@serendipityhappens.bsky.social
Artist and Librarian. Curious. Trusting in the adventure.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
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Dressed in a spotted owl sweater handmade by his wife, ecologist Rocky Gutierrez explains why he thinks so many people share his love for owls. 🦉
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dressed in a spotted owl sweater handmade by his wife, ecologist Rocky Gutierrez explains why he thinks so many people share his love for owls. 🦉
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I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
December 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!
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one more night in the tidepools tonight & I had a blast seeing who fluoresces! just about every crustacean I found fluoresced including eelgrass isopods (couldn't get a good pic unfortunately)
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 AM
one more night in the tidepools tonight & I had a blast seeing who fluoresces! just about every crustacean I found fluoresced including eelgrass isopods (couldn't get a good pic unfortunately)
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
🌊🌿🦀🐙🦑
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I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago.
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑
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OPINION: "Proponents of vouchers call “choice” freedom, but real freedom is not abandoning public responsibility," Louise Smith writes. "It is building a society where every child, regardless of income or geography, can attend a great public school."
Opinion | Don’t Derail Mississippi’s Education Momentum
Louise Smith writes that Mississippi should commit more to public school improvements rather than school voucher and choice programs.
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October 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
OPINION: "Proponents of vouchers call “choice” freedom, but real freedom is not abandoning public responsibility," Louise Smith writes. "It is building a society where every child, regardless of income or geography, can attend a great public school."
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Tomorrow morning, the thin crescent #moon floats close to Venus. See a lovely glow on the unlit side of the moon? That’s #earthshine! It's sunlight bounced from Earth, onto the surface of the moon. Find out more here: buff.ly/tlWru2T
October 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Tomorrow morning, the thin crescent #moon floats close to Venus. See a lovely glow on the unlit side of the moon? That’s #earthshine! It's sunlight bounced from Earth, onto the surface of the moon. Find out more here: buff.ly/tlWru2T
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BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped
October 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped
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“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
October 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
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‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
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October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
‘Five musicians from the Vienna Philharmonic are thought to have taken their instruments to the camps or ghettos, where they played music before they were liquidated. Then there was silence.’
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueuer on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound’
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A two-headed golden retriever!
October 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A two-headed golden retriever!
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Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
This is not a drill: Chicago
October 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Attn Black people, stop scrolling.
This is not a drill: Chicago
This is not a drill: Chicago
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Even “old” petrostates are investing in solar + other renewable energy to bolster their national production, lower energy costs, and generate revenue from exports
Current US “policy” to end solar/wind projects, invest in coal, destroy public lands is nonsense that hurts the interests of Americans
Current US “policy” to end solar/wind projects, invest in coal, destroy public lands is nonsense that hurts the interests of Americans
Nigeria’s solar moment: 1.7 GW of Chinese panels imported in the past year, leapfrogging Egypt to become Africa’s #2.
Part of a 60% YoY surge across the continent per @ember-energy.org data.
Part of a 60% YoY surge across the continent per @ember-energy.org data.
October 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Even “old” petrostates are investing in solar + other renewable energy to bolster their national production, lower energy costs, and generate revenue from exports
Current US “policy” to end solar/wind projects, invest in coal, destroy public lands is nonsense that hurts the interests of Americans
Current US “policy” to end solar/wind projects, invest in coal, destroy public lands is nonsense that hurts the interests of Americans
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Timeline cleanse.💙
𝑀𝐸𝑅𝐼𝐿𝑉𝐸𝑅
Pandora, 5 months old discovering the sea for the first time
Pandora, 5 months old discovering the sea for the first time
September 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Timeline cleanse.💙
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I had the opportunity to see a pre-screening of this a couple months ago and it is excellent, if heartbreaking. It’s showing soon for a couple weeks at Film Forum in NYC and other places across the nation…great way to honor #BannedBooksWeek
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer
YouTube video by The Librarians Film
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September 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I had the opportunity to see a pre-screening of this a couple months ago and it is excellent, if heartbreaking. It’s showing soon for a couple weeks at Film Forum in NYC and other places across the nation…great way to honor #BannedBooksWeek
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social
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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
September 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
apnews.com/article/bedo... didn’t give permits to these Bedouin villages to build bomb shelters. So they built their own
Israel didn’t give permits to these Bedouin villages to build bomb shelters. So they built their own
When the sirens wail in the southern Israeli desert to herald an incoming missile, Ahmad Abu Ganima’s family scrambles outside.
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September 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
apnews.com/article/bedo... didn’t give permits to these Bedouin villages to build bomb shelters. So they built their own
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The young Pleiades in all their glory, which I managed to shoot two nights ago using my backyard #Astrophotography 🔭📷 setup. I made a bad attempt at fitting a 100My isochrone over my poorly calibrated data to show this...don't try this at home kids 😇.
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social, what do you see?
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social, what do you see?
September 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The young Pleiades in all their glory, which I managed to shoot two nights ago using my backyard #Astrophotography 🔭📷 setup. I made a bad attempt at fitting a 100My isochrone over my poorly calibrated data to show this...don't try this at home kids 😇.
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social, what do you see?
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social, what do you see?
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It's “a critical moment to stop the tinderbox from exploding”, says SPA’s @milleridriss.bsky.social to @camanpour.bsky.social on Charlie Kirk's death, calling for de-escalation rhetoric on social media, seeing calls for civil war, & celebration of the assassination. www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/T...
‘A critical moment to stop the tinderbox from exploding’: political violence expert on Charlie Kirk shooting | CNN
Cynthia Miller-Idriss studies polarization and extremism. She says this is the moment to see a de-escalation of rhetoric.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
It's “a critical moment to stop the tinderbox from exploding”, says SPA’s @milleridriss.bsky.social to @camanpour.bsky.social on Charlie Kirk's death, calling for de-escalation rhetoric on social media, seeing calls for civil war, & celebration of the assassination. www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/T...
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🚨 Happening today!
Join us at 7pm EST for "From Land We Love to Legacy We Keep: Protecting Parks and Monuments for All," a free virtual event hosted by Earth Gives.
Hear from Cheryl Schreier of the Coalition about the urgent threats facing our public lands.
www.earthgives.org/upcoming-eve...
Join us at 7pm EST for "From Land We Love to Legacy We Keep: Protecting Parks and Monuments for All," a free virtual event hosted by Earth Gives.
Hear from Cheryl Schreier of the Coalition about the urgent threats facing our public lands.
www.earthgives.org/upcoming-eve...
September 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🚨 Happening today!
Join us at 7pm EST for "From Land We Love to Legacy We Keep: Protecting Parks and Monuments for All," a free virtual event hosted by Earth Gives.
Hear from Cheryl Schreier of the Coalition about the urgent threats facing our public lands.
www.earthgives.org/upcoming-eve...
Join us at 7pm EST for "From Land We Love to Legacy We Keep: Protecting Parks and Monuments for All," a free virtual event hosted by Earth Gives.
Hear from Cheryl Schreier of the Coalition about the urgent threats facing our public lands.
www.earthgives.org/upcoming-eve...
Children at a puppet show— photo by Alfred Eisenstadt
August 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Children at a puppet show— photo by Alfred Eisenstadt