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@uraniumkitty.bsky.social

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Baltimore transplant, perpetually curious and often armed with stickers. I like radioactive glass, books, pigeons, street art, and found items. I dislike mosquitoes, getting stuck behind slow walkers, pears, sun in my eyes, and fascism.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 14h

Saw a news report yesterday about children as young as 9 being given weight loss jabs on the NHS, and I think it shows just how utterly bullshit the “lack of research into long term impacts” excuse for banning puberty blockers for trans kids really was. It’s purely ideological.

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Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 1d

You should train your dog to sniff candy out, a modern day version of those truffle-finding pigs

Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 1d

This part stood out to me-

"This suggests that the average interpreter working with Deaf children would have failed their state’s minimum standard in 40 out of the 50 US states"

WOW!! I might be biased but that's just one more reason why deaf students NEED Deaf schools and Deaf teachers

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Larry Gray @you9me9.bsky.social · 1d

A must-read for those who teach ASL and/or interpreting!

Why We’re Different: The State of American Sign Language Interpreter Education | MultiLingual

The author examines the underlying reasons behind the ASL interpreter shortage and suggests strategies for creating a more robust pipeline.

multilingual.com

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Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 1d

Two very different signs for HALLOWEEN from two very old sign language books...

Red cover of a book titled "preferred signs for instructional purposes". There is a small illustration of a cowboy boot with spurs in the lower right corner.

Additional information: The book was published by Texas Education Agency (Austin, Texas) in 1978 as a statewide effort to standardize signs.

An illustration showing the sign for HALLOWEEN. A female has both hands making the V handshape and moving the hands over the eyes (to mimic a mask).

Text in upper right hand corner is in Spanish: Vispera del Día de Todos los Santos

The cover of a thick yellow paperback book titled SIGNING EXACT ENGLISH.

There is a family and each person is signing something in signed exact English (not to be confused with American Sign Language). Combined, they are signing "See-Ing In-stead of hear-ing"

Author and illustrator information at the bottom of the image reads: Gerilee Gustaston, Donna Pfetzng, AND Esther Zawolkow and illustrations by Carolyn B Norris

Published by Modern Signs Press (in 1972!)

An illustration showing the signed exact English sign for HALLOWEEN

A drawing of a small costume eyemask is next to a drawing of a a person signing Halloween. The person has both hands in the U handshape covering the eyes, action arrows indicate the direction of hand movement across the eyes.

Above the image, there is an explanation about the sign: Palm-in U's before eyes circle back to sides

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Punished Cat Guy, Doctor of Veterinary Macheticine @majima.club · 1d

Holy shit yall. And I just found out you can buy empty bread style bags at Walmart - 100/$1.99 with twist ties for easy distribution. Who wants to help me make sammitch bread???

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1d

#Halloween is officially here. Many of us will be enjoying parties, trick or treating and festive decorations! While you enjoy your pumpkins, whether you eat, carve, or paint them, keep the farm workers that picked them in mind! HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃 👻 #WeFeedyou

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I WANT MY TAX MONEY PAYING FOR KIDS TO EAT LOBSTER AND STEAK AND COOKIES, NOT PAYING TO BOMB PALESTINIAN AND SUDANESE KIDS AND INVADING VENEZUELA.

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ᚇᚐᚏᚉᚅᚓᚄᚄ ᚋᚐᚅᚔᚃᚓᚄᚈᚓᚇ @ciara2001.bsky.social · 2d

Oh noes, Glamour magazine have lost their key demographic, angry cis white dudes

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award

Piers Morgan ®
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Nine biological men being declared 'Women of the Year' by Glamour magazine is beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signalling standards... and, I suspect, the beginning of the end for Glamour magazine.

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Marc Schulder @marcschulder.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

(English translation) Today is the German theatrical release date for Sorda, the story of a deaf woman and a hearing man expecting their first child, and facing the challenges that this entails. We were lucky enough to already watch this wonderful film last […]

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Spanish poster of the film “Sorda”. Young parents and their baby are sitting in the grass. The father is leaning against a tree and holding up the baby. Both are looking at the mother, who is holding eye contact with her baby while signing.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not going to take the turkey out of the freezer until it’s defrosted.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 2d

Common sense, finally. 🇫🇷 Turn waste into meals: France requires big supermarkets to donate unsold food.
Dignity > dumpsters. #France #FoodWaste #FoodSecurity #SocialImpact #Humanity

Market produce with France flag inset. Text: TRENDING — FRANCE BECOMES THE FIRST COUNTRY TO FORCE ALL SUPERMARKETS TO GIVE UNSOLD FOOD TO THE NEEDY.

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Sean McCauley, American Sign Language Tutor and Instructor @asltutorsean.bsky.social · 2d

ASL sign for Happy Halloween / Learn ASL

#happyhalloween #asl #deaf

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Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 1d

FINISHHHHHHH!!!!

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The distracted boyfriend meme but with JD Vance distracted by Erika Kirk while Usha Vance looks on

Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 2d

You're just an attention-seeking jerk

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joe @jjoe.bsky.social · 2d

Yesss (added alt text)

LinkedIn Message from Georgi Nenov to Menotti Minutillo:

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but clever request. DOGS GUARD THE YARD, LOYAL AND BRIGHT, THEY
BARK AT STRANGERS, BUT SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT. IF ONLY DATA
STAYED PUT SO TIGHT... I KNOW YOU MAY NOT BE IN THE MARKET FOR
NEW EMAIL SECURITY RIGHT NOW, BUT I'M CURIOUS - IS DEPARTING
EMPLOYEES AND THE DATA THEY TAKE A CONCERN? ARE YOU OPPOSED
TO A... see more

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Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 2d

POOT LOVATO HAS THEIR OWN WIKIPEDIA PAGE!

Poot Lovato - Wikipedia

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Harmony @harmonys.bsky.social · 2d

I grew this pumpkin and my daughter was determined to carve it. Isn’t it the cutest wee thing you ever did see? #CatOLantern #HappyHalloween #pumpkin 🌱

A small pumpkin resting on an open palm. It is the size of a baseball maybe? It is carved with a classic jack-o’-lantern face but it also has little kitty ears added. It is adorable.

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Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 2d

They're fleeing the consequences of apartheid, a corrupt racist system created by... white South Africans 😡

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in da' indica! @indaindica.bsky.social · 2d

Has been smoking weed longer than you've been alive, and thinks that terpenes 'are a bunch of hooey'.

trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 3d

Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.

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A miserable little pile of secrets. @gaycryptidhours.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot about how this isn't the first time the US govt has willfully denied food to a population in need...

A photo of two men posing for a photo; they are in front of a stacked pile of bison skulls. One man stands at the base of the mountain with one foot raised on a bison skull and one hand leaning on the skull pile for balance. Another man stands on top of the skull pile, which is four times his height, another skull held aloft as a trophy.

Image sourced from; Michigan Carbon Works, Rougeville MI, 1892. (Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library)

Additional context; Increased colonization of the West led to the large-scale slaughter of bison. The arrival of white settler hunters with their weapons, as well as growing market demand for hides and bones, intensified the killing. Most herds were exterminated between 1850 and the late 1870s.

The photograph shows the massive scale of this destruction. A man-made mountain emerging from the image’s grassy foreground, the pile of bones as appears part of the landscape.

The source of this text is found at the following website; https://theconversation.com/historical-photo-of-mountain-of-bison-skulls-documents-animals-on-the-brink-of-extinction-148780

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Emily @emilyonhere.gay · 2d

a cool disruptive fact to bring up at thanksgiving this year is that 53% of homeless people are employed.

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Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 2d

36 people liked this including myself, what if we all chipped in a dollar? 😇

Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 2d

SO ADORABLE!!!

Not a cat @uraniumkitty.bsky.social · 2d

The architectural models need some extra oomph, may I suggest toy dinosaurs? Maybe a Godzilla or two?