VINE Sanctuary
@vinesanctuary.bsky.social
LGBTQ-led farmed animal sanctuary. Follow for news and views from our fabulous multispecies community!
https://linktr.ee/VINESanctuary
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Initially very wary of people, Be now has NO PROBLEM getting up close and personal with sanctuary staff!
February 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Initially very wary of people, Be now has NO PROBLEM getting up close and personal with sanctuary staff!
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The 2026 Plant Powered Youth Fellowship empowers students to bring healthier, plant-powered meals to their schools. Fellows receive training, mentorship, and tools to lead real change.
Deadline: March 1, 2026
www.plantpoweredschoolmeals.com/apply
Deadline: March 1, 2026
www.plantpoweredschoolmeals.com/apply
February 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
The 2026 Plant Powered Youth Fellowship empowers students to bring healthier, plant-powered meals to their schools. Fellows receive training, mentorship, and tools to lead real change.
Deadline: March 1, 2026
www.plantpoweredschoolmeals.com/apply
Deadline: March 1, 2026
www.plantpoweredschoolmeals.com/apply
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Interested in learning more about NAMs? Apply for the 2026 Summer Immersion on Innovative Approaches in Science — a free four-day event (June 15–18, Baltimore) focused on in vitro, in chemico, and in silico methods.
Travel awards available. Apply by 4/3.
app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80243...
Travel awards available. Apply by 4/3.
app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80243...
February 18, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Interested in learning more about NAMs? Apply for the 2026 Summer Immersion on Innovative Approaches in Science — a free four-day event (June 15–18, Baltimore) focused on in vitro, in chemico, and in silico methods.
Travel awards available. Apply by 4/3.
app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80243...
Travel awards available. Apply by 4/3.
app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80243...
Initially very wary of people, Be now has NO PROBLEM getting up close and personal with sanctuary staff!
February 17, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Initially very wary of people, Be now has NO PROBLEM getting up close and personal with sanctuary staff!
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Day 1328 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and even the ladybugs are now having meetings, asking how long it is until spring 🤗🐞🐞🐞❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
#365DaysWild
February 17, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Day 1328 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and even the ladybugs are now having meetings, asking how long it is until spring 🤗🐞🐞🐞❤️ #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
#365DaysWild
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Can you find the alpaca aptly known as "Max the Spy" in this panoramic photo?
February 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Can you find the alpaca aptly known as "Max the Spy" in this panoramic photo?
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Don't know much about Friedensreich Hundertwasser but was taken by this little book of his art, and especially this art and commentary on cars.
February 15, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Don't know much about Friedensreich Hundertwasser but was taken by this little book of his art, and especially this art and commentary on cars.
Can you find the alpaca aptly known as "Max the Spy" in this panoramic photo?
February 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Can you find the alpaca aptly known as "Max the Spy" in this panoramic photo?
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It's fun to become close to someone who's different from you. Elder Rosie the goat and young Seymour the sheep play head-butting games together so often that they each have a bare spot on their head!
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
It's fun to become close to someone who's different from you. Elder Rosie the goat and young Seymour the sheep play head-butting games together so often that they each have a bare spot on their head!
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong's essay collection Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, about the rich lives of invertebrates from sea snails to squid, is often quite beautiful; my review, which takes up the role of imagination in science, is up @science.org #invertebrate #invertebrates #nature #naturewriting #Booksky 🧪
Imagining the rich lives of invertebrates
A writer’s evocative meditations invite readers to consider the often-overlooked creatures on their own terms
www.science.org
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Mandy-Suzanne Wong's essay collection Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl, about the rich lives of invertebrates from sea snails to squid, is often quite beautiful; my review, which takes up the role of imagination in science, is up @science.org #invertebrate #invertebrates #nature #naturewriting #Booksky 🧪
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Just sayin...we know which one we will be drinking 🫘🌱
Water is a scarce resource on this planet, so if we can make choices daily, that can affect us positively and our planet, then why wouldn't we? 🌍❤️
Water is a scarce resource on this planet, so if we can make choices daily, that can affect us positively and our planet, then why wouldn't we? 🌍❤️
February 12, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Just sayin...we know which one we will be drinking 🫘🌱
Water is a scarce resource on this planet, so if we can make choices daily, that can affect us positively and our planet, then why wouldn't we? 🌍❤️
Water is a scarce resource on this planet, so if we can make choices daily, that can affect us positively and our planet, then why wouldn't we? 🌍❤️
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Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
It's fun to become close to someone who's different from you. Elder Rosie the goat and young Seymour the sheep play head-butting games together so often that they each have a bare spot on their head!
