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OmegaMamba (she/her)

@omegamom.bsky.social

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New Mexico, science, climate change, politics, science fiction and fantasy, adoption, Troubles With Young Adult Children, Long Covid. Warning: My timeline is quite full, so I don’t follow back!

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · Nov 30

For those who don’t know how to do Alt-text on pics, memes, screenshots, etc., a small thread:

OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · Nov 30

For everyone who thinks Alt-text is text in your *post* that describes your photo: No! It is *attached* to the photo! You can still do a silly post about your pic *and* do alt-text! Example:

This is the top of my test post in the Bluesky app at the end of the Alt-text process—the whole thing wouldn’t fit in one screen. The photo is of a Greek town filled with whitewashed buildings, some of which have vivid aqua/turquoise painted roofs, against an ultramarine sea.

This is the bottom half of the same post.

When you click on the photo, you get the description. NOTE: You can type in UP TO —> 2,000 <— characters to describe it! (You don’t need that many. Really. Trust me.)

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 8h

Homegrown madder pigment. It's wonderful to create medieval pigment from something grown in your garden #bookhistory #medievalpigments #medievalsky

Dried madder roots in a bowl on some scales

Madder pigment being mulled on a glass slab

Madder pigment surrounded by examples of dried paint on paper and parchment

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 50m

Really good thread on the apparel industry, and why “buying American” doesn’t necessarily mean “buying ethically or cheaply”.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 1h

Some first hand accounts from Kwigillingok and Kipnuk in the thread.

Additional reporting here: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

I really wouldn’t be shining lasers at helicopters if I were you. It’s illegal and could cause an aircraft to crash - and that could kill a LOT of people, in the air and on the ground.

And the ICE goons appear to be *salivating* at the chance to claim people that they arrest were doing this:

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 2h

A bad shot of me and Cassie. For some reason, OmegaDad takes photos of me from far (ish) away.

An older lady (me) stands in a graveled driveway in front of yucca and juniper, with a darling dawg seated at her feet looking at you. (Cassie wanted to go to Dad, who is taking the photo. I am restraining her on the leash.)

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 2h

The beatings will continue until morale improves: apnews.com/article/gove...

Vance warns 'deeper' cuts ahead for federal workers as shutdown enters 12th day

Vice President JD Vance is warning of deeper cuts to the federal workforce the longer the government shutdown goes on.

apnews.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 1d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 5h

please dont let him have the martini

a cat on a table full of bottles and martinis. His reflection is distorted behind some glass

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 3h

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

Donate to Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot, organized by Carrie Sykes

There's a colony of lovely cats living in a rural neighborhood in Goldston, NC. Fr… Carrie Sykes needs your support for Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot

gofund.me

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 3h

Congrats! 😁

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 5h

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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🌑 Selene 🌑 @nightwandererart.bsky.social · 6h

I finally got a subscription for @trueref.bsky.social and dudes...The volume and range of quality pose photos you can download for a shockingly low price is incredible. A treasure trove of everything you could need. As a broke artist, this is a worthy investment and a generous resource to support.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 1d

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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OmegaMamba (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 3h

😱 It’s a QUILT!! A QUILT?!? How the heck???

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 6h

Vertex, quilt by Betty Busby #sciart

Quilt with yellow rust, red and brown shapes that suggest radiolarians

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 7h

Anna Dumitriu, Plague Dress, mixed media #sciart

19th century looking brown dress with embroidery. It is filled with plants

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 7h

Fungal Wall, hand-tufted rug by Lizan Freijsen #sciart

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 7h

Susan Aldworth, from the Brainscapes series, etching inspired by brain scan #sciart

Semi-abstract etching of brain structure in white on a dark purple blue background

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 7h

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 9h

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Landeg @landeg.bsky.social · 1d

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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Will Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 10h

Can’t these people just hire an English literary criticism major to follow them around and debate / educate them so that the rest of us don’t have to deal with their stupid messianic delusions

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 11h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Sus Scrofa @susscrofa.bsky.social · 15h

Harvard-Ökonom David Cutler hat ausgerechnet, dass Long Covid so teuer ist, dass praktisch jeder Aufwand für Diagnose, Therapie und Prävention gerechtfertigt ist.

OECD geht von 0.5-2.3 % des Bruttosozialprodukts allein für 2024 aus.

Long Covid kostet USA ohne Berücksichtigung der reduzierten Produktivität 3.7 Billionen $, entspricht 17 % des US BIP vor der Pandemie, entspricht Kosten der grossen Rezession.
Harvard Ökonom David Cutler: aufgrund dieser hohen Folgekosten lohnt sich praktisch jeder beliebig hohe finanzielle Aufwand für die Diagnose, Behandlung und Prävention von Long Covid.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 22h

“HALP”
Betelgeuse complained about being lonely and now there are consequences #Caturday

Silky grey cat held by a person in a green fleece shirt. Cat looks alarmed.

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