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Scaredy Kat (she/they)

@doggamn.bsky.social

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Bitter, sarcastic, and handsome. I'm just a person, like you. inprnt.com/gallery/doggamn Profile picture: A blue-purple baby elephant in profile wearing a bright pink bow tied around their neck. They hold a pink rose with their trunk and smile at you.

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · Aug 5

Every day on this website like

"Borat 2 tonite" meme with "alt text" instead of "Borat 2"

Incoming iMessages that say "alt text tonite 👀", "alt text tonight queen??", and "alt text tonite 👀"

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ii glocks ii heaven @leatherette.bsky.social · 17h

From someone on the ground STOP USING AI

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♿ hiding from plagues - Always masked - N95 or bust @smollestbunny2.bsky.social · 22h

Its fucking covid. Its fucking covid. Its fucking covid. Wear a fucking mask. Wear a fucking mask, wear a fucking mask

My partner was only 60 when he was diagnosed with young onset Alzheimer's. This is what I've learnt

The number of Kiwis with dementia will more than double in the next 25 years, study shows.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 18h

People need to stop the thinking that’s like “well when things get back to normal we’ll do this.” Remember how we said that about COVID years ago & we’re still in a pandemic? The United States is not coming back to glory & that shouldn’t be the goal. But WE can try to survive if we get together.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 15h

Your charitable donations are going to feed pizza to someone with a $120,000 salary.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

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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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 21h

If y'all wanted to go into your evening smiling: some dude none of us have ever met has a wheelchair that works now. The broken one has been donated to the same shop I got the new one from, so they're gonna repair that and give it away.

Mutual aid is a force multiplier.

Virtue cycles are awesome.

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Patrickthebiosteamist @patbiosteamist.bsky.social · 21h

I was taking with someone earlier today about the correlation between increases in car crashes with active Covid infections/covid waves.

This is for them, as they were interested in seeing the paper.

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...

journals.plos.org

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h

don't forget! fuck the salvation army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21h

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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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

Vaccinate your kids. Christ almighty.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 1d

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

nbcnews.to

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 19h

Free them all, papers for all, care not cops, a better world is possible.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

This is as much a legacy of the War on Drugs than anything else. He has a controlled substance conviction separate and apart from the exonerated murder conviction.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 21h

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

A line of riot gear police with clubs advances on protesters in a “designated free-speech area” near Broadview, Illinois ice facility

Police aggressively clash with protesters, dragging one to the ground

Line of police before they started attacking protesters. Footage is from TikTok live of Amanda protests.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20h

So now the Administration are saying that the mass firing of CDC scientists, including many responsible for preventing outbreaks, was an “error” and many will be brought back.

Whether by intention or incompetence, dismantling public health will kill people.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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TrueRef by Abbey Esparza @trueref.bsky.social · 20h

New model Maggie drops Monday! 🤎✨

art pose reference of a woman standing looking solemn.

art pose reference of a woman standing doing victory signs.

art pose reference of a woman standing looking into the distance.

art pose reference of a woman sticking out her tongue.

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bats 🦇✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 1d

if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 21h

Adore DAIADU and "At the Bottom of Everything". My favorite may be Lifted, though I think I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning is like, a technically flawless album (It's very very good!!)

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21h

Tens of millions of people have died from Covid.

Every country should have responded with record investments in public health infrastructure.

Instead the US government is putting us all at greater risk of more catastrophes by firing hundreds of top scientists whose job is to prevent outbreaks.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h

a reminder, I still have these for sale! just donate $80 to Monica's GFM and email me at [email protected]!

planning on getting these in the mail on Monday morning :)

Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 7d

PUSSY ART FOR PUSSY SURGERY!

this is my piece, BOYFRIEND, an edition of 20 (signed / numbered on back)

it's 8.5x11, printed with pigment ink on high quality paper

WANT IT?

DM me your address + a receipt for $80 or more donated to Monica's bottom surgery GoFundMe

www.gofundme.com/f/monicas-bo...

Image showing a print of a very glitched out vagina in blue and orange with the pixelated text "BOYFRIEND" appearing next to it

the image itself that the print is based on

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 21h

Do people still believe in souls or do they just say that because they are not being very careful with them if they do.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1d

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The person in this costume has been doxed by Andy Ngo and should be protected at all costs.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 22h

Atheists stop viewing the world through a lens of Christian hegemony challenge rating impossible

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