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High Desert Otter

@ottermd37.bsky.social
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Gardener, cook, writer, physician, rescuer of old dogs. Aspiring shitposter. Lover of the ironic, the sardonic, and the generally unserious. I have faith in dogs and in soil biota. At this point, that's about it.

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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Your call, my friend. Just please, post every day until this has been checked out so that we know you're alive.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope you're in the ER.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is true. In 2016, I got into an argument with a gay man on a menswear forum. I've since made it my mission to make every man dress gay, thereby destroying his ability to tell who is actually gay and, ultimately, his chances of finding love. I built my social media following to achieve that goal
Someone on Twitter writes to me: "People should follow your advise if they want to look gay."
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go bug! Defeat the machine!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why strain yourself? Bluesky must contain a good sub-audience for fatbergs.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Listen purity Dems. Your protest vote or non-vote won't "bring on the revolution" - it will only speed up the end of civilization. I suspect you don't care, which makes you complicit. But if you DO care, please open your eyes and let's get rid of the fascists if we even still can? Thanks, nice chat.
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@radiofreetom.bsky.social: “Painful as it would be to see the Kennedy Center go bankrupt, it would be more painful to cave to Trump’s deeply cynical refusal to save a national treasure unless he gets his name on it.” Yes. Thank you. Great piece. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump’s Kennedy Center Shakedown
The only appropriate response is to refuse to accede to his demands.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sorry, my mistake, it wasn’t a tweet. I remembered what he said that really misremembered the medium.
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Kenny Torrella @kennytorrella.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Far-right commentators, New York Times columnists, deep red Republicans, blue state liberals: They’re all opposed to keeping pigs in tiny cages. It’s been quite incredible to see the political unity in opposition to the Save Our Bacon Act, so I wrote about it:
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
He's disgusting, especially in view of the fact that what he really did on 9-11 was start tweeting about how Trump Tower was now the tallest building around. A lot of us remember.  Joe, surely a quarter of the country wasn't always this dumb and gullible. Or were they? 
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"Uncle Tardi, tell us about how you survived the fourth mass extinction!"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Some people don't have critical thinking skills. Also, some people can't read. The rest of us think you're terrific, Kevin. 
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Look, he met seven people in heaven! Or somewhere...
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🤖✨💓👩🏻‍🦱✨💓🤖 @amaya79.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
An American legend has taken his final rest. John Kinsel Sr., one of the last original Navajo Code Talkers who used their language to outwit the Japanese in World War II, has died at 107.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I mean, y'all works. It's necessary. I will die on this hill.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I grew up saying y'all and will continue to say it, because it's a useful second person plural that even has a built-in extension for larger groups: alla y'all.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/08/2026
When a group of YMCA campers needed to be rescued during the wildfires on our northern border, it was Canada who immediately helped. Not a word from Trump.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Rollie 🤬 @architecturenerd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Truth 🫣😡
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
It's just a good thing doctor's visits are free and employers give unlimited time off to go to them.
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Peace @dogsmile.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Journalists. Scientists. Medical people. Twitter in its heyday was a wonderful place to watch real journalists posting real news, see the developments of scientists, and for medical people to exchange information and have fun together. I miss that.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One of my very favorites, and I haven't eaten it for years! I'm jealous. Have a good time.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I think the social factor is huge. Standing up for the constitution can ruin not just their public life but their private lives. Joe Walsh has written quite a bit about this.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Thanks. I'm totally fed up with that shit. Haters: trans people are real human beings just like you. Deal with it.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I was haunted by Sean Hannity’s suggestion that Lindsey Graham’s heaven includes a mar a lago so here is a piece exploring that concept www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter the Mar-a-Lago in Heaven
Tour the mansion in the sky to which Sean Hannity has consigned Lindsey Graham’s soul.
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Follow the Minnesota 1st @smullins3000.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Women are too emotional, part eleventy billion
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Yup. I was astounded to be sternly admonished for a piece of writing that contained a semicolon. Because that was the appropriate punctuation for that spot, and I was taught to punctuate appropriately.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“The basic problem is that while Trump’s approach to the war is cyclical, its damage is cumulative. Petroleum reserves, missile stockpiles, global trust in the U.S.-led world order—these are finite resources that are all being spent down at alarming rates.” www.thebulwark.com/p/its-ground...
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It’s Groundhog Day in Iran
If at first you don’t succeed . . . and second . . . and third . . .
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Jon Ossoff has made accountability his mission and that’s exactly why MAGA is determined to push him out. Please stand with Jon Ossoff and help defend this seat: ElectJon.com #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/HHmJm...
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Did you all see Pete Hegseth in front of that committee this week?
YouTube video by Jon Ossoff
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
History of Medicine
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm married to a modest but magnificent man.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“Don’t worry, Pete. That little speech I read was just for the voters back home. I have to put on these little shows to convince them I’m independent. You will get the $1.5 trillion for your wars even though I just gave ICE unlimited funding to run wild. We’ll just borrow more.”
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Went through this with an extraordinary dog, and my warmest thoughts will be with you. Glad your pup is so deeply loved.
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DeeEmmy @deeemmy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James Nicoll
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Oh! They gave millions to Trump lol. people.com/taylor-farms...
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Taylor Farms Met with Trump White House Days Before FDA Backtrack on Cyclosporiasis Findings, Sparking Controversy
Executives at lettuce supplier Taylor Farms met with Trump White House officials days before the FDA walked back a ‘false positive’ detection of the cyclosporiasis parasite that is causing ‘explosive’...
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I say you were right all along, Morty. It's kind of like an old Monty Python bit: "My husband can't be here tonight because he's not at all well." "Oh dear how sad, what's wrong?" Tense silence. "Well, he's dead." Can't recall the bit, can't swear it's verbatim, but I do remember that silence.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Fuckin' perfect.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Because it's beautiful. Thanks for posting.
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Famous MAGA Influencer Learns That Other People Are Real."
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I love it that you can tell the juveniles apart. Thanks for posting this. It's heartening.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The American psyche explained in one Onion headline.
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Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident
PRESCOTT, AZ—Explaining that she did not have any strong preferences when it came to make or model, area woman Laura Bauer, a conscientious SUV shopper, confirmed Wednesday that she just wanted someth...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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High Desert Otter @ottermd37.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thanks, much appreciated.
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