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Leucothoe fontanesiana / Mountain Doghobble at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

#Leucothoe fontanesiana #Leucothoe #Ericaceae #Mountain Doghobble #Doghobble #Highland Doghobble #Fetterbush #Switch ivy #Native plants #Native flowers #Native shrubs #Plants #Flowers #Shrubs #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #Sarah P. Duke Gardens #Duke Gardens #Duke University #Durham #Durham NC #North Carolina

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Maasai giraffe Giraffa tippelskirchi tippelskirchi

Observed by bartwursten, CC BY-NC

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Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus), family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes, Michigan, USA

Yes yes yes, I know. We all know this bird isn't purple. You're not that clever for noticing.

The word purple, historically, referred to deep shades of red (crimson), and not necessarily violet.

photograph by Glen Noyer (@glen.noyer)

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AOC is at the Columbia encampment. The students need to wise up fast and kick her ass out.

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Did we miss the part where Biden's stance on Palestine is uniquely aggressive and oppressive even in the context/low bar of American politics. I feel like I'm losing my mind everytime someone brings up a hypothetical "well it could be worse" when the Gaza strip has dealt with the equivalent impact to a fucking nuclear assault.

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Rhododendron mucronatum 'Delaware Valley White' / 'Delaware Valley White' Chinese Azalea at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

#Rhododendron mucronatum 'Delaware Valley White' #Rhododendron mucronatum #Rhododendron #Ericaceae #Delaware Valley White Chinese Azalea #Delaware Valley White Azalea #Chinese Azalea #Azalea #Azaleas #Plants #Flowers #Shrubs #Nature photography #photographers on tumblr #Sarah P. Duke Gardens #Duke Gardens #Duke University #Durham #Durham NC #North Carolina

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A leucistic acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus) in California, USA

by Robin Gwen Agarwal

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crazy to see that performative flotilla get stopped before it even left port, without even just being stopped and boarded like it inevitably would have been, through simple bureaucratic measures like suspending its flag of convenience

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A nanday parakeet (Aratinga nenday) feasts on a mango in the Pantanal, Brazil

by Isidro Vila Verde

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A gila woodpecker (Melanerpes uropygialis) takes flight from a saguaro cactus in Tucson, Arizona

by David Quanrud

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A nanday parakeet (Aratinga nenday) in Crescent Beach, Florida, USA

by Steve Raduns

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im not sure you know what ancient rome is

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This is quite literally textbook fascism

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LESS THAN TWO HOURS AGO: four cornell students have been suspended (and at least the one reporting was evicted, unknown about the others) for their involvement with their campus's gaza solidarity encampment. during a school year centering freedom of expression no less!

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