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Natalie

@abookandadog.com

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

~Zen Shin ❤️🌱

#gardening #bloomscrolling #photography

September 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM

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Anthony Edwards

@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social

Amazing sunset tonight at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach with a bit of a mackerel sky. #CAwx

September 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM

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Lola Jovan

@lolajovan.com

One of the many big sky mornings from our adventure!

#oregoncoast #beachhike #morningwalks #photography #travel #vacation #love

Boulders close by, seastacks in the distance, big sky all around

September 25, 2025 at 12:27 AM

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Dark South

@dark-south.bsky.social

Note how there was a *GROWING* sea ice trend 2019-2022 (COP25-27).

Arctic sea ice this week at 10.6 k km³. This week saw daily sea ice volume at 10.6, and its 9-year average was at 13.6. This was also an All-Time Low for the latter. The annual average just passed 13,000 km³.

July 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM

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Dark South

@dark-south.bsky.social

Earth’s Polar Icecaps are now losing 2.8 Gt/d. That’s 2.8 km³ of ice every day annualised, or every day on average over the past year.
This is the biggest loss so far this decade, not sure about the 2010s and earlier. Source: Grace-FO (NASA) + Piomas (UW)

July 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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Dark South

@dark-south.bsky.social

Amazing meeting my hero Ella at a Nuuk restaurant tonight!
#Arctic #Explorer #Greenland #circumnavigation

July 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM

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Dark South

@dark-south.bsky.social

Antarctica now slated to lose *0 cm* thickness in 2025. Greenland is down to 5 cm.
As April & May data arrives from GRACE-FO via NASA, 2025 estimates for Antarctica and Greenland are down from 1 cm loss to 0, and 6 to 5 cm, respectively.

July 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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Dark South

@dark-south.bsky.social

Atlantifying the #SeaIce
youtube.com/post/Ugkx5Dv...

#Atlantification #Inversion #Arctic #Antarctica

Post from Going South - YouTube

ATLANTIFYING the SEA ICE You may think of it as 'atlanti-frying' because the effect on sea ice is the same. Atlantification; imagine an eternal white plain b...

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July 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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Dark South

@dark-south.bsky.social

Cultural Revolution Episode 🌎💚
open.substack.com/pub/extincti...

Cultural Revolution Episode 🌎💚

Conversations about the Thing.

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September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍

@irishrainforest.bsky.social

Why are there so many butterflies this year? The reason may be darker than you think.

Sightings are up 83% this year, but that follows a steep decline as the habitats that are vital for Ireland’s insects are deteriorating or gone altogether.
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Opnion: Why are there so many butterflies this season? The reason may be darker than you think

Butterfly sightings are up 83% this year, but that follows a steep decline as the habitats that are vital for Ireland’s insects are deteriorating or simply unavailable

www.irishtimes.com

August 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Wildlife

@worldwildlife.bsky.social

Blue Mushroom (𝘔𝘺𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘤𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢): Mycena is a large genus of small saprotrophic mushrooms that are rarely more than a few centimeters in width. This is a fascinating tiny fungi that has been discovered in the past couple of years by Eric Cho in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
#fungi #nature #wildlife #taiwan

August 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM

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George Tsakraklides

@tsakraklides.bsky.social

Why go through all the trouble to occupy DC when you can put people in concentration camps and have AI do all the surveillance for you?As we wake up in mind-controlled chicken factories, we’ll reminisce about George Orwell’s Animal Farm not with horror but nostalgia
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