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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 8h

Beautiful photographs illustrating a sad story: “We estimate the population at fewer than 20,000 individuals. Perhaps even fewer than 15,000. They are now critically endangered.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bonobos transformed how we think about animal societies. Can we save the last of the ‘hippy apes’?

They are peaceful, female-led and use sex in everyday interactions. Now a new conservation scheme could offer a lifeline to our critically endangered close relatives living on the Congo river

www.theguardian.com

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RavinaSpecter @ravinaspecter.bsky.social · 1d

Hey y’all! A cat rescue on the island of Oahu needs our help! Lucky Paws has only raised $577 out of a needed $5k to keep their important work going. Can you help spread the word? Donate a few bucks? Thank you!
@jortsthecat.bsky.social
@fishtopher.bsky.social

luckypaws.org?fbclid=PAVER...

Lucky Paws - Cat Resort, Adoptions, Rescue

CAT HOTEL & RESORT, Rescue, & Kitty Adoptions. Lucky Paws is a nonprofit organization focussed on sick, injured, and at-risk cats on Oahu.

luckypaws.org

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Open Door Animal Sanctuary @opendooranimals.bsky.social · 5d

People expect cats to perform like they're on America’s Got Talent—but I’m just Kurt: a cute, curious cat with little fangs and a big heart. After 6 years in the shelter, I’ve learned to love people. I just need someone patient enough to love me back. 💛 #AdoptDontShop

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Cat Care Network of Central Iowa @catcarenetworkiowa.bsky.social · 8h

Look at Kurt the Vampire Kitty! 😍🧛

Kurt needs a patient home willing to meet him where he's at... so he can live his best life in a home instead of a shelter. Where are the grey cat lovers in Missouri & Illinois? #StLouis

Open Door Animal Sanctuary @opendooranimals.bsky.social · 5d

People expect cats to perform like they're on America’s Got Talent—but I’m just Kurt: a cute, curious cat with little fangs and a big heart. After 6 years in the shelter, I’ve learned to love people. I just need someone patient enough to love me back. 💛 #AdoptDontShop

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 5h

Find out more about Homeward Bound here! www.homewardboundnj.org

Adoption | Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center | Camden County, New Jersey

Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center has a large selection of dogs and cats available for adoption. HBPAC also offers low cost spay and neuter services, vaccines as well as other veterinary procedures.

www.homewardboundnj.org

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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 11h

Puffins looking for Monday motivation.. 😁
#birds 🐦🪶

You can buy your 2026 Birds calendars here; (I have Puffin calendars too! 😀)
www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...

A group of Puffins all looking in opposite directions

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 12h

At the shelter where I have once again lost control of a photo shoot. 😔 Last week they took in 28 CATS from a hoarding case, so they could really use some financial help right now! www.hsccvt.org/donate

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TV-MA is not sharing drugs w/ trick or treaters @tv-ma.bsky.social · 1d

Hey all I really need to adopt her out.

Taking care of her is starting to cut into the money I have saved for rent.

I'm on the verge of ditching the rescue's application process just to get her out of my house sooner. If you can please help please share!

TV-MA is not sharing drugs w/ trick or treaters @tv-ma.bsky.social · 19d

Vampire is available to adopt in LA or Orange County!

2 weeks ago I found a small kitten trapped in the middle of a busy intersection. Now she's 6 weeks and ready to find her forever home.

Adoption application available on VIDA. Dm if you have questions about her! www.petfinder.com/cat/vampire-...

Pic of a 6-week tabby kitten against a pink bg

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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 12h

Four pages of dragon sketches.

Pencil sketches of a tiny insect-like dragon.

Pencil sketches of a tiny fluffy dragon.

Pencil sketches of a dragon with long serpentine neck and tail.

Pencil sketches of an aquatic dragon with a coral reef growing on its back.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12h

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 13h

My Autumn aerial embroideries I made last Autumn... I've made a start on this year's landscapes now! Lots and lots of colourful and brown trees coming soon 🧡💛🍂 including another geometric one maybe? #embroidery #art

An embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts an Autumn farm scene with winding roads sheep and evergreen trees.

A tilted embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape depicting a geometric garden in autumn.

A tilted embroidery hoop containing an embroidered aerial view landscape depicting a round hedge maze in autumn.

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 14h

Join us for the BTO South West Conference in Cornwall! Book a ticket ➡️ www.bto.org/our-work...

The day is packed with talks from BTO and guest speakers, with plenty of breaks for catching up with other attendees. Light refreshments and lunch are included. #Ornithology

Two Chough on a rock alongside the wording: BTO South West Conference. Duchy College, Cornwall. Saturday 8 November, 9am-4pm.

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Crimson 💀 (spooky) @crimsontentacles.bsky.social · 22h

Listen to me. Listen. If you're making images that will only be displayed on screens, YOU HAVE TO LET GO. You can calibrate your screens perfectly, but then 25k people will see it on their shitty $50 monitors or cracked phone and its out of your hands. Don't think of it. Achieve enlightenment.

Tweet by @night margin "digital artist woes" image of the same color gradient on various screen (monitor 1 appears very grey purple, phone appear VERY pink, monitor 2 appears a more saturated purple, laptop appears brownish red, family's phone appears much darker and bluer etc.)

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12h

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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Nebraska Humane Society @nehumanesociety.bsky.social · 13h

We've got some tiny creatures that could use a big favor. In addition to our regular kennels being almost full, our kitten nursery is overflowing with wee little babes that aren't quite ready for adoption - that's where you come in! 💕 🐈

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Nebraska Humane Society @nehumanesociety.bsky.social · 13h

Fostering an animal through NHS is a breeze. Our team provides all of the food and supplies you'll need - we just ask that you're able to transport them to and from the shelter for check-ups and medical care.

Find out more and apply here: bit.ly/4qetPx3

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14h

To celebrate the rerelease of my short story collection Help The Witch via @swiftpress.bsky.social I’m giving away TWO signed copies each with a beautiful original linoprints by my mum, from the book (now v rare & worth £40).

To enter you just need to repost this and pop a reply below.

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 14h

Oughe Buttons is still looking for her forever home at the rescue she was transferred to. She has had a name change, but that is 100% her. She’s with www.lastchanceanimalrescue.org/adoption-loc... in Stafford, VA!
I hope Brie & Babybel are doing ok. They are such good girls.

Buttons, now Domino, a young white kitten with a cute black triangle on her nose and an all black tail.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 1d

Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 19h

Got to hand it to the Paris museum jewel thieves. They found exactly what they're looking for. That's a serious achievment at the Louvre.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Louvre museum robbery: how the thieves broke in, what they stole and what happens next

French culture ministry says eight pieces were stolen – but crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugénie, was dropped by the fleeing thieves

www.theguardian.com

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 18h

Old Fox's series of ghost stories begins on my patreon today with "The Scarlet Crown"! A collection of blood-tingling, gothic stories of unquiet graves, haunted rings & long-dead Roman legions. Join for these & thousands of other tales & recipes! patreon.com/annelouiseav...

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 18h

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are in bed. Green has just woken up, bleary-eyed, while Blue is still sound asleep. Green narrates.
Green, narrating: You might wake up at 5 on a cold, dark monday to the sound of someone scraping frost off their windshield.

Still sleepy-eyed, Green turns towards sleeping Blue.
Green, continuing to narrate: But you are warm, safe and cozy, in bed with the love of your life.

Closing his eyes again, Green cuddles up to Blue.
Green, narrating: One of life's sweet, fleeting moments of pure and perfect bliss.

Blue wakes up, both foxes are bleary-eyed and half-asleep.
Blue: Can you get off me? I need to go pee.
Green, still narrating: Very fleeting.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 7d

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 7d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession

Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right

www.thetimes.com

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.bsky.social · 21h

I am so happy about this. I've voted LD for years and our local MPs are pretty normal/good. And Labour have never had a chance of getting in where I live.

It's such a relief to have a politician actually demonstrating empathy in public. With practical solutions to make things better for people.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

"Sir Keir Starmer has been warned that Labour is being deserted by a so-called Green wave of left-wing voters who are disillusioned with the party’s shift to the right on welfare, migration and transgender rights."

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Starmer warned of ‘Green wave’ exodus over Reform obsession

Labour may soon be ‘haemorrhaging’ left-wing voters to the Green Party, which is surging in polls, amid disillusionment with the party’s shift to the right

www.thetimes.com

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