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greenlynx
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Cat lover, amateur photographer and naturalist, avid gardener, occasional crafter. She/her, cis/het, ally to all who could use one. Userpic is my photo of a green lynx spider mother-to-be in my yard.
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I'm a bit better today -- and Bob just made it still better by bringing me some breakfast at the computer❤️ (I should probably go get the rest of it.) @anned13.bsky.social
Green grapes in a bowl lined with a green and white napkin. Photo by me November 27 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Good morning🕸️
Female spotted orbweaver, Neoscona crucifera, a spider with a soft burnt-orange body with slightly darker markings, and cream and dark brown banded legs with orange femurs. She's hanging upside down in her orb web. Out of focus behind her is a sign (on a brown wood fence) that's still readable: BEWARE OF DOG. (It was hard to get a photo without the sign, but I kind of like it.) Photo by me from a neighborhood walk on November 16 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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#GlxPics #spiders #arachnids #inverts #Arachvember @anned13.bsky.social
Female spotted orbweaver, Neoscona crucifera, a spider with a soft burnt-orange body with slightly darker markings, and cream and dark brown banded legs with orange femurs. She's hanging upside down in her orb web. Out of focus behind her is a sign (on a brown wood fence) that's still readable: BEWARE OF DOG. (It was hard to get a photo without the sign, but I kind of like it.) Photo by me from a neighborhood walk on November 16 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#Caturday
Twitter post from drew scott @DrewciferScott. It's a quote retweet of a weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval post of a cat apparently levitating while working a tall butter churn. drew scott: "i'm a bitch, i'm a lover, i'm a... weird medieval guys: cat churning butter, germany, ca. 12th century
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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With alt text
Quote from Steve Wozniak (from some social media post) I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Painting by British artist Alison Friend. #Caturday
Tabby and white shorthair kitten sitting upright holding a vanilla ice cream cone against its chest and extending its tongue down with mouth wide open. Part of Alison Friend's "Kitty Snacks" series. More paintings at the link: posts/-kitty-snacks-alison-friend-is-a-talented-british-artist-whose-love-of-animals-p/399047236468700/
November 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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#CaturdayEve
Black-and-white poster hanging in the lobby of the Animal Legal Defense Fund's former HQ in Cotati, California. Three kittens with the text: WE MAY BE THE ONLY LAWYERS ON EARTH WHOSE CLIENTS ARE ALL INNOCENT. THE ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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This one (from 2021) was unusually laid back and let me get good photos. It was on the upper edge of the box when I lifted the lid off, but stayed there for a while anyway. Maybe it was warm and dozy. The weather was still pleasant, even in October. 2/2
Alligator lizard, a long reptile with orangey-yellow eyes and a medium-tan body marked with black and cream broken bands. It's stretched across the front of the black plastic compost box, holding onto the top with the tiny feet of its left front and back legs. Its long tail (almost as long as the rest of its body) is stretched out with the last quarter or so of the end tucked into a groove. Its large rectangular scales look somewhat like an alligator's, hence the common name. Its painful -- although not usually damaging -- bite (which I am familiar with, as I have caught and held them) might also have something to do with it. If you ever try to catch an alligator lizard, try not to grab it by the tail, as it will detach it to get away. (Some other lizards also do this.) The tail regrows, but can take months and never looks quite the same. In the meantime it's more vulnerable to predation, and will have lost the fat that it had stored in its tail. October 4 2021 photo by me.
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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#mondayisbunday
Drawing of a giant but cute rabbit in a Godzilla suit, surrounded by tall buildings and chomping on a couple of them held in its paws. Made by artist known as Bunzilla, @ichthy0stega on Instagram.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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4/4
Slightly floofy (I think he'll be a shorthair) black kitten Oreo with one paw extended, with his brother Choco, a tabby shorthair, running out of frame behind him. Both are in harnesses and leashes, on concrete with grass visible. Oak Riparian Park, from an evening walk there and in Calavera Ecological Reserve. September 11 2025 photo by me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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3/4
Slightly floofy (I think he'll be a shorthair) black kitten Oreo sniffing his brother Choco, a tabby shorthair, both in harnesses and leashes, on concrete with grass visible. Oak Riparian Park, from an evening walk there and in Calavera Ecological Reserve. September 11 2025 photo by me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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2/4
Slightly floofy (I think he'll be a shorthair) black kitten Oreo sniffing his brother Choco, a tabby shorthair, both in harnesses and leashes, on concrete with grass visible. Oak Riparian Park, from an evening walk there and in Calavera Ecological Reserve. September 11 2025 photo by me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Eight-week-old kittens -- tabby Choco and black Oreo -- in Oak Riparian Park. (One of the trailheads into Calavera Reserve is there.) Their person said his children named them, although the children weren't there. 1/4
#GlxPics #CaturdayEve @anned13.bsky.social #kittens #cats
Slightly floofy (I think he'll be a shorthair) black kitten Oreo, in a leash and harness, on concrete with grass visible. Oak Riparian Park, from an evening walk there and in Calavera Ecological Reserve. September 11 2025 photo by me.
November 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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#GlxGifs #thursdayispurrsday #cats @anned13.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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November 12 2025 cartoon by Jack Ohman. In White House Oval Office, Stephen Miller says "the President is merely demonstrating he's not woke," as Trump, his red tie spread across the desk several feet, snoozes in his chair. "ZZZZZNORKZZZ"
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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@nytopinion.nytimes.com, is this a reprint from November 1918 or September 1945?
New York Times headline from Opinion Section for November 6 2025 Did Women Ruin the Workplace?
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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BRAAAIIIINS?!
Protestors, one wearing a red MAGA cap and several with little American flags, pretending to be oppressed by public health laws, looking through the windows of the Statehouse Atrium in Ohio during the State of Ohio's coronavirus response update on Monday, April 13 2020 at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. They appear to be desperately in need of brains. Photo by Joshua A. Bickel.
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Recreation of a dream by a Reddit poster.
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Very dark Siamese cat lying on its back looking very silly, with cute-looking wolf spider photoshopped onto its shoulder, recreation of a dream the Reddit poster had. Link to their post is https://www.reddit.com/r/spiders/comments/1olkezz/i_just_needed_to_share_my_recent_dream_with_you/
November 1, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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#thursdayispurrsday
Screenshot of Reddit comment. ProblemCommercial655: My oldest cat hates the younger cats (we have three kittens of varying ages under a year) she won’t let them near the cat tree so we got another cat tree now she runs between the cat trees so we got ANOTHER cat tree and immediately placed the kittens on it so she peed on that one Link to original post is https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1ojsje9/comment/nm5jl1c/
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Female noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, in Oak Riparian Park, which has a trailhead into Calavera Ecological Reserve.
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Female noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, a spider with a plump round abdomen with a pale brown marking (I think it looks like a tall house with a peaked roof) and a pale brown ring on its dark brown abdomen, a dark brown cephalothorax, and dark reddish brown legs. It's clinging to a fence, upside down, next to the tunnel of its messy web. All false widow species are related to black widows, but not medically significant to humans. October 23 2025 photo taken in Oak Riparian Park, which has a trailhead into Calavera Ecological Reserve, by me.
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Good morning from a female noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis 🕷️
Female noble false widow spider, Steatoda nobilis, a spider with a plump round abdomen with a pale brown marking (I think it looks like a tall house with a peaked roof) and a pale brown ring on its dark brown abdomen, a dark brown cephalothorax, and dark reddish brown legs. It's clinging to a fence, upside down, next to the tunnel of its messy web. All false widow species are related to black widows, but not medically significant to humans. October 23 2025 photo taken in Oak Riparian Park, which has a trailhead into Calavera Ecological Reserve, by me.
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Frog on tiled bathroom wall (looks like a tree frog species) next to shower curtain with smiling tree frogs in many colors printed on it. Original source unknown.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My favorite Wikipedia "vandalism."
Screenshot of Tumblr comment thread. quinnf4brays: there are animals called dikdiks (with photo of a dik-dik) lucyforpromqueen: pronounced...dick-dicks? quinnf4brays: no pronounced xylophone buddhabob: (image of Wikipedia entry that starts, "A did-dik, pronounced 'xylophone...")
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Top image: Trump delegates in audience at 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, with white bandages on their right ears and vapid expressions. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) Bottom image: a white sheep with a green plastic tag in its right ear and a vapid expression.
October 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Jackson and Jilly (the "kids") would pile on top of Rudy (sometimes separately and sometimes together) and he'd just purr and wash their faces ❤️ Rudy passed a few years ago, but the kids have adjusted and are doing OK together 2/2
Tabby and white longhair Jilly (left) and tabby shorthair Jackson (right) making a sandwich of orange tabby shorthair Rudy, seen from behind, as they all look out of the window at a mouse out on the deck. Photo taken by my late cousin at his (and then their) home in Coarsegold, California.
October 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM