Foster Kitten
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Here the story starts with the king atop his hoard of wealth and debris. His subjects bring him offerings and treasures to add to his pile. Soon a missive arrives from the queen of bees. Is it war, marriage, or discussion of flight lanes?
#crow #queenbee #art #artsky #bskyart #crowking
#crow #queenbee #art #artsky #bskyart #crowking
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Remarkable impact: there were no reported cases of #cervicalcancer among women in Scotland who received the #HPV vaccine at the age of 12–13 in the 12 years following vaccination. Here’s a look at studies from around the world that show that #VaccinesWork to #StopCervicalCancer: bit.ly/489S33A
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Remarkable impact: there were no reported cases of #cervicalcancer among women in Scotland who received the #HPV vaccine at the age of 12–13 in the 12 years following vaccination. Here’s a look at studies from around the world that show that #VaccinesWork to #StopCervicalCancer: bit.ly/489S33A
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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25 days left to sign this petition, folks!
Save Art History, because it really matters 💥
#nzpol
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
Save Art History, because it really matters 💥
#nzpol
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
petitions.parliament.nz
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
25 days left to sign this petition, folks!
Save Art History, because it really matters 💥
#nzpol
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
Save Art History, because it really matters 💥
#nzpol
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
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what if... hear me out... we made uni free AND did the cgt?
November 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
what if... hear me out... we made uni free AND did the cgt?
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🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
October 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
🐧We researched one of the world’s rarest #penguins. The yellow‑eyed penguin (aka hoiho/takaraka) isn’t one homogeneous species after all!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#hoiho #conservation #genomics #birds #nzwildlife #endangered #wildlife #nature
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Simeon Brown said yesterday that average senior doctors are paid:
$343,543K pa (including OT and allowances, not one talks about a salary including OT lol)
The actual figure is:
$254,000K ($89,543 difference)
Any OT these doctors are doing is due to understaffing! #NZPol
$343,543K pa (including OT and allowances, not one talks about a salary including OT lol)
The actual figure is:
$254,000K ($89,543 difference)
Any OT these doctors are doing is due to understaffing! #NZPol
October 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Simeon Brown said yesterday that average senior doctors are paid:
$343,543K pa (including OT and allowances, not one talks about a salary including OT lol)
The actual figure is:
$254,000K ($89,543 difference)
Any OT these doctors are doing is due to understaffing! #NZPol
$343,543K pa (including OT and allowances, not one talks about a salary including OT lol)
The actual figure is:
$254,000K ($89,543 difference)
Any OT these doctors are doing is due to understaffing! #NZPol
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Get ready to see the smallest tiniest snails I’ve ever found. There are three babies and a mummy snail just wondering about about amongst the lichen on this twig I picked up. It’s a little bit of paradise saved from getting crushed by a car on our farm track. Who needs to go on Safari 😂
October 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Get ready to see the smallest tiniest snails I’ve ever found. There are three babies and a mummy snail just wondering about about amongst the lichen on this twig I picked up. It’s a little bit of paradise saved from getting crushed by a car on our farm track. Who needs to go on Safari 😂
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For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.
We can’t afford to NOT do it.
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Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...
Indian Railways to achieve net zero targets in 2025 itself - 5 years ahead of 2030 goal - Times of India
India Business News: Indian Railways is set to achieve net-zero targets by year-end, surpassing its 2030 goal through extensive electrification. Aiming for 95% electric tr
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Not nearly enough is made of the incredibly impressive feat Indian Railways has made to electrify almost 100% of its 135,000km of track, while also growing renewable sourcing. Huge:
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/ind...
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What if parrots were GIANT?
What if they came up to your waist and weighed twice as much as the largest living parrot (the kākāpō).
Well, nature has an answer for you! Let's meet the extinct parrot with the fabulous name: 'Heracles inexpectatus'
(🧑🎨: Paul Scofield, Canterbury Museum)
What if they came up to your waist and weighed twice as much as the largest living parrot (the kākāpō).
Well, nature has an answer for you! Let's meet the extinct parrot with the fabulous name: 'Heracles inexpectatus'
(🧑🎨: Paul Scofield, Canterbury Museum)
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What if parrots were GIANT?
What if they came up to your waist and weighed twice as much as the largest living parrot (the kākāpō).
Well, nature has an answer for you! Let's meet the extinct parrot with the fabulous name: 'Heracles inexpectatus'
(🧑🎨: Paul Scofield, Canterbury Museum)
What if they came up to your waist and weighed twice as much as the largest living parrot (the kākāpō).
Well, nature has an answer for you! Let's meet the extinct parrot with the fabulous name: 'Heracles inexpectatus'
(🧑🎨: Paul Scofield, Canterbury Museum)
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Have you ever heard a goat snoring? Take a listen to Shadow… 😂
September 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Have you ever heard a goat snoring? Take a listen to Shadow… 😂
Happy, wholesome shit happening on the internet
For a whole year I shared a riverbank with a male mute swan
Everyday on my walk we conversed without a word being said
Every day I hoped he found the partner he craved
This year he brought his new family to see me
Everyday on my walk we conversed without a word being said
Every day I hoped he found the partner he craved
This year he brought his new family to see me
July 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Happy, wholesome shit happening on the internet
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I can't be silent any longer. The shark influencers are lying to you.
