Sabrina Imbler
@sabs.bsky.social
charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
signal: simbler.88
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC 🤙 https://buttondown.com/simbler/
signal: simbler.88
rest in peace alice, and thank you ❤️
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "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 ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
rest in peace alice, and thank you ❤️
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Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.
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Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least to...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read
breaking!!!!!!! spider web!!!!!!!! news!!!!!!!!
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Drop Whatever You're Doing Right This Instant, There's Big Spider Web News | Defector
After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today we’re shining a spotlight on one of the most loathèd creepy-c...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
breaking!!!!!!! spider web!!!!!!!! news!!!!!!!!
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amazing how everyone I know is having the absolute worst time on top of all combination world historical tragedies and impending ecological collapse 🙌 incredible what happens everything comes together
November 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
amazing how everyone I know is having the absolute worst time on top of all combination world historical tragedies and impending ecological collapse 🙌 incredible what happens everything comes together
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
it's so fucking depressing that when I tried to google a new kind of spider discovered in the amazon the only results I got were for buying fake spiders on Amazon dot com
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
it's so fucking depressing that when I tried to google a new kind of spider discovered in the amazon the only results I got were for buying fake spiders on Amazon dot com
I wrote about one of my ancestors is finally seen as valid :') representation matters
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Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus | Defector
For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Starting in the 1940s, excavations unearthed skulls belonging to what appeared to be smaller and more sl...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I wrote about one of my ancestors is finally seen as valid :') representation matters
defector.com/let-us-now-c...
defector.com/let-us-now-c...
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having read both versions of frankenstein and a book of criticism and a novel based on frankenstein in the last month… i am happy to release my creature (this blog)
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Guillermo del Toro's ‘Frankenstein’ Is Flawed Because His Creature Is Not | Defector
Guillermo del Toro has devoted much of his career to sanctifying monsters. In his first feature film, Cronos, an aging antique dealer stumbles into eternal life, becoming a vampire who, rather than be...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
having read both versions of frankenstein and a book of criticism and a novel based on frankenstein in the last month… i am happy to release my creature (this blog)
defector.com/guillermo-de...
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this essay is just as good as everyone says it is, and imo is a good piece of blanket advice
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lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
this essay is just as good as everyone says it is, and imo is a good piece of blanket advice
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
an incredible obituary for an odious man
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
an incredible obituary for an odious man
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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Reposted by Sabrina Imbler
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Happy pub day to my beautiful daughter!!!!!! she is so smart and funny and weird and thoughtful and I am so excited for you to meet her!!!!
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this week proving once again that I have never met an anesthesiologist that was not an absolute smokeshow
November 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
this week proving once again that I have never met an anesthesiologist that was not an absolute smokeshow
auditioning a new mitski song to spiral to on loop….any suggestions?
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
auditioning a new mitski song to spiral to on loop….any suggestions?
ate a weed gummy and am cracking open a book about an onion who unites the underclass in a fight against oppression and injustice
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
ate a weed gummy and am cracking open a book about an onion who unites the underclass in a fight against oppression and injustice
Defector nabbed an EXCLUSIVE, no-holds-barred interview with the two-headed worm of the moment.
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Exclusive! A Revealing And Not Made-Up Interview With A Two-Headed Worm | Defector
The freshwater flatworm Stenostomum brevipharyngium is, by all accounts, a simple fellow. The worm is small and entirely soft. It has no eyes, only sensory pits that control balance and orientation. T...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Defector nabbed an EXCLUSIVE, no-holds-barred interview with the two-headed worm of the moment.
defector.com/exclusive-a-...
defector.com/exclusive-a-...
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For this year’s Tip Jar drive, we invite you to travel to Philadelphia to either judge (easy mode) or bake along with (chaos mode) Kelsey McKinney and Chris Thompson as they take on another timed baking challenge. defector.com/help-secure-...
Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of “Innovation in Revenue Strategy” for mid-size newsrooms. We…
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October 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For this year’s Tip Jar drive, we invite you to travel to Philadelphia to either judge (easy mode) or bake along with (chaos mode) Kelsey McKinney and Chris Thompson as they take on another timed baking challenge. defector.com/help-secure-...
I wrote about an absolute diva
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Fat AND Sassy? A Three-Legged Lizard Really Can Have It All | Defector
Decades ago, the evolutionary biologist Jonathan Losos found himself chasing a lizard around an island in the Bahamas. The island was little more than mound of craggy limestone the size of a baseball ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I wrote about an absolute diva
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in this amazing life situation where I'm seeing four (4) therapists at the same time but don't worry they all know about each other
October 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
in this amazing life situation where I'm seeing four (4) therapists at the same time but don't worry they all know about each other
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NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
October 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
NBA media is not built to cover a gambling scandal, but Defector is: defector.com/products
if I were a fish I would simply not be swimming that much. I would be loitering in river systems, feeling the current through my gills and just enjoying each day as it passed.
The not-so-little Murray cod that could: fish tracked swimming 900km along Australia’s biggest river system www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
The not-so-little Murray cod that could: fish tracked swimming 900km along Australia’s biggest river system
Fish named after Olympic swimming champion Ariarne Titmus was most recently tracked at a section of the mid-Murray, near Belsar Island
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
if I were a fish I would simply not be swimming that much. I would be loitering in river systems, feeling the current through my gills and just enjoying each day as it passed.
more like degenerative AI !
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
more like degenerative AI !