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Katie Hinde
@mammalssuck.bsky.social
15K followers 3.7K following 2.3K posts
EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health
I study mothers, milk, & babies
Cheddar Superfan.
"Scarier than a badger"
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Fixed it for you, @nytimes.com
Replaced "orthodoxy" with "evidence" in a edit of the NYT piece about how RFK Jr is dismantling federal support for vaccination- THE GREATEST INNOVATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY (shout outs also to closed sewer systems and safe municipal water systems!).
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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15 years together and my husband still thinks I can do botanical species identification. Dude, I can id mammals, end of list.
Text convo with my husband Todd: Todd says "what are the cactus looking trees?" My reply: "Plants. They look like a kind of acacia but I don't know. I think was a big deal for me to read the kiosk about birds." And his laughing smile face reaction.
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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'A noble spirit embiggens the smallest meerkat'
A meerkat perched epically, looking up in profile, from between two artificial termite mounds in a zoo exhibit.
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Good morning of a setting moon!
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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You can scroll down to see a lot of combinations of demographics... www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Also this "not enough data" is HILARIOUS:
Not enough data to evaluate demographics of the 3% of respondents who characterized New York City's Economy as "Excellent"
November 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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well some give me a lot of hope... and then I am sitting here looking at Cuomo getting more women than men (as a percent) ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM. What the eff?!?!
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Image of a Newspaper front page of the 1897 letter from the Editor "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" with the headline modified to say "Yes, Virginia, There is a Spanberger" to celebrate Virginia electing a Lady Democrat Governor.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Starving people to bend them to your will is pure villain.
So villain this is a war crime in international conflict:
www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...
Headlines from New York Times "Trump threatens to withhold SNAP payments until government shutdown ends" & CNBC "Trump suggests U.S. won't pay any SNAP benefits during shutdown, contradicting court filing. The Guardian Headlines: "Americans 'dumbfounded by cruelty' of Trumo officials slashing SNAP benefits" and "Senate Republicans strike down Democratic proposal to fully fund SNAP"
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Hey AP headline writer dipshits- the EXIT isn't the crisis, the decades of protection & prestige for Andrew was the crisis.
Headline: Andrew’s royal exit is the latest crisis for Britain’s monarchy
November 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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So what's the probability it moves to 88 seconds tomorrow?
screen grab image of the doomsday clock, moved to 89 seconds from 90 seconds on January 25, 2025; today Trump told the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons immediately reversing a 3 decade hiatus of US nuclear weapon testing.
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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"Since 1850, human & domesticated mammal populations have grown rapidly. During the same period, the total biomass of wild mammals decreased by more than 2-fold." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Graphic showing that since 1850, "human and domesticated mammal populations have grown rapidly, reaching their current combined biomass of ≈1100 Mt. During the same period, the total biomass of wild mammals decreased by more than 2-fold" down to 60Mt.
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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OR ARE THEY?!?!?
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The "brigade for the suppression of banditry" is on that case! #JewelHeist #TheLouvre

Don't worry Bandit, they aren't talking about you.
A shaggy black dog looking very concerned.
October 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Best. Typo. Ever.
Screengrab of US weekly that says “It’s important to remember that Andrew did not say he was giving up the Dork of York title, only that he would not be..." incorrectly crafting "Duke of York"
October 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Real cheeky of JD to talk about unindicted co-conspirators. tinyurl.com/2jtwsr4h
collection of headlines highlighting Trump as the unindicted co-conspirator in attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia collection of headlines highlighting Trump as the unindicted co-conspirator in attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia
October 19, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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#NoKings Phoenix
A woman dressed as a butterfly carries a sign that says "the only good orange monarch is a butterfly" with many beautiful monarch butterflies painted on the sign.
October 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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More "are you human?" queries like this please.
Pick all creatures that could shelter in the item shown in the example where the example is a bird house and there is an array of images of birds, cats, and dogs.
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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The World:
News Headline: "Dog seriously injured after possible stabbing, police say"
October 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Lucille sometimes thought about Harold back on the farm, but her heart yearned to be free.
A domestic farm duck swimming a phoenix canal next to a wild mallard.
October 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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It feels like a movie where terrorists have invaded a boarding school & have started killing the hostages, except it's real life, and it's the president actively dismantling the USA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...
HEADLINE: Trump fires thousands in shutdown layoffs, hitting treasury & health departments hardest. Headline: Trump's Shutdown Layoffs hit Homeland's Cybersecurity Agency HEADLINE Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs.
October 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Current Status: phys.org/news/2025-10...
Escalating Amazement Meme: Cool: Dinosaur Tracks: Dinosaur footprints: how do they form and what can they tell us? by Emily Osterloff for the Natural History Museum Very Cool: Fossilized Weaning in Neanderthal Teeth: Austin et al. 2013. Barium distributions in teeth reveal early-life dietary transitions in primates. Nature, 498(7453), 216-219. So Cool: Giant Sloth Hunt Tracks: Fossilized Human Footprint Found Nestled in a Giant Sloth Footprint by Ed Yong for the Atlantic AMAZING: Fossilized Mutual Destruction Nimravid Battle: The Dakota Badlands Used to Host Sabertoothed Pseudo-Cat Battles by Riley Black for the Smithsonian OH HOLY SHIT AMAZING: Fossilized Rock Hyrax Booty Skootch Tracks: Charles W. Helm et al, The unusual, unique ichnology of the rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) and possible Pleistocene tracks and traces from South Africa, Ichnos (2025). DOI: 10.1080/10420940.2025.2546373
October 12, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Hey Folks! the fancy pigeon of @veppart.bsky.social has some unexpected veterinary costs so Valeria is extra enthusiastically welcoming art commissions!
a slide with with a cartoon of a sick pigeon and gorgeous illustrations of a vulture and an owl to showcase the incredible visual artistic talents of Valeria Pellicer- she does digital and traditional paintings and can be contacted via email vpellicer.art@gmail.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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We rolled across the Mountain West & along the Pacific Coast. You got me outside. You got me home. You & me & a dog made three. And the best back country crawls that ever there were. Thank you for all the miles. & Thank you for protecting me that one last time from that distracted driver. #RAV4ever
A photo array of all the outdoor settings I rolled with my hot lava 2015 RAV4, with some photos including Bandit or Yote. Best car ever.
October 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Good morning!
A dark cloud of greys and blues ominously blows in over the monsoon muddy river of Phoenix's grand canal. In the distance, sheets of rain pour from the clouds.
September 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A week of IKEA lamp jokes has consequences people! Feelings so Fra-gee-lay. #IKEATariffs
Melania royal visit hat mocked as an IKEA lamp. Melania royal visit hat mocked as an IKEA lamp in faux as with her in a living room corner. Classic scene in A Christmas Story movie when a lamp is delivered in a crate marked "FRAGILE" that the dad misreads as "Fra-Gee-Lay. Must be Italian."
September 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM