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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 17h

Happy World Cephalopod Day! 🐙This sucker for adventure feels its way through the world!

With thousands of chemical receptors and millions of texture receptors packed into each sucker, the giant Pacific octopus has a real sense for exploration.

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Corduroy Cheddar @corduroycheddar.bsky.social · 2d

This cat

Portrait (1986) by Theo Daamen of Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij with a particurarly disgruntled cat

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 20h

what specific vulnerability and lever did Ben point out though? have any of the NG refuse deployment orders yet?

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James @james.tarnation.lol · 11d

📸 Backlit

A cat is lying on a wooden surface in a dimly lit room, illuminated by warm sunlight streaming through a glass door in the background. The light highlights the cat’s fur, creating a soft glow around its body. Shadows fill much of the surrounding space, with faint details of furniture and plants visible in the background.

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 22h

my coworkers when I'm trying to get them to fix something

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

for example, there is a spectrum of fair or unfair things that can happen if you (a cis person) commit a crime and are sent to prison

but i will most likely be placed in a men's prison and raped to death no matter the crime/sentence (V coding) with the alternative being solitary confinement forever

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state.

The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

The “dual state” theory was invented to describe Nazis. The Supreme Court could take us there.

Authoritarianism—but make it look like the rule of law.

www.motherjones.com

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 1d

I love waiting on people to do their job at work till the point I have to do it for them or we miss deadlines and somehow this doesn't correspond to either a raise, or more people hired

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

An enterprising journalist that could prove that his aides and advisors are showing Trump fake shit that led to him signing EOs and making policy decisions would be a huge deal. Maybe the biggest story in the history of the Presidency? Bigger than Nixon. Too bad the newspapers quit being newspapers

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

303 Creative is absolutely a hill to die on. ADF invented a fake gay couple who they claimed asked Lorie Smith to build them a a wedding website. There was no such couple. Also, Smith didn't even make websites. That's just for starters.

Insurrectionist Squirrel @garaputodc.bsky.social · 1d

303 Creative is not a hill to die on. The activity is not governmental or government-like, so not a first amendment issue. We should continue to fight the ones that really matter.

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 1d

sorry I'm still waking up, am I reading this right? you can just invent a court case to take to the supreme court and that's not like, super illegal? and the supreme court is too stupid to realize it's all fake? and rules on it anyway?

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Let's go make out on the bloomin' onion

Molly White @molly.wiki · 2d

biblically accurate couch

A round couch (or very large chair) in a gross burnt orange velour with like 20 small pillows arranged along the back

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BAKER @fuckyoubaker.bsky.social · 2d

MONDAY.
SPITE AS FUEL.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 2d

"The fascists are getting more and more violent, so we must curtail our Constitutional rights and our efforts to oppose them", the Democratic Party story

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 2d

all my squirrel posts for a social media that isn't fucking transphobic and racist, why is that so hard?

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 2d

this makes, what, second change to ToS just to keep Singal around?

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 3d

Good turn out today, love it when the squirrels sploot like that on the fence

a black squirrel standing on top of the fence above a filled squirrel feeder

the black squirrel now stretched out across the top of the fence with its stomach hanging between fence posts, its head resting on the fence post above the feeder

Two bluejays sitting on the lower fence railing and the arm of a tray feeder, looking at the black squirrel and peanuts in the squirrel feeder

the black squirrel looks at me while still laying stretched out, while the two bluejays debate if they can get to the peanuts safely or not (they could and did)

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 3d

Finished repairing (for now) the rocking chair, so far, so good

a small wooden rocking chair on a wood deck, stained brown, with a small matching table for my coffee

Marvin the orange cat standing with both paws on the edge of the chair, looking at me as he climbs up for pets and attention

Marvin the orange cat, now laying lengthwise down my lap, one arm sticking off to dangle in the air while I scratch the back of his little head

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Toast @dauntingtoaster.bsky.social · 4d

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5o1c...

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Selyfamily😔💔🕊️ @salyyy.bsky.social · 4d

Please, my friends, I am a mother whose heart is torn apart for my child. My only dream is for him to eat and for him to survive. Please help us. We have great hope in you.💔😔
gofund.me/001d3fab