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Sabrina Imbler
@sabs.bsky.social
charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
signal: simbler.88
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
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Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
saving my voice memos from my friends and replaying them like affirmations while I brush my teeth. I am doing great!! I am being brave and vulnerable!! I am a good parent to my high-maintenance cats!!
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
can anyone explain when/why so many people on dating apps began self-identifying as "a silly goose" or, in some cases "the silliest goose" ? this feels new and alarming
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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If you ever wanted to be edited by me, now's your chance. (More importantly: This internship pays well and can be remote.) defector.com/would-you-li...
Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
wow we're hiring another intern!!! please come apply to work with us!!! we're fun and normal [ed note: source?]!!!
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Would You Like To Be Defector’s Sixth-Ever Editorial Intern? | Defector
Big news: Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here to answer that question, and many more. What will a Defector inte...
defector.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
if I could just hold one (1) seal tightly for about five minutes I think it could fix me 😭
November 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
the only montage I'm interested in!!!!!
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
man fuck the atlantic for this headline are you serious
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?

Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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if u missed Sex Change and the City book tour, now is a GREAT time to snag ur copies because you get our BIGGEST SALE of the year plus a FREE PRINT of beautiful mysterious artwork!!! :) :) :)

girldadpress.bigcartel.com, use code THECITY
November 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
unironically using the My Favorite Things method method to feel better these days.... gossip in voice notes and the new rosalía, trader joes mangoes and a new cozy sweater, really fast wifi with a cool name, etc!
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
watching the sound of music and I forgot the dad’s name is pronounced gay org. everyone in here talking about Gay Org!!!
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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It’s real! It’s real! You can pre-order MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90s AND BEYOND here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-...
November 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
the best thing about t4t dating is that everyone is feeling like the hottest, most embodied version of themselves and we're all just happy to be here 🙂 the worst thing about t4t dating is that everyone is solo poly 😔
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.

Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
just learned that rosalía is saying “ti voy” and not “t-boy” 😢
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
just learned that rosalía is saying “ti voy” and not “t-boy” 😢
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
and we are once again listening to Ambient 1: Music For Airports (Remastered 2004) 😤
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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"A Chinese immigrant was found dead in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, with his hands and feet tied behind him, an attorney has alleged."

www.newsweek.com/ice-detainee...
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
just woke up from a vivid dream about a new Christmas movie called Merry Leechmas in which a family’s country home is overtaken by a fast-multiplying population of leeches, dividing the family between those who seek to exterminate the leeches and those who wish to live in harmony with them
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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i hope people read this report. jasper's view of the industry is sharp, clear-eyed, fair, and reasonable in its hopes and skepticisms: defector.com/defector-ann...
Defector Annual Report, September 2024 – August 2025 | Defector
Published on November 19, 2025 Purpose of this report Defector celebrated our fifth birthday in September 2025. It is a great honor, and something of a burden, to be publishing a fifth Annual Report. ...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A new profile of RFK Jr offers fresh insights into how he works, the bond he shares with Trump, & how he's moved HHS “from evidence-based decision-making to decision-based evidence-making." Story by @chelseacirruzzo.bsky.social, @caseyross.bsky.social, & me:

www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...
How RFK Jr., America's celebrity health secretary, is steamrolling science
RFK Jr. is plowing ahead with sweeping changes to U.S. health care that have thrilled supporters, purged opponents, and horrified critics.
www.statnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
this should all remind us of the power of a really good kicker, how if can redeem a piece no matter how mangled the metaphor or purple the prose
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Made for each other! Rooting for those two crazy kids
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM