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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A sprinkling of marine invertebrates 🦑 : Giant clam, nudibranch, tiger cowrie, and tiger flatworm. #scuba #diving #oceanlife #Fiji #marineinvertebrates

A giant clam mostly embedded in the coral substrate but with the fluted opening of its shell and spotted and striped grey and white mantle visible.

A flat sea slug with a white body, a concentric purple ring, and two purple dashes within the ring on a dark rock.

A large snail with a white shell spattered with dark brown polka dots.

A beautiful flatworm. The body is black and edged in deep orange. There is a long lemon-yellow stripe down the length of the body and irregular yellow blotches between the edge of the body and the central stripe.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A few feather stars, aka crinoids. The name crinoid is derived from Greek roots meaning "lily-like", which, um, sure...🦑 #oceanlife #echinoderm #scuba #diving #fiji

A gold and black feather star with its numerous arms curled into a loose ball on coral.

a black feather star sitting in the middle of a patch of pale coral.

A white and a black feather star sitting side by side on a coral mount.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Our very old boi Miska has suddenly decided my wife's Longaberger basket is a perfect napping spot. #catsofBluesky #rescuecats #adoptdontshop

A shaggy black & white cat is curled up in a brown wicker basket sitting on a patchwork quilt atop a cedar chest. He is perfect.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20/09/2026

Giving an external committee power to veto research funding because it doesn’t align to a political agenda will not only harm science, it is a threat to democracy.

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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.

Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Stelis laticincta (Wide-striped Painted Dark Bee) on goldenrod. It looks wasp-y because it's a cleptoparasite - females invade the nests of other bees, lay an egg on the hosts' pollen ball, & her larva kills the host bee's baby and eats the pollen. #nativebees #nativeplants #entomology #insects

A bee with a shiny dark brown body, yellow stripes on the abdomen, and a yellow edge on the prothorax is perched at the top of a yellow goldenrod flower.

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Carrie @carebear620.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I live in the Pacific Northwest & I love the smell of petrichor...

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@Loudmouthkid62 @loudmouthkid62.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

July 23rd is World Whale and Dolphin Day! 🐳🫍🐋🐬 The International Whaling Commission established this holiday in 1986 to mark the historic 1982 vote to ban commercial whaling. We must protect marine mammals and all aquatic wildlife. #conservation #cetaceans #ocean #wildlife

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Flies don't get nearly enough love. They can be efficient pollinators, compost dead things, debride wounds, are important parts of the food web, and some are useful tools in forensic analysis. These Green Bottle Flies (Lucilia sericata) are really quite lovely. #insects #Diptera #flies #entomology

A small fly with clear multiveined wings, large maroon-brown eyes, short bristly antennae, and a metallic coppery green body is perched on an orange poppy flower facing the viewer.

Top view of a handsome fly with a metallic green body and deep maroon eyes, perched on a bloomed-out Pacific Bleeding Heart.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/07/2026

"why don't you win hearts and minds first?" Yeah, that's exactly the reason the right goes after any representation in film. They don't want trans people in media because they don't want people to empathize with trans people at all or know their struggles.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/07/2026

I really wish trans allies would fight as hard for us as those who hate us fight to eliminate us from society. The disparity there is why they're winning.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A mulluscan morning hike with PNW iconic gastropods Pacific Banana Slug and Pacific Sideband Snail. #northwestnature #gastropoda #invertebrates #hiking #oregon

A lovely slug with a long keeled olive greenish body patterned with large black splotches, eyestalks fully extended as it slithers along a gravel and dirt path. It looks very self-actualized.

A slug with an olive green/tan body with smaller black spots is sitting curled up on a dead snag, eyestalks shyly retracted. This slug has not yet had its morning coffee.

Snail with a glossy rugose deep maroon-colored body and fully extended eyestalks, rocking a somewhat scratched-up reddish-brown shell with a black stripe spiraling along it. This snail has places to be.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today, July 10, marks one year since the brutal and chaotic immigration raid by the US DHS on Glass House Farms in Ventura County, CA which resulted in more than 300 farm workers detained by federal agents and the violent death of farm worker Jaime Alanis Garcia. 1/

A photo of UFW President Teresa Romero with the text overlay: Farm workers mourn on 1st anniversary of lethal raid on Glass House Farms

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo literally helped build this nation. He did nothing wrong but build American homes, raise American kids, and pursue the American Dream. He should be alive. 1/

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Red-shouldered Ctenucha Moth (Ctenucha rubroscapus), a day-flying moth found only in the Pacific Northwest (low elevations west of the Cascade Mountains and south of Chehalis WA). Larvae feed on grasses but the adults like to nectar on composites like this ragwort. #Lepidoptera #Insects #entomology

A black moth with slender antennae, a red-orange head, two red stripes on the pronotum, and a thin fringe of white on its oval wings is perched on the yellow composite flowers of tansy

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I am so fucking tired of me and my community being so conveniently disposable...and having our rights matter solely in the context of whether discrimination against us could potentially hurt cisgender people.

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Real Oregonians hike in the rain. And then get beer at a Queer gaming pub afterwards. #waterfalls #rivers #water #pacificnorthwest

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Two panel comic. Panel 1: a spiral notepad is held by an off-panel individual. The notepad reads: TO DO: Peek out from behind a rock; Open and close mouth repeatedly. Panel 2: it’s a moray eel

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A bunch of mudpuddling Western Tiger Swallowtails (Papilio rutulus). Butterflies can also puddle on feces, rotting organic material, or your sweaty arm. Males likely engage in this behavior to obtain sodium, nitrogen, or amino acids. #entomology #Lepidoptera #butterflies #northwestnature #insects

Six tiger swallowtail butterflies with black stripes on butter yellow wings sipping the fluid from dark damp mud.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/06/2026

being transgender is amazing and beautiful, transitioning is one of the greatest choices you can ever make and i hope more people realize that its not dangerous or evil, but liberating

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/06/2026

The morning after pogroms in northern Ireland, the UK just sent letters to hundreds of trans youth saying their NHS partner provider, WellBN, has been banned from providing GAC and they must forcefully detransition within the next month. Fascism has arrived to the UK.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

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Books Unbanned - Get a Card

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

No Pacific Northwest dive is complete without a wolffish (wolf-eel) or two... 🦑 #scuba #diving #NAUIdiver #HoodCanal

The chunky, spotted grey head of wolf eel is visible in a crevice between some boulders. An orange anemone with tentacles retracted is attached to a rock in the foreground.

A side view of the blunt head of a gray wolf-eel peeking from aunder a rock, The mouth is slightly open.

Looking down at the wolf-eel's face. A large dark eye and spiky teeth are visible.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 01/06/2026

He posted this after voting to defund schools that have any policy whatsoever that "advances concepts" related to gender identity. That includes bathrooms, locker rooms, even possibly having a trans teacher state their pronouns. Shame.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 01/06/2026

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

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Natick Bobcat @natickbobcat.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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Zee 🏳️‍🌈🪲🐈🏳️‍⚧️🤿🛶 @zeesm.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's dragonfly season again! Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) and Cardinal Meadowhawk (Sympetrum illotum), both males. #entomology #insects #dragonfly #wetland #odonata

Common Whitetail dragonfly with a dark head, broad silvery pale abdomen, and a dark band 2/3 of the way along each wing perched on a muddy log facing away from the camera.

Cardinal Meadowhawk dragonfly with a bright red-orange abdomen, red face and eyes, and amber wings perched on a small stump, facing sideways to the camera.

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