Ragen Victoria

A captivating glimpse into the inquisitive nature of this barn owl. Its tilted head, a study in subtle elegance, hints at a world of secrets.🦉

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#Nature #Bird #Owl

DOGE’s expenses have now ballooned to around $175 million in just 12 weeks.

“Helping ensure our country is viewed as a force not to be reckoned with.”

especially when Trump’s previous term approved of Garcia. bsky.app/profile/uber...

This is some sick shit

“Ideas”? 🤔🇺🇸

Is Cloning the Future of Red Wolf Conservation? No. Colossal Biosciences, Inc. claimed that they cloned Red Wolves. They didn't. Although cloning has some potential to serve among existing conservation tools, there are more immediate and effective meth...

WCC's Senior Research Scientist @joeyhinton22.bsky.social says it best:

"Cloning has some potential to serve among existing conservation tools, but there are more effective methods to promote survival of Red Wolves. Cloning is a solution in search of a problem that doesn’t exist for Red Wolves."

Dire wolves remain very extinct Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves.

arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Eastern Gray Squirrel trotting down the nature trail. These squirrels have a strong preference for staying around their primary nest tree and typically don't roam more than 900 feet from this home range.

I was a social security recipient from the age of 12 through 18. That’s not some weird thing or corruption. It’s called survivors’ benefits. You don’t have to know this. You’re blessed if you don’t. But if you’re going to speak publicly abt the program you need to know this.

Deltarune (from a few years ago) #deltarune #art

In case you are feeling nostalgic:
Remember the huge fight over installing a section of the Keystone XL pipeline through Native reservations & how the military, police, & other law enforcement were called out to stop the protesters fearful of leaks?

XL just leaked 3500 barrels of oil yesterday.

Today the White House confirmed that they exploring ways to deport U.S. citizens.

Not immigrants. Not green card holders. Citizens.

He’s telling us exactly what he plans to do if we don’t stop him. He wants to put US citizens into a foreign prison for reasons only he sees fit, without due process.

watercolor painting, a red phoenix with peacock-like tail feathers perched on a flowering cherry tree branch. The bird is looking back towards the viewer, a bit haughtily.

Fairytale

Balloons don't go to heaven. They fall back to Earth and many birds and wildlife become entangled resulting in death. There are many other ways to celebrate life that aren't harmful to the environment and wildlife!

Gabbard’s pick to run a counterterrorism center aided the start of a right-wing paramilitary group Joe Kent, a promoter of conspiracy theories, has long associated with extremists.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They are stacking these shit birds deep.

“Appeasement right now is a disastrous policy… What’s at stake here is freedom. If you give up your freedoms to someone who wants more power, they’re going to take more of your freedom.”

-Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

www.newsweek.com ICE deletes post saying it's stopping 'illegal ideas' from crossing border

ICE Deletes Post Saying It's Stopping 'Illegal Ideas' From Crossing Border https://twp.ai/4imT6x

Amazing. Can someone point me to the full graph that shows the vertical axis on the left? I want to know how much money they moved during those 20 minutes.

Join the SCB VUW Chapter on May 3 for #EarthOptimism talks from various conservation & environmental groups across Te Whanganui a Tara. Get positive about Earth and learn about the different projects happening across our windy city, along with what actions you can take, big or small, to help nature.

Losing money in the stock market is not the end of the world. But at least you should know who took it.

Can't be emphasized enough that the image of the US deporting people for things they said is so much more damaging to its foreign policy interests than anything a student might have said on the quad

that's me on the corner
that's me on the sidewalk
trying to catch a pigeon

A thing people can do to make sure their fellow Americans know what is going on is hand out flyers at transit hubs, malls, etc with some data points and the URL/QR codes to more resources.

And high school and high ed campuses

A anthro great hammerhead shark pink-skinned, she is a "Moontide Sorcerer" dressed in a white, starry tunic while holding a lunar staff. While a mystical star manifests above his head, shimmering in many colors, and his ampoules shine like points of light in his snout, she is feeling the magical emanations of a long-lost relic beneath the sands and crystals of an ancient ruin. She says to the human accompanying him: "It's here! I feel the magical emanations of the lost relic pulsating in my Electro-sense!" The human stares at the ground while holding a pickaxe. Beneath the sands is a layer of crystals surrounding like a geode what appears to be a human skull with a shiny jeweled ornament encrusted on its forehead. An imaginative exploration of how shark characters could make use of their electro-sense, a shark sense capable of capturing electrical pulsations and electromagnetic fields through their "Ampullae of Lorenzini".

This is yet another idea to “gamifying” the unique shark characteristics! 🎮✨

What if sharks' electro-sense could be used to find hidden magical treasures? They would be able to sense the electromagnetic field of objects or enemies emanating some kind of energy. ⚡️🦈⚡️

#shark #sharkfolk

Perfectly perched and perfectly adorable, this little owl is rocking the snow-kissed look.

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#Cuteowl #snowday