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Em 🌈🌱

@earthling.bsky.social

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Just a little creature. I am made for perils, as well as for tenderness. I do shelter medicine and general wandering in Chicago! (they/she)

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hi, my name is Em!

I'm a nature lover, shelter medicine feller, and hobbyist photographer based in Chicago.

I post about cats, birds, animal welfare, forest floors, horror novels, queer stuff, and things I think are funny. Happy to be on earth with you.

A selfie of Em! They have a French crop haircut, and are wearing a tan sweater vest along with layered necklaces. They are standing in front of a wall of green leaves.

A four panel collage of cat photos:

P1 - A black and white kitten swaddled by a blanket.

P2 - A Siamese cat being scratched on the chin by the photographer's hand.

P3 - A tortoiseshell kitten being held close to Em's face.

P4 - A brown box labeled "Medications or Foster Supplies Pending Pickup". There is an oval-shaped hole above the label, through which you can see the upper face of a grey tabby cat.

A four panel collage of nature close-ups:

P1 - Water droplets on the leaf of a Lamb's Ear plant.

P2 - The center of a bright pink Dahlia flower.

P3 - Split gill mushrooms growing on a fallen log. There are bright yellow autumn leaves visible in the background.

P4: Fuzzy moss growing on an upright tree.

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 1h

Just saw someone ride by on a motorcycle with a helmet that was furry and had cat ears. It hurts to see people living your dream

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 8h

I think that's beautiful

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 10h

this is why they call nat big daddy, and i'm just pretty boy 😳😵‍💫

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 10h

that sounds like why I have these tattoos!! i am creator and creation and the universe creating and it's me and it's others and it's us and it's everything. I may have issues from growing up religious, but that's probably unrelated

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BillyJoe @billeeejo.bsky.social · 14h

Today in Chicag’s Rogers Park neighborhood.

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 17h

MY BOY GOT ME FLOWERS AND OUR CHILDREN GO SNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFF SNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFFSNIFF 💖💕💘❤️‍🔥💞❤️💗💓🩷💕❤️‍🔥💖💘💕❤️💖💞💗💓

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emily kardamis 🌻 @corruptedgem.bsky.social · 1d

hey! it is my birthday today and it would be really cool if yall could donate to the friendship center: they’re a food bank primarily serving the north side of Chicago, including lincoln square, ravenswood and albany park. and they have a pet food pantry! friendshipcenterchicago.org

Friendship Center Chicago

The Friendship Center fosters hope and dignity in Chicago’s northwest side communities through access to food and vital resources.

friendshipcenterchicago.org

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 1d

No!!! We simply faded out of touch after I got accidentally outed to my family, and she started dating her now husband (who i was also jealous of for Undetermined Reasons)

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 2d

this utterly confused bitch has a side shave and is dead behind the eyes!

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 2d

Gayest clothing item I own is the denim trucker jacket I bought on a shopping trip a decade ago with my Best Friend Definitely Just My Friend That I'm Obsessed With and her other best friend that I felt jealous of the entire time but could never put my finger on why

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 2d

and he will get them!!!!!!!!

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 2d

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 3d

polite boy baby man respectfully requests ten million smooches on his tiny forehead please

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 6d

Saw someone compare Taylor Swift's "Boring Barbie" lyric to Kendrick Lamar's "Hey Drake" and got so pissed off i passed out

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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 7d

These thugs are using helicopters to land on the roof of a building whose front door has been reported to the City as unlocked and unsecured for months. They are using a ladder to scale the ornamental fence the gate to which has stood ajar for years. They're a disgrace and a fucking joke.

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 7d

Love when my to-do list is like:

- Clean bathroom
- Buy cat food
- Pick up sword from the blacksmith

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 14d

none of these books I'm adding to my reading list have more than 4 reviews, I'm in heaven

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 14d

Storygraph needs a messaging feature so that when I find someone with an interest in the same extremely niche academic subject as me, I can be like hello....... what are your opinions on the homoerotic undertones of the new testament and how into historical witchcraft are you

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 17d

Last night, partner's grandmother very seriously told me that I should get into modeling, which of course means that I'm the winner of this year's Rosh Hashanah dinner

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 19d

I'm out here eating hummus you've never heard of with dippables you can't even imagine

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 20d

animal crossing is a good game

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Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 21d

YOU'RE KIDDINGGGGGGGG

Em 🌈🌱 @earthling.bsky.social · 22d

Does everyone wearing a green and brown outfit spend the entire time worried they look like Shaggy from Scooby Doo or is this just a me issue