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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 14h

#FallbackFlowers #Fallback to April 18 🌿

My Wisteria blooming under the snow ❄️

Lavender purple pea shaped flowers with an icy clump of melting snow on it

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FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 14h

Prunus pumila var. besseyi, our Sand Cherry, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge #nativeplant It often has many of its branches buried beneath the sand. This is part of why we see clonal mats of it on dunes here in Colorado.

#FallBackFlowers #FallBack to April 18 🌿

Five petal white flowers with exserted yellow anthers

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BelleAB @belleab.bsky.social · 1d

Time for my favorite color 💜🎉💜
#purplefriday #flowersonfriday #floralfriday #flowers #plants #iris #hydrangea #chrysanthemum #gardening #gardens #purple #bloomscrolling #mobilephotography

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 3h

Stunning photo, my first impression was that it was a painting! I cannot tell cackling and Canada geese apart

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 3h

I was tempted to reply in kind but I think a peace sign is the best...Its not an insult yet the rightwing nutjobs are still offended!!

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 4h

We got birds too, but flashed peace signs in reply!

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 5h

a black and white photo of two men with the caption abby who

ALT: a black and white photo of two men with the caption abby who

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 9h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 5h

I saw lots of big trucks honking and waving in support, and UPS and Amazon drivers and even big semi hauling a bulldozer, honking its loud horn!! Not the demographics you might expect, but you can't really fit everyone into neat categories. Also, I live where people tow campers to the mountains.

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Elliott Randall @elliottrandall.bsky.social · 15h

“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government…”

~Patrick Henry

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 7h

Its given me so much hope!!

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 7h

The cruelty is the point

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😍❤️💕💗

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 22h

If there's a better way to celebrate Laura Nyro's birthday than attending a No Kings march I can't think of one.

Save the country! NOW!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21K...

Laura Nyro Sings "Save The Country"

YouTube video by radiofstars

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 7h

Most of these RW chuds don't have reasoning, analysis or critical thinking skills. In fact, it appears they don't have object permanence awareness either!

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for the earworm!

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 13h

NO KINGS!!!

Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 17d

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated." - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, December 23, 1776

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 22h

Just noticed my typos, oh geez...

a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hand and says `` dear lort '' .

ALT: a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hand and says `` dear lort '' .

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John Higgins @johnhiggins777.bsky.social · 8d

One of my local Fox cubs from last year. Even though the location wasn't in the best of places. I still managed plenty of images I am happy with. A much better return than this year.

#fox #foxcubs #redfox #foxoftheday #foxfriday #nature #wildlife #animals #mammals #ukwildlife #photography

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MoniRevuelta @monirevuelta.bsky.social · 3d

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have the numbers, bit coffee process have certainly shot up due to needless tariffs. Maybe soon it will be like the good ol' days of the depression and then wartime rationing, where we're drinking exclusively herbal tea or ground chicory. Are we great again yet?

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Joy @joyf.bsky.social · 1d

One flower is lovely, but with two there’s a bouquet 💞

#DailyDahlias #Gardening #PinkFriday #FlowersOnFriday #Friendship

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Linda @linda2.bsky.social · 3d

Spring blossom and a parakeet.

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdInABush #UKWildlife #Birds #Ornithology #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited #Parakeet

Springtime, spring blossom and a parakeet. A parakeet is nestled in a tree enjoying the spring blossom. She is reaching upwards from a sitting position pecking and eating the white blossom.

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Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm waiting for the part where they open the Ark and melt

Ben McWhiskers @rockymtnman.bsky.social · 1d

🤤😋

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