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Miriam Forster

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Two capybaras in a long wool cardigan pretending to be a writer. Autistic, agender, fact-checker and heretic. She/they. “Exclamation marks are numerous, but justified.” -Kirkus, starred review

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · Sep 28

Your periodic reminder that I wrote a book about shark evolution AND another one about bug evolution!

They are BIG and GORGEOUS and illustrated by the exceptional @gordywright.bsky.social

A hand holding two oversized picture books. The back one is blue and called Sharks, a Mighty Bitey History, and the front one is green and titled Bugs, a Skittery Jittery History.

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 7h

made some tourism ads for new zealand

landscape photo of beautiful lush green scenery and pristine water with tourism ad banner “100% pure new zealand” and text COME SEE MORE
THAN Z000 SPECIES
OF LICHEN!

landscape photo of beautiful lush green scenery and pristine water with tourism ad banner “100% pure new zealand” and text ENJOY A TEMPERATE
YEAR-ROUND CLIMATE
PERFECT FOR FOSTERING
LICHEN GROWTH

landscape photo of beautiful lush green scenery and pristine water with tourism ad banner “100% pure new zealand” and text UNBEATABLE LICHEN
MORPHOLOGY
• FRUTICOSE
• FOLIOSE
• CRUSTOSE
• GELATINOUS
• LEPROSE
• CRUSTOSE PLACODIOID
• AND MORE!

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Keebler Youngblood @youngkeebler.bsky.social · 7h

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4h

Again I guess my problem is

At some point

WE KNOW WHAT THE WORST OF US IS GOING TO DO
What are WE going to do for the people being targeted

They ENJOY when we give them all this press while their targets get whisked off

They aren’t intellectual or unaware

THEY ENJOY THE HARM

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4h

May I offer you a borb in these trying times? 🪶

maybe a bushtit flying directly towards the camera , extremely puffed out

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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 9h

Since some people seem to be misunderstanding things:

It's not that I can't cook from relatively scratch ingredients (flour, milk, eggs, dried beans, etc).

It's that it's not a failing to not do so every day. Which, again, is a thing that most people, even historically, didn't do either.

Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 1d

For any who need to hear this:

Most people, throughout history, have not had to cook every day. It's not weird to not always have the energy to do that. And when you have some but not tons of energy, a lot of packaged or frozen foods have gotten good in the past 20 years.

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · 9h

This is a massive deal. But it’s not a done deal. Workers have been barred from their offices, but there is still time to protect their jobs. Only your Reps can do it though. Don’t let up!

Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 9h

RIFs at CDC.

Destroying the Epidemic Intelligence Service, NCIRD, NCIPC & a dozen other areas/divisions/branches will cause enormous harm and suffering to America, and indeed to the whole world.

Call your Reps about it.

Then call them again.

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know I wrote the back cover copy for this guy???

“encounter ethical werewolf rearing, murderous tree cults, Weird insectile evolutions, seaside folk horror, corrupt environmental tourism, gothic forest wanderings, eternal plastic pollution, sea-bound cosmic horror..”

How’d I do?

A photograph of the front cover of Haunted Ecologies.

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 9h

Year of the Mer is firmly adult and I will screech obscenities directly into your face if you place it somewhere else, mentally or otherwise

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I kinda want to play "Is this YA" but I already know that 95% of the books people will ask about will not be YA.

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 10h

If you accidentally post AI slop and are told “hey that’s AI” the correct answer is to go “aw shit I didn’t know” and delete it. Not “oh oops oh well, watcha gonna do” and keep it up because it’s giving you engagement. Stop it.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 16h

Twice in 24 hours I've blocked journalists with 10k+ follower counts for uncritically reposting AI-generated video. Different videos. Look, I understand we are facing an unprecedented threat of realistic AI fabrications. That only makes it more pressing to verify sources, especially as a JOURNALIST.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h

No Kings
All Frogs

there won’t be an inflatable costume left for miles around

Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1d

My life, by Matt Tarpley

Angry frog, cartoon and four panels. The frog says I am looking my best. I am working my hardest. I am expressing myself. I am trying my best

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Important content.

Cynthia 🐈 @cynthia.dev · 16d

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 1d

Again, only 4 Mr. Olympia winners in the past 42 years have not been Black or Middle Eastern. And most of the white Olympia winners, including Schwarzenegger, are vocally anti-nazi and think racists are losers.

Anti-racist people own the gym. And we have since the dawn of bodybuilding.

Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · Apr 27

New York Times is being weird again, pretending that lifting weights and being a gym bro is a MAGA thing?

Again, only 4 Mr. Olympia winners in the past 42 years have not been Black or Middle Eastern. The current Mr. Olympia is a Black feminist. The Joe Weider bust, is Robbie Robinson, head-swapped🤡

An older Robbie Robinson, a powerfully built Black bodybuilder, next to a bust of Joe Weider's face, on Robbie Robinson's body.

No, they didn't tell Robbie Robinson that they would head swap him. He thought he was posing for a bust of himself. He found out at the unveiling, along with everyone else. He was embarrassed in front of his family and friends.

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 1d

That’s how you know the bunny is not of God.

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 1d

I always smashed mine, melted them with peanut butter and put the whole mess in the freezer but even then I didn’t use a fork.

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 1d

Heard the Bunny Song from Veggie Tales today, and now I’m stuck on who in the hell eats a chocolate rabbit with a fork?

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Dr ICE Scream Maker: Slasher of Fash 🔪 @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 1d

I SAW ANTIFA LEADERSHIP DANCING WITH THE DEVIL IN COP CITY

ADHD Preacher @adhd-preacher.bsky.social · 1d

I heard directly from the antifa leadership that all of the antifa documents are stored in the cloud by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

I also heard that there are backups stored on Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.

Spark ⛓️‍💥 @hey-nunya-business.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely don't go after ANTIFA's Temu income stream either. It would be terribly tragic if the entire company fell and crippled ANTIFA's ability to rebuild.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 1d

Juno is a clam dunk champion 🏀

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 1d

This proclamation is batshit insane and i just want everyone to try to fathom, for one second, what is like being a Native person on their homeland with invaders and occupiers continuously spouting lies and threatening violence against those who defy it.

Also, this means we’re winning 💅🏽

The WHITE HOUSE
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Today our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus — the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth. This Columbus Day, we honor his life with reverence and gratitude, and we pledge to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory.

Just over 2 months later, on October 12, 1492, Columbus made landfall in the modern-day Bahamas. Upon his arrival, he planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America's proud birthright of faith. Though he initially believed he had arrived in Asia, his discovery opened the vast frontier and untold splendors of the New World to Europe. He later ventured onward to Cuba and other islands in the Caribbean - exploring their coasts and engaging with their people.
Guided by steadfast prayer and unwavering fortitude and resolve, Columbus's journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas — paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776.

The WHITE HOUSE
Outrageously, in recent years, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage. Before our very eyes, left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments, tarnished his character, and sought to exile him from our public spaces. Under my leadership, those days are finally over — and our Nation will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.

The WHITE HOUSE
This Columbus Day, more than 500 years since Columbus arrived in the New World, we follow his example, we echo his resolve, and we offer our gratitude for his life of valor and grit. Above all, we commit to restoring a Nation that once again dares to tame the unknown, honors our rich cultural inheritance, and offers rightful praise to our Creator above.
In commemoration of Christopher Columbus's historic voyage, the Congress, by joint resolution of April 30, 1934, and modified in 1968 (36 U.S.C. 107), as amended, has requested the President proclaim the second Monday of October of each year as
"Columbus Day."

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a scrub jay with a peanut out of nowhere last week. They love those things. 😂

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 6d

Geordi La Forge Nope/Yes meme, but the yes has laser eyes in the visor:

NOPE:
"Do Not Comply In Advance"
- bossy
- already a cliche
- implies permission to comply later

YES:
"Fuck You, Make Me"
- leads by example
- directs yelling at opposition instead of allies
- easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 2d

Black autistic girls exist and they’ve always been here. It’s time the world stopped overlooking them. Representation saves lives 🫶🏽 ‘I’m Autistic & I’m Phenomenal’ is that representation all little Black autistic girls need! 🖤🫶🏽♾️

Phenomenally autistic holding a copy of her children’s book I’m autistic & im phenomenall the cover is pink with a little black girl with 2 Afro puff ponytails , the background of the photo is pink & teal ombré & phenomenally autistic has curly hair hoop earrings and a pink T-shirt on

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