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greenlynx

@lynxspider.bsky.social

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Cat lover, amateur photographer and naturalist, avid gardener, occasional crafter. She/her, cis/het, ally to all who could use one. Userpic is my photo of a green lynx spider mother-to-be in my yard.

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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 7d

Artwork of the late Tardar Sauce (stage name Grumpy Cat), with her trademark scowl, holding a small American flag, with caption NOPE.

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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 12h

OMG NOT THE CUDDLE MONSTER😱

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 19h

“HALP”
Betelgeuse complained about being lonely and now there are consequences #Caturday

Silky grey cat held by a person in a green fleece shirt. Cat looks alarmed.

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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 12h

😱

Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15h

It’s almost Halloween and I’m terrified thinking of all the skeletons walking around, hiding inside people. And nobody’s doing a damn thing about it!!

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 20h

I've made this scale to help people out during this holiday season

a scale of Dracula to Not Dracula going from right to left: Dracula (Dracula), Count Orlok (Legally Distinct Dracula), Drake from Blade Trinity (Might Be Dracula), Vlad the Poker (Probably Not Dracula, and Morbius (Not Dracula)

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FutureDividends @futuredividends.bsky.social · 13h

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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 18h

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 20h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 22h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Katherine @katherineintx.bsky.social · 17h

Larry Dowling wrote it on his Facebook page.
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Larry Dowling is with Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership.

I had the privilege this morning of leading a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia Church in Maywood, IL to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview. We went to pray and have a few of us clergy and religious women bring Holy Communion and the love of the Christian community to the men and women detained there under inhumane conditions.
Over 1,000 Catholics and other Christians marched in peaceful prayer and song, facilitated by the Maywood and Broadview Police Departments and the Illinois State Police. I cannot speak more highly of these public safety officers in providing us safe passage.
Upon arrival, it was a different story. There were no ICE or Federal representatives there. When requesting to talk with a representative from Homeland Security and ICE, the State Police reached out on our behalf to make the request over the phone, After a brief wait, the answer came back very clearly:
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION AND PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE!
NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER ANY SOLACE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FEARFUL AND SUFFERING INSIDE!
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS, THE SON OF GOD, THE LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE!
No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.
What we have been able to do for detainees for the past several years, which is written into Illinois law, was refused by this current Federal Government.
"Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing."
"Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts and transform them from stony hearts into fleshy, life-giving hearts."
"Only through, with and in God will hearts be changed!"
The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues...

The battle for hearts and minds, compassion and mercy, continues...
Please pray especially for the children, for the mothers and fathers who are being treated inhumanely.
Please step up and speak out.
Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.
Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling
[Below the post is a photo showing many people dressed in yellow t-shirts and several holding crosses, flags, or images of the Virgin Mary (La Virgen Migrante)].

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SnowWolpard @snowwolpard.com · 1d

I work in an exhibit with live spiders, and I think I have lost count how often people misheard "green lynx spider" as "green link spider"...

Two illustrations of a green lynx spider (green spider with two bigger forward facing eyes and lighter colored legs) stacked on top of one another. The one on top is labeled "Green Lynx Spider (Peucetia viridans)", the actual name of the spider. The one below is wearing a green, pointy hat, carrying a blue shield and sword drawn to look like the Hylian shield and Master sword from the "Legend of Zelda", series and is labeled "Green Link Spider (Peucetia hylia)".

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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 12h

Love this!

greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 12h

#Caturday
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From the funnycats community on Reddit: Thank you for gathering here for me

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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 13h

#Caturday

Brooke Jamieson @brookejamieson.bsky.social · 7d

Huge PSA: framed art cat beds are a thing, and you can just swap out the art to make it into the best wedding photo display of all time

Harry the cat in a wedding photo frame bed

greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 14h

#Caturday
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From the OneOrangeBraincell community on Reddit: The first and last time I give him cat nip…

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 18h

Diane Keaton was a true Californian. She was a self-described oddball, uniquely stylish, deeply creative, funny, and an acting legend who could steal the screen in comic and dramatic roles alike. She was in a class all her own, an icon.

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greenlynx @lynxspider.bsky.social · 17h

#Caturday

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 18h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.