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Rain G. 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
@gestaltgreen.bsky.social
This is a business/education page for Gestalt Green, an (extremely) small LGBTQ+ owned business focusing on native plants, mainly of local ecotypes.

All opinions are my own.

Located in Central Wisconsin.
Perhaps I should do more plant trades this next year.
January 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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BREAKING: Gunmen raid a village in northern Nigeria, killing over 30 people and abducting several others, police say.
Gunmen raid village in northern Nigeria, killing over 30 people and abducting others
Gunmen have killed at least 30 villagers and abducted several others in northern Nigeria’s Niger state.
bit.ly
January 4, 2026 at 11:32 AM
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One of my favourite #FeederWatch visitors, the Northern Flicker. Dig those polkadots #birds 🌿
January 4, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Photographing our endemic Penstemon degeneri at Shelf Road. #nativeplants

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to July 1 🌿
January 1, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Happy New Years, folks. Here’s to another year of lovely gardens for ourselves & our wildlife.
January 1, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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A male Green Honeycreeper, San Vito #CostaRica

#birds #nature
December 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
December 26, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Orange-chinned Parakeet, Bijagua #CostaRica

#birds #nature #parrots
December 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Good news in 2025 you may have missed. Have some optimism & brightness amongst the doom & gloom.

youtu.be/g240fpuG8qY?...
Good News in 2025 (you might have missed)
YouTube video by Sam Bentley
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Metallic tinsel, glittery ornaments, plastic holly that really stays green forever – they look good on your Christmas tree, holiday table, mantel or front door. They’re not such a good look for the planet when we’re done with them, though. (from 2024)
https://to.pbs.org/4iOjrZg
How to make your home merry and bright in an environmentally friendly way
Metallic tinsel, glittery ornaments, plastic holly that really stays green forever – they look good on your Christmas tree, holiday table, mantel or front door. They’re not such a good look for the pl...
www.pbs.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Find joy in moss in the cracks in the concrete.

Find beauty in the lichens growing on those stone steps.

Cherish the little bit of clean air & water that weed in the alley is providing for you.
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Find joy in moss in the cracks in the concrete.

Find beauty in the lichens growing on those stone steps.

Cherish the little bit of clean air & water that weed in the alley is providing for you.
December 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Elegant Orange Sunburst Lichen. Northwest Territories, Canada.
#Lichen #fungi #fungifriends
December 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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A very Happy Christmas to all my followers, from an Irish Atlantic rainforest!
December 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction.
Tears of joy as Nigerian families reunite with kidnapped schoolchildren
Families in north-central Nigeria have joyfully reunited with schoolchildren held for a month after a mass abduction.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like.

we forget these things at our peril
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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As the year draws to a close, a crowd-sourced effort, as well as trackers from advocacy organizations and labor unions, show that the Trump administration has implemented roughly half of the goals laid out in Project 2025. (From @19thnews.org) https://to.pbs.org/3Ng2Ems
Tracking how much of Project 2025 the Trump administration achieved this year
As the year ends, The 19th takes a look at how the conservative policy wishlist for President Donald Trump’s second term affected women and LGBTQ+ Americans.
www.pbs.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Heavy rain and gusty winds from a powerful winter storm system are bringing flash floods and mudslides to parts of Southern California.
Powerful holiday storm lashes Southern California and brings flash floods, mudslides
Heavy rain and gusty winds from a powerful winter storm system are bringing flash floods and mudslides to parts of Southern California.
bit.ly
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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What’s normally the busiest time of the year for Rick’s Toy Box has instead been slow going for founder, Rick Brunner, whose recent surgery has only allowed him to be at the shop on a limited basis.
Local non-profit asking for help to continue distributing handmade toys kids in need
The founder of Rick’s Toy Box is battling a health issue that is causing him to be on the receiving end of having to ask for help this time so the organization can stay afloat.
www.wbay.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Wondering if my nest logs will be used by anything next year. Perhaps I could use them as shelter to grow a sunflower patch out of a mower’s reach too.
December 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Love to see BlueSky grow, but every influx brings some of the pestilence that has infected our country. Dealing with rethuglicans on BSky is as easy as 1-2-3...
December 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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(🦋) BLUESKY NEWS: The South African Sociopath—everyone knows who I mean—has apparently just made a series of changes to Twitter that launched a new exodus. The per-second growth rate here at BlueSky is now *more than triple* what it was yesterday.

So welcome, Twitter refugees! This is *way* better.
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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my festive spirit amidst our grimly stupid reality (2025)
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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The Church of the Gesu at Marquette University welcomed worshipers back on Christmas Eve for the first time since completing a major renovation. TMJ4 spoke with some excited to see its restoration.
Historic Church of the Gesu reopens on Christmas Eve after major renovation
The Church of the Gesu at Marquette University welcomed worshipers back on Christmas Eve for the first time since completing a major renovation. TMJ4 spoke with some excited to see its restoration.
www.tmj4.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM