Caitlin Sainio
@caitlinsainio.bsky.social
Engineer and microscopist. Retired crochet designer. Loves science and pretty pictures. She/her.
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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
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She should sue them
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
She should sue them
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Good for Berman. More of this please
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Good for Berman. More of this please
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just tearing down the future the past built
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
just tearing down the future the past built
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The hands of the damned pulling earth into hell award
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The hands of the damned pulling earth into hell award
Congratulations to FIFA on opening this new frontier in toadying!
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Congratulations to FIFA on opening this new frontier in toadying!
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This is straight-up murder
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
This is straight-up murder
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The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
December 5, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The entire debate over birthright citizenship is anti-constitutional because the purpose, intent, and text of the 14th Amendment were designed to foreclose any argument about who counts as an American citizen.
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RUSSIA GETS: Reduced economic pressure.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
Two days after Witkoff and Kushner met Putin, the Treasury Department partially suspended sanctions on Russia announced last October
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia
President Donald Trump's envoys were to meet Thursday with Ukrainian negotiators for the third time in two weeks to press his plan to end the war as his administration eased economic pressure on Russi...
www.france24.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
RUSSIA GETS: Reduced economic pressure.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
THE UNITES STATES GETS: The possibility Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can make money in Russia at some point in the future.
UKRAINE AND EUROPE GET: Screwed.
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The pale veil of daybreak
December 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The pale veil of daybreak
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In case anyone was wondering, here’s what Cassidy has to say about it. He seems allergic to accountability, but this wouldn’t have happened if he had just said no to RFK Jr’s confirmation.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
In case anyone was wondering, here’s what Cassidy has to say about it. He seems allergic to accountability, but this wouldn’t have happened if he had just said no to RFK Jr’s confirmation.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America. Little SEDANS that should fit four at most but when you open the door 27 clowns spill out. HOW??? They will DUST THEMSELVES OFF as they leave the car. The HORN will make the little eeooh-eeooh sound. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
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Man there is maybe an argument to have someday about the imperial overreach of Coast Guard interdiction operations in the Caribbean, but that argument is so staggeringly overshadowed by the Trump admin's policy of "fuck the laws of the US or the sea, we can murder boats just because."
December 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Man there is maybe an argument to have someday about the imperial overreach of Coast Guard interdiction operations in the Caribbean, but that argument is so staggeringly overshadowed by the Trump admin's policy of "fuck the laws of the US or the sea, we can murder boats just because."
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It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
terribleminds.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
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Committing atrocities is a loyalty test and binds you together with others who have done the same, severing other bonds of care and loyalty.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
December 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Committing atrocities is a loyalty test and binds you together with others who have done the same, severing other bonds of care and loyalty.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
The atrocity literature highlights this over and over.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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This is the Witch Trials theory of war: If they try not to drown at sea, they're terrorists.
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
This is the Witch Trials theory of war: If they try not to drown at sea, they're terrorists.
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I’m looking for new boats to photograph, ideally down the east coast, between say Newcastle and Hull but I could go further south. Boatyards are best, as are small harbours, but anywhere the yachts are lifted out in winter and aren’t locked up behind fences! DM me with ideas please!
#photographers
#photographers
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I’m looking for new boats to photograph, ideally down the east coast, between say Newcastle and Hull but I could go further south. Boatyards are best, as are small harbours, but anywhere the yachts are lifted out in winter and aren’t locked up behind fences! DM me with ideas please!
#photographers
#photographers
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A still morning at Loch Maree
December 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A still morning at Loch Maree
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From the dark, into the light.
Captured in the wonderful and ancient Savernake Forest in the South of England.
#woodland #autumn #fall #nature #photography
Captured in the wonderful and ancient Savernake Forest in the South of England.
#woodland #autumn #fall #nature #photography
December 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
From the dark, into the light.
Captured in the wonderful and ancient Savernake Forest in the South of England.
#woodland #autumn #fall #nature #photography
Captured in the wonderful and ancient Savernake Forest in the South of England.
#woodland #autumn #fall #nature #photography
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If I, or any other civil servant or contractor, refused to do either of these things, let alone both, my access would be suspended & I would expect my clearance would be yanked & I’d ultimately be terminated.
MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
If I, or any other civil servant or contractor, refused to do either of these things, let alone both, my access would be suspended & I would expect my clearance would be yanked & I’d ultimately be terminated.
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This sounds like when my ex boyfriend tried to convince me why NFTs had any actual
value
value
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
This sounds like when my ex boyfriend tried to convince me why NFTs had any actual
value
value
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Love this.
When the weather gets cooler I start putting the hats I crochet into our Little Free Library with a note letting people know they’re free to anyone with a cold head.
December 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Love this.