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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social · 21h

In SNAKE-EATER by bestselling author @tkingfisher.com, a young woman seeking a fresh start is confronted by ancient gods, malevolent supernatural forces, and eccentric neighbours in an isolated desert town 🐍

Pre-order now! https://tinyurl.com/sdamfpkf

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13h

Reversion to primitive bachelor state imminent…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13h

Oh my god, that is awesome.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Damn straight!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Yes, sort of? There’s a group of scorpions with fragile tails that break off like a lizard’s so they can escape predators. But the anus goes with it so they basically just poop inside the remaining tail stump until they die. It’s not mandatory, like it is with Demodex, but it’s reasonably common?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

I like to share!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Oh, high praise! Thank you!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Ha!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Nice to have met you! Thank you for coming out to Fright Night!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Oh god yeah, those guys are great!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

One of many things that lives in my head rent free was a dude posting on reddit to ask if Soylent was perfectly engineered for only what his body needed, why was he still pooping? He was very pro-Soylent, just curious.

𝚂𝙿𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙱𝙾𝙾𝚃 @sporkboot.bsky.social · 2d

what if you're a big fan of Soylent because eating is just too much of a bother

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Yup. My husband lived on shakes after getting major dental surgery and you have never seen a man attack solid food with such passion when he was cleared for it.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Yes! Or from the NC botanical garden. You can pitcher plants there too!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Ack! Sorry, I was posting at lunch.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

I was afraid of that.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 1d

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Gonna need all my Epson peeps to keep this one on hand for me.

C Baker @ccbeta.bsky.social · 1d

I live for the day when someone writes in an obituary "____ passed away after a long battle with the wireless printer"

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

If it does well, it is possible there may be a follow up.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

The rich guy is named Levy, he moved to New Zealand and turned the property into a wedding venue called Levyland.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

Not for me, but I’m old.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

UK readers, we got a coupon thing!

A Waterstones ad featuring Nine Goblins, which you can preorder for 25%! Neat!

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

October Spooky Reads: What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com

The latest Alex Easton book sees the sworn soldier arriving in the US to help out an old friend, but frankly nothing is what it seems.

This is the most Ursula of books: creepy, gross, horrifyingly pragmatic. A+ plotting and dialog

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

That drops next year! Next drop is Snake-Eater.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 1d

I would too! But I lived in NC for 15 years and have seen them, I was just squinting at the image on my phone.

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