The shark in this poster. The shark of all sharks. *The Shark*.
It's a shortfin mako.
Great Whites don't look like that.
The shark in this poster. The shark of all sharks. *The Shark*.
It's a shortfin mako.
Great Whites don't look like that.
July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I can't be silent any longer. The shark influencers are lying to you.
The shark in this poster. The shark of all sharks. *The Shark*.
It's a shortfin mako.
Great Whites don't look like that.
The shark in this poster. The shark of all sharks. *The Shark*.
It's a shortfin mako.
Great Whites don't look like that.
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💉 More reasons to get (and keep getting) your 'flu vaccinations -
What if something quick and free could cut your heart attack risk by 34%? Getting a flu vaccine each year is linked to a 34% lower risk of major cardiovascular events. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Influenza Vaccination and Cardiovascular Risk
This meta-analysis updates a previous meta-analysis examining the association of seasonal influenza vaccination with prevention of adverse cardiovascular events for a new large clinical trial.
jamanetwork.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
💉 More reasons to get (and keep getting) your 'flu vaccinations -
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The Baileys went from being conventional medical doctors to sovereign citizens who deny germ theory. They now have a popular Substack where they have advised cancer patients to not get chemotherapy and for people with mental illnesses to go off their meds www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
The Baileys and their crusade against modern medicine
From their estate in rural Canterbury, former medical doctors have found a new calling: Trying to prove that viruses aren’t real.
www.thepress.co.nz
June 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Baileys went from being conventional medical doctors to sovereign citizens who deny germ theory. They now have a popular Substack where they have advised cancer patients to not get chemotherapy and for people with mental illnesses to go off their meds www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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Snack time! Fresh sargassum brings all the fish to the Cam! #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #stoplightparrotfish #yellowtailparrotfish #redtailparrotfish #redbandparrotfish #bluetang #slipperydickwrasse #sargassum #snacktime #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
June 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Snack time! Fresh sargassum brings all the fish to the Cam! #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #stoplightparrotfish #yellowtailparrotfish #redtailparrotfish #redbandparrotfish #bluetang #slipperydickwrasse #sargassum #snacktime #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity
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#NZpol #Christchurch
Christchurch council commits to pay equity despite law change
- 290 library workers to “get a pay rise to reflect the “true value” of their work, despite the abrupt cancellation of their pay equity claim.”
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Christchurch council commits to pay equity despite law change
- 290 library workers to “get a pay rise to reflect the “true value” of their work, despite the abrupt cancellation of their pay equity claim.”
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Christchurch gives librarians pay rise anyway, after pay equity case dissolved
Some 290 library workers across Christchurch will get a pay rise despite the abrupt cancellation of their pay equity claim.
www.thepress.co.nz
June 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
#NZpol #Christchurch
Christchurch council commits to pay equity despite law change
- 290 library workers to “get a pay rise to reflect the “true value” of their work, despite the abrupt cancellation of their pay equity claim.”
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
Christchurch council commits to pay equity despite law change
- 290 library workers to “get a pay rise to reflect the “true value” of their work, despite the abrupt cancellation of their pay equity claim.”
www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3607...
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1000 windows from around the world. All here www.andrevicentegoncalves.com/photography-...
June 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
1000 windows from around the world. All here www.andrevicentegoncalves.com/photography-...
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In Shropshire, rooks were thought to be wise and incredibly pious birds. It has even been suggested that they were sacred in former days. When the master of the household dies, you must inform the rooks, as you would the bees, to avoid insulting them.
#Folklore #Shropshire
#Folklore #Shropshire
June 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
In Shropshire, rooks were thought to be wise and incredibly pious birds. It has even been suggested that they were sacred in former days. When the master of the household dies, you must inform the rooks, as you would the bees, to avoid insulting them.
#Folklore #Shropshire
#Folklore #Shropshire
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Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝
Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC.
Photo Getty Museum
#Archaeology
Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC.
Photo Getty Museum
#Archaeology
May 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Happy #WorldBeeDay! 🐝
Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC.
Photo Getty Museum
#Archaeology
Silver tetradrachm coin minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC.
Photo Getty Museum
#Archaeology
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Random: My office/workshop door lock has been getting cranky so I just took the handle off, preparing to take the lock out and replace it. The first thing I found was the local masonry #bees (small, harmless) have built a creche inside the handle casing :/
May 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Random: My office/workshop door lock has been getting cranky so I just took the handle off, preparing to take the lock out and replace it. The first thing I found was the local masonry #bees (small, harmless) have built a creche inside the handle casing :/