Cranky Otter
@crankyotter.bsky.social
Distractible disabled engineer seeks distractions. Reader. Not actually an otter.
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Cranky Otter
@crankyotter.bsky.social
· Jan 18
The iPhone14 camera plus a new light bulb in the bathroom & I FINALLY get a picture of my glow in the dark tile grout!!!
The day before I move out😭
The day before I move out😭
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As much of a bummer as it was when Sandy Hook proved that guns were more important than dead kids, I'm thinking it will be even worse if the lesson of the Epstein files turns out to be that old rich white guys are more important than kids getting raped.
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
As much of a bummer as it was when Sandy Hook proved that guns were more important than dead kids, I'm thinking it will be even worse if the lesson of the Epstein files turns out to be that old rich white guys are more important than kids getting raped.
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People being willing to normalize pedophilia for Trump shows there's no line they aren't willing to cross.
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
People being willing to normalize pedophilia for Trump shows there's no line they aren't willing to cross.
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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Refusing to provide promised, life sustaining support to a specific class of a country's citizens - especially for political leverage - should be considered a form of genocide, if it isn't already
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Refusing to provide promised, life sustaining support to a specific class of a country's citizens - especially for political leverage - should be considered a form of genocide, if it isn't already
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In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Whelp, it’s Wednesday!
It might be a soggy one here in the UK, but here is Peanut hopping in to brighten your day.
Today is a good day to cosy up, and hide away from the weather.
And here is your reminder to take a break, move around, stretch, hydrate and maybe grab a little snack.
It might be a soggy one here in the UK, but here is Peanut hopping in to brighten your day.
Today is a good day to cosy up, and hide away from the weather.
And here is your reminder to take a break, move around, stretch, hydrate and maybe grab a little snack.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Whelp, it’s Wednesday!
It might be a soggy one here in the UK, but here is Peanut hopping in to brighten your day.
Today is a good day to cosy up, and hide away from the weather.
And here is your reminder to take a break, move around, stretch, hydrate and maybe grab a little snack.
It might be a soggy one here in the UK, but here is Peanut hopping in to brighten your day.
Today is a good day to cosy up, and hide away from the weather.
And here is your reminder to take a break, move around, stretch, hydrate and maybe grab a little snack.
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Dick Cheney has died.
"boom!" by system of a down (2002)
"boom!" by system of a down (2002)
November 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Dick Cheney has died.
"boom!" by system of a down (2002)
"boom!" by system of a down (2002)
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its so neat how like every prepackaged food is made in like one plant in indiana
Death Tolls Rise As Listeria-Contaminated Pasta Recall Expands Nationwide
Here is every pasta affected.
www.delish.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
its so neat how like every prepackaged food is made in like one plant in indiana
[Alt text: Death playing the claw machine has a man dangling from the claw. Says “Is that Dick Cheney?
Oh Hell Ya!”]
So happy to find this meme updated for a deserving guy.
Oh Hell Ya!”]
So happy to find this meme updated for a deserving guy.
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
[Alt text: Death playing the claw machine has a man dangling from the claw. Says “Is that Dick Cheney?
Oh Hell Ya!”]
So happy to find this meme updated for a deserving guy.
Oh Hell Ya!”]
So happy to find this meme updated for a deserving guy.
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
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if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
if you see anyone expressing shock that a candidate who exudes warmth and authenticity and wants to improve the quality of life for working class people won over a rapist whose entire campaign was
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
"that guys a terrorist" that's not a smart person. you don't have to listen to that person anymore.
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Why is food assistance not an “essential function” that continues during a shutdown but ICE raids are?
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why is food assistance not an “essential function” that continues during a shutdown but ICE raids are?
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@erinbiba.bsky.social a little something to celebrate this moment
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
@erinbiba.bsky.social a little something to celebrate this moment
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please support these folks now and hopefully when they end up in better circumstances
thank you for the outpouring of support!
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.
Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin
More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover
www.gofundme.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
please support these folks now and hopefully when they end up in better circumstances
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Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.
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I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”
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This person took this when they called the race
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This person took this when they called the race
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For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
I wrote about Zohran’s victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Mamdani’s victory is a rebuke to the failed strategies of the Democratic party | Moira Donegan
The Democratic party appears listless and unprincipled, unwilling to fight because they do not believe in anything. Zohran Mamdani is the opposite of this
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
For years, but especially for the past year, Democrats have been in thrall to the idea that they need to chase an imagined median voter, and adopt that voter’s positions. Mamdani’s victory shows another way: hold principles, and persuade people to share them.
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This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
This is how it looked on the ballot.
Clear and easy to understand.
Clear and easy to understand.
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Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.
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All this AND Dick Cheney died??? What a day!
November 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
All this AND Dick Cheney died??? What a day!