The Hidden Zoo
@hiddenzoo.bsky.social
One of the hosts of a comedy cryptozoology podcast that is on indefinite hiatus. Once upon a time, we made fun of cryptids every week or so.
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I’m seeing multiple people I otherwise respect talking about claims of baby-eating in the Epstein files and I think it might be time for everyone to pump the brakes a little bit before we re-create the Satanic Panic from first principles.
February 7, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I’m seeing multiple people I otherwise respect talking about claims of baby-eating in the Epstein files and I think it might be time for everyone to pump the brakes a little bit before we re-create the Satanic Panic from first principles.
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Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
February 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Gotta have body cameras to keep track of the actions of...Guys who actively film their murders with their own phones
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Gotta have body cameras to keep track of the actions of...Guys who actively film their murders with their own phones
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mr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get
January 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM
mr. mamdani i sincerely apologize for the mileage this image is going to get
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Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
January 24, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Guys nothing personal but if you rub your a.i. generated anti-ICE, anti-Trump memes in my face I gotta unfollow and mute you and also you’re dead to me.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
It’s the sewage that fascism both shits and eats, it’s like blowing smoke in my face to show me how evil the tobacco companies are.
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
Cool, also let's make it so everyone who dies gets stuffed and becomes a corpse in a box that still has voting power at their previous place of work
You know, cool Bentham shit
You know, cool Bentham shit
THE PANOPTICON WAS NOT FOR THE STATE IT WAS FOR CRIMINALS AND IT'S NOT OKAY JESUS CHRIST
UK home secretary here. If you were reading this without prior knowledge of the UK political system, you'd have no idea which of the three principal parties vying for power she belonged to.
January 20, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Cool, also let's make it so everyone who dies gets stuffed and becomes a corpse in a box that still has voting power at their previous place of work
You know, cool Bentham shit
You know, cool Bentham shit
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Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
![Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters
For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22]
He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihmgl3sxrmb5t6edpjnixyanj2rvcf43zdv46mbifhl7hdtmz5u6y@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.
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if the only response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in the face in front of her wife and child is the president saying 'he shouldn't have had to deal with how rude she was' YOU ARE ALREADY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
This is the 'well Congress didn't declare it so we're not at war with Venezuela' of takes
This is the 'well Congress didn't declare it so we're not at war with Venezuela' of takes
January 12, 2026 at 8:23 PM
if the only response to an ICE agent shooting a woman in the face in front of her wife and child is the president saying 'he shouldn't have had to deal with how rude she was' YOU ARE ALREADY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
This is the 'well Congress didn't declare it so we're not at war with Venezuela' of takes
This is the 'well Congress didn't declare it so we're not at war with Venezuela' of takes
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Democrats very literally care more about property damage than fascists murdering a citizen in broad daylight
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says 29 people were arrested in downtown last night during a noise demonstration at a hotel reportedly housing ICE agents: "For those that are taking the bait and causing property damage or otherwise, there are consequences. We're holding the line here all the way."
January 10, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Democrats very literally care more about property damage than fascists murdering a citizen in broad daylight
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This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota
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January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
This is the thing about the "Don't give them the pretext to send in more feds" arguments. The administration is using its own murder of an unarmed civilian as the pretext to send in more agents. They do not need a pretext and will invent them if they want.
This is insane and insanely stupid, not just for the obvious reasons, but also because it's absurd to posit that anything that Plato had to say about how he understood race and/or gender is applicable to how modern Americans understand those concepts.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
This is insane and insanely stupid, not just for the obvious reasons, but also because it's absurd to posit that anything that Plato had to say about how he understood race and/or gender is applicable to how modern Americans understand those concepts.
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
Meanwhile here’s Rubio and Schumer chopping it up today
January 7, 2026 at 9:20 PM
It's a big club, and you ain't in it.
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The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
January 4, 2026 at 11:57 AM
The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:
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"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"The world's richest man, a well-documented drug addict who is a Nazi and a major support and adviser of the President of the United States of America, has created a website that produces CSAM on demand at scale while he demands ethnic cleansing worldwide"
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Fuck it I don’t care anymore
January 1, 2026 at 7:01 AM
Fuck it I don’t care anymore
Shortly after some friends and I got into Firefly, one of them called me from the airport to breathlessly state that she thought Ron Glass (Shepherd Book) was in her terminal. She yelled "Hey Ron!" and then confirmed in hushed tones that he looked over in her direction
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Shortly after some friends and I got into Firefly, one of them called me from the airport to breathlessly state that she thought Ron Glass (Shepherd Book) was in her terminal. She yelled "Hey Ron!" and then confirmed in hushed tones that he looked over in her direction
Bro thinks he's Goku when he's Yamcha at best. Really he's probably that floating cat thing that Yamcha totally fucks
Decades of the white nationalist movement evolving to adapt to current political trends has brought them to this moment.
December 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Bro thinks he's Goku when he's Yamcha at best. Really he's probably that floating cat thing that Yamcha totally fucks
The thing is, he knows this. He is just a hateful, evil little shit. Like, legitimately evil. Comic book villain evil. Mustache-twirling, cartoonishly evil. An evil man who does evil things for evil reasons. The thing that, until recently, so many of us didn't even think was realistic.
Compare and contrast this deeply sick Stephen Miller tweet (left) with the rhetoric that was used on people like his ancestors when they immigrated to the United States (right):
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December 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The thing is, he knows this. He is just a hateful, evil little shit. Like, legitimately evil. Comic book villain evil. Mustache-twirling, cartoonishly evil. An evil man who does evil things for evil reasons. The thing that, until recently, so many of us didn't even think was realistic.
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Recently, I saw a "90s bands' Christmas songs" video on YouTube and shared it with @hiddenzoo.bsky.social and @jonmaxson.bsky.social. Since then, our group chat has been bandying our own attempts back and forth. So to you, my dear followers, a Christmas gift: "Smells Like the Holy Spirit."
December 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Recently, I saw a "90s bands' Christmas songs" video on YouTube and shared it with @hiddenzoo.bsky.social and @jonmaxson.bsky.social. Since then, our group chat has been bandying our own attempts back and forth. So to you, my dear followers, a Christmas gift: "Smells Like the Holy Spirit."
I think a lot of those low information voters would be cheering this on
Just watched the 60 Minutes segment. Basically it debunks the fundamental claim used by Trump admin that the detainees it sent there are “terrorists” and corroborates torture using clips from El Salvadorean influencers Bukele uses internally. Would be a shock to low information voters, probably
December 23, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I think a lot of those low information voters would be cheering this on
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
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