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The One True Kat

@theonetruekat.bsky.social

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Biologist. Californian. Madly in love with nature. Always outside. Garden nerd. Cyclist. Big fan of informed democracy. Sheltering and supporting as many people as possible. She/her All photos mine unless credited.

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · Mar 21

Since I have to reintroduce myself after the move:

I’m Kat. California biologist, currently in Davis. Herpetologist. 15 years in private consulting (utility and infrastructure), mostly as a field nerd, doing surveys for local flora/fauna and passing on whatever niche wisdom I can.

🦎🐸🐟🐻🦉🐝🐍🐢🌿

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 10h

BRB, moving to Portland.

ROSE @milkshakemotel.bsky.social · 2d

Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 11h

I'm fine with Bluesky being the last hurrah of social media but clearly the bubble has burst. This should be at the top of everyone's feed, but it's crickets.

YOU CAN USE A SALMON CANNON

ROSE @milkshakemotel.bsky.social · 2d

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like i need to share this oldie but a goodie today

A tumblr post that reads "WHo would have believed that the perfect wikipedia photo caption could have been improved upon?" Two identical images are then side by side. The first caption is "Piper Kerr, a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904". The Caption for the image on the left reads, "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottis National Antarctix Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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Oregon Wildlife Foundation @orwildlife.bsky.social · 13h

🐍 New episode!
Western rattlesnakes in the Willamette Valley — how they live, what threatens them, and why they matter.
🎧 Listen: nwnaturematters.libsyn.com/western-ratt...

#Rattlesnakes #OregonWildlife #Conservation #NWNatureMatters

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h

The frilled lizard is an iconic Australian reptile because of their utter fearlessness.

Their scientific name, Chlamydosaurus kingii, translates to 'King cloaked lizard' & you can see why.

They're one of a few modern lizards that can accurately be called bipedal, running upright on hind legs.

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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 1d

Put a little tutorial and downloadable stencil options on my website for you.

www.badasscrossstitch.com/communitypro...

#craftivism

A spray paint can, stencil, and spray painted message that reads we save us on concrete

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WhitePaaws @whitepaaws.bsky.social · 1d

The other lifer I managed to find this past weekend was this beautiful Tiger Rattlesnake chilling in a rock crevice! This was one of my targets for the day and one of my top targets in Arizona! #herps 🐍

A picture of a Tiger Rattlesnake coiled inside a rock crevice. This snake is gray-ish/brown with some dark brown markings on their body.

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 1d

When you hear that Rice Creek Bird Observatory caught eight owls last night

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 1d

Roadrunner on a post. I have no idea what he was looking at . 🪶

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

Good news: a grant I submitted got selected for an interview out of ~150 apps. Only 2 others got interviews!

Bad news: @skypeascientist.bsky.social was not selected in the end 😞

I will keep trying.

In the meantime, consider supporting our work with $5-10/month?

givebutter.com/SupportSAS25

Support Skype a Scientist!

By Skype a Scientist

givebutter.com

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Ben Goldfarb @bengoldfarb.bsky.social · 1d

“Since the 1970s, when California’s green turtles first surfaced, scientists have suspected that the animals represent an expansion of the species’ known range… these suspicions are almost definitely true.”

A shot of hope from @biographic.bsky.social.

www.biographic.com/go-north-you...

Go North, Young Turtle

As eastern Pacific green sea turtles were being slaughtered in much of their range, an intrepid group of turtles pushed north into uncharted waters.

www.biographic.com

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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 1d

An immature Black-headed Grosbeak foraging around in fallen leaves
#birds

A young black-headed grosbeak standing in a messy scene of fallen leaves, bark, and sticks. It is a medium sized bird with an orange body, black wings with white spots, and a black face with white stripes.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Oct 9

Because I still find people who don't know how the story ends:

Christopher Columbus was returned to Spain in chains in 1500 AD, convicted of barbaric torture of colonists, but released 6 weeks later by order of King Ferdinand II.

Neither he nor his brothers ever governed a Spanish holding again.

Christopher Columbus awaits sentencing in jail.

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Birdrgirl🦉 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Recognition of #IndigenousPeoplesDay is about the truthtelling of history and the realities of colonization. Don’t allow them to sweep these realities under the rug to create a new narrative.
“…a society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function.”- @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

Imagine being illegally deployed to Portland and not being able to go watch this because you live in shame and bird fans would run you out of their neighborhood.

📸 @devonfredericksen.bsky.social

www.instagram.com/reel/DPMtSdj...

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 2d

every night my father goes outside to yell at this porcupine to stop eating his apple tree, and every night this porcupine makes eye contact with my father as it continues to eat his apple tree

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 2d

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 2d

Oddly specific sidewalk markout.

Words spray painted on a sidewalk “do not put leg here”.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 2d

If you see this, post an image you saved because it made you laugh. 🪶

An image of snoop dogg with the words above him saying “when I correctly identify a raptor” and the tagline below saying “Birding ain’t easy”

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 2d

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The One True Kat @theonetruekat.bsky.social · 2d

It’s #SundaySnakes! And I will never get tired of showing you this awesome Mountain Gartersnake (Thamnophis elegans elegans) hanging out on a granite peak at over 10k ft of elevation in the Sierra Nevada mountains. #herps

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