Ankarah
@ankarah.bsky.social
Vaguely sane, TX resident thanks to covid fun. Living with fractious tortoiseshell Chimera Pfeffernuss Murdermittens, who tries to run my life. Clueless minecrafter, BG3, ESO, GW2, POE2, etc. Once a mass comm academic and museum worker. she/her
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Ankarah
@ankarah.bsky.social
· Jul 10
I'm sharing a lot of sad stuff - here's a photo of my cat as apology. Here she has stolen my office chair and is about to whine when I try and move her. This scene happens on a daily basis. Despite the fact I have LOTS of places for her to sleep in the office, and the rest of the house.
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It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.
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This has lived rent-free in my head since 1980
Bread, Milk and Butter (1972), dir. Jim Simon, Wantu Studios
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This has lived rent-free in my head since 1980
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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it's advent you know what that means
December 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
it's advent you know what that means
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Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Wildlife tracking! I'm reposting things I made this past year. If you look closely at the deer tracks you'll see I added the hint that they're double registering (hind foot is stepping into the same spot as front foot).
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I genuinely love @tkingfisher.com
(currently reading The Raven and the Reindeer, a retelling of The Snow Queen)
(currently reading The Raven and the Reindeer, a retelling of The Snow Queen)
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I genuinely love @tkingfisher.com
(currently reading The Raven and the Reindeer, a retelling of The Snow Queen)
(currently reading The Raven and the Reindeer, a retelling of The Snow Queen)
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It's the most wonderful time of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is:
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
"The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
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This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This will surely surprise most Americans today, but historians have recently discovered that before Donald Trump, it was actually incredibly rare for a president to demand the public execution of this political opponents and press critics.
I lived in Wichita and we all watched it - classmates in high school - and it was weird and surreal. Did not traumatize me, but definitely changed the way I thought about surviving a nuclear war. And seeing recreations of the destruction of places I lived in/near was different than imagining it.
Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Kansas City, Missouri, in “The Day After” on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Company reported that 62 percent of television sets that night were tuned to the film. I watched in my packed college dorm lounge. How about you?
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I lived in Wichita and we all watched it - classmates in high school - and it was weird and surreal. Did not traumatize me, but definitely changed the way I thought about surviving a nuclear war. And seeing recreations of the destruction of places I lived in/near was different than imagining it.
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My family moved to Nashville from Kansas City a few years before this. I was 7 when we left, so I didn't remember a lot about the city, but my older sisters did and the scenes of it being destroyed freaked them the hell out.
Tonight in 1983, more than 100 million Americans saw multiple thermonuclear weapons destroy Kansas City, Missouri, in “The Day After” on ABC. A.C. Nielsen Company reported that 62 percent of television sets that night were tuned to the film. I watched in my packed college dorm lounge. How about you?
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My family moved to Nashville from Kansas City a few years before this. I was 7 when we left, so I didn't remember a lot about the city, but my older sisters did and the scenes of it being destroyed freaked them the hell out.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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Trump's rants against Democrats have inspired everything from death threats and pipe bombs to the January 6th assault on the Capitol.
This is a time to take him literally and seriously.
This is a time to take him literally and seriously.
Important: House Dem leaders just said Trump's call for execution of Dems has prompted them to contact US Capitol Police and House Sergeant at Arms to "ensure the safety of these members and their families."
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
Treat Trump like an unhinged menace. He's weak and in deep political trouble. Don't let up.
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Trump's rants against Democrats have inspired everything from death threats and pipe bombs to the January 6th assault on the Capitol.
This is a time to take him literally and seriously.
This is a time to take him literally and seriously.
Wait, is this one of @questauthority.bsky.social birds? (infamous "grad student helps with bird study" story)
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Wait, is this one of @questauthority.bsky.social birds? (infamous "grad student helps with bird study" story)
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Just watched this and it's great.
"It's not just that these men are monsters. It's that they're fucking idiots."
"It's not just that these men are monsters. It's that they're fucking idiots."
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Just watched this and it's great.
"It's not just that these men are monsters. It's that they're fucking idiots."
"It's not just that these men are monsters. It's that they're fucking idiots."
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i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
i first heard this argument in my high school history class. it didnt go well for the people making the argument.
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Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
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Reaching last stop of this train ride and conductor gets on the PA and says "well, that was fun, folks"
Seemed like an ordinary uneventful ride to me but I'm wondering what I missed
Seemed like an ordinary uneventful ride to me but I'm wondering what I missed
November 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Reaching last stop of this train ride and conductor gets on the PA and says "well, that was fun, folks"
Seemed like an ordinary uneventful ride to me but I'm wondering what I missed
Seemed like an ordinary uneventful ride to me but I'm wondering what I missed
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The disdain is PALPABLE
Have you ever seen a kitten more embarrassed to be seen with his human, no, no you have not
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The disdain is PALPABLE
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As someone who spent a lot of time in Kingston while at uni in Twickenham, I am 100% NOT surprised at the reason.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 11:18 AM
As someone who spent a lot of time in Kingston while at uni in Twickenham, I am 100% NOT surprised at the reason.
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Look at all of this cheap shit. Now imagine the gold bling is cats. Dusty ceramic cat statues, little embroidered pictures of cats, old framed posters of cats so old the ink has faded.
This is a crazy cat man but for bling.
This is a crazy cat man but for bling.
November 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Look at all of this cheap shit. Now imagine the gold bling is cats. Dusty ceramic cat statues, little embroidered pictures of cats, old framed posters of cats so old the ink has faded.
This is a crazy cat man but for bling.
This is a crazy cat man but for bling.
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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This is a really good point but I feel professional reporters are still operating within "The baseline is human decency" parameters and don't know what to do when the actual real POTUS verbally kicks them in the fork.
I will counter that I expect journalists to be ready to respond to any answer given -- including an insult. And this means that the other reporters could have asked, "By insulting our colleague, does this mean you don't have an actual answer to the question?"
November 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is a really good point but I feel professional reporters are still operating within "The baseline is human decency" parameters and don't know what to do when the actual real POTUS verbally kicks them in the fork.
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Everyone's busting on the reporter pool for not immediately defending one of their own but tbh if the President of the United States said this to my own mother I'd stand there with my mouth open for a full minute because my brain had stopped processing.
BLOOMBERG REPORTER: “If there’s nothing incriminating in the Epstein files why not…?”
TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
TRUMP: “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.” 😕
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Everyone's busting on the reporter pool for not immediately defending one of their own but tbh if the President of the United States said this to my own mother I'd stand there with my mouth open for a full minute because my brain had stopped processing.