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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Cat-shaped vessel from Peru (c. 200–700 CE) #MenWithCats
Cat-shaped vessel from Peru 
(c. 200–700 CE)Cat-shaped vessel from Peru 
(c. 200–700 CE)
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social here’s a good new piece on the use of aircraft thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...
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In the Sky with the Pilots Fighting a BC Megafire | The Tyee
The Tyee joins a helicopter crew on a critical day in the battle to stop the Ainslie Creek wildfire.
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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
finally, an ethical, interplanetary equivalent of launching dogs and cats and monkeys on orbital test flights with no guarantee of survival
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In 1819, a 17-year-old boy was shipped to a forced labor camp in Mississippi owned by 1 of the richest human traffickers in the state Joe Davis essentially owned an slave island. Aside from being a lawyer he made most of his money owning slaves. While he was called a "planter," He didn't plant shit
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Trump is expanding the Afrikaaner refugee program, which is based on the "white genocide" conspiracy that Black South Africans are trying to take land from Whites You can't understand this story if you don't know 1 of the greatest stories in all of history A thread www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Exclusive: Trump poised to expand refugee program for white South Africans
President Donald Trump's administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the ​U.S., according to three people familiar with the matter.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The Tufted ground squirrel (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) is a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in floof. Let's start with the *FLOOF* & talk about why they're called "VAMPIRE SQUIRRELS" last. They have the largest tail: body size ratio of any mammal on Earth: the tail is *130%* the size the body.
Taken from "Critter Science" blog: A  squirrel with dark coloration, just an amazingly large tail, and long tufted ears that point slightly backwards.  Along the long-thin body are orange, white and black striping. The tail looks almost exactly like one of those dust-trapping dusters.
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Casablancmange
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Zorgan Taylor @zorantaylor.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Y Tu Muppet Tambien
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Twelve Angry Muppets
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
New Past Lives: Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America. While the horrors of the Transatlantic trade are well known, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were trafficked into slavery in North America as well. Moll was one of them. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
ICYMI - NEW DENVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA: “New Denver artist maps movements of evacuees displaced by 2024 Slocan Valley wildfires” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC British Columbia #Art #BCWildfire #Maps #NewDenver #SlocanValley #Wildfires
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New Denver artist maps movements of evacuees displaced by 2024 Slocan Valley wildfires | CBC News
Two years ago, New Denver, B.C., artist Petra Hekkenberg was forced to leave her home during the 2024 Slocan Lake Complex wildfires. She's since created a community map with the help of residents, sho...
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Steuard Jensen @steuard.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
A message of defiant hope in this difficult time: MAKE NO MORE CLOUDS. I HAVE DRAWN THE RAINBOW HERE.
A drawing in dynamic style of a defiant five-year-old girl with dark bobbed hair (seen as if looking up from ground level) shouting to her foe, pointing a finger with one hand while the other clenches behind her in a fist. On her head is a borrowed paper crown labeled "KING"; on her flowing nightshirt is a smiling cartoon narwhal. Behind her on both sides are clustered heaps of scared but eager kids.

The caption below the picture reads: "Make no more clouds. I have drawn the rainbow here."

Part of a page from Bea Wolf, Zach Weinersmith's retelling of Beowulf (illustrated by Boulet) as a story of kids defending their treehouse from the threat of growing up.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 16/12/2025
This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Well done Skate Canada. Organizations (and individuals) need to make them pay for this authoritarian bullshit.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Frankly, this is political pseudoscience. Postulations of intra-group unity and intergroup incommensurability are as facile and cartoonish when framed in terms of "civilisations" as they are when framed in terms of "races". Thankfully, IR as a discipline is moving on from this sort of nonsense.
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Dangerous animal keeps sliding out between the bars of its enclosure: problematic cage gap
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/06/2025
If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”
A least weasel. It fits in the palm of the hand.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 02/06/2025
Just an absolute banger of an animal family
A chart showing animals in the family Musteloidea. Includes raccoons, skunks, otters, badgers, weasels, and ferrets.
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CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 24/06/2025
“When you live in a forest, you have to be prepared.” What it took to face down a wildfire in a coastal mountain town. Lauren Watson reports. 🌳
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Close Call: Squamish’s 11-Day Fire Drill | The Tyee
‘We live in this naive bubble.’ What it took to face down a wildfire in a coastal mountain town.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I just pulled the data for Canadian provinces of the most common injuries by province, here they are:
Map of Canada labeled "How Canadians get hurt"

YK: COLD
NWT: COLD
NU: NO DATA
BC: Misjudged THC content of gummie before snowboarding
AB: No data, provincial medical records deleted, deemed "woke"
SK: Boredom
MB: Slurpee overdose
ON: Leafs-related heart attack
QC: Accidentally swallowed cigarette during sex
NL: Herpes from shared codfish kissing
PEI: Intoxication, mistook currant wine for raspberry cordial. This is an Anne of Green Gables reference!!
NB: Buddy hit a fuckin' MOOSE
NS: Drove over to New Brunswick and hit a FUCKIN' MOOSE
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Broken Record: You *cannot sustain* a functioning constitutional order if the general population is blasé about open violation of the Constitution. If voters don't care, your job is to make them care. This is not optional. If you don't, you lose even if you pick up seats in the next election.
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 28/04/2025
With all sincerity, Elections Canada is a national treasure. - Voting typically takes less than 15 minutes - We make it easy for citizens to vote, without cumbersome registration hurdles - We have every reason to trust that ballots will be counted fairly, and results reported swiftly
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/04/2025
yep. transphobia is the camel’s nose under the tent for the full panoply of right wing gender policing, for men and women alike
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
They really are the best.
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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is a now or never moment. The way we respond over the next few days, as individuals and institutions, is crucial. And currently we're missing the mark. If we don't act now we will lose everything.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Colossal didn't make a dire wolf. This is not a dire wolf! Stop saying it is!! I feel like I'm going mad!!!
the cover of Time Magazine, with the headline "Extinct" crossed out in red above the text "This is Remus. He’s a dire wolf. The first to exist in over 10,000 years. Endangered species could be changed forever." by Jeffrey Kluger, and the photo of a white dog-like wolf-like animal
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is the best analysis of what makes these goblins tick I’ve seen yet.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Last week, I wrote about how explicitly and vigorously sociopathic this version of The Trump Experience is, and the urge to defeat or devour every other person and thing on earth. The tariffs literalize that in a way that's easy to see, but also it's everywhere you look. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
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Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Do yourself a favour and read this entire thread.
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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
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a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
snacks for the frykorps
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.
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Jim Whittington🔥 @jimwhittington.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
IMTs are quietly talking about what the current political environment means for this year's wildland fire suppression efforts, but it deserves a larger and more public consideration. 1/
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Art of War was a manual for 5th century BC noble failsons to prevent them from losing the entire army to diarrhea. This is why it appeals so much to oligarch failsons of the 21st century AD.
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Jeremy Barker @poppedculture.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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BACK YOU AMERICANS! NOBODY THREATENS CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY BUT ME AND MAYBE ALBERTA!
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Saying that the political use of transphobia is bad while still arguing that gender-affirming care for minors should be subject to public debate is called "virtue Singaling" and if you do it you should be shoved into a dumpster.
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
wonder how much of it is the tariffs and how much of it is the “I think your country should be eliminated, I’m going to say that multiple times and emphasize that I’m not joking, Canadians shouldn’t exist as a nation” thing seems like one would provoke more emotion
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
i think the democratic party's paralysis at this moment is at least partially attributable to so many fucking lawyers thinking the rules are self-enforcing
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Castouroboros @castouroboros.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A young girl copes with her anxieties about change and displacement by confiding in a possibly imaginary crustacean. ISOPOD, IT’S ME MARGARET.
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McNastyPrime @mcnastyprime.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...
Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes-you'll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success-they would all go Nazi in a crisis.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 21/01/2025
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Funny what going all-in on justifying one measly little atrocity does to your soul, huh
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