Liminal Owl
@liminalowl.bsky.social
Psychotherapist, SFF fan, ailurophile. Mostly reposting things I think my friends need to know and/or will enjoy, with occasional original thought. Will block anyone I observe advocating for violence.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Great thread on why hepatitis B is such an issue and why the vaccine at birth was SO important.
Why do babies need the hepatitis B vaccine if they aren’t high-risk?
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
Short answer: Because hepatitis B is a tricky virus.
Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️
🧵1/9 @kkjetelina.bsky.social @meganranney.bsky.social @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social @enirenberg.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Great thread on why hepatitis B is such an issue and why the vaccine at birth was SO important.
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Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...
Thermoception seems to be part of neuroception. @debdana.bsky.social
Thermoception seems to be part of neuroception. @debdana.bsky.social
Warmth and Hugging Strengthen the Feeling of Being You - Neuroscience News
Changes in skin temperature play a key role in how strongly we experience our bodies as our own.
neurosciencenews.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
neurosciencenews.com/temperature-...
Thermoception seems to be part of neuroception. @debdana.bsky.social
Thermoception seems to be part of neuroception. @debdana.bsky.social
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How many people who watch Fox News know Trump pardoned a man who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
How many people who watch Fox News know Trump pardoned a man who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.?
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
Hardly any of them, I suspect.
Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.
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It really is the administration of King Herod the Great tweeting at Jesus family during Christmas.
"I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -Matthew 25:35
December 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It really is the administration of King Herod the Great tweeting at Jesus family during Christmas.
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The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
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If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
If your appointment is invalid, you never had the job in the first place.
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This is not some harmless joke. This is the “Hafez gives us wheat” billboards of my early visits to Syria.
When I saw the story in passing I thought it was the same dumb bit as the army parade, the fig leaf of using Flag Day because it happens to also be his birthday. But no, Trump's birthday as such is now an official commemoration for NPS free admission days.
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
www.nps.gov/planyourvisi...
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is not some harmless joke. This is the “Hafez gives us wheat” billboards of my early visits to Syria.
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
December 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I spoke to the New York Times in this great explainer piece by Charlie Savage
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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I like my taxes to be used to feed hungry children, not murder innocent fishermen.
Cruelty is the Republican Party's oxygen.
Cruelty is the Republican Party's oxygen.
November 7, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I like my taxes to be used to feed hungry children, not murder innocent fishermen.
Cruelty is the Republican Party's oxygen.
Cruelty is the Republican Party's oxygen.
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You’re gonna listen to me tight !! Got it !! Or else !!
December 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You’re gonna listen to me tight !! Got it !! Or else !!
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Power of the people ✊
December 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Power of the people ✊
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It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.
But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.
The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.