@petrisaurus.bsky.social
Queer Seattle artist just trying to make it through. Mutual support is the only way. Expect politics, art, and cool bugs/fungi. Not here to debate you.
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Further to that last post of mine - in case you were wondering what an Australasian swamphen looks like (formerly known as the purple swamphen - for obvious reasons), here's one I photographed at Mount Gambier in 2022. This one exuded attitude 😆
The are beautiful birds.
The are beautiful birds.
January 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Further to that last post of mine - in case you were wondering what an Australasian swamphen looks like (formerly known as the purple swamphen - for obvious reasons), here's one I photographed at Mount Gambier in 2022. This one exuded attitude 😆
The are beautiful birds.
The are beautiful birds.
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
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Matthew's guide made it easy for me to write a public comment opposing the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule banning GAC.
Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids
Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids
Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17
One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage
Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states
www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage
Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states
www.patreon.com/posts/149210...
February 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Matthew's guide made it easy for me to write a public comment opposing the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule banning GAC.
Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids
Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids
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scribbled some butch yuri for valentine's ⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ˚☽
February 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
scribbled some butch yuri for valentine's ⑅ᵕ༚ᵕ˚☽
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Almost everyone "on the left" doesn't have a problem with machine learning, or technology, or progress. They do have problems with security, safety, mental health outcomes, plagiarism, labor distributions, and environmental & energy impact.
Industry regulation is not some unreasonable leftist ask.
Industry regulation is not some unreasonable leftist ask.
February 12, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Almost everyone "on the left" doesn't have a problem with machine learning, or technology, or progress. They do have problems with security, safety, mental health outcomes, plagiarism, labor distributions, and environmental & energy impact.
Industry regulation is not some unreasonable leftist ask.
Industry regulation is not some unreasonable leftist ask.
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Close down the camps. Reunite the families. Abolish ICE. Reparations for victims and immigrants.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Close down the camps. Reunite the families. Abolish ICE. Reparations for victims and immigrants.
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"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing.
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
Seattle to Pay $29 Million to Family of Woman Fatally Struck by Police S.U.V.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 AM
"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing.
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
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at some point maybe we should do something about the cabal of billionaires intentionally demolishing society so they can profit off the ashes
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
at some point maybe we should do something about the cabal of billionaires intentionally demolishing society so they can profit off the ashes
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this is what bluesky is like
December 9, 2023 at 3:18 PM
this is what bluesky is like
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I have treatment resistant childlike wonder
February 11, 2026 at 10:54 PM
I have treatment resistant childlike wonder
Yep, this is already exactly the pattern I'm seeing develop in my life. 🙃
i think the most likely scenario for AI in the workplace will be a separation between people who use AI and think it works when it doesn't, and then another group of people who don't use AI who end up picking up the slack for the AI users.
February 12, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Yep, this is already exactly the pattern I'm seeing develop in my life. 🙃
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In the same way that using prison labor is morally worse than most things people are in prison for, this is morally worse than anything cops could possibly be worried about these groups doing.
I only ever had a criminal informant for local cops pretend to be my friend so he could move in with us and the protest kids for months, like the idea of a full undercover cop straight up fucking you for years whispering "wouldn't it be fun to blow up Dow Chemical" in your ear makes me want to puke
February 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
In the same way that using prison labor is morally worse than most things people are in prison for, this is morally worse than anything cops could possibly be worried about these groups doing.
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Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
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additional PSA: 49% of covid infections are asymptomatic, so you might be infectious without knowing it. wear a (K)N95 in shared air to protect yourself and others.
(damn, i wish it were financially feasible for everyone to be testing regularly....)
(damn, i wish it were financially feasible for everyone to be testing regularly....)
General PSA: there is SO MUCH COVID going around right now. If you are feeling sick, you should test
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
additional PSA: 49% of covid infections are asymptomatic, so you might be infectious without knowing it. wear a (K)N95 in shared air to protect yourself and others.
(damn, i wish it were financially feasible for everyone to be testing regularly....)
(damn, i wish it were financially feasible for everyone to be testing regularly....)
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
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Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process
Republican House bill guts laws protecting US consumers from toxic chemicals
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Bill limits type of science used to determine health risks and gives industry major role in chemical review process
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This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"
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Schumer: ball’s in your court
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Schumer: ball’s in your court
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
Republicans: stab the ball, tear it apart, set it on fire, rip up the court and sell the turf to Bahrain
Schumer: hey you guys are out of balls
Republicans: we’re gonna kill your families
Schumer: ok we’ll pass funding for new balls but you’ve GOT to read the rules
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Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.
February 9, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Hey can we bring back all those internet safety campaigns we had when I was a millennial teen? It is NOT my job to parent someone else's kids and have to submit my ID to places to sanitize the internet for some puritanical outrage about kids. Parents should be doing this themselves.
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