The #BirdoftheDay theme is #RedorDead, capture with red in it, but not on the bird. Here's a gray catbird enjoying a juneberry! Putnam County, NY. June. ©John Kaprielian #Birds #Birdwatching

Such a pretty fellow. 🪶 #BackyardBitds 📸 Ruby-throated hummingbird: Archilochus colubris

currently obsessed with wagtails and aspiring to have half the confidence of the middle one #digitalart #animalart #birdart #bird #wagtail

Cooper's Hawk giving me an eye ... 🪶

In progress: "untitled (commission)", oil on canvas, 12x16" #art #birds #wip #sciart

David Brace@davidbrace2.bsky.social · yesterday

Back into this after a couple of days doing some repairs in my MILs attic. In progress: "untitled (commission)", oil on canvas, 12x16" #art #birds #wip #sciart

Remember as your eyes burn from the smoke today, Ken Sim and ABC voted to allow fracked gas in new builds, cancelled $8 million in climate retrofit grants; voted against funding for cooling kits for people in the Downtown Eastside; and got rid of the climate justice charter.

For the the #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is: #SummerVisitors Migratory birds associated with summer or your favourite bird to capture in summer. Always looking forward to the American Avocets coming back. Watching them is fun. #ECK #photography #birds

Spoonbills at Saltholme - can’t quite get over these birds becoming a regular sight up here - 10-year-old me would have spontaneously combusted at the thought! 🪶🐡 #birdingNortheast @teesbirds.bsky.social

A Brown Honey eater on a Grevillea dryandri (Dryandri) Outside Kokoda pool Townsville #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #RedOrDead #WildOz

From topknot to tail, Mr. Quail favors the Buckeye Trail. California Quail, July 2026, #SantaRosa, #California #birds #birdphotography #birding #sonomacounty #m43 #haiku

Golden hour moment... #Wildlife #Geese #GoldenHour #Feathers #Nature #Preening #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography

Please help Gladys and her son reach safety. They're in DRC where the ebola epidemic and violence are worsening. Give as you can and/or share! goget.fund/4db20A6

HELP MY SON &I ESCAPE GENOCIDE IN DRC

Hello, my name is Gladys Bogomba, and I’m a young mom to a sweet 6-year-old boy, Theophile. We’re from Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo but our lives have been changed by the silent genocide. ...

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Gladys@rdcgladys.bsky.social · 2d ago

#FreeCongo 🇨🇩 #MutualAid ⚠️ We're now facing double tragedy with an ebola outbreak & tensions between militia & the army rising. We need your help to get to safety & have peace of mind. We are tired of living in fear. Our short goal is to reach $1690(50%).Please share/donate 🙏🏾🙏🏾 goget.fund/4db20A6

A #Cuckoo for today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme of #SummerVisitors #Birds 🪶 #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography

Although sandhill crane used to be my favorite winter bird as I would watch them gather by the hundreds, now when I see them at the end of winter I know summer is approaching. For the #birdoftheday theme of #summervisitors #birds #crane #sandhillcrane #protectnature #EastCoastKin

How to use the PMC interactive county-level COVlD map

Air quality is significantly worse now, wildfire smoke coming in. I closed windows & balcony for now. Have fan on me to try to keep cool. Hoping my brother can finish making a Corsi-Rosenthal box after he wakes up later, to clean air a bit. Feel upset for everyone directly exposed to this + heat! 😢

It's that time of year again! Please boost if you can, the Gender Census is not only incredibly interesting, I personally believe it's an important historical record for non-binary folks like myself.

Gender Census@gendercensus.bsky.social · 3w ago

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

If you claim your platform is against racism/bigotry but use GenAI for your platform (and yourself), you're lying. GenAI Data centers are mostly in predominantly Black neighborhoods, & they are affecting the environments there in a bad way. Supporting GenAI means supporting environmental racism.

Finally had a full sleep last night. Hadn't slept more than a few hours at a time for a week or so. I'm very crashed & hurting after so long without proper rest. I'll need more badly if i can, but glad I got some rest last night at least before going into the hotter days of this week's heatwave! 😖

IM REALLY SORRY BUT WERE 3 days past due and we still need $300 if anyone could please help and share this!!!

Horror Lesbian@vvaite.bsky.social · last wk.

a household of 3 trans lesbians (2 unemployed) needs urgent help affording rent! we need $700 if 14 people could spare $50. I can also make art in exchange for help if you need paypal.me/vvaite venmo@vvaite

If you can afford to give a small recurring donation, think a coffee a week, please do! This fund aids many families in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

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Plans have been approved for an AI data centre in Brick Lane. The council unanimously rejected this planning application on 31 July 2025 and instead called for more housing, but Angela Rayner would rather gentrify the city and further climate change. Sign the petition & share - c.org/jmZw2fjYr8

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Stop The Brick Lane Data Centre!

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Plans approved for AI data Centre in Brick Lane The government statement on this is about the need for new homes when it is providing a grand total of SIX social rent units.

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The New York Times Continues to Double Down on Biased, Inaccurate Transgender Coverage | GLAAD

The New York Times’ coverage of transgender people and issues has been critiqued for years by trans people, the broader LGBTQ community, and allies. Now instead of directly addressing the critiques, t...

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The Onion@theonion.com · 11mo ago

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

as someone who was a victim of a property crime last week (!), i am still an abolitionist!! and also against punitive justice!! i’ve been a victim of several crimes including theft, car damage from gun fire, death threats — the police did not prevent those crimes! nor did they solve anything

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

Read the stories in the quotes and replies and ask yourself about the $135 billion the US spends on police, the $87 billion it spends on prisons, and the $52 billion it spends on courts (these stats are from 2021 so it’s definitely worse now)

Criminal Justice Expenditures: Police, Corrections, and Courts

Police expenditures include spending on police, sheriffs, state highway patrols, and other governmental departments charged with protecting public safety.Cor…

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Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.