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Ecologist, mom, wife, possessed of a greyhound, accidental gardener, puns are my jam.
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ehwells.bsky.social
Made soda bread for dinner tonight, which gave us the chance at a truly groan-worthy pun.

Spouse: So, da bread, what's it called?
Me: I rish I knew.
December 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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calacademy.bsky.social
Please join us in sending heartfelt thanks and condolences to the extraordinary team of animal care specialists and veterinarians who provided the best care for Claude every day. And thank you for loving Claude so fiercely over the years.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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samthielman.com
AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re-
BEASTIES: MORSE
AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of
Beasties: COURSE
MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy
BEASTIES: MOOCHER
MCA: We’re Christmas Past
MIKE D: Christmas Present
BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE
January 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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nnedi.bsky.social
The crested auklet is so cheeky. 😆
A created auklet looking cheeky
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
ehwells.bsky.social
@sarahmackattack.bsky.social , the kids are doing the first night of Eel Facts!
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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speculativeinsight.bsky.social
If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic:

www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Amazing!!
friendsofmidway.bsky.social Friends Of Midway Atoll (FOMA) @friendsofmidway.bsky.social · 3d
Wisdom’s mate joins
her!
🎼 #Reunited
USFWS staff spotted band EX25 on 11/25. No, he has not been named; we await that news.
So far we have a few photos and we'll share more as we receive them.
Here's to a successful egg laying and hatching season for these two!

Photos by Chris Forster.
#Birds
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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jolantru.bsky.social
*squee!*
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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phylogenomics.bsky.social
Northern flicker - red shafted - flying from my neighbors yard to my yard yesterday. #birds
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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charliejane.bsky.social
I contain multitudes

Oh

Oh shit

My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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leftoblique.bsky.social
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.

www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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pymundgenealogy.bsky.social
Whoever did not eat a k'zayit of the bird did not fulfill their obligation.
The meritorious eat the bird until sleepiness overtakes them.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Part 68 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg

An Inuit otter amulet. Engraved and pigmented ivory
A hand to cheeks otter pose igory
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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captainawkward.bsky.social
Back when the Deep Magic was written, including REM’s Nightswimming or more than 3 Peter Gabriel OR Indigo Girls songs was code for “I love you.” The tape could be placed in the crush’s locker or “accidentally” left behind in their car, to be experienced in absentia so as not to ruin it.
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
forest foot
tree trunk shaped like a foot
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
And that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, and that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. And these are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", ', and they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls and drones and bombs and guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent and worthwhile existence, and that is what we want." And that is the fucking real difference between these two, and you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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nnedi.bsky.social
Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door.

This is who it was:
A male Anna’s hummingbird at the door. So nosy! 🤣
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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kikidoodle.bsky.social
Ultimate 🦐!!

#cats
An orange cornish rex cat is curled into a ball other than his LONG legs sticking out.
November 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ehwells.bsky.social
Early-winter pollinator garden offerings.
A red and white flower of a 'Hot Lips' sage plant, with a small fly on it. Two bright red flowers of California fuschia. A spike of purple flowers of some sort of sage, maybe Mystic Spires. A yellow sunflower-like flower of a Great Valley Gum plant.
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
narrative of hosting an admin party for everyone to sit together with snacks, be merry, pay bills and make doctors appointments and manage life
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
ehwells.bsky.social
Household ritual: when missing an item (cell phone, ear piece, keys), you ask out loud, "Dog, where did you put my [item]?" Dog hops up and accompanies you around the house as you look for it.

This slightly decreases finding time (Cohen's d= -1.2, p= 0.09). More replication (and treats) needed.
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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catvalente.bsky.social
MY FRIENDS IT IS WORD TRIVIA TIME

Do you know the actual term for one of these?

These elegant things dreamy 19th c. waifs carry?

A trug.

TRUG

One of the ugliest words I’ve ever heard & now I can’t stop making stupid drug puns because obviously sex, trugs, & rock n roll is my ACTUAL DREAM LIFE
November 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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kbspangler.com
I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them.

I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
ehwells.bsky.social
Etsy starts the email that I have a package arriving today with "Ding Dong!" and I have to say I find that form of address a little hurtful.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM