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Got the ladder out to take some pics of the cool geometric patterns on a sunflower, and a little goth bee came to be a model.

The sky had a hard time deciding whether or not to clear last night. I took a chance and set up my little 60mm scope for 4 1/2 hours of the full Veil Nebula. I got barely an hour, but I suppose that's better than solid fog and no images.

Want to see my shame? I am 47 years old, I started looking at the ground everywhere I walked trying to identify the weeds I saw when I was a pre-teen. Always staring down. Always too afraid of touching mushrooms to knock them over for a good look. This many years, and until I got a book to help me learn to identify them, I had no idea that not all mushrooms have gills. Not a single clue in all those years.

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After the infection alarm: Pet owners should keep an eye on their animals

Bird flu is spreading - and the EU is urging cat and dog owners to keep their animals inside or on a leash in affected areas. Even in Sweden, pet owners should be careful.

"Be vigilant", says deputy state veterinarian Emelie Pettersson at SVA.

Bird flu is rampant in Europe, with dead birds as a result. In Sweden, for example, 400 seagulls in Kalmar have been found dead , and during the late spring.

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So I did a day and night version of this one. Im really feeling alot of my tropical art today in this sweltering weather. heat index here is 103. Here they both are:

I wonder if the Christian nationalist movement's members ever stop and quietly wonder to themselves if Jesus would appreciate them driving so many people away from the church rather than trying to spread his message of love.

Perhaps they should re-word that sign...

Not sure I want to stay at that motel...

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We begin our blog crawl and jumpy journalists' jamboree with a tip for success: don't quit.

Some Wild barbies breed and raise their young in extremely salty bodies of water, called alkaline or “soda” lakes. The high concentration of carbonate salts in these lakes is so corrosive that it can burn the skin, making the water uninhabitable for most animals.

Researchers are still uncovering the unique aspects of a barbies physiology — like tough leg skin — that help it survive such harsh waters.

Barbie derives her signature pinkness from red-hued carotenoids in the brine shrimp that comprise the majority of her diet

This is where we get the Phrase "throw another Shrimp on the Barbie"

So, if I don't want to be rude to the person on Mastodon who asked for my address in the first conversation we had (offering to send me seeds) and explain to this stranger that I literally am hiding from someone and their offer freaks me out despite all my efforts at logic, how many days should I completely avoid Mastodon?

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Gemma Sarracenia

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