Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialCage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"why would I deceive you?" 131105562100
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 74262929850
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 29/07/2026yes. more 21499
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film 1575496569
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"Hundreds of federal food-safety staff have been cut, and last July the CDC narrowed FoodNet — the sentinel network that provides early warnings of foodborne illness — from eight pathogens to two, dropping cyclospora altogether."statnews.comWhy we still don’t know what foods are the source of the cyclospora outbreak“You cannot thin a system, defer the tools that would speed it up, and then wonder why the public is left guessing,” writes epidemiologist Katrine Wallace. 13809288
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMeade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems. 191249310
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialBrandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The people SCOTUS so callously cast aside today have families, jobs, homes, friends, pets, cars. Responsibilities. Full, complete lives. So many here for years. Students, nurses, elder care workers. List goes on. So many contribute hugely. www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...huffpost.comSupreme Court Will Allow Trump Admin To Strip Nearly 400,000 Of Temporary Protected StatusThere are at least 1 million people in the U.S. who have awaited this ruling with bated breath. 1720873
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialTalia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 06/06/2026You want a vision of "positive manhood"? Stop being afraid of being like women. Stop refusing to admit women can be like you. Can be better than you, even. And stop maiming and killing and destroying in order to preserve that fiction of superiority. 102011480
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 22/05/2026For my Friday Sick Burns post, I wrote down some angry thoughts about the UK bathroom ban announced this week by the allegedly left wing Labour Party. www.burnsnotice.com/there-has-ne...burnsnotice.comThere Has Never Been an All Powerful Trans LobbyAnd anyone claiming there is was lying to you 12426100
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialKatelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 13/05/2026It would be incredibly funny if I could pass the WaPo Opinion podcast's subscriber count on my channel's first day on YouTube. 18715178
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 05/05/2026Happy New Murderbot for those who celebrate! 17825154
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically 313734876
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialkelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Following the lies and hatred targeting trans folks during the State of the Union Address, numerous republican House representatives introduced a bill that would create A NATIONWIDE BOOK BAN. Here's what it is and what to do: bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...bookriot.comA Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of RepresentativesHours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide. 1472331
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/02/2026There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.theverge.comThe same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small townsThe less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize. 6143022281
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17/02/2026Colbert posted the interview online. I do wonder if CBS and the FCC are aware of the Streisand effect? The interview has been up for 8 hours and has just over half a million views.youtube.comRep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 341166436
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’m going to keep sharing this PSA: although the MMR is usually given at 12 and 18 months, your baby can get a first dose as early as 6 months. They will still need the other two doses, because immunity doesn’t stick at that age, and insurance may not cover it. But it’s protection. 8412188
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 12/02/2026The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.kut.orgTrump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequateGovernment sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned. 391252764
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Let's do this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...youtube.comYou are being misled about renewable energy technology.YouTube video by Technology Connections 667109743554
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialZito @zeets.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The newest video shows very clearly that they attacked him for coming to an aid of a woman that the agents pushed, and then executed him while he was immobilized. Everything the government has said, like with Good, has been a complete lie. 100163544714
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialgeri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 24/01/2026ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids. 17397673643
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty. Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold. That is a meaningful difference! 16995162
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialDefunctland @defunctland.bsky.social · 15/12/2025We start streaming tomorrow at 3 PM ET! Join us as we play Thrillville and raise money for Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida! 033391
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialLaurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025I’m howling. 158180684925
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialvote them out 🗳️🚫🐘🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 13/11/2025for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n... 191508371
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend. 213436649
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12/11/2025We've had nonstop op-eds declaring that "Americans have spoken" and demanding Democratic capitulation to the right despite the right's agenda being wildly unpopular. 5806130
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialYour City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 10/11/2025This race could very easily be decided by challenged ballots. Use this link to track your ballot, and remind your friends and family to do the same: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...info.kingcounty.govKing County ElectionsLed by Director Julie Wise, King County Elections conducts accurate, secure, and accessible elections for King County's over 1.4 million registered voters. 11553359
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialgary | pup silo @pnwcorgay.bsky.social · 11/11/2025IF YOU LIVE IN SEATTLE, for the love of god, please check to make sure your ballot was counted and doesn’t need its signature cured info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... 2214107
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialReconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 10/11/2025like this is basically it, the melts melted under pressure 151641351
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering 7298392818
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc 281249238
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec... 493113834211
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Terrific video. I knew this book would be bad but I was genuinely shocked at just *how* bad 2175564
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialDave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 29/09/2025A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access. 8158081669
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 06/09/2025If we can just degrade the status of a targeted group a little bit more, I’m sure we can back away from the cliff edge of fascism 539849
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 26/08/2025due to funding cuts, foodnet is no longer requiring state-level monitoring for campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and yersinia. the 10 foodnet states can still do that, but they’ll need funding to replace CDC’s 8459265
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/08/2025The point of journalism is to tell people the truth! If the population and political leaders are panicking about something that isn't happening, your job as a reporter is to loudly debunk it — not plead with the other party to join the panic. 191892409
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialAhernandez130 @ahernandez130.bsky.social · 14/08/2025If crime is down cops need more money, if crime is up cops need more money. If it's stable year to year, they need more money then too. The MSM acts as if anyone who thinks that's an insane way to proceed is soft on crime and wants anarchy. Something has to change. 539863
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Criminal immigrants, government waste, rampant crime, dangerous vaccines — if we've learned anything from the first six month of Trump 2.0 it's that Republicans have based their entire ideology on lies. Kind of wish the media made that clearer during elections! 12807139
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialJoel Mendelson @jpmendelson.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Little Rock, the capital city of Tom Cotton's home state of Arkansas, has one of the highest violent crime rates of any city in the United States. D.C. doesn't even crack the top-10.statista.comU.S. - most dangerous cities 2023| StatistaIn 2023, around 3,640.56 violent crimes per 100,000 residents were reported in Oakland, California. 14433021455
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025This is a pretty solid explainer about what e-bikes are and the rules around them. What I'd love to see is more coverage of what e-bikes *enable* people to do. Stories about disabled people who use them to gain independence. Or lower income people who benefit from not needing the expense of a car. 40695120
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 01/08/2025the entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring 8142771412
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialtweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/07/2025and the answer, of course, is that a tiny number of people got so rich they could buy enormous media conglomerates on a whim as a gift for a spouse or child, with no particular need or desire for them to succeed as media organizations. also their brains were fucking goo from group chats. also that 261910353
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18/07/2025The idea of civil rights is that all people are equal members of society, and therefore mechanisms that make people unequal are illegitimate. The far right has built a perverse mirror ideology, in which races are known to be unequal, and therefore mechanisms that make us equal are illegitimate. 532669735
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/07/2025They are doing Defund The Police in reverse: Gutting the social safety net and giving unlimited power to a vast, violent gestapo to deal with the consequences. 272498586
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The GOP's greatest superpower is the sheer cartoon evil of their policies. "They are taking healthcare from the poor so they can give tax breaks to millionaires" makes you sound like a hysterical SJW but it is straightforwardly what they are doing. 573150614
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights 5176011657
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/06/2025what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary! 313129553319
Reposted by @owlwombat.bsky.socialDavid Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 08/06/2025David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con... 1527531118
