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    Quote Posted by onawah (here)
    ⛪ How Pope Gregory IX's decree against cats led to one of history's greatest disasters
    The video describes how cats are guardians of homes. Their purring frequency counters the archons. Pope Gregory IX made his decree in 1233 and in 1346 or 113 years later the black death occurred in Europe. One of the things said about cats is they kill rats and mice that carry fleas.

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    Quote Vox in Rama is a 1233 papal bull issued by Pope Gregory IX, famous for officially linking black cats to Satanic worship and heresy, fueling widespread persecution of cats. It authorized a crusade against the "Luciferian" cult in Germany, describing alleged demonic rituals involving cats. The mass killing of cats is thought by some to have aided the spread of the plague.
    The following is not in the video:

    If you subtract 113 from 2026 you get 1913 or the year Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 into law on December 23rd. That's 617 days after the Titanic sank on 04/15/1912 killing the opposers of the act. The number 617 is the 113th prime. The number 113 is the 30th prime and has the same Hebrew gematria value as the words Gate & Fish the symbol for Jesus and a Vesica Piscis. The number 1913 is the 293rd prime.

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    Quote The purring cat reminds me of what Drunvalo wrote in The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life. A race called the Hathor who have attained Christ consciousness use a circular breathing method for healing. The aborigines use a similar method when playing the didgeridoo.

    The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life

    PDF (page 278)

    Purring for 8 hours

    Didgeridoo for 8 hours
    On page 278 of The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life Vol. 2. (Replacement link: sarahnilsson.org app download)
    Quote The Hathors

    The Hathors were the main or primary mentors within the Left Eye of
    Horus Mystery School. Though they were not from Earth, in the ancient
    days they were always here to assist us in unfolding our consciousness.
    They loved us dearly, and they still do. As our consciousness became more
    and more third-dimensional, we eventually could no longer see them or respond to their teachings. Only now, as we grow, are we beginning to see
    and communicate with them again. Figure 10-17 is the likeness of a member of the Hathor race, a race of fourth-dimensional beings who come from Venus. You don't see them on
    the third-dimensional world of Venus, but if you tune to Venus on the
    fourth dimension, especially on the higher overtones, you'll find a vast culture there. They are the most intelligent consciousness in this solar system,
    and they function as the headquarters or central office for all life under our
    Sun. If you come into our solar system from the outside, you must check
    with Venus before proceeding.

    The Hathors are beings of tremendous love. Their love is on a level of
    Christ consciousness. They use vocal sounds as their means of communicating and performing feats within their environment. They have amazing
    ears. They have almost no darkness to them at all; they're just light—pure,
    loving beings. Hathors are very much like dolphins. Dolphins use sonar to do almost everything, and Hathors use their voices to do almost everything. We create machines to light or heat our houses, but the Hathors simply use sound through their voices.

    There aren't many of these Hathor-face statues
    left because the Romans thought they were some
    sort of evil spirits and perpetrated great destruction
    upon their images. This carving is found in Mem
    phis, and it's at the top of a 40-foot pillar, though the
    present ground level is just above the top of the pillar
    [what you see here is excavated]. They had recently
    discovered this temple when I was there in 1985.

    The Hathors are about 10 to 16 feet tall, the
    same height as the Nefilim, mentioned in chapter 3.
    For a very, very long time they have helped people
    on Earth, almost always through their love and their
    incredible knowledge of sound. There's an initiation
    in Egypt where the sound of the ankh is created—
    this is one of the initiations in the Great Pyramid.
    It's a continuous sound that a Hathor makes, with
    out stopping, for somewhere between half an hour to
    an hour. It is used primarily for healing the body or
    restoring balance in nature. It's like when we sound
    On and have to breathe at the same time. The
    Hathors learned how to make a sound without stop
    ping, breathing in through their nose, into their
    lungs and back out through their mouth continuously.
    Conducting this sound-of-the-ankh initiation ceremony was only one of the many things they would do for us to create balance. The Hathors were
    here on Earth helping mankind for thousands of years.

    Breathing in and out at the same time and making a continuous sound
    without stopping is not unheard-of today. An Aborigine playing the
    didgeridoo uses circular breathing. He can make one tone nonstop for an
    hour by controlling the air flow into and out of his body. It's not that hard
    to learn, actually.
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    This is probably AI, but the baby's hands in the owl's feathers are convincing.

    Each breath a gift...
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    https://x.com/end3of6days9/status/20...197915015?s=20



    End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸
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    This guy takes his four dogs out for a run, but not the way you’re thinking… he jumps on his four-wheeler and lets his dogs run full-speed.

    All these dogs are living their best life, but Sarabi (a 2-year-old greyhound speed demon) is out there absolutely flying with that incredible agility and pure joy you can feel through the screen.

    Did you happen to see his speedometer? He had to drive 80 mph just to catch up to the greyhound! 🐕💨
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    𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵

    At the end of the workday in a South Korean aquarium, the adorable and clever baby otters help grandpa put away the toys, and grandpa rewards them with ice cubes🦭🦭😍

    https://x.com/Hoang_HQ/status/2046198926198595748


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    Birds Colour 🕊️

    I can't handle this level of cuteness...


    AI can't figure out babies.

    Baby humming birds look like actual humming birds by the time they can fly.

    Here's an AI baby peacock versus a real baby peocock

    https://x.com/woodyHchipper/status/2046276263644668076


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    2000 good doggos are getting some help in Wisconsin. Here’s hoping for forever homes for all of them.

    https://www.wpr.org/news/animal-welf...elease-beagles

    Animal welfare protesters converge on Wisconsin governor’s office seeking release of beagles

    Protest follows attempt to free an estimated 2K beagles kept at Ridglan Farms in Blue Mounds

    BY SCOTT BAUER | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    APRIL 20, 2026


    Quote Animal welfare activists converged outside of Gov. Tony Evers’ Capitol office on Monday, chanting “Free the dogs!” and demanding that the governor and attorney general do what they can to shut down a beagle breeding and research facility where many of the protesters clashed with police two days earlier.

    An estimated 1,000 activists from around the country came to Ridglan Farms in rural Blue Mounds in an attempt Saturday to free an estimated 2,000 beagles kept there. They were met by police who repelled them with tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. The Dane County Sheriff’s Department said 29 people were arrested.


    More than 100 protesters were met outside of the Capitol hallway that leads to the offices of Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul by police officers who handed out constituent contact forms for Wisconsin residents to complete.
    Evers and Kaul did not immediately return messages seeking comment. No one from their offices spoke directly to the protesters, some of whom carried pictures of Evers, Kaul and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin interacting with dogs.
    Aidan Kankyoku, a co-leader of the Coalition to Save the Ridglan Dogs that organized the effort, said they were hoping that both Evers and Kaul would break their silence about the dog breeder. Kankyoku said activists also wanted Kaul to execute a search warrant on the facility to investigate allegations of ongoing animal cruelty.

    “We just want the dogs out,” he said.

    Ridglan has denied mistreating animals but agreed in October to give up its state breeding license as of July 1 as part of a deal to avoid prosecution on animal mistreatment charges. On its website it says “no credible evidence of animal abuse, cruelty, mistreatment or neglect at Ridglan Farms has ever been presented or substantiated.”

    Ridglan says it has served as a biomedical research facility “that supports health studies benefitting both humans and animals” for more than 60 years. Nearly all of its current research is aimed at improving veterinary medicine, according to its website.


    Ridglan said in a statement Monday that activists “have spread false and highly misleading claims about our research and our deep commitment to animal welfare, fueling dangerous levels of anger and hatred.” Ridglan said staff members have been threatened and followed as they leave the facility.
    Ridglan said it hoped those arrested Saturday are held “fully accountable.”

    Many of those who were at the facility on Saturday returned to the Capitol on Monday to decry law enforcement’s reaction. Some of them showed off bruises they said were caused by rubber bullets.

    Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett defended the actions of his officers, telling The Associated Press on Monday that their response was “appropriate and decisive” to the risk posed by between 300 and 400 protesters who attempted to break into the facility.

    “We were outnumbered,” Barrett said of the 26 officers on scene.

    The activists were organized into three groups, with one willing to commit felony breaking and entering, another willing to be arrested for trespassing, while others were there to peacefully protest, the sheriff said.

    The sheriff’s department released a video that showed a truck driving through Ridglan’s gate, which Barrett said put officers and Ridglan staff who were in its path at risk. Barrett said another video released Monday showed an activist taking a baton away from an officer as protesters tried to rush the gate to the facility.

    Protesters previously broke into the facility in March and took 30 dogs. Twenty-seven people were arrested on trespassing and other charges.

    Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, in a social media post on Sunday, called on state officials to work with Ridglan on a plan for releasing the dogs that won’t overwhelm placement groups and prevent the beagles from being euthanized. Pocan last week questioned U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House Appropriations Committee hearing about federal grants going to organizations that use beagles from Ridglan Farms.

    Kennedy said he had a hard time believing what Pocan was telling him but that he would look into it.


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    It is a shame to see some of these great animals being used in circuses. This incident happened in Russia; to my knowledge, the animal was captured, and nobody was injured. Much of the world has banned these majestic creatures (tigers, lions, bears, elephants, etc.) from performing, but there are still a handful of travelling circuses in Europe, Russia and even the USA that allow them to "work".



