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Angela
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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cascadian Halfling Druid and IR nerd (Russia, its neighbors🇬🇪🇺🇦, civil society). Democracy is a delicate thing.
Mostly (re-)posts of neat things that help me feel tethered to the ground. Enjoyer of plants, invertebrates, mushrooms, birbs, etc. 8b.
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noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑

Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.

We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Four shots of a baby giant pacific octopus bouncing around
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
(RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 4) outside the embattled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev. Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward, grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking. Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was a clerical collar, but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground. After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois. “I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told Religion News Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday afternoon after about seven hours in custody. Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to talk to you — shut the f–k up.” “It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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rodshelf.bsky.social
Robin in Norwood Green, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
Front view of a European robin perching on a branch, showing the bird's bright red breast.
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
*looks at timeline*

Ok I’m bringing the baby Great Egret floofs out of the “emergency cute” archive.

#birds 🌿
Three very fluffy, bright white bird babies with long necks and sharp beaks sit in a large nest.
November 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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lauraillustrates.bsky.social
I designed an otter blanket! Up for presale on my kofi this weekend. 🦦
Photograph of a woven blanket on a clothesline that features cute otters swimming among kelp and fish. There is a cute decorative border on the sides of the blanket that have seaweed, shells, urchins and fish.
November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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camelliakyoto.bsky.social
when I breathe in the scent
of the mandarin orange blossoms
that await the fifth month,
I recall the fragrance of the sleeves
of one I loved long ago
五月待つ 花橘 香をかげば
昔の人の 袖の香ぞする

-Anonymous. Kokin Wakashū (古今集), Summer 139.
#Japan #tachibana #poetry #Kyoto
Delicate white tachibana flower. Tachibana tree outside the imperial palace's Shishin-den. Tachibana fruit ready for picking. Delicate white tachibana flowers.
November 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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apsciencebylyn.bsky.social
Q: Why are Bugs so silly?

A: Because they don't have a serious bone in their body

*loud booing*

Anyway here's Apache degeeri, a silly derbid planthopper
Pinkish red planthopper with large wings like a maple seed, and a pointy triangular snoot topped with wavy white lines
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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dannyboywesthawk.bsky.social
I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
ouroboreos
toomanymouths.bsky.social lillian @toomanymouths.bsky.social · 2d
oh wow that’s crazy

oreos with bits of

of oreos. in them

Real Bits of Oreos
a photo of Oreo Loaded cookies, which promise real oreo cookie crumbs in the filling of the oreo
November 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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aleesia27.bsky.social
Birds of a feather, weathering the storm together. 💨🦆🦆

#BirdOfTheDay #DucksOutOfWater #sky #photography #nature #clouds #birds
A duck and a mallard sitting next to the river during a storm.
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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angus.bsky.social
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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km-c.bsky.social
#mountainmonday
Snow capped mountain range on a cloudy day beyond the Smoky River as seen cliff top at Sulphur Gates, AB, Canada. Oct. 5, 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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birdsbyalex.bsky.social
I’ve always loved Winter Wrens — tiny birds with fearless personalities!

#wrensday #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
A small brown bird with speckled plumage perched on a branch, tail held upright, against a blurred green background. Photographed in Avon, Connecticut.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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maryhrovat.bsky.social
Fall and winter, overlapping.
The center of the image shows sloping ground covered in yellow leaves, framed by trees. In the foreground, two low curved stone walls on opposite banks of a small creek. In the distance, behind a screen of trees, buildings and sidewalks.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"According to numerous reports, your 'guidance' has essentially been limited to the following: 'We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.' This is not sound career advice, Mr. Vonnegut."
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Your Services As Guidance Counselor Are No Longer Required, Mr. Vonnegut
Dear Mr. Vonnegut, As principal of Stephen R. Perry High School, it is with regret that I inform you that, after considerable reflection and numero...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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efisherwx.bsky.social
Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades?

Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes

The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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andreapeterson.bsky.social
Anemones during low tide at one of the most beautiful spots on the Washington peninsula, Ruby Beach

#TidesOutTuesday #WestCoast #GiantGreenAnemone #Invertebrates #MarineLife #Cnidarians #Nematocysts #Photography #RockinTuesday #PNW
A cluster of giant green anemones at low tide with sand and rocks visible just under the water, and a large rock protruding from the water on the right hand side of the image. Two of the anemones are light in color, but one is larger than the others and is more green than the others.
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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No auroras where I live, but here’s a gorgeous shot from my brother-in-law up in Alberta, with a flock of geese adding some extraterrestrial vibes
Photograph of colorful auroras in the night sky, with a ghostly white V shape in the sky created by geese flying at long exposure
November 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
The fall leaves have been lovely!

