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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️

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Birds & cats & life in Maine. Public health nerd, they/them. Down by the water. Banner: Closeup of ruddy red galaxies drifting in a cat's olive green eye w/narrowed pupil. PFP: Blonde me w/undercut, big glasses, floppy bangs & a certain kind of smile.

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · Jun 17

🚨I IMPLORE YOU to use alt-text when you post any image, screen cap, or post of a screed/tidbit from this or a different site. Otherwise people using screen readers are seeing a steady flow of
"OMG"
"This seems bad"
"👀"
"Well that's not good"
with no context
& that is INCREDIBLY ANXIETY-INDUCING

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18h

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
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Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you so much! It's been a hard week and today's been a respite. ❤️‍🩹

Mr Moo is a kitten, discovering his 1st Xmas tree. His head pokes up among the light-bedecked branches. If you look closely, the multicolored lights are reflected in his eyes.

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 9h

It's ridiculous, his angles.

Black and white photo of tuxedo cat Mr. Moo, chin tucked in, eyes large and sort of "how dare you" above prominent cheekbones, with his right front paw reaching toward the camera at bottom left of frame.

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 9h

Thank you! The camera and he are friends for sure. 🥰

Tuxie cat Mr Moo lays on his back on the table, preventing any foolish reading of books or writing in journals, with magnificent whiskers and an insistent look in his eyes

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 10h

Six years ago today I glanced out the window & saw the tiniest baby kitten on the deck in the rain. Today Mr. Moo got all the tuna and treats and a new squishmallow pal for his 6th birthday. #CatsOfTwitter

View through a window screen looking down on gray wooden deck stairs, with the tiniest possible baby cat peeking around the edge of one. He's just had some nibbles out of the kibble that was left out for him. Within 30 minutes he was in a humane trap and living in the bathroom, much to his chagrin.

Baby cat Mr Moo turns out to be a tuxie, with a little sugar kiss on his left upper & lower lip. He is curled on top of some fleece pants, inside a white laundry basket turned on its side to make a house for him. A fluffy is being twirled on top of his head as part of getting him used to being adored and played with. He is extremely vexed.

Teenage Mr Moo lays across a work desk on his back, no longer vexed, his gorgeous white tummy and black necktie on full display. His left arm reaches toward the camera, his right is tucked next to his chin, and his left rear leg is about to make my computer mouse do something dire to my spreadsheet. This is a fully domesticated Mr Moo.

Earlier tonight: Mr Moo, a robust tuxie cat, curls atop a fall-toned quilt on a bed, showing off his lustrous black tuxedo coat and white front mittens. He's sleek and plump and gnawing on his purple Squishmalllow toy's pumpkin headband. The window through which I first laid eyes on him is out of frame behind him.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 10h

OMG same! Today a huge one magically appeared on my 2nd monitor during a meeting. Where did you come from? Why are you here? Let's take a ride outdoors on a paper towel, friendo...

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 10h

💖 We're at the end of that season up here, getting into ladybug & stinkbug season. Glad your spoods have a benevolent housemate in you!

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 10h

Well, keep us posted. They're awfully cute and should not be squished!

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 11h

OK but you might want to check if there's an egg sac in the vicinity? Two is cute, but... 🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 14h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, you chose wisely here. 😍

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Lia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 12h

Hello it is time for an unhinged Friday thread of jewelry I cannot believe is still available on @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. PREPARE THINESELF

ok I can see you're still standing up, I said PREPARE THINESELF. Ahem.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16h

Today's thread of "20% off, queer made, please adorn yourself, they're sending me Black Friday merch already help." Listed crafter takes 70% of the sale.

ONWARD.

One pair left of Nibs' maple leaves! $12. ($4 flat US shipping.)

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Nibs' Loam and Leaf | Peculiarity Shop

Hear the leaves crunch as you stroll along the forest. Components: Alloy and enamel charms, brass rings, sandstone beads Lead/nickel free.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 19h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12h

Oh the first couple days out of the nest are WEIRD, but also it creates some of the cutest bird photography ever. Sadly I didn't have much time this year to capture it. I spent 40 hours during my work week with them in the nest so didn't have time for buddy flycatcher season

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · May 1

We're in my favorite era of a vermilion flycatchers life which I call "buddy flycatcher season" - these are the days following leaving the nest where they juveniles CAN fly, but CAN NOT catch, so their pudgy little selves just sit in trees begging, often nudging against their sibling 🥰😭🪶🐣

An adult male feeding a juvenile with its mouth open

A juvenile with its mouth opening leans on top of its sibling

To juveniles scrunch next to each other with their mouth open begging for food that will never come or at least not from the next couple minutes

A juvenile with its mouth still open even though the mother already fed it as the mother flies away

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 12h

Trying to imagine growing up as a vermilion flycatcher chick perched in a bit of mud & twigs on the tippy-tip end of a branch over a vast chasm...

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 12h

Bless you and Bananas, Mike. 🙏🏼

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 12h

Do both parents sit on the eggs? It just all seems so precarious. And I love them!

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 13h

The facts that Baird's tapirs exist, and that @mikemelton.bsky.social shares photos of them with us, are working overtime to keep my spirits up. 💖

Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 13h

Bananas came to visit this afternoon!

I haven't seen him for a while, but he wandered through the garden today and came to say, "Hi" to me.

I love Bananas! Mi amigo.

At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#tapirs #mammals #wildlife #bairdstapir

A close-up photo of a Baird’s tapir standing on a wet, leafy path in a lush green forest, looking directly at the camera with its long snout and large rounded ears visible.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h

"me me me me me me me me me me me" - birds 🪶

vermillion flycatcher chicks in the nest begging for food as their father flys off

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Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 13h

Brett, this is another fabulous shot but it looks like a very precarious nest position--is this just how vermilion flycatchers do it? 😲😍

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 13h

Hey #Maine, Matt's running to replace Jared! 💙

A campaign still that shows Maine's former Secretary of State, and State Auditor, wearing a ball cap and his signature glasses, with a neighborhood behind. At top left, the words "Maine's 2nd deserves better than a choice between Jared Golden and Paul LePage" (oh hell yes we do) and at bottom right, a simple campaign bug in dark blue w/bold white letters saying "Dunlap for Congress."

Becky DEEEEK!!! 🕷️👻🎃👻🕷️ @bexrousse.bsky.social · 13h

Hi @dunlapforcongress.bsky.social, good to see you here! 💙 You were a great SOS and state auditor & I'll be glad to vote for you to replace Golden.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 17h

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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