Blessed #Beltane to all who celebrate. #moonlitpress combines our new moon article
with Beltane.
Not all of life’s most brilliant educators are working in schools. You can learn a lot from a little tortoise, about the size of a half-grapefruit, who just wants to hang out in a sunny spot and be.
Enjoy the story.
https://blog.moonlitpress.org/dinosaur-buddha
#CreativeNonfiction #wordsbyterryl #writing #shortStory #newMoon
#Nature #Love #humor #pagan #turtle #tortoise
Tortoise - Oganesson
#JazzFM #Jazz #NowPlaying #Tortoise
Baby Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia zoo! 
"Four baby Galapagos tortoises made their public debut Wednesday at the Philadelphia Zoo.
They are the offspring of the zoo’s oldest residents, a female named Mommy and a male named Abrazzo, a pair of critically endangered Galapagos tortoises who have become first-time parents at the age of roughly 100."
TORTOISE / AUTECHRE
Adverse Camber / To Day Retreival
1998 U.S. pressing
Man, I slept late today.
Having a super chill morning with two very cool remixes of the Tortoise song “Ten-Day Interval”.
Big fan of both artists, and most everything that came out on Chicago’s THRILL JOCKEY label.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #tortoise #autechre #thrilljockey #art #music #1990s #90s #90smusic
Gramps is happy that the all-you-can-eat salad bar is starting to turn green again. #tortoise #GopherTortoise
‘#TED gave me editorial freedom to say what I wanted. The #Guardian/ #Observer won’t even allow me to write about it, in any form.I pitched a piece for this Sunday about the experience.
It would be my last article for the paper, it transfers to #Tortoise next week who have declined to renew my contract; an epitaph to my 20-year career there and an an end point to an investigation that brought the Guardian and Observer extraordinary kudos and the most money it has ever raised from any story.’
An #Endangered #GalápagosTortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100
Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz #tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.
#Climate #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife #Conservation #EndangeredSpecies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/science/galapagos-tortoise-hatchlings-philadelphia-zoo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=A6E5477C-AD56-4113-BA56-44EF946D02FB
A giant tortoise snacks at #Galápagos national park, #Ecuador
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is the world's oldest known living land animal. As of 2025, he is estimated to be around 192 years old.
Post-rock band Tortoise released a single this week titled "Oganesson," a jazzy krautrock-ish number. It's their first new track in nine years! New album or EP of some sort to come "soon."
I know that Gopher Tortoises are cantankerous beasties, but this one in particular seems to be reveling in my frustration that it dug a burrow right by my front door. Really, my guy? REALLY?
Despite being the largest #tortoise in Asia, Asian Giant Tortoises are #extinct in #Singapore 
and critically #endangered in #Indonesia 
#Malaysia 
#Thailand 
due to #palmoil #deforestation and the #pet trade. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/25/asian-giant-tortoise-manouria-emys/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
I'd heard of Library Cats (Dewey!), but I found out our Library has a Desert Tortoise (Emerson!).
Faith and Justice, my two little blind red-footed tortoises, having a good soak together. #tortoise #TortoiseTuesday #redfootedtortoise
Happy birthday to Charles Darwin (1809-1882)! Today is Darwin Day to celebrate his birthday, science and evolution.
“The inhabitants believe that these animals are absolutely deaf; certainly they do not overhear a person walking closely behind them. I was always amused, when overtaking one of these great monsters as it was quietly pacing along, to see how suddenly, the instant I passed, it …
