Friendly neighborhood sharktocat
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Consentacles only.
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I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
October 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season
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Yes, I know I feel much better when I do all of my "take care of myself" tasks, but have you considered: that's a lot of work and I'm very tired?
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Yes, I know I feel much better when I do all of my "take care of myself" tasks, but have you considered: that's a lot of work and I'm very tired?
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Here’s a crop of Stephan’s Quintet taken from my yard with an 8” SCT. While these make up a visual cluster, the blue galaxy, NCG 7320, is closer to us at about 40 million ly from Earth. The other galaxies are gravitationally bound & are a whopping 300 million ly away. 🔭 #Astrophotography
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Here’s a crop of Stephan’s Quintet taken from my yard with an 8” SCT. While these make up a visual cluster, the blue galaxy, NCG 7320, is closer to us at about 40 million ly from Earth. The other galaxies are gravitationally bound & are a whopping 300 million ly away. 🔭 #Astrophotography
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Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Stuck on "I can't believe Larry Summers, the man who has been making headlines for sexist commentary for the past 20 years, also sexually harasses women." The entire history of sexism is just telling reasonable observers that it's insane and hysterical to infer that 2 + 2 equals 4.
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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something i’ve noticed recently is that rightwingers have been ramping up trying to make furries a new front in their social culture war and i’m not sure that’s going to work especially because it’s purely a social hobby
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
something i’ve noticed recently is that rightwingers have been ramping up trying to make furries a new front in their social culture war and i’m not sure that’s going to work especially because it’s purely a social hobby
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losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
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parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
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In a lot of cases, clinical trials might be the only way for a child to survive a fatal childhood disease, or keep someone from dying from a form of cancer that doesn’t have any other options, etc. We tend to think of “trials” as novel experiments, but they’re often much more than that.
More than 73,000 people were in Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health
This cross-sectional study summarizes the number of trials with terminated grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and calculates the proportion of affected trials among those with previou...
jamanetwork.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In a lot of cases, clinical trials might be the only way for a child to survive a fatal childhood disease, or keep someone from dying from a form of cancer that doesn’t have any other options, etc. We tend to think of “trials” as novel experiments, but they’re often much more than that.
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guys with hair transplants should be the biggest, loudest, and most vocal trans allies. one struggle and all that
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
guys with hair transplants should be the biggest, loudest, and most vocal trans allies. one struggle and all that
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I love this story about the sea wolves globalnews.ca/news/1153034...
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible ‘tool use’ | Globalnews.ca
'Our crews came in and said that, you know, something had been pulling our crab traps and taking the bait,' William Housty told Global News.
globalnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I love this story about the sea wolves globalnews.ca/news/1153034...
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throughout this decade-long war of attrition against sesta, fosta, osa, etc. moral panic over sex work has been manufactured as cover for risk-management, more or less, for investment firms. the issue is ideological, but not in the obvious way; an open internet can't be totally financialized
The truth is, way too many journalists & content creators sat there and said nothing when SESTA-FOSTA passed, when OSA passed, when OF nearly lost porn due to paypros, even during this summer’s Collective Shout situation. A slow apocalypse for the free and open internet has been unfolding for years
November 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
throughout this decade-long war of attrition against sesta, fosta, osa, etc. moral panic over sex work has been manufactured as cover for risk-management, more or less, for investment firms. the issue is ideological, but not in the obvious way; an open internet can't be totally financialized
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i fell down a research K hole for 3 days and now know a frankly weird amount about pastrami and the history of romanian independence, but crucially NOT the fact i went diving so deep for, which has ELUDED me because culinary history is a mass of myths and lacunae
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
i fell down a research K hole for 3 days and now know a frankly weird amount about pastrami and the history of romanian independence, but crucially NOT the fact i went diving so deep for, which has ELUDED me because culinary history is a mass of myths and lacunae
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Hi @ktla.com, I broke this story for @lataco.bsky.social yesterday. We were the first news outlet to publish the surveillance footage and report that Rodriguez is a federal agent. Disappointing to not see a "first reported by" credit or link to our website in your story. Do better.
ICE agent arrested for pulling gun on Southern California teen, lawyer says
ICE agent arrested for pulling gun on Southern California teen, lawyer says
A 45-year-old Riverside County man, who reportedly works as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is accused of illegally detaining a minor at gunpoin…
ktla.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Hi @ktla.com, I broke this story for @lataco.bsky.social yesterday. We were the first news outlet to publish the surveillance footage and report that Rodriguez is a federal agent. Disappointing to not see a "first reported by" credit or link to our website in your story. Do better.
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Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazilq
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotia...
www.democracynow.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
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Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases
insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases
insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases
insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” & rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases
insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
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Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails via BCS journalism treasure @rustysurette.bsky.social
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails
Noella Turnage was fired from her job at the prison last week. On Monday, she sat down with KBTX’s Rusty Surette
www.kbtx.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Fired Bryan federal prison nurse says Ghislaine Maxwell is receiving special treatment — and she has the emails via BCS journalism treasure @rustysurette.bsky.social
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
www.kbtx.com/2025/11/18/f...
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Every day I feel hyperaware we are living in an even more blatant dual state
The dual state describes a society divided into a normal state, which operates according to set rules & laws, & a “prerogative state”, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness & violence unchecked by any legal guarantees”
The dual state describes a society divided into a normal state, which operates according to set rules & laws, & a “prerogative state”, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness & violence unchecked by any legal guarantees”
November 18, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Every day I feel hyperaware we are living in an even more blatant dual state
The dual state describes a society divided into a normal state, which operates according to set rules & laws, & a “prerogative state”, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness & violence unchecked by any legal guarantees”
The dual state describes a society divided into a normal state, which operates according to set rules & laws, & a “prerogative state”, "which exercises unlimited arbitrariness & violence unchecked by any legal guarantees”
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We've seen from Epstein's emails that his friends clearly fetishize women of color and the Caribbean has long been a spot that not only has had to deal with the horrors of sex tourism, but with child molestation from American religious figures purporting to bring Evangelicalism to the islands.
November 17, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We've seen from Epstein's emails that his friends clearly fetishize women of color and the Caribbean has long been a spot that not only has had to deal with the horrors of sex tourism, but with child molestation from American religious figures purporting to bring Evangelicalism to the islands.
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In "Ecology of the Brontosaurs" Robert Bakker describes adaptations of many ungulates, including the "elongate, banana-shaped" hooves of the swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope. Surely, I thought, that's an exaggeration. But these are crazy!
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
In "Ecology of the Brontosaurs" Robert Bakker describes adaptations of many ungulates, including the "elongate, banana-shaped" hooves of the swamp-dwelling sitatunga antelope. Surely, I thought, that's an exaggeration. But these are crazy!