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Samara

@herduckess.bsky.social
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Matriarch to a proud line of budgies. Caffeinated corporate hamster. Three Arrows. I don’t post often but you can expect stuff like: gardening, nature, city cats, tech projects and shitposts. MBCS | she/her

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2026
A ship carrying nearly 100 tons of food and essential goods from Colombia has arrived in Cuba as part of the humanitarian aid that several countries have sent to the island in recent months as a U.S. energy embargo persists.
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Ship from Colombia laden with food and other goods docks in Cuba to help ease crises
A ship carrying nearly 100 tons of food and essential goods from Colombia has arrived in Cuba as part of the humanitarian aid that several countries have sent to the island in recent months as a U.S. energy embargo persists.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hey America, how’s that war for freed…ahem oil going for ya? Oh. Oooh…
Notification from the Nebula channel RealLifeLore titled: “How Iran Became America’s Ukraine”.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Could this be because Trump and Hegseth deprofessionalised the Navy or is it because of trans people? Nah, must be transgenderism.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Does anyone remember the classic "ICE vs The Viking in a Bathtub" sketch on Monty Python? Good times!
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I guess the corollary to “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” is “any sufficiently dumb society is indistinguishable from parody”.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 30/10/2025
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Ah yes, the “We are defenders of women’s rights which means women get no rights and trans women no longer get to exist” argument made by the next wave of Real™️ Feminists: conservative white cishet men. How much evil stupidity can our planet take before she ejects us all into space?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/10/2025
1. AOC scathingly rebuked anti-trans activist Riley Gaines Monday in the form of a single sentence. "Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth." Its part of a new wave of Dems being fearless on trans rights. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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AOC To Anti-Trans Swimmer Riley Gaines: "Maybe If You Channeled All This Anger Into Swimming Faster You Wouldn’t Have Come In Fifth."
Riley Gaines has turned a 5th place finish into a national conservative platform against transgender rights.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Burn so hard the water started boiling 🤣 Source: www.erininthemorning.com/p/aoc-to-ant...
Article title:
<<AOC To Anti-Trans Swimmer Riley Gaines: "Maybe If You Channeled All This Anger Into Swimming Faster You Wouldn’t Have Come In Fifth.">>
Article subtitle:
“Riley Gaines has turned a 5th place finish into a national conservative platform against transgender rights.”
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Practical and useful programs in the service of humanity as always. Thank you @esa.int ! 💜 And my sympathies to your partners at @noaa.gov who fell victim to exaggerated cuts and job losses despite their critical contributions to the environment and our safety. Hang in there friends 💜
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I had a wild week recently with another woman I met on Her. Our attraction burned as bright as a magnesium flame and just as strongly burnt us out into panic attacks and that was it. But thanks to her I got the courage to pursue sapphic literature, lesbian and queer bands and I feel so at home now
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Comedy is legal again
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 18/10/2025
Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
2025 has a way of bringing oldies back into relevance. Actually the whole album is now relevant, especially “Are You Feeling Fascist?” m.youtube.com/watch?v=stef...
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America's a Fucking Disease
YouTube video by London After Midnight - Topic
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate
The Daily Beast writes: "Kim Kardashian's brand SKIMS has sold out its synthetic pubic hair thongs and is now accumulating a waitlist for the product." Their tweet is accompanied by a link to a post with the story.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Can’t believe I’m saying this but maybe a nuclear winter might just be what we need to stop destroying Earth’s ability to sustain life. I’d like to see the oligarchs try to survive a bunch of angry, hungry raiders as their shitty billion-dollar bunkers inevitably fail and force them out with us.
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World's coral reefs crossing survival limit: global experts
The world's tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most can survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The corpses are still warm and the assholes just can’t help themselves with their greed. How about we redirect those exports to Ukraine or stockpile them to defend Europe? Not enough profits from defending democracy?
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Glad they’re trying to restore Malintzin to her truth. Her effort to bridge the gap between the Spanish invaders and the Aztecs deserves praise not scorn. I’m tired of us women being perpetually blamed as traitors, temptresses and ruiners when men should owe the fuck up for their shit.
