Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Sabrina Imbler

@sabs.bsky.social

14K followers 420 following 910 posts

charismatic megafauna at Defector books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology) newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/ signal: simbler.88

buttondown.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 2d

simply a brilliant blog from @redford.bsky.social on billionaire bootlicker bari weiss taking over cbs news
defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

In the process, Weiss gets to continue two of her lifelong passion projects: trying to get people fired, and mainstreaming previously verboten ideological strands, like how the Nazi salute means something else or how genocidal starvation is actually fine. Even in the most generous reading—where her entire career and indeed life might reflect anything more than the cold calculus of a pure cynic who wants the approval and patronage of the world's richest and vainest reactionaries—Weiss's entire worldview is in the negative. She positions herself as a freewheeling intellectual and iconoclast, taking on the stilted orthodoxies of liberal power, but the irony is that her effectiveness is totally circumscribed by the limits of that orthodoxy. She does not have an original thought in her head, merely a list of supposed excesses and hypocrisies riddling the elite liberal world.

1 43 120

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 5d

weeping at how Minnie Bruce Pratt described falling in love with Leslie Feinberg

a screenshot of an interview "Minnie Bruce Pratt, interviewed by Kelly Anderson" with the highlighted text: "they asked us to
describe that moment, and we said, in that kind of duet that we do, that
it was like having been stranded in a strange land for your whole life,
not having seen anybody from home, and suddenly, someone that
you’ve never seen before comes and you see them, and you know each
other. You know each other from this really deep, old place of longing.
And that’s what happened. That’s what happened for us."

1 9 52

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 7d

lol

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 7d

thank you alie!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 7d

it suggested an underwing moth (Catocala) but unsure how much I can trust because the quality of the photo

1 1

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 7d

a long shot, but does anyone have an idea of what species of moth this is? taken in 2011 in Syracuse, northeastern U.S.

www.flickr.com/photos/trans...

a photo of a moth clinging to a window screen against a green background of lawns. the moth has a fat white body and brownish wings

9 3 36

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 7d

how do you know when an essay is too horny to be published 🥵

11 1 49

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 8d

this is wild!

1 1

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

unreal!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

yes I am writing an entire essay in my book just because I came up with a title that is a really fun pun. I'll figure out what it's about later. my book, my rules!!!!!!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

woahhhh that's wild!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

I know a lot of bugs mimic ants/flowers/etc. but am hoping to learn more about bugs with a deranged approach to mimicry

2 18

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

a question for bug enthusiasts: are there any other examples of bugs doing crazy body horror (body envy!??!) stuff like this? www.science.org/content/arti...

Beetle grows ‘termite’ on back to steal food

Puppet helps insect trick real termites into feeding it

www.science.org

23 34 130

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

that's so wild!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

yes exactly lol

1 1

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 9d

obsessed with these guys!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 10d

are hermit crabs the only invertebrates that rely on another organism's body to "complete" their body, for lack of a better word?

11 1 37

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 13d

no one's talking about how your average flea has an Elastigirl-level dump truck ass

1 2 35

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 18d

what if we were silverfish and we vibrated our antennae repeatedly and then ran away from each other and then came together again to vibrate our tails against each other and then I offer you a gift wrapped in literal gossamer 🥹

3 37

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 18d

sorry but this is so beautiful 🥹

eproduction and life cycle
A silverfish
Silverfish head close-up

Before silverfish reproduce, they carry out a ritual involving three phases, which may last over half an hour. In the first phase, the male and female stand face to face, their vibrating antennae touching, then repeatedly back off and return to this position. In the second phase, the male runs away and the female chases him. In the third phase, the male and female stand side by side and head to tail, with the male vibrating his tail against the female.[14] Finally, the male lays a spermatophore, a sperm capsule covered in gossamer, which the female takes into her body via her ovipositor to fertilize her eggs.

6 7 85

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 18d

sucks to be this moth, whose most embarrassing day is now immortalized on wikipedia 😫

a screenshot of a photo of a polyphemus moth with the caption: Topside after falling off window. The photographer is named Dicklyon, and the license is CC by-sa 4.0

1 13 88

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 20d

crazy how one good makeout can change your whole perspective on life

1 48

Reposted by Sabrina Imbler

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 21d

I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment. defector.com/the-united-s...

The United States Of Snitches | Defector

On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michigan’s Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followers’ attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...

defector.com

21 160 540

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 21d

I had a blast answering the @orionmagazine.bsky.social questionnaire :) feat. many of my favorite things: fruit, grubs, words, and smells
orionmagazine.org/article/sabr...

Sabrina Imbler Answers the Orion Questionnaire - Orion Magazine

In which we get to know our favorite writers better by exploring the sacred and mundane.

orionmagazine.org

1 3 29

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 21d

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

5 730 1.7K