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Maryj59

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Former librarian, poet, and aspiring novelist from Southern New England.


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💙🩵Chloe🩵💙's avatar 💙🩵Chloe🩵💙 @poshcloset1000.bsky.social
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..and now it’s time for Sunday Science..

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Cutest couple. ☀️ Photo from my collection, 1953.

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Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚's avatar Gwen 🌈🌺🐦📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social
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This little juvenile Cardinal is growing up. He just doesn't understand why he can't go where all the other kids go to get snacks. The adult Cardinals check out the ground under the feeder and always find seeds. 🪶 #birds

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Sonia Sulaiman's avatar Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social
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Two tiles of Bethlehem done! One more on this side. 🧵🪡✨🧶

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Maryj59 's avatar Maryj59 @maryj59.bsky.social
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He’s so tiny—but the wren’s poking his head out of the wren house. They seem to be working on a second brood.

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Fiasco the cat's avatar Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social
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Fiasco am thinking... pretty deep thoughts... 2day

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Jen Donohue's avatar Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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RETVRN to traditional masculinity when Real Men would tote around their babby kitties in case they needed kisses on their fuzzy little heads. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

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I regularly get rude comments from bird watchers and keyboard environmentalists telling me that cats are nasty, diseased creatures and to keep mine indoors (even though my cats are 100% indoor and always have been). Does that mean I think all bird watchers and environmentalists are rude and hostile?

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The residents of Potato Bay can rest easy now that this dangerous babby is off the streets.

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Shana | SolveForBetter's avatar Shana | SolveForBetter @solveforbetter.bsky.social
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In a highly DRAMATIC move, Chuchi BOLTED out as his people left to catch a plane to move across the country.

Chuchi is safe but about to be homeless.

Can anyone care for Chuchi for just 3 short weeks til his people fly back to rescue him?
[San Francisco Bay Area/E. Bay]
@darthbluesky.bsky.social

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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💙🩵Chloe🩵💙's avatar 💙🩵Chloe🩵💙 @poshcloset1000.bsky.social
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*immediately orders lederhosen from amazon and books flight to Germany*

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GONZO the ca'at's avatar GONZO the ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social
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Behaviores Report: everthing else may bee bad butt i waz 100% goode

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Robert McNees's avatar Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social
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Hello new friends! Have a look at Messier 13. Visible to the naked eye, if the sky is dark enough. Edmund Halley spotted it in 1714 and wrote “This is but a little Patch, but it shews it self to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent.” Which, same. Image: ESA/Hubble, NASA

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Blake Leyh's avatar Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social
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This is BANXY, who will be one year old on July 4th. He came to us nine months ago, rescued from an abandoned car in The Bronx. He is amazing. I just read that people are giving their black cats to shelters because "they don't photograph well." WTF is wrong with those humans who do that?

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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I had to get this vintage yelling kitty because it reminded me of… someone… can’t quite put my finger on it….

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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please father, i am starving, do not leave me here with my ENTIRELY FULL FOOD DISH, as you can see, i might starve

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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I wasn’t really planning this but earlier I was like “It’s my birthday I want to see some damn kitties.” So we went down to the humane society to hand-deliver the fundraiser check instead of mailing it! Here is the receipt and some of kitties you helped!

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SoCal Leslie's avatar SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social
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Yes do this! Center For Biological Diversity is awesome. They sue US Fish and Wildlife when necessary to get them to do their jobs. Special area birders. 🪶

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape's avatar Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social
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Imagine believing that a cliquey popularity contest among a small minority of the population constitutes "democracy." The Dem primaries are rigged. From superdelegates to convention rules to outright suppression tactics in blue states, the entire process is tainted and undemocratic.

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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Yesterday was this angelic boy's 7th adoption anniversary! In 2017 this gentle giant strolled into the group cat room at the shelter where we were looking to adopt. My boyfriend scooped him up and Fergus instantly relaxed in his arms. He been our kind, quiet teddy bear man ever since. ❤️

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Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉's avatar Marcel R. Bülles 📚💍🌋🎉 @thetolkienist.com
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I still have sooooooo much stuff to write on events and meetings of the last eighteen months...

... but this definitely gets a pretty top spot 😄🤩

thetolkienist.com/2024/06/22/h...

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Adam Serwer's avatar Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social
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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of

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Maryj59 's avatar Maryj59 @maryj59.bsky.social
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Where is it? This practicing Catholic will gladly sign!

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮's avatar Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social
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please sign my petition to post the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition on the wall of every Louisiana classroom

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John Scalzi's avatar John Scalzi @scalzi.com
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Spice the cat is rubber band-curious and unfortunately for her I am not "surgery on a cat's intestine to remove a rubber band"-curious, so this is a life experience she is not going to have

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Wow! I didn’t know that, as I’m not a NYC resident. Does anyone like this guy? How did he get elected?

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The Serfs's avatar The Serfs @theserfstv.bsky.social
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Donald Sutherland at occupy Vancouver. RIP to the legend.

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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Baby blep! Postcard from my collection - copyright 1900, sent 1907.

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🥾🛶OctopusMask🏕️🔦's avatar 🥾🛶OctopusMask🏕️🔦 @octopusmask.bsky.social
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Parks and libraries combined are less than 1 percent of the budget. No wonder people don't feel served by the city.

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He’s really dreadful. Doesn’t seem to care about anything but the cops—but then, he is a cop, isn’t he?

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bsdtectr's avatar bsdtectr @bsdtectr.bsky.social
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Imagine being such a shitty mayor, the Public Library is calling you out.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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probability has broken down? well on the one hand your odds of winning the powerball have never been better (or worse) on the other try not to do anything because now everything could have a non-trivial chance of killing you

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K.B. Spangler's avatar K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com
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I believe this little guy is part of this year’s Carolina wren baby batch, and is in the “looks adult but not quite a confident flier” phase. He clung to my office window for a good five minutes making angry faces at me.

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Dave Wagner's avatar Dave Wagner @davewagner.bsky.social
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stonehenge is orange, you say? he claims to not know anything about this.

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Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

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Cats of Yore's avatar Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social
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Vermont is so beautiful. Sorry I know it’s not cat related but I just love it here and needed to tell everyone.

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During the Crimean war hospitals instituted hand washing and hygienic practices the belief at the time was that foul odours caused infection the rate of infections in the hospital dropped nonetheless. Florence Nightingale was responsible for the change. Her #cleaning protocols saved lives.

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This is a vintage postcard from my collection that I bought because I loved the image so much and the man looked so kind. It was only later that I was able to find out the story behind it: www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/featuring/ch...

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Bizmoune cave beads are oldest known example of decorative #jewellery are a group of 33 perforated shell beads, which were created and worn at least 142,000 years ago during the Early Middle Stone Age.

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Tobin Elliott 's avatar Tobin Elliott @tobinelliott.bsky.social
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"No! Scotty! Wait! Just wait a min—" *reappears planetside, with eleventy million ways to die staring him in his furry face* "Oh, bother."

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