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Owlet

@owlet88.bsky.social

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Nature and wildlife nerd, planet appreciator, urban gardener, lifelong bibliophile, Maine Coon mama, NYC night owl. 🌃🦉 Lover of peace, art, poetry, science, the great out there, and fluffy, fluffy cats.

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Owlet @owlet88.bsky.social · Nov 27

Remain in light.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

-Mary Oliver

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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 8h

Swift vortex!

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 9h

Imagine being illegally deployed to Portland and not being able to go watch this because you live in shame and bird fans would run you out of their neighborhood.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 9h

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Owlet @owlet88.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans target law that protects whales, seals and polar bears | AP News share.google/59xaT523rvup...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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Ocean Hoptimism @oceanhoptimism.org · 16h

⏰ Deadline alert: NOAA is weighing whether to reopen U.S. marine monuments to industrial fishing: threatening reefs, sharks, seabirds, and cultural identity. It takes under a minute to sign this petition to keep these waters protected… your voice matters! 🐠💙
👉 Sign here
#OceanHoptimism #ActNow

Keep Our Marine National Monuments Protected

The Trump Administration is currently conducting a review of all U.S. marine national monuments to consider opening these protected areas to industrial fishing. Please sign the national petition bel...

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 17h

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 3d

Important alert for people who like working while a light white noise is playing in the background, there is a family of whales singing next to the Moss Landing Marine Lab hydrophone right now and you should listen! radio.garden/visit/moss-l...

Listen to live Moss Landing CA radio on Radio Garden

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 1d

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

Jack Kerouac on kindness, the self illusion, and the "Golden Eternity" – wonderful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/j...

Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

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Owlet @owlet88.bsky.social · 1d

Baby Freda waiting for her head to catch up to her ears.
#caturday
#cats

Jumbo-eared Maine Coon kitten lounging in her cat tree.

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Owlet @owlet88.bsky.social · 1d

5 Conservation Heroes Saving Animals - Earth Day share.google/U7LrI6XASPs0...

5 Conservation Heroes Saving Animals - Earth Day

Celebrate National Heroes Day by honoring five famous conservation heroes protecting cheetahs, pangolins, snow leopards, elephants, and coral reefs worldwide.

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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · 2d

An exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time. … Killing one butterfly couldn't be that important! Could it?
A Sound of Thunder
Ray Bradbury 1952
#BookWormSat 💙📚

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday

Illustration of a sitting cat facing right with colourful star and flower shapes over its body, a speech bubble above its head reads " Love ya, mean it", the background is orange

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Viktoria Haack @viktoriahaack.bsky.social · Dec 11

The vibrant greens of Scottish moss with a remaining few leaves from Fall.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 3d

More than 60% of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

- Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

Story by @pgreenfielduk.bsky.social

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More than half of world’s bird species in decline, as leaders meet on extinction crisis

Biodiversity losses are growing, the IUCN reports as summit opens, but green turtle’s recovery ‘reminds us conservation works’

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 3d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 3d

PEN America congratulates Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai on winning the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature. A master novelist with a singular style, Krasznahorkai’s novels buffet stories of the apocalypse with profound looks at humanity, art and beauty. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in literature

The Hungarian writer, known for his apocalyptic works, has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in literature. He joins the ranks of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and Toni Morrison.

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NRDC @nrdc.org · 3d

The Trump administration plans to axe the ‘roadless rule’, opening more than 50 million acres of public lands to new roads and chainsaws. This move threatens safe drinking water, jeopardizes tourism revenue that sustains local communities, and endangers wildlife.

Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’

Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment

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Science Take-Out @sciencetakeout.bsky.social · 4d

Leave the leaves
🍂🐝🍁🐛🍁🪲🍂

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 10d

It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts

Leave the Leaves!

One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 3d

Aloha from the epicenter of the #extinctioncrisis!

Episode 2 of our new podcast is now available and features an interview with Maxx Phillips, our #Hawai‘i and Pacific Islands Director.

Listen to the latest episode on our website (or find it on Apple or Spotify) ➡️ bit.ly/4pNp0e5

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 3d

This delightful new book by Cara Giaimo and Artist Vlad Stankovic includes a few familiar animals. Do you recognize any of these advice-givers from our ROV dives and videos? orionmagazine.org/article/dear...

Dear Sea Creature - Orion Magazine

Life advice from your favorite ocean dwellers

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 3d

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 4d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 4d

Dogs name toys while elephants name each other. Animal language is more complex than we imagine | Helen Pilcher

If we really want to grasp what animals are ‘saying’, we need to understand their communication on their terms, not ours, says science writer Helen Pilcher

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 6d

Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time.

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories is out now. Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#VirginiaWoolf #Woolf #Literature #TheLifeOfViolet