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billie-e.bsky.social
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Illinois born-and-raised. She/Her. 🐬…🐱🐶…🍫…⚾️…🍺…🐝…📷…🌸🌼
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
By signing up to one of my illustration workshops you also get an exclusive 10% discount for beautiful stationery from @presentcorrect & 30% off my etsy shop indefinitely.Held on zoom, open to anyone anywhere🌿🖋️👇
silverpebble2.bsky.social Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 3d
There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦‍⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
cornflowers, sweet peas and Russian sage on a Kraft paper sketch book with my drawings of them alongside and the pen I used nearby My pen and ink drawings of 5 much loved Uk garden birds: wren, long tailed tit, coal tit, redwing & blackcap My drawing of 3 long tailed tits in a winter hawthorn 5 plant varieties that flower or bear berries in the winter on white sketchbook paper with my illustrations of them alongside and the pen I used nearby
December 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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jeffjarvis.bsky.social
Nor native Americans. We keep telling you: It's all about race. It's white nationalism.
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
U.S. anniversary coins won’t feature any Black Americans or notable women
The Trump administration has scraped plans for coins honoring Frederick Douglass and Ruby Bridges opting for all Whites to celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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altyellonatpark.org
We need one of these about every ten miles or so along the entire 50,000 miles of the US interstate highway system news.yahoo.com/news/article...
North America's largest wildlife overpass opens over busy, remote road
About 100,000 vehicles travel in the remote area each day, the Colorado Department of Transportation said.
news.yahoo.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
There are still a few spaces left on my botanical (10) & bird illustration (24) & mental health w'shops in January
I'll teach you how to draw🌿🌱 or🐦‍⬛👇
AND how creative activity alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health
I'm an molecular cell biologist & illustrator:
workshops.emmamitchell.uk
cornflowers, sweet peas and Russian sage on a Kraft paper sketch book with my drawings of them alongside and the pen I used nearby My pen and ink drawings of 5 much loved Uk garden birds: wren, long tailed tit, coal tit, redwing & blackcap My drawing of 3 long tailed tits in a winter hawthorn 5 plant varieties that flower or bear berries in the winter on white sketchbook paper with my illustrations of them alongside and the pen I used nearby
December 20, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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chicagojulie.bsky.social
This is a heartbreaking, enraging story
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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sigirides.bsky.social
Sigrid for Vanity Fair. 😂
December 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
Despicable. Primary them all.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7d
7 Dems joined House Republicans in voting for a bill that would enable ICE agents to strip search 12-year-olds.

Henry Cuellar (TX-28)
Don Davis (NC-01)
Laura Gillen (NY-04)
Jared Golden (ME-02)
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34)
Adam Gray (CA-13)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03)
December 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
This will likely be my last collection using Edwardian stamp holders, lockets & charms. Pieces made using these small treasures will be in my etsy shop at 8.30 tonight 👇🏼. For enquires please click 💬on my page: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
busbyj2.bsky.social Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 7d
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Four of the six one-off pieces I’ve made using Victorian & Edwardian charms, stamp holders & lockets that will be in tonight’s small etsy collection. Click 💬 on my page for enquiries/to reserve: www.etsy.com/shop/silverp...
December 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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takingaction4us.bsky.social
“Trump is erasing the face of a federal government that served the American people, replacing it with his own.

Nowhere is this clearer than in the looming loss of the Cohen building, with its murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, and Seymour Fogel.”

Please follow @timothynoah.bsky.social for more
December 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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thoughtrise.bsky.social
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about
screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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seancasten.bsky.social
This is really solid investigative reporting from the Sun-Times. And a brutal expose of Greg Bovino, the cosplaying tough guy who has terrorized so many immigrants in Chicago. Read it all. chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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sigirides.bsky.social
When she wants a walk there's no stopping her. 🐱

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/TravisAndSig...
Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/sigirides
Visit our shop: sigirides.bigcartel.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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sigirides.bsky.social
Christmas tree acquired! 🐱🎄

Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/TravisAndSig...
Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/sigirides
Visit our shop: sigirides.bigcartel.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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wolfmercury.com
Bloody hell. There is no reason to do this
nywolforg.bsky.social Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 11d
🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
December 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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21st.show
Danville, Illinois native Dick Van Dyke turns 100 tomorrow. Next week, we'll be talking about his life, career and legacy.

What are your memories of him? What's your favorite work of his? What kind of mark do you think he's left on our culture?

Reply here and we might share on the show Wednesday.
December 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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ellenhopkins.bsky.social
You know, I'm 70 years old, and I've been thru hell, climbed close to heaven, and touched back down here on Earth, which had everything necessary for humans to thrive. Greed has destroyed much. Maybe it's too late to save it. But we need to try.
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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savestandard.bsky.social
Standard Time keeps mornings naturally sunlit, for health and safety. Permanent Daylight Saving Time would force us to wake hours before sunrise, to start work/school in cold darkness. Tell lawmakers to ditch DST with permanent Standard Time! 🔗👇
Comparison photographs of winter mornings at 8am local Standard Time (with sunlit skies) versus 8am local Daylight Saving Time (with dark skies) from six locations in three time zones across the United States. Americans currently experience only the top row of photos during winter. Proposals for permanent DST (also called “Sunshine Protection”) would force most Americans to experience the bottom row of photos instead.
December 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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abenewman.bsky.social
1/As FIFA delivers Trump his peace prize there will be many uncomfortable chuckles and head scratches. But this is no joke. It is another peace in building a neo-royalist order based not on states but hyper elites. Orders use symbols for legitimation.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
www.cambridge.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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suitcasegen.bsky.social
"The administration can appeal court decisions. Congress can choose to not fund IMLS in future years. ALA calls on everyone who values libraries to remind their...elected officials at every level why America's libraries deserve more, not fewer resources."

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...
Libraries and museums get federal funding back after Trump cuts
Earlier this year, the Trump administration gutted the Institute of Museum and Library Services, leading to canceled federal grants. Now, after a court order, those grants are being reinstated.
www.npr.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
I'll be closing my jewellery order book tmrw at 10pm-
LAST CHANCE to order my individually handmade silver casts of real flowers & tiny wearable sculptures of birds in time for🌲(I ship to the US too)
Designs include blackbird, snowdrop,wild carrot, bluebell, jay feather:
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
My wren design- a tiny wren I've sculpted in recycled silver, with plumage detail hanging on a sterling minibelcher chain An intricate cast of a real snowdrop I've made in recycled silver, hanging from a sterling minibelcher chain An intricate cast of a lily of the valley flower I've made in recycled silver hanging from a sterling minibelcher chain An intricate cast of a jay feather I've made in recycled silver, hanging from a sterling minibelcher chain
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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cornellbirds.bsky.social
BIRD QUIZ: Here is a bird photographed in Florida in early December. Do you know what species it is? Leave your answer in Comments and we'll post ours at the end of the day. Thanks to Gloria Markiewicz for sharing this photo with eBird and the Macaulay Library archive.
[Image description: A charcoal gray waterbird with a red-and-yellow bill and red frontal shield. The bird is standing on land amongst short green vegetation. Text on image: Mystery Bird, Avis ignota, © Gloria Markiewicz / Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab.]
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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crits4cats.org
It’s hard to believe but the Auto Club family— mama Porsche & her now 7-month old kittens Ferrari, Mercedes, and Bentley— have had no applications. Not one for any of them. They’ve been growing up together in foster care, shy at first & needing a quiet home. Elkton, MD Apply crits4cats.petfinder.com
Mama cat Porsche (right), a brown tabby cat with big splashes of white, with her “mini me” daughter Mercedes. Young grey tabby cat Bentley with his brown tabby sister Ferrari. Mercedes, a young brown tabby cat with big splashes of white fur. Ferrari, a cute and round young brown tabby cat.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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crits4cats.org
California folks who like to drive and were wondering what to do with your holiday Sunday, here’s your chance to help save a tiny life.
grimmorph.bsky.social Grimmorph @grimmorph.bsky.social · 24d
This guy needs transport from Solano County to LA County (Suisun to Palmdale, CA) if anyone has ideas for getting him there before Monday. His chances of survival are best if he goes asap but I am having a baf time with my neck issues and Chewy isn’t feeling well so I want to keep an eye on him.
grimmorph.bsky.social Grimmorph @grimmorph.bsky.social · 24d
Goliath’s hanging in there, not pooping on his own yet but he is more alert and active today and eating for us now unassisted. He’s showing some minor signs of URI, but probably is not going to the emergency vet tonight? Fingers crossed?
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM