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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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Néha 🌻😷 // Don't Tag - I owe medical money :( @neha.bsky.social · Aug 4

My birthday is this fall 💛

Nothing would make me happier than to see the Palestinians I've been in contact with have enough money each day for food and supplies for babies and children 😭

Please help me help them out!! 🫂

I can confirm they are all real people, we have been speaking for months ❤️‍🩹

Néha 🌻😷 // Don't Tag - I owe medical money :( @neha.bsky.social · Jul 8

Priority fundraisers with Palestinians I have personally been in contact with over a few months 🍉🧵

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

When the Proud Boys stormed the Capital and tried to overthrow the government, we were told it was “just a protest”.

They were pardoned.

But furries dancing in Portland and priests praying in Chicago are a threat to the government?

Those fighting fascism are terrorists?

Welcome to fascism.

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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 1d

HUGE NEWS Scientists reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms using nanoparticles that clear brain plaque & restore memory

In a massive breakthrough, researchers from Spain & China developed nanoparticles that remove toxic Alzheimer’s plaques from the brain AND repair the brain’s natural defense system.

Scientists achieve "striking reversal of Alzheimer’s" in mice

“Our results point to a new path: fix the barrier that keeps the brain healthy," researcher Giuseppe Battaglia told Newsweek.

www.newsweek.com

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 1h

I live in a complex with a lot of stray/outdoor cats and overheard a neighbor talking about one that died tragically the other day. I like the suggestion one person mentioned about putting up posters so that, if she does have a guardian, they can contact you

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 7h

Please share widely! Urgent!
Please help our friend @maedayj.bsky.social stay housed!
Today is the deadline, eviction process will start if Mae can't get this done today!
Mae does so much work for our communities, especially her work with @chronicloaf.bsky.social.
If you can't help, please share! ❤️🌸

Mae_DayJ @maedayj.bsky.social · 1d

If I cant raise $975 today I’ll likely be facing eviction this month

I’m out of time

Please help if you can!🙏🏽💚

$maelee21
V: @ Maelee-Johnson
PayPal.me/maeleeJ
ko-fi.com/maedaej

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 2h

Makes sense! They're very cute

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Guilherme Nunes - Commissions Open!! @guilhernunes.bsky.social · 2h

puppy practicing his poor little face to ask for a treat

painting of a supposed chihuahua looking at the mirror with a pitiful, crying face

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 2h

Bit of a silly question but did you make the patterns too? I love this

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 4h

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 2h

I'm just a lapsed baby programmer but you'd be better off just looking things up when you're stuck? Figuring out answers and how to find them is a good thing to practice

Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 2h

People love citing code as one of the "best use cases" for LLMs and the like and it's like... no? They're actually not very good at it?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 8h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 2h

Love this jacket!! Great fit per usual

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 2h

Surprising that more Dems have not said something like this. There are ways to say it without sounding like it’s a direct threat.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 11h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 3h

Researchers: Live H5N1 avian flu can survive in raw-milk cheese for up to 6 months www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

Researchers: Live H5N1 avian flu can survive in raw-milk cheese for up to 6 months

Infectious virus persisted throughout the cheese-making process and aging in cheeses made with raw milk at pH levels above 5.0.

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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ThirtyHelens🔞 @thirtyhelens.bsky.social · 2h

This is the exact example you should be bringing up when calling and writing to your representatives about digital age verification

404 Media @404media.co · 13h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 10h

If this apartment weren't so loud, I might try to do audio for children's books I like

Scaredy Kat (she/they) @doggamn.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like I'm the only person who hears themselves on audio and is like, "Yeah no that's exactly what I sound like"

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 13h

Since I'm talking about this, does anybody need line editing or copy editing on their books or movement resources? I would love to help nurture your works about making change or understanding the current moment and its history. I've got 20 years of experience and I will never ever use "AI"/LLMs.

Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 1d

I made a connection that has helped me shift my career to align more closely with my values in ways that are life-changing for me.