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Birder K
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She/her Just another broke girl w/binoculars. Will answer bird feeder & bird ID questions!
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · Nov 19
I was reminded earlier today that I need to reconstruct my Twitter thread over here at some point on our backyard bird creek we made many years ago. Pinning this as point to start from whenever I can get to it. In the meantime, enjoy this fall Kinglet Pool Party. #birds
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pippiewup.bsky.social
Research shows that artificial light at night disrupts circadian rhythms, impairs some species ability to find their way around, and is a cause of declining populations of #insects, #bats, and other nocturnal #fauna #wildlife
#lightpollution

theconversation.com/why-walking-...
Why walking in a national park in the dark prompts people to turn off lights at home
The starry skies we can see from the UK are being limited all the time by the glare of light pollution.
theconversation.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Yes. Ask LA all about that shit. People have not wrapped their mind around the idea that the Federal Government is Trumps bank account he goes to the mattresses in court to try and stop paying out what is owed to taxpayers. SNAP for God's sake!
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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lil-bird-hugger.bsky.social
Insects in the #Amazon are finally getting recognized 🙌 👏 #bees #Insects

www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f...
For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model ...
Peru just made history: stingless bees in the Amazon now have legal rights, letting communities sue to defend hives and habitat.
www.ecoticias.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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tinadesireeberg.com
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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dansinker.com
Hey a very great maker of plastic for 3d printers has set up a thing where you pay $20 and they ship a spool of filament to members of our printing crew. One spool makes 500 whistles or more. Help out!

proto-pasta.com/products/the...
"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew
The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...
proto-pasta.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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moxiest.art
✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨

✨ re-reject edition ✨

we spent the last three weeks avoiding promoting the angry stuff, and keeping it hidden on the shop, because we did not want to be remotely seen as capitalizing on people's deaths.

thank you for respecting the break

artbymox.shop/reject
a selection of designs from our reject collection. shirts, stickers, hoodies, with various antifascist or queer slogans.
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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korybing.bsky.social
RIP to a real Oregon hero. He went to Disneyland in the 60s, said “I bet I could do this” and you know what he sure could and did.
oregonian.com The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Enchanted Forest founder Roger Tofte, 96, died Friday of natural causes, some 54½ years after he opened the iconic roadside amusement park.

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/02/founder-of-iconic-oregon-roadside-amusement-park-dies-at-96.html 
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February 15, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Amazing find for this year's Great Backyard Bird Count in my backyard! I've tried for years to get a clear photo of a boreal chickadee. They're forever mocking me from high in the spruce trees with their nasal 'chicka-day-days', but today, I finally managed to snap a photo of one! #GBBC #birds 🌿
An adorable boreal chickadee perched high in a snow-covered white spruce bough. It has a chestnut cap and brown sides, black chin and grey nape. A dapper cousin of the black-capped chickadee.
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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banditelli.org
Ya meeting Orange County celebrity birds is cool, but have you met OC celebrity labor mascots?

I think not.
Me with a Starbucks worker and her little bear Elenor who has roses and a small sign that says 100 days on strike
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
Screenshot of text from University of Edinburgh library services: Like many academic libraries, we have been experiencing slowness and outages on some of our open access platforms over the last few months. We have identified that this is the result of poorly behaved Gen AI crawling activity. As such we have had to try to disable the ability for AI -harvesters to access content from our repositories, via IP range blocking, geographical blacklisting, implementing limits to throttle bots and using robots.txt files to limit access. We acknowledge that this approach is not consistent with our open access policy which should require us to permit machine access to our content. Our limiting activity is not 100% fool-proof, and is a temporary measure to give services breathing space to perform while a longer termn solution is worked out by software providers and the community. This approach also has the added benefit of helping to assuage authors fear of losing control of their works.
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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kbspangler.com
Roses are red
Plants love the rain
We're a blood clot away
From popping champagne.

(Now I'm done again)
February 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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weatherprof.bsky.social
This is the worst #drought in 25 years in much of #Florida. We are a foot behind since Sept 1. It’s the driest such period on record! The good news: we may add an inch Sunday night. We’ll take it… But clearly it’s nowhere near what’s needed. Gonna be a tough spring as we head towards fire season.
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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mongabay.com
Cambodia is set to build the $1.2B Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong to the sea.

Residents along the route say they’ve received little information and fear land loss and disruption to floodplain farms and fisheries.
Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal
This is the second of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Read part one, about consequences for coastal communities and wildlife, here. TAKEO, Cambodia…
news.mongabay.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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forbesmm.bsky.social
idk where to even start with this, how about here

DoD: our new laser weapon is totally safe we promise

FAA: show your work pls

DoD: no :)

DoD: also we’re gonna let border patrol use it lol
For much of that same time frame, the F.A.A. and the Pentagon were also engaged in discussions over the military's plan to begin testing counter-drone lasers against cross-border threats from drug cartels. The Pentagon had insisted to the F.A.A. that the lasers would not pose a risk to civilian aircraft, but the FA.A., unconvinced, had asked for the military's data and an opportunity to conduct its own tests, according to three people with knowledge of those discussions. The requests were not satisfied. In late January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to allow border protection agents to use the Pentagon's new anti-drone laser technology.
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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oishinythings.bsky.social
Every pendant comes in a gift box with free international shipping (and US tariffs taken care of).

#TreatYourself #Handmade
Large dark blue oval pendant with green glowing sections, wrapped in criss cross wire and sitting in black and white gift box. Small green labradorite drop pendant netted in silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.
February 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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oishinythings.bsky.social
Got a few more days to get rent sorted out, but I'd be over the moon if I could get it done this weekend before more bad news hits on Tuesday.

Shiny things: oishiny.etsy.com

Wallpapers: ko-fi.com/turtleofcalm...

#Handmade #Helpsky #DisabledArtist
Large green oval pendant wrapped in criss-cross silver wire. Small green stone turtle on cut branch in the woods, with a new sprig of green growing out of it.
February 14, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️
Troop 6000
www.girlscoutsnyc.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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lake-erie.live
Current* conditions near North East, PA:
NW view from Freeport Beach on the shores of Lake Erie. // Image captured at: 2026-02-14 21:54:11 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@northeastborough7839 // Current Temp in North East: 38.39 F | 3.55 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: E at 6.912 mph | 11.12 kph // Humidity: 68%
February 14, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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tkingfisher.com
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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snowden.st
“what are you willing to do to win?” typically makes people think of combative elements, but way more of the time this is what you’re gonna be called to do.
figgityfigs.bsky.social The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 7h
Inside: OH MY GOD HOW DID YOU NOT SEE THIS EARLIER YOU FUCKING MORON

Outside: *clap them on the back* Hell yeah brother here’s a sign glad to have you on board
February 14, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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rincewind.run
America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before

that this is their response is extremely encouraging
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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diggybaby.bsky.social
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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uzzamodea.bsky.social
This incident at an anti-ICE student walkout in Emunclaw WA was provoked by MAGA vigilante Danny Rebel, a grown-ass man who taunted teenagers before getting punched.

Embarrassing that Emunclaw PD says it was unprovoked. Danny has a history of aggressively trying to agitate the left for content.
Danny Rebel showing off his bruise
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Roses are red
Kudzu’s ill-mannered
When it finally happens
We’re all getting hammered
February 14, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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rfhirschfeld.bsky.social
Wells running dry in this drought?

Hmm... perhaps there's a downside to carelessly tile draining 10 million acres of Illinois land without giving a second thought to the groundwater consequences.
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM