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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 18/08/2026

Bonded brothers Hans & Franz are the sweetest, cuddliest, friendliest little guys you could ever ask for. They are looking for a home where they can stay together. They’re great w/other cats, dogs, would probably love kids. Located in Elkton, MD. Apply & see all our adoptable cats at: bit.ly/4cOmi21

Hans and Franz, two buff tabby kittens cuddling together.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 08/08/2026

Today is #InternationalCatDay — we want to highlight some of our very special adoptable young cats who have been overlooked & are just waiting for the perfect homes. Junco & Sparrow have had a long road to socialization but are really nice kids. Elena is a CUDDLER who loves attention. bit.ly/4cOmi21

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.org · 01/08/2026

Little cutie Doublestuff was totally in love with his new dad right away yesterday, and was whisked away to his new forever home. Another happy adoption! If you’re looking for a perfect match of your own, you can see all our available kitties here (Mid-Atlantic): www.petfinder.com/member/us/md...

Doublestuff, a cute black and white tuxedo kitten.

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Allie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 27/03/2025

Just draw the fuckin thing yourself. The imperfection is part of the charm. The fact that you drew it is the whole fuckin point. Don't embarrass yourself engineering a prompt, just pick up whatever you have at hand and give it a go. Be a human being.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/03/2025

We loved counting you as a profitable demographic. We loved publicly performing our allyship in the loudest way possible. But the fact is, that time in our life is over. It’s dead. And it’s never coming back. Unless, of course, the political and cultural landscape radically changes.

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We Regret to Inform You We Will No Longer Sponsor Your Pride Parade

“San Francisco Pride loses $300,000 after sponsors drop out: ‘The tone has changed in this country.’” — Them, 3/17/25 - - -Dear Queer Organization,...

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Jana Heidersdorf @checanty.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

even added some traditional colour for finishing touches!

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ha. Wow. "Congratulations" to me, I've been selected for the opportunity to add AI voice acting to my e-books via a certain megacorporation. That's great, because I'm always looking for new ways to betray my human colleagues and fuck my artistic credibility straight into a volcano.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/03/2025

Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.

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こにー @konillustration.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

「ミジンコ」2025.03.16

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Andrew Ihla @andrewihla.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

One of the really special things about Sesame Street was always these little art films that were less about teaching a specific thing than they were about instilling a sort of meditative sense of wonder at how the world works.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yet another dedicated scientist and public servant, this time from US Fish and Wildlife, showing up unpaid after she was fired to volunteer to protect an endangered species. What are we even doing here. 🎁 link: 🧪

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After Elon Musk Fired Her, She Kept Showing Up to Work—for Free

The billionaire and his followers are out to cull federal employees they think are lazy and overpaid. But without people like Bianca Sicich, the Attwater’s prairie chicken could go extinct.

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Tee Nahhhhhhhhh @porkbuns.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

My sales have cratered due to Etsy taking down my stuff/changing their algo/my designs being stolen, but I have a small business selling pins (and other stuff). It doesn't have to be today since it's Blackout, but I'd appreciate if you'd keep me in mind if you need a funny pin <3 shop.turnon.red

An enamel pin set of a rat connected to a pizza slice via chain. The pose of the rat shows him puttling the "cheese string" of the pizza slice, which has oozing cheese and pepperoni slices.

An interactive enamel pin with a column of moods: Tired, Hangry, Salty, and Anxious. There's a little frame that slides up and down and can stay on the mood you choose via magnets in the back.

An enamel pin of a speech bubble saying "Thanks I Hate It" with "Thanks" and the shadow of the bubble in pink glitter. I have this in different colorways, such as black and white with white holographic glitter, with anodized rainbow metal, and one soft version that is yellow, pink, and blue.

An interactive enamel pin of a blue envelope styled after the Outlook symbol, which has a message that slides out. When not pulled up, it says "Ok, Great!" But sliding up reveals the hidden message, which is "(fuck you).

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TB Community Coordination Hub @tbcommunityhub.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Stop work orders on TB projects = halted clinical trials, interrupted treatment, and lost lives. This is unethical & deadly! The world cannot afford to turn its back on TB. Read and amplify our statement here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #RestoreTBFunding #EndTB

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TB Community Coordination Hub Statement in response to U

TB Community Coordination Hub Statement in response to U.S. stop work orders for foreign aid February 14, 2025 The global TB community expresses deep concern about the unfolding impact of the recent ...

