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sabs.bsky.social
Sabrina Imbler
@sabs.bsky.social
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charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
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sabs.bsky.social
obsessed with the spider whose webs look like CDs
(credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_...
two Spiral orb webs in Karijini, Western Australia, they are each iridescent in the sun and look exactly like CD roms
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
sabs.bsky.social
obsessed with this vaguely shitposty graphic explaining something about optics that I will never be smart enough to understand

(credit: Renmin Ma et al.)
a scientific illustration of a computer-generated narwhal with a red light beaming from its tusk above a sparkly ocean. the words "Local power-law enhancement" and "Global exponential decay" and "narwhal-shaped wavefunctions" are behind the narwhal. a caption of the narwhal image that reads: image: Figure 1 | Narwhal-shaped wavefunction. The mode volume characterizes the spatial confinement of an electromagnetic eigenmode and directly determines the strength of light–matter interactions. It is defined as the ratio of the total electric energy density integrated over all space to its peak value. Achieving strong confinement requires designing eigenmodes whose field distributions decay rapidly across space, thereby enhancing the energy density per unit volume. Narwhal-shaped wavefunctions, which combine local power-law enhancement with global exponential decay, enable light to be focused and compressed far beyond conventional limits under lossless conditions.
October 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
sabs.bsky.social
simply a brilliant blog from @redford.bsky.social on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...
In the process, Weiss gets to continue two of her lifelong passion projects: trying to get people fired, and mainstreaming previously verboten ideological strands, like how the Nazi salute means something else or how genocidal starvation is actually fine. Even in the most generous reading—where her entire career and indeed life might reflect anything more than the cold calculus of a pure cynic who wants the approval and patronage of the world's richest and vainest reactionaries—Weiss's entire worldview is in the negative. She positions herself as a freewheeling intellectual and iconoclast, taking on the stilted orthodoxies of liberal power, but the irony is that her effectiveness is totally circumscribed by the limits of that orthodoxy. She does not have an original thought in her head, merely a list of supposed excesses and hypocrisies riddling the elite liberal world.
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
sabs.bsky.social
weeping at how Minnie Bruce Pratt described falling in love with Leslie Feinberg
a screenshot of an interview "Minnie Bruce Pratt, interviewed by Kelly Anderson" with the highlighted text: "they asked us to describe that moment, and we said, in that kind of duet that we do, that it was like having been stranded in a strange land for your whole life, not having seen anybody from home, and suddenly, someone that you’ve never seen before comes and you see them, and you know each other. You know each other from this really deep, old place of longing. And that’s what happened. That’s what happened for us."
October 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
sabs.bsky.social
a long shot, but does anyone have an idea of what species of moth this is? taken in 2011 in Syracuse, northeastern U.S.

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a photo of a moth clinging to a window screen against a green background of lawns. the moth has a fat white body and brownish wings
October 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
sabs.bsky.social
sorry but this is so beautiful 🥹
eproduction and life cycle A silverfish Silverfish head close-up Before silverfish reproduce, they carry out a ritual involving three phases, which may last over half an hour. In the first phase, the male and female stand face to face, their vibrating antennae touching, then repeatedly back off and return to this position. In the second phase, the male runs away and the female chases him. In the third phase, the male and female stand side by side and head to tail, with the male vibrating his tail against the female.[14] Finally, the male lays a spermatophore, a sperm capsule covered in gossamer, which the female takes into her body via her ovipositor to fertilize her eggs.
September 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
sabs.bsky.social
sucks to be this moth, whose most embarrassing day is now immortalized on wikipedia 😫
a screenshot of a photo of a polyphemus moth with the caption: Topside after falling off window. The photographer is named Dicklyon, and the license is CC by-sa 4.0
September 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
sabs.bsky.social
if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
bidoun.org/articles/hou...
Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.
September 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
sabs.bsky.social
read @remas.bsky.social on the hatred and violence of charlie kirk
defector.com/this-is-who-...
It's important to be specific about what Kirk argued for when he was holding a microphone. He hated Muslims. He hated trans people. He referred to the Civil Rights Act as a "huge mistake." He supported Israel and its role in the Gaza genocide. When asked in a debate if he would support an abortion for his 10-year-old daughter if she had become pregnant due to rape, he said he would make her carry the baby to term. He saw minorities as inferior, immigration as poisonous to the United States, and gun violence as a necessary price of preserving a perverted vision of freedom.
September 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
sabs.bsky.social
"I think it is good to have a rod of teeth on your forehead for sex reasons."
the oft-memed Freedom of Speech painting by Norman Rockwell
September 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
sabs.bsky.social
would do anything to be them right now....

image by Alberto Scarani
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugong#...
a dugong rubbing into the sea floor, unsettling a soft cloud of silt. looks very serene!
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
sabs.bsky.social
lowkey obsessed with this illustration of the first fish to have extra teeth in its mouth .... she's gagged!

credit: Joschua Knüppe
phys.org/news/2025-09...
an illustration of an ancient blue, yellow, and white fish with a narrow face and an expression of total surprise (to show off its extra teeth) a close-up of the fish's surprised, jaw-dropped expression
September 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
sabs.bsky.social
tried my hand at remembering some guys 🫡
www.immaculategrid.com/football/rem...
an immaculate grid x Defector "SomeGuys | Remember" from the 21st century grid featuring: Fish Smithson, Isaiah Buggs, Bear Pascoe, Ricky Seals-Jones, Ethan Wolf, Bront Bird, Tomon Fox, Lional Dalton, and Colt McCoy
September 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
sabs.bsky.social
so funny to think about the time when I thought the Atlantic was a nice magazine that published smart writing ... another lifetime!
a screenshot of an Atlantic story under Health: RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0. By Tom Bartlett
September 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
sabs.bsky.social
this @izdaramola.bsky.social blog on Spike Lee's When The Levees Broke is fantastic
defector.com/hurricane-ka...
whiter parishes surrounding New Orleans went about putting police at the bridges into their towns to keep out the undesirables who were in desperate need of aid and resources. Media of all kinds kept referring to New Orleanians as "refugees," as if somehow their displacement from their impoverished, ghettoized neighborhoods made them no longer citizens of America. Maybe that was the first clue that this country belonged to property instead of the people.
August 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
sabs.bsky.social
absolutely loved this @albertburneko.bsky.social blog on art, AI, and a matte black monk
defector.com/whats-monch-...
To be mystified by a work of art, I think, is to encounter the world with dizzyingly renewed depth-perception, to have the realness and profound interior vastness of each other human being revealed like the view from an unfathomably high clifftop—to feel that vastness suddenly, the way a person in a boat all at once realizes that the ocean beneath them goes down, straight down, for miles, and then that the entire planet Earth is next to them in space, and maybe grips the gunwale a little more tightly, but also and more importantly experiences awe and wonder.
August 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
sabs.bsky.social
can anyone help me ID this slow-moving larval brigade
a unit of caterpillars crawling as if one big caterpillar
August 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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read @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social on the despicable logic of the "Free Press"
defector.com/the-free-pre...
It is absurd to treat Al-Debs's injuries as a separate incident from his starving. The very mechanisms that deprive him of nutrients are the ones that injured him in the first place: He was grievously wounded by an Israeli bomb, then taken to a hospital that has been repeatedly attacked by the IDF, where he is unable to receive proper care because the Israeli government has blocked medical supplies from entering Gaza, and cannot receive adequate nutrition because they have blocked that, too.
August 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
sabs.bsky.social
I loved this @christhompson.bsky.social blog about a tremendously stupid movie I will never see
Still, I cannot deny that I felt some affection for poor, lost Ice Cube during the final third of this mess. There he was, schlubby, physically creaky, hysterically wayward along multiple axes of existence, rattling around an abandoned WeWork like the universe's most screwed ghost, and of the two of us having paid the much greater cost for having arrived together at this moment.
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
sabs.bsky.social
alert! it's box time
a bird's eye view of a fluffy brown and white cat in a cardboard box a close up of the fluffy brown and white cat resting with her big fluffy white paw outside of the box. she is so pretty!!!!
August 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
sabs.bsky.social
this could be us 🥺 but we're online and eukaryotic 😔
a photo labelled: Two bacteria directly interacting (IMAGE) by Osaka Metropolitan University. the photo shows two bacteria, Fusobacterium varium and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, directly interacting.
August 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
sabs.bsky.social
this chimp scrumps 😤
an image of a chimp eating a green fermented fruit labeled "Scrumping chimp (IMAGE) Dartmouth College"
July 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
sabs.bsky.social
the art // the artist
an abstract constellation of cat litter on a hardwood floor a smug looking sleeping cat
July 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
sabs.bsky.social
lowkey obsessed with this vibe....
a wikipedia image titled "A capuchin monkey (left) enjoying a massage from another capuchin monkey." showing a capuchin monkey enjoying a massage from another capuchin monkey
July 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
sabs.bsky.social
incredible moment in this People article about Jojo Siwa dating the man from Love Island who was in love with the short king hairdresser
Ebbs — who uses they/them pronouns and had begun a relationship with Siwa months prior to the reality show — alleged that she had been "love" bombed by the star and was "told that I'm the love of
July 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM