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Luvr of mutts. Earth (our home, it's all we have). Animist, hermit crab, night owl. Celebrate nuance, imperfection, ambiguity, absurdity ~ Supporting Empathy, Creativity, DEI, LGBTQ+, WOKE (awake and aware) ~ We The People ~ The Audacity of HOP 🐸 💚 🌿

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c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5d ago

Here's what they don't tell you about woodpecker tongues: Some of them are barbed (pileated & downy 'peckers) to allow them to spear insects. The barbs are keratinized, so *hard*. Meaning woodpecker *threat displays* can involve poking an interloper with a barbed tongue. (📷: u/ElvisIsNotDjed)

Mels@maimysantiago99.northsky.social · 5d ago

@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social do you know why red-bellied woodpeckers stick their tongues out at other birds that come close to them?

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3w ago

Let's take a minute to 'think about them beans'. Toe beans, that is. Why do some animals have little pink nubs on their feet, while others... don't? Let's start by looking at the-things-between-the-beans minus the fur. Time to look at a Sphynx cat's foot, up close. CW: cannot be UNSEEN.😬

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Alt: Cute Cat Paws: An orange and white marmalade cat is off-screen, with just the rear paws extended over a grey sofa arm. The toe beans flare outward as the cat flexes.

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Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3w ago

"We're here today to say... war criminals are not welcome in this city &.. this is bigger than just Netanyahu. This is about the fact that our govt has been funding and enabling genocide & apartheid & it has to stop" Beth Miller from Jewish Voice for Peace in New York yesterday.

Wear The Peace@wearthepeace.bsky.social · 3w ago

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.

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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3w ago

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last mo.

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

@mutzlvr.bsky.social · last mo.

Bodega cat in front of a painting of the historical Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was lost on 9/11, with the WTC. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, toymakers, unmarried people, and students... (wiki)

A black and white cat sits on a sidewalk in NYC. On a wall behind it is a painting of the 2 towers of the World Trade Center with a background of the US flag. In the foreground is a small white church with blue windows. Inscribed on the church: St Nicholas. Photo from Bodega Cats ~ bodegacats.bsky.social