Toni Fish
@tonifish.bsky.social
Professional water nerd, recovering policy wonk, collector and connector of good humans and holder of important conversations. Yes, her from the bird.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Great news!! We're now offering free shipping Australia-wide on orders of prints & cards over $99 and a flat-rate of just $8.95 🤩 rachelhollis.com #prints #wildlifeart #australianart
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Great news!! We're now offering free shipping Australia-wide on orders of prints & cards over $99 and a flat-rate of just $8.95 🤩 rachelhollis.com #prints #wildlifeart #australianart
This thread is both very YIKES! and very sad. Our brains cannot safeguard against this unethical nightmare we're being sold as essential to use to guarantee our future employability.
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This thread is both very YIKES! and very sad. Our brains cannot safeguard against this unethical nightmare we're being sold as essential to use to guarantee our future employability.
Getting some culture again.
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Getting some culture again.
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When someone's in distress, don't go straight to something 'positive' or trying to make it better.
Hear where someone's at, take the time, 'be with'. Be willing to stay with the real discomfort- what a difference this makes, rather than reaching for the temporary relief of a superficial solution.
Hear where someone's at, take the time, 'be with'. Be willing to stay with the real discomfort- what a difference this makes, rather than reaching for the temporary relief of a superficial solution.
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When someone's in distress, don't go straight to something 'positive' or trying to make it better.
Hear where someone's at, take the time, 'be with'. Be willing to stay with the real discomfort- what a difference this makes, rather than reaching for the temporary relief of a superficial solution.
Hear where someone's at, take the time, 'be with'. Be willing to stay with the real discomfort- what a difference this makes, rather than reaching for the temporary relief of a superficial solution.
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I found out about the glass flowers not long ago. There are also glass sea creatures! It's enough to make an eco-nerd almost consider visiting the US.
Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I found out about the glass flowers not long ago. There are also glass sea creatures! It's enough to make an eco-nerd almost consider visiting the US.
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
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zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
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One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
One of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. This Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) caught in the lamplight outside a hostel where we were staying in a dark pine forest in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees. Moons before, as a caterpillar it would have somehow found substance in miserly pine needles
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The state of being three
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The state of being three
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A beloved conservative trope is "queer degeneracy".
Here, nations fall to transgressive permissiveness. Men are effete, women are macho. Children are victims of orgiastic liberality.
Epstein's emails are a reminder of the sad truth: a reliable predictor of abuse is just men with unchecked power.
Here, nations fall to transgressive permissiveness. Men are effete, women are macho. Children are victims of orgiastic liberality.
Epstein's emails are a reminder of the sad truth: a reliable predictor of abuse is just men with unchecked power.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A beloved conservative trope is "queer degeneracy".
Here, nations fall to transgressive permissiveness. Men are effete, women are macho. Children are victims of orgiastic liberality.
Epstein's emails are a reminder of the sad truth: a reliable predictor of abuse is just men with unchecked power.
Here, nations fall to transgressive permissiveness. Men are effete, women are macho. Children are victims of orgiastic liberality.
Epstein's emails are a reminder of the sad truth: a reliable predictor of abuse is just men with unchecked power.
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So, Palantir isn’t for “the people”. It’s not an emancipatory company. Its technologies are used by the powerful to maintain (and increase) their power.
All this guff about AI and leisure is advertising. That is to say: bullshit.
All this guff about AI and leisure is advertising. That is to say: bullshit.
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
So, Palantir isn’t for “the people”. It’s not an emancipatory company. Its technologies are used by the powerful to maintain (and increase) their power.
All this guff about AI and leisure is advertising. That is to say: bullshit.
All this guff about AI and leisure is advertising. That is to say: bullshit.
Peter Thiel continues to terrify me. He has extreme power over international politics due to widespread government dependence on his products.
The tech oligarchs are using our dependence to extort governments in their favour. The political fear is real. Tech dependency is choosing us dearly.
The tech oligarchs are using our dependence to extort governments in their favour. The political fear is real. Tech dependency is choosing us dearly.
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Peter Thiel continues to terrify me. He has extreme power over international politics due to widespread government dependence on his products.
The tech oligarchs are using our dependence to extort governments in their favour. The political fear is real. Tech dependency is choosing us dearly.
The tech oligarchs are using our dependence to extort governments in their favour. The political fear is real. Tech dependency is choosing us dearly.
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Being good at making money doesn’t mean you’re good at anything else. It definitely doesn’t mean your opinions on anything else are important. It most likely just means you’re ruthless, which is the primary trait of most rich people.
November 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Being good at making money doesn’t mean you’re good at anything else. It definitely doesn’t mean your opinions on anything else are important. It most likely just means you’re ruthless, which is the primary trait of most rich people.
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NO WAYYYY! 🤯🤯🤯
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
NO WAYYYY! 🤯🤯🤯
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
Is this the COOLEST stick insect ever?? 💚
This mossy girl (Taraxippus sp.) from Peru was the most incredible phasmid I have ever seen, I could not get over how perfectly camouflaged it was on the mossy trees! 🌳
So in awe of our natural world! 🌿
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my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
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OK, I already posted tiny terrestrial snails, let's do a GIANT AQUATIC SNAIL. This is one of the largest marine snails in the world, a Horned helmet shell (C. cornuta). Helmet is right, that shell is THICK. #Snailposting #Invertebrates 🌿📷🐙
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
OK, I already posted tiny terrestrial snails, let's do a GIANT AQUATIC SNAIL. This is one of the largest marine snails in the world, a Horned helmet shell (C. cornuta). Helmet is right, that shell is THICK. #Snailposting #Invertebrates 🌿📷🐙
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Reading After Australia: phenomenal. So many voices i know and cherish: Karen Wyld, Claire Coleman, Omar Sakr, Michelle Law...
Then an unknown voice - Kaya Ortiz - utterly destroys me, in the way only poetry can, and I'm seen and adrift and homesick for my lutruwita and the Mountain, sobbing.
Then an unknown voice - Kaya Ortiz - utterly destroys me, in the way only poetry can, and I'm seen and adrift and homesick for my lutruwita and the Mountain, sobbing.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Reading After Australia: phenomenal. So many voices i know and cherish: Karen Wyld, Claire Coleman, Omar Sakr, Michelle Law...
Then an unknown voice - Kaya Ortiz - utterly destroys me, in the way only poetry can, and I'm seen and adrift and homesick for my lutruwita and the Mountain, sobbing.
Then an unknown voice - Kaya Ortiz - utterly destroys me, in the way only poetry can, and I'm seen and adrift and homesick for my lutruwita and the Mountain, sobbing.
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Annie Soudain is a contemporary UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt
November 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Annie Soudain is a contemporary UK artist and printmaker inspired by nature #WomensArt
The expanding shrimp army says hello, plus some danio cameos.
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The expanding shrimp army says hello, plus some danio cameos.
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
No, self-regulation.
It's not suppressing & denying the emotion, as control and discipline suggest. It's learning to feel the emotion without responding FROM the emotion.
Knowing how you feel and why you feel it, holding yourself steady through it, then choosing how to respond to it.
It's not suppressing & denying the emotion, as control and discipline suggest. It's learning to feel the emotion without responding FROM the emotion.
Knowing how you feel and why you feel it, holding yourself steady through it, then choosing how to respond to it.
Mamdani has shown considerable self-control in the face of some quite horrific tantrums.
Self-control imo is the quality modern masculinity is most sorely in need of.
Self-control imo is the quality modern masculinity is most sorely in need of.
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
No, self-regulation.
It's not suppressing & denying the emotion, as control and discipline suggest. It's learning to feel the emotion without responding FROM the emotion.
Knowing how you feel and why you feel it, holding yourself steady through it, then choosing how to respond to it.
It's not suppressing & denying the emotion, as control and discipline suggest. It's learning to feel the emotion without responding FROM the emotion.
Knowing how you feel and why you feel it, holding yourself steady through it, then choosing how to respond to it.
Further, we need urgent regulation that protects our institutions: truth in advertising, curtailing the tech oligarchs, untangling govt dependence on a small set of corporations (for tech, for consultancy, for messaging), protecting independence.
This work is vital and urgent.
This work is vital and urgent.
Amy makes me feel less alone.
The cowardice of our political class and the "progressive" failure to learn the right lessons and prepare for the filthiness of modern campaigning, have us going nowhere.
We need boldness. Hope. Spine.
The cowardice of our political class and the "progressive" failure to learn the right lessons and prepare for the filthiness of modern campaigning, have us going nowhere.
We need boldness. Hope. Spine.
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Further, we need urgent regulation that protects our institutions: truth in advertising, curtailing the tech oligarchs, untangling govt dependence on a small set of corporations (for tech, for consultancy, for messaging), protecting independence.
This work is vital and urgent.
This work is vital and urgent.
Amy makes me feel less alone.
The cowardice of our political class and the "progressive" failure to learn the right lessons and prepare for the filthiness of modern campaigning, have us going nowhere.
We need boldness. Hope. Spine.
The cowardice of our political class and the "progressive" failure to learn the right lessons and prepare for the filthiness of modern campaigning, have us going nowhere.
We need boldness. Hope. Spine.
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Amy makes me feel less alone.
The cowardice of our political class and the "progressive" failure to learn the right lessons and prepare for the filthiness of modern campaigning, have us going nowhere.
We need boldness. Hope. Spine.
The cowardice of our political class and the "progressive" failure to learn the right lessons and prepare for the filthiness of modern campaigning, have us going nowhere.
We need boldness. Hope. Spine.