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Alie Catze

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🌞🐈‍⬛Natural Witch, Hedge Druid, and Cat Herder, sometimes I save the world.🐈🐆🐅🌚 🇺🇦

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · Nov 14

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The Distance Ahead

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 1d

A #caturday kitten called Potoroo. #catsofbluesky

Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 1d

A #caturday kitten called Possum. #catsofbluesky

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

Legend is female Druids of the county did not disappear during Roman occupation, but instead melded with the forests to become its Green Ladies, its Moss Maidens. A historian will tell you this is nonsense. A folklorist will merely tell you stories hold impossible truths. - #CLNolan #FolkloreFriday

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Laiken Jordahl @laikenjordahl.bsky.social · 5d

“We’re already seeing drought stress, with half the mature oaks in the valley dead,” Palma said. “The wall will only accelerate the collapse. You lose the trees, you lose the shade. The creek dries, the habitat dies. It’s a cascade of ecological devastation.”
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A jaguar, a wall, a sacred valley: What's at stake in San Rafael - AZ Luminaria

In late summer, a jaguar padded somewhere near the San Rafael Valley, a pristine grassland nestled between the Patagonia and Huachuca Mountains southeast of Tucson. Trail cameras monitored by Sky Isla...

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 6d

“Well actually”, how did you feel about your junior high/middle school experience? Because that’s what law school is.

Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 8d

Floof Monster!!
Possum #caturday #catsofbluesky

Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 8d

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Love Song to Jane

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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 8d

This exclusive @therevelator.org excerpt from ecologist Kevin Van Tighem's new memoir broke me down and built me back up again: therevelator.org/understory-e...

In Understory, An Ecologist Reflects on the Grief of Losing Nature • The Revelator

In this excerpt from the new memoir, the former supervisor of Banff National Park examines the loss that surrounds us — but still offers reasons for hope.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 9d

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups
Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

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Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9d

It’s all so depressing

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9d

Basically, question every negative video and photo you see coming out of Portland. There's misinformation, disinfo, even AI slop. More broadly, we are in an era of needing to have constant situational awareness of fakery. Personally, I'll work hard to make sure anything I post is real, on any topic.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 9d

It may be hard to stop Trump from privatizing our public lands [via @highcountrynews.org]

It may be hard to stop Trump from privatizing our public lands

Americans came together to do it this summer. But greed only has to win once.

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 11d

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Jane Goodall, Iconic Chimpanzee Expert Who Was Subject of Dozens of Films, Dies at 91

Jane Goodall, the foremost expert on chimpanzees whose work was captured in more than 40 documentaries, died Wednesday in California. She was 91.

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 12d

Your Tuesday Potoroo and Possum #cats #catsofbluesky

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 12d

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

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Santa Fe New Mexican @thenewmexican.bsky.social · 15d

When New Mexican folklorist and musician Cipriano Vigil died this week, he left behind an immense trove of music history: binders of music, recordings of his own music as well as that of other folk musicians from around the region, and hundreds of stringed instruments, many handmade.

'A legend passes': Norteño musician, folklorist Cipriano Vigil dies at 83

A man who both composed and cataloged New Mexico's folk music succumbed to a yearslong battle with cancer this week.

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 15d

Rainy #caturday Potoroo
#cats #catsofbluesky

Smol gray kitten sleeping under a blue and white blanket

Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 15d

Your #Caturday Possum and Potoroo. 💤

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 16d

"You died.
I cried.
And kept on getting up.
A little slower.
And a lot more deadly."

~ Assata Shakur 🌸🌸🌸

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18d

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Tye Dye Terrapin @tyedyedterrapin.bsky.social · 20d

MAGATS idea of making America great...

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Damh the Bard @paganmusic.bsky.social · 20d

My song for the Autumn Equinox. The light has changed this morning, the air has the chill of Autumn, the leaves are falling.

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Autumn Leaves

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 21d

Wishing everyone a lovely #caturday

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Alie Catze @aliecatze.bsky.social · 22d

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‘How many bricks of colonization do we sit under?’ - High Country News

#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.