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Snailchick 🏴‍☠️🐌🇨🇦🐸
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She/her. Vancouver, Canada. Trying to deal with *gestures at everything* with fury and fandom.

Lover of OFMD, Discworld, LOTR, science (except the math parts), libraries, and various escapist joys. Passionate hater of punching down.
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doctornerdlove.com
Your Guide To New Relationship Gift Giving
Your Guide To New Relationship Gift Giving
(Doctor's Note: It's Black Friday and I'm on vacation. In the spirit of the season - and the shopping tradition - I'm re-running this article from 2013....) I'm going to be honest with you: I'm not a huge Christmas guy. Halloween's more my holiday these days. It's not a Grinch thing; I don't have anything against the holiday in theory. I genuinely loved certain family traditions like the annual gathering of as many friends as possible to take over a local Tex-Mex restaurant for Christmas Eve lunch - before we all got older and had responsibilities that made it impossible to
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December 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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jeymccreight.bsky.social
If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here

Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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scarleteen.com
We could definitely use Andy's words today: "There’s a future you who is surrounded by meaning and connection and beauty, and who has people around them that will catch them when they stumble and hug them when they get up." www.scarleteen.com/read/culture...
Header text in all-caps: "A Letter To The Trans Teen Thinking About Giving Up". Text in smaller font below: “There's a future you who is surrounded by meaning and connection and beauty and who has people around them that will catch them when they stumble and hug them when they get up. There's a future you who doesn't depend on the state for anything because they are seen and held and loved by community, who can reach out their own hand to the next generations of queer and trans people and pass along some of this stuff to them, just like I'm passing it to you now.” Behind these, aqua, pink, and white background and on the bottom right corner is Scarleteen's logo and tagline "Queer Sex Ed for All since 1998."
December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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scarrletmoon.bsky.social
that one post that’s like “i fixed my posture by imagining lasers shooting from my nipples” has done more for my back than anything else in my whole life

every time i start shrimping, i think “laser tits” and i’m fixed

(for like, a minute until i forget, but still!)
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
Skate Canada to cancel #Alberta events due to sports gender law #SkateCanada

Good on you Skate Canada 🍁

www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
Skate Canada to cancel Alberta events due to sports gender law
Skate Canada says it won’t host national and international-level events in Alberta, citing provincial law that restricts transgender athletes from participating in female-only sport divisions.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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mariopro.bsky.social
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December 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
A comic called Animals with Misleading Names. There's an electric eel labeled "not an eel". There's a mountain goat labeled "not a goat." There's a maned wolf labeled "not a wolf." There's a king cobra labeled "not a cobra. Also, snakes are typically self-governing." There's a peacock mantis shrimp labeled "Not a peacock. Not a mantis. Also, not a shrimp." There's a horny toad labeled "Not a toad. Only thinks of you as a friend." There's a mayfly labeled "active through the spring and summer." There's an eastern kingbird labeled "found in the west. Many birds do not recognize its authority."
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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scarleteen.com
Today is our 27th birthday! We hope you’ll join us in wishing Scarleteen and all the wonderful folks who have helped keep it going — our founder and other folks here at the start, our staff and volunteers, our writers and illustrators, our partners, our donors, and our users — a happy birthday! 🎂
Text: “What were you doing in the 1990s? (Were you even born?) We were hustling to create, launch, build and run the first comprehensive dedicated sex education website for young people, without any funding and little outside help, a resource we’ve grown into a massive and free online clearinghouse and direct services center that we’ve now sustained for 27 years since. (A quite amazing achievement if we do say ourselves!)” Text: “None of that has ever been easy: it’s an ongoing struggle Just to sustain the space to DO the work! So, we celebrate every win. that includes every year we make it one more year doing this work in exactly the ways we feel it should be done, free for all, without concessions, without copouts, and without apology. We hope you’ll join us today in wishing Scarleteen and all the wonderful folks who help and have helped keep it going a happy 27th birthday!”
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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patti3333.bsky.social
#Caturday
Tis the Season
The happiest time of the year

Purrfect 🌲🐾
December 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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sordideuphemism.bsky.social
This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.
A knit peach, teal, and white kitten with black eyes resting on an American Airlines seat tray.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
HEADS UP Oregon Humane Society has Ragdolls and Maine Coons that were seized out of a hoarding situation not too long ago. If these are breeds you’ve dreamed about adding to your family, now is a golden opportunity!
Animal Details
Details about each animal available at the Oregon Humane Society.
www.oregonhumane.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
It sure does, Chef.
A photo of a gold globe trophy resting on a base of sculpted hands rising upward, shared with the caption that it looks like “hands from hell.” The scene appears to be inside the White House with people standing nearby.
December 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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theonion.com
“I brought this horrid creature into the world, and now I must take him out!” Winfrey said
Oprah Pursues Dr. Phil On Ship Through Arctic
THE ARCTIC CIRCLE—With a vow to destroy the abomination she had created if it was the last thing she ever did, television host Oprah Winfrey has spent weeks on a ship pursuing Dr. Phil through the Arc...
theonion.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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locusmag.bsky.social
2025 Books We Loved: Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman locusmag.com/2025/12...
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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davidleavitt.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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tkingfisher.com
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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speculativeinsight.bsky.social
If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic:

www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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mnhnovascotia.bsky.social
Give the gift of Gus the gopher tortoise this holiday season!
An annual pass to the Museum of Natural History makes a great gift for a friend, family member, or yourself.

#MNH #Museum #GiftIdeas #NovaScotia
Gray background with white and light gray snowflakes. Black text reads "give the gift of" and bubbly green letters read "Gus". Gus the gopher tortoise is pictured in profile. Gray background with white and light gray snowflakes. Green text reads "annual family pass". Dark coloured text reads "$42.50 available at the admissions desk". A dark blue/black family pass to the Museum of Natural History is pictured at the bottom of the image. Gray background with white and light gray snowflakes. Green text reads "annual adult pass". Dark coloured text reads "$17.95 available at the admissions desk". A brown adult pass to the Museum of Natural History is pictured at the bottom of the image.
December 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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mbkplus.bsky.social
We are setting the scene for the world’s most unsympathetic version of the face-eating leopards, which is really saying something
dennycarter.bsky.social Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 21d
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
The “debate”.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Title: ‘“Both sides” of the “debate”’. Left: bald man in grey strip suit and tie at lectern labelled “PRO-UNFETTERED FREEDOM TO MAKE A PROFIT FROM EARTH’S RESOURCES”. Right: woman in green blazer at lectern labelled “PRO-LONG TERM SURVIVAL OF LIFE ON EARTH”.
November 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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npr.org
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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braak.bsky.social
really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM