Toni
@datagoddess.bsky.social
Storage engineer by day, knitting and reading by night. Queer. Autistic. Polyam. GenX. Childless, no cats.
She/her
ME/CFS, Fibro, supplemental oxygen
A former Hoosier now in Kentucky via Pennsylvania and Colorado.
She/her
ME/CFS, Fibro, supplemental oxygen
A former Hoosier now in Kentucky via Pennsylvania and Colorado.
I love Clue and didn't realize it had lore, either. The story with the details is here - www.atlasobscura.com/articles/col...
December 28, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I love Clue and didn't realize it had lore, either. The story with the details is here - www.atlasobscura.com/articles/col...
I. AM. DYING. 🤣🤣🤣
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I. AM. DYING. 🤣🤣🤣
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Housing is health, dignity, stability, & community.
That's why I'm proud to see my Eviction Helpline Act & Helping More Families Save Act pass out of committee.
Congress must pass these bills without delay, & we must keep fighting to affirm housing as the human right it is.
That's why I'm proud to see my Eviction Helpline Act & Helping More Families Save Act pass out of committee.
Congress must pass these bills without delay, & we must keep fighting to affirm housing as the human right it is.
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Housing is health, dignity, stability, & community.
That's why I'm proud to see my Eviction Helpline Act & Helping More Families Save Act pass out of committee.
Congress must pass these bills without delay, & we must keep fighting to affirm housing as the human right it is.
That's why I'm proud to see my Eviction Helpline Act & Helping More Families Save Act pass out of committee.
Congress must pass these bills without delay, & we must keep fighting to affirm housing as the human right it is.
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ALSO: we now have a chicken pox vaccine.
ALSO: having had chicken pox when young is how you get shingles when you’re old
ALSO: we now have a shingles vaccine
ALSO: MEASLES IS A WHOLE OTHER VIRUS THAT MAY KILL YOU AND ALSO WIPES YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM’S MEMORY OF PRIOR INFECTIONS AND VACCINATIONS
ALSO: having had chicken pox when young is how you get shingles when you’re old
ALSO: we now have a shingles vaccine
ALSO: MEASLES IS A WHOLE OTHER VIRUS THAT MAY KILL YOU AND ALSO WIPES YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM’S MEMORY OF PRIOR INFECTIONS AND VACCINATIONS
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ALSO: we now have a chicken pox vaccine.
ALSO: having had chicken pox when young is how you get shingles when you’re old
ALSO: we now have a shingles vaccine
ALSO: MEASLES IS A WHOLE OTHER VIRUS THAT MAY KILL YOU AND ALSO WIPES YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM’S MEMORY OF PRIOR INFECTIONS AND VACCINATIONS
ALSO: having had chicken pox when young is how you get shingles when you’re old
ALSO: we now have a shingles vaccine
ALSO: MEASLES IS A WHOLE OTHER VIRUS THAT MAY KILL YOU AND ALSO WIPES YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM’S MEMORY OF PRIOR INFECTIONS AND VACCINATIONS
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Reading this, I realize that if they'd just used a different soundtrack, the movie could've been an incredibly dark horror/thriller.
December 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Reading this, I realize that if they'd just used a different soundtrack, the movie could've been an incredibly dark horror/thriller.
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Wishing everyone a full recovery from this very frightening Christmas tree fire in Maryland. Please continue to water your real Christmas tree and if you are using vintage Christmas tree lights, check to make sure they are in good condition.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...
Christmas tree fire ignited by old lights injures 4 people and dog in Bethesda
One person was critically injured, and Montgomery County firefighters resuscitated a large dog after the blaze on Christmas Day, officials said.
www.nbcwashington.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Wishing everyone a full recovery from this very frightening Christmas tree fire in Maryland. Please continue to water your real Christmas tree and if you are using vintage Christmas tree lights, check to make sure they are in good condition.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/c...
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omggg important Gävle goat news!!
NEW – Sweden: Storm knocks down Gävle Goat
www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...
December 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
omggg important Gävle goat news!!
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Postulate a spherical dude
I'm still upset that "manosphere" doesn't refer to men who have been crushed and formed into a perfect orb.
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Postulate a spherical dude
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Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
I’ve been trying very hard to not be an asshole as I get older. Often, that just means keeping my mouth shut and nodding along.
December 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
1. Does this need to be said
2. Does this need to be said by me
3. Does this need to be said by me right now
It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)
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Needed Alt Text, has alt text.
(I am PRETTY sure on the pairs of faces in the last two, Cisneros and Grassley, and Doggett and Whitehouse, but not real distinct icons)
(I am PRETTY sure on the pairs of faces in the last two, Cisneros and Grassley, and Doggett and Whitehouse, but not real distinct icons)
December 25, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Needed Alt Text, has alt text.
(I am PRETTY sure on the pairs of faces in the last two, Cisneros and Grassley, and Doggett and Whitehouse, but not real distinct icons)
(I am PRETTY sure on the pairs of faces in the last two, Cisneros and Grassley, and Doggett and Whitehouse, but not real distinct icons)
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The next time someone tells you Coca-Cola invented modern Santa, you can lay one helluva WELL ACTUALLY on them.
One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
![HARPERS WEEKLY.
JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION
Vor. VII.-No. 314.]
NEW
YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY
1863.
GELCOM
SANTA CLAUS
SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qiknc4t5rq7yngvz7g4aezq7/bafkreiez4d5lsrpbn3mrwkwrnbrhb3ra7dmvagbxjaz7hg5be7njnsbary@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The next time someone tells you Coca-Cola invented modern Santa, you can lay one helluva WELL ACTUALLY on them.
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On his busiest day of the year, spare a thought for poor Rudolph, who is doing all of this while he's pregnant masto.ai/@vagina_muse...
Vagina Museum (@[email protected])
Reindeer are a little unusual among deer. In most species, only males grow antlers, but in reindeer, these big old head bones are a perfectly normal feature for females, too! And how and why they grow...
masto.ai
December 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
On his busiest day of the year, spare a thought for poor Rudolph, who is doing all of this while he's pregnant masto.ai/@vagina_muse...
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Will be signing off shortly, in time for Carols from Kings.
Hope you all have a LOVELY holiday. 🎅☃️🎄
Thanks for being such an awesome bunch and a very Merry Christmas from all of us, and from The Ghost of Christmas That We Don't Like To Talk About.
#CuratorRob
Hope you all have a LOVELY holiday. 🎅☃️🎄
Thanks for being such an awesome bunch and a very Merry Christmas from all of us, and from The Ghost of Christmas That We Don't Like To Talk About.
#CuratorRob
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Will be signing off shortly, in time for Carols from Kings.
Hope you all have a LOVELY holiday. 🎅☃️🎄
Thanks for being such an awesome bunch and a very Merry Christmas from all of us, and from The Ghost of Christmas That We Don't Like To Talk About.
#CuratorRob
Hope you all have a LOVELY holiday. 🎅☃️🎄
Thanks for being such an awesome bunch and a very Merry Christmas from all of us, and from The Ghost of Christmas That We Don't Like To Talk About.
#CuratorRob
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Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday
Your mental health deserves care, patience, and compassion, just like everyone else’s.
Go gently with yourself
What matters most is not what’s missing,
but how we tend to what’s already ours.
Hold steady to what you can shape today
Your mental health deserves care, patience, and compassion, just like everyone else’s.
Go gently with yourself
What matters most is not what’s missing,
but how we tend to what’s already ours.
Hold steady to what you can shape today
December 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Good morning & welcome to Whiskers Wednesday
Your mental health deserves care, patience, and compassion, just like everyone else’s.
Go gently with yourself
What matters most is not what’s missing,
but how we tend to what’s already ours.
Hold steady to what you can shape today
Your mental health deserves care, patience, and compassion, just like everyone else’s.
Go gently with yourself
What matters most is not what’s missing,
but how we tend to what’s already ours.
Hold steady to what you can shape today
OMG! Troublepuffs and all!
Can share now that these have been gifted. Presenting the Christmas ornaments I’ve been giggling about for days. Especially the Cheshire Cat one.
Pattern from YouTube. They’re perfect really. I mean is this not the exact view you have of your cat as soon as the holiday tree goes up? So silly! 😆
Pattern from YouTube. They’re perfect really. I mean is this not the exact view you have of your cat as soon as the holiday tree goes up? So silly! 😆
December 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
OMG! Troublepuffs and all!
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You know “Rule 3: Nothing ever stops until a Rich White Guy goes to jail”, was meant for a different context, but it absolutely applies to all these government agents. These people are violating court orders. An unenforced law is not a law.
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
You know “Rule 3: Nothing ever stops until a Rich White Guy goes to jail”, was meant for a different context, but it absolutely applies to all these government agents. These people are violating court orders. An unenforced law is not a law.
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We are so ready to welcome back the light!
December 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We are so ready to welcome back the light!
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The more you have had covid, the more chance you have to have a heart attack, stroke, or aneurysm. Please wear a mask indoors when you’re not at home.
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The more you have had covid, the more chance you have to have a heart attack, stroke, or aneurysm. Please wear a mask indoors when you’re not at home.
So we're now hotelling it in Louisville until the truck with our stuff arrives.
We don't have a date yet other than "after Christmas". Our stuff is sitting in a truck somewhere around Fort Collins.
At least our room has a kitchenette.
We don't have a date yet other than "after Christmas". Our stuff is sitting in a truck somewhere around Fort Collins.
At least our room has a kitchenette.
December 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
So we're now hotelling it in Louisville until the truck with our stuff arrives.
We don't have a date yet other than "after Christmas". Our stuff is sitting in a truck somewhere around Fort Collins.
At least our room has a kitchenette.
We don't have a date yet other than "after Christmas". Our stuff is sitting in a truck somewhere around Fort Collins.
At least our room has a kitchenette.
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So many things would be improved for fat people if medical research had to include fat people alongside thin people.
Surgeries, drug trials, nutrition, anesthesia, pain treatment...even the size of things like blood pressure cuffs. All of these things were developed by studying ONLY THIN PEOPLE.
Surgeries, drug trials, nutrition, anesthesia, pain treatment...even the size of things like blood pressure cuffs. All of these things were developed by studying ONLY THIN PEOPLE.
I genuinely don't think modern medicine will ever be prepared to serve the needs and problems of obesity until it becomes a field akin to gerontology that studies the obese existence as a holistic system. So long as medical professionals treat it with the same heedlessness as the flu, we're fucked.
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
So many things would be improved for fat people if medical research had to include fat people alongside thin people.
Surgeries, drug trials, nutrition, anesthesia, pain treatment...even the size of things like blood pressure cuffs. All of these things were developed by studying ONLY THIN PEOPLE.
Surgeries, drug trials, nutrition, anesthesia, pain treatment...even the size of things like blood pressure cuffs. All of these things were developed by studying ONLY THIN PEOPLE.
Fucking true.
Also the whole thread is great.
Also the whole thread is great.
People narrow their world until they are boxed into a tiny space and then they get angry that other people are free.
December 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Fucking true.
Also the whole thread is great.
Also the whole thread is great.
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this is the future (and, in many cases, the present) of the Republican Party
the younger generations may not have quite as many Republicans but the ones they do have are the worst people you have ever met
the younger generations may not have quite as many Republicans but the ones they do have are the worst people you have ever met
December 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
this is the future (and, in many cases, the present) of the Republican Party
the younger generations may not have quite as many Republicans but the ones they do have are the worst people you have ever met
the younger generations may not have quite as many Republicans but the ones they do have are the worst people you have ever met
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While on a science diving trip in Kona, Hawaii, a group of Aquarium staffers encountered a humpback whale. 🐋 The experience led them to commemorate the whale sighting with matching tattoos.
There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all. Defend endangered species: mbayaq.co/4j2znrt
There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all. Defend endangered species: mbayaq.co/4j2znrt
Tides & Tattoos: A whale sighting to remember
YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
While on a science diving trip in Kona, Hawaii, a group of Aquarium staffers encountered a humpback whale. 🐋 The experience led them to commemorate the whale sighting with matching tattoos.
There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all. Defend endangered species: mbayaq.co/4j2znrt
There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all. Defend endangered species: mbayaq.co/4j2znrt
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You want to drop everything and switch your bank accounts away from this. Today. I am serious. Find a credit union and go.
"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You want to drop everything and switch your bank accounts away from this. Today. I am serious. Find a credit union and go.
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See also: "Sir! Sir! Please help us cut off our own nose to spite our face!" 😏
meanwhile, the Twitterati are calling for a ban on all travel from Europe
December 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
See also: "Sir! Sir! Please help us cut off our own nose to spite our face!" 😏