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🫵 STOP! you are doomscrolling. tell me your favorite animal instead

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Mountain lion kitten attacking mom, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. NPS photo.

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The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.

-James Baldwin

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Whenever my glasses need cleaning I sashay through the lab and help myself to two Kim-wipes as I go

My friends who just got their first glasses: i need this highly expensive special cloth to wipe them, I also have this eyeglass cleaner from the same company, did you know you shouldn't use your t shirt unless it's specifically soft

Me who's worn glasses since middle school: *slaps soap onto the glasses and washes them in the sink then wipes them with toilet paper* what

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i rlly hope it gets easier soon bc i am fucking losing my mind

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Is this a portal to a Sea Otter Universe or otter 972 just enjoying some pawsome enrichment? Either way, it’s otterly adorable. 💚🦦🟢

Photos by Mammalogist Alex

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So next person to get an audience with Pope Leo needs to compliment his shoelaces and report back.

uhh... guys?

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Cyanopica cyana [オナガ, Azure-winged Magpie]

暑いので、何度も水を飲みに来てました😊

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Aqua Blouse

c. 1903

Museum of Vancouver

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One of my favorite stories to tell about myself from when I was a kid is the story how my grandma’s “Catching Fairies” game was banned because of me

So when I was really little my grandma had this game she made up, she’d give me and all my cousins jars and containers and tell us that in her garden there were fairies but they were smart and tricky so they disguised themselves as caterpillars and butterflies and as grasshoppers and worms.

Whoever caught the most ‘Fairies’ won but we had to set them all free because they tended to the garden

One summer day my brothers were at the age they were dreading ‘girly’ stuff so I was playing alone

At this point I had met all the fairies in the garden and I was getting bored without any competition and with finding the same old fairies

But then just as I was begrudgingly heading back to my grandma with the same fairies as usual I found a new fairy!

I thought she was so beautiful! She was resting on the sparkly thread in the leaves and her black body gleamed in the sunlight, she had long legs and a cool red spot on her back

Excited I coaxed her onto my hand and was so giddy I found a new one! I rushed back to the farm house to show my Grandma and Dad, gently carrying my new friend.

But when my Dad and Grandma turned around to see what fairy I caught I saw the color drain from their faces and both of them freeze, I could tell something was wrong but didn’t understand

My dad congratulated me and asked me if he could see the pretty fairy, I let him but felt a little nervous seeing how terrified he looked as she moved into his hands from mine.

Slowly he walked back towards the door, my grandma clutching my shoulders then my dad LAUNCHED the fairy back into the garden which I thought was rather rude

Then we had a nice long talk about Black Widow spiders

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Did you know? The Marañón poison frog (Excidobates mysteriosus) is often found in or near bromeliad flowers. The bromeliads offer shelter and provide it with water, which pools in its petals! The frog also uses bromeliads as a place to lay its eggs. Known for its unique call, which has been described as a rattle-like buzz, this species lives in a small region in northwestern Peru, where it inhabits montane forests. The roughly 1-in- (2.5-cm-) long frog is endangered and faces threats posed by habitat destruction and smuggling for the pet trade.

Photo: Jean-Francois Brousseau, CC BY-NC 2.0, flickr 

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Blue Tit/blåmes. The fledglings will gradually develop their adult plumage in late summer and autumn. Värmland, Sweden (June 23, 2019).

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I went to the secret forest and all I got was devoured by ten billion billion mosquitoes

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* High Jewelry Tiaras *

Garden of Impressionism Tiara by Feng J - pink sapphires, purple sapphires, white sapphires, pink spinels, aquamarines, and diamonds set in white gold