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This is my Margo who left my side in September after 20 years. 💔
I thought it would be hard to see other cats on the internet for a while and thought about muting all my cat account follows, but I’m so glad I didn’t, even if it’s hard sometimes it’s better seeing you all than not. 💚
The angelic face of a gray tabby cat who was extremely loved for 20 years.
November 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Science behind the colors of the aurora
A detailed infographic describing the science behind the colors of the Northern Lights, based on oxygen and nitrogen in different layers of the atmosphere. (I apologize for not transcribing it verbatim with descriptions of the illustrations, due to its level of detail.)
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Dammit, Wonders of the Night Sky, getting me to put pants on and go outside on the coldest night of the year so far!
Wide view of the Aurora borealis reflecting ridiculously vibrant green on some low clouds and fuchsia behind higher gray-blue clouds, over a suburban housing development and parking lot. The aurora borealis glows magenta and red in the night sky over a low cover of clouds that appear in gradient from light gray to soft blue on the horizon over the silhouette of treetops. A scattering of stars peeks through the purples and reds of the northern lights high above. Low clouds obscure the blueish gray night sky behind the black silhouette of trees on the horizon while the Northern Lights glow from crimson to coral to berry to violet through more disbursed, translucent clouds high above, and a few bright stars piercing through the curtain of colors.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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WTF Facebook no one asked you
Screenshot of a banner notification from Facebook with an unsolicited recommendation for an online group that reads: IVF SUPPORT own eggs 40+ You might like IVF SUPPORT own eggs 40+ .
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Such fun when all of your failsafes, uh, fail. 🔐

Installed a deadbolt with a keypad years ago so I wouldn’t get locked out of my house. Keypad malfunctioned today. Keychain with backup keys left inside. Spare key in my car… not in my car. Spares at my mom’s house and sister’s were not correct. 😩
Like, a dozen spare house keys on a red carabiner keychain. None of them were the correct key that was needed.
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Connecticut, it’s time to bring back Ray Cycle! ♻️🦸‍♂️
Cover of a comic book showing a man in a green superhero costume with a yellow cape, and boots, and a belt buckle shaped like the state of Connecticut, posed with fists ready to fight and flying upward above a city skyline, against a light-polluted evening sky blending from golden yellow to magenta to violet. The man has light skin and dark green hair and is wearing a green mask over his eyes. The name Ray Cycle with an electric bolt separating the words is emblazoned across his muscular torso. The text reads: The Adventures of Ray Cycle Recycling Superhero Vol. 1 No. 1 Connecticut Recycles.
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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I found my wild grapes! Now I don’t know what to do with them.
They smell very grapey.
A close up view of several wild grapes with red and green skin in a small metal bucket. The grapes are wet from a recent rinse with clean water.
September 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Yo, I appreciate the effort, fellow #CTSun fans. Taking advantage of the captive audience in the Mohegan Sun Arena toilets to recruit support.
A simple paper flyer with a QR cod printed on white paper reads: SAVE THE CT SUN You may have seen reporting that our beloved Connecticut Sun may be sold. We’d love to keep them here at Mohegan Sun, but if it’s time for a bigger stage, Hartford is the obvious choice. Bigger arena, same passionate fans. Add your name to tell the WNBA and the tribe that fans want the team to stay in Connecticut. savethectsun.com .
August 30, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Oh, Carrot, stop stalking me like this.
A screenshot from the weather app Carrot Weather that gives the temperature 78 degrees at an undisclosed location, and text saying “Great weather today! Maybe it’s time to stop rotting indoors like a moldy potato.”
July 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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VICTORY! I have consumed some street food in Manila, getting mango and avocado sorbetes from a pushcart in Intramuros.

h/t to @sstan99.bsky.social for putting me into the "dirty ice cream" path 😂
Small scoops of orange mango and green avocado ice cream are piled into a paper cup with an aqua and white curved pattern on it. The handle of a light purple plastic spoon emerges from the cup on the right side of the ice cream. A person's right hand is holding the bottom of the cup in front of a vendor in the middle distance, seated behind a small pushcart hand painted in bright red, yellow, and green, with the name Sebastian in red lettering. The red woven brick pattern of the old streets of the Intramuros section of Manila, Philippines, makes up the majority of the background, as the viewing angle is at an angle from slightly above the hand holding the ice cream cup.
June 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: Folks at protests are mostly being cool but a few dorks are not

Thanks, CNN!
(But seriously, at last they are saying it's been mostly peaceful and the tension is the news)
A TV screen displays a scene shown on CNN of several police surrounding a person. The chyron says "tense moment in Los Angeles amid largely peaceful protests"
June 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I got this but wasn't fast enough to get the hardware store that said "King of screw since..."
A store front in Manila's Chinatown that has a sign above it that says "Uncle Fish Balls" in English and also Chinese characters below. There is a small, blue motorbike parked to the left of the entrance.
June 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Here are some more pictures and descriptions in the alt text.
A piece of chopped up woody shrub is seen in the dirt. It differs from other pieces of branches and roots around it because it is covered in a mucous-like slime that also appears to moisten and darken the dirt around it. More snotty slime on part of a mowed down woody plant. Some of the ooze pools below it and it appears a milkier white color where it is thick on and below the wood. Another view of more slime on an uprooted part of a woody plant that was mowed down during brush clearing. Areas where the slime is thin appear clear and shiny. Thicker areas have a milkier appearance.
May 8, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Another nature mystery/identification request!

Found this small, broken egg under a tree in Groton, CT, Friday evening.

