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@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social Medical history archives could save lives in the future! Something up Dr Fitzharris’s street? www.bbc.com/news/article...
Century-old tumours could reveal why more young people are getting bowel cancer
Bowel cancer in people under the age of 50 is increasing worldwide and scientists are striving to find out why.
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January 7, 2026 at 2:41 PM
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@gonzo.bsky.social @ripperelse.bsky.social Do you have any housemates who are so insistent on sampling people food? Or people who are naughty enough to indulge their atrocious behavior? #catsofbluesky
January 6, 2026 at 12:21 AM
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@wearenotenemies.bsky.social Hey Ben! You don’t have to worry about halal gelatin for cranberry sauce. Hope this comes in useful.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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@gonzo.bsky.social @davewagner.bsky.social @ripperelse.bsky.social Clancy seems to be preparing for winter. Well at least his ears are.
A close up of an ear belonging to an orange cat. Long white hairs have started to grow
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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@gonzo.bsky.social I know your household is sad this morning and my hearts aches for you all. Maybe I can give you a slight smile with Clancy’s snot bubble.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Hey @ripperelse.bsky.social look at little tiny Gonzo on his big adventure!
charliebrowntc.bsky.social CharlieBrown the Cat, in memoriam @charliebrowntc.bsky.social · Oct 29
Well I hav bin to tha vets and. Am on oral antibiotics and. Other stuff to help I am. Feel okey. Gonzo hadtu get vaxced , heer I am Portecc him.
Brown and white tabby cat standing guard over a pathetic orange and white cat hunkered in a corner
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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I know nothing could make @kermodemovie.bsky.social love her more, but if anything could it would be this.
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe (Winter Break) @noethematt.bsky.social · Oct 28
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Reposted by Gwen Walton
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Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
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Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own. Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible. Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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@gonzo.bsky.social A little bit of paper! And paper-drunk.
September 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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@gonzo.bsky.social Wanna hear a funny story? Clancy was being mean to Iris (sitting on her & biting her neck til she cried) so I intervened & told him to be nice. While she ran away I gave Clancy good neck scratches & a kiss & told him to be nice. THEN as I walked away he chased me and bit my thigh!
A great big orange and white cat lying on his side with his head upside down and his front paws facing up pretending he’s a sweet cat who doesn’t do mayhem.
September 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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@gonzo.bsky.social Check out this outrageous and demeritful behavior! Also Clancy is entirely too big. The blade on the knife he’s reaching for is 13 inches! What might his intentions be???! (His intention is to get some butter.)
A very large orange white is reaching onto a high kitchen counter to grab whatever might be there. He almost has his paw on the handle of a large kitchen knife.
September 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Went to check on Iris in the backyard. Saw her playing with this. Thought it was dead & went to dispose of it but it started to move. Pretty sure the neighbors didn’t hear me yelp as I yeeted it over the fence 😬 #catsofbluesky #cats
A small black cat with bright yellow eyes under a tan cover, laying against a gold pillow. She is obviously a very innocent sweetie, who could never cause any mayhem. A very small and skinny black snake in the grass. That same, very small black snake being held by kitchen pongs in a position so that you can see if yellow underside.
September 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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@muellershewrote.com @dgcomedy.bsky.social Today’s episode was peachy keen! Neato!
August 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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They may not have realized it but the NYT crossword setter honored my little kitty and her namesake today.
Crossword clue asking for the goddess of the rainbow and the answer reading Iris. A small solid black cat. She was named Iris due to the word game of naming and all black cat after a deity associated with the whole color spectrum.
July 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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@gonzo.bsky.social We have a complicated scoring question for your judgment. Teeth and claws used but no real force behind it. Is it a bite? Also purring the whole time bc Clancy just loves to bite me.
July 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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@muellershewrote.com I just wanted to let you know that my coworker and I loved your pencil song at the end of Wednesday’s show.
July 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “Flags of Freedom” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
Flags of Freedom · No Kings
Public demonstration on 6/14 from 10 AM to Noon in Chesapeake, VA! We will gather at the northeast corner of Battlefield Boulevard North and Volvo Parkway on FLAG DAY to display our national flag and...
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June 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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@muellershewrote.com @dgcomedy.bsky.social Oh come on! You do a whole Miracle Max bit but then when you do a story about Greenland, you just leave “unemployed?! In GREEN-LAND?!” Sitting there? Any body want a peanut? 😙😙
May 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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#throwbackthursday Tiny baby Clancy slept with his front leg stretched flat out underneath him and cuddled his water bowl. Grownup Clancy hasn’t changed. #catsofbluesky
A very small orange and white kitten sleeping on his tummy with his front leg stretched out flat underneath him, toe beans up. No all grown up a huge orange and white cat sleeping on his tummy with his front leg stretched out flat underneath him, toe beans up. A small orange and white kitten lays on a tray cuddled up against his ceramic water bowl. Now all grown up a huge orange and white cat sits on his tray snuggled up against his ceramic pet fountain.
April 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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@afrosabi.bsky.social I thought of you tonight. There was a story on ABC about a typically vicious pit bull who was rescued but is too scared to come out of his crate. But he’s learning to trust so maybe someday he can always be sitting on his person.
April 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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@gtconway.bsky.social #handsoff.
April 5, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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@dannyrobins.bsky.social I’m re-listening to #uncanny and in the episode with @teamtao.bsky.social Danny came up with an awesome band name: Burps of Chaos. Wonder what genre they’d play?
March 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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@ripperelse.bsky.social Another miracle fire proof Aggie.
wfla.com WFLA News Channel 8 @wfla.com · Mar 12
TEARFUL REUNION: An LA woman was reunited with her cat, Aggie, who survived outside for two months after getting lost during the Palisades Fire. https://www.wfla.com/?p=2763614 
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March 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Poor kitty who was abandoned the day he was born and so never nursed, didn’t ever need to learn to make biscuits so he doesn’t know how. 😿 So he does it one-handed. #catsofbluesky
March 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM