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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

reblogging this again because I listened to it again and it’s still fantastic 🥲 (spiders Georg is my favorite meme of all time)

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

interesting fact I just learned on Wikipedia is that pieing somebody can be a tort(e) under civil law

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Guys the problem with this is that you have to go to work during the day and when you’re at work your tiny family is not

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

my kitten has a profile like a small leopard

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you want your reluctant impatiens plant to suddenly start blooming I guess let your kittens chew the leaves up and the stress will do it

white flowers on a potted impatiens plant which has bitten-off leaf tips

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

am I ever supposed to get over how amazing it is that you can just. go to your local animal shelter and bring home a tiny family 🥲

close up of a pair of kittens lying next to each other on a blue pillow; one is black with gold eyes looking over its shoulder, the other is gray and asleep

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I need the people who like modern classical music and also memes to listen to this composition I ran across - youtu.be/aTSMjVtn8IU

youtu.be

Copypasta

YouTube video by Emily Hope

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

accidentally logged out of bsky for… a month again? oops

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

might have adopted a small rock band

A gray tabby kitten and a black kitten playing on top of a small Peavey amplifier. The tabby kitten is reaching down to the knobs

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

soooo I have little baby kitties now 🥹

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

…so apparently I locked myself out of bsky for…two weeks? oops 😅 anyway, how‘s it been going, y’all?

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. Star Trek Deep Space Nine Doctor Who ER The West Wing Star Trek Enterprise Numb3rs Star Trek The Next Generation The Flash (2014) Simon & Simon Stargate SG-1 Star Trek Voyager The A-Team MacGyver SportsNight Boston Legal

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Janelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 03/04/2026

And zoom in to see the auroras!

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/04/2026

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

4-panel comic. (1) [Black panel with white text boxes] TEXT BOX: And God said, "Let there be light," (2) [Sun radiating light.] TEXT BOX: And there was light. (3) [View of bright sun rising over Earth's horizo] (4) TEXT BOX: God saw that light was-- [Chat bubble from Earth] CHAT BUBBLE: Can you add support for dark mode?

Open xkcd.com to view toggles for different modes.

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 12/02/2026

forgot the most important of the genre

fuck the moon
@fuckthem00n

fly me to the moon
let me kick it's fucking ass
let me show it what i learned
in my moon jujitsu class

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

…thanks? I think??

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

listening to philip glass albums on bandcamp today and thinking about why I like his piano etudes on accordion very much but I don’t like his glassworks chamber work on organ. more texture is better? idk

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

join me: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/02/2026

Plums xkcd.com/3209/

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

1) my youtubers are crossing streams again 2) I was not expecting to see that image. from that video. so early on a Tuesday. I might be entitled to compensation. IYKYK

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

pov you are scrolling through a paper on a newly-described silurian galeaspid and you see this magnificent life reconstruction

art of two jawless, flat-headed fish called zihaiaspis wuningensis with what can only be described as 0: expressions

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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes

I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/02/2026

Carbon Dating xkcd.com/3205/

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing to diagram on wall as she talks to two other people, one with short hair.] PERSON 1: The high carbon content of the skeleton indicates that the individual lived less than 12.6 billion years ago, after the first round of stellar nucleosynthesis. [caption] Cosmologist carbon dating

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

said goodbye to my last remaining cat today. we never got a definitive diagnosis on his gi disease but it acted like cancer and he went downhill pretty fast, so it was time. fuck, I miss him already 💔

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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em cassel @biketrouble.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

once again i am asking literally anyone in a position of power to do literally anything so that our neighbors stop getting fucking murdered in the street

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

little cat dude is back at the hospital for his stomach ulcers, just in time for a weekend of severe weather which is either gonna cost me a fortune in weekend care or force me to nurse him over said weekend with no access to the emergency vet 😐

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

little cat dude’s biopsies are finally back (turns out they’ve been back for a week, no one had time to call 🙃), nothing looks like cancer (although this was just an upper GI scope so it still doesn’t fully rule it out). His steroids might be starting to help but he still feels pretty icky 😔

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OK Glass @ok.glass · 11/01/2026

Sunday morning. Time for church: BIRDBRAIN by @jamies.page performed by OK GLASS www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FY0...

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BIRDBRAIN (by JAMIE PAIGE & KASANE TETO) performed by OK GLASS

YouTube video by OK GLASS

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/01/2026

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy.
Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie.

I'm still learning how to understand her.

Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo?
Do you need to do a widdle piddle?

Minnie: Arf!

*I just call her "little baby" most of the time.

I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now.
Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy.
Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now.

Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers.

I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless.
The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective.

I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition.
ICE will pick up anybody.

I know that.

So I tucked my passport away.

And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too.
And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized.
We'll do our best to get through this.

Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I may have treated myself to a collectible circle of the album I have been enjoying for months, someday I will have a machine to play my circle collection on

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

still waiting on cat dude’s biopsies, I’m the one who’s a bit flattened now because fitting his feedings in around my work schedule is making it hard to get more than 5 hours sleep 😴

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/01/2026

Planetary Alignment xkcd.com/3192/

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1 with ponytail: The inspection revealed a few problems. Looks like your planet needs an alignment. PERSON 2: Oh? (2) PERSON 1: Yeah, your magnetic axis is 400 miles off-center from your rotational one. PERSON 2: Is that bad? (3) PERSON 1: The unbalanced magnetic field could cause radiation anomalies over the South Atlantic. Have you noticed any spacecraft equipment failures in that area? PERSON 2: There *have* been a few, actually. (4) PERSON 1: We can give you a loaner planet while yours is in the shop. Is a gas giant OK? PERSON 2: I’d *really* prefer a solid surface. PERSON 1: Sorry, it’s all we have. But it’ll just be for a few days.

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OK Glass @ok.glass · 11/01/2026

I've been asked to put this up for download. Ok okglass.bandcamp.com/album/birdbr...

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Birdbrain, by OK Glass

2 track album

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Gallus Rostromegalus @cryptidchicken.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Slightly Diminish a Game: - Back-Alley Fighter - Super Mario 62.5 - Kingdom Kidneys - Pokemon Zirconium - Dance Dance Strongly Worded Letter of Protest - Metal Gear Turgid - Roller Coaster Manager - Fortessvania - Ukulele Hero - Schmucktales - Tarsier Island - Donkey Kong County

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

little guy is absolutely flattened from his stay in the hospital, but he likes his feeding tube a lot better than me pestering him to eat when he really doesn’t want to. now we wait for his biopsy report

A half-asleep cream point short hair cat, lying on towels and blankets in a beanbag. He is wearing a navy and white checkered collar with a loop of clear tubing poking out of it, which is his feeding tube. He looks comfortable

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

cat dude is staying another night at the hospital, but I got to visit him for a bit today. here he is slightly stoned on his pain meds and sporting some sparkle hearts in post to cover up his personal info collar lol

a cream point short haired cat relaxing on a towel. The cat has very dilated pupils. There is a row of sparkle hearts pasted into the photo across his neck

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

everything in my fridge is open cans of cat food. (not kidding, there are five open cans of cat food, two jars of cat-appropriate baby food and a packet of gravy topper)

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

cat is staying overnight, tomorrow he’s seeing the internal medicine docs… so far we’ve established that he has either lymphoma or one of several IBD-type syndromes, but his lymph node aspirates came back as not cancer-like so that is potentially positive my house is too quiet

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

cat’s at the local teaching hospital for workup, since he still isn’t eating… cross your fingers for the not-worst-case findings please 🤞

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

transdermal meds that make your cat really want you to hold and cuddle them are… interesting. trying not to put myself on a low dose of mirtazipine by accident lol

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/01/2026

TODAY'S OBSCURE GRAMMATICAL CHALLENGE Make a band subjunctive Would That They Were Giants

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

So the cat’s thyroid values are bang-on normal and it looks most like IBD so that’s how we’re treating him at the moment. He’s decided that all foods he’s tasted before are bad and evil so it’s been a real fun few days

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/01/2026

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

We’re doing stress-induced unmasking of chronic cat illness post-holiday petsitting I guess 😔 apparently my cat lost 3 pounds since July without my noticing (and got sick on the last day of my travel). His vet suspects hyperthyroid and I hope she’s right because that’s pretty treatable

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OK Glass @ok.glass · 01/01/2026

NEW HAMPSHIRE by JOHN LINNELL played by OK GLASS I don't know if I can explain why I did this, apart from knowing that it would work www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5uU...

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NEW HAMPSHIRE by JOHN LINNELL played by OK GLASS

YouTube video by OK GLASS

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cari @cari1.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I wish a two hour plane ride wasn’t a nine hour day of travel. glad I am still off work and get to hibernate tomorrow 😴

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