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Dakota Territory, USA · 1885 — Dog Years Dakota Territory, 1885. A wagon's wheel. A stray bleeding out in the grass. The sky pulling harder.

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Packless: a stray's life on the Dakota frontier. Loyal, abandoned, surviving, alone.

Animal lives can be hard. Even (maybe especially) the ones who get close to us.
thesearedogyears.dog/packless.html

Hi, I'm Indie! I'm a Boxer / Mixed (short coat) looking for a forever home in Boston, MA.

Female · Medium size

Pet ID: 22162615

#AdoptDontShop #Boston #DogsOfBluesky

Tabby Cat Painting: Modern Colorful Feline Art Print https://tuppu.net/685e0480 #oscarjetson #dogart #Etsy #puppy #dogsinart #DogFishArtCo #dogs #Painting

Commission a Custom Charcoal Pet Portrait https://tuppu.net/aac57864 #dogsofbluesky #oscarjetson #dogart #art #dogs

Border Terrier at the Bar – Fine Art Print by Oscar Jetson https://tuppu.net/5d81e829 #art #dogart #dogsofbluesky #dogs #oscarjetson #BorderTerrierPrint

AHS Newark #NewJersey

Safe haven needed for Leo

Leonardo 🆔 44338
2yr male

Abandoned in a park and arrived at the shelter severely underweight at just 31lbs

Along with weight gain Leo has a little more confidence, too

A friendly boy!

☎️(973)824-7080
📧 newark@ahsppz.org

#Dogs #BlueskyDogs #Pets

Landing Zone

#FourOrMore birds of different species at our birdbath often sparks squabbles. But in this frame, orderly approaches and landings look possible.

Epilogue: These Cedar Waxwings were part of a migrating flock that took over, bullying the regulars away.

#birds #BirdoftheDay #photography

Your Time is Up!

A male Northern Cardinal pulls his best #PowerPose on a male Brown-headed Cowbird that has overstayed his welcome at the birdbath.

If you saw my post a few days ago showing water droplets everywhere, this was the moment preceding the skirmish.

#birds #BirdoftheDay #photography

Songless Songbird, Perfectly Perched

Cedar Waxwings technically are #songbirds, but they sing no melodies—only short calls between mates.

She is #PerfectlyPerched with golden yellow fall leaves in the background that complement her colors.

#birds #BirdoftheDay #photography

This is such a stunning photograph that I wondered if it was real! Looking through your work, I see you have so many stunning captures of beautiful birds. Thank you for sharing.

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich Five-month investigation reveals how four members of one family were shot and killed in a single day and highlights a pattern in which Israeli troops target unarmed civilians

IDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”

6 months old & still just as relevant, hard-hitting, ugly reading for me as it would have been back then. How is it that human beings can treat random other humans beings as mere nothings to systematically murder? Horrific crimes deserve prosecution, not aid. 'Never Again' is incredibly meaningless.

When you or a family member has a chronic illness, you just stop telling people about it, and say “we’re ok” when people ask, because it’s exhausting dealing with people’s disappointment that you’re not better yet.

THAT!!!!! Chronic illness & injury have their own timelines that don't operate according to how long your acquaintances think they have been waiting since the last time they checked.

In the meantime, YOU are the one(s) dealing with the daily struggle up close & personal for a really long time!

ICE Lawyer Who Told Judge She Was Overwhelmed Seeks New Role: Lawmaker

The ICE lawyer who admitted to a judge earlier this year that she as overwhelmed by the workload (drawing lots of headlines) is now running for Congress, challenging Ilhan Omar in the Dem primary. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Cost of living: Students praise 'essential' food bank service Queen's University Belfast says there were more than 10,500 visits by students to its food bank in the students' union.

Shocking. When I was an undergrad around 20 years ago, a decent summer job & the maintenance loan saw me (carefully) thru a whole year in a provincial city. The cost of living is now so insane that hundreds, maybe thousands, of students in Belfast are using food banks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wow, I don't know why this never occurred to me. Now I see that some stats say 20-30% of approximately 20 million US students face food insecurity, partly now addressed by college campus food banks. Never heard of such a thing when I was in college. I wonder how many others just forfeit education.

I had not thought of this issue here in the USA. College was expensive, but those costs were expected. I earned money for college in the army. Then I went to college year-round working part-time for enough for school & living expenses which were still quite reasonable in the late 90s. Sky high now.

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Thank you, Sherrilyn!

The full gift article came up fine for me when I tapped the title.

U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

Yeah you get a Gift Link for this one.

www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...

Exclusive | Justice Department Probes Iran’s Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions The investigation is focused on money flowing through the crypto platform to a network that backs terror groups, including Yemen’s Houthi militants.

Recall that Binance co-founder CZ was pardoned by President Trump last October.

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

We have established a neurodivergent community on Discourse, autistic-academics.discourse.group, and we're still looking for people interesting in helping moderating/administration AS well as being members of the community. Please spread! #chemsky

Waiting for others to fix the problem?

We all have our powers. If you really want satisfaction, take action to be part of the solution instead of the problem. Stop feeding the Trumpamagalon/Big Money Monster money, labor, & compliance. Find more sustainable ways to live, work, & build a nation.

FBI joins search for retired Air Force major general missing for nearly 2 weeks | CNN A high-ranking retired US Air Force major general who once commanded a base long associated with UFO lore has been missing for nearly two weeks, and authorities are appealing to the public for help lo...

www.cnn.com/2026/03/11/u...

RFK Jr.'s MAHA Allies Call to Eliminate All Childhood Vaccine Recommendations Inside the MAHA movement’s Washington meetup.

This absolute idiocy has surged with the development of public internet in the 90s. Now it has culminated in deliberately idiotic dishonest manipulations by the current absurd Trumpamagalon government in RFK Jr.

BE VERY AFRAID OF WILLFULLY STUPID PEOPLE!

www.notus.org/health-scien...