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Sabrina Imbler

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 7h

amazing question, and yes

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 8h

learning so many horrible new concepts from my months-long apartment search: "penthouse studio" ... "efficiency kitchen" ... "backyard accessible only by window" ... "sun-drenched basement"

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 2d

anything is possible if you simply believe

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 2d

high in the bath listening to beverly glenn-copeland 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 5d

and that's on personal growth 🤗

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 5d

reached the level of nonstop-phoebe-bridgers-listening where I realized it was time to schedule an emergency therapy session lol

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 11d

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."

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 13d

lol

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 13d

thank you alie!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 14d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 14d

this is wild!

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15d

unreal!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15d

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 · 15d

woahhhh that's wild!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15d

that's so wild!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15d

yes exactly lol

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 16d

obsessed with these guys!

Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 16d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 24d

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 🥹

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