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I'm Here Live I'm a Kat

@katsharki3.bsky.social

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She/her. Ace and queer. 🖤🩶🤍💜 🏳‍🌈 Trans Rights are Human Rights 🏳‍⚧ Wildlife Endocrinologist and 💩 expert. Still kind of a shark biologist? "A very considerate shark vampire." Shark emoji critic. Still masking. COVID isn't over. 😷

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I'm Here Live I'm a Kat @katsharki3.bsky.social · Jul 3

New social media, 4 years later, and time for an update of my shark emoji review!

Twitter manages to be the WORST, twice this time.

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social Please help me spread this again 🦈🦈🦈

A screenshot of various cartoon emoji sharks and a review of each. The review text will follow in thread.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 1d

We love our shape-shifting, color-changing squid wizards in Coral City 🧙‍♂️🦑🔮🦑🧙 #reefsquid #caribbeanreefsquid #squid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #chromatophores #colorchange #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 23h

Is this how French grunts French kiss? #frenchgrunt #grunt #frenchkiss #mouthoff #mouthfight #makeout #kissyfish #showdown #spat #quarrel #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

The "set aside the art from the artist" thing in this case is moot. Harry Potter money now goes right to destroying the human rights of trans persons. A billionaire who got her ass kissed for two decades got a rebuke and now she's got to wreck the lives of others.

Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 19h

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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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 11h

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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🦋 @occhitristi.bsky.social · 18h

Being neurodivergent means you over-explain EVERYTHING in hopes of clear communication, then get anxious that your over-explanation was irritating and actually made things more confusing 🫤

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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I'm Here Live I'm a Kat @katsharki3.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland frogs have been joined by a shark @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Someone’s gonna make him his own little participant trophy peace award.

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💀🔥Squirm in Hell-ville🔥💀 @rhetorusrex.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone offers me something that AI can supposedly do for me, I have to remind them that that's just what my brain does. I was hired because of what my brain can do. Don't hire me to do it and then ask me to use AI to do it for me.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 1d

6/ Parents, please take note: seeing headlines like this can be stressful. Know that you are doing an amazing job. Asking questions, seeking evidence, and leading with care is exactly what good parents do. And no, there’s no causal link between Tylenol use and autism in babies or pregnant women.

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soul nate @mnateshyamalan.bsky.social · 1d

so crazy to just be living every day through the slow motion car crash of escalating fascism and it’s still like. aw man i have to go to the dentist

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 2d

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"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

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Ryan Warner @ryanhasaquestion.bsky.social · 2d

Hi, this is your dentist or doctor or restaurant we’re just confirming for a 17th time that you’re coming press 1 to confirm press 2 to cancel and face the wrath of a hoard of possums

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Library Joy! Libraries keep receipts 🥳

Text reads: Love when a library receipt shows you how much you have saved and benefited from by using your library card 😊
You just saved $50.00 by using your library. You have saved $672.57 this past year and $4,455.84
since you began using the library!

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

It's PHYSICS FOR CATS publication day!! Luna has her copy: do you? www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

A black cat sits on a wicker basket reading the book PHYSICS FOR CATS by Tom Gauld... Ok, so she's not really reading it. She's not even quite looking at it to be completely honest. But it is possible to imagine that she is reading and thoroughly enjoying it.

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NPR @npr.org · 4d

A year ago, Rwanda faced its first outbreak of Marburg virus. Dr. Tsion Firew remembers how scared she was — and how that didn't stop her from playing a key role in the remarkably effective response.

A bold doctor sent her kids away and helped beat one of the world's deadliest viruses

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