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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · Apr 11
I think it's important for people to realize that many of the world's largest tragedies were not inevitable; they were allowed.
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santiagomayer.com
Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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pinkzombierose.bsky.social
And one day the girl with the books became the woman writing them.
December 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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catcosplay.bsky.social
What Christmas Movies are on your Tradition list?

#DieHard
A cat dressed as John McClane in a air vent. A cat with a fake gun in a bloody shirt infront of a stuffed bulldog with a shirt that says "now I have a machine gun. Ho-ho-ho
December 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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catcosplay.bsky.social
"Linky... You're Not A Cat, Are You?"

#LegendOfZelda
A cat dressed as Link from Legend of Zelda: Tears of the kingdom. With a green sashimi and a magical grey arm with gold inlay. He bleps at you while sitting next to a Korok.
December 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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greggo.bsky.social
My response to anything over the next two weeks
A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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theonion.com
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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weratedogs.com
This pup managed to sneak her way into a joyride with an unsuspecting delivery driver. Popped up to ask where they're headed and if there's time to get a pup cup on the way. 12/10 (TT: copperdoesstuffs)
December 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Want to find some good accounts to block?

Check the replies to any Jewish organization or politician talking about the Sydney mass shooting of Jews celebrating Hanukkah.
December 14, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting
December 14, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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ace-of-dragons.bsky.social
!!!! oh lord I've been spotted
photo of the back of a chair where you can see the ears and eyes of a fluffy black cat staring at the camera
December 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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theonion.com
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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persiflage.bsky.social
I was 16 when I discovered Edward Thomas. An older woman on whom I had a crush introduced me to him.
I once stood in a corridor in Oxford's JR Hospital and searched a map of Oxfordshire that was on the wall until I located Adlestrop while I waited for news of my landlady's potential heart attack.
Adlestrop By Edward Thomas Yes. I remember Adlestrop— The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was Adlestrop—only the name And willows, willow-herb, and grass, And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, No whit less still and lonely fair Than the high cloudlets in the sky. And for that minute a blackbird sang Close by, and round him, mistier, Farther and farther, all the birds Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. Source: Poems (1917)
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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shadowdogdesigns.bsky.social
Chart-Like Composite #Photographs by Dan Marker-Moore Show the Progression of the 2019 #Solar #Eclipse #photography #art #solareclipse

Link for more info and photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/08/dan-...
Chart-Like Composite #Photographs by Dan Marker-Moore Show the Progression of the 2019 #Solar #Eclipse #photography #art #solareclipse
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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cpsc.gov
Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
A vending machine with a snack called minis, and the brand is Leibniz.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
rachellense.bsky.social
Every. Damn. Day.
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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lilbugboy.bsky.social
Marbles is a big girl now y'all

#cats #kittens #blackcat
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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sandy174.bsky.social
🤎 Thanksgiving is a time to be with family, surrounded by love. MELIA has none. This will be her second in the shelter. Please open your home and heart. She's spending her younger years stuck in a kennel. Quiet adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Repost

💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
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November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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As I have been working with mammals a lot lately, I have had a lot of thoughts about how fur, feathers, or any other filaments affect the silhouette.
A coelophysis with feathers and without. Two completely different animals.
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Tiny dancer! Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
Black and white photo of a stout middle aged woman with dark hair standing outside on a scrubby dead lawn. She is leaning forward and holding the forepaws of a shorthaired tabby cat so that it is “dancing” with her on its hind legs. She seems to be smiling at the cat and maybe talking to it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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weratedogs.com
This is Goose. His stick didn't fit through the door at first. But Goose believed in himself, and more importantly, so did his doorman. 13/10 (TT: bigstickgoose)
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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weratedogs.com
We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM