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High Desert Otter
@ottermd37.bsky.social
Gardener, cook, writer, physician, rescuer of old dogs. Aspiring shitposter. Lover of the ironic, the sardonic, and the generally unserious.

I have faith in dogs and in soil biota. At this point, that's about it.
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I have one thing to say about waking up to petro-kidnapping: I spent many years listening to the stories and inner lives of the soldiers who fought the last petro-war. I wish devoutly that we wouldn't do that to a new generation. Fake-o wars damage and kill real soldiers.
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January 11, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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January 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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The Pentagon will cut the military retirement pay of Sen. Mark Kelly for what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the Arizona Democrat’s “seditious” statements on a video telling service members they have the right to refuse to execute illegal orders.

Read more: cnb.cx/495FHLo
January 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
I have one thing to say about waking up to petro-kidnapping: I spent many years listening to the stories and inner lives of the soldiers who fought the last petro-war. I wish devoutly that we wouldn't do that to a new generation. Fake-o wars damage and kill real soldiers.
January 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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January 2, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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I never say
I Love You
It is a deceitful phrase
with no fixed meaning
Words twisted into whatever
the speaker wants to mean
or whatever the listener
wants to hear
But I care for you
Adore you
Smile when I see you
Miss you when you're gone
Revel in your company
Wish for your joy
That will have to do.
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I admit, I couldn't pass a "quirk check." Most of you couldn't either. Which is why I'm here.
theonion.com/texas-bans-b...
Texas Bans Being Different Around Children
AUSTIN, TX—In a landmark piece of legislation designed to stifle individuality across the state, the Texas Legislature passed a bill Friday that legally banned being different around children. “Starti...
theonion.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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December 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Nobody can sum up our national situation quite the way OC can.
TOTAL SHOCK! Completely unexpected! I was SO VERY honoured last night to accept the very first Human of the Year Peace Prize from the Academy of Felines Who Depend On Me for Their Very Survival.
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know
December 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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A group of riders travel 330 miles on horseback to Reconciliation Park in Mankato, Minnesota, the site of the 1862 hanging. The 2025 Dakota 38 Memorial Ride began on Wednesday, December 10 with a prayer fire for the safety of the horses and riders. www.nativesunnews.today/articles/rem...
Remembering the Dakota 38 - Native Sun News Today
Andrea Eastman and her horse Sadie along with other riders are making the 330-mile Dakota 38 Memorial Ride who remember the 38 Dakota warriors hanged ... Thank you for reading some of our articles, pl...
www.nativesunnews.today
December 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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That’s because we are being governed by, say it with me now, a death cult.
December 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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MAGA: “This is not what we voted for!"

LEOPARD: “Shut up. I’m eating."
I have never wanted to say “FAFO” directly in someone’s face so much in my life. Fuck this MAGAt ‘Christian’ woman who really DGAF until it happened to her.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #FAFO
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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No matter how long my day has been, when Polly curls up at the foot of the bed and rests her head on my foot, not a goddamn thing else matters.
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Is this a ritual,
touching the
dark intersection of
sacred and profane?
Or regression therapy,
breaking through walls
to unlock the pieces
you carefully locked away?
Is it an exercise in
sensual excess,
nerve endings lit up
with your taste for the extreme?
They blur together
in this mindless moment.
December 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Oh, I’m not letting go of this one.
December 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I think I'm in love with Newsom's press group. I might vote for them for president.
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Ritual humiliation is a MAGA fetish.
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
@kenwhite.bsky.social has summed up the tortured rationale of our logic-challenged War Sec and his acolytes more succinctly than I thought it could be done.
If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Posting stupid memes after being accused of murder is the response of a sneering, spoiled punk who has been caught doing wrong and is now daring the local fuzz to take him in and risk the anger of his rich dad—a role fulfilled by Donald Trump, in this case.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
www.theatlantic.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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People have been so kind to Bobby during the more than two months that he has been in his clinical trial at Ronald Reagan Medical Center at UCLA -- the support that he has received while his doctors are "rebuilding" his kidneys has brought him this far!

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December 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM