The Hidden Zoo
@hiddenzoo.bsky.social
One of the hosts of a comedy cryptozoology podcast that is on indefinite hiatus. Once upon a time, we made fun of cryptids every week or so.
I grew up in a lilly white upper middle class suburb in Ohio. I get sunburnt at night. I had non-family aunts and uncles. For fuck's sake.
This seems like an unusually boneheaded argument for someone from La Mega to make. It’s a perfectly normal broad familial term across multiple cultures.
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In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I grew up in a lilly white upper middle class suburb in Ohio. I get sunburnt at night. I had non-family aunts and uncles. For fuck's sake.
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I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
October 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering
I mean, none of it is on page 1, so
Sometimes I wonder whether the constant violations of the constitution and humanitarian outrages aren’t just a means of keeping the equally constant bribery and corruption off page 1.
Trump is turning the presidency into a massive Bribe Delivery System, or BDS. He's creating many new avenues for media companies, law firms, universities, etc to channel tribute payments as he directs. Feeding the BDS is the cost of doing business in Trump's America.
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
newrepublic.com/article/2021...
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I mean, none of it is on page 1, so
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Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
October 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.
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sunday monday nazi chat
tuesday wednesday nazi chat
thursday friday nazi tat
nazi hats?
nazi cats?
nazi stuff in the news
tuesday wednesday nazi chat
thursday friday nazi tat
nazi hats?
nazi cats?
nazi stuff in the news
October 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
sunday monday nazi chat
tuesday wednesday nazi chat
thursday friday nazi tat
nazi hats?
nazi cats?
nazi stuff in the news
tuesday wednesday nazi chat
thursday friday nazi tat
nazi hats?
nazi cats?
nazi stuff in the news
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
White America desperately needs to reckon with the fact that being a polite person is not the same as being a good person.
White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.
I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽♀️
I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽♀️
October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
White America desperately needs to reckon with the fact that being a polite person is not the same as being a good person.
Seriously, who gives a fuck
RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."
October 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Seriously, who gives a fuck
House of Leaves is terrible. It attempts to hide being absolutely trite with a pointlessly convoluted set of narratives and meaningless bullshit (oh, "house" is always blue? Who gives a shit?) It's about as deep as a freshman English major's worst output and 10x as pretentious. Fuck House of Leaves.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
House of Leaves is terrible. It attempts to hide being absolutely trite with a pointlessly convoluted set of narratives and meaningless bullshit (oh, "house" is always blue? Who gives a shit?) It's about as deep as a freshman English major's worst output and 10x as pretentious. Fuck House of Leaves.
One of my literary takes is that Crichton basically rewrote "Frankenstein" a dozen times. "Frankenstein with dinosaurs." "Frankenstein with nanotech." "Frankenstein with time travel."
If scientists could play God with it, he'd write about it.
If scientists could play God with it, he'd write about it.
October 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
One of my literary takes is that Crichton basically rewrote "Frankenstein" a dozen times. "Frankenstein with dinosaurs." "Frankenstein with nanotech." "Frankenstein with time travel."
If scientists could play God with it, he'd write about it.
If scientists could play God with it, he'd write about it.
In a sane world this motherfucker should be manning the least successful booth at an open air market in Murfreesboro, TN
LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH
October 11, 2025 at 4:20 PM
In a sane world this motherfucker should be manning the least successful booth at an open air market in Murfreesboro, TN
Huh. You don't say
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa
October 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Huh. You don't say
Love too work so hard to be "nonpartisan" that you just accept that anything fascists do is more or less okay
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained
President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.
n.pr
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Love too work so hard to be "nonpartisan" that you just accept that anything fascists do is more or less okay
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We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)
October 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)
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UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal
Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.
abcnews.go.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.
Basically every time I reach for my spice rack I think "8 spices! Some of these must be doubles."
youtu.be/kPA90uCyc7A?...
youtu.be/kPA90uCyc7A?...
October 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Basically every time I reach for my spice rack I think "8 spices! Some of these must be doubles."
youtu.be/kPA90uCyc7A?...
youtu.be/kPA90uCyc7A?...
SecDef about to found the Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers
September 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
SecDef about to found the Ancient Mystic Society of No Homers
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I'm sure we all feel much safer knowing that OpenAI has a direct pipeline to law enforcement based on their own murky definition of "danger." So-called "wellness checks" by police often turn into homicide. CHATBOTS ARE SURVEILLANCE TOOLS- what clearer picture needs to be painted?
September 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I'm sure we all feel much safer knowing that OpenAI has a direct pipeline to law enforcement based on their own murky definition of "danger." So-called "wellness checks" by police often turn into homicide. CHATBOTS ARE SURVEILLANCE TOOLS- what clearer picture needs to be painted?
I own Cracked Rear View Hootie and the Blowfish on vinyl. Picture disc vinyl.
What’s the most uncool thing about you?
For me it’s that in a few short hours I will have seen Counting Crows three separate times in my life.
For me it’s that in a few short hours I will have seen Counting Crows three separate times in my life.
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I own Cracked Rear View Hootie and the Blowfish on vinyl. Picture disc vinyl.
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
September 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.
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Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
September 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.
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I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once.
I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.
I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.
September 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once.
I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.
I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.