(Crabapple tree just waiting to feed some robins) #NativePlants 🌿
Some tree branches covered in yellow leaves and small red and yellow fruit.
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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racheledini.bsky.social
The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).
Women, it should be noted, have dominated the teaching profession since the nineteenth century not because it's a misandrist job-protection racket but because early public-education advocates found that they could expand the school system more quickly by hiring women teachers, whom they could pay less than men. One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person's sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere's rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what's in front of you. Newsom's executive order concerning men and boys acknowledges the strong correlation between social-media usage and mental-health disorders such as depression and anxiety, but it doesn't note that these effects manifest in girls at significantly higher rates. In "Notes on Being a Man," Galloway writes, "The deliberate transfer of wealth from the young to the old in the United States over the past century has led to unaffordable and indefensible costs for education and housing, and skyrocketing student debt, all of which directly affect young men." He could have said "young people," unless college bursars and landlords run a discount program for the ladies which I haven't heard about. Emanuel, in his Washington Post op-ed, endorses a double standard with even greater frankness. The cost of housing, he writes, "is, of course, a problem for all Americans—men and women alike. But, unpopular as it might be to say in some quarters of my party, the crisis affects one gender with particular potency." In other words, men and women pay the same bill, but we are obligated to understand that the social and spiritual price it extracts from men is higher. (If women want an emergency to call their own, it can be that they are not having enough babies.) What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be. The "female-coded" person, to borrow Krugman's terminology, may feel overwhelmed by child-care costs, ashamed that she can't acquire a mortgage, or hollowed out by long hours as an I.C.U. nurse, but such feelings do not disturb the order of the universe. This person's duties to protect, provide, and procreate are real, but they do not take the capital "P."This person's opinions matter, but not decisively. The Times pundit Ezra Klein has lately suggested that Democrats consider running anti-abortion candidates in red states, even though more than three-quarters of Gen Z women support abortion rights. Rights, like jobs, can be gender-coded, and these rights are valued accordingly. "You need Dad," Galloway, who has two sons, said on a recent podcast. The nuclear family he imagines seems to be one in which the mom is the default parent ("They look to her for nurturing. When they really have a problem, I find they go to Mom"), while the necessary dad is the authority figure to whom Mom can appeal as the occasion demands. "There are certain moments when my partner needs me to weigh in," Galloway explained. "I don't know if it's the depth of my voice, my physical size." Boys, he went on, "begin tuning out their mom over time." One might wonder how boys lose these frequencies in the first place. One might long for a deep voice to explain it. Reeves frets that fatherless homes will beget more lost boys, more twentysomething men living in their childhood bedrooms, and more fractured families. If we do not update our "obsolete model of the breadwinner father," he warns, "we will continue to see more and more men being left out of family life." As for what authority has decreed that these absent fathers should be "left out" of their own families, Reeves never says—the culprit's identity is shrouded in passive voice. Nor does Reeves explain how women's attainment of economic independence would cause their husbands to be "stripped" of anything, much less the many non-economic aspects of being a spouse or parent. The notion that fathers wander away from their families owing to some gnawing sense of existential dislocation—some humiliating certainty of their own uselessness or usurpation—s especially pungent when one takes into account the enormous gender gap in housework and child-rearing in heterosexual marriages. According to the Gender Equity Policy Institute, mothers who work full time do almost twice as much household labor as fathers. Research by the Nobel-winning economist Claudia Goldin has suggested that married men's disinclination toward housework and other "draggy business of family life" may be holding back birth rates, which should pique the interest of Republican pronatalists such as J. D. Vance. The deeper one sinks into our nation's alleged man-boy problem and its potential solutions, the more the woman reader may begin to feel something stronger than resentment or intellectual disdain. She may begin to feel a chauvinistic gratitude in her sex. The familiar flatness of feeling a little degraded seems preferable to the anger, entitlement, and alienation that (we are told over and over) gnaws away at so many male specimens. What a gift it is, really, to have no choice in the matter. To have to move out of your parents' house, to show up for your shift, to change the diaper, not because any of it…
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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No more skirting the issue. Okay maybe a little

#FungiFriends
Amanita seen from beneath. It's gills catching the sunlight in different ways all around its cap's edge
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland.

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CONCLUSION For the above reasons, this Court concludes that Plaintiffs have demonstrated that Defendants violated 10 U.S.C. § 12406 and the Tenth Amendment and satisfy the requirements for a permanent injunction. Therefore, this Court PERMANENTLY ENJOINS Defendants24 Pete Hegseth, the U.S. Department of Defense, Kristi Noem, and the U.S. Department of 24 As this Court may lack jurisdiction to enjoin President Trump in the performance of his official duties, see Franklin v. Massachusetts, 505 U.S. 788, 802–03 (1992) (plurality opinion); Mississippi v. Johnson, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 475, 501 (1866), this injunction applies only against the other Defendants. PAGE 105 – FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; Homeland Security from implementing the following memoranda federalizing and deploying members of the National Guard in Oregon: 1. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s September 28, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Oregon National Guard, Ex. 1051; 2. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 5, 2025 Memorandum federalizing and deploying the Texas National Guard, to the extent that it deploys members of the Texas National Guard in Oregon, Ex. 6; 3. Defendant Secretary Hegseth’s October 16, 2025 Memorandum to the extent that it authorizes the deployment of federalized members of the California and Texas National Guards to Oregon, Ex. 2; and 4. any memoranda deploying members of any other State’s National Guard to Oregon based on the same predicate conditions that were relied upon to authorize the above orders. This Court retains jurisdiction pursuant to the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, to enforce the terms of this permanent injunction against any party.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul
November 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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🌖💛 Fri, Nov 7

Bigg’s orcas have held a presence this week.
Today, a large number of inbound orcas upper Admiralty. Ressies? Bigg’s? We’ll see - either way, have a lovely day out there!

📸 L110 Midnight (w/lip flap) during SRKW pass at Pt Robinson last Sunday. By Amber Stanfill 11/2.

#psws
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM