on the Anthropic settlement, and just had some rando jump on claiming to have authored one of my books. Check all your claims, people! 23010
Reposted by @thebluemango.inXander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026If your soul is hurting, and it all feels too much, take a moment with Daryll Marie and her mobile bird wellness centre *cough* research vessel. Thank you for sharing your wonderful trip and your feathered shipmates on their journeys, @daryllmarie.bsky.social 💚 142
thebluemango.in @thebluemango.in · 12hNow that the bread has rested overnight, here's a picture of the crumb. :D Lunch today: green bean sandwiches! #breadsky #lunch #sandwich #whatscooking #baking 2224
Reposted by @thebluemango.inJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3444681071
Reposted by @thebluemango.inGlobal Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 29/09/2026🕵️ Hear from three experts Jonas Kiriko (@oxpeckersnews.bsky.social/@infonile.bsky.social); Linda Mujuru (Investigative Journalist); David Akana (@mongabay.com) on how to investigate the extractives industry in Africa at #IJWeek. Moderator: Annie Zulu. Tickets ⬇️ twp.ai/9OaURU 044
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026Rescued from wildlife traffickers in 2016 and reintroduced to the wild in 2024, a critically endangered Grauer’s gorilla named Lulingu has given birth in DRC’s Virunga National Park. Conservationists say the birth marks a major milestone for the world’s largest primate. mongabay.cc/M62FJ2mongabay.ccReintroduced Grauer’s gorilla gives birth in DRC national park, ‘makes us happy’Lulingu, a Grauer’s gorilla (Gorilla beringei), was reintroduced to Virunga National Park, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2024. In May 2026, Lulingu gave birth to a new baby, bringing… 02111
Reposted by @thebluemango.inRo 📷 @roshn.me · 29/09/2026Pied bush chat - female #nature #wildlife #birds #photography 📷 zeens.app/profile/roshn.me/post/3mw… 0173
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026Whether you rely on Mongabay for research, education, or environmental news, your perspective helps us improve. Take a few minutes to share your thoughts in our annual reader survey. 👉️ mongabay.cc/iPMUuD 042
Reposted by @thebluemango.inGinger Coffee Creams of Horror @gnofhorror.com · 29/09/2026Hey authors fancy doing something fun for Halloween text in the alt description 11111
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLigus @greyauk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Holy shi... suger 😱. I just came home and opened my Ko-fi. 66% of the goal in one day! Thank you guys so so much 💚🙏🐕 That's Jette from today :) + extra crow friends 2224
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burrowing Owl for meraxes-of-new-albion on tumblr! Thank you for the donation! 🪶🎨 #BirdArt #SciArt The #Waymakers Challenge raises funds for @theyoungcenter.bsky.social to help immigrant kids in the US! Donate by end of day Sept. 30 - not much time left! youngcenter.donordrive.com/campaigns/Bi... 213837
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLigus @greyauk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What an amazing fundraiser! Happy to see that Lauren did it this year again 💚. So many birds for a very important cause. 1105
thebluemango.in @thebluemango.in · 29/09/2026Probably the most gorgeous pain de mie I have made till now. Look at all the straight edges! 😍 #breadsky #baking #whatscooking 3454
Reposted by @thebluemango.inthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026*mid-eulogy, looking down at casket* you’ve read your last free article 101753245
Reposted by @thebluemango.inHAD @havehashad.com · 29/09/2026today from Mia Nakaji Monnier, with the beautiful constraint, "I chose to write a poem using only words from Japanese children’s books I regularly read with my child. I translated playfully but overall stuck to the meaning and spirit of the source texts" www.havehashad.com/hadposts/nig...havehashad.comnight walk, with 16 mice and the moon by Mia Nakaji Monniernight has arrived / look, the sky is dark, dark we line up and follow the path of horsetails / tap, tap the fiddleheads unfurl their tender faces mountain’s breath, fairy bells / the forest is… 193
Reposted by @thebluemango.inEtherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our feature tutorial/artist today is this lovely animation on EARS, by the talented @simodasketch! So useful! #anime #manga #drawing #characterdesign #anatomy 158178
Reposted by @thebluemango.inConor @ernekid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This story has really annoyed me. These tech billionaires LARPing as aristocrats bestowing their noblesse oblige on the local peasants. Just think about how many sports clubs you could fund if you taxed Facebook properly. 38736
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026idk know why we don't have a show called 'FOUR OF DIAMONDS' starring jessica williams, oscar isaac, himesh patel, and mackenzie davis as rival cat burglars all attempting to heist a rare diamond who end up entangled in a horny four-way love affair while quadruple-crossing each other but HERE WE ARE 4143
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026Following a #CITES investigation into its import of 60,000 live animals, Indian private zoo Vantara declared a temporary pause on imports through June 2027. Now, 27 global NGOs are urging the Reliance-backed facility to make the ban permanent and focus on in-situ conservation. By Spoorthy Raman.mongabay.ccNGOs call on Vantara to end all wild animal imports permanentlyA coalition of 27 global wildlife conservation and animal welfare organizations urged Vantara to permanently end all wild animal imports. The billionaire-run zoo in India, funded by the philanthropic… 0104
Reposted by @thebluemango.inViola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Jason Dawsey's article on Günther Anders is an interesting read and might also serve as an introduction to Anders for Anglophones who've never heard of him before: 154
Reposted by @thebluemango.inAlex @Plane Sailing Games @planesailinggames.com · 28/09/2026I loved the XKCD take on it here 38513
Reposted by @thebluemango.inErik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Researchers w/ Wildlife & Climate Consensus have a new study out, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... In July I solicited this op-ed for @mongabay.com by them about bringing #wildlife into #climate conversations Good to see it's now 350+ signatories strong, here's why it's captured attention:news.mongabay.comWildlife helps regulate the climate & this belongs in policy discussions (commentary)When we talk about climate change and wildlife, most people think about the impact of climate change on animals. We see individual organisms struggling to find food and being pushed into new places an... 02810
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMonica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So this is messed up: I posted this same image on Instagram, and after it went viral here, an “AI content” label appeared on the Insta post. And there’s no option to change it. Now the slop machine is even calling artists’ original work AI. Just because it appeared somewhere else on the Internet. 191
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMonica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hard not to see this as yet another way AI is disenfranchising artists. If we control our own material and post it to multiple platforms, it’ll get flagged as AI, because the slop made from stolen art is already eating itself. 061
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMonica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Stunning full moon over Fintra Bay, County Donegal. 191311148
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMonica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Hard not to see this as yet another way AI is disenfranchising artists. If we control our own material and post it to multiple platforms, it’ll get flagged as AI, because the slop made from stolen art is already eating itself. 1152
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMonica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So this is messed up: I posted this same image on Instagram, and after it went viral here, an “AI content” label appeared on the Insta post. And there’s no option to change it. Now the slop machine is even calling artists’ original work AI. Just because it appeared somewhere else on the Internet. 75917
Reposted by @thebluemango.inKhepiAri Loves LawLu @khepiari.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I love that dudebroes are going now, "Oh, Pattinson can act..." after watching him in his post-Bruce Wayne roles. Maybe if you all had not hated him with passion just because of Twilight, you would've found it out sooner.. 031
Reposted by @thebluemango.inMongabay @mongabay.com · 29/09/2026As deforestation and lost predators fuel a kangaroo population surge in Australia, a record cull is drawing scrutiny. Scientists suggest alternative control methods, including reforesting habitats and reintroducing native predators like dingoes. Cooper Williams reports for #Mongabay.mongabay.ccAs Australia’s kangaroo numbers rise, record cull renews calls for other control methodsCANBERRA — Australia has a problem with the very creature that is its official national symbol: The kangaroo. Endemic to Australia, they live across the country, from north to south, and from east to… 3259
Reposted by @thebluemango.inTechnogaijin @technogaijin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Youtube is now AI upscaling videos without explicit permission to save storage and call the plasticized-looking output "4k". I'm fine with the feature being offered, but I want control over when/whether it's used as well. Youtube's looks gross. 032
Reposted by @thebluemango.inDavis Bickford @davis.social · 28/09/2026Ya know, it’d be really neat if companies stopped sneaking AI features into their products and forcing us to use them. 729242
Reposted by @thebluemango.inRajani Thindiath (Ruhj-ni) @rajanithindiath.bsky.social · 29/09/2026😝 281
Reposted by @thebluemango.inkuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026please support my writing🙏 1117
Reposted by @thebluemango.inkuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026hai friends please pre-order my novel or if you could just buy any of my stuff really that would be much appreciated thank you friends www.blaft.com/collections/...blaft.comPrint BooksThe Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction - Volume 3 0138
Reposted by @thebluemango.inBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 29/09/2026That's a good way to put it. Soul murder is another. There has never, in my lifetime or maybe ever, been a public reckoning with what it means to live as a woman in a world where we are held in less esteem than animals and have fewer rights to bodily autonomy than corpses. 12510
Reposted by @thebluemango.inDr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To use a woman’s body-as it were-in her absence is to deny her the possession of a soul. 181
Reposted by @thebluemango.inJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why more women don't come forward, and why more rapists aren't jailed. Because mostly-male cops and prosecutors find it more believable that a 20-yr-old would want to have sex with a room full of fraternity brothers than accept she was raped. What ever happened to common fucking sense?jessica.substack.comCarrying That Weight—AgainI can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case 201925398
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLigus @greyauk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ko-fi.com/s/a1aa40ed2cko-fi.comArgyropelecus olfersii - Ligus's Ko-fi ShopOatMilk carton print of Argyropelecus olfersii on recycled cotton paper Handcoloured with silver acrylics Size: around 14,5 cm x 11 cm Print size: 1... 1153
Reposted by @thebluemango.inLigus @greyauk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Print of Argyropelecus olfersii #sciart 🐡 🐟 3 prints are now available in my shop 👇🧵 #art #print #noAI 48420
