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Chris Knight
@lasttraintocool.bsky.social
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we plan this thing for weeks and all they want to do is study. I’m disgusted.

Science writer, former biological anthropologist, current Philadelphian, Marxist feminist, gin aficionado, cat photo reply guy

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It’s giving
The incredible Annie Murphy performs “Little Bit Alexis” on Schitt’s Creek
November 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Photo of the Good Place committee, on The Good Place
September 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Willie Fitzgerald on blue sky posts JIMINY GLICK: Now you, you, you, you —your cars, they tend to run over pedestrians. Or else BURST into flames. ha HA isn't that wonderful! ELON MUSK: *the least convincing laugh of all time* GLICK: *tucking his legs under himself* You bought a website where no one likes you. Why?
July 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Xennial raised mostly in the south weighing in with Quincy’s rolls, seen here in a horrifying ad, one of the few images I could find with a quick search
Quincy’s family steakhouse. A basket of rolls is on the left and an extremely unappetizing anthropomorphic Quincy roll stands to the right
June 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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A movie from the year you turned 18

LA Confidential (1997)
Guy Pearce as Detective Lieutenant Ed Exley
April 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Last celebrity in your camera roll is your therapist
Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday
April 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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PAW STRETCH DELUXE
A brown tabby has his paws streeeeeeetched out in front of him as he sleeps deeply on a blanket
March 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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My nephews’ cats have to be a strong contender for the synchronized division
Two light colored kittens sleep curled up together forming a heart shape with the tails as the V and their heads and shoulders forming the top of the heart
March 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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How was this comfortable, Biscuit?
An orange tabby sleeps with one hind leg over his head
March 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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We’ve gone through 3 or 4 of those yeowwww bananas
A catnip banana is chewed up and coming apart at the seams. A buff orange tabby reclines in the background, defiant, refusing to look at the camera
February 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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This is Sadie. She was my soulmate.
Closeup on face of a beautiful medium haired dilute tortie cat with large green eyes
February 14, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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The classic dril tweet: “turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right”
January 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Does this help
Jesus hugs a weeping Santa in front of a 9/11 memorial
December 26, 2024 at 1:48 AM
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An orange tabby is curled up in a skillet on a stove. He has a very casual air…not a hint of recognition that perhaps he should not be there.
December 9, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Science writers on the second anniversary of chat gpt’s launch:
Parker Posey with an airplane bottle of I think J&B. Caption says “no machine can replace me until it learns how to drink”
November 27, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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A brown tabby cat grooms his orange tabby brother while they both sit in a cardboard scratcher-bed Based on the position, it seems that this photo was likely taken immediately after the preceding one. In it, a brown tabby makes a very fierce snarl face at his orange tabby brother. Battle had started.
November 26, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Closeup of pre-blended soup in a large stock pot. You can see chunks of butternut squash, onions, apple slices, chopped herbs, all simmering in a translucent, pale yellow-orange broth
November 17, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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VIPS (very important paw stretch) from baby Marbito
A sleepy brown tabby has his eyes closed and his front paws streeeeeetched out
November 17, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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“Butlerian jihad now!” sticker with an old fashioned looking PC shot with arrows. Sticker also says “send computers to hell. If you make a robot I will kill you”
November 14, 2024 at 4:31 PM
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Not new, just a little quiet. But always happy to share cat photos #proofofcat
A sweet-faced green-eyed brown tabby boy snuggles on his human’s legs in bed while she’s reading Close up on a buff orange tabby sleeping with his paws curled up over his face. His nose and paw pads are very pink.
November 10, 2024 at 1:57 AM
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We adopted our idiot sons a year and a half ago at ~2 (orange tabby, Biscuit) and ~5 (brown tabby, Marbles). Great ages!
October 9, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Thank you for reminding me of one of my fave tweets of all time
Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1 Tweeted: In 2049, I plan to direct 78-year-old Jon Hamm in the two-hour TV special "Mad Men Returns" where Don Draper ends his advertising career in 2004 by pitching the Quiznos spongemonkeys ad. There is an age progressed photo of Jon Hamm as Don Draper and a photo of those insane Quiznos creatures
October 3, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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I was told not to use the term “brown bag” for a lunchtime meeting at work. It took some googling to figure out why. I’m not gonna use it any more, bc I don’t want to make anyone feel bad, but the idea that it’s going to make people think about colorism seems a bit over the top?
From https://lib.arizona.edu/help/employees/anti-racist-guide Brown bag • Context: Within the Black community, colorism is a significant problem that stems from slavery. Many slave owners raped enslaved women, producing biracial offspring of a lighter complexion. Slave owners gave preferential treatment to those whose complexion was a lighter brown and often their unclaimed children. A brown bag custom began in the 20th century, where a brown paper bag was placed at event entrances or merely held up to a person of color. If their skin color was darker than the bag, they were not permitted to enter or participate. • Alternatives: lunch in, lunch and learn Sources: • Audrey Elisa Kerr. (2005). The Paper Bag Principle: Of the Myth and the Motion of Colorism. The Journal of American Folklore, 118(469), 271-289. Blackthen (2021, April 29) The Back Story: How the Brown Paper Bag Carried "The Color Complex" From Slavery
October 1, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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coziest mothereffer alive
Closeup on the face and paws of a curled up buff orange tabby cat. His paws are thrown over his head, with his very pink nose and one closed eye visible
September 24, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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Can an article be a barn burner? This one is. He’s furious, and I missed him being furious.

Please see free link below:
He was astonished by the plain truth of what he saw: the walls, checkpoints, and guns that everywhere hemmed in the lives of Palestinians; the clear tiers of citizenship between the first-class Jews and the second-class Palestinians; and the undisguised contempt with which the Israeli state treated the subjugated other. For Coates, the parallels with the Jim Crow South were obvious and immediate: Here, he writes, was a "world where separate and unequal was alive and well, where rule by the ballot for some and the bullet for others was policy." And this world was made possible by his own country: "The pushing of Palestinians out of their homes had the specific imprimatur of the United States of America. Which means that it had my imprimatur." That it was complicated, he now understood, was "horseshit." "Complicated" was how people had described slavery and then segregation. "It's complicated," he said, "when you want to take something from somebody."
September 24, 2024 at 4:50 PM