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Sara Cate 🍄 She/Her 🌲Portland, OR ☔️ A soft and rotten creature with internet access and ADHD 🐌 writer and poet (derogatory)✨ACAB 🐈 all my homies hate fascists, capitalism, and AI ✌🏻Buy my digital zine: https://papersnail.gumroad.com/

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S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · Aug 13

Was watching old episodes of American Gladiators and found perhaps the greatest guy of all time

Picture of a contestant from American Gladiators in the early 90’s, with a wild auburn mullet and a mustache, with the text “Purple Roundy, Phoenix AZ” superimposed on top, because that’s his name for real. Purple Roundy.

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S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 1h

The eugenics is the point, but they also still need to find some way to pay for those big beautiful billionaire tax breaks and cutting every public service is their chosen method

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

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:

S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 5h

Really convenient that the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in this country has perfectly coincided with technology that makes it effortless to create seamless false realities with the snap of a finger. Surely this was not planned

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 7h

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

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S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 1d

They’re turning the frickin’ frogs antifa

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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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 1d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 1d

This boils my blood. We already were not acting fast enough to mitigate climate chaos and now we’re going to double down on our own doom so rich people can have more tax cuts and eugenics. We need to remove all these ghouls from power with physical force immediately, they are a plague of death

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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George @hannahtempler.com · 2d

the issue is steeped in so much incompetence that tech creeps are printing their own money using a dead internet until they get "caught", by which time they'll be long gone or have enough money to build a fortress on the moon or whatever the fuck

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George @hannahtempler.com · 2d

i just think pouring money into a hole of promises that has never shown returns in any way should maybe come with consequences! not more money to throw into a new hole. but what do i know

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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 4d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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nattie winters @utilitylimb.bsky.social · 3d

the zapruder film makes a lot more sense when you see the new version with the pikmin

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3d

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 3d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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pilot @pilotv.bsky.social · 4d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today AND No Borders/The Rolling Library just launched our mini book drive to send books to people who are incarcerated at Rikers. these are all titles/authors they requested, and most under $15. you can purchase directly via our wishlist: bookshop.org/wishlists/7a...

we’re hosting a mini book drive to send more books to our neighbors who are incarcerated on rikers! our wishlist is full of specifically requested books—purchase any title and it’ll be sent directly to us to pass along.

tinyurl.com/fallbookdrive

For info about donating gently used books (only the titles & authors on this list) or any other questions, email therollinglibrary@gmail.com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 4d

We need a Luddite revolution asap and I mean that in every sense of the word

Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 4d

“By 2028, an average family in the region will be paying around $70 a month extra on their electricity bills because of forecasted data center growth”

I'm once again asking why ratepayers are subsidizing AI titans?

www.eenews.net/articles/dat...

Data center boom sparks sticker shock for PJM ratepayers

New analyses show that costs passed on to utility customers to guarantee future electricity demand are rising rapidly.

www.eenews.net

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 6d

I asked chatgpt and he said this is fine

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d

The AI bubble, which accounts for over a third of the US stock market, which exceeds the amount of consumer spending, which has literally warped the entire tech industry into an incestuous ponzi scheme of funding, is 17 times bigger than the dot com bubble.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 6d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 7d

Child woke???? Not on MY watch

An empty paper form that reads: Infant Room Daily Note
Parent/Guardian Section:
Child's Name:
Child Woke @
Additional Notes:
Bottle Start Time:
oz/mL drank
Naps:

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 11d

If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage

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S.Cate or Die 🐌🛹 @saracate.bsky.social · 7d

Get you a husband who memeifies the dumb shit you say

An image of a beautiful autumn lane of red and golden fall foliage. The text on the upper left reads “I am so glad I live in a world where there is ibuprofen.” Bottom right text reads: “-my wife” (it’s me I’m the wife)

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 7d

The Simpsons scene where Mr Burns announces that everyone who has found true love can leave early. Except he says "every country who's arrested and imprisoned a President within the past year may leave early". France, South Korea and Brazil celebrate

The one guy left alone who's not allowed to leave early, with a USA flag on him

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7d

The smartest newsroom in America: is intentionally hitting two people with a vehicle at 70 miles per hour some sort of crime?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7d

Residents of a small New Jersey town mourned the deaths of the 17-year-old friends as a third teenager was charged with hitting them intentionally at 70 miles per hour.

2 Teen Girls Were Run Over on Their Way to Get Ice Cream. Was It Murder?

Residents of a small New Jersey town mourned the deaths of the 17-year-old friends as a third teenager was charged with hitting them intentionally at 70 miles per hour.

nyti.ms

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 8d

and scene

a tweet by Dana Gould @danagould that says:

Thinking about Rush Limbaugh and how, now that he's dead, you never, ever hear about him. No one mentions anything he did.
Because what he did had no value.
It contributed nothing worthwhile to the culture. Nothing of lasting value.
He just made anger. Every day.
Rising, blooming & fading like a fart.
Then he died & was instantly replaced by a fleet of little replicas, farting fake fury five days a week.
Creating nothing of interest or artistic value to anyone.
Seriously, what an awful way to make a living.

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