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Phalocrorax auritcus
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Not very buoyant. Somewhat beaky.
I wish I could like this twice
I'm always thrilled when I see a beautiful female Northern Cardinal--especially in the snow! This one is particularly spectacular, don't you think? 🧡❤️🧡 #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding
December 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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A little 19th century tomb in Green-Wood Cometary, Brooklyn, made for a child who died aged 15 mos. There is a very worn lamb on the oval pedestal; the carved chair has a tasseled cape draped over it and a baby’s shoe on top. The world before vaccines. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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The remnants of beauty are still beauty
August 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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This the first semester since the pandemic that I have not received a Covid booster before the start of classes. Did the pandemic go away? Unfortunately no. Did I decide not to? Also, no. Was a deranged anti-vax grifter put in charge of public health in this country? Even more unfortunately yes.
August 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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If we made posters about leaving your leaves for lightning bugs, would you guys be into that? Would you put them up in public spaces?

I feel like it's a straightforward actionable message & could make a v cute poster. It's a good example of one a charismatic species with a message that helps many.
July 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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I call it "Still Life with Black-crowned Night Heron". Seen this morning along the Harlem Meer. 💛🖤❤️ #Heron #Stilllife #CentralPark #birding
June 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Imagine a Democrat calling for the deportation of a Jewish Republican.

You can’t. It would never happen.

Our political and media elites talk nonstop about antisemitism while totally normalizing and amplifying the worst and most vicious Islamophobia.
Sickening:
June 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Vote today.

Do not rank Cuomo.

Vote Mamdani.

#VoteMamdani #DoNotRankCuomo #Zohran #VoteZohran #ZohranForMayor
#TikTok
June 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
No justice, no geese! #nokings
Some ducks have joined one of the #NoKings rallies in Portland, OR!
June 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Our brains love the colour gradation in rainbows, maybe due to our ancestors searching for sources of water. Looking at plants helps us recover from stress & looking at something we think is beautiful causes dopamine release.
I've posted this photo to alter your brain biochemistry for the better 🌿
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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I’m really trying to boost my follower count and engagement, so here’s a photo of Carrion Beetles on some coyote scat.
June 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Just a reminder: Kidnapping people when they are going to or from their immigration court appointments is not something you do if you are going after dangerous criminals: it is, however, something you do if you want to spread racist fear and nationalist repression (and are sort of lazy).
June 6, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?
June 6, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The Trump administration announced plans to eliminate federal protections for millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness, opening the door to drilling and mining in some of the nation’s last untouched landscapes.
June 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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#maddow
Science break.
This kayaker gets approached by an otter every time he visits a lake. The otter was orphaned after the mother was in an accident, and the man helped it throughout it's rehabilitation process to later release it back into the wild. Volume up.🔊
February 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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The most pessimistic and optimistic thing I can say about the current situation is that we are never going back to “normal.”
April 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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SweetDog and the Potatoes. From 2018-ish. Heaven is a place on earth
February 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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To bless our timeline. Here’s SweetDog picking out her new bed in 2020. Best. Dog. Ever.
February 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Beloved FLACO🦉🤎🤎🤎🤎🤎
Central Park🪶
#birds
#Flaco
#EurasianEagleOwl
📸Fe10,2023
February 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.
February 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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who’s a fine little fellow (or lady)
February 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I just got one heck of a welcome home. Volume up, but not too high.

The wolves were singing tonight. A few seconds in you’ll hear the closest howling wolf I’ve ever heard. I couldn’t see it, but it might have been at the end of my driveway. I went right back inside after this. 😊🐺🦊
January 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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As a kid two of the lessons I firmly believed from history and civic classes were: 1) The world would stand up to another genocide and stop it from happening 2) The US institutions would be a bulwark against fascism. Now I realize that those ideas were pretty much believing in Santa Claus
January 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM