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biophilia, zazen, and teaching writing

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Chris 𓅨 @bigjuncofan.bsky.social · 5h
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it might shock you how often I make bean burritos for dinner
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Phones are a distraction engine. What if the ban on phones triggered France's high school students' revolt? "According to a professor..., when his students looked up from their smartphones, they discovered that an unbearable world had been prepared for them." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/dimanches...
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 07/10/2026
just some cousin time. not all that surprising
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 07/10/2026
titmouse and surprise guest
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Magnificent oak, covered in moss, tangled branches reach out. #ThickTrunkTuesday
a huge ancient oak tree fills the frame of the photo in a dense wood. massive branches are covered in moss. sun shines through the leaves up high. bracken and bramble down low.
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Nature’s Edge @edge-nature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dainty Sulfur Butterflies have been very abundant this year.
A tiny muted yellow butterfly on a yellow flower.
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 06/10/2026
witness my house a bit of yard and a titmouse
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 05/10/2026
Meta's Muse mascot just looks like one of those Doctor Who adipose/body fat monsters to me
Doctor Who adipose/body fat monster
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truth
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 30/09/2026
nice. I've enjoyed this song so much with each hearing and now you've added another dimension
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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 28/09/2026
easy solution - make college free
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 28/09/2026
Study Finds Deer Only Mammal Besides Humans That Totally Suck — theonion.com/study-finds-...
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Study Finds Deer Only Mammal Besides Humans That Totally Suck
STARKVILLE, MS—Shedding new light on the ecology of the common woodland creature, a new study published Friday by Mississippi State University biologists has found that deer are the only mammal beside...
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 27/09/2026
I fully acknowledge that someday I will hear Choosin' Texas and recognize it as such. but I'm not going to bother looking for it
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 25/09/2026
jokes on him, though. I retire in six years, and we're going to sell the house and follow him wherever he goes
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 25/09/2026
well that's it. the boy has moved to Atlanta over 800 miles from me
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
World Championship Pond Crossing at the Sugarloaf Bike Park in New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦 IG: @crankworxsummerseries www.instagram.com/crankworxsum...
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/09/2026
This year, the winner of Fat Bear Week will come to your home and replace your smoke alarm batteries.
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
My body is a machine
A diagram of a human head with highlighted sections, eye, brain, mouth, and the words "My body is a system of complex machines, taking in and processing information, and turning it into the dumbest thing you've ever heard"

From the mouth come the words "yeah I think if some guys tried to break into my house I could take them out with my nunchucks."
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026
Happy mushroom season!
A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".
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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
QRP your bird art 🐓 Also all chicken haha (Hi I am a marine biologist 🦑) #Art #SciArt
A 4-panel graphic with the title "Know your chickens". Top left is "land chicken". It's a drawing of a chicken and says underneath "most abundant bird on Earth". Top right is "chicken of the sea". It's a drawing of a tuna and says underneath "not actually a chicken". Bottom left is "formal chicken". It's a drawing of a penguin and says underneath "this is a penguin". Bottom right is "headless chicken monster". It's a drawing of a red body that's the shape of a chicken you just bought from the roaster but where its head would have been is a purple flower-looking thing. It has short, cape-like ruffles coming off of what feel like its shoulders and where the legs would have been are purple, ribbed wing-looking things like would run down the back of the neck on a swamp monster. Underneath it says "a deep-sea sea cucumber (related to sea urchins)".
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 21/09/2026
I don't know what top 10 TV shows of the current century I'd list, but I do know that at least 2 would be animated: Bob's Burgers and Venture Bros. (The Simpsons is out of the running because it's from the previous century)
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sweet kestrel pair this morning. 🪶
Female and male American kestrels perched together on a power pole.
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 20/09/2026
I love that stories like this are a regular feature in NJ local newspapers www.app.com/story/news/2...
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Is it legal for your neighbor to park in front of your house in NJ?
Whether neighbors are throwing a party or people are visiting the area, someone parking in front of your house can be annoying. But is it illegal?
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 20/09/2026
and I'm saying that after spending half an hour cleaning up their shit and piss because they decided they don't care for the new brand of litter
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 20/09/2026
really loved my dogs but reverting back to a cat dad has been a joy - getting these buttheads has been the best decision ever
two kittens curled up together in a pile of blankets
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I keep seeing articles about men worrying they won't pass on their genes, and I don't understand why the media won't tell the plain truth: as a man hoping to sire children, the most important thing to do is artfully assemble a bower and surround it with a collection of startlingly blue objects.
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 18/09/2026
did we write that into the concessions for WWII that the Axis powers would surrender everything except writing supplies?
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 18/09/2026
I've been getting into fountain pens (like I need another hobby on my salary) and so why are the best pens German, Japanese, or Italian?
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 17/09/2026
"no, no, I get it"
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 17/09/2026
copy cats
two small cats holding identical poses as they look out an open window
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 17/09/2026
I read it late in my reading career, so after every thing else that's influenced me deeply, but it changed me so much more than any other work I read before it
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 17/09/2026
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is probably the single greatest piece of work by an American writer in the 20th century. I mean it
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 16/09/2026
I feel this petapixel.com/2026/09/15/5...
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54 Lens Caps Have Been Removed From Yellowstone's Hydrothermal Areas So Far This Year
Hold onto your (lens) caps, photographers.
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 14/09/2026
who's going to stand up for the bees *with* stingers though
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 14/09/2026
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/h...
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Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights
Two local ordinances granted rights to at least 175 stingless bee species in Peru, which are culturally and spiritually significant to Indigenous peoples and help maintain a healthy rainforest ecosyst...
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 11/09/2026
one week in and gahhh. can I really do thirteen more weeks of this in a row?
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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
this is ancient from 2019 but I need to do something with it, or t least show it to the world
virtual reality dream world of a turtle. there's ponds and a star-like heat lamp. concept art from 'life after bob', an animated sci-fi film
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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Orion is currently accepting pitches! From now until Sept. 15, Orion is accepting pitches for the online publication, as well as poems for our Spring issue. Learn more and submit here! orionmagazine.org/article/want...
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Want to Write for Orion? - Orion Magazine
Submission windows for digital-exclusive stories and in-print poetry are opening soon!
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
tfw yr gonna live alone in the bee-loud glade
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 07/09/2026
but there are significantly more wild birds and mammals when we consider numbers (bats, e.g., are small)
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 07/09/2026
here's an interesting one: livestock make up 10 times the biomass of wild mammals and birds
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a rising cloud of gnats seen against the sunlight @woodthrush.net · 07/09/2026
half of all wild mammals are bats
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