velociraptor
@velociraptor-dad.bsky.social
Just a father of velociraptors, it would seem (among other things). Engineer, nerd, avid outdoors lover, environmentalist, socialist. TikTok refugee.
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Me: “I’m angry about this bad thing the government is doing.”
My mentions: “wHy ArE yOu sUrPriSeD? HaVeN’t yOu bEeN pAyiNg aTtEnTiOn?”
So anger and surprise are actually two different emotions! Hope this helps!
My mentions: “wHy ArE yOu sUrPriSeD? HaVeN’t yOu bEeN pAyiNg aTtEnTiOn?”
So anger and surprise are actually two different emotions! Hope this helps!
May 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Me: “I’m angry about this bad thing the government is doing.”
My mentions: “wHy ArE yOu sUrPriSeD? HaVeN’t yOu bEeN pAyiNg aTtEnTiOn?”
So anger and surprise are actually two different emotions! Hope this helps!
My mentions: “wHy ArE yOu sUrPriSeD? HaVeN’t yOu bEeN pAyiNg aTtEnTiOn?”
So anger and surprise are actually two different emotions! Hope this helps!
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Crypto isn't currency. It isn't even an asset. It is a financial virus designed to privatize money, let corporations run chit-based company stores, and cut nations & central banks off from their own money supply.
Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.
Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.
May 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Crypto isn't currency. It isn't even an asset. It is a financial virus designed to privatize money, let corporations run chit-based company stores, and cut nations & central banks off from their own money supply.
Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.
Regulated stablecoins are a way for the parasite to get easier control of the host.
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
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"We have one group of people demanding that women hand over their legal existence, their rights, their language, their analysis, and their political movement"
Yes Jane, it's literally you, you absolute fucking clown. Insane levels of projection
Yes Jane, it's literally you, you absolute fucking clown. Insane levels of projection
A month after the UK anti-trans ruling, how are transphobes coping with their victory?
"We are exhausted ... everyone I know just wants this to be over ... the response over the last 4 weeks has made it abundantly clear that the trans rights movement has no intention of taking no for an answer"
"We are exhausted ... everyone I know just wants this to be over ... the response over the last 4 weeks has made it abundantly clear that the trans rights movement has no intention of taking no for an answer"
May 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"We have one group of people demanding that women hand over their legal existence, their rights, their language, their analysis, and their political movement"
Yes Jane, it's literally you, you absolute fucking clown. Insane levels of projection
Yes Jane, it's literally you, you absolute fucking clown. Insane levels of projection
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This should be bigger news:
ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE.
People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.
ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE.
People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.
May 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This should be bigger news:
ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE.
People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.
ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE.
People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.
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This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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🧵 Thread. This story about the Trump admin leaning on African countries to give business to Musk’s Starlink should be a huge scandal, But because there are huge scandals every 5 seconds it’s barely a blip. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
May 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
🧵 Thread. This story about the Trump admin leaning on African countries to give business to Musk’s Starlink should be a huge scandal, But because there are huge scandals every 5 seconds it’s barely a blip. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The plane being a White Elephant gift is the funniest turn this saga could have taken
Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey.
Delicious.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
Delicious.
www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...
Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky.
www.forbes.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The plane being a White Elephant gift is the funniest turn this saga could have taken
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Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is seeking to dismiss the federal charges brought against her by the Trump admin, arguing that the "government has no basis in law to prosecute her," given her judicial immunity, calling the attempt "virtually unprecedented and entirely unconstitutional."
May 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is seeking to dismiss the federal charges brought against her by the Trump admin, arguing that the "government has no basis in law to prosecute her," given her judicial immunity, calling the attempt "virtually unprecedented and entirely unconstitutional."
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She’s right. And when your parent believes that the best way they can imitate their god is to punish those they love and that causing pain is somehow holy and just, they will not only harm you as a sacred rite, they will vote for people who do harm on a large scale and get a dopamine RUSH.
Thinking you’re going to get an apology and remorse from the people who voted for this is like thinking your narcissistic parent is going to apologize for your childhood. These people think not apologizing or acknowledging regret is a virtue. And additionally, a form of image control.
May 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
She’s right. And when your parent believes that the best way they can imitate their god is to punish those they love and that causing pain is somehow holy and just, they will not only harm you as a sacred rite, they will vote for people who do harm on a large scale and get a dopamine RUSH.
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I didn't have Texas bringing back "separate but equal" on my bingo card but here we are
May 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I didn't have Texas bringing back "separate but equal" on my bingo card but here we are
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There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
May 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"
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The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree.
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
The First Amendment Should Protect Trans People’s Passports — Assigned
Trump’s executive order defining sex made it clear that passport sex markers will now carry an ideological message. The constitution protects Americans from being forced to endorse ideological message...
www.assignedmedia.org
May 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The law is clear: Americans are protected from being compelled by the government to engage in speech with which they disagree.
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
By making passports ideological, argues attorney Miles Whitney, the Trump administration has turned them into government-compelled speech.
Read more on Assigned Media:
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How can anyone look at this and be like "yeah Capitalism is the best way to get efficiency and quality results". They all do this. They play dirty to get to the top, then sit at the top and provide the worst possible service. That's what "free markets" are designed to do
May 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
How can anyone look at this and be like "yeah Capitalism is the best way to get efficiency and quality results". They all do this. They play dirty to get to the top, then sit at the top and provide the worst possible service. That's what "free markets" are designed to do
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Love when anti-abortion people reach for “What if Jesus had been aborted?!?
Idk man maybe we wouldn’t have a bunch of religious extremists running the country and I wouldn’t be arguing with you about my bodily autonomy.
Idk man maybe we wouldn’t have a bunch of religious extremists running the country and I wouldn’t be arguing with you about my bodily autonomy.
May 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Love when anti-abortion people reach for “What if Jesus had been aborted?!?
Idk man maybe we wouldn’t have a bunch of religious extremists running the country and I wouldn’t be arguing with you about my bodily autonomy.
Idk man maybe we wouldn’t have a bunch of religious extremists running the country and I wouldn’t be arguing with you about my bodily autonomy.
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When I was in college, I thought we’d get universal healthcare in a few years. Instead, people are taking their unvaccinated kids to measles parties.
May 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
When I was in college, I thought we’d get universal healthcare in a few years. Instead, people are taking their unvaccinated kids to measles parties.
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Most celebrities: can't be damned to even talk about defending trans people
David Tennant: turns a question that doesn't mention trans folks once into a clear, decisive message of support and explaining the true machine behind our current oppression
David Tennant: turns a question that doesn't mention trans folks once into a clear, decisive message of support and explaining the true machine behind our current oppression
I do love David Tennant and his response to this question in the Guardian today.
May 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Most celebrities: can't be damned to even talk about defending trans people
David Tennant: turns a question that doesn't mention trans folks once into a clear, decisive message of support and explaining the true machine behind our current oppression
David Tennant: turns a question that doesn't mention trans folks once into a clear, decisive message of support and explaining the true machine behind our current oppression
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I think about this comic at least once a week
May 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I think about this comic at least once a week
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I’m honestly a bit surprised by the fact that content creator unionization isn’t a topic that is discussed more often.
We need far more legal recourse when it comes to both tech companies and parasocial fans.
We need far more legal recourse when it comes to both tech companies and parasocial fans.
May 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I’m honestly a bit surprised by the fact that content creator unionization isn’t a topic that is discussed more often.
We need far more legal recourse when it comes to both tech companies and parasocial fans.
We need far more legal recourse when it comes to both tech companies and parasocial fans.
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Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
May 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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If you write stuff for a living, please never report the upper end of a range without also including the lower end. Doing that is a thing that I like to call “lying.”
May 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you write stuff for a living, please never report the upper end of a range without also including the lower end. Doing that is a thing that I like to call “lying.”
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Oh look, they're doing that thing we said they were going to do and we're told to stop being hyperbolic about
The critical part to remember is this:
These people do not define pornography the way you do: they mean LGBTQ+ representation, they mean sex ed, they mean Netflix, they mean literature, they mean video games, they mean healthcare, they mean political speech.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
These people do not define pornography the way you do: they mean LGBTQ+ representation, they mean sex ed, they mean Netflix, they mean literature, they mean video games, they mean healthcare, they mean political speech.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
Project 2025’s plan to criminalize porn has a sinister subplot
The far-right game plan for a second Trump term defines pornography to include "transgender ideology."
www.msnbc.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Oh look, they're doing that thing we said they were going to do and we're told to stop being hyperbolic about