“Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.” ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Cat Hughes
@celticqueen13.bsky.social
Earthling living in Cascadia. Permaculture, ecofeminism, animal rights, love for the planet are some of my interests. Anthropologist and health freak. I believe in Science but Magic is afoot. 💚
I hereby halt your doom scroll to show you this natural phenomenon known as a Light Pillar on a ski run in Austria. Kind of feels like you're being visited by god.
A Roman gladiator's helmet found in a storeroom in the gymnasium area in Pompeii. A number of other gladiator helmets, shoulder guards and greaves were also found in the storeroom. 📷 Carole Raddato / Wikimedia Commons. Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social #AncientBluesky
Animals evolved memory to be able to compare the past to the present. This gives sentient life a vision for future developments - which is key for sentience to adapt to survive. Due to #alienation (not #decoupling) from reality, humans only think about themselves and question if reality is real.
Horses can plan ahead and think strategically, scientists find
Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’
theguardian.com
Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · 3w agoJoy, pain, fear.. the full set of #emotions evolved 0.5 billion years ago. For animals to experience #trauma, which is dysregulated fear learning, in evolutionary terms requires a limbic system sophisticated enough for long-term emotional memory. This extends back to the earliest vertebrates.
"America, land of the free, if by that you mean the country that locks up more of its own citizens than anywhere else on earth." .. (unattributed) .. (cartoon Adam Zyglis) #politics
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
My heart breaks Powerful 7.4 earthquake hits Columbia.... Many have been killed Reuters stating over 77 deaths now Over several cities Please 🙏 for search and rescue Tragic footage 🙏
What a 7.2 magnitude earthquake looks like underwater. Original post
Water can mean life—even for the smallest creatures. Butterflys and honey bees pause for a precious drink, reminding us that every drop matters. Protect nature. Provide clean water. Save pollinators.
If you’re living with tricky mental health, chronic illness,not good thought pathways caused by others’ behaviour, a trickily wired brain,you’re worried about climate change or you’re just feeling shite today, then hi, me too. This photo’s for your brain-a miniature posy from my garden in a thimble:
