Elise Payne
whole-lotta-nope57.bsky.social
Elise Payne
@whole-lotta-nope57.bsky.social
Reptile keeper by profession. Animal lover by nature. Antifascist. Anti-racist. Anti-unbridled-capitalist. Feminist. Ally. Science believer.
I work with a lot of cool reptiles, but this male Scorpion-tailed gecko (Pristurus carteri) with his unrelenting resting b*tch face has a special place in my heart 🫶
January 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted by Elise Payne
January 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Please bring your outdoor cats indoors. 67% mortality rate in cats, and has potential to be another avenue for mutating to a human to human transmission version with each human infection.
www.bovinevetonline.com/news/industr...
New Study Says Domestic Cats Need To Be Evaluated More For HPAI H5N1 Implications
The report echoes calls by other scientists to ramp up the surveillance of felines, which are susceptible to the virus and have a high mortality rate. The AVMA says several cases in cats linked to poultry or wild bird exposure had been reported before the outbreak began in dairy cows last spring.
www.bovinevetonline.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Things that shouldn’t be paywalled:
1) fire evacuation maps
2) pandemic updates/ access to important public health information
January 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Reposted by Elise Payne
The "Free Our Feeds" campaign aims to protect social media from billionaire control by establishing a public-interest foundation. The initiative aims to ensure that the AT Protocol, the underlying technology of Bluesky, remains open and accessible to all.
'Free Our Feeds' campaign aims to billionaire-proof Bluesky’s tech | TechCrunch
The initiative, Free Our Feeds, aims to protect Bluesky’s underlying technology, the AT Protocol, and leverage it to create an open social media ecosystem that can’t be controlled by a single company ...
techcrunch.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Accurate.
January 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I will never not talk about class consciousness.
January 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Posting into the void 🖤
January 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Independence Day 😬
January 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
January 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Accurate. It’s why I came here today 🤷‍♀️
Birds only migrate a couple times a year but X and Threads users migrate to Bluesky every time a tech CEO does something stupid (weekly)
January 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just set up my account here today. I’m still on Threads, but very much about to jump ship. Because this 👇
Fact checking is not censorship.

It's an essential public service.

Disinformation kills. Period.
January 8, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If this image doesn’t perfectly encapsulate end stage capitalism, I don’t know what does.
January 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hey all 👋 First post here. Looking forward to seeing what this platform is like. Anyone who followed me on Threads here? Same username and unhinged animal as my profile pic 😂
January 8, 2025 at 10:40 PM