February 12, 2026 at 5:26 PM
It's fun to become close to someone who's different from you. Elder Rosie the goat and young Seymour the sheep play head-butting games together so often that they each have a bare spot on their head!
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Someone replying to this thread asked me about organic milk but I can't find it now. The answer is that organic doesn't bar most of the things that make dairy farming so cruel, like cow-calf separation & housing calves in solitary confinement. See this canonical story:
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Someone replying to this thread asked me about organic milk but I can't find it now. The answer is that organic doesn't bar most of the things that make dairy farming so cruel, like cow-calf separation & housing calves in solitary confinement. See this canonical story:
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Beans, peas, and other pulses are good for you, good for the planet, and make animal-based protein unnecessary! For #WorldPulsesDay check out our guide to cooking with pulses: vinesanctuary.org/how-to-cook-...
February 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Beans, peas, and other pulses are good for you, good for the planet, and make animal-based protein unnecessary! For #WorldPulsesDay check out our guide to cooking with pulses: vinesanctuary.org/how-to-cook-...
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Around here, you never know who might cross your path. Here's Muey the emu and Shadow the sheep, each pursuing her own projects
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Around here, you never know who might cross your path. Here's Muey the emu and Shadow the sheep, each pursuing her own projects
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Beans, peas, and other pulses are good for you, good for the planet, and make animal-based protein unnecessary! For #WorldPulsesDay check out our guide to cooking with pulses: vinesanctuary.org/how-to-cook-...
February 10, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Beans, peas, and other pulses are good for you, good for the planet, and make animal-based protein unnecessary! For #WorldPulsesDay check out our guide to cooking with pulses: vinesanctuary.org/how-to-cook-...
Around here, you never know who might cross your path. Here's Muey the emu and Shadow the sheep, each pursuing her own projects
February 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Around here, you never know who might cross your path. Here's Muey the emu and Shadow the sheep, each pursuing her own projects
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OHSU’s board approved a resolution opening negotiations to close the Oregon National Primate Research Center and transition to a sanctuary.
During negotiations, breeding is paused—an important step toward humane, human-based science.
Learn more: www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
During negotiations, breeding is paused—an important step toward humane, human-based science.
Learn more: www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
February 9, 2026 at 10:17 PM
OHSU’s board approved a resolution opening negotiations to close the Oregon National Primate Research Center and transition to a sanctuary.
During negotiations, breeding is paused—an important step toward humane, human-based science.
Learn more: www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
During negotiations, breeding is paused—an important step toward humane, human-based science.
Learn more: www.pcrm.org/news/news-re...
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"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥
Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis
We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...
www.democracynow.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"Anybody knows, who studies history, what happens when you have folks who are now treating these humans as bodies, and you have no reason to believe you’re going to make it out alive from a place where they’re already calling you a body." Thank you, Aliya Rahman, for this brave testimony & analysis💥
“Its ethereal and delicate presence in such an extreme environment was deeply surprising” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...
This Giant Phantom Jelly Won’t Eat You. Maybe.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 4:48 PM
“Its ethereal and delicate presence in such an extreme environment was deeply surprising” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/s...
Gentle Justin and rapscallion Faith are just two of the sanctuary denizens who depend on us to deliver hay every day in the winter, when pastures are covered in snow
February 5, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Gentle Justin and rapscallion Faith are just two of the sanctuary denizens who depend on us to deliver hay every day in the winter, when pastures are covered in snow
Please join us in remembering the generous heroism of Luna, who fed the calf of another mother even though she herself was starving. Read her amazing story here: conta.cc/4bt15vG
February 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Please join us in remembering the generous heroism of Luna, who fed the calf of another mother even though she herself was starving. Read her amazing story here: conta.cc/4bt15vG