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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 1h

#FlowersOnFriday We are expecting a nor’easter this weekend to the point of the Mullet🐟Festival being cancelled last minute🤯the wind💨will break my 12 ft Tithonias so the butterflies are saying goodbye 😢👋🧡

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #noreaster #Plants #Butterflies

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1h

Astrantia, still sparkling 🌱

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin #GardenersWorld #UKGardening #FlowerFeed

Inverse pink chandeliers of astrantia Major flowers

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 4h

#FlutterbyFriday with those seen this last week in #Lancashire & #NorthYorkshire red admiral, small copper, comma, and speckled wood. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #joy

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING Congratulations to María Corina Machado on winning the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize! Her courage, resilience, and unwavering fight for democracy in Venezuela inspire the world. This honor celebrates not just her struggle, but the enduring power of hope, justice, and human rights.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 14h

Goodnight.
‘Oh whence do you come, my dear friend, to me
With your golden hair all fallen below your knee
And your face as white as snowdrops on the lea
And your voice as hollow as the hollow sea?’ The Poor Ghost, Christina Rossetti. #31DaysOfHalloween
🖼️ Aksel Johannessen, c.1920.

Ghostly woman in a white dress and with blonde, bobbed hair stood beneath a tree at night with a bench beside her and a fence and green shrubs and trees behind, painting.

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Rabbi Jill Zimmerman @rabbijill.bsky.social · 10h

Amidst the absolute insanity of our country today - I’m harvesting hollyhock seeds. It’s a miracle to see them nestled together, ready to be stored & seeded for new beauty next year. #hope 🌱

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h

Dire as the stakes are, leaning into absurdist and lighthearted forms of protest seems like a great way to puncture the fantasy Trump & co are spinning to attempt to rationalize a violent crackdown.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13h

As the administration goes all in on an alternate reality about portland that bears no resemblance to fact and rule of law, continuing radical (and just plain funny, ridiculing) acts of the imagination along with other ways of getting out the reality on the ground may help curb their momentum.

fake film poster with a sunset and the portland frog protestor with words The Portland War, A Film by Ken Burns

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Patsy Cline @chompie97.bsky.social · 9h

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Dominion Voting Systems Sold to GOP Firm — Right After Settling Defamation Suits vs. OANN, Giuliani, Powell

Dominion Voting Systems has been purchased by Liberty Vote, a firm headed by a former GOP election official with ties to a staunch ally of President Donald Trump -- just weeks after Dominion settled s...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11h

BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump from deploying federalized National Guard troops into Chicago.

This ruling reinforces what we already knew: It is illegal for the president to use manufactured emergencies to send soldiers into our cities.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 15h

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

Rep. @aoc.bsky.social RT’ed this 👀

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14h

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

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Pirjo Sundqvist @pirjosundqvist.bsky.social · 1d

Sani and Luna are very interested in everything that flies. 💚

#WhiskersWednesday
#catsonbluesky #cats
#WindowsOnWednesday
#photography
#eascoastkin

Two cats resting on the windowsill, they watch with interest everything that flies outside.

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Breezie @breeze420.bsky.social · 16h

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”

-Hans Christian Andersen

on a highway showing the hood of a car and buildings and trees on the right side of the highway.

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BelleAB @belleab.bsky.social · 19h

Mum’s the word! 🌼🌞🌼 #ColorADay #yellowthu #chrysanthemums #flowers #gardening #gardens #flowers #plants #autumn #mobilephotography

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 20h

Now we are past the half way point in the week it's time to get behind the #Corvids for #ThursJay, so here's a Western Jackdaw, Rook, Magpie & Jay captured @WWTSlimbridge & Yarrow Valley CP.

#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography #ukbirding #naturephotography #BirdLife

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ann @annpersand.bsky.social · 20h

Olaf Hajek, Let’s Pretend It’s Not The End Of The World (illustration for The Winged Moon Magazine: Biophilia, 2025)

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eddiephotos.bsky.social @eddiephotos.bsky.social · 22h

A Red Admiral Butterfly nectaring on the remaining buddleia flower head's this Autumn.

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 14h

On Monday i went to visit the Red Squirrels, i got there early and didn't have to wait too long for them to come out.
After a few hours i sat by the river for a brew, then saw a splash and up came 3 Otters which was a 1st for me.

Penrith & District Red Squirrel Group

#Otters #Squirrels #mammals

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Trish @trish58.bsky.social · 23h

#InsectThursday with another Daddy Longlegs sitting on the window, have a great day☕👟🙋🏼

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Rob Crank Photography @robcrank68.bsky.social · 18h

It's time for #InsectThursday, and i'm going with Butterflies this week
They are Brimstone, Common Blue, Red Admiral & Gatekeeper Butterflies

#insects #photography #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #wildlife #MacroPhotography #naturetherapy #PhotographyIsArt #LifeInTheUndergrowth

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Patsy Cline @chompie97.bsky.social · 13h

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Harold von Drehle @haroldvondrehle.bsky.social · 15h

#InsectThursday
#FlowerReport:

This morning in San Jose, California.

A Rider of the Purple Sage.

Close-up photo of a bee, from underneath, being a rider of the purple sage. Flowers, that is. With green leaves around, among the shadows.

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Patsy Cline @chompie97.bsky.social · 13h

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14h

Donald Trump wants to sell YOUR student loan debt to Wall Street.

He's not looking out for you — he's looking to make his CEO buddies more money off of your back.

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

These people are just not smart

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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