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#FebruaryFun What a difference 2 weeks makes. Monarch larvae about to do its thing to pupate. And a one day old newly hatched larvae.

Doctor: Your DNA is backwards.

Me: And?

From a distance I thought I had struck moss gold. πŸ˜‚ I've never seen fern-like growth directly from a tree like this before.
#Florida #Jacksonville #Nature #Trees #Ferns

It always worries me when someone comments on one of my posts with something like β€œOh, that’s so wholesome!” and then they follow me.

I just feel so bad. Like, that poor sweet person has NO idea what they’re in for.

⚠️ Warning to anyone on the mstdn.party or mstdn.plus servers, recommend you move to another server ASAP.

Their only admin is apparently unreachable, and his accounts haven't posted anything since Dec 2022.

You can find a new server at joinmastodon.org/servers or fedi.garden (the servers listed there have at least two admins and promise to give 3 months warning of any shutdown).

There's a step-by-step guide to moving your account at fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-

Boss: *gives us company jerseys as a perk*
Me: Master has presented Dobby with clothes.

#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood with fellow actor Douglas Fairbanks, actor and director Charlie Chaplin and director D W Griffith. Their hope was to circumvent the growing studio system by owning their own creative output.

Pickford was also the first Hollywood movie star to sign a million dollar contract.

#ReclaimTheFrame
#WomenBehindTheCamera #WomenInHistory #HollywoodHistory #History

Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white rider on a Montgomery, AL bus on December 1, 1955. The act was unplanned, but she wasn’t simply a tired private citizen (as many history books have painted her). She was active in the early Civil Rights Movement beginning in 1943 and was the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.

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good evening, mastodon. i give you this gay duck from the emoji.

:gayduck: :gayduck: :gayduck:

#Art #MastoArt #gay #lgbt

I'm a responsible driver. I support legislation to help prevent irresponsible people from getting behind the wheel. This means preventing DUIs, reckless driving, or unsafe cars. What's my point?

This: Responsible gun ownership requires supporting legislation to help prevent irresponsible people from having easy access to firearms. If you're not willing to ensure that happens, you're not a responsible gun owner, & you are part of the problem of epidemic gun violence in America.

The Cherokee Nation is still waiting for the US to seat the delegate promised to it by an 1835 treaty.

' β€œOur ancestors upheld their end of the bargainβ€”after being forced to leave their homes and march to the west ...,” Chuck Hoskin Jr., the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, wrote in a letter to House leadership this week. β€œYet, two centuries later, the U.S. House still has yet to seat the delegate we were promised.” '

#Cherokee #USCongress #IndianTreaties

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