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Dr. Tara A. Nitka 🦅
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Computational chemist | Baseball nerd | Hockey nut | Feminist | Cellist | Owl enthusiast | Book eagle
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Dr. Tara A. Nitka 🦅 @ewenthel.bsky.social · Nov 21
I guess it’s time to post this yet again. Bathrooms are segregated by sex primarily because of misogyny. www.vox.com/2015/12/30/1...
The bizarre history of bathrooms getting in the way of equal rights
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters expl...
www.vox.com
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet running with his wings up.
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl standing on a box of bees, with bees flying all around him.
December 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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davidacody.bsky.social
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #QuietObservers with an alternate theme of #OpenWings so I’m going to double up starting with a repost of this local Bald Eagle pair.

#birds 🪶 #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin
December 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Two burrowing owlets in their burrow. One is standing normally, the other has his head back and tilted to the side.
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
#Birdoftheday is #groups, and I was lucky enough to see this tight pack of Sandhill Cranes at Sauvie’s Island last week, Portland, Oregon
Six Sandhill Cranes flying above
December 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the eighth day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Eight Maidbots Milking...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
A Cowbot - a large, spherical robot with piebald patches, like the classic Holstein Friesian breed, with little horns, a golden bell hanging from where its neck would be if it wasn't just a big sphere, a pink snout, and a giant spring on a single foot instead of legs - with a tap on its side dispensing milk. Eight Maidbots - ovoid robots with banded arms and legs and blonde hair in braided pigtails - are lined up beside it with Pailbots - little metal buckets with legs and eyes, basically. The first Maidbot is walking away, smiling contentedly with a filled Pailbot (also looking content) in one arm. The second is leaning against the Cowbot, whistling with one hand in its pocket as its Pailbot on the ground is filled by a stream of milk from the tap. The Maidbot behind it looks annoyed, and its Pailbot is asleep. The next Maidbot is smiling with an indifferent Pailbot. Then the next Pailbot looks angry and is on the ground, kicking its feet, while the Maidbot seems annoyed and trying to control it. Then the next Maidbot is asleep (Pailbot not visible), the next is smiling with its Pailbot facing away from the frame, and the last one in the queue is angrily waving its arms around, while its Pailbot peeks out from behind its legs, staring daggers at the Maidbot at the front. Text in the top right reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" in alternating red and green letters.
December 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Three fuzzy burrowing owlets of various sizes in their burrow
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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glengrambo.bsky.social
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 14
They are one of the tiny little birds that stay with us year round. In the winter they are especially busy, constantly foraging and talking.
This red-breasted nuthatch has just plucked a small nut from a spruce cone and will either eat or stash it for later.
#birds 🪶
A red-breasted nuthatch in a spruce tree with a small spruce nut in its beak. It has a blue-grey wings, an orange tummy, and black eyeliner through its eye.
December 15, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Two burrowing owlets peeking out from their burrow.
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the seventh day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Seven Swanbots Swimming...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
A swimming pool divided into seven lanes by red and green dividers. Swanbots - white robots shaped like swans with hinged wings and banded necks - are thrashing along each lane, each inexplicably wearing a swimming cap and goggles. Text in the top right corner reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED".
December 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3169 gazes into the abyss
A bunny in a hallway cautiously puts their paw on a circular mat, patterned to look like some kind of pit via optical illusion. While the bunny is reluctant to step on the mat, a cat beside them walks confidently over it, with eyes closed
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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dptbirder.bsky.social
I can’t believe an albatross just walked right by me… 😭🪶
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet peeking through stacked hay bales.
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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pixelsand8.bsky.social
"parents rights" is by definition just a "nicer" term for legalized abuse. There is literally no reason a person would need rights specific to being a parent other than they want to abuse their child and face no repercussions from society.
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11d
This whole so-called “parents rights” movement the right has taken up and the left is supposed to kowtow to for votes is so obviously anti-child it really bothers me to see it presented as anything other than justification for abusive “parenting” and disregard for actual science on child development
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet jumping off a cactus.
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
On the sixth day of Christmas, my Bigbot gave to me...

Six Goosebots Laying...

#12BotsofChristmasRemastered
Six Goosebots; robots in the form of angry geese, with spherical heads, bodies with integrated tails, banded legs with big, flat, webbed feet, and banded necks. They're mostly white, with orange legs and feet, and black metallic necks. Their beaks have horrible little teeth and their tongues are also long and banded. They're all laying eggs, causing havoc in various ways: one is tromping through its own egg, making a mess, one is laying its egg on a fleeing Tinybot, one is bouncing Teabot away with its egg (which is emerging from a mechanical, irising cloaca), one is firing its egg into the distance and one is kicking its egg ahead of it. Text in the bottom left reads, "12 'BOTS OF CHRISTMAS REMASTERED" in alternating red and green letters.
December 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
ewenthel.bsky.social
Apparently there are people who think superfluous means excellent and I really wonder how that can possibly be a thing.
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl parent delivering a giant grasshopper to the kid.
December 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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rulesdontwork.bsky.social
I honestly have no way to make sense of this murderous anti-trans obsession - which is completely off the charts in the ratio of "frequency, size, virulence of coverage" vs. simply "number of trans people IRL" (and also "potential harm even as hallucinated by the most hostile writers"). EXCEPT IF...
hleehurley.com Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9d
It just never stops
Daily Mail front page - Stop Labour’s ‘grotesque’ puberty drug experiment on children Top Tory calls trial on 220 children ‘chemical castration’ as campaigners launch bid to halt it Double page spread in Daily Mail with 3 articles: 1 - "It is disgusting that we're again putting the young on these drygs" featuring Keira Bell 2 - This is nothing less that the state sanctioned chemical castration of children - by Claire Coutinho 3 - No lower age limit on those joining blocker trial
December 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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birdturntable.bsky.social
Golden Eagle 🪶
A close up photo of a Golden Eagle peering over her shoulder. The golden nape feathers are visible. The background is a rich blue sky A golden eagle in flight from left to right. Her wings are down so we see the dorsal feathers. She is flying past rolling tan farmland and a light blue sky.
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owlet peeking out from behind an embankment
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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willquinnart.bsky.social
Daily bunny no.3163 adopts a child
A bunny comes across a baby dragon, which has just hatched from a large blue egg. The dragon lets out a puff of flame, perhaps by accident, and the bunny looks on cautiously.
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Burrowing owl mom grooming her kid, whose head is tilted with one eye closed.
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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burrowingowl.bsky.social
Good morning! 🪶
Mom burrowing owl standing in front of her burrow entrance, blocking her kid from coming out.
December 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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onlyveesaz.bsky.social
Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar
I finally got my lifer Elf Owl in Spring! Elf Owls are the smallest owls on Earth… 🪶
Elf Owl out of its Saguaro cavity
December 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM