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herder1013
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Throw the ball. Throw the ball.

Posts on animal sciences, dog love, environmentalism, sexuality, and civil liberties. He/him.

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herder1013.bsky.social
Attempting to visit the US is increasingly a permanent surrender not just of your private life and your body's unique details, but of your family's privacy as well.

Is any holiday really worth it?
newseye.bsky.social News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

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- All social media accounts from the last 5 years - All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris - All your phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your email addresses from the last 10 years - IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos - Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children) - All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years - Your family members' dates of birth - Your family members' places of birth - Your family members' residencies - All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years - All your business email addresses from the last 10 years
December 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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stevecooke.org
It is a bad idea to try travelling to the US right now. You might think the worst that can happen is being refused entry, but once that happens you'll probably never be able to enter. Trump will be gone & you'll still have a note 'refused entry' on your file. Border officials will just say 'no'.
theipaper.com The i Paper @theipaper.com · 2d
Visitors to the US from countries including the UK will need to show five years of social media history as part of the latest travel clampdown trib.al/aBkM8n9
December 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
The backstory and full animation are at lbbonline.com/news/interma...
docomega.bsky.social Doctor Omega @docomega.bsky.social · 3d
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
The intent and effect of banning youth from social media is to keep young people isolated and lonely.

For everyone, learning that we are normal and healthy requires finding our communities of weirdos and kindred spirits.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under ban
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
herder1013.bsky.social
When I hear a friend describe their new gun, I become sad because I know that if the gun is actually used in a violent incident, it will most likely be to hurt my friend or those close to them.
November 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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ellenbardash.bsky.social
The Court of Chancery spends a lot of time deciding cases that involve multi-billion-dollar deals. Its equity jurisdiction means it also gets to decide things like who should keep Tucker the Goldendoodle (don't worry, he's not getting cut in half) courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Dow...
November 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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markpetersphoto.bsky.social
Sometimes when I post an animal’s story, people leave comments condemning humanity. I understand the pain, but I believe change doesn’t come from blame. It comes from loving animals out loud.

(Poplar Spring Sanctuary) #compassion #veganforthe animals
July 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
“If a ram does not fulfill his duty, he is sent to the slaughterhouse. Essentially, the sheep are killed for being gay. Couturier Michael Schmidt has joined forces with German nonprofit Rainbow Wool and Grindr to bring the story to life through a 37-piece knitwear collection.” archive.is/FnMRn
A drawing of rams playing in a green pasture with a rainbow in the sky behind them, taken from the website rainbow-wool.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
herder1013.bsky.social
“You notice an ant struggling in a puddle of water. Their legs thrash as they fight to stay afloat. You could walk past, or you could take a moment to tip a leaf into the puddle, giving them a chance to climb out. Should you take a moment out of your day to help one out?” aeon.co/essays/an-an...
An ant is drowning: here’s how to decide if you should save it | Aeon Essays
Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far?
aeon.co
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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j-salvo.bsky.social
Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.
luckykatstuart.bsky.social Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · Oct 13
Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.
October 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
herder1013.bsky.social
The greater noctule bat climbed to 4000 feet then dove to capture a robin mid-flight. Subsequent chewing sounds, recorded between echolocation calls, indicated that the bat consumed the bird continuously during flight for 23 minutes without losing altitude. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight
Before the Spanish study, some scientists had been sceptical about the mammals attacking migratory birds
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
I just bookmarked this and you may want to, as well. 🙄
hipcrimevocab.net Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net · Oct 7
If you are a Texan being investigated for your connections to "radical leftist" groups, I am interested in representing you against harassment by Ken Paxton's office.
robertdownen.bsky.social Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · Oct 7
Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
“At VINE, animals are recognized as individuals with a right to self determination: they freely choose their friendships, co-author their own social norms, and pursue their social activities according to their preferences and rhythms.” panworks.medium.com/when-animals...
When Animals Sustain the Fabric of Our Democracies
By Pablo P. Castelló, PhD.
panworks.medium.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
When government agents detain someone based on racial characteristics or on looking like they might be an immigrant, it's a Kavanaugh Stop.
mjsdc.bsky.social Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Oct 1
It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...
In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.
October 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute. Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner. I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way. Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose. The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why. Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes. I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic). "To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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alannamode.bsky.social
Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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spryoldlorax.bsky.social
Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.
I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
September 24, 2025 at 11:00 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
Trans rights are not the rights of a minority. They are everyone’s rights to autonomy, to self-determination of our health and identities.

Attacks on trans rights are not attacks on a minority. They are steps to stripping everyone’s ability to live their own lives with independence and dignity.
September 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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maldrasen.bsky.social
People. We need to start practicing better opsec. Don't post on social media accounts that can be traced back to your real name or your job. At least make it hard for people to come after you.
September 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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kendylhanks.bsky.social
A reminder to my fellow Texans—fall litters of baby squirrels are emerging from their nests to explore and forage. They don’t understand roads and cars. I’ve seen a lot of wee pups sadly killed on local streets. Please be careful and give them a honk to startle them, train them that cars are bad.
September 13, 2025 at 2:01 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
Volunteers of campaign group Sea Shepherd have pulled up thousands of traps and saved more than 1500 octopuses in a bid to overturn illegal overfishing.

Authorities estimate that in total half a million octopus traps litter the sea floor in northern Greece.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
The crew on the hunt for Greece's illegal octopus traps
"Octopus!" shouted the crew of the Sea Eagle vessel as a slippery cephalopod squirmed out of a plastic pot they had hauled from the seabed off northern Greece.
www.reuters.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
The headline calls this unexpected consequences, but I would call this extremely expected consequences.
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 31
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.
wapo.st
August 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
herder1013.bsky.social
Travelers to the US have had their phones taken and are told by officials to sign a form saying “they reserve the right to copy all the contents of your phone & distribute them to every American intelligence agency.”

Searches of US citizens’ devices are up 22% from 2024.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Surge in U.S. customs searches of electronic devices raises concerns about harsh treatment of Canadians | CBC News
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports a sharp rise in electronic device searches at crossings, raising concerns about privacy, discrimination and harsher scrutiny of Canadians. "There's a l...
www.cbc.ca
August 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
herder1013.bsky.social
Avoid those who insist that the protection of the weak from exploitation demands the imposition of puritanical values.

The goal of puritans is not anyone's safety and autonomy. Their goal is just moral scapegoating.
August 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM