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low-vision creature lurking in the undergrowth Gardening for wildlife in USDA zone 6 (previously 5! climate changed!) #NativePlants; she/her PFP: passionflower in the garden Banner: bullfrog in the pond

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · May 28

Native to eastern North America, the purple-flowering raspberry (Rubus odoratus) is a magnificent, thornless perennial shrub
#BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #NativePlants

A striking magenta flower with five petals and a circle of bright yellow pollen in its center. Several unopened fuzzy flower buds are nearby among the leaves, rising on purple stalks

A bright green leaf reminiscent of a maple leaf, larger than my hand shown for reference

splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 1h

🎶 Hey-ey JB
There ain’t no easy way out

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 17h

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 12h

“Big prairies are very impressive, and they’re important because we’ve got animals that need a certain amount of space,” said Chaney. “But we may carry some species forward in the pocket prairies.” www.hcn.org/issues/56-11...

Your lawn could host an endangered ecosystem - High Country News

In the effort to restore the Palouse Prairie, no project is too small.

www.hcn.org

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 23h

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 16h

Kitchen appliance makers: Whoa, better add a clock to this sucker, because our customers have no other way of knowing what time it is

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d

That American Robin stance
#birds

A brown bird with rufous breast is standing in a shallow bird bath. With feet spread wide, it is glaring into the camera creating a formidable pyramid of attitude.

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 1d

Literary Chinese for bust-ass dynasties:

鋪眉苫眼早三公
Cozen. Flatter. Ingratiate --
The Three High Offices of state.

(from 譏時 'The Times We Live In' by Zhang Mingshan 張鳴善, fl. 14th c.)

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 3d

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.

Once there was a boy who went out hunting for eggs each morning. All he found he would give to his

Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are snake boy and pronounced eenahduh ajoojah

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 3d

Black witch moth on the garage today. Wingspan around four inches.
#inverts

Large brown moth with intricate markings. One of her wings has taken some damage

splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 3d

Hong Kong 2019 vibe. Anti-democracy forces love gassing people’s homes

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 3d

unbelievable amounts of gas right in front of the apartments by the ICE facility in portland. guys in fatigues in the middle of the road

Screen grab from a tiktok live showing billowing clouds of gas in the middle of the road. police stand in the road between camera and gas clouds

Two armed men in camo stand outside in the road between the camera and an apartment complex

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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 3d

ICE doesn’t have to do anything when Illinois State Police and Broadview police are delighted to do the work for them

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3d

Remaining feds left the scene in a large caravan, deploying more tear gas straight into the crowd - and right at my feet - as they left.

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 3d

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, didn’t you say state troopers were there to protect Illinoisans? Shouldn’t they be facing the other direction, then?

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

At the Broadview, IL ICE detention center—

IL state troopers are already pushing non-violent demonstrators out of the street and away from the ICE facility. One arrest so far.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

I did it! Testing it on my work account, @gregpak.com. Seamless so far!

Greg Pak : Work @gregpak.com · 3d

Due to recent trolling by the Bluesky CEO, I finally decided to try out another server - namely the myatproto.social server offered to non-Black users by Blacksky. Followed the transfer instructions below and it went fine! (Had to use my DID id instead of my username, but other than that, all good!)

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 4d

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 4d

@alt-text.bsky.social

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Cakes de los muertos 💀, ETQ @aielcakes.bsky.social · 5d

If you don't care about accessibility online, when you eventually need it you are going to be so surprised at how inaccessible it really is.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5d

"Hello, this is Killian. Give me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division."

The Running Man is owning us so hard from 1987 you guys

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splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 7d

Adding context to the alt text: this appears to be from the HUD website and includes an AI-generated image of a shitty suburban cul-de-sac in the middle of nothing, complete with nonsensical sidewalk along one side that grows thinner and thinner before ending at the middle house

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

loser shit

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. HUD will use available resources to help Americans in need.

splodinvark @splodinvark.bsky.social · 7d

As someone literally surrounded by bone-dry corn and soy fields, I sure wish they’d grow something that didn’t involve field fires in the autumn, pesticide drift killing plants in my garden, fertilizer runoff causing toxic algal blooms in nearby lakes, and dust storms during spring plowing

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7d

A helpful primer on how major soybean buyers like China are viewing the US's new penchant for trade wars.

Really appreciate the writers' commitment to breaking it down so a 5-year-old can understand it

asiatimes.com/2025/09/braz...

Brazil will remain China's preferred soybean supplier, not the US - Asia Times

China isn't buying any new-crop US soybeans and it's easy to understand why. As part of the crossfire in the latest battle of the US-China trade war,

asiatimes.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7d

Anyway, here's what this all means.

US soybean farmers have two options.

Grow something else, or get welfare checks forever.

There is no third option.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 7d

My guess is this was coordinated across the entire executive branch, like a Hands Across the Hatch Act Violation event or something

Breaking: HHS, Commerce, Probably Other Agencies Send Entire Staff Email Blaming Democrats for Shutdown

Please forgive the multiple editions in one day — occasionally I'll send breaking news out such as this. On Tuesday afternoon, employees at the Department for Health and Human Services and the Depart...

www.gravityisgone.com

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 7d

None of this would be happening if I had an enormous cursed sword

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