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Animal doctor, writer, dog lover, cat servant, ex-horse girl, birder, wildlife admirer. Opinions are my own. RESIST.
She/her. Queer as in (I don't want to) fuck you.
She/her. Queer as in (I don't want to) fuck you.
I know there are currently lots of reasons to lose faith in one's fellow human, but twice in the past two days, someone has used their left turn signal to indicate they were turning right, and that might be what breaks me.
October 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I know there are currently lots of reasons to lose faith in one's fellow human, but twice in the past two days, someone has used their left turn signal to indicate they were turning right, and that might be what breaks me.
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38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
October 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
38. Ordinary people have no idea how much progress we’ve made. Tell people at parties that UK carbon emissions in 2023 were at their lowest level since 1879, for example. Most developed economies are now reducing carbon emissions without lowering quality of life.
The power is out and the electric company hasn't reached out, but the Internet did! Thanks, Comcast, but I think your outage is the least of my issues... The best part was all of us neighbors walking out our front doors, checking that everybody else was also in the dark, and then walking back in.
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The power is out and the electric company hasn't reached out, but the Internet did! Thanks, Comcast, but I think your outage is the least of my issues... The best part was all of us neighbors walking out our front doors, checking that everybody else was also in the dark, and then walking back in.
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Students are often surprised to learn abt the lynching of Italian immigrants under Jim Crow. While these represented a fraction of the victims of this national regime of racial terror, anti-Italian violence was designed to prevent multiracial organizing against Klan country.
Monroe & Florence Work Today - Explore the map of Lynchings
Lynching in the United States targeted many groups of people of color as well as white people who defied white supremacy. Explore the interactive map.
www.monroeworktoday.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Students are often surprised to learn abt the lynching of Italian immigrants under Jim Crow. While these represented a fraction of the victims of this national regime of racial terror, anti-Italian violence was designed to prevent multiracial organizing against Klan country.
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I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas
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.”
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
October 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
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New study shows that 'receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in *ALL* age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.'
@sarafnovak.bsky.social @laurenjyoung.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
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Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New study shows that 'receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in *ALL* age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.'
@sarafnovak.bsky.social @laurenjyoung.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
@sarafnovak.bsky.social @laurenjyoung.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
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THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
September 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS
PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP
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Republicans just brought the House into session for a total of 2 minutes.
Democrats tried to bring up legislation to keep government open, keep children on their insurance, and keep health care costs from doubling.
Then they adjourned. The GOP will own this shutdown.
Democrats tried to bring up legislation to keep government open, keep children on their insurance, and keep health care costs from doubling.
Then they adjourned. The GOP will own this shutdown.
September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Republicans just brought the House into session for a total of 2 minutes.
Democrats tried to bring up legislation to keep government open, keep children on their insurance, and keep health care costs from doubling.
Then they adjourned. The GOP will own this shutdown.
Democrats tried to bring up legislation to keep government open, keep children on their insurance, and keep health care costs from doubling.
Then they adjourned. The GOP will own this shutdown.
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1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
September 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.
3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!
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The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!
I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!
![Issue 1
November 7, 2023
Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety(1]
Results
Choice
Votes
%
& Yes
2,227,384
56.78%
No
1,695,480
43.22%
Total votes
3,922,864
100.00%](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gouysuoxatjdb5bjcqe4sfh7/bafkreielbywjkgthjrsgp5s7na3nxbcn3wrdpwegj7vtrqswh6goqydgra@jpeg)
September 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!
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It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.
September 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.
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"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
"They're politicians, what are they supposed to do? Literally fight in the streets?"
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
Unashamed to say this made me cry.
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Anyone want to help Bird Alliance of Oregon get to 1000 YouTube subscribers so that we can monetize our videos? #birds
www.youtube.com/@BirdAllianc...
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Bird Alliance of Oregon
Bird Alliance of Oregon promotes the understanding, enjoyment, and protection of native birds, other wildlife and their habitats.
www.youtube.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Anyone want to help Bird Alliance of Oregon get to 1000 YouTube subscribers so that we can monetize our videos? #birds
www.youtube.com/@BirdAllianc...
www.youtube.com/@BirdAllianc...
A hummingbird has claimed my backyard for her migration fueling spot and I love her and her angry chitters and dive bombing. My apologies for entering your territory to refill your sugar water, your highness! 🥰
September 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
A hummingbird has claimed my backyard for her migration fueling spot and I love her and her angry chitters and dive bombing. My apologies for entering your territory to refill your sugar water, your highness! 🥰
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"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.
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Without comment:
September 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Without comment:
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Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
Shooting at Evergreen High School in Colorado leaves several students hurt; suspect among those injured
Three students were critically wounded on Wednesday in a shooting at Evergreen High School in the Colorado foothills. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says one of those students is the shooting s...
www.cbsnews.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
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Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
September 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
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Anyway more importantly I hope you caugh this:
Biologists Discover Surprisingly Cute Deep-Sea Fish Species Off the Coast of California
Meet the bumpy snailfish—described by scientists as "adorable"—as well as the dark snailfish and sleek snailfish, all of which thrive thousands of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Anyway more importantly I hope you caugh this:
I'm thinking today about people who build altars upon which to sacrifice others. About people who are okay with other people's dead children as long as they can have their Second Amendment rights. About how they never think the world is coming for them. Anyway. Thoughts and prayers.
September 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm thinking today about people who build altars upon which to sacrifice others. About people who are okay with other people's dead children as long as they can have their Second Amendment rights. About how they never think the world is coming for them. Anyway. Thoughts and prayers.
I am firmly in the camp of "I read fiction for escapism" and prefer to keep my sad/angry/confusing endings for non-fiction. It doesn't mean I can't read sad/mad things, but so much of fiction delivers unhappy endings so ham-fistedly that I'm twice as annoyed.
me: i'm a grown up! i am working in a narrative universe that does not promise a traditionally happy ending! in fact the very concept of a happy ending is a false comfort we cling to in a fundamentally impermanent world!
also me: remembering A.S. Byatt's obituary--
also me: remembering A.S. Byatt's obituary--
September 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I am firmly in the camp of "I read fiction for escapism" and prefer to keep my sad/angry/confusing endings for non-fiction. It doesn't mean I can't read sad/mad things, but so much of fiction delivers unhappy endings so ham-fistedly that I'm twice as annoyed.
Had my first yard hummingbird yesterday! I put together the feeder this morning and two of them showed up to fight over it this evening. Hummingbirds are migrating south, so providing native pollinator-friendly plants and feeders helps them fuel up! They probably first came for my New York Ironweed.
September 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Had my first yard hummingbird yesterday! I put together the feeder this morning and two of them showed up to fight over it this evening. Hummingbirds are migrating south, so providing native pollinator-friendly plants and feeders helps them fuel up! They probably first came for my New York Ironweed.
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So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
September 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
So I'm grumpy that we seem to be once again creating a dynamic in our party where the people who got to the right answer sooner are marginalized for doing so, while people who were wrong get credit for changing their minds once it became obvious they were wrong. (See also NAFTA, Iraq War, Gaza.)
If I could give only one recommendation for avoiding a bad dog trainer it would be: avoid anyone who spouts bullshit about being a pack leader or an alpha. Yes, there are lots of other qualifications to be a decent trainer, but 95% of bad trainers spout alpha BS.
September 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
If I could give only one recommendation for avoiding a bad dog trainer it would be: avoid anyone who spouts bullshit about being a pack leader or an alpha. Yes, there are lots of other qualifications to be a decent trainer, but 95% of bad trainers spout alpha BS.