Armed Snail

Armed Snail

@pourdecision.bsky.social

An armed snail that's also religious. // Un caracol armado. Ella tambien es religiosa.

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CUTE LI’L STINKERS: Happy Turtle Tuesday! Let’s shellebrate in style with a gallery featuring common musk (aka, stinkpot) turtles in the New Jersey Pinelands. 🐢 📷: Paul Leakan, NJPC #wildlife #animals #reptiles #nature

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When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

Kid Mayor Strikes Again

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

Mayor Mamdani and Councilmember Kayla Santosuosso visited the New York Aquarium to meet some seals and celebrate the impact of the administration’s $2 million investment in the aquarium.

The number of Bishops in North America and Europe who think they're ready to play hard ball with a Pope from the South Side who worked in Peru while the Shining Path was killing clergy is *fascinating*

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Aves do Brasil@avesbrasil.bsky.social

🇧🇷Araracanga 🌎Ara macao Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A araracanga é uma ave psittaciforme da família Psittacidae. 📷 Júlio Silveira

We need a specific word for the sense of dawning horror that occurs as you notice everyone else is better dressed than they normally are and sinking realization that maybe you should have read this week's email as you walk up to the church. ⚓

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🇧🇷Anambé-una 🌎Querula purpurata Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O anambé-una é uma ave Passeriformes da família Cotingidae. 📷 Celso B Almeida

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PLAYOFF BOUND 🪽 Angel City is back in the postseason, and we have two matches left to earn a home playoff game. We need our fans to pack the building tomorrow at BMO Stadium and on November 1 at Dignity Health Sports Park. Come fuel the fight!

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Look, puritans were many things, but I don’t think they were lacking for folks on the spectrum horse

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social

I'm begging for Puritans to add an ounce of neurodiversity to their politics.

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>new educational breakthrough just dropped >ask if it's just selection effects >they laugh and say "it's a good pedagogy, sir" >look inside >motivated students from high-SES families

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social

And now the media heavyweights weigh in. @danagoldstein.bsky.social does a thorough job reporting on the ed-tech ambitions of Alpha School, and whether existing claims about its effectiveness withstand scrutiny (answer: no). Appreciate the nod to my reporting on the boot camp too. But...

I love the messy throuple the Carolinas and Virginia make

Brilliant Maps@brilliantmaps.bsky.social

Every US State’s Favorite State Besides Their Own (With Arrows) Credit: Matt Shirley It's surprising how few states reciprocally like each other. Full list: brilliantmaps.com/fav-us-st...

We throw around "convert brain" a lot with Vance but this may be the first time it has really been painfully obvious to me that he does not participate in any sort of Catholic community.

Gamer spouse: so Mass Effect -- Overconfident AO3 spouse: *nodding* the Garrus dating sim

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social

extremely fucked up that now im never going to get to gay marry extremely problematic bug cop garrus vakarian

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🇧🇷Surucuá-mascarado 🌎Trogon personatus Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O surucuá-mascarado é uma ave da ordem dos Trogoniformes, da família Trogonidae. 📷 Marco Guedes

I do think this isn't going to hit full moral panic just because it has a natural counterbalance: the other half of a couple's family who are thrilled to discover they don't have to share holidays and major life celebrations with assholes.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

This is a quietly metastasizing moral panic

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The NWSL Playoffs are looking more like a reality for Angel City after they close out the road trip with a huge comeback win over Denver Summit. Just two matches remain, both in Los Angeles, as the team close in on their second-ever postseason berth. 🔗📰

angelsonparade.comDenver Summit FC 2, Angel City FC 3: The NWSL Playoffs more of a reality for Los Angeles after big comeback win on the roadWith the last international break of the season now behind them, Angel City and the rest of NWSL can focus on the chaos at hand, the extremely close playoff race shaping up. A long road trip comes to ...

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The Zombie Frog (Synapturanus zombie) survives on the brains of animals... just kidding. Their names come from researchers who looked like zombies after digging in the middle of a thunderstorm to find the frog. 🐸 📸 Antoine Fouquet learn more at buff.ly/qdDtY3w

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Octopus is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet on moral grounds because it’s basically never around, probably has dreams and emotions and tastes like a tire.

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Baku and Yuna hit the pumpkin jackpot! 🎃 Our tapirs received a MASSIVE pumpkin today for some Zoo Boo fall fun! And they won’t be the only ones getting in on the action; animals throughout the zoo and aquariums will enjoy their own slice of pumpkin season during Zoo Boo this weekend. 📹 curator Erin