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2 dogs living with their parrot in a foreign land. Their hooman has various interests. Mostly reading books. AuDHD, multiple disability DREADPirate🏴‍☠️ Non-binary, they/them bisexual This account stans alt-text. If you won’t use it, don’t follow me.

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Nature @nature.com · 1h

DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.

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Hippos still roamed Europe during the last ice age

DNA found in fossils from southwestern Germany suggests the populations survived in the region much longer than expected.

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

My sincerest of condolences as you grieve his passing.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 8h

"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Winona Ryder and Christian Slater at the end of Heathers

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1h

Antifa doesn’t exist but the Epstein files do.

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Adopt a Pet @adoptapet.bsky.social · 1h

Introducing a special friend in need of a loving home: Cowboy 5680, located in LOXAHATCHEE, FL.

Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/cowboy-5680-78568368/fl/loxahatchee/big-dog-ranch-rescue-fl852/

Cowboy 5680 is a Shepherd and Labrador Retriever dog, available for adoption in LOXAHATCHEE, FL.

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Paulette Feeney ❌️👑 @pauletteparis1.bsky.social · 8h

I tried all day to join antifa.
I was thwarted!
•No website.
•No email.
•No Substack.
•No Instagram.
•No LinkedIn
•No TikTok
•Not even a lousy Facebook page.

I wonder if Pam Bondi can help me find them.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 7h

#VanityPlateEnigmas - VF4NGSV

Followed them for about a mile before I got it. The 4 is an A. Brilliant.

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, wonderful news that you have a renewed prescription! Yay!

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

She is so cute. How do you ever leave the house? Does she go all over the farm with you?

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Kodo and Sangha Aid & Abet @kodoandsangha.bsky.social · 1h

18 states have filed an amicus brief in support of invading other states. The brief is filled with dog whistles.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

Exhibit Amicus Brief – #58, Att. #2 in State of Illinois v. Trump (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-12174) – CourtListener.com

MOTION by Amicus State of Iowa, The for leave to file AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS (Attachments: # 1 Text of Proposed Order Proposed Order, # 2 Exhibit Amicus Brief)(Wessan, Eric) (Ent...

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 13h

With alt text. Last photo repeated to complete alt.

In July 1945, when I was four and a half years old, Utsunomiya, the city I lived in got bombed. So, well, it's no use going into details. Since this is the memory of a four year old, I think I created a large part of the story while I was recalling it over and over.
When I woke up in my futon, I mean, I was awakened because of the air raid, it was midnight, but the sky was dyed in red, no, pink, like an evening glow. Even the inside of the house was pink. So, since it was a big house, we went into the shelter made in the corner of the garden, but we were told that it was dangerous even there. I have three brothers, but my youngest brother hadn't been born yet at that time, my younger brother was a baby, I was four, and my older brother was six years old. My mother carried my younger brother on her back and my father held my hand.
And my other uncle, I think he was also working for the munitions plant, he held my older brother's hand, and we evacuated to under the railroad bridge of Tobu Railway. It was under the bridge, outskirts of the town, and there were lots of greens, so we thought bombs wouldn't be dropped there. Actually, it was cloudy, and the firebombs, called oil and fat incendiary bombs which contained oil in them, were raining from the sky and the town was already on fire.

Then, we thought being there might still be dangerous.
That day, my uncle brought the company truck to the house. It was a very small Datsun truck, smaller than today's light car. It was a troublesome truck since the engine was hard to start, but my uncle went back home through the town in the fire to get that truck. He went back and found that the fire was coming right up next to the truck, but the truck wasn't burned yet, and when he tried to start the engine, it immediately started since it was warmed well by the fire. Well, (it was a kind of truck) you have to crank (the engine) up by hand. And he came back through the fire, and we decided to evacuate to outside of the town riding on this car. My mother holding my brother sat in the passenger's seat, my uncle was in the driver's seat, and it was full since it was such a small car. And my father, my older brother, and I sat on the loading platform, covered by a futon, since we had to run through the fire, and anyway, we started going.
Then, there were several people taking shelter under the railroad bridge, and I don't remember clearly, but I surely heard a woman's voice saying, "please give us a ride." i don't know whether I saw her myself, or I thought I saw her, since I heard my parents talking about her later, but anyway, a woman holding a girl, who was one of our neighbors, came running towards us, saying, "please give us a ride." But the truck just took off. And her voice saying
"please give us a ride" gradually died away in the distance... Well, that was made up in my head like a drama.

If there had been a kid who could say "please let her ride," I think maybe a mother and a father would have stopped the car at that moment. I mean, if I'm a parent and my kid says so, I think I would do so. There were many reasons that you couldn't do that. If you had stopped (the car), more people might have come and created more confusion. I understand that well, but I still wish I could've said so then.
Or I wish my older brother could've said so. Of course, it would have been better if my parents had stopped (the car).
Actually, this story about the truck has very little to do with the essence of the war. Even if I satisfy my conscience by doing so, how about the issue of the munitions industry?
Or, comparing the issue of some being burnt by the air raid and some not and the issue of, for example, Japan as a nation doing many horrible things such as massacres in China, the Philippines, or other countries in South East Asia, I have to conclude that Japanese as a whole were perpetrators, so the problem isn't that simple. But after all those years, | realized that I wanted to make an animation with a kid who can say "please stop the car" in such a situation, not (giving up since) humans can't say so after all.

So, offering a girl a tissue flower and saying "please accept my love" might sound unrealistic. A four year old kid asking his parents, "please stop the car" might be unrealistic. But if there is a kid who can say so, and if we can feel "oh, it's OK to say so in such a situation," I think that would be better. At least, I see myself as a person who can't make a movie in any other way. I saw many movies which depicted the dark side or stupidity of humans and made the audience feel that they were the ones who were accused and then go home depressed, and I think there is a significance to such movies, and we have to watch such movies from time to time, but I want to make something like, "I wish things are like this." It was so in Panda Kopanda. It was so in Totoro. Well, most (of my movies) were like that. I think I have no choice but to keep making such movies.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16h

This week on VIBE CHECK, we talk about white mediocrity: the moral mediocrity of Ezra Klein and the media mediocrity of Bari Weiss, hehe.

An Abundance of White Mediocrity

Podcast Episode · Vibe Check · 10/08/2025 · 58m

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15h

We're all sad about them cancelling the Reconstruction-era Assassin's Creed but think about it for a second - I kind of shudder to imagine the actual product and how they would have bent themselves into pretzels to weasel out of saying anything "political" about the time

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 16h

extremely depressed that Austin is rezoning a ton of schools and shuffling kids around and the biggest objection lots of adults seem to have is "but my property values"

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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 4h

It was Hersh who broke the story, in 1969, of the horrific US army massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, invigorating the US anti-war movement; 35 years later, his reports for the New Yorker revealed the gruesome extent of US military torture at Abu Ghraib.

Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism

The acclaimed documentarian follows up All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with another smart and impeccably structured winner

www.theguardian.com

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Adopt a Pet @adoptapet.bsky.social · 4h

Your quiet friend and nap companion awaits: Sophie, located in Meridian, ID.

Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/sophie-77054269/id/meridian/happy-jack-cats-inc-id142/

Sophie is a Domestic Short Hair cat, available for adoption in Meridian, ID.

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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 10h

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DocBuglove @docbuglove.smokefleet.net · 5h

Everyone on the fence about A.I., there's something you don't realize.

It's purpose is to eliminate human jobs and human skills.

That's it. That's its single purpose. For companies to no longer pay people or train them in skills.