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Queen Olivia III

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🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books Residing on Space Station 1

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · Jul 2

Welcome, new followers. Here you’ll find the sci‑fi drag transmissions from #SpaceStation1 with the cuddly cat chronicles of #cuddleUnit6, static bursts of queer technicolor, and hot takes on the bizarre world I orbit above. Book news on The Cat Operator’s Manual cuddleunit5.com and tender revolt.

The Cat Operator's Manual - Get the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit

A fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with technical information, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1h

I’ll never know why I’m like this but this is how I’ve always been and more than half way through life it seems the condition is permanent.

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1h

Oh, and let me tell you the gender affirming (and crotch freshening) power of the humble pantyliner.

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The Post @thepost-nz.bsky.social · 1h

Beneath a rare Edwardian house on The Terrace, a long-buried stream still runs - and thanks to a loving restoration, it’s sparking fresh visions for Wellington’s heart.

Bricks, vodka, a hidden stream: How to transform a ‘dysfunctional’ laneway

A Swiss vision for what could soon become the capital’s coolest little side street is not so much a pipe dream, but a dream to remove a pipe.

www.thepost.co.nz

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1h

I think I’m in a teensy bit of denial about the groundswell of transphobia in the anglophone at this time. Larping on #SpaceStation1 is my coping mechanism. I’m partially cross dressed all of the time these days. Sometimes it’s stealth crossdressing. Like a women’s shirt as if it was business casual

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 2h

doctorwookie:from The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships, by Nathan H Lents (2025)
via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/796100513241399296

The image is a page of text discussing sexual orientation in animals. It explores the idea that early animals may have been drawn to engage in sex with any members of their species. The text mentions that same-sex sexual activity in animals may not require an explanation if animals generally retained a state of bi- or pan-sexuality. In contrast, heterosexuality might be what needs explaining. It also highlights that early animals might not have had different sexes at all.

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2h

*extremely Albert Camus voice*

In the end, we must imagine the dinosaurs as grateful for the asteroid.

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid came from the edge of the solar system | Natural History Museum

We now know the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

www.nhm.ac.uk

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 2h

transgender for everyone [and your chicks for free]

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 2h

This is AWESOME science - connecting astrophysical phenomena as perceived here on Earth, with Earth's fauna.

"...these analyses revealed that half of the species responded to the end of the eclipse by singing a dawn chorus despite the “night” lasting only a few minutes"

Eclipses are special!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3h

There can be no other reading, obviously

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3h

Jesus Trusty Forgiving Christ

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 3h

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE EARLY EVENING!

STYLE ICON LOUNGING KITTY OF MAJESTIC JUDGMENT!😻😻😻

River Tay Wirricowe @kauantai.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, she's got that down to an art

The same grey/brown and white tabby on a yellow blanket (with another blanket in white in the foreground), staring off somewhere as she lays. Various hoodies and the like hang from hooks in the background

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 3h

Jesus t***y f***g Christ

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 6h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 4h

And my HEAVY BREATHING

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 4h

Wrestling with #cuddleUnit6

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Wrestling with #cuddleUnit6

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Wendy O'Rourke @wendyo.bsky.social · 4h

John Lennon by Richard Avedon, Look magazine, January 1968

Avedon used color manipulation and Day-Glo (yellow, red and fuchsia) colors to create a hallucinatory effect, reflecting the psychedelic culture of the era. Black over white curvy Op Art lines cover his eyeglasses.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 4h

Darling, it’s easy to be kind when you are such a talent!

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 6h

Give Jem a follow! She’s a fund of excellent reporting.

Jem Traylen @jemtraylen.bsky.social · 8h

Yesterday's workforce data release from the Public Service Commission inspired me to get back into some data journalism.
www.linkedin.com/posts/jemtra...

Public Service 'Correction': Cuts Mask Prison Staff Surge | Jem Traylen

Public Service 'Correction': are net workforce figures a strategic mirage? Yesterday's data release from Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service Commission inspired me to get back into some data journalism. T...

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Sharon Murdoch @domesticanimal.bsky.social · 10h

Govt to cut #JobSeeker benefit for 18 & 19 year olds who’s parents earn over $65,000, even if the teens have a disability or health condition. With #CostOfLiving & the job shortage they’re cranking up stress levels to 11, all to meet a target.
My #cartoon today about hard-nosed #NZpol

Cartoon. Title: “Job Seeee-e-e-e” Image shows PM Christopher Luxon at the open hatch of a small plane, high above farmland. He’s leaning out, and holding up a parachute pack, labelled “Job Seeker” He’s calling out to someone falling from the plane, “And I’ve kept your parachute because you kids from low-income homes need some motivation” Then he adds, “Don’t let that disability slow you down!”

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WIRED @wired.com · 11h

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

Apple Took Down ICE-Tracking Apps. Their Developers Aren't Giving Up

“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store.

www.wired.com

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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 11h

Sunrise, Friday, 10 October, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 13h

theblueserpent-deactivated20250: NVIDIA and OpenAI
via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/796064755992412160

This image is an illustration of the Ouroboros, a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol representing the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, as well as the eternal nature of the universe. In this depiction, the creature is winged and crowned, set against a background with tree branches and a flower at the bottom. The style and details suggest it is from an alchemical or mystical text.

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 19h

rejectingrepublicans:
via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/796064881015242752

The image is a screenshot of a social media post by a user named qasimrashid. The post discusses the differences between a million seconds and a billion seconds, equating them to about 11 days and 32 years, respectively. It argues that nobody needs a billion dollars and suggests returning to the tax rates of 1940-1980 when the super wealthy paid 94% in marginal taxes. The post concludes by saying that billionaires are a minority destroying the country and world, advocating for abolishing billionaires and investing in working people to save democracy.

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 1d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 23h

Got your ticket for tomorrow yet? It’s gonna be such a fun time! www.trybooking.com/nz/events/la...

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