Kimberley Campbell Thornton
@kimthornton.bsky.social
I write about dogs, cats, and other animals, and sometimes about cocktails and travel. Love to read, travel, and be outdoors. Tea maven. Collector of shoes and purses. Slave to a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She/her.
How is it going? It's great I'm fine the polite disguise veneer over pain mask over despair makeup over wounds acting to deny grief holding in screams hiding fears blotting tears everyone pretends to be okay #poetry #MPPrompt
Malachy Moran@malformed-poetry.bsky.social · last wk.Today’s #poetryprompt: My favorite line from the Odyssey movie: “Go back to your diguises” #MPPrompt I repost replies Follow for daily prompts
Goodbye to our darling Sparkles today. Heartbroken but it was time.
This magnificent glazed brick panel showing a roaring lion is from the Throne Room of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar commissioned major building projects in Babylon to glorify his imperial capital. These types of panels emphasise divine and royal power. 🕰️605-562 BC 🏛️ BM 📷mine
Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.
‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)
A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.
nytimes.com
"It's as secretive as a ghost, so secretive that, prior to 2012, it had never been photographed." When India's grumpiest cat moved into a house, the family moved out ->Discover Wildlife | More on "Rare Himalayan cat wildlife photography" at BigEarthData.ai
"It's as secretive as a ghost, so secretive that, prior to 2012, it had never been photographed." When India's grumpiest cat moved into a house, the family moved out
The sun had yet to appear on the horizon and I was already settled in position, concealed behind a boulder, my gaze fixed on a small stone house with an open window. I rarely head into urban environments to photograph wildlife, but this was a special occasion. I had travelled to the village of Hanle, in Ladakh, northern India, which sits at an altitude of 4,500m in the Himalayan mountains. Life in this remote village, home to about 1,000 people, is not easy. From December to March, the landscape is locked in ice and snow, with temperatures dropping to -20˚C and lower. The treeless plateau and surrounding peaks appear hostile, yet nurture surprising levels of biodiversity. Sporadic areas of marshland and gurgling mountain streams, fed by snowmelt, support a variety of species adapted to cope with the challenging conditions. There are wolves, foxes, marmots, pikas and raptors. There is also an elusive feline that claims the dubious honour of being the world’s grumpiest cat. The Pallas’s cat, known locally as Ribilik, is one of the most secretive small cats in India. Named after Peter Simon Pallas, the Prussian naturalist who described the species in 1776, it is exceptionally shy and...
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Common starling at hotdog stand (no doubt hoping for a bite) in #Reykjavik, #Iceland. #BirdOfTheDay #TantalisingTextures
Really loving the growing list of things that really should be reliable for health and safety and are instead being destabilized by AI
The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
Prediction markets and a move toward AI forecasting are starting to put the accuracy of weather predictions at risk. Here’s what we can do to safeguard them.
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Oakland firefighters administer oxygen to pigeon in distress from smoke inhalation.
Oakland Firefighters Local 55 on Instagram: "Earlier this evening, after a vehicle fire, E29’s crew of #youroaklandfirefighters noticed a pigeon in distress. The crew reported the pigeon came up to th...
776K likes, 12K comments - oaklandfirefighters on July 14, 2026: "Earlier this evening, after a vehicle fire, E29’s crew of #youroaklandfirefighters noticed a pigeon in distress. The crew reported the...
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A Mexican wolf and her pack were set to be released before a top Interior official weighed in at the last minute to halt the plan. The interference, first reported by Public Domain, reveals how federal staff have violated ethics rules to curry favor with their allies and former clients. 🌎
Mexican Wolf Release Held Up by Federal Official
Top Interior deputy delays wolf release at the last minute to placate ranching interests
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13.2-ounce cans of Pedigree Can High Protein Chopped Chicken & Duck Flavor with lot codes 613C3KKCFC and 613C1KKCFC
Darren and Poley@darrenandpoley.bsky.social · 3w agowhile we talk about the RFK's Diarrhea 2026 stuff, don't overlook the fact that there's a dog food recall going on too. unfortunately we don't have a good spokesvehicle for the FDA anymore, so Good Housekeeping will have to do.
This comes up in Unhealthy Politics by @ericpatashnik.bsky.social Gerber & Dowling. Reducing utilization of low-value care is good for patients & health systems’ bottom lines. The question is how best to curb overuse without delaying/denying appropriate care (whether to use a hammer or scalpel).
KFF Health News@kffhealthnews.org · 3w agoA 10-year study found a common surgery to address knee pain provided little or no benefit and was associated with worse knee troubles. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
I thought it was nuts to have a parade in Vegas in July, but it starts at 7 pm, so that's okay.
ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected@adelpreore.bsky.social · 3w agoNot all heroes wear capes, but some wear time pieces. 🤙
Somehow this does not surprise me. (And before you get all het up, I love cats, but, well, they're cats. They have their ways.)
Your Cat Is Being Nice? Think Again. (Gift Article)
A new study finds that sometimes cats groom each other specifically to be annoying.
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We only rate dogs. This is a southern spotted sand seal. Way too loud to be a dog. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 13/10 (TT: kerrygrsjsw)
And it quietly scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, also known as FoodNet, shrinking the required surveillance to just two pathogens: salmonella and a common type of E. coli. One of the pathogens they made optional for states to report: Cyclospora.
From the archives. How to set up cages for shelter cats.
Doorway to heaven - Florida Weekly
What a difference a door can make! A portal, a little round doorway between two small cages, separates a shelter cat’s eating and sleeping areas from litter box spaces. When already stressed cats have...
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Half doors, pocket doors, and gates all work to keep dogs in or out of a kitchen or confined to a room or set of rooms. I have to say that the half pocket doors are ingenious!
This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w agoElon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not