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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This feed needs a cat to lighten it up a bit right now.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yup yupyupyup.

Someone called mansoureh posting:

I landed in Norway and the pilot announced the king of Norway died.i was in the plane when the queen of England passed too.

Someone called fitterkris responded

Fly to America

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’ve been shocked by how many of those voters are THRILLED to watch him sabotage, bulldoze and pillage America, screaming themselves hoarse cheering on even actions with massive negative impact on themselves. I thought I was a cynic about human nature, but wow, the 2020s have proved me wrong.

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

WA voter here, outside the district of Rep Gluesenkamp Perez but got asked for a donation ‘to keep an at-risk House seat for WA filled by a Democrat’. Takes some fucking nerve to play that card AT THE SAME TIME as crossing the aisle to push through this bullshit Republican agenda.

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a Democratic-voting over-educated under-earner who goes to work every day. . . What’s your point? Are you expecting insults on a corrupt pseudo-conservative network to motivate me to change how I vote to try to earn more respect from a vacuous boot-licking avaricious weasel like you?

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank goodness, I was trawling my feed FOREVER today wondering where this kind of content was hiding. ❤️ Some people would say this content is irrelevant and out of touch and elitist, distracting from meaningful discourse. This, travel & cats are what makes me remember enough joy to keep going.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Thanks For Sharing, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

70% of the country is enjoying Pride Month and a multicultural sports celebration while the occupying government is descending into the deepest echo chamber of white trash performative grievance possible

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Living through this time feels like the human version of dog years

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Jonathan Zaworski @jrzaworski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I never liked the Great Man theory of history, because building things takes a community. In stark contrast, I find the Tremendous Asshole corollary to be very persuasive. Breaking things is so much easier than building. One tremendous asshole in the wrong place really can shape history.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/06/2026

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

proelectrica.substack.com

Elite Cognitive Dissonance and the Asian Energy Disruption

Notes from the Field — Singapore & Indonesia, May 2026

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My pal @pjrfoto.bsky.social caught me lulling the Downing Street rodents into a false sense of security...

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arcticfox87.bsky.social @arcticfox87.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

With honor to all those who died that day that the Allies might succeed

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 03/06/2026

"You have improved," the swordmaster said. "Thanks to my new sword," said the student. The swordmaster studied the blade and frowned. "This is enchanted?" "You know about cursed swords that whisper that you should kill?" "Yes?" "This tells me I'm loved and valid." "Ah. Well. It's not wrong."

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Jess Fink🍉🌈 @jessfink.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

HAPPY PRIDE 🌈🌈🌈🌈✨✨✨✨BE FREE, READ GAY BOOKS AND COMICS

A 4 panel comic called "Romance Novels as anti-depressants". Panel one: The artist is shown sitting, reading a book that says "GAY STUFF" on the cover. The artist's eyes are stars and a rainbow is shooting out of the top of their head, with hearts floating around it. There is a caption and an arrow pointing to the contents of what they are reading, it says "and then they kissed". Panel 2: the artist is shown at another moment lifting weights, the text says "the next day". There is a light pink thought balloon that reads "they're in LOVE". Panel 3: the artist is shown making tea, the text reads "The day after". There is a light pink thought balloon that reads "they're in LOVE". Panel 4: The artist is shown walking up a street with grocery bags in their hands, the text says "and so on". There is a light pink thought balloon that reads "they're in LOVE". There is a url at the bottom directing readers to Jessfink.com/kwe

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

When Elon Musk’s daughter told his she was trans he could have simply loved her. Instead, he chose to burn the world down.

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Lara Durgavich @ldurgavich.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Fun fact: Mendel originally planned to breed mice but the abbot at his monastery took offense at the idea of a priest having anything to do with sex, so Mendel switched to peas. Mendel was grateful that "the bishop did not understand that plants also have sex.”

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

THERE IS STILL REASON FOR JOY IN THE WORLD. (I know this isn’t an example of that for many people - but for me it’s a sign that there ARE still exciting good things happening in the world.)

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/05/2026

Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch

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swirlOsquirrel @swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The stairwell of Mousa Broch on the western shore of the Island of Mousa in the Shetland Isles. The broch was constructed in the Iron Age in around 100 BC. 📸 My own. #StairwellSaturday #Mousa #Shetland #Archaeology

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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I waited untill momb made my behaviores report and it waz "in tha cann' and then i kikt that gomputre mauze rite to tha floor! O yez i did! Hahah!

Orange and white cat, criminal butthead.

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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

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GONZO the Ca'at @gonzo.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Behaviores Report: 70% goode, 5% harrass of Sally, 5% harrass of Ludo, 5% went behinde tVee, 5% knokt remotecontrole off of tha tabbil, 5% trespaced on tha hellocobber shelve, 5% knokt a blade offof tha hellocobber (it just snaps bak on itis okey)

Orange and white cat biting his cat tree. His behavior report is 70% good, 5% harassed Sally, 5% harassed Ludo, 5% knocked a remote off of the table, 5% went behind the TV, 5% trespassed on the helicopter shelf, 5% knocked a blade off of the helicopter.

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I love the way the sunlight makes this flower look like it's glowing 😍 #ECK #bloomscrolling #photography #flowers

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The moment Mars peeked out from behind our moon

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I don’t know why my feed is full of pretty birds today, but it’s nice, so I’m reposting to do it to your feeds too. So there.

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BERGΛMΛX @bergamax.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Probably one of the most cutest birds I ever saw! 🟢⚪️🔵🟣🔴 The Cuban Tody (Todus multicolor), one of the most colorful birds in the Caribbean, only ten centimeters long with a bright red throat, emerald green and a pinkish belly. Photo by Yadiel Veunes [FB] yadielveunes.com #nature #birds #beauty

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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🤗🤗🤗🐶😋💙

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Science is good. We should fund it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My Friday night plans didn't extend any further than ordering a pizza, and yet. Do you think they'll let me stop providing lap long enough to go to the door for the delivery? That green-eyed one looks like trouble.

2 cat loaves side by side facing opposite directions, occupying a person's lap from hips to knees. The front one has an expression like he spent all day figuring out ways to keep his human in place and just dares you to try.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The American-born Pope will not visit the US while trump is president. That should tell you all you need to know about trump's America.

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Jaws 🦈 @gonejoshin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Boys cuddling

Emmy the black cat and momo the orange cat cuddling

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Cat 😸STRETCH

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/04/2026

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday Sometimes the best things happen when you dare to step outside your comfort zone and try something new. *hopes to try a 4th breakfast

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Tanaquil Optima @tanaquil-optima.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Wow, I’ve never seen anything like this! (I’ve only dabbled a bit in checking out pre-Roman Iberia. . . Intriguing, and yet scope creep. . .)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

idahostatesman.com

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost

“The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This precious baby was one of my 2019 rescues. He lives the good life with one of my friends now.

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