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Joshua Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 25/02/2025

They’re the same picture

News alert from the Philadelphia inquire saying that Philadelphia schools will continue to allow transgender athletes to participate in sports that match their gender identity

Gritty, the strange orange mascot of the Philadelphia Flyers, skates on the ice while holding a queer pride flag like a goddamn battle standard

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is one of my favorite poems of all time, written by the wonderful & greatly missed John M. Ford. I’ve been thinking about it a lot recently. So I thought I would share it.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/02/2025

Also screwworm and rinderpest! And if you don’t know what those were, hoo boy, if you think beef is expensive now…

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Jen Cross @jencross.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

E-A-G-L-E-S, Eagles! Super Bowl Champs! #SuperBowlLIX #GoBirds

A Bald Eagle flying against a clear blue sky

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Ivy Noelle Weir @ivynoelle.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

From the bottom of my heart: Go Birds

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Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

figured it would be nice to wrap up this sketch this weekend! :-) 🌟💛

A warm toned digital illustration on a dark background. A pale, mammalian creature with closed eyes bares its carnivorous maw, held wide open. A star with a happy smile sits between its teeth, more featureless stars floating above it. A large flower stalk sits over the creature’s head, and small, simplistic mammals leap over it. The bottom left features a small antlered deer with a star above its back. Below the large, main creature reads “WE HAVE ALWAYS SURVIVED AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO” in a horizontal text. To the right of it in a vertical text reads “OUT OF DEFIANCE AND OUT OF LOVE”. Together both texts frame the lower right side of the artwork.

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Ivy Noelle Weir @ivynoelle.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

reverent whispers in the streets, from the supermarket clerks, the beating of a sacred heart chanting "go birds go birds go birds"

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

This is one of my favorite American kestrel captures so far. I love the position of the wings. (Note: the preview image is cropped a little, which is especially noticeable at the bottom.) laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/ame... #birds 📷

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American Kestrel in Motion by Laurel Gale

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Nina Musser @theninabird.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hello hello! It's been a minute since I've posted my art anywhere. Trying to get back in the habit, as well as connect with other artsy peeps. Here is a smattering of recent-ish work. (Please don't tell me 2022 isn't recent, my heart can't take it.)

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Kerria @kerria.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

There has never been a creature quite like the unicorn in all the realms of fantasy and myth. ~Peter S. Beagle art by Natalia Klimczak

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Sophia @vvlpecvla.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

a little of my own blood for today's elementary-level microscope work.

human blood cells as seen by a compound microscope.

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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here's one of my favorite captures of the male American kestrel in flight. Such a fierce little cutie! laurel-gale.pixels.com/featured/mal... 📷 #birds

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Male American Kestrel in Flight by Laurel Gale

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 26/12/2024

Inscribed Deer Antler • Dublin • c.10-11th Century A thousand years ago, Dublin was a melting pot of Irish & Viking culture. This can be seen on this deer antler, carefully cut and prepared to receive a runic inscription. The message still holds true today It reads: 'deer antler'.

A piece of deer antler with an incised runic inscription against a black background

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 16/12/2023

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

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Ivy Noelle Weir @ivynoelle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

🎁My ONE AND ONLY holiday shopping self promo 🎁: I did write two highly-praised middle grade retellings of THE SECRET GARDEN (with Amber Padilla) and ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (with @palaceofposey.bsky.social ) and you could totally buy them for a young reader in your life: bookshop.org/contributors...

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Books by Ivy Noelle Weir - Bookshop.org

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 11/12/2024

5th person to be cured of HIV “Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”

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5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV

Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

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Sophia @vvlpecvla.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

we are at the part of the cold where the children are essentially well, tearing around the house, and I don't have the energy to stop them, RIP house, u were v. nice

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Jack Inacker @jmi.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is so rad- someone living next to a bus stop in Philly programmed an old clock to let folks know when the next bus is coming.

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Jared Hutchins @pablohutch.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I teach a class on data science here at Illinois and during the seminar I host a competition for the class called "The Hunt for the Worst Data Visualization." This was my most popular post on Xitter, so reproducing some of the best submissions from previous years here:

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Dr Mark D. Scherz @markscherz.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Our second full day in Ranomafana has yielded some simply gorgeous frogs. Just wonderful to get to visit this important forest on our way down to the east coast. 🧪🐸

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

This jewel box is Westerlund 1, a dense cluster of young, massive, ultra-luminous stars. If we lived in the middle of this cluster, we'd see hundreds of stars as bright as the full Moon in our sky. 🧪 esawebb.org/images/potm2...

Westerlund 1 is an impressive example of a super star cluster: it contains hundreds of very massive stars, some shining with a brilliance of almost one million Suns and others two thousand times larger than the Sun (as large as the orbit of Saturn). Indeed, if the Solar System was located at the heart of this remarkable cluster, our sky would be full of hundreds of stars as bright as the full Moon. It appears to be the most massive compact young cluster yet identified in the Milky Way galaxy: astronomers believe that this extreme cluster contains between 50 000 and 100 000 times the mass of the Sun, yet all of its stars are located within a region less than six light-years across.

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The Ghost Egg @theghostegg.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Happy Halloween! 🎃👻🖤

Digital nighttime illustration of a white ghost and orange pumpkin together in a pumpkin patch filled with smaller pumpkins on an earth-toned landscape with pink and orange leaves.

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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags

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Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page

Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 07/10/2024

I worry sometimes about not writing enough, that I waste too much time. Then I think about the lines “The limits of art cannot be delivered. There is no artist whose talent is fulfilled.” Which sentiment was written by a gent named Ptahhotep. In 2600 BC.

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