Em 🌈🌱
@earthling.bsky.social
Just a little creature. I am made for perils, as well as for tenderness. I do shelter medicine and general wandering in Chicago!
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Em 🌈🌱
@earthling.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hi, my name is Em!
I'm a nature lover, shelter medicine feller, and hobbyist photographer based in Chicago.
I post about cats, birds, animal welfare, forest floors, horror novels, queer stuff, and things I think are funny. Happy to be on earth with you.
I'm a nature lover, shelter medicine feller, and hobbyist photographer based in Chicago.
I post about cats, birds, animal welfare, forest floors, horror novels, queer stuff, and things I think are funny. Happy to be on earth with you.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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please learn about your local ecosystems. please. its so sad and strange to me how many people live in a place and learn nothing about the land that surrounds them and the ways in which that land has grown and changed and flourished for hundreds of years before your town even existed
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
please learn about your local ecosystems. please. its so sad and strange to me how many people live in a place and learn nothing about the land that surrounds them and the ways in which that land has grown and changed and flourished for hundreds of years before your town even existed
yeah boss, sorry, I'm gonna be late. yeah, it's my little kitty cat again. she's learned that laying in the sink in the morning will stop me from being able to get ready and give her little scritches and forehead smooches instead. it's pretty rough. yeah, I'll let you know when I'm on my way
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
yeah boss, sorry, I'm gonna be late. yeah, it's my little kitty cat again. she's learned that laying in the sink in the morning will stop me from being able to get ready and give her little scritches and forehead smooches instead. it's pretty rough. yeah, I'll let you know when I'm on my way
The online resurgence of Free To Be Me by Francesca Battistelli is Em-phobic
November 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The online resurgence of Free To Be Me by Francesca Battistelli is Em-phobic
I finally have a working record player again, and after going through my collection, I forgot how many records I own simply because they were six or seven dollars
November 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I finally have a working record player again, and after going through my collection, I forgot how many records I own simply because they were six or seven dollars
Extremely Chicagoland Observation: why do literally none of the "Call Topdog" billboards include a phone number
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Extremely Chicagoland Observation: why do literally none of the "Call Topdog" billboards include a phone number
OBSESSED with this email I just got from a guy named Anesthesia Mike, simply saying, "IT'S TIME TO TUBE UP"
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
OBSESSED with this email I just got from a guy named Anesthesia Mike, simply saying, "IT'S TIME TO TUBE UP"
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Building a new Trojan horse with @earthling.bsky.social but the horse dick is the ladder to get up inside.
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Building a new Trojan horse with @earthling.bsky.social but the horse dick is the ladder to get up inside.
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you order mozzarella sticks at a restaurant and your waiter brings you this, wyd?
November 2, 2025 at 7:16 AM
you order mozzarella sticks at a restaurant and your waiter brings you this, wyd?
it's so cool that as an adult you can still just like, have sleepovers with your friend
November 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
it's so cool that as an adult you can still just like, have sleepovers with your friend
My entire day today has been gently reminding pet owners that they are responsible for keeping track of their own schedule and appointments, and that it is not our fault if they double booked themselves and end up missing or last-minute canceling an appointment with us and losing their deposit.
November 1, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My entire day today has been gently reminding pet owners that they are responsible for keeping track of their own schedule and appointments, and that it is not our fault if they double booked themselves and end up missing or last-minute canceling an appointment with us and losing their deposit.
aww man, my name on here coulda been A Nightmare on EM Street for the last month 😞
November 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
aww man, my name on here coulda been A Nightmare on EM Street for the last month 😞
Saw a little toddler trick or treating while dressed as a USPS mail truck. Maybe things are okay
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Saw a little toddler trick or treating while dressed as a USPS mail truck. Maybe things are okay
Email from a client that ultimately elected to indefinitely postpone their pet's sterilization surgery due to ICE related concerns. The last sentence is going to dig itself into my heart for a while.
Animal welfare is human welfare.
Animal welfare is human welfare.
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Email from a client that ultimately elected to indefinitely postpone their pet's sterilization surgery due to ICE related concerns. The last sentence is going to dig itself into my heart for a while.
Animal welfare is human welfare.
Animal welfare is human welfare.
he makes such stupid faces when he's comfy cozy sleepy. i love his dumb ass
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
he makes such stupid faces when he's comfy cozy sleepy. i love his dumb ass
I FORGOT TODAY IS FLORENCE + THE MACHINE HALLOWEEN
October 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I FORGOT TODAY IS FLORENCE + THE MACHINE HALLOWEEN
i can't vibe with people whose favorite color is blue. also, i don't get the feeling, but i do understand the vision when it comes to purple
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
i can't vibe with people whose favorite color is blue. also, i don't get the feeling, but i do understand the vision when it comes to purple
if my name was john i'd be saying shit like "johnestly" and "johnest to god"
October 28, 2025 at 11:29 PM
if my name was john i'd be saying shit like "johnestly" and "johnest to god"
Heard a dog howling as it woke up from surgery and mistakenly thought it was a really cool ambient effect in the jazz song i was listening to
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Heard a dog howling as it woke up from surgery and mistakenly thought it was a really cool ambient effect in the jazz song i was listening to
the idea of radiation sounds fake as hell. ooooo this rock will kill you if you look at it for too long. i'd literally sooner believe in ghosts
October 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
the idea of radiation sounds fake as hell. ooooo this rock will kill you if you look at it for too long. i'd literally sooner believe in ghosts
Early reports are saying that this pigeon photo I took at the bus stop this morning is, quote, "BALLERRRRRRR"
October 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Early reports are saying that this pigeon photo I took at the bus stop this morning is, quote, "BALLERRRRRRR"
going against the forces of the world today with a single claritin pill holding together the threads of my being
October 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
going against the forces of the world today with a single claritin pill holding together the threads of my being
If you ever catch me saying something like, "I guess there's two opposing things that can both be true at the same time" know that it took me a lot of work to get there but also that there's a little piece of my brain going AAAAAAAA!!!!! GOD!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 22, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you ever catch me saying something like, "I guess there's two opposing things that can both be true at the same time" know that it took me a lot of work to get there but also that there's a little piece of my brain going AAAAAAAA!!!!! GOD!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!