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Owlet
@owlet88.bsky.social
Nature and wildlife nerd, planet appreciator, urban gardener, lifelong bibliophile, Maine Coon mama, NYC night owl. 🌃🦉

Lover of peace, art, poetry, science, the great out there, and fluffy, fluffy cats.
Pinned
Remain in light.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves
and call out, “Stay awhile.”
The light flows from their branches.

And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”

-Mary Oliver
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There are places yet…
Where #bees and #nature thrive.
Where all creatures are protected.
Safe.
Where all life is valued.
All life.
Where #birds sing loud in #trees that will never be felled.
Where the #soil is not poisoned and the #water flows clean.
Where #truth matters.
Where truth is safe.
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February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Has your partner ever built you a home in a chimney? Or regurgitated food to save you all that tiresome chewing? If not, perhaps it’s time to look beyond the human dating pool. Check out the very first Narwhal quiz, and find your Canadian lovebird. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
Valentine’s Day quiz: discover your Canadian lovebird | The Narwhal
Take our Valentine’s Day quiz to find the nest-mate of your dreams — and get a card to share
projects.thenarwhal.ca
February 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.
February 6, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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The are attempting to gut and destroy the boundary waters and the vote is as early as NEXT WEEK. Please call everyone now!
February 6, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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February 6, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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What Trump’s plans for the Arctic mean for the global climate crisis
What Trump’s plans for the Arctic mean for the global climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: With plans to sell off over a million acres of natural habitat for oil and gas development, the Trump administration is ignoring the dire impact on its fragile ecosystem
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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This Giant Phantom Jelly Won’t Eat You. Maybe.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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Me at Age 12: I drew a frog with three different shades of green!!!

Michelangelo at Age 12:
February 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Over the past several months, Congress has abused an arcane law called the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to strip protections from millions of acres of America’s public lands.

Here’s what the CRA is, how it’s being misused to sell out our public lands, and what you can do to protect them:
February 5, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Four of my 'deep peace' paintings.
The animals are painted in watercolours.
The gold is Schmincke Aqua Bronze. This can be tricky to work with but really elevates everything.
Words from the Gaelic Blessing.
February 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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New York City joins UN health network after Trump withdrew US from WHO reut.rs/4qehA2l
New York City joins UN health network after Trump withdrew US from WHO
The New York City Health Department on Wednesday said it has joined the World Health Organization's global outbreak response network following President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the U.S. from the U.N. health agency.
reut.rs
February 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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…we all deserve a tiny scream…
February 5, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY.

Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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This is Bowie. He overheard you talking about his rubber ducky jacket. Jealousy is a disease. Hopes you get well soon. 12/10 (IG: bowiethegoldenbear)
February 3, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Amazing story:

From bad omen to national treasure: The rare bone-swallower stork saved by a female army www.bbc.com/future/artic...
From bad omen to national treasure: The rare bone-swallower stork saved by a female army
Once known as a bird of ill omen, India's endangered hargila has gained an army of protectors. Now it's beginning to bounce back.
www.bbc.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Excited to announce that my post doc, Sasha Kaurov, and I are launching
reckoningscience.org/launching-re...
Please take a look, read, and subscribe! All proceeds will go to supporting the underfed post-doc.
Launching Reckoning Science
We believe in science and its achievements, but also in the need to examine how it is actually made, including its limits and its entanglements with politics, money, and power.
reckoningscience.org
February 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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If you write primarily about nature and environmental issues, it can be hard to see the value of your work during times like these. I wrote about this a bit in my introduction to @biographic.bsky.social's weekly newsletter.
February 3, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Happy #OstrichDay from Dusty!
February 3, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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In December the Trump admin issued stop work orders on 5 offshore wind farms that were all over 40% completed

Courts have now allowed all 5 to continue construction

www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump receives 5th straight loss in offshore wind fight
A federal judge sided with Sunrise Wind on Monday in its bid to lift the administration’s freeze on construction of the project.
www.eenews.net
February 2, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Big news, dorks: We're going NATIONAL! Join us for our National Day of Action on March 7th in Washington DC, or at one of our satellite rallies across the US. We're taking back our science, health, and democracy!

Find or host your local rally! standupforscience.net/march7
(Link in bio!)
February 2, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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"At the very heart of almost all our crises is a conflict between two worldviews, the worldview in which everything is connected and the world of isolated individualism... I call the latter the ideology of isolation." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/when-love-th...
When Love Thy Neighbor Is a Cry of Resistance
Today marks one full year for this newsletter, and here's the 77th post (I thought once a week was going to be a lot, but there's so much going on I wrote almost 1.5 times a week over the past year). ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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'Go Cats' by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #WomensArt #Monday
February 2, 2026 at 5:16 AM