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leafwarbler.bsky.social
Madhusudan 🦉 Katti
@leafwarbler.bsky.social
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Reconciliation ecologist working towards decoloniality at a Land Grab University on Saponi lands • Writer • Alien of extraordinary ability • 🏳️‍⚧️ parent • 🐦‍⬛ 🦚 🪶 📽️ 🏏

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Damn! I guess for me it would have to be Madhubala…
Black and white photo of Madhubala
November 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Look, I don’t know how far these skeets reach (this one has done more numbers than I typically see here) but this cute little fella showed up to hitch a ride on my car today, as if to prove some point. Look at them leafy feet on this leaf-footed bug!
A rich brown bug with a white stripe across the middle of its back, and hind legs ending in a leafy frill near its “feet”, sitting on the outside of a car window with long antennae curving to the side, looking at the clutter inside. It is a Leptoglossus phyllopus or eastern leaf-footed bug, or so I’m told by my phone. A rich brown bug with a white stripe across the middle of its back, and hind legs ending in a leafy frill near its “feet”, sitting on the outside of a car window looking at the clutter inside. It is a Leptoglossus phyllopus or eastern leaf-footed bug, or so I’m told by my phone.
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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“Did you get the shot for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #DucksOutOfWater? Can I go back into the water now? 🙄”

White-faced Whistling Duck holding its pose for my camera, also at the same park in São Paulo as yesterday’s Kiskadee
Four ducks standing in the grass at the edge of a lake. They are White-faced Whistling Ducks, with a dark beak, white face, black head on the back blending into rusty brown neck, with brown body feathers streaked with white. One is posing in the center of the frame, looking out right over the water; second one behind it has its head down, while the other two appear to be in a conversation at the left edge of the frame.
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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How about a Great Kiskadee to greet you this morning showing off its #Yellow belly, sitting at the edge of a lake in São Paulo, pulling the camera’s focus away from the Purple Gallinule #Paddling through the water? How’s that for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme?
A bird with a yellow breast and belly, white throat and eyebrow, black beak and black stripe through its eye, dark wings and legs, is perched on a twig overhanging the water at the edge of a lake. Behind it and out of focus, in the blue-green water is seen the backside of a Purple Gallinule paddling away sending ripples shorewards.
November 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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So today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsOnTheGround.

Birds on the ground, did you say? Think you’re being funny do ya? Well watch me leave the ground, muthafucka!!
An African Penguin stands on a beach, staring straight at the camera as if asking “what are you looking at?” An African Penguin standing on the beach, its head and wings blurry as it flaps them vigorously
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Reposting this quote from Kurt Vonnegut about Armistice Day with alt-text as I think about all the millions of humans killed by America’s veterans in all its imperial wars and miscellaneous military misadventures. The things a nation chooses to remember tells you a lot, right?
The following except is from Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Breakfast of Champions: “I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. “It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind. Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. “So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. “What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is.”
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Jafar Panahi’s IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is an astonishing film about resisting authoritarian regimes and the cycles of violence they can generate in ordinary people who yet show great moral courage. I wish there were more than 5 people watching it with me just now. It’s so so relevant to Americans rn
Movie poster shows a van parked in a desert landscape under a sky that turns deep blue above. The side door and rear hatch are open. A bearded man wearing a white shirt and black pants is looking down while sitting beside a woman in a bridal gown in the rear hatch. She is looking at a tall man wearing jeans and a dark t-shirt standing in front of them looking away. Two other people are sitting in the shade of the van. Words on the poster read: PALME D'OR FESTIVAL DE CANNES "A BLISTERING, BEAUTIFULLY DIRECTED MOVIE." MANOHLA DARIS, THE NEW YORK TIMES "AN EXTRAORDINARY REVENGE PARABLE. EVERY MOMENT OF IT ATTESTS TO THE WORK OF A MASTER. DAVID FEAR, ROLLING STONE IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT A FILM BY JAFAR PANAHI NEON
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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we're snailposting, post your snails

Here’s another fella I met during the same trip to my student’s field site in Puerto Rico: an endemic Parthena acutangula (per the Seek app from @inaturalist.bsky.social)
A pale green snail—Parthena acutangula—its body is peppered with tiny dark spots, and is curved clinging to a bright green leaf pointing downwards. It has a vertical clamshell shaped shell with a thick yellow rim at the entrance. Its eyes are extended on translucent grey antennae.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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we're snailposting, post your snails

Here’s a fella I met in Puerto Rico a couple years ago
A Puerto Rican Tree Snail with a rich black body and a somewhat flattened spiral brown shell is seen foraging with one antenna mounted eye pointing towards the camera/photographer. It is climbing up a tree trunk.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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“Wake up, dead man!”
Magpie, a long-haired cat with a black “mask” on her face over white whiskers, chin, and neck, scowling at the camera in extreme closeup Magpie, a long-haired cat with a black “mask” on her face over white whiskers, chin, and neck, is sitting on a sleeping Brown man’s chest with her white paws crossed and resting on his grey-bearded chin.
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Happy publication day! And congratulations!! You deserve all the flowers for your work to organize and fight on behalf of the powerless, especially now.

Here’s a Desert Sunflower for you, seen growing out of the hard ground in Death Valley some years ago.
A bright yellow Desert Sunflower stands out against a stony background. Below it one can also see the dried petals of another flower that looks spent and has crumpled up after doing what it needed to do.
November 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Nice! Allow me to show off my new sweater too that I wore for the first time today
Selfish by a Brown man with wavy gray hair and a very grey beard, wearing glasses, smiling at the camera, wearing a blue cardigan with black rim to the collar and patterns of mountains and snowflakes.
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Talk about a timely delivery in the mail: Just got my copy of the new book “Read this when things fall apart” edited by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social!
A book is propped up against a window through which some trees and a yard can be seen. The book cover is deep blue showing a person with long hair seen from behind wading through waist deep water, with lily pads floating around them and pine trees lining the shore. The sky above is dark with stars visible. Text on the cover: READ THIS WHEN THINGS FALL APART Letters to Activists in Crisisالإ Edited by Kelly Hayes
October 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Finished 60 laps around the sun today, riding this beautiful blue marble, sharing it with so many beautiful, bizarre, wonderful relatives/fellow passengers. Like this Crowned Slug Moth caterpillar I met this past weekend on a wooded trail. Wishing everyone many moments of peace and connection.
A green leaf-shaped caterpillar, flat worm like in appearance, with two red X marks on its back, vein like white markings along segments of the body and a number of hairy looking legs all around the edges. It is sitting on a metal plate screwed into a post along a forest trail. Profile view of the Crowned Slug Moth caterpillar, showing intricate designs in its green skin, the spiky/hairy legs, and the two red tinged antennae protruding atop its raised front.
October 14, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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“Just how many photos do you need to take of me?”
I was definitely #spotted by this Atlantic Black-throated Trogon in Brazil’s Parque Estudial Carlos Botelho a couple of summers ago. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶
A brown bird with a yellow belly, long tail with rufous central feathers, and black-and-white striped outer ones, i.e., a Female Atlantic Black-throated Trogon, staring back at the camera with head tilted inquisitively.
October 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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My kids, like so many around the world, were inspired by Jane Goodall’s deep empathy for animals and the natural world. They were lucky to get to meet her once after one of her talks—she always stayed for hours greeting, autographing, being photographed with kids.

All I got was this lovely t-shirt.
Jane Goodall, seated in a chair autographing a book for my older kid standing with hands in pockets of a blue pea coat, on a cold night in Bakersfield, California. They are both smiling, looking down at the book. Behind them is a poster for the Jane Goodall Institute, and a couple of security guys. Photo of the front of a t-shirt with the famous THE FAR SIDE cartoon By GARY LARSON Shows two chimpanzees sitting in a tree, the one on the left wearing glasses is grooming the other, with a hair held up in one hand. The caption below reads: "Well, well - another blond hair... Conducting a little more 'research with that Jane Goodall tramp?" Jane Goodall’s autograph is visible just below the two chimps.
October 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Umm… I know the university could use more funding, but…

