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Can't foster right now? We have several pups in the office that would love a "field trip" for some time out of the office. :) You can email officeanimals@thebondbetween.org and we can get you scheduled! If you can foster one of these babies, please email fostersupport@thebondbetween.org!!

I often promote dog fostering here. We work with the Bond Between here in the Twin Cities. But if fostering is too big a commitment, you can take some of the dogs on field trips. Just borrow them for an afternoon. They’d love it!

www.thebondbetween.org/foster-dogs

H.A. Brown Elementary School Mural By Skype a Scientist

Science + Art appreciators, we need your help!

We're working with the E. Kensington Neighbors Assn & H.A Brown school to create a community-driven mural on the biodiversity of our Philly neighborhood!

We need your help to fund this project
givebutter.com/KenzoMural

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I get to chat about trees with a kindergarten classroom this week with @skypeascientist.bsky.social and I LOVE some of the questions they sent ahead:

How old is the oldest tree that you have met?

Do you draw pictures of your research and how do you share them with your scientist friends?

The Iris - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14674

Election Day is Every Tuesday: 2/16-22, 2026 Can we flip a seat we haven't run in since 2022?

The big one this week is GA SD 18 runoff. A Democrat hasn’t even run there since 2022, so, if you live in the district, please get out and vote!

Let’s get started!
www.thedailyelm.com/p/election-d...
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Patty-cake with HerdMom!

This statuette of the Egyptian goddess Bastet in the form of a cat — from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City — somewhat resembles Justin the black Chihuahua in the pose he's taken in the post above. Part of The Met's online description: "Bastet was a powerful goddess of Lower Egypt, one who was protective and could bring about great prosperity. In zoomorphic form, she was represented as a cat and cats were considered sacred to her." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/546218

Justin imitates art, sorta:

Was dear departed Turkey special?

Bad officers should be fired. Flagged. Make their record follow them so they can’t quietly move to the next department and start over.

American Diary Project The diary archive for everyday folks. Contribute your diaries, read a stranger's diary online, and help preserve history. Every story is worth saving.

This might be a good place to mention that people who inherit diaries from family members and aren't sure what to do with them, there is a non-profit that accepts diaries to save them from future destruction: the American Diary Project . americandiaryproject.com.

Best wishes to both of you.

Bright yellow orange crocus freshly emerged.

@helenkennedy.bsky.social

On an uptown #1 train earlier today:

@elrubino.bsky.social

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A print ad for Robyn that's posted in an NYC subway car reads, in part: Emotionally intelligent. Deeply human. Say the thing you've been holding in. *Finally.* Let your inside voice out. A passenger has used a blue marker to cross out the beginning of the last line and circle the sentence's final six letters: ice out.

A well-edited ad posted in a New York City subway car.

ICE Out.

#ICEOut

A Tufted Titmouse in a beech tree waiting for a peanut to be offered.

We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

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🚨 PICTURED: Liz Truss meets with Donald Trump at his golf course in Palm Beach

Ditto. I grew up in the Chicago area, and was surprised and delighted by the variety to be found in the Arizona desert.

If you missed this and are disappointed, Murder Kitten (and maybe someone else) will write Presidents' Day Poems* until end of Day on Monday, for a donation to A Little Extra alittleextrafund.org

*they will be rude

A green cloud of northern lights glows just over the horizon beyond a snow-covered lake, surrounded by tall spruce silhouettes.

Took my new extra wide-angle lens out to practice tonight before my first Churchill #aurora tour next week. The lights gave me something to work with :)

Pink sky behind gray-blue clouds with five Western Gulls flying by.

After a gray and cloudy day, brilliant pink sky appears behind the gray-blue clouds and fog right after sunset. Some Western Gulls flying South. San Francisco Bay, from Emeryville, California.

#sky #sunset #nature

Alright, Norm Nation, a close, trusted friend asked if I could help a family she has been supporting who has not only been in hiding but the father also needs cancer surgery. They are hoping to raise $10k-ish for healthcare, living expenses, and rent. I sent $500, but you can Venmo directly @JC-W19.

Undulating light in a red rock canyon

Lower Antelope Canyon

Wow. Fascinating pix.

The images strike me as terrestrial versions of the Northern Lights, though I confess that I've seen neither wonder.

Is everything okay? • Inbox * Secret Admirer Donald J. Trump <contact@win.donaldjtrump... 3:46 PM (1 hour ago) to me I sent you a LOVE LETTER but I haven't heard back. It's Valentine's Day Seth! I love you, and I was pretty sure you loved me back! Is everything okay? OPEN LOVE LETTER LOVE

Just checked my email to find this super normal fundraising email from Team Trump.