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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious
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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · Apr 11
I think it's important for people to realize that many of the world's largest tragedies were not inevitable; they were allowed.
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philplait.bsky.social
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
A vending machine with a snack called minis, and the brand is Leibniz.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
rachellense.bsky.social
Every. Damn. Day.
November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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lilbugboy.bsky.social
Marbles is a big girl now y'all

#cats #kittens #blackcat
November 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social
Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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sandy174.bsky.social
🤎 Thanksgiving is a time to be with family, surrounded by love. MELIA has none. This will be her second in the shelter. Please open your home and heart. She's spending her younger years stuck in a kennel. Quiet adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. Repost

💻Adoption@hempsteadny.gov
☎️516.785.5220
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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joannakobierska.bsky.social
As I have been working with mammals a lot lately, I have had a lot of thoughts about how fur, feathers, or any other filaments affect the silhouette.
A coelophysis with feathers and without. Two completely different animals.
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Tiny dancer! Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
Black and white photo of a stout middle aged woman with dark hair standing outside on a scrubby dead lawn. She is leaning forward and holding the forepaws of a shorthaired tabby cat so that it is “dancing” with her on its hind legs. She seems to be smiling at the cat and maybe talking to it.
November 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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weratedogs.com
This is Goose. His stick didn't fit through the door at first. But Goose believed in himself, and more importantly, so did his doorman. 13/10 (TT: bigstickgoose)
November 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Baby pigeon mystery.
My pigeon book is here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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weratedogs.com
We only rate dogs. This is a family of Suburban Gold Fairies. It's rare for them to travel together like this. Very magical but please only send dogs. Thank you... 13/10 for all (TT: hdbrosriley)
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
rachellense.bsky.social
The spouse captured this photo of Bubby and me the other day. Easily one of my new favorite photos, double chin and all. #catnap
A gray and white cat snuggles up to his owner's face on a bed. His hind legs are kicked up straight against the owner's pillow. The owner is wearing a face mask with whiskers that says "cat nap" in cursive on it. The owner is lying on her side with her face centimeters away from the cats upthrust legs.
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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artologica.net
Hello from the Squirrel of the Day for November 11, 2025 #sqrlpix
gray squirrel with legs splayed out
November 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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shakespeare.lol
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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mostlyteeth.bsky.social
Me and my mom on the bench in front of Trader Joe’s judging the guy in the cybertruck
Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty from the Golden Girls staring in uneasy disgust at something off camera
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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effinbirds.com
A painting of a bird beside the text "let's get back to bullying millionaires"
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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midnightnass.bsky.social
I Photoshop Neel into things…

Day 87

#StarWars
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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persiflage.bsky.social
I do think we should start treating the Gender Critical [sic] crowd as the genitalia-obsessed weirdos they are. Eg, introduce them as 'This is Jeff. He's a bit obsessed with what people have between their legs. I've asked him not to say anything about it tonight, but if he does, let me know and I'll
November 5, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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lutzfernandez.bsky.social
posting today for no particular reason

costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human
An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who died “indirectly,” as a result of wars’ destruction of economies, healthcare systems, infrastructure and the environment. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Whether it's liberals snapping their fingers at New York Times staffer orientation or conservatives cutting off SNAP funding for millions of starving Americans, both sides have a snap problem.
November 1, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Mesmerized by the wonder of toe beans. Book from my collection: The Shy Little Kitten by Cathleen Schurr, illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. 1958.
Color illustration of a shorthaired grey tuxedo tabby kitten, lying on its back and gazing at its own pink toe beans with very wide yellow eyes. It is outside in green grass with some light purple flowers around.
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
We live in an episode of Veep
Andrew Desiderio V @AndrewDesiderio X.com Funny moment just now in the Senate: Lindsey Graham whispered something into his phone and then Siri responded with full volume: "Calling Sean Hannity mobile" 8:57 AM • 10/28/25 • 276K Views
October 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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dennisbhooper.bsky.social
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
I found a capybara pebble🤎
Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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retrojames.bsky.social
Goodbye MTV...killed by the very thing I'm sharing this on, but least we enjoyed the days when it was ALL about the music.

Here's my tribute.

#Friday #MTV #Music #Spotify
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM