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OmegaMamba (she/her)
@omegamom.bsky.social
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New Mexico, science, climate change, politics, science fiction and fantasy, adoption, Troubles With Young Adult Children, Long Covid. Warning: My timeline is quite full, so I don’t follow back!
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For those who don’t know how to do Alt-text on pics, memes, screenshots, etc., a small thread:
For everyone who thinks Alt-text is text in your *post* that describes your photo: No! It is *attached* to the photo! You can still do a silly post about your pic *and* do alt-text! Example:
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So we're blowing up boats in the Pacific now too?

This is escalating and I don't think any of these people have the vaguest idea what they're getting themselves into.
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Another little walk, another little moment of beauty to help me remember that the world is so much bigger than any one of us.
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fucking exhausted because my fucking 'smart bed' wouldn't let me sleep until i answered its riddles three
The architect has a one-page website?!?

Lemme guess…it was put up the day after Trump announced this monstrosity…
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Chat is it a good sign if the cops are publicly disavowing the regimes actions on Twitter
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#inktober day 22 button

The crow is sorry he stole her eyes, so he found a better one.
クラスさんは目を盗んだ事を誤解し、探し回ると、もっといいやつ見つけてあげた

#inktober2025 #inktoberday22 #button
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The absurd thing is not just that folks have locked themselves into a subscription for their *bed*, but that the fact that these multi-thousand-dollar beds are affected by outages means they might cook you even when it’s just your WiFi that goes down, not all of Amazon’s servers.
The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure

www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...
The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds
When Amazon Web Services went offline, people lost control of their cloud-connected smart beds, getting stuck in reclined positions or roasting with the heat turned all the way up.
www.404media.co
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The president has still not signed the governors disaster declaration request for Alaska.

This is directly keeping funding out of the hands of disaster survivors who need it.
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All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”
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Tiny criminal, photographed this morning.

She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.
Bad.

“He who controls the information controls the knowledge” — some rando on Bluesky.
In case you missed it: a little noticed Florida state dashboard showed several instances of immigration enforcement arresting U.S. citizens. When the Miami New Times asked about it, most of those arrests disappeared from the dashboard and public view.
Officials Scrub Data Showing U.S. Citizens Swept Up in Immigration Arrests
Florida’s immigration crackdown dashboard reportedly showed the arrests of 21 U.S. citizens—until a local paper asked questions.
www.thedailybeast.com
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I made a feed, it's an ongoing collection of things Mike Johnson haven't seen or heard about.

bsky.app/profile/numb...

Based on great clips posted by @atrupar.com
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I challenged myself to paint this at A3 size, which is huge for me! medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache
I *LOVE* this picture.
This is what every paper towel on my lab bench ends up looking like. Once the numbers are on the paper, I can't be responsible for what happens to them. They're on a magical journey between grams, moles and liters.
I think it would be a little harder if I were living in an area where lots of my neighbors are in the same situation.

But, yes. “What’s next?” And what happens to all the people depending on government programs? Just *poof*?!? It feels like a cusp.
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Lichen collage on pink granite today 🌿
Well, dissolved the House. The Senate is still there, voting on Trump’s judicial nominees. 🙄

I am leaning towards personal existential dread right now. Is the shutdown permanent??? Does my husband no longer have a job???

Just what are we paying taxes for?
At what point do we acknowledge that Johnson has effectively dissolved Congress?
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Here’s something revealing: A WGN report found the vast majority of people ICE detains don't have criminal convictions. Tom Homan’s answer:

“Most national security threats don’t have criminal histories. They’re lying low to do the dirty deed.”
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No more emojis, just gravestone reactions.

(These are all from Old Norwichtown Burial Ground in Norwich, Connecticut.)
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Dear friends, if you have a job and *aren't* struggling to pay your bills, please let today be the day that you set up a monthly recurring donation to a local food bank.

If you don't know where to send that money, reach out with the name of a city and I will help you do the research.
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Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.
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Stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman emerald-green glass boat. From Pompeii.

#Archaeology

📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Unknown Photographer. Anonymous Roller race. England. 1930
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The West Wing is now just the Wing.