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Tziva

@tziva.bsky.social
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Nerd, science enthusiast, martial artist, vulture advocate. Posts are a mix of raptor rehab & education, Jewish stuff, video games, cats, and whatever I'm mad at today. Sometimes I delete stuff. instagram.com/tzivabirbs bonfire.com/store/artforgood

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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This starts tomorrow. It's too late to sign up to walk, but it's not too late to sign up to support those who are.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.
Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hm, I don't remember downloading the entire internet. Either I'm very forgetful, or this is an incorrect.
screenshot from my browser's "Browsing data" settings, saying that "Websites are currently using 17,179,869,185 GB of disk space."
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are still good ideas on the internet in 2026
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...
popsci.com
The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever
Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have mentioned before that my G-Grandfather was a member of the Hollywood Ten and went to prison for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. While cleaning out my grandmother's house, I found these documents of the Supreme Court booklets from trials and appeals:
stack of brightly coloured printed documents.  The green one to the side is labeled "Opening brief for appellant In the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia No 9873, Dalton Trumbo vs the United States of America."  The top one, yellow, is "In the Supreme Court of the United States October Term 1950) Lester Cole vs Lowe's Incorporated Petition for a write of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit"stack of brightly coloured printed documents.  The top one is an article from the Harvard Law Review entitled "Report on a Report of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities" dated October 1947stack of brightly coloured printed documents. The top one in blue says "For Justice and Peace by the wives of the Hollywood Ten" and the text clarifies this was a brief, amicus curiae, that was submitted to the US Supreme Court. It cost five cents.A section of text from one of the booklets. "
The complaint asserted that a controversy existed affect- ing the rights of the parties under the agreement; that on December 2, 1947, the respondent sent to the petitioner a written notice [R. 3-4] suspending his employment and payment of compensation under the contract of employ- ment because at a hearing before a committee of the House of Representatives, petitioner had refused to answer cer- tain questions put to the petitioner by such committee. It was stated in the notice of suspension that the petitioner by reason of his failure to answer these questions, and by his statements and conduct before the committee and otherwise in connection with the hearings, had shocked and offended the community, brought himself into public scorn and contempt, substantially lessened his value to the respondent as an employee, and prejudiced the respondent as employer and the motion picture industry in general.1 The petitioner was notified that his suspension would con- tinue until such time as petitioner was acquitted or purged himself of contempt of Congress and declared under oath that he was not a Communist [R. 4]."
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People will be walking all ~97 miles from Adelanto Detention Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in DTLA as a call for action to end the deplorable conditions in ICE detention centers and stop cruel immigration policy. To participate or assist: tinyurl.com/mrx3ybnd
screenshot from a flyer reading:

"Sept 29 - Oct 6 Clear the road to freedom! An interfaith pilgrimage of witness and solidarity. A sacred jouney on foot from Adelanto ICE Detention Center to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles to call out the cruel conditions inside detention centers throughout California and the country. Organized by Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), Nefesh LA, and Sacred Resistance, in partnership with No Camps California, Shut Down Adelanto Coalition, and Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, and Matthew 25."
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If only legacy media could be this direct for the people that still need to hear it.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Something Worth Knowing was very cool and I'm glad I was fortunate enough to get a sponsored ticket so I could attend. All the speakers were great and resonated with me in some way or another, but the theme of "hope" is definitely something I need a lot of lately. (but also rage and determination!)
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I beat the shit out of a bunch of babies. I will never not choose to fight babies when presented with them as a contender option. (this game is dumb, but it is the perfect fun kind of dumb)
a bunch of cartoon men, many of them in chef's hats, fighting a bunch of cartoon babies. This is the game How Many Dudes
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I haven't seen the show he won for, but Stephen Root is an absolutely gem of an actor, so I'm glad he got an award for it.
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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wish Americans of every persuasion would stop deifying politicians because they're desperate for a savior daddy to come and lead them to the promised land with one neat trick instead of generations of sustained hard work for liberation.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I bought tickets to an actual shul's Kol Nidre this year (although still have to drive into LA 😞) because I wasn't sure if IfNotNow's was happening, but I highly recommend it for anyone still looking for a place this Sunday. Last time I attended it was powerful and deeply meaningful.
actionnetwork.org
IfNotNow Yom Kippur Kol Nidre Service
Join IfNotNow LA for a solemn evening of introspection and communal accounting through the framework of Kol Nidre liturgy. We will be singing, reciting both traditional and modern liturgies, and readi...
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New #linocut design, printed on sparkly gold paper. The circular scales on the foot were so hard for me (as you can tell from their very wonky & inconsistent shapes), but overall I think it came out okay! Tossed it on the store as a fundraiser for Human Rights Campaign.
a linocut in black ink on gold paper that is a close up of a foot of a bird of prey, talons spread as if about to grab something, that says "WE WILL MAKE OURSELVES HEARD."
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I bought a PURPLE!!! rolling shop cart and assembled it today and it's beautiful. I can't wait to roll stuff around. "Stuff" TBD.
a purple metal service cart with a drawer in front of a bookshelf.  It is shiny and pretty and the best shade of purple (royal)
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sometime in the last year, my neighbour took down his Mexico flag and started flying a giant Budweiser flag instead on the flagpole in his front yard, and it amuses me every time I see it. (yes, non US friends, people actually having full sized flagpoles in their front yards is not unusual here.)
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's International Vulture Awareness day! Vultures are one of the most imperiled groups of birds on the planet, but are wonderful, and absolutely vital ecologically. They need people to champion them as they face constant threats from humans and human activity. Here are some of my fav pics:
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is such a great story! These eagles🪶 are already survivors, part of a reintroduction program after extirpation, but to make it to adulthood and fully flighted after an untreated broken wing -- in an animal with pneumatic bones, even! -- is amazing. I will be rooting for this fellow!
bbc.com
'Miracle' eagle with broken wing soars over Scottish coast
A sea eagle that confounded experts by surviving with a broken wing has been spotted back above Scotland's west coast.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
! Grants (bw $1k-$20k) for Jews of Color aged 13-25 and their mentors to do cool stuff:
thejoci.org
RFP - JoC Youth: Building the Future You Want to See - Jews of Color Initiative
The Jews of Color Initiative is excited to support projects where young JoC leaders are empowered to imagine new ways to engage in Jewish communal life, create communities they are excited to be a par...
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I encourage folks back this campaign. It's for a great cause, and everything is beautiful and high quality. I love supporting others doing similar work, so I often wear these pieces when out doing education or fundraising for my local raptor rehab. I always get showered with compliments on them.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
my physical body is not large enough to hold all my rage
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Why is the floor of your house always covered in chunks of carboard?" Watch to the end to celebrate Stormageddon's, uh, tenacity.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I took this lovely lady🪶 out today to do a little public education and hopefully get some donations. Overhearing me talk about what owls eat, a man standing by my table despondently sighed to her, "I wish you ate politicians. Then we'd all be happy." He wasn't trying to be funny, but I was amused.
a Great Horned Owl from the chest up, viewed in profile. Her background is a blue sky and a green hill.  Her eyes are bright yellow.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
did i do this right
mapquest map of lake ontario, renamed gulf of mexico

i think this makes the gulf of mexico lake ontario but dont make the rules
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
LA Taco article also on how burn out is contributing to the decline in attention and help, as they launch an ICE newsletter. The Daily Memo has been vital to tracking ICE activity in Southern California and continuing to keep people aware as legacy media has lost interest, so please support them!
lataco.com
Our Playbook Against ICE Burnout ~ L.A. TACO
The Daily Memo, as we knew it, did its job when it was most needed. Now, we are launching a newsletter called ICE Watch that goes right to your inbox every Wednesday—far away from the shadows the tech...
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I want to expand on this: Kidnappings are at an all-time high. ICE shifted recently from doing big showy raids, stops and checkpoints, to stuff like quietly taking individuals on their way to work at 5am, or while at appointments or running errands. [repost with less typos]
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just incidentally, I'm nearing the end of Tim Curry's memoir Vagabond and I recommend it for anyone saddened to hear about his death today.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I was social for 2½ hours today with a person I'd never met before and although they were very cool and it was a great conversation, I think I am now tired enough to sleep for like a week straight. How do extroverts do it.
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night
As the flight neared final boarding, another ICE officer accused Laurie of interfering with the operation and pressed her to help locate the passenger. Laurie declined to say whether the woman was on the flight's passenger list and told the officer he would need to contact the airline's corporate security department for information. "You're going to need a subpoena," she said. No arrests were made at the gate that day.

The next day, the passenger called her.
She had made it home. And she was with her child.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My grandmother passed away this week. Although the last thing we need is another cat, her tabby Bob needed a home, so of course we took him in. He's been extremely upset since she died. I picked him up today. He's got a room to himself right now while he adjusts.
a grumpy looking tabby cat sits on a sheet. He looks sad, but that's just his face.

