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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The State Department is not personally targeting the Alt National Park Service with their ad campaign. The State Department does not care about the Alt National Park Service, and neither should anyone else.

Alt National Park Service: The State Department decided to take a shot at our movement and Smokey with a new “Only you can prevent visa fraud” post. They put it on their page about two hours ago.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

29 September is Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael and All Angels. St. Michael, traditionally the celestial warrior who leads the fight against evil, is patron saint of soldiers, paratroopers and police officers. The Michaelmas daisy, or aster, is his dedicated flower.

Collage of Michaelmas daisies in shades of soft lilac-blue. A small copper butterfly rests with open wings on one flower, while a meadow brown feeds on another. Other images show clusters of the daisy-like flowers, with yellow centres, blooming in the late-summer garden.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

New mnemonic for the Great Lakes, which are already great enough, thank you very much: Shaking My Head. Executive Order.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Reposting for no reason at all.🫠

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

This is the second time I've seen a hopper nymph (this time apparently Orientus sp.) rocking from side to side. I'm dead curious why. Anyone? #naturephotography #inverts

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

To me, Charles Collins's first-person account recalls my beloved father-in-law's apologies whenever he soiled himself, no matter how many times I assured him no apology was necessary. Thankfully, when Collins was at his most humiliated and vulnerable, his caregivers did not give in to his despair.

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‘Death with dignity’ is a siren call: It leads to disaster

I almost died three years ago after suffering a severe cerebral hemorrhage stroke: As England once again debates legalizing assisted suicide, I know from experience there is no dignity in dying.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

1/2. Behold! An 1870s mosaic of Abraham Lincoln that entomologist John Hampson made from dead insects. L: Proclamation of Freedom Constitution Union An orator in a long brown coat. R: An unsettling close-up of the man's face, apparently made largely of moth wings, now partly decomposed. #SciArt

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

my favorite thing about the sspx/lefebvrists debacle is the number of rando protestants who are outraged about who and who is not in communion with rome like, buddy, i have some news about what happened in 1521. you're gonna want to sit down.

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

5 years ago, over the course of a single week, extreme heat killed 619 British Columbians. 619 lives lost because of preventable living conditions and a preventable disaster. This tragedy reminds us how much work there is to be done. But we are not seeing the work we need from our government.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Imprinting studies gone awry. 😉

A glossy brown beetle mite appears to follow a much larger ant.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you.

Cover of TV Guide magazine. The year is not stated, but the cover price is 15 cents. Two men, one black, one white, sit almost back to back on a single office stool. Each is wearing a suit and has a somewhat wry expression. The caption identifies them as Rupert Cross and Don Adams of "The Partners."

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This thread! 🤢😋 You decide! For most, I'm leaning towards "intriguing."

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A fine new book by wthrockmorton.bsky.social can help you recognize and rebut bogus Christian nationalist claims about the history of the United States. #250thAnniversary #America250

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Origin Stories to Prop Up White Evangelical Identity Politics

A Timely Corrective

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/06/2026

"911, what's your emergency?" "Hello, Police? Yeah, our highest award recipient is at our meeting handing out copies of an article that we published. And uh....we....well....shit, nevermind." (gift link)

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Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Favourite movie from each decade of my life, uh, … ’63–’73 The Railway Children ’73–’83 Star Wars ’83–’93 Diva ’93–’03 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg ’03–’13 The Incredibles ’13–’23 A Man for All Seasons

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The Gallery Singers @vangallerysing.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Come hear us this Sunday afternoon! Holy Trinity Anglican, 3 pm. Fantastical flying fishes; exotic spices; burning volcanos: this is “Thule, the Period of Cosmography”! (Thomas Weelkes). Then echoes of birdsong and Spring madrigals and more. www.eventbrite.ca/e/cosmograph... #LiveMusic #Vancouver

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

ACEDIA, CANDIDA, DECANE. Three in one day is a bit much! @rejectednytwords.bsky.social

Screenshot of Merriam-Webster page
acedia noun: apathy, boredom

Screenshot of NYT Spelling Bee hex grid: central A surrounded by E Y D C N I. Not in word list: CANDIDA.

Screenshot of Merriam-Webster page
decane: any of several isomeric liquid alkanes C[subscript 10]H[subscript 22].

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

How did a woman who once fixed bagels for Steve Bannon at the home of Sarah Palin become persona non grata in Republican circles and earn the respect of countless progressives? Read @nancyfrench.bsky.social's heartbreaking yet hopeful memoir, Ghosted.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I'm told this male golden dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria), the first I've ever observed, may be cleaning or adjusting his wings. Seen by the banks of the Nikomekl River, Surrey, BC. #iNaturalist

Close-up photo of a golden fly with very furry forelegs and prominent brown compound eyes. It is perched on a damaged green leaf. Its wings are translucent, and one left leg is tucked behind its back over the left wing.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My first bagworm moth larva, found on a bramble leaf while scouting around in Pacific Spirit Regional Park in preparation for next Saturday's bug walk. #iNaturalist #CityNatureChallenge2026

Close-up photo of a larva emerging from a light brown tubular sheath that flares at the top. The larva has a shiny, round, dark brown head with some pointed appendages and fine hairs. The background is a blurred green leaf with a serrated margin.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's amazing what you can find along a little stretch of forest trail! Whether you're a curious newbie or a seasoned bug enthusiast, sign up at the link for an enjoyable community-building walk led by yours truly as part of #CityNatureChallenge2026. Saturday, April 25, 1:00–4:30pm. #iNaturalist

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Pacific Spirit Bug Walk

Encounter awesome little critters in the wild

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

—And so, children, that's why we don't celebrate April Fool's Day any more. —That was a dumb story, Uncle Alan!! Tell us a different one!

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Wonder of wonders! Danielle Smith has introduced a health care bill I heartily approve of! Seriously. These are long-overdue safeguards consistent with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. So explains my friend Dr Ramona Coelho. nationalpost.com/opinion/ramo...

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Ramona Coelho: Alberta bill restricting assisted suicide reaffirms that care comes first

Danielle Smith's plan reinforces the ethical principles that coercive influences to die should never drive MAiD eligibility

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Come! We're doing some wonderful stuff!

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

One year. Miss you, Mom. We held a memorial service this evening. That was a consolation. Memory eternal.🙏

Photo of a grave marker: Yoshioka / Mary Alison / 27 Apr 1921 ✝️ 19 Feb 2025
The stone is smooth, showing the reflection of tree boughs overhead. A bouquet of lilies and other white flowers, wrapped in hot pink, is laid on patchy green grass.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

😦 I overlooked this story in December. Gotta wonder how often an emergency response tactical vehicle "built to resist bullets and bomb blasts" and costing half a million dollars would genuinely be needed in the course of enforcing immigration law.

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

May this pair of Malmgren's springtails warm your hearts. Happy Valentine's Day!💗

Tightly cropped photo of two springtails touching face to face. Their features are "cute": bright yellow globular bodies with red stripes, relatively large round heads, relatively very large dark eyes. The background is stringy green vegetation on brown soil. At lower left is a different kind of springtail with a cylindrical yellow body.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Two judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit have issued a ruling that, if allowed to stand, could result in the indefinite detention of millions of immigrants in inhumane, overcrowded facilities scattered across the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

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Opinion | A Very Dangerous Ruling in New Orleans

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Defendants respond that Senator Kelly is seeking to exempt himself from the rules
of military justice that "Congress has expressly made applicable to retired
servicemembers." Defs.' Opp'n at 1. Horsefeathers! While Congress has chosen to apply the Uniform Code of Military Justice to military retirees as well as active-duty
servicemembers, see 10 U.S.C. § 802(a)(4), that choice has little bearing on the scope of
First Amendment protections for retirees. The First Amendment "is a limitation on the
power of Congress," NLRB v. Cath. Bishop of Chicago, 440 U.S. 490,499 (1979), not the
other way around!

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

1/5. My heart is full! The other day a man who'd seen me taking pictures around the neighbourhood was walking with his young daughters. They eagerly accepted my offer to show them all some bugs on a neighbour's wooden fence. One of the girls was very excited to learn about this weevil. #iNaturalist

Macro photo of a snub-nosed light brown beetle with reddish antennae, a stout body, and thick legs. It faces right on a smooth sandy brown surface. The foreground and background are blurred.

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón @rosariolebronentomology.com · 10/06/2025

For a moment I was fooled, I took the picture assuming it was a wasp. The way it moved very specifically, suggested Hymenoptera. It even moved its antennae the same way! Then I looked closer... that’s #Cerambycidae, #Coleoptera keeps surprising me. #Entomology 🪲🪳 #Invert 🌿 #macrophotography

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Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

a dead ICE/CBP victim is a “domestic terrorist” unless there are at least four videos a living ICE/CBP victim is a potential disaster for DHS

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

An unexpected treat: figgy pudding, which I don't think I've ever had before. Our host made it from figs from his own front yard, and it was delicious!

Photo of round pudding droozled with sauce on a white dinner plate.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The racist president's racist comms team says his racist social media post was posted by a racist staffer hired by his racist regime, so everyone should just forget about the racism.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
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FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35

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Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Catholics who care about the crisis of our political moment: 1. Follow @thesheepcat.bsky.social and 2. read this well-considered, in-depth piece.

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Fred Korematsu, mercy, and ethnic cleansing

A call to the heart

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Alan Yoshioka, PhD @thesheepcat.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

TIL!😀 MAGA folk often blame criticism of Trump on #MSM bias. Well, though I don't normally boast of my ignorance, I would like this known: Today, January 22, 2026, I learned that MSNBC was rebranded as MS NOW in August 2025. So far, three friends have said they too had no idea.

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