    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...ussia-37045312

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    Such a gorgeous being.
    Okapi, also known as the forest giraffe, zebra giraffe and Congolese giraffe. Although it resembles the zebra, the okapi is most closely related to the giraffe. They share many of the same characteristics, including a long, prehensile tongue for stripping leaves from branches and grooming. Okapis are only found in the dense Ituri rainforest of the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
    • Conservation status: Endangered (Population decreasing)

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    Singing for Animals Compilation




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    Quote Posted by RunningDeer (here)


    Random thought popped up watching that video.

    Does that lend some credence to the veracity of the Pied Piper tale?

    ( I refer to the rats, not the children. )

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    Quote Posted by Ewan (here)
    Random thought popped up watching that video.

    Does that lend some credence to the veracity of the Pied Piper tale?

    ( I refer to the rats, not the children. )
    Interesting thought…
    Animals don’t rely only on airborne sound (what we think of as “hearing”). They also sense vibrations moving through the ground or surfaces, and those vibrations can carry information—sometimes over long distances.
    Example:

    African elephants may have magnificent ears, but on the savanna, they communicate over vast distances by picking up underground signals with their sensitive, fatty feet.
    How Elephants Listen...With Their Feet (4:30 minutes)



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    Horseshoe crabs have been described as "living fossils", having changed little since they first appeared in the Triassic around 250 million years ago
    Do horseshoe crabs bite or sting?

    Horseshoe crabs do not bite or sting humans and are considered completely harmless. Despite their intimidating, spike-like tail (telson), they lack fangs or stingers and use their tails solely to flip themselves upright if overturned by waves
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Once a Spawn a Time: Horseshoe Crabs Mob the Beach (4:30)
    Horseshoe crabs may look scary, but when it's springtime in Delaware Bay, millions of these arthropods show they're lovers, not fighters. They lay masses of blue-green eggs up on the shore. At just the right time, they pop and release the larvae within the sea.

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    Which came first - the chicken or the egg? 🥚
    Evolutionary Perspective: Eggs existed for hundreds of millions of years before chickens, as dinosaurs and other organisms laid eggs long before chickens existed.
    So in the age old question of chicken versus egg, the egg wins by hundreds of millions of years.

    Why Mammals Gave Up On Laying Eggs (10 minutes)
    So… Why don’t we lay eggs? 🥚 - fast forward to 7:05 for the answer.

    Most animals on Earth do: most invertebrates, including most insects, most fish, most amphibians, most reptiles, all birds and even a few mammals lay eggs to reproduce. So what about us? Why did our ancestors ditch the shell and start growing babies inside their bodies instead?

    In this episode of Big Ideas, from the team behind Deep Look, Niba zooms out to explore one of evolution’s biggest plot twists: how eggs evolved, how they conquered land, and why most mammals — including us — moved on to live birth.

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    Gasteracantha is a genus of orb-weaver spiders distributed worldwide in tropical and subtropical climates. The genus is most diverse in tropical Asia, from India through Indonesia. One species, G. cancriformis, occurs in the Americas. Also know as the Christmas spider or Jewel Spider


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    Tiger Sing Along


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    Soureh 🟩☫🟥

    Listen to the sound of camels taking a bath in Persian Gulf, Qeshm

    https://x.com/Soureh_design2/status/2049798579351355500


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    The Australian walking stick is a master of deception, but a twig is just one of its many disguises. Before it’s even born, it mimics a seed. In its youth it looks and acts like an ant. Only when it has grown up does it settle into its final, leafy form. Along the way, it fools predators at every turn.



    Australian Walking Stick Insects Are Three Times Weirder Than You Think (5 minutes)



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    Rescued rabbits hearing music for the first time.
    Their little kisses tickled. 🥺❤️‍🩹


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    Rescued rabbits hearing music for the first time.
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    Dear Paula, this is a really sweet video, but it is not real.

    It appears to have been made by a AI which has not been programmed/trained to present proper correlation of actions to soundtrack. Please look at the guy’s fingering on the guitar: all of the hammer-ons of that beautiful tune don’t appear.

    Relevant to the fakeness, but also of interest, and not really damning but still suspicious, are all of those camera angles. They are shown as moving, as if the cams were hand held and not fixed on tripods. The AI covered its tracks there, as the different camera persons’ locations were not obviously scoped by each other. Count is at least two, out of three POVs, but the puffballs don’t spook at any time, and there’s no sound of repositioning footsteps.

    Those critters seem like pet rabbits. I only know wild ones, not sure if they are rabbits or hares, who I put out food for all this past winter. Those nature rabbits keep their distance from me, tho they relax and listen 40 or more feet distance away. I’m interested to know anybody’s experience with rabbits, wild or pets.

    Cheers Paula, no worries. I’m just on a bit of a crusade to bring up awareness of this insidious agent. I think it needs a disclaimer, and then it might be fine, because some AI vids really are sweet.

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