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Traitor, survivor or influencer? Mexico rethinks story of conquistador translator Malinche
The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
the boys who landed at Normandy or fought in Stalingrad couldn't have imagined the horrors of 21st century war
A picture and headline from an article: Unicorn bride marries Kenny from south park at Portland ICE protest
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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Still goes harder than Andor
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
legendary moment
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che at the desk laughing as Bowen Yang as Dobby, standing in front of the desk, holds a They K Rowling T-shirt. LOL.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The Heritage Foundation is pushing for a legal definition of “trans terrorism”. I ask you, was Von Stauffenberg a terrorist? Was Sophie Scholl, beheaded by the Nazis, a terrorist? Were the Edelweiss Pirates, kids who fought the Hitler Youth, terrorists? No. They fought for justice and democracy.
erininthemorning.com
Republicans Push FBI To Designate Trans Advocacy As Violent Extremism. Inside The Project 2025 Organization's Proposal.
On Thursday evening, news emerged that individuals within and outside of Trump administration were pushing to cast trans activists as domestic terrorists. Then, Project 2025 dropped its proposal.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I had a good laugh. My wallet had an existential crisis with the rum bottle.
User michelleyxo asks:
“How tf do people afford this? lol”
User jschlatatata replies:
“being trans is great because in order to get my right to exist respected and for me to get the basic decency of actually owning the body im trapped in i'm going to have to sell my kidney for surgeries that are required to undo changes i wouldn't need to go through if the very people denying my existence let me on hormones during puberty.”
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trolling the law by “identifying” as a trans woman immediately after the self-determination law was passed doesn’t mean that Self-ID is wrong. It means you need to safeguard against abusive use of the law. Ghoul certainly gloated about pretending to be trans to “own the libs”. Search their socials!
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Neo-Nazi's trans identity sparks debate over German law – DW – 08/27/2025
A convicted high-profile extremist and transphobic activist has presented themselves as a transwoman, demanding to be sent to a women's prison. German conservatives demand a change in the law that mad...
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Alien: Earth, Episode 7 - no spoilers but I yelled crying at the screen at the end. Corporate stooges are no longer your friends the moment they point the guns at you damn it! If you’re willing to harm your friends to keep your cushy contract, fuck you with prejudice.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2025
Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk
NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Although I was alive back then, I missed out because only dad had expensive dial-up connection for work email. Didn’t get ISDN net until 2004-5. At least I lived through the forum culture in the modding scene. Scene got me into gamedev and Uni. Helped an anxious kid. m.youtube.com/watch?v=6UbK...
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Internet Relay Chat.
YouTube video by The Serial Port
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Steve King♿️ @stevemking.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“He questioned the intellectual capabilities of women and black people, […], asserted the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a mistake, and cast immigrants and transgender people as threats.” Let me spell it out: Charlie Kirk is MAGA Hörst Wessel. Wessel deserved the bullet. #freedomofspeech #dealwithit
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People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Well, they were already cooking up the narrative to classify trans people as terrorists or mentally ill. They got their Hörst Wessel martyr now. Shitter will probably be flooded with transphobic conspiracies.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In-app browsers, search engines displaying information from Wikipedia and Stackoverflow while burying links to them and any other form of embedding 3rd party websites only kills traffic to the actual content authors. This is starving out anything that isn’t a walled corporate garden.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Telling that even at the exploratory phase, LKAB keeps talking about “compensation” and “making both our businesses grow” when the other “business” is reindeers’ migration and Sami cultural identity. I guess staying alive is a “business model” nowadays 🤦‍♀️
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Extra History started a new series on the history of migration, xenophobia and deportations in the US. I highly recommend watching it on Nebula (nebula.tv/videos/extra...) or YouTube (m.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2R...) Also this screenshot is now in my meme folder, thanks guys for the amazing work 💜
Cartoon image of two old timey a*holes holding a scroll that says: “New Law”. On the left-side guy a scroll wrapped around him says: “I know NOTHING!”. On the right-side guy a scroll wrapped around him says: “Other people SCARE ME!”
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
In these fucked up times, prog is the only thing reliably helping me sleep. Taking it over day for continuous coverage also helps keep me just dazed enough to survive the grind.
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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones
text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world
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Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍 @greens-efa.eu · 04/09/2025
🚨 Conservatives & far-right push a baseless witch-hunt against civil society, aiming to delegitimise voices that don’t share their worldview. These are just political games distracting from real issues like far-right corruption & kleptocracy. We stand united against this attack!
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 29/08/2025
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
If I were religious, I’d say a prayer every day thanking God I’m not living in the US. Afaik spying on tenants is illegal in the EU. m.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxx...
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Your Landlord Might Be Using Facial Recognition to Spy On You
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 24/08/2025
Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day. We celebrate a nation and its people who are bravely resisting Russia’s war of aggression. For their freedom. Their peaceful future. We stand by them for as long as it takes for a just and lasting peace. With Ukraine, unwaveringly.
A dark blue background features a vertical yellow and blue strip on the left side, representing the Ukrainian flag. To the left of the Ukrainian flag is a vertical strip with five yellow stars, representing the European Union flag. The words "YOUR FREEDOM IS OUR FREEDOM" are written in bold, white uppercase letters on the right side of the image.
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Wendy Carlos won multiple Grammy awards for pioneering the use of synthesizers in her music. She composed the original soundtrack for Tron. She also happens to be trans. #Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransRights #TransHistory #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT #Queer
Photo of Wendy Carlos smiling and sitting at a desk with multiple piano keyboards. Text reads: Wendy Carlos won multiple Grammy awards for pioneering the use of synthesizers in her music. She composed the original soundtrack for Tron. She also happens to be trans.
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Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍 @greens-efa.eu · 11/08/2025
After years of protests & pressure from citizens & our @cristinaguarda.bsky.social, 11 execs were jailed for knowingly contaminating the waters of Northern #Italy with #PFAS. This is Europe’s biggest pollution case & a major win for people against the chemical industry. Now let's fully ban PFAS.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Christ, when even the IDF thinks you’re going too far, you really have a problem
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Where’s Waldo? Roadsign Edition
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
First time tracing a sketch in #Inkscape. I’m impressed at how easy and intuitive it is to use compared to the nightmare of GIMP. Half-way there.
Sketch of an Art Deco style UI for a slider button. Seen here is the left border and the top left corner element. A palm like triangular shape like << rests left centrally in a niche in the border. When pushing the “Unlock” label, this palm and a right-side mirror will slide to the centre replacing the text label.Inkscape vector traced version of the sketch, almost 50% cleaned up
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Been working on a door lock automation project. Wanted a touch interface to unlock - in Art Deco style! Below is my first blind attempt. The corner, border will be mirrored and the triangular palm will be mirrored on the right too. Pressing “Unlock” will move both palms to the centre in its stead.
A touch screen UI sketch of a door unlock button in Art Deco style. The top left corner which will be mirrored for all the final corners is made of two 90° angles hugging a square. The square rests inside a border recessed around its shape. This style is reminiscent of Ancient Egyptian temple interior motifs. The border continues downward on the left side in a < shape - this is the resting place for the animated sliding unlock element.

The unlock sliding element is a stylised series of triangles inserted into each other echoing the shape of a palm tree. To the right of this element is a quickly sketched fragment of the “Unlock” label. 

This sliding element will be mirrored on the right as well. When the “Unlock” label is pushed, both sliding elements will move towards the centre fading out the Unlock label as they take its place.
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Samara @herduckess.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Apparently the expression “to eat a Twinkie” has nothing to do with twinks but is Australian slang for dying 🤣 Explanation: Twinkies are used as a catch-all for how US food is so unhealthy it might as well kill you.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"AI companies used what amounts to the collective history of our species to create software that obscures its very richness and complexity." www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
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The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT
AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.
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