About 1” X 1/2”. Lots of brown speckles on a cream background.

#BirdSky, what bird could this have been?

#science #nature #ecology #birds #eggs #biology #naturalist #NatureSky
A small, off-white egg with many small brown speckles sits vertically on tree litter. Part of the yellow inside of the egg is visible through a small, jagged hole on the lower right side of the egg. A small, off-white egg with many small brown speckles is gently held between the fingertips of a leather-gloved hand. The hole in the side of the egg and yellow yolk leaking out are prominent. Another view of the small egg resting on partially decayed leaves, conifer debris, and twigs on the ground. This angle shows the intact side of the cream-colored egg covered in many small, brown speckles. A closeup of the small, damaged bird egg on a digging tool that has a measuring scale. The egg is about one inch long and 1/2 inch wide. Dried yellow yolk and cracks are visible on the eggs cream and brown-speckled surface.
May 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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#ScienceSky, is this a slime mold?
What is going on with these roots and limbs of recently cut down shrubs near my house?

#nature #NatureSky #BioSky #naturalist #slime #science #biology #ecology
Woody debris in the dirt is covered by a mucousy slime that is clear to milky white and shines in the late morning sun. Closeup of the stump of a recently mown shrub, covered by a mucousy slime that is clear to milky white and shines in the late morning sun. Another chunk of the trunk or limb of a shrub that has been mown down and is resting on the dirt among leaf and wood debris. It is a few inches long and about and inch in diameter, and a shiny, mucousy, clear to milky white slime with some bubbly areas covers the wood. A view of the previous, slimy piece of wood from farther away. A yellow garden glove is partially seen in the foreground to proved some scale and comparison.
May 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Yes, I am eating a bowl of said oatmeal right now. I believe it is multiple servings worth. Also a few walnuts and dried blueberries up in there.
Closeup of a bowl of oatmeal with some dried blueberries and walnuts in a paper bowl with a white, dark blue l, and green pattern, and the handle of a white plastic spoon sticking out of the oatmeal. It’s not a particularly attractive depiction of oatmeal, but that’s not the point of oatmeal.
April 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Costco didn’t have a bunch of the stuff I intended to stock up on, but I still ended up with decent supplies of some things.

And, of course, I couldn’t leave without getting the classic Costco hotdog deal.
A hotdog in a bun with ketchup and mustard, held in a person’s hand. In the background is a white tabletop with a fountain drink and a pair of eyeglasses.
April 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Last night’s mystery backyard guest #2:
Zipped by the edge of my southeastern CT yard around 3:30 am.

(Could be the same critter, backtracking to where it came from in the first video?)
April 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Last night’s mystery backyard guest #1:
Visited around 3:00 am in southeastern Connecticut.
April 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Oh wow it does look like a dried mango seed! Which would normally be a very weird thing to find in the woods behind my house, but….. I did leave out some mangos for the wildlife a couple months ago and it’s possible a critter transported it a quarter mile into the woods!

(Pic from Internet)
A dried mango seed held in someone’s hand over a black background.
April 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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New nature ID question:
What is this alien pod?

Off-white, fibrous pod type thing, found in the woods in eastern Connecticut on 4/2.
A little over 3 inches long and about 2 inches wide. Ovate and flat-ish.

#nature #NatureSky #naturalist #PlantSky #PlantIdentification #PlantID #NatureIdentification
One side of an off-white, fibrous pod like thing that is shaped like a flattened egg. The surface looks smooth with veins running lengthwise and some brown splotches. Dense short fibers emerge from a seam along the side. The pod is lying on the blade of a digging knife that has a measurement scale that indicates it’s a little over 3 inches long and about 2 inches wide. The other side of the mysterious pod, also shown on the digging knife for scale. It’s very similar to the other side, but has almost no brown splotches and has some dark dirt stuck to it. One of the narrow sides of the mystery pod, held between a person’s thumb and fingertips, in front of a wet rock. This edge is fairly smooth, as opposed to the other edge which has many dense fibers emerging along a “seam” (not pictured). There is a small hole in the edge, showing a bit of the interior which is also off-white but otherwise without anything apparently notable.
April 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Can anyone help me identify this partial animal mandible I found in the woods in eastern Connecticut yesterday?

#wildlife #nature #NatureSky #mammal #MammalSky #mandible
A closeup of half of an animal mandible, about 3 inches long, held in the palm of a person’s hand. A closeup of half of an animal mandible, about 3 inches long, held in the palm of a person’s hand. A view of the animal mandible resting on a rock from a slightly above angle, showing the teeth. A view of the animal mandible from above, showing the teeth closeup.
April 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Uhh, Google Lens AI? Maybe lay off the true crime for a while, okay?
A screenshot of a Google Lens search of a night vision camera image, and the AI Overview result identifying the selected area as appearing “to depict a potential murder suspect” instead of the tuxedo house cat actually shown in the image. Closeup of the text from the image search result: Al Overview Based on available information, the image appears to depict a potential murder suspect. Due to the limited details and low resolution, specific characteristics are [rest of text is cut off]. The night vision image portion of the screenshot. An innocent black and white cat on a patio is surrounded by the Google Lens rounded corners indicating the selected part of the image being identified.
April 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Who needs to see a fat rat clumsily falling from a bird feeder in the middle of the night?

I bet you do!

(I think the rat suffered only embarrassment and was not actually injured.)
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Internet, what is this animal?
Seen in southeastern Connecticut by night vision camera an early morning in mid-March.

(I am pretty sure I know but want to get confirmation.)
March 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM