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@sorrykb.bsky.social
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Newbie photographer and dilettante birder in Los Angeles
Refugees welcome.
Transphobic garbage blocked.

Profile photo (my cat Marmalade) and banner photo by me.
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It’s here it’s here it’s here!!!
A Gwen C Katz creation: a froggie version of the Obama “Hope” t-shirt. The text reads “Hop” in large letters. Next to the shirt are two bags of cookies.
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Frog and Toad are friends, and there’s a bot here that shares stories of their friendship.
That makes me happy.
Immediately below a quote-post of Colin Dickey’s post is a post from the Frog and Toad bot (based on the books by Arnold Lobel). The post says “Frog and Toad are friends.” The image shows the characters Frog and Toad sitting happily together in a cottage having tea.
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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with alt text
JOINT STATEMENT FROM GOODLANDER, SLOTKIN, KELLY, CROW, DELUZIO, AND HOULAHAN GE We are veterans and national security professionals who love this country and swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. That oath lasts a lifetime, and we intend to keep it. No threat, intimidation, or call for violence will deter us from that sacred obligation. What's most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our servicemembers should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders. It is not only the right thing to do, but also our duty. But this isn't about any one of us. This isn't about politics. This is about who we are as Americans. Every American must unite and condemn the President's calls for our murder and political violence. This is a time for moral clarity. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage. We will continue to lead and will not be intimidated. Don't Give Up the Ship!
November 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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darth it is too much i would like to unsee everything
A sea otter floats on her back in a calm bay, covering her cute fuzzy face with her paws.
November 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Marmalade concurs.
An orange cat sits on top of a cat tower. Her mouth and eyes are wide open as she looks with apparent amazement at something. (I was tossing a catnip mousie to her.)
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Sleeeeeepy
An otter floats on her back in a sheltered bay, kelp wrapped around her back feet to keep her from drifting away in her sleep. She is yawning and rubbing her eyes with her fuzzy paws. She is adorable.
November 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Here are some cute and real otters I saw Monday at Morro Bay.

Keep it real.
A sea otter floats on her back in a calm bay. Her cute fuzzy doglike face is turned to look at the camera. She’s wrapped kelp around her back feet to keep from floating away. A sea otter floats on her back in a calm bay. She is rubbing her eyes with her furry little hands and her mouth is slightly open, beginning a yawn. She’s wrapped kelp around her back feet to keep from floating away. Two sea otters — a pale brown mother and a darker brown pup — are side by side in a calm bay, poppingg their cute fuzzy heads out of the water as they look around.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Can’t see a thing through the complete overcast in my neighborhood in L.A., so I’m doing stolen aurora valor with a pic from my dad in Camarillo (Ventura County, California).

Taken about 20 minutes ago.
A grassy area at night. The sky has scattered pale clouds but what stands out are brilliant areas of red in the sky.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Sometimes all you can do is …
A sea otter floats on its back. Its mouth is open and its paws are covering its eyes.
November 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This part also is very good.
(along with the severability clause)
HB 1312 also prohibits employers from taking retaliatory actions against employees for “disclosing or threatening to disclose in good faith a violation of the Illinois Bivens Act,” amending the Whistleblower Act. According to the bill, retaliation includes contacting — or threatening to contact — immigration authorities, or reporting an employee’s or their family member’s immigration or citizenship status to any federal, state or local agency, the bill states.
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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[vibes intensely]
A young woodpecker peeks out from a nest hole in a tree trunk. It has a cap of bright red sticking up above its slightly grumpy face.
November 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Come to think of it…
A crude drawing of a USPS forever stamp stamp, with a “Solidarity” flag above the word “forever”
November 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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This is the one point that I’d take issue with. It’s not a “hopeful sign” that Trump hasn’t ignored Supreme Court rulings — at least not the rulings of the *current* Court. He hasn’t needed to.
They’ve done everything to accommodate him, including ignoring precedent.
It is a hopeful sign that he has not ignored the Supreme Court, and the court may yet block his most blatant power grabs. Still, the court’s reluctance to restrain him appears to have emboldened him to sidestep lower court orders he does not like.
October 31, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Duolingo finally teaching me some useful phrases.
Screenshot from Duolingo: The character Lily is saying (in French and English) “You might suffer.” Screenshot from Duolingo: The character Eddy is saying (in French and English) “Go away and never come back!”
October 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Trolling is easy. Any idiot can post something offensive and get a reaction. What’s hard is actually governing. They’ve given up on that part entirely, and they’re desperately trying to convince everyone—including themselves—that this performance is actually a demonstration of strength rather than an admission of complete incompetence at the actual job.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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And here she is a few years ago, high on catnip
A chonky orange cat lies on her back on a carpet with all four legs stuck out to the side. Her head is tilted back and she has a blissed out silly expression on her face. A catnip sock is on the carpet next to her.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Here’s happy Marmalade in her tower.
An orange cat sleeps very curled up in a little compartment in a blue cat tower. Her little face is tucked into her back feet, and there is a silvervine stick by her tail.
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The editor is defending charges of antisemitism by referring to [checks notes] “rootless cosmopolitanism.”

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However, Salient editor Richard Y. Rodgers defended the piece, saying that Army “did not intentionally quote Adolf Hitler, nor did any member of our editorial staff recognise the resemblance prior to publication”. "The article was a meditation on how nations and cultures preserve coherence in an age of rootless cosmopolitanism and global homogenisation. To confuse a defence of belonging for a manifesto on exclusion is a fault of the reader, not the writer.”
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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gosh, PBS, that’s a bit harsh
An email from PBS SoCal (my local PBS) with the subject “Your sustaining gift has failed”
October 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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oh.
In the video, he also lashed out at “family friends” because they had “decided to take the article and spread it around to everyone that we know.” He lobbed anti-gay slurs at them and said he wouldn’t forget how they’d treated him. “I know you think I’m the only one that’s going to pay,” he said. “It’s not true. Because, sooner or later, when we win, these scores are all going to get settled.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Raptors!
#birds 🪶
An American Kestrel perches on a branch eating a dragonfly it has caught. It is a small falcon, mostly brown on back with light colors on its underside and a gray, white, and black markings on its face. It stands out sharply against a blue sky. A Red-tailed Hawk perches at the top of a dead tree, looking back over its shoulder at a Red-winged Blackbird hovering above it, with clear blue sky behind. The hawk is mostly brown with some lighter color and a sharp yellow beak. It looks annoyed. The blackbird is much smaller, all black except for bright red on its shoulders. Its wings are extended and its tail feathers fanned out as it tries to harass the hawk away. A Red-tailed Hawk sits up on a tree branch. It is comically hunched up so its eyes appear to be below its mouth.
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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I went with some pollinator-friendly flowers, catnip, and cat grass instead. And built a catio.
A view out a sliding door onto a small balcony. The right side has a bench, under which a cat tunnel leases to a larger catio against the far wall. The left side against the balcony railing has a a plant stand with various plants on it. There is an orange cat in the catio, peering up at some birds on a feeder off-camera.
October 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Look at the architect’s rendering.
It’s awful.
A drawing depicting a massive and ugly white block of a building that makes the White House next to it look tiny
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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It’s appalling.
The architect’s rendering showing a massive and ugly white block of a building that makes the White House next to it look tiny
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Here’s the architect’s rendering.
A drawing depicting a massive and ugly white block of a building that makes the White House next to it look tiny
October 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM