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Mael Brigde - 𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘺 🇨🇦
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Brigit; birds, bugs, & plants; SF; #TheArchers
Author: A Brigit of Ireland Devotional - Sun Among Stars

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"The Perpetual Flame at Kildare” an essay on Brigit’s Sparkling Flame. #BrigidOfIreland #IrishSaints #PaganSky

Image by Mael Brigde: Close-up of lit candle in glass cylinder on bog oak candle stand, with two gold-painted oak leaves beside the candle. Solas Bhride Centre & Hermitages, Kildare (2023)
The Perpetual Flame at Kildare
The Perpetual Flame at Kildare And what of Brigit’s flame, this central aspect of her modern cult? In medieval times it was tended by her ...
brigitssparklingflame.blogspot.com
The Archers in Scotland! What could possibly go wrong?
#TheArchers
November 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Say! Do you think those folk will be stranded in Blackpool long enough for the Strictly event on Saturday? That would be fun. #TheArchers
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
So, bye-bye, Dean. Hello, crofting.

#TheArchers
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
#birdoftheday #birdsofFrontRange #birdsofBluesky #plumescrolling #iNat
Stare-down by a juvenile American Goldfinch from late summer.
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A great little thread about #Reindeer.
#Mammals #NaturalHistory #UnnaturalHistory
Xmas season is approaching and soon people are gonna be doing that "Rudolph had antlers so she must have been a girl lol" thing, and it has never stopped annoying me.

Ok, kids, gather around. Reindeer physiology isn't all that simple. Yes it is true that bulls drop antlers and does keep them...
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
#SmallBeauties. And even smaller beauties!
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I heard this quote yesterday, but the name went by too fast and I only caught the given name.

“Forgiveness isn't an erasure of the past but its transfiguration.” Milosz _____
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
So, what is with Welsh people and driving on beaches? Is this really a thing? I'm watching this Welsh TV series and everybody is driving on beaches all the time! You'd never get away with that here.
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Thank goodness it’s Fly-day. We made it!

Ceraunus Blue butterfly
(Hemiargus ceraunus)

Sugden Regional Park
Naples, Florida 11-5-25

#flyday #eastcoastkin #BugSky #native #insects #Lepidoptera #butterflies #flowers #macro #photography #macroPhotography #nature #naturePhotography #art #florida #bugs
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I picked up my camera bag after taking some photos of mushrooms and discovered that an ensatina (a kind of lungless salamander) had crawled under the bag!

It's the opposite of "the one that got away".

Woodhaven Swamp, Belcarra, BC.

#herps #salamander 🌿 #naturephotography
November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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A very stark reminder why no one goes out on foot after dark in Churchill, Manitoba. This mom and her cubs came just off the beach and behind the town complex. The Polar Bear Alert staff gently herded them away from town to keep everyone safe. #mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Looks good. Some of you might like this. #Picts #PaganSky
Carved in Stone is officially out!

In this comprehensive setting guide you'll be able to see, touch, taste, hear and smell your way through everything that modern-day scholars currently know of the enigmatic culture of the Picts, from the perspective of someone living in the late 7th Century.
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Windfall apple in the grass on this wild, wet and windy morning. November #SmallBeauties
November 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Aarghhh! Everyone in this show is getting right up my nose! It is getting very crowded in there. I don't know how many times I can swear at this television show.
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
UK viewers:

The Walk-In, true story about British neofascism and people working to stop it, is leaving Netflix on 30 November. It’s an excellent series.

www.netflix.com/ie/title/817...
Watch The Walk-In | Netflix
Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization tells the story of a reformed neo-Nazi's efforts to infiltrate a dangerous far-right group.
www.netflix.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica

#butterflies #nature #bugsky
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Characters ask each other these deep questions that I really want to know the answer to and the answer they get is, “it’s a long story.” And then they just let it go! They don’t even say, “well, it’s not like I’m going anywhere…” 😖
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Well, that was lovely and sincere and surprisingly well done. Good work, George. I really do think I see rehabilitation on the horizon. #TheArchers #TeamGeorge
November 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I had a sudden urge to sing "Níl sé ina lá” (after going over irregular verbs in class: yes, the song does have some). I can’t find it! I have a great big binder of Irish songs, many of which I used to sing often, but I kind of got out of singing. I’m trying to resurrect that beloved occupation. 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!

Something borrowed: Ancestral variation and introgression drive rapid evolution in Darwin’s Finches
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/s...

Based on the Science Advances paper by Carl-Johan Rubin, Erik Enbody and their colleagues | #ornithology
Something borrowed: Ancestral variation and introgression drive rapid evolution in Darwin’s Finches
Genomic study identifies 28 ancestral genetic modules that predate the radiation.
avianhybrids.wordpress.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
In too much modern fantasy, death is a dispensable inconvenience. We can wriggle eternally out of facing its blunt finality.

I get the attraction. But at what cost?
November 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Fifty years ago I read a poem by Piet Hein:

I’d like to know
what this whole show
is all about
before it’s out

My mind finally supplied an answer when it popped into my thoughts just now:

It isn’t about anything.

It just is.
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
No.
November 12, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Still my all-time favourite video of Canada in the winter.

youtu.be/L4BuFrruLRs
MONTREAL CANADA CRAZY FUNNY SNOW & ICE CAR ACCIDENT - Funny Pileup [2016-12-05] (Bonus Footage)
YouTube video by JRobbles Records
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM