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S Zimsen

@kelpmonster.bsky.social
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coastal urban ecologist, wildlife-gardening 🍉 📣 Native Americans should be the LAST people ICE locks up 🤔 AFTER every single whitey

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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Therapy, or just … listen to the at least 3 or 4 ppl who have told you to Knock That Counterproductive Shit Off
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jumped directly here, to the middle of this thread, & without the context I thought for 2 sec it was a quote from a William Gibson story I haven’t read in so long I can’t remember the (obviously) awesome protagonist. (Gotta unearth all those books & start re-reading.)
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t think vibrators for “uterine arousal” would sell very well … or get good ratings … or avoid causing serious injuries that we can see (from way over here before they’re invented) are inevitable.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
But then, I *should* be disturbed! & I also REMEMBER.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Believe me. It’s VERY effective.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And when (as intended) you literally stumble across one, it stops you in the street. You read it. The bare facts of the murderous Nazism punches you in the gut. You stand there gulping air so you don’t burst int tears. And you DO NOT FORGET. Nobody reads the little eulogy plaques or steles.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Seattle, if it’s raining hard enough you’d actually try to AVOID getting a little wet — it’s also blowing hard enough that it’s raining sideways. … which no umbrella can help you with. Even before it gets turned inside-out or pulled out of your hand. Mystified: rain works differently elsewhere?
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You forgot Bernie “continually talks right over women speaking about their area of expertise“ Sanders
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If it’s nonchalantly landing on Carl’s desk — it is a true heir of our intrepid Spike (direct descendant or not).
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Odds of surviving any kind of apocalypse are almost always a LOT higher *outside* of prison.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What. Has Rob compared how much cash it takes to buy an old VW Vanagon, let alone a Sprinter van, vs. (say) a year’s rent??? 🤔 Sprinter vans may not be the silver bullet out of homelessness (and into mass invasion of parking spaces in Nice Neighborhoods) that he imagines.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GOOD. … or … maybe they are? That’s the best they’ve got???
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We will ALWAYS win Calvinball!!!
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
sparklepony oarfish!
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wut. You’re not a very good systems thinker when you don’t understand how the components of your system WORK. The ppl thinking ”above transistors” are going to be bad at that, if they don’t actually know how the transistors work together within a system.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oarfish looks worried 😟
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Monsters. Stealing someone’s _Erythronium hendersonii_ is just LOW. Avalanche lilies won’t grow just anywhere, you know. So most likely the thief stole AND murdered the poor things. So despairingly pointless!
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
How did you find a manhole cover with a Noir cookie pattern?!!! (Even in Japan, with (nearly) all the best manhole covers?)
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is so wholesome 😭
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
… which of course means, are going to be 🗺️ ⬇️ _coming from_ the north Looks like, right after the winds from the west shove that diagonal line far enough east to get about ALL of Spokane on its way south.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 28/07/2026
We can't even. "A senior US State Department official displayed a map of Africa that was completely wrong before high-level officials from African nations, including some whose countries had been mislabelled." open.substack.com/pub/emilysba...
open.substack.com
The US State Department Redraws the Map of Africa at the AIDS2026 Conference
And rewrites history, too. All before the official opening.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Seattle methheads: go big! And stop messing with our light rail.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
What? Did the Time hire the anti-Westneat*? to be more Fair And Balanced? *except more fact-based
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
… and bananas really WILL cost $10 each. Far too soon.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The depth and breadth of Not Knowing How Things Work among the ruling-class folks insulated by money from … *how things work*, for their whole lives, is a huge and horrible pathology that harms all the rest of us.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I think with respect to car tabs, we still have a long-outdated, maladaptive fear of Tim Eyman. We need to get over that.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“Learning”? Perhaps you mean “refining his lifelong practice.”
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Foust, Jamelle, & Merz are ALL correct.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
That might have a particle of credibility if they ever actually adhered to any of the great classical principles like democracy personal autonomy and exploration and evidence-baded-anything. Of if they’ve even heard of them.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Don’t forget 🔥 Vesta!
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
GOOD
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
And the soil around them is far more toxic than most ppl think. Petrochemicals are really very terribly bad for you. If you fall & get injured—the dirt you rub in your wounds & the dust you stir up and breathe can lower your life expectancy. (Further.)
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Senior leadership, it seems, is usually dangerously removed from actually DOING things. So they have no idea how _doing things_ works. Huge support to you, doing things.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
😢
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
That is the optimal answer.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I assumed that. I’m certain most of us science-ing ppl here assumed that.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Health is hugely determined by wealth. It’s the same plan, with the same strategy.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Nuremberg trials. ASAP.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Voting & vote-counting has some guardrails too. “An Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission will make direct election interference difficult on election day, as will EU rules and constraints.“ www.cfr.org/articles/the...
cfr.org
Ousting Orbán May Be the Easy Part | Council on Foreign Relations
Voters in Hungary face a critical election on Sunday that carries political and foreign policy implications for Ukraine, Europe, and beyond. But even if Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s party is defeated, the path to reform is filled with challenges.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🤞Here’s hoping! 🇭🇺
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
& all of us Gen-Xers will have to watch splash-down tomorrow IN COMPANY — in case. Have splash-down parties. Get work to show NASA livestream on the big screens. Make the bar switch the TV from sports. Have someone on the phone the whole time, watching the same stream. SOMETHING. Anything not alone.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
General Zod!
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
But the tactic works just fine even AFTER the targets learn about the tactic. There is no problem here.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Sharing it is so wildly unlikely to measurably slow that method, let alone stop it. Half the comments here are pointing out how well it has worked through history, with specific examples. It seems to be OpSec that just cannot be learned, at all, by a big chunk of the front-line troops.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So more of us can use the idea, everywhere.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
No. And they’ve never heard of any court proceedings in scenic Nuremberg, Germany, either. … yet.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
About damn time!
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I mean ... they were falling to the moon … they just missed! Keeping on missing is the key to flying.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Wait, no, he WAS the diet of, well, *a* worm? At least one literal brain-worm. Given all the wild game (& maybe a flotsam whale carcass) that he’s eaten, he probably has been dined on by multiple other cute little parasites. Including worms.
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S Zimsen @kelpmonster.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
EVERY TIME anyone says any about trajectory or navigation burns, I think “Oh YEAH?! Did you have Katherine Johnson check your math?!?!” I hope NASA’s *Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility* did, at least. www.nasa.gov/katherine-jo...
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Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility - NASA
The Katherine Johnson IV&V Facility, Independent Verification and Validation, home of NASA’s IVV Program. NASA IV&V assures the safety and success of software on NASA’s highest-profile missions.
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