Should I be forwarding this to someone who actually deals with the university’s finances? Not sure how desperate we are yet…
RK Ruby Knight To: Madhusudan Katti > 4:46 PM RE: North Carolina State University Hey Madhusudan, Before I archive this, I wanted to get in touch personally, as North Carolina State University is eligible for unsecured funding. Want me to drop some options? Cheers, Ruby Knight VP at Relationships Arvio Group Madhusudan if North Carolina State University is not looking for funding let me know and I will remove vou from mv
September 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Update: NC State vet did thoracocentesis to drain 60ml fluid from Talon’s pleural cavity. No wonder the poor lad was struggling so much! Brought him home in the evening and he’s doing much better since, more like his normal self. But he also crawled and sat in his carrier last night for comfort! 🥹
Talon, a long-haired cat with mostly orange fur except for white bib and paws, is sitting with eyes closed inside a cat carrier.
September 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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No fun to be back at the vet’s on a #caturday morning, but here we are. Talon is perkier & his fever is down but he appears to have more fluid in lungs, so they’re sending us off to a hospital to have the fluid drained, which should also help determine if it is an infection/cancer/something else.
Portrait of Talon, a long-haired cat with mostly orange fur except for a white big and paws. He is sitting in an open carrier bag, atop the exam table in a veterinary clinic. His expression suggests some anxiety.
September 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.
Giant mural on a building wall showing a droid (K2SO) holding a blue flower. Background is yellow with an orange resistance symbol on it. Words painted above and below the robot quote Nemik from Andor: ...AND REMEMBER THIS: THE IMPERIAL NEED FOR CONTROL IS SO DESPERATE BEGAUSE IT IS SO UNNATURAL. TYRANY REQUIRES CONSTANT EFFORT. IT BREAKS, IT LEAKS. AUTHORITY IS BRITTLE. OPPRESSION IS A MASK OF FEAR. ...AND REMEMBER THIS: TRY From StarWars community on Reddit
September 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Worried waiting in veterinary hospital this evening coz our golden boy Talon is sick. He was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism recently and had been improving with meds. He was lethargic all day, not eating, so brought him in to find he has a fever+heart murmur+maybe fluid in lungs… waiting on tests 🤞🏽
A long-haired orange cat is sitting on a white bench by a window, with a pot holding some dried catnip in front of him. His tail is up, fluffy, and he’s looking at the camera with some annoyance.
September 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Once again, I am reminded of Eduardo Galeano’s words about where the culture of terror really starts.
Page from Eduardo Galeano’s book “The Book of Embraces” THE CULTURE OF TERROR/2 Extortion, insults, threats, slapping, beating, thrashing, whipping, the dark room, the icy shower, enforced fasting, forced feeding, the ban on leaving the house, the ban on saying what you think, the ban on doing what you feel, and public humiliation are some of the methods of punishment and torture traditional to family life. To punish disobedience and discipline liberty, family tradition perpetuates a culture of terror that humiliates women, teaches children to lie, and spreads the plague of fear. "Human rights should begin at home," Andrés Dominguez told me in Chile.
September 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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And this is where I’ve landed:
We have to be kind. What have to be here for each other, with love. We need and have to be part of community. We need collective action to beat back this fascism that thrives on division and hatred as it sucks us into its nihilistic void. I hope you remember this too the next time you find yourself staring into the void. And join me in the darkness sometime to watch the next film that might help us see our troubles differently. Peace.
September 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.

[huh?! And I happened to have just taken this screenshot from my own most recent writing. Uncanny timing. 😆]
We have to be kind. What have to be here for each other, with love. We need and have to be part of community. We need collective action to beat back this fascism that thrives on division and hatred as it sucks us into its nihilistic void. I hope you remember this too the next time you find yourself staring into the void. And join me in the darkness sometime to watch the next film that might help us see our troubles differently. Peace.
September 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Umm… 28 items from me?! 😳
Search for an author in LibGen For instance, Stephen King, Min Jin Lee, or Eyodor Dostoevsky. Note that different spellings of the same name—"JK Rowling" versus "J. K. Rowling" —may produce different results. Madhusudan Katti 28 Results
August 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM