scanterbury.bsky.social
scanterbury.bsky.social
@scanterbury.bsky.social
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
Spring's palette brightens with the striking Redstart in our #SpringArrivalSpotlight today. 🐦

Look out for a quivering orange-red tail as they bob into our woodlands and hedgerows from April.
April 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
My God, I feel this post as much as any I have read in the last month
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
February 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
Everyone reading this undoubtedly has scores of interactions each week with people who don't understand what's going on and therefore—intentionally or not—make you feel like you're overreacting or losing the plot.

But again: _you_ are correct.

What you perceive to be happening is really happening.
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
The perfect Calvin & Hobbes panel for this moment
February 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that.

The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.

What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
Wow what a thing to wake up to. Thank you sincerely to all backers. We made the stretch goal and 19 authors are in the book. What a 3 day rollercoaster.
February 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
BOOPLESNOOT 🐇🐰
Happy February from our “compost specialist” Kevin 🌱
Interesting fact: rabbit manure is considered “cold” so it can be used directly in the garden for fertilizer without breaking down first. #composting
#whiterabbit #cuteanimals #imbolc
#petsofbluesky
February 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Wanna see the future through many different lenses? Here's a terrific anthology Kickatarter to support!
Another surge in the last few days “Our Dust Earth" a hybrid ‘Dying Earth’ SF anthology & mini TTRPG is 77% base and 64% stretch goal funded. And now we can reveal the proposed author lineup. Info on backing - www.kickstarter.com/projects/526... #sf #sff #rpg #kickstarter
January 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza, but Politico reporters write that the US State Dept and the National Security Council are just as complicit as Hamas, Netanyahu, and units within the IDF.

www.propublica.org/article/bide...
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Departme...
www.propublica.org
January 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty.

They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment.

That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT.

👁️❤️🐶🐕
January 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
English cocker spaniel snow adventures today ❄️🤍❄️
January 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
Blue Jays in the midst of some Blue Jay drama
January 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
N95s or better work!
There is no reason for hospitals to be overloaded and thousands of patients dying. It’s so bad that the government hasn’t upgraded for airborne transmission of #COVID Flu is also airborne. Ffp3 respirators work! www.theguardian.com/world/2021/j...
Cambridge hospital’s mask upgrade appears to eliminate Covid risk to staff
Hospital infection study shows use of FFP3 respirators at Addenbrooke’s ‘may have cut ward-based infection to zero’
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
These rescued cougar cubs are still shy around people, but their playful side comes out at night.
January 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
#Antarcticterns They were nesting during our visit and having some battles. The day was cloudy so the birds against the sky are diaphanous. [Iceberg posts failed😢]

#birds #Antarctica #birdflight #birdphotography #naturephotography
December 20, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata) in Grytviken Harbour. We also saw an Arctic Tern here. It really stood out because it was the only tern in winter plumage, while all the Antarctics were in breeding plumage like this one. #BirdingSouthGeorgia #terns #birds #birding
December 20, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
Experts on #H5N1:
“It’s not great. It’s not great news,” Dr. Hensley told STAT (re CDC report)
“The traffic light is changing from green to amber,” Dr. Chin-Hong
"What I AM worried about are the growing number of human cases in the middle of flu season. Reassortment causes pandemics." Dr Rasmussen
December 28, 2024 at 2:38 AM
"Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls."
-Ursula Le Guin
December 28, 2024 at 4:23 AM
"Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon."
Ursula Le Guin
December 28, 2024 at 4:22 AM
"And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country."
-Ursula Le Guin
December 28, 2024 at 4:21 AM
"I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people."
-Ursula Le Guin
December 28, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
December 27, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by scanterbury.bsky.social
2024: The Year In Squishes

#BestSquishes #CrunchyChewYear
December 27, 2024 at 5:17 PM