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Vanessa Minke-Martin (she/her)
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Audience engagement at bioGraphic, formerly staff at Hakai Magazine. Here for environment and ocean news 🌊🌱🐦‍⬛

Salmon person, but friendly to other fishes.
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Poor pink salmon, people cannot get enough chances to hate on em
July 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
vmart.bsky.social
😂
July 14, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Restoring gray wolves to their historic range has been challenging enough. Not to mention dire wolves were megafauna hunters. There is so much wrong here at every level and I feel so bad for these dogs.
April 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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restingdinoface.bsky.social
Of course mainstream media keeps rolling over for Colossal, providing uncritical hype and coverage in exchange for exclusivity and “wow.” What Colossal is doing is wrong and they can’t even deliver what they promise. How many times do we have to go over this?
Cover of TIME magazine showing a genetically-modified wolf, said to be a dire wolf but is not, with the headline “extinct” with a strikethrough, above the text “this is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever” by Jeffrey Kluger
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
vmart.bsky.social
I'm not pro-bigot, but whales have their own lives to live.
April 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
vmart.bsky.social
I need this level of investigation into KitKats ! pls help 🙏
March 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
vmart.bsky.social
🐋🐋🐋 whales swimming around with no concern for human definitions of sex.
March 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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biographic.bsky.social
Across the world and across species, scientists “have seen over, and over, and over, and over, that sex is clearly not binary,” says historian Beans Velocci.

Scientists have previously found intersex dogs, cows, fish, whales, dolphins, moose, many different types of invertebrates, and more.
March 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM