Kiki The Hamster
@kikithehamster.bsky.social
Just a hamster navigating the world 🐹🌍
(And maybe being part of the Rebellion) Ando!
**If you’re connected to books or STEAM (or both!), I’m already a fan 💚💚
(And maybe being part of the Rebellion) Ando!
**If you’re connected to books or STEAM (or both!), I’m already a fan 💚💚
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Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever watched Alabama lose the SEC title game?
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yeah, sex is cool, but have you ever watched Alabama lose the SEC title game?
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“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog, and the agency's employees are not happy about it.
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog, and the agency's employees are not happy about it.
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog, and the agency's employees are not happy about it.
The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog, and the agency's employees are not happy about it.
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"Under the government of President Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso launched its first brand of domestically assembled electric cars, Itaoua. The name is a tribute to a village near Ouagadougou, the country’s capital. The horse that illustrates the logo represents strength, prestige, and longevity."
Burkina Faso begins producing solar-powered electric cars with help from China : Peoples Dispatch
The Sahel country inaugurated an electric vehicle assembly plant in January 2025, revolutionizing the national automotive sector.
peoplesdispatch.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"Under the government of President Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso launched its first brand of domestically assembled electric cars, Itaoua. The name is a tribute to a village near Ouagadougou, the country’s capital. The horse that illustrates the logo represents strength, prestige, and longevity."
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A vile country isn't a country that can't feed its children, a vile country is a country that *won't* feed its children.
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I just said, "uh oh Spaghetti-Os" to my kids and they looked at me like I'd had a stroke.
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I just said, "uh oh Spaghetti-Os" to my kids and they looked at me like I'd had a stroke.
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Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD.
Actually and literally.
Actually and literally.
October 31, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD.
Actually and literally.
Actually and literally.
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I never have 'seen' people steal food... Nor will I ever...
I wear glasses, and I don't see so well, anyway. But even if I did see well, I am never going to see anyone stealing food. Working class people stealing food is something that has never happened in history, and will never happen.
I wear glasses, and I don't see so well, anyway. But even if I did see well, I am never going to see anyone stealing food. Working class people stealing food is something that has never happened in history, and will never happen.
October 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I never have 'seen' people steal food... Nor will I ever...
I wear glasses, and I don't see so well, anyway. But even if I did see well, I am never going to see anyone stealing food. Working class people stealing food is something that has never happened in history, and will never happen.
I wear glasses, and I don't see so well, anyway. But even if I did see well, I am never going to see anyone stealing food. Working class people stealing food is something that has never happened in history, and will never happen.
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2-1-1 works in Georgia too.
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 AM
2-1-1 works in Georgia too.
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It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.
October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
It’s been really disheartening to see the things people say about those who use SNAP. Many seem to have little understanding of why the program exists in the first place.
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When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?
October 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
When did making kids go hungry become a Christian value?
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
October 27, 2025 at 12:48 AM
SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:
* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled
* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages
It’s not #caturday but Maura doesn’t play by dumb stupid human rules. #catsofbluesky
October 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It’s not #caturday but Maura doesn’t play by dumb stupid human rules. #catsofbluesky
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On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.
October 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.
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Me, pointlessly, every single day: "But can he/they just DO that?"
October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Me, pointlessly, every single day: "But can he/they just DO that?"
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It’s world reptile day! What are some cool reptiles
World Reptile Day
World Reptile Day on October 21st celebrates the diversity of these scaly creatures. Join us in promoting their welfare and ending wildlife trade.
www.worldanimalprotection.org
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s world reptile day! What are some cool reptiles
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Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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“I think it’s very clear that they’re lashing out because they fear this kind of peaceful, organized people power, & that’s true of authoritarian regimes all over the world,” says Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible — a progressive activist group focused on peaceful resistance to the Trump regime.
'No Kings' Protest Organizers Aren't Afraid of Trump's Court Jesters
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October 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“I think it’s very clear that they’re lashing out because they fear this kind of peaceful, organized people power, & that’s true of authoritarian regimes all over the world,” says Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible — a progressive activist group focused on peaceful resistance to the Trump regime.
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Eric Ravilious
Chalk Paths, 1935
Watercolor on paper
15 × 22 in
Chalk Paths, 1935
Watercolor on paper
15 × 22 in
October 12, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Eric Ravilious
Chalk Paths, 1935
Watercolor on paper
15 × 22 in
Chalk Paths, 1935
Watercolor on paper
15 × 22 in
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Thomas E. Brown, PhD. Dr. Brown’s work transformed how we see #ADHD: not as distraction, but as a complex challenge of executive functioning.
To learn more or to contribute in Dr. Brown’s memory, visit chadd.org/Honoring-Tho...
To learn more or to contribute in Dr. Brown’s memory, visit chadd.org/Honoring-Tho...
Honoring Thomas E. Brown, PhD - CHADD
Honoring the Life and Legacy of Thomas. E Brown, PhD Thomas E. Brown, PhD, was a devoted husband, father, brother, grandfather, renowned psychologist, and one of the most influential voices in the mod...
CHADD.org
September 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It is with deep sadness that we share the news of the passing of Thomas E. Brown, PhD. Dr. Brown’s work transformed how we see #ADHD: not as distraction, but as a complex challenge of executive functioning.
To learn more or to contribute in Dr. Brown’s memory, visit chadd.org/Honoring-Tho...
To learn more or to contribute in Dr. Brown’s memory, visit chadd.org/Honoring-Tho...
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p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):
www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...
Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee” on JSTOR
Karl Jacoby, Of Memory and Massacre: A Soldier's Firsthand Account of the “Affair on Wounded Knee”, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 333-362
www.jstor.org
September 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):
www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...
www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...