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"A lot of people just need someone to be kind to them today."
via bluelady329luv
#quotes
#kindness
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On a wing and a prairie: Puget Sound butterfly avoids extinction with human help
After two decades of work, including monitoring by scientists, a captive breeding program run by inmates at a local women's prison, and habitat conservation by the Nisqually Tribe, the Taylor's checkerspot butterfly seems to be improving and even doing better than expected.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/on-a-wing-and-a-prairie-Puget-Sound-butterfly-avoids-extinction?ref=fixthenews.com
#photography
#conservation
#butterflies
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Side-eyed by a bison ©
Lea Milde
https://www.instagram.com/lea.milde/
@photography@a.gup.pe
#photography
#bisons
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A new stick insect species has been discovered in #Queensland. It is 40cm (16in) long and thought to be the heaviest insect in #Australia
Photograph: Angus Emmott, James Cook University/Reuters
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#photography
#insects
earthling@appassionato@mastodon.social
The plan to take control of Gaza City includes the isolation of Gaza City, the forced evacuation of more than a million people to new areas that need to be built and the establishment of 12 new food distribution sites – all by October 7 of this year.
@palestine@a.gup.pe
#Gaza
#displacement
#news
#photography
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Nagasaki mayor warns of nuclear war as city marks 80 years since A-bomb
The western Japanese city was levelled on August 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man", instantly killing some 27,000 of the city's estimated 200,000 people. By the end of 1945, the death toll from acute radiation exposure had reached about 70,000.
https://www.reuters.com/world/nagasaki-mayor-warns-nuclear-war-city-marks-80-years-since-a-bomb-2025-08-09/
#Japan
#Nagasaki
#NuclearWar
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Salta, #Argentina
A man flees with his dog from a blaze raging through a neighbourhood of Salta in the Andes.
Photograph: Javier Corbalan/AP
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#photography
#wildfires
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Hungry goat herds help fight fires in Spain's Catalonia
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spain-wildfires-goats/
#Spain
#wildfires
#goats
#photography
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Jeffersonia dubia by nagaino
@photography@a.gup.pe
#photography
#flowers
#BloomScrolling
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Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground by Kurt Gray, 2025
A groundbreaking new perspective on the moral mind that rewrites our understanding of where moral judgments come from, and how we can overcome the feelings of outrage that so often divide us.
@bookstodon@a.gup.pe
#books
#nonfiction
#psychology
#morality
#politics