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Salty Octopus
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Cephalopod masquerading as a biology professor, living in the deep sea or in Ohio
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The best vibes
3 tabby cats sleep on a striped pad on a window seat
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I'm home
Come on over whenever
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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'Women must be separate to be equal' is a hell of an argument. How long til they expand this "protection" to other "immutable characteristics"?
Screenshot of part of compact: "Students shall be treated as individuals and not on the basis of their immutable characteristics, with due exceptions for sex-based privacy, safety, and fairness. Women’s equality requires single-sex spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, and fair competition, such as in sports. Institutions commit to defining and otherwise interpreting “male,” “female,” “woman,” and “man” according to reproductive function and biological processes. Otherwise, immutable characteristics, particularly race, do not permit unequal treatment, including in grading as well as access to buildings, spaces, scholarships, programming, and other university resources."
October 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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They really do look impossibly stupid IRL
Photo of dingy Tesla cybertruck with dirty windshield. It's angular shape looks a lot like a dumpster
September 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Joe agrees that Joe is pretty
Tabby cat with white muzzle and chest looks to the right of the camera
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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I'll see your sleeping brothers and raise you sleeping brothers holding hands
Paws of 2 tabby cats are interwoven, as though they are holding hands while they sleep
September 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The best I can offer is containers falling off a ship. Take it or leave it.
Image of a container ship in port surrounded by containers that have fallen off the ship into the water
September 11, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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This is why we don't lionize Newsome

He's a craven attention seeker whose true loyalty is to the worst among us
Screenshot of skeet from Gavin Newsome: "The best way to honor Charlie Kirk's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other through spirited discourse. I'm a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate --never through violence."
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Well, someone is ready for fall
A maple tree is green all over except for one branch that is bright red
September 6, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Found these. Not sure if they are cool. Please advise.
Three whitish mushrooms poke up on cone-shaped stalks out of brown leaf litter
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Sometimes, you have to let the cat tell you what you should be doing
A view down a pair of legs stretched out on a sofa. A tabby cat is asleep, stretched across the thighs
June 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Tell me you don't know the difference between science and religion, without telling me you don't know the difference between science and religion

Let people have their beliefs
6 squares Top left: fuzzy gray blob, Pluto then. Top right: colorful orb, Pluto now. Middle left: black square, black hole them Middle right: orange ring on black, black hole now Bottom left: black square, then Bottom right: black square, god now
June 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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No confusion. That's the Shriners!
June 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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#InsectSmut
2 Black and yellow flies are attached at the end of the abdomen. Both sit on a green leaf
May 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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May I offer a might in exchange?
Insect with long tan and black striped abdomen, 2 translucent wings along its abdomen, and very fluffy antenna
May 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Right back at you
#NiceMushrooms
Shelf mushrooms on a moss-covered tree trunk. The mushrooms are gray-white with a rose-gold stripe in the outer edge
May 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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On this #caturday, remember to help your humans relax
#CatsOfBluesky
Tabby cat laying off the side of a person's lap with its arms stretched forward on either side of its head
April 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I'm starting to think the stock market folks are monumentally gullible
Screenshot of one-day stock market graph for April 9, showing the market rise 2000 points after the moment Trump announced a pause in tariffs
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Huh. Aren't most stock traders men?

I thought women were the emotional ones.

It's that not true?
#sarcasm
Screenshot showing "extreme fear is driving the US market"
April 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Cicero, Joe, and Freddy say hi
Tabby cat lying on a wood floor, looking up over his shoulder at the camera Tabby cat with white chin, chest and paws, relaxing on a blanket Brown and black taking cat backlist in front of a gray wall looks over the camera
March 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Happy #caturday, vertebrates
A tabby cat sits facing to the left, looking over his shoulder above the camera. He is lit from the side against a gray wall. It looks very artistic
March 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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The lowland paca is also known as the gibnut in Belize. Leading to the new insult: what a gibnut!
#2025MMM
A brown rodent with white spots looks at the camera through brown eyes. It has very small ears atop its head
February 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Morning.
Tabby cat sitting atop a beige graphic-pattern radiator cover. The cat is glaring at the camera
February 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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THERE IS A PILEATED WOODPECKER AT MY FEEDER
Double-height suet feeder. A black and white bird with a bright red crest clings to the side with it's tail feathers curled under the feeder. It is as tall as the feeder
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Ice on Lake Erie. Jan 26, 2025
Photo: foreground shows white ice with round and oval balls of ice on and in it. Background shows a large piece of ice pushed up out of the surface. The ice boulder dwarfs people behind it
January 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM