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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 8d

QUESTION: Why did it take so long to invent self-trimming wicks?!??
Candles have been used for thousands of years, but the self-trimming wick was only invented in the 1800s.
Was it dependent on some other technology or material? What took so long?
I am perplexed!

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 2h

A busy weekend-
- went to Catsbury Park Cat Con in NJ, hung out w/C4C fam @porkbuns.bsky.social , @bloatytoe.bsky.social , @dezfezable.bsky.social . Met Jackson Galaxy, took an advanced neonate class w/Hannah Shaw (Kitten Lady), caught up w/Simon Ha.
-Pye babysat by @fluffandwobbles.bsky.social

Cat-behavior and welfare celebrity Jackson Galaxy smiling for a photo next to Bash

Baby black kitten Pyewacket reclining in a plush blanket with his belly up in the air and one paw raised

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Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue @crits4cats.bsky.social · 2h

We also took in this very friendly stray, a fluffy young calico who showed up so thin and hungry at Sunflower colony. No chip, but thankfully it doesn’t look like she’s ever had kittens. She’s so totally sweet. We didn’t really have room but with the impending nor’easter, we didn’t want her outside.

A medium hair calico cat with long perky whiskers and a friendly face

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4h

i opened the bathroom door after my shower and saw this

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 14h

Explain to me why “conversion therapy” is banned in 28 countries and ABA is not, when they have the same creator (O. Ivar Lovaas) and utilize similar if not identical principles, techniques, and goals (forced assimilation).

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 15h

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 15h

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

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Adopt a Pet @adoptapet.bsky.social · 5h

Your lap warmer and quiet companion awaits: Jessup, located in Atlanta, GA.

Learn more: https://www.petfinder.com/cat/jessup-78733182/ga/atlanta/fulton-county-animal-services-ga217/

Jessup is a Domestic Short Hair cat, available for adoption in Atlanta, GA.

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Matt Ramsey @onenerdsopinion.bsky.social · 3h

Got Dandy a new book. She’s already pretty accomplished in Physics, but, being self-taught, I thought this might give her more of the vocabulary so she can write up reports on her groundbreaking (and sometimes glass breaking) gravity experiments.

@tomgauld.bsky.social

An orange kitten eats treats from her offering bowl on her Kitten Condo Complex. Behind her the book Physics For Cats by Tom Gauld is balanced precariously on the edge of the platform.

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found footage tofu & tesla! (& krisko) 🐈 📚 🎲 ♿ @krisko.bsky.social · 15h

tofu is so happy i am done running dnd so i can focus on important things, like rubbing his belly

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meow-lissa capriglione @ NYCC A21 @mcapriglioneart.bsky.social · 5h

Just a few more hours until I'll be home and j can see my little fluffy devil🩷

This years NYCC was an absolute blast, the best one yet! Can't wait for next year🩷

Photo of a tabby cat curled up on a pink blanket

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

I hope this little dude never outgrows the part of his personality that says “if you see an open human hand, that’s where your tiny face should go”. He does it literally all the time. If I present my hand to him and he’s not super hyper (even if he is sometimes), he just puts his head there.

A little ferret with his little head in my hand

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Amethyst the Teabun 🧙🏻‍♀️ @theteabun.bsky.social · 7h

Monday bunday!

Just another Monday, oh joy of joys.

Peanut’s recommendations for today are stretching, relaxing and moving as much as you are able to.

Just because it’s Monday doesn’t mean you have to rush into things.

Peanut, a ginger and grey lop rabbit is sat on damp grass. To his left is a bamboo bush.

Peanut, a ginger and grey lop rabbit is sat on damp grass.

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Texas Cat Lady @catmahm.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning? Nope, not ready to come out.

Cat nose barely peeking out from under a round cat mat

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OBDsity - Bunnies in a Bun Dance @obdsity.bsky.social · 6h

Dottie is trying to keep her buttsnacks all to herself, away from the prying eyes of overseer Yoshon, by pretending to be a peaceful little black garden snail 🐌

A black bunny sitting curled up to clean its leg in a garden setting on a paved path. Behind it are several brown planters, a black planter on glass stilts and another brown bunny sitting loafed up on a small pile of rocks.

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Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 11h

Also, I don’t have a picture, but I almost died of a heart attack this evening when I saw what I thought was a giant roach in my bed, but thankfully it turned out to be a cricket!

Lazy Anole @thelazyanole.bsky.social · 11h

I took a sharper Lizard picture earlier today, but this one is doing a blep, so he wins Lizard of the Day!

Almost adult male green anole licks water off the wedelia leaf he is standing on. Slurp, slurp, slurp!

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Jasper @jaspersfelines.bsky.social · 3d

Baby #JellyBellyFriday silly ginger tabby edition 🐱🧡 #FosterKittens #cats

Three small orange tabby kittens laying on a fleece pad, one on his back showing his round belly, one paw raised

Three small orange tabby kittens laying on a fleece pad, one on his back showing his round belly, both front paws curled

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Gryph @lfgryph.com · 14h

An attempted family picture, the best one I got out of multiple tries. 😆

A tuxedo mama cat and three kittens in their shelter kennel. Mama is reclining up top on a shelf, enjoying some time away from her children. A floofy white and grey kitten is sitting on some light green fabric and looking at the camera. A brown tabby kitten is standing still, but looking off to the side at random. A black kitten is looking down at the bright orange ball tower he's standing on, completely ignoring everything else.

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RappCatsAdopt @rappcats.bsky.social · 6d

Legacy is one handsome #cat! (Magnolia has a crush on him!) He can't resist playing when a wand toy or feather moves. He's still skittish with people, but enjoys chin scritches if approached slowly. Actually, he adores them!
#cats #pets #va #nova #virginia

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Veronica @veronicaf.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, Cocoa. It's not like I need my laptop or anything.

(Still very glad he's home, he went missing for a month and arrrghhhh)

A black cat, looming over me, with the tiniest blep. He looks weirdly like a British shorthair, even though he's 100% Manky Street Kitten. He is wide eyed and a bit weird looking, but he has excellent whiskers. He is sitting on my laptop.

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GONZO the Ghoastly 👻 @gonzo.bsky.social · 11h

Behaviores Report: 95% goode 5% trespaced on tha hellocobber shelve woohoooooo!

Orange and white cat rolling around on a chair. His behavior report is 95% good, 5% trespassed on the helicopter shelf.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22h

The thing that is most devastating to me about the ongoing evisceration of the public health infrastructure in the U.S right is how little awareness of what's going on the majority of people in the general public have and the impact this will have on their health and safety.

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✨ Vash Taylor ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ Open For Work @deuxdel.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes a daily is a hasty meme

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Christy @reallychristy.bsky.social · 12h

Bedtime for Fergus and Jenny.

A beautiful grey and black tabby male kitten is shown on polka dot sheets posing innocently with a grey skeleton mouse.

A beautiful brown tabby girl cat is shown trying to sleep in a white nightstand next to the bed where the not so innocent kitten is currently plotting ways to pounce on her instead of going to sleep.

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