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Oak (Degrowth's strongest soldier)🐈‍⬛💚💙 @oakmeow.bsky.social · 11h

you know israel is a settler colonialist oroject because they love to claim others food as their own. Australians do it with meat pies, americans do it with burgers, etc

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

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wren @tropical-rouge.bsky.social · 1d

i dont think this stuff actually happened but im not a paleoanthropologist so idk

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cassidy | 毅堅 @cassidae.bsky.social · 8h

cops are fundamentally a state institution maintaining the monopoly on power. praising one man who didn't give in to the power abuse inherent to his office will not change the system, especially one with a history as fraught as the cops of portland, an org that has tear gassed protestors

cassidy | 毅堅 @cassidae.bsky.social · 8h

let's not hype up portland's cops because one guy did a decent thing once

Angstipated™ @angstipated.bsky.social · 22h

#Portland law enforcement truly protect and serve...

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 10h

is this running the government like a business. do businesses do this normally

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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cassidy | 毅堅 @cassidae.bsky.social · 8h

wait what

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 11h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Miki Perkins @mikiperkins.bsky.social · 2d

This is desperately sad. Professor John Woinarski breaks the news for @aunz.theconversation.com that Australia's next animal - the tiny Christmas Island Shrew - has officially been declared extinct.

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 2d

Ume, the Malayan tapir calf, isn’t exactly dainty when it comes to eating her salad behind the scenes. 🥬 Now, 8 months old and 400 pounds, she’s growing fast, and those loud crunches mean she’s getting all the greens she needs to thrive. 💗

📹: Keeper Katie

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 5d

have been desperately looking for this old erotic Spanish comic I stumbled on almost 10 years ago called "El secreto de Frankenstein" and I'm so happy to report I finally found it

black & white comic panel depicting a sexy, thicc Frankenstein's monster disrobing in 3 different poses - pulling his shirt of his shoulder, seen at an angle; from the front, shirtless, beginning to take his pants off; then almost totally nude as seen from behind. the words at the top read "Strip-tease de Frankenstein..."

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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Chris McFeely @chrismcfeely.bsky.social · 1d

Transformers is good.

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S.S. Julian @octopolis.bsky.social · 2d

Was not actively participating in #invertober this year but I do have this old drawing of a scaly-food gastropod that I simply must share

A digital drawing of an underwater hydrothermal vent with an octopus riding a giant scaly foot gastropod with some sick-ass turbines in the distance

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piss king @dedusmulntxt.bsky.social · 1d

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3d

There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 3d

we have published a really bizzare jurassic #fossil midge today, with cool "sucker" on the end of abdomen, might be of interest for some of you @franzanth.bsky.social @jopabinia.bsky.social @jacquelyngill.bsky.social @stephenbheard.bsky.social

Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 4d

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How a 150 MYA fly from Australia helped us understand continental drift 🪰🌏🧪🦖
Meet Telmatomyia talbragarica — a new Jurassic non-biting midge (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Talbragar Fish Beds, NSW. It once clung to life in a Jurassic lake. @ebdonana.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2v3kx4h7

The oldest Gondwanan non-biting midge (Diptera, Chironomidae, Podonominae) sheds light on the historical biogeography of the clade

Podonominae, a group of non-biting midges within the Chironomidae family, serves as an important biogeographical model. For a long time, it was believ…

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cassidy | 毅堅 @cassidae.bsky.social · 4d

leshawna ball oc

Dee @dee.lol · 4d

shes dumb ah

myra the lesbian cat and diesel the homosexual opossum

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LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 4d

Any libs still trying to push Gavin Newsom are wreckers. It’s really that simple.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Ligus @greyauk.bsky.social · 4d

Something for the 🦀 feed and the #deepsea feed 🤗

phys.org/news/2025-10...

New species of deep-sea shark and crab discovered off Western Australia

Researchers have described a new species of deep-sea lanternshark and crab, both with the help of specimens collected from a CSIRO-led 2022 voyage of CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator.

phys.org

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cassidy | 毅堅 @cassidae.bsky.social · 4d

oh it nean peanut nutter

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cassidy | 毅堅 @cassidae.bsky.social · 4d

according to gogle trangender this is maori for baby, baby

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Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social · 4d

When you'd rather have a dead kid than a queer one, allowing conversion therapy practices makes total sense. They don't want to deal with a living queer kid; they want to mourn the imaginary one they don't have.

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