(don't get me wrong, I think he's sad too, but this is how he looks normally)a grumpy looking tabby cat sits on a sheet. He looks sad, but that's just his face.

(don't get me wrong, I think he's sad too, but this is how he looks normally)
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
After conferring with the rest of the ladies, we've decided that for optimal outcomes for the world, we're going to send all the old white cis men to the moon. Sorry, old white men. You're moon people now.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Tried my hand at carving a small stamp-sized linocut.
lined paper with a stamp of a mad looking black cat and the word "NO." written above him, and underneath it, the reversed image on a piece of pink vinyl that stamped that design.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sandwich is absolutely obsessed with the smell of my new wildlife rehabilitation textbooks. I doubt the books have actually been exposed to any animals, but the way he's acting, you'd think they'd have rubbed each one on some exciting mystery critter to coat it with an authentic scent.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I accomplished two (2) unfun things today, so I think that means I should be rewarded with cake. I don't have cake and am not going to make cake, I am just making an argument that the universe should understand when I deserve cake and make it manifest magically.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I know instagram is hot garbage, but I made an account to keep my endless cat photos contained and avoid bothering uninteresting audiences on my bird and MA accounts. I had barely registered when they suspended it. They restored access quickly, but now I can't log into either of the other accounts.
screenshot of an email from Instagram that says "You're back on Instagram, criminalfelines."
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
this is how I look climbing a fence except a thousand times less adorable only embarassing
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Stormageddon is too long for his cat condo, so he has to get creative with window usage.
a grey felt two story cat condo has a resident on the upper floor: a tuxedo cat with his head dangling out the window on one side and four socked feet out the othera grey felt two story cat condo has a resident on the upper floor: a tuxedo cat with his head dangling out the window on one side and four socked feet out the othera grey felt two story cat condo has a resident on the upper floor: a tuxedo cat with his head dangling out the window on one side and four socked feet out the other
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CAL FIRE @calfire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
CAL FIRE and the U.S. Forest Service worked with the sanctuary to reach the remote release pen. After nearly two hours of traveling through the incident area, they made it to the birds and safely released both #condors back into the wild.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oblivion. People loved that game, but not me. The ugly character creation and the long, unskippable intro was bad enough, but early on I accidentally punched a horse with a fatfinger, which chased me forever until I ran back and forth through a pack of wolves until they killed it. Then I quit.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very relatable frogs
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is wild, and some amazing photos, but warning if you're sensitive to dead birds. One dead tern but another was saved!
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Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center on Instagram: "Just when we thought we had seen it all! As some of you may know, we are located almost directly across the street from a protected and monitored Leas...
161 likes, 5 comments - wetlandswildlifecarecenter on August 11, 2026: "Just when we thought we had seen it all! As some of you may know, we are located almost directly across the street from a prote...
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is a very long thread about wildlife rehabbing -- specifically raptors -- in response to a lot of the absolutely insane comments I've seen around the care of Jackie the bald eagle, and hearing about the public harassing the staff, volunteers, and even their families, as Ojai works to save her.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"It's relaxing!"
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Look at this adorable little guy! He's so teeny! (Obligatory note: I do not support feeding wildlife and would not intentionally feed opossums. In this case, there was leftover birdseed from today that I didn't pick up, and now it is his bounty. Normally, critters visit my yard for water.)
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Miss Odette is really excited about Diablo.
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Look at this handsome fellow. Sandwich is tiny but packed full of trouble.
a brown tabby lays on a grey heating pad, gazing upwards with green eye (singular).  He is missing his right eye, as well as his right front tooth, so just one long fang pokes up from his bottom jaw on the left side.a brown tabby is curled up on a grey heating pad. His tongue is out as he likes his face.a brown tabby is curled up on a grey heating pad, biting his own damn tail
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Tziva @tziva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Juvenile Cooper's Hawk🪶 outside my front window (we startled each other!), perched on a metal crow figurine in my oregano pot. Even spiced with herbs, I don't think metal crow tastes very good buddy! Try another bird, one made of meat. I know you're learning still, so good luck!
A juvenile cooper's hawk with a splotchy breast and light eyes faces towards the window that the camera is peering out of. his head is slightly turned away in profile. He is perched on a black metal object that is vaguely bird-shaped.
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