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That's right.

Union forces had suffered some 5,800 casualties but inflicted twice that on the rebels. When a chaplain asked General Thomas whether the dead should be sorted and buried by state in the new military cemetery, the Virginian who stayed loyal replied "Mix 'em up. I'm tired of states' rights.” (21

#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1

I never heard that Thomas quote before and damn if I don't love him even more.

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Absolutely stunning. Pasion flowers are so wild and you captured it perfectly.

Methods of distraction include wigging out over the hidden details of nature. Proven effective time and again!

Unrelated pro tip: There's only one way to host Thanksgiving, and that is to do as much as possible in advance.

#flowers #photography

A photo of a tan and brown fluffy cat staring out of a window. The late afternoon sun causes her floof to glow.

Luminous #floof.

#Cats
#It'sSoFluffy

That's my dad too! 😂

Delete this... and write the script... I'll help you raise the money

Two cats doing a predator handshake Cat 1: Autistic people Cat 2: Cats Joined: Hiding from House Guests

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orange cat laying with his head outside his little house

this is getting absurd

I can see that, I would love to have a carpet with that patterning and color!

Photo of a yellow leaf with water droplets all over

Good Morning ☀️ friends

Time for #TextureTuesday to get started

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography

A phot of a black and pale yellow moth from above as it rests on a white sheet. The moth's slender legs are black as is its slender feathery antennae. The head and forebody are fuzzy and feature three broad black stripes surrounded by pale yellow. The wings are marked by bold areas of black surrounded by pale yellow.

A photo of the moth from the side.

A close up of the moth's head and forebody showing the fuzzy scales and the antennae in more detail.

Banded Tiger Moth, genus Apantesis (getting to species ID can be tricky with these.

#fujifilm X-S10, #Laowa 65mm #Macro

#MacroPhotography
#photography
#Nature
#NatureIsAmazing
#Invertebrates
#insects

"Specimen of Cladonota apicalis in Ecuador" It looks like someone stuck a burnt-out match on the back of a locust. It's a long thin black streak of exoskeleton on a standard looking bug that's perched on a green leaf stem. A ant is just out of frame. CREDIT: Philipp Hoenle

Treehoppers are wild! Like someone hit the "random" button on the character creator.

Look at this weird bug, Cladonota apicalis. from Ecuador.
Now imagine a horse shaped like this, or a wolf!

Why do treehoppers have such weird shapes?
It's a mystery! But we have some ideas.

(📷: Philipp Hoenle)

Floofy grey lump of a lynx spider, hugging a twig and peering at you solemnly

The creature dangling in the dark by unseen silk, feets together in front of her

Floof Lump 🖤
Short days makes after dark walks, and looking for Hamataliwa grisea in the trees, usually spotted because they like to dangle by a thread under twigs. It's one of my favorite things, still, even though I have hundreds of shots of these spiders over the years.
#EmotionalSupportSpood

The giant googly eyes of a female magnolia green jumping spider--apple jello green and translucent, with a little white and orange "hat"--peering into your soul.

Derpy Green Giant (Lyssomanes viridis) 💚
#EmotionalSupportSpood

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Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.

Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?

That is their point. All the chaos, all at once. It makes me so tired.

Thinking I could avoid pre holiday crowds at the grocery stores today was VERY misguided 😑

He is not fond of new people and joins Bowie and Fizbit under the bed. Tallulah however is quickly up in your business 😂

I'm happy for y'all🥰

Brown mantidfly chilling on a white sheet, spiky grabby hands folded neatly below her head

It's unseasonably warm out right now which feels wrong because it is, but I guess Ms Grabby Hands is here to console us. 🫠

that's right🙏

Nice Shot.