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Steph
@observingangel.bsky.social
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Proud Mom of 2 adult LGTBQ humans & 1 were-cat
COVID is never going to be over.
Climate change may be the death of all.
Biology/Botany/Geology and weirdly enough, Accounting?
My youngest thinks I'm a reptilian overlord & we're both artists.
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Steph @observingangel.bsky.social · Sep 2
This was eugenics.

x.com/Andre__Damon...
observingangel.bsky.social
If you're a cat owner, you know exactly what she was doing regardless of the innocent act.

Even with broken ankles, cats are gonna cat.
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
observingangel.bsky.social
Happy Caturday! Just woke from my nap to my Lif snoozing on the guard kitty job. She's been watching over me with my broken ankle for days.
Sleepy tabby piebald cat in a cone sleeping on her person's lap who has a broken ankle.
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
Got the knee scooter and ramp. Fell twice last night trying to use the scooter but I didn't fall very far so I'm fine. What a pain in the booty this all is. My house is absolutely not built for this scenario.

Good friend is taking me up to see my mom who has been freaking out all week about this.
November 21, 2025 at 11:12 PM
observingangel.bsky.social
It was a dark and stormy day on the pond. I was out checking the wildlife out there and stopping to take my usual pictures. Started out portentous when I spotted the blue heron on the small island in the pond.
Picture of a pond with tall golden fall trees and murky water under a cloudy sky in the rain. There's a blue heron standing on the island.
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
FML.

All because of a 🍄.
Trimalleolar break. Oblique fractures of the tibia and fibula and a vertical intra-articular fracture of the distal tibia plus a rogue fragment.
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
Surgery on my leg is scheduled for 5 am tomorrow. 💀
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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jessicawildfire.bsky.social
When this regime does a new horrible thing, it's not a distraction from the other horrible things they're doing. They're just doing a bunch of horrible things.
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
ICYMI: Yesterday, the CDC updated its vaccine safety page to say that vaccines might cause autism (they don’t) and that the science isn’t settled (it is).

For substantiation, the page links out to several studies by anti-vax allies of HHS Robert Kennedy Jr.
www.importantcontext.news/p/cdc-change...
CDC Updates Vaccine Safety Page to Promote Vaccine Misinformation, Cites Kennedy’s Anti-Vax Allies
It is the latest move by Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services to undermine vaccines.
www.importantcontext.news
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
observingangel.bsky.social
Cat watching the cat that is watching me is my new hobby.
A cat watching me while sitting next to my broken leg. Watching the cat watching me from her cream climbing toy.
November 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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njbbari3.bsky.social
I’ve spent the last hour reading hundreds of posts from long COVID support groups.

I can’t tell you how upsetting it is to read the suffering.

Trigger warning.⚠️

Several posts talk of a feeling of fading away… into death…

and we have recently lost several wonderful long COVID advocates…
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
Just had an ambulance ride. At the hospital. Broken ankle taking a mushroom photo
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
observingangel.bsky.social
PROBABLE H5N1 outbreak in Hillsboro area, multiple places are reporting sick/dying/dead geese.

DO NOT TOUCH THEM. Report any sick/dying/dead geese here.

www.dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/hea...

#h5n1 #beaverton #hillsboro #oregon
ODFW Dead Bird Reporting
Wildlife Health - What to do if you see a dead bird
www.dfw.state.or.us
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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gingerkap23.bsky.social
I thought this was a good summary of Larry Summers and the elite in our society (sped up to fit):
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
observingangel.bsky.social
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octopodeeznuts.bsky.social Natsuka @octopodeeznuts.bsky.social · 11d
what's most interesting to me in the house oversight docs is the power broker side of things

how many goddamn people did that man set up with Miroslav Lajčák
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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amorvincitomnia.bsky.social
Casual Reminder: Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya set up a charlatan journal with a plausibly prestigious name. “Journal of the Academy of Public Health” is not a serious journal, and anyone publishing in it is a fool (negative), charlatan, or a bootlicking scum bag. Debut: 30Jan2025
November 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
Instagram post: This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
🤣🤣🤣 Posted a snapshot of a certain conversation about a certain foreign politician in a very public place & >24 hours later, the host post was deleted & a local newspaper in that country has wholly misrepresented what it actually says & used a doc from over a year later to support them.

Nice.
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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daniellebeckman.bsky.social
The Society for Neuroscience meeting starts tomorrow! I prepared some microscopy images for display at the convention center in San Diego. Let me know if you see one of my images around! 🤓 🔬 🧠
@sfn.org #SfN25 #FluorescenceFriday
Fluorescence confocal microsocopy image of the hippocampus
November 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
As it stands today, the richest man in the world is using one of the largest social media platforms in the world as a Nazi recruitment/brainwashing tool.

He has his tendrils in our government, sucking up public funds and turning around to buy our leaders.

It’s not tenable.
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
This is extremely dangerous.

If you’re a journalist, politician, artist, or public figure, or anyone with a platform, you need to stop using X.

You’re not helping by remaining on the platform. You can say you’re fighting where the people are, but you won’t beat the algorithm.

Lead people off X.
mantzarlis.com Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 14d
NEW on @indicator.media: A first *full-scale* comparison of Grokipedia v Wikipedia.

Last week the awesome @harold.bsky.social rocked up to my desk bearing gifts.

Hal had collected almost all 900K Grokipedia entries and compared them to their Wikipedia equivalents for text and citation similarity.
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
This is the most glamorous opening to an article about a white supremacist flattering journalist who lied to her readers and editors while having an affair with narcissistic crank who eats roadkill, swims in sewer water, will cause children to die, and is 50 years her senior that I've ever read.
jeradwalker.bsky.social Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 12d
what the actual fuck
A headline from the New York Times: Olivia Nuzzi Did It All For Love The article lede: By Jacob Bernstein Reporting from Los Angeles Nov. 14, 2025 Updated 12:07 p.m. ET Olivia Nuzzi loved him. She loved the politician, even though she was a political reporter and he was then a presidential candidate she had written about. She loved his eyes, "blue as the flame." She loved that "the sight of something as trivial as a rose" could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his "particular complications and particular darkness." But she said "I love you" only after he said it first. He called her "Livvy" and wrote her poems. He said he wanted her to have his baby. He promised to take a bullet for her.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
observingangel.bsky.social
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029585 & HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031567 in the Epstein docs are related conversations about a R in the Panama Papers that sold a painting to MBS in 2018, split by 4 mos apart in a discussion of money laundering & Trump.

Seems important.
From: J Date: Tue 1/5/2019 To: jeffrey epstein , Kathy Ruemmler it would go something like this. ............... 1 Donald doesn't really own very much, he rents out his name. he puts it on buildings projects etc. for a royalty or piece of the upside. he then claims the asset is " his " . its very much like hyatt hotels. it says Hyatt hotel on the front but it is owned by someone else. ( sometimes by Hyatt but not often). Hyatt receives 3 percent per year of revenue and a piece of the profits sometimes if the hotel is sold at a profit. money launderers. need a name to purchase trophy properties. why? there is little suspicion if a famous wealthy person buys a property that is likely to show in the press. , it cant be jojo my driver, up front , so they approach wealthy people and tell them for 2 -5 million dollars for doing nothing at all. - just lend us your name . - and the person get the positive press. so and so bought the most expensive painting, sold the most expensive painting, house., diamond. etc. -ex the GANZ art collection was bought and sold by Joe Lewis. . all the publicity was the ganz family estate. selling etc. hypothetically, . someone approached trump and said can you buy the palm beach house. in your name. ( it was trump properties 11c ) , not sure who actually owns the 11c. ? Donald can get a loan from a bank , but it is guaranteed by, an entity controlled by R R has a bvi co. xitrans. that is owned by a family trust. ( cyprus ). R wife settles in oct after trump anounces candidacy. the Ilc agreement or the loan agreement allows Donald to get a few million for his name. . R in essence is the" owner. ". he was part of the panama papers release. he also sold the da vinci to mbs. . ? if you are a gangster , where and how can you invest money. answer not through the front door. Donald's financial disclosures are the same , he represents his " income " as the GROSS receipts of his clubs." , means nothing at all ZERO. no income as we no it. he list… HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031567 📁 001 📄 Page 1 From: Michael Wolff Sent: 5/30/2019 9:40:54 PM To: J [jeevacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Importance: High You have an art guy? On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:40 PM J wrote: In addition my art guyd said the painting wasn't very good On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:37 PM Michael Wolff______________________________wrote: Starting to smell sweet, the way you put it! On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:35 PM J wrote: reminder trump overuled congress on yemen. On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:33 PM Michael Wolff JEFIv rote: So MBS was paying him off? Why? Ideas? On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 5:29 PM J wrote: is it a coincidence that the russian that bought the house in palm beach and knows all , is the same guy that sold a painting last year to mbs for 450 million dollars. that was only worth 1. 5m?
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
Strange one from the Epstein docs. Photo #9 is a black & white photo of a 5 year old girl who had just given birth to a child via c-section. The father was never found.

Given the context of Epstein, I'm really not liking the vibes from this email at all.
From: Sent: 3/7/2019 4:21:42 PM To: Jeffery Edwards [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Fwd: DeMilked - 30 Ordinary Photos With Amazing Backstories Importance: High Jeff/Warren: Go directly to photo #9. Terry Sent from my iPhone #9 The Youngest Mother Black and white photograph holding a normal sized baby that is swaddled in a blanket. A 5 year old girl stares blankly from a hospital bed in the photo. Lina Medina, born on 23 September, 1933, was the youngest woman ever to give birth. She did so when she was just 5-years-old. Turns out Lina was born with a rare condition called ‘precocious puberty’, a condition where sexual development happens at an early age. Lina gave birth on May 14, 1939, via a cesarean section, since her pelvis was too small. The child, named Gerardo, was born completely healthy but the father was never found out.
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
Found this one in the Epstein docs & couldn't help but laugh. I don't know why scammers hitting a small country was something that I never considered the possibility of but apparently, it's a thing for them, too. Tuck this under the day the Maldives FM almost was scammed.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029530 📁 001 📄 Page 1 From: Mohamed Waheed Hassan Sent: 1/27/2013 3:49:54 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Importance: High Jeffrey, Need your advice. My finance minister is telling me that he has an anonymous funds manager who is willing to deposit 4 billion dollars in Maldives and that they are willing to lend a percentage of that in exchange for government promissory notes. The 4 billion would be deposited in the Central Bank. But they want us to set up a special purpose vehicle, a construction company fully owned by the government to receive the loan. Such a company can only be set up under a presidential decree. I am also told that the funds manager would be charging Maldives upfront a certain percentage of the amount lent. I don't feel I have enough information on this. I don't know who is this funds manager. They always want the finance minister to meet them in Bangkok or some place outside. Why would anyone want to deposit such a large amount here when we don't have a credit rating and public debt is so high. I feel very uncomfortable about this. What do you think I should do. I am very uncomfortable. In addition to the finance minister, a leading politician and leader of the coalition parliamentary group is behind it. He could be my leading contender for presidency. Does this sound all ridiculous to you. I have a strange feeling about this whole thing. Best regards Waheed Sent from President's iPad HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029534 📁 001 📄 Page 1 From: Mohamed Waheed [ Sent: 1/27/2013 4:33:18 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Re: Importance: High Thank you. You are my savior. I will do exactly what you said. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 27, 2013, at 9:29 AM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote: this from a fraud web site, your mimister will get upset that you dont want to at least try, what do we have to lose , always the pitch. THe following from the fraud site. --The essential fact in all advance-fee fraud operations is that the promised money transfer never happens—because the money does not exist. The perpetrators rely on the fact that, by the time the victim realizes this (often only after being confronted by a third party who has noticed the transactions or conversation and recognized the scam), the victim may have sent thousands of dollars of their own money, and sometimes thousands or millions more that has been borrowed or stolen, to the scammer via an untraceable and/or irreversible means such as wire transfer.f131 Stay away, however if you want to embarass your possible opponent , you might set it up so that he looks like a fool, ask for amemo of why he thinks you should agree, have it include as many detials as possible, so that when you prove its a fraud„ you will make him look very silly as opposed to his saying , you missed an opportunity, anyway„ glad you are well
November 14, 2025 at 3:49 AM
observingangel.bsky.social
Ugh. That took a while. Lots of unknowns for me. Make sure to double check but this is what I got for Bannon's list from Epstein:
Epstein's "list for Bannon Steve" names list that he sent to himself. Got a pretty good bead on who most are so from the top. Went through it myself. Was a pain. Half of these people don't show up in the docs but are known past associates, some deep past. I do wonder if this list was for Bannon to "continue the mission": "Mandelson"- former UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson; maintained connections w Epstein even after Epstein was outed. "barnaby" - Barnaby Marsh; philanthropy services specialist who assists the wealthy in spreading their wealth. "summers" - Larry Summers; American economist who served as US Treasury Secretary, Harvard President, and National Economic Council Director. Husband to Elisa New (Lolita & My Antonia discourse w Epstein) "watson' - 2 contacts w that surname - Dr. James "Jim" Watson; nobel laureate for discovery of DNA and Rebecca Watson; blogger/Youtuber "axel" - Richard Axel; nobel prize-winning American molecular biologist "bottstein" - Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, "Open Society Global Board", musicologist "karim" - Karim Wade, "son of the president of Senegal" "terje" - Terje Rod-Larsen; Norwegian diplomat, politician, and sociologist "pritzker" - Tom Pritzker; billionaire, chairman of Hyatt Hotels "edelman" - Gerald Edelman; Nobel prize winning biologist "set lloyd" - Seth Lloyd; American quantum information scientist, MIT prof "martin novak"- Martin Nowak; math & bio prof at Harvard, writes on evolutionary theory, received funding from Epstein "minsky" - Marvin Minsky; co-founder of MIT AI Library, resigned after being accused by one of the victims saying "sex with a minor isn't always assault" "tata" - Tata Consulting Services, IT consulting company. Natarajan Chandrasekaran shows up in Epstein docs in a list for 2011 World Economic Forum attendees & that's it. "susskind" - unknown "strominger" - unknown "krauss" - Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and cosmologist "hopkins" - unknown "randall" - Lisa Randall; American theoretical physicist, noted as being on island "kosslyn" - Stephen Kosslyn, frmr chair of Harvard psychology dept, named in indictment for sex "gardner" - Howard E. Gardner; prof at Harvard Graduate School of Ed "gates" - Bill Gates. Lots of Boris Nikolic, will executor/advisor to Gates & Epstein "thiel" - Peter Thiel; Paypal & Palantir; "anti-christ" bro. Also listed as bill thiel in similar lists. VP at COX media group? ??? "hoffman" - Auren Hoffman; American entrepreneur, angel investor, author and CEO of SafeGraph, a firm that gathers location data from mobile devices and sells information about places and the movements of people "hoie" - unknown "sinofsky" - Steven Sinofsky; fmr president of Windows at Microsoft "sheldrake" - unknown "sulzberger" - Arthur Sulzberger; journalist, fmr chairman & publisher of the NYT "jes staley" - Jes Staley; banker, fmr group executive of Barclay's. Staley is talking. "joscha bach" - Joscha Bach; German cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and philosopher "joi ito" - Joi Ito; venture capitalist, president of Chiba Institute of Technology. "HBJ" - Hamad bun Jasem on other list- Hamad bin Jassim; Qatari politician, former PM and FM of Qatar "berge" - unknown "miro" - Miro Lajcak; Slovak politician and diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic. In addition, Lajčák also served as President of the United Nations General Assembly. Bannon shit. "anas" -Anas Al-Rasheed; Kuwaiti academic and former Minister of Information "rafaat" -Raafat Alsabbagh; uncertain, but name that pops up in docs, prob advisor to the Saudi Royal Court "sultan" -Sultan Bin Sulayem; chairman and chief executive officer of DP World and the chairman of the Ports, Customs & Free Zone Corporation (Bannon shit) "nathan feigenbaum" -unknown "ramachandran" -V.S. Ramachandran; Indian-American neuroscientist; cited in Epstein docs "goelberg" -unknown "demasio" -Antonio Damasio? Neuroscientist. Mentioned in blurb in Epstein docs. "shristakis" ("christakis" on another list) - unknown "brockman" -John Brockman; literary agent, est'd Edge Foundation; known associate of Epstein, lots of correspondence "hillis" -Danny Hillis; American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, advanced computing for AI. Epstein to Ito: "talk to Danny Hillis he has some legislative ideas" kaufman -unknown "seligman" -Thomas Seligman? Dir of Stanford Museum mentioned in blurb about personal transformation. (Drugs ofc) "gould" -unknown "saks" -Judith Saks? Artist? "john kery" -John Kerry; no direct correspondence noted, Epstein discusses a lot. "george mitchell" - George Mitchell; fmr senator for Maine. accused in indictment of sex "mandelbrot" -Benoit Mandelbrot? Mathematician in fractals. Mentioned in AI blurb in Epstein docs "chomsky" -Noam Chomsky. Exchanged emails discussing discourse & Trump "barrack" -Tom Barrack; US Ambassador (Trump) to Turkiye. Epstein emailed asking about photos. "barak" -Ehud Barak, fmr PM of Israel. Accused in OG indictment. Bannon shit. "zagat" -Tim Zagat, restaurant survey company, long known as associate. "nathan" -Nathan Myhrvold? fmr CTO of Microsoft, involved in early indictment/Dershowitz. A "Nathan Wolf" mentioned as well. "Brian Greene" -physicist & author, received funding by Epstein "yau" -unknown "eo wilson" - EO Wilson; American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist "prince andrew" - Prince Andrew. Emails in Epstein docs are under "The Duke" "jagland" -Thorbjon Jagland; fmr PM of Norway. Requested advice on Trump from Epstein. "clinton" -Bill Clinton. "pastrana" -Andres Pastrana, fmr. president of Columbia. In flight logs. "richardson"/"bill richardson" on another list -Bill Richardson, was Gov of New Mexico "leahy" -unknown "jarecki" -Henry Jarecki; psychiatrist accused of rape and sex trafficking w Epstein
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM