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@kirsten4813.bsky.social
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Wanted to be an evolutionary biologist focusing on bird flight, but life took a turn. Now, I satisfy my curiosity here, learning about science, arts, philosophy and history. She/her

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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just like it's still the Gulf of Mexico
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...
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This Is What 500 Days of Trump's Corruption Looks Like
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Attention visitors, there will be no reflection at the reflection pool. Don't even look at the pool, but trust us, it's beautiful. Now, keep it moving...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 14/05/2026
This is Teo. He is conducting a very thorough sniff inspection. Not saying that giving him a treat will help you pass, but it wouldn’t hurt either. 12/10 (IG: itagure_teo_kobe)
a gray iggy sits extremely close and stares with large dark eyes that resemble glossy boba balls. his nose is out of focus, and all of the whiskers on his snoot are visible. please hold still, he must complete his sniffspection.
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
K, this landed in my feed a couple of days ago but I'm resharing it now because this video has been living rent free in my head since I saw it. Enjoy! Angela, no. Angela, please, what are you doing?
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poondonkus @poondonkus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"am I gonna feel any better?"
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.
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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Please enjoy this amazing freeze frame from Liara’s bathtub incident last night
A gray cat, suspended in midair over a bathtub, limbs splayed out, realizes she has made a poor choice.
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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Here's the art I did for the new SciAm article on why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the K-Pg event! Read it here www.scientificamerican.com/article/an-a... 🪶🎨🐡
Two painted life restorations of Cretaceous birds posed diagramatically, walking. Top is Pengornis, an enantiornithine with teeth. Bottom is Vegavis, a long-necked and -legged bird. There are vector insets of their snout/beak, wing, sternum, and tail bones. 

Text: Top - Losers: Pengornis and other archaic birds whose lineages were wiped out by the asteroid had teeth in their jaws, large claws on their hands, a long, bony tail and a small breastbone.

Bottom - Winners: Vegavis, an early member of the duck and chicken family, had several traits that scientists suspect were key to the success of modern bird lineages: small body size, a beak instead of teeth, large wings, powerful chest muscles, and a shorter tail that served as an aerodynamic rudder.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
when morpheus was like you can take the red pill or the blue pill, he was actually just talking about nyquil and dayquil. not many people know this
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
PLANET OF THE APES STYLE COSTUMES READY EVERYONE!
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Karen James @kejames.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Seriously, stop what you are doing and go here:
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/04/2026
I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.
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Johanna T 👻 📚 @johannamation.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Why aren’t people more alarmed about this” We are. The vast majority of us are as alarmed as we can possibly be about this. Please assume that most people are doing the best they can to fight fascism offline too, and not everyone is able to openly post about it.
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I was home sick that day and watched the launch by myself on a tiny tv in my room. Hard to process something like that when you are alone and already feel shitty
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I'm ready! Let's go!
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 09/03/2026
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
No one is trying to tell you that you are not allowed to feel nostalgic for what Harry Potter may have once meant to you as a kid; they are literally just asking you to not fund their destruction.
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Katie McKissick @katiemckissick.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I made something stupid.
Two trees are talking:

Tree 1: D'ya wanna... you know... REPRODUCE?
Tree 2: You're so naughty. Seriously? Out here where anyone could see us?
Tree 1: Pffft... No one will notice.A banner that says, Come see the world-renowned CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVALThe trees are blooming with flowers and people are gathered saying "So Pretty!" "Take a picture!" "Wow" and Tree 1 says, "I was wrong." And Tree 2 says, "Such perverts."
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This picture is stunning!
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"i'm on the struggle bus today" bro i am driving the struggle bus. and if it goes slower than 55 mph it's going to explode
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole
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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
In the next lab over, a petri dish with no brain cells at all is posting to Twitter
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Well, at least I have cheese
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
What's My JND? 0.0017 Can you beat it? Took this test on my cell phone on the light rail home. Not too shabby! Had a really hard time with the bright pinks. Blue is my fave color so a bit surprised I missed a few blues www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
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What's My JND?
Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Welp, seems like Chili's values aren't in alignment with mine. Boycotting Chili's won't be a big deal, but Maggianos is going to hurt. It's our go-to restaurant for office celebration lunches #boycottChili's
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Aaron Cohen @unlikelywords.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This sentence is a treat because it gets exponentially worse one word at a time.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
today's news dredging up this 1987 Far Side cartoon from my childhood memory
The Far Side cartoon from 12/6/1987 depicting a ship full of revelers heedlessly sailing through a body of water with mines bobbing in it, a warship in the background, and a small raft with a couple guys and a gun in the bow. Caption: Through a gross navigational error, the Love Boat steams into the Strait of Hormuz.
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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Wait - the corner of Olympic and Cloverfield, Santa Monica? Ladies and Gentlemen, that is almost exactly the location where the old Buffy offices stood. I believe we may owe thanks for this one to the Hellmouth.
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Same, Libby is great!
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Don’t mention the war
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a man with a bandage on his head is talking to a woman while another man looks on ..
ALT: a man with a bandage on his head is talking to a woman while another man looks on ..
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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.
Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
> @covie93.bsky.social
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
So the women’s hockey team got fresh pasta at a swanky restaurant in Milan with Stanley Tucci and the men’s team got cold McDonalds in a room blaring Toby Keith where the President didn’t even eat with them. Y’all idk if you’ve noticed but the patriarchy sucks FOR YOU.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 26/02/2026
I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.
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Birdrgirl🦉❌👑 @birdrgirl.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A 🪶White-throated Sparrow giving its best #borb impression after being banded. #BirdOfTheDay #VermontBirds
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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 25/02/2026
People don’t “identify as trans or queer” they ARE those things. Pronouns generally aren’t “preferred” those are just the pronouns of that person. Waffling language leads to thinking these things are optional, not factual.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Happy Birthday to Brian Baker, guitarist for Bad Religion since 1994, born February 25, 1965, Washington DC Bad Religion - Infected #punkrock #brianbaker #minorthreat #badrelegion #dagnasty #punkrockhistory #otd
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This, a thousand times over. This isn't an effing team sport. It's about protecting children, not the party. We want justice and accountability for the victims, no matter who the perpetrator is. Come on, GOP, this isn't that hard
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I don't knit or crochet or anything else you do with yarn, but I'm endlessly fascinated by these skeins and somehow want some even though I have no idea what I'd do with it
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Laura Sykes @greeneralia.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Do consider supporting Katharine Hayhoe in her work in climate mitigation amongst the non-scientists among us.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Really thankful for the leadership NAMI MN is showing here. namimn.org/ice-activity...
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ICE Activity Is Driving Mental Health Crisis Among Minnesotans Who Live With Serious And Persistent Mental Illnesses - NAMI Minnesota
NAMI Minnesota Urges Use of Mobile Crisis Response Teams as Fear and Trauma Escalate
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/02/2026
Hi Coloradans! Reminder, in Colorado, the election primary looks like this: Caucus -- > Primary --> General Election This means that in order to get progressive Democrats on the primary ballot, we need to attend caucus to get them on.
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Saw this the other day on YouTube. Very helpful info for anyone planning on walking around in their city
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feef✨MCM London B-18 @feefal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Copper evolution line! (Posting their character sheets in thread⬇️)
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If anyone has skymiles they would be willing to donate, please check this out. They will be going to help bring people home who were kidnapped in MN and released in TX.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Anyone can stand up, at any time, for what is right.
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Erica Gibson @ericagibson.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Something we all can do +1 (202) 224-3121
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kirsten4813.bsky.social @kirsten4813.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This needs to be shared. People need to be able to decide for themselves if they want to see the video. Here's how to turn off auto play if you don't want to watch someone being murdered
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