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Samara
@herduckess.bsky.social
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Matriarch to a proud line of budgies. Caffeinated corporate hamster. Three Arrows.

I don’t post often but you can expect stuff like: gardening, nature, city cats, tech projects and shitposts.

MBCS | she/her
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Burn so hard the water started boiling 🤣

Source: www.erininthemorning.com/p/aoc-to-ant...
Article title: <<AOC To Anti-Trans Swimmer Riley Gaines: "Maybe If You Channeled All This Anger Into Swimming Faster You Wouldn’t Have Come In Fifth.">> Article subtitle: “Riley Gaines has turned a 5th place finish into a national conservative platform against transgender rights.”
October 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Lmao
September 20, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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I had a good laugh. My wallet had an existential crisis with the rum bottle.
User michelleyxo asks: “How tf do people afford this? lol” User jschlatatata replies: “being trans is great because in order to get my right to exist respected and for me to get the basic decency of actually owning the body im trapped in i'm going to have to sell my kidney for surgeries that are required to undo changes i wouldn't need to go through if the very people denying my existence let me on hormones during puberty.”
September 18, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Shop employee to the rightwing nutjob:
Cassian to Syril asking him confused: “Who are you?!” from Star Wars: Andor.
September 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Extra History started a new series on the history of migration, xenophobia and deportations in the US. I highly recommend watching it on Nebula (nebula.tv/videos/extra...) or YouTube (m.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2R...)

Also this screenshot is now in my meme folder, thanks guys for the amazing work 💜
Cartoon image of two old timey a*holes holding a scroll that says: “New Law”. On the left-side guy a scroll wrapped around him says: “I know NOTHING!”. On the right-side guy a scroll wrapped around him says: “Other people SCARE ME!”
September 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Where’s Waldo? Roadsign Edition
August 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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First time tracing a sketch in #Inkscape. I’m impressed at how easy and intuitive it is to use compared to the nightmare of GIMP. Half-way there.
Sketch of an Art Deco style UI for a slider button. Seen here is the left border and the top left corner element. A palm like triangular shape like << rests left centrally in a niche in the border. When pushing the “Unlock” label, this palm and a right-side mirror will slide to the centre replacing the text label. Inkscape vector traced version of the sketch, almost 50% cleaned up
August 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Been working on a door lock automation project. Wanted a touch interface to unlock - in Art Deco style! Below is my first blind attempt. The corner, border will be mirrored and the triangular palm will be mirrored on the right too. Pressing “Unlock” will move both palms to the centre in its stead.
A touch screen UI sketch of a door unlock button in Art Deco style. The top left corner which will be mirrored for all the final corners is made of two 90° angles hugging a square. The square rests inside a border recessed around its shape. This style is reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian temple interior motifs. The border continues downward on the left side in a < shape - this is the resting place for the animated sliding unlock element. The unlock sliding element is a stylised series of triangles inserted into each other echoing the shape of a palm tree. To the right of this element is a quickly sketched fragment of the “Unlock” label. This sliding element will be mirrored on the right as well. When the “Unlock” label is pushed, both sliding elements will move towards the centre fading out the Unlock label as they take its place.
August 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Help, I’m either being gaslit by my phone or this is the new TechBro™️ Prole Calendar:
- Friday and Sunday are banned
- Thursday is now 48hrs long
An iPhone Home Screen cropped to show the Calendar icon with a “Thursday 17th” on it. A screenshot of the Calendar iPhone app showing the month of July with the 17th marked by a big red circle. The week day above it reads: “F” for Friday.
July 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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According to the Times of San Diego, a board in the restaurant had 4th & 5th Amendment Right cards for people to use in their defense. 🐷s also probably went in to intimidate them for it.

Source: timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/0...
A photo of a board with multiple takeaway slips of paper allegedly from the raided restaurant (Times of San Diego). On the slips of paper it is printed: “I do not wish to speak with you, answer your questions, or sign or hand you any documents based on my 5th Amendment rights under the US Constitution. I do not give you permission to enter my home based on my 4th Amendment rights under the US Constitution unless you have a warrant to enter, signed by a judge or magistrate with my name on it that you slide under the door. I do not give you permission to search any of my belongings based on my 4th Amendment rights. I choose to exercise my constitutional rights. These cards are available to citizens and noncitizens alike.”
May 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Amazing discounts at our Cat Aisle! Hurry and get your cat while stocks last!
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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There’s an atrociously giant chunk of the Romanian medical community who could be schooled in their own career by The Crab Museum. Sadly nobody will hold them accountable. The medical system is host to all manner of grift and pseudoscience.

www.instagram.com/p/DIgw8XdoXo...
Screenshot from The Crab Museum’s Instagram account of a message in response to the UK Supreme Court’s recent absurd redefinition of sex stating: “We have spoken [many times before about this - there is immense variation between individuals within a biological sex. Biological sex itself (not just gender) is a spectrum - and it really shouldn’t be a big deal. If you don’t like trans people then just be honest about your prejudices. But don’t use biology to support your views in the same way that racists do.
May 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Oh yeah, or when you finally get the frame and you realise she’s like doing a jump cut right at the bit you didn’t catch!

The only thing I’ve found helpful on insta is to press “…” and then “sequence” so I can use the video editor to pause and seek.
Photo of an Instagram reel with the “…” (more options) button encircled. This is where you find the “Sequence” button. A screenshot of the context menu for Instagram reels with the “sequence” button encircled. This will open a video editor that makes it easier to pause and scroll through the video at your pace and to focus on the details you want. A screenshot of the Instagram sequence video editor with a timeline control at the bottom and a “1x” playback speed control on the centre left.
April 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Next time you hear a TERF open their noise orifice, remind them that they’re in the same intellectual league as Pete ‘trans people ruin our army not me leaking defense secrets a second time’ Hegseth: archive.ph/dN3gJ
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on track to winning Idiot of the Year 2025 for sharing yet another attack in a Signal group with his family, lawyer and using his personal phone number.
April 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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M’am, this is (allegedly) a leftist party. The BNP is over there.

#nottheonion #trans #uk #terfisland
Labour minister says Tories should ‘apologise’ for pro-trans stance under Theresa May.
April 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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First 🐝 to visit my orange tree! I am so proud of him ❤️ I was coming to water him and when I saw all the buzzing around I went back inside to let our pollinator friend work.

Can’t wait for my first 🍊 harvest!
April 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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No cherry blossoms here but my orange tree has his first bloom and every morning I get to see him thrive, I feel better about myself. That I helped him grow.
Close-up photo of an orange tree’s flower with multiple blossoms in the background. Their perfume is sweet and floats gently in the air.
March 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Woke mind virus identified in birds! Further evidence:
- removal of spikes from public spaces
- gay sex and couples

An Emergency Oval Office meeting is currently debating the DEI threat posed by birds to mankind. Air Force readiness level raised to DEFCON 3.
A 3 panel image collage showing a white cockatoo dipping their food in and eating a creamy blueberry-coloured soy yoghurt. Article title: “Birds - Cockatoos show appetite for dips when eating bland food, find scientists” Preface: “Birds observed going to lengths to flavour food, with particular penchant for blueberry-flavoured soy yoghurt dip.”
February 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Three Arrows bitchiz
One for Kaiser Trump
One for the Nazis
And one for the turncoats
Election poster of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1932. Text says: “Against Papen [ultraconservative pro-monarchy], Hitler, Thälmann [leader of the German Communist Party, aligned with Stalinism]”. The Three Arrows were an antifascist symbol used by the Social Democratic armed workers’ units and also to draw over swastikas.
February 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM