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the ghost of pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 8h

happy halloween from samwise gamgee and frodo baggins! cloaks vests and shirts handmade by grandma, lembas bread by fig newtons corporation

two babies dressed as hobbits barefoot in the woods

they have walking sticks and cloaks and everything

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Melissa Crytzer Fry @crytzerfry.bsky.social · 6h

Happy Halloween! These nectar-eating #bats (Mexican Long-Tongued) are still hanging around our feeders! Saw a half dozen on a video with another fox last night!

This bat, wings spread, approaches a hummingbird feeders from the ground up. The spread legs show a skin membrane that helps with identification. Mexican Long Tongued wear "skirts," whereas Lesser Long Nosed wear Pants. This one is wearing a skirt.

This bat's Alf-like snout hovers maybe an inch from a hummingbird port, ready to insert its long tongue into the nectar.

This bat's wings are held high above its head, like a shoulder shrug, as it pulls up from sipping hummingbird nectar, which they use to supplement their diets.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23h

ObPeriodicReminder: If you were born before 1982 and don't have conclusive, *documented* proof of getting 2 doses of MMR, get another dose unless it's counterindicated. The second dose wasn't added to the schedule until later and a lot of us never got the catchup dose.

Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely begging you to re-up your MMR & get your kids vaccinated if you can. Between this & Kennedy talking about breaking it up into separate vaccines thus providing opportunities for missed inoculations &, thus, increased infections, public health policy is not looking great, for the foreseeable

ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days.

That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

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Nicole 🪲 @fossilforager.bsky.social · 1d

North American Hoverflies! 🪰

An illustrated poster with numbers and an identification key, highlighting the diversity of Hoverfly species found in North America. 18 flies are drawn on the poster. These flies are generally striped/have patterns that make them resemble bees. They are illustrated on a light earthy yellow-green background.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 1d

A plain weave with a warp float, the functional description of a fabric that exudes autumnal plums and bronzes with a rich blue backdrop. Elaborate cloth for mid #1880s daywear, #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Detail view of the back of a mid 1880s bustle dress with floral fitted bodice that has fluted tabs that sit over the blue silk bustle

Macro detail of the floral fabric of the mid 1880s bustle dress. It has a rounded shed blue silk background with dark plum and bronze florals creating the floating pattern over the top

Partial front view of the 1880s bustle dress dress with its floral bodice and skirt with blue silk panels and bustle

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 1d

Literal perfection. ;) www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

We Have AI Now

YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

www.youtube.com

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.

If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.

Here's one! toastedseattle.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

lots of misinformation out there about helping folks on SNAP. this is a free, useful guide from an expert who knows the system & the burden of means testing ⬇️

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 2d

I firmly believe, with every single atom of my being, that instead of amplifying unreliable information that discourages helping, our focus as 42 million Americans face hunger must be on providing factual information that enables people to help.

www.patreon.com/posts/142285...

How To Help People Who Rely On SNAP While Minimizing Risk To Their Benefits | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

Plain language - eg, putting language at a reading level that is 3rd grade and below - is not "dumbing down" information. It is presenting information in an accessible, easy to understand and digest manner. Done properly, it is the same information, just in a new presentation.

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The Pocket Forge @thepocketforge.bsky.social · 2d

Ever wondered how worms are made?

It was me all along!

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Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social · 2d

🍂🍎🥧

Pusheen with a pumpkin, basket of apples, and fall leaves.

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A.🌻 @alexxaye.bsky.social · 2d

I love Rebecca DOWN. Known as Dollar Tree Dinners.

Her “Meal in a Bag” is meant to provide ppl with a complete meal that is $8 or less, is shelf stable, & can be made without access to a full kitchen. I love this as a direct aid option. Good for neighbors & elders who can’t/wont go to a pantry.

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More Puppets 🪡👩‍💻🎨 @morepuppets.com · 2d

Northern Shoveler breeding plumage this morning appreciation post
#birds

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.

Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again.

Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”

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Melissa McMasters @melissamactn.bsky.social · Sep 21

What a treat to watch this leafcutter bee bring the petals of a blanketflower back to line her nest, transforming a drainage hole into its own kind of bloom.
#bees #Inverts

A bee with a black-and-white striped abdomen, with yellow pollen stuck to the underside, carries a bright red flower petal into a small hole in a concrete wall that she has already lined with many other petals.

The bee emerges from the nest, which looks like the top of a flower that has been stuck into the small drainage hole.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 3d

Happy #Invertober day 28!

Pearly green lacewing (chrysopa perla)

Digital painting of a lacewing against an abstract green and yellow background of overlapping squares. The insect has large delicate wings that are transparent in translucent shades of green and blue.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: I looked at the collection and they gotta be Polychalca punctatissima. Big, abundant, vividly iridescent

Habitus photo of a tortoise beetle from our collection, labeled “Polychalea punctissima” [sic]

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d

A 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic glass bowl with a dazzling swirl of colours resembling a kaleidoscope of tiny flags!

V&A Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology

My photo shows a Roman-era ribbed mosaic glass bowl standing on a glass shelf in a display case at the V&A Museum. The bowl is hemispherical with vertical ribs and an applied pedestal foot. The glass itself is composed of various combinations of red, white, blue, green and yellow stripes which resemble ribbons or tiny flags. Height 11.5 cm, width 15.5 cm. Other colourful glass pieces are visible in the background.

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Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 4d

Day #146: The Lost World-Jurassic Park (1997)

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 4d

One could, alternatively, choose to address this problem by providing national single-payer health rather than forcing people to buy health insurance, as one serves the people and the other serves insurance companies. Approaching health care as care, instead of a business, might also help.

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Louise Coombe @louisecoombe.bsky.social · 5d

READ: Powerful article here and he’s right….AI companies must not shirk responsibility.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.