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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 13h

Annecdotally, I've heard that the US/Canada trade war is horrible for asthmatic cats. Many US vets used to buy inhalers from suppliers in Canada because it was 10x cheaper. Now they're forced to buy inhalers in the states where the cost is prohibitive. Cats will suffer+die thanks to DT! #vetmed

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 18h

Even bunnies can understand consent. Dude (a) flirts with Darkness, (b) Darkness redirects his affections to platonic grooming, and (c) Dude enthusiastically starts grooming her ears. It's that simple!

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Another Bolsonaro taking power in Brazil would be a hammer blow to the future of life on Earth.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026

A recent analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/3SziyeL

A phylogenetic distribution and trait correlates of acoustic motifs in passerine birds. Hedline reads: The global biogeography of passerine songs

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This exact thing happened to me on one of my videos. I had to go and edit it to appease the copyright claimant AFTER it was uploaded and posted. Such an exhausting and demoralizing system. Absolutely crushes creativity.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Adams refuted essentialism in this text... at least when it suited her! She reproduces such classics as men being inherently violent, meat being the root of all evil, and the myth of the Paleolithic vegetarian matriarchal golden age. And then there's this.

nence, Women’s Rights, and Vegetarianism.” In 1865, Dr. James Barry died. Dr. Barry was an army surgeon for more than forty four years, a vegetarian, and someone brought up by an ardent follower of Mary Wollstonecraft; it was discovered upon his death that Dr. Barry was a woman. Some who suspected all along that Dr. Barry was a woman referred to the vegetarian diet as one of the signs of her gender as well as her fondness for pets.3 Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross,

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The vegan land conservation argument—that animal agriculture is an inefficient use of fertile cropland—is literally over two thousand years old (and arguably more true now than it was then!).

This was a longstanding vegetarian issue and its ﬁrst traces appear in Plato’s Republic when Socrates tells Glaucon that meat production necessitates large amounts of pasture. Resultingly, it will require cutting “oﬀ a slice of our neighbours’ territory; and if they too are not content with necessaries, but give themselves up to getting unlimited wealth, they will want a slice of ours.” Thus Socrates pronounces, “So the next thing will be, Glaucon, that we shall be at war.”27 In 1785, William Paley’s Th e Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy raised the economic and agricultural issues associated with meat eating: “A piece of ground capable of supplying animal food suﬃcient for the subsistence of ten persons would sustain, at least, the double of that number with grain, roots and milk.”28 Richard Phillips’s 1811 vegetarian article argues: “The forty-seven millions of acres in England and Wales would maintain in abundance as many human inhabitants if they lived wholly on grain, fruits and vegetables; but they sustain only twelve millions scantily while animal food is made the basis of human subsistence.”29 Percy Shelley’s essay culminates this position: claiming that with vegetarianism “the monopolizing eater of animal ﬂesh would no longer destroy his constitution by devouring an acre at a meal. . . . The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation.”30

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nothing more relaxing than using your wife's ass as a pillow

Two rabbits. Left: Havana Black rabbit sitting facing left inside of a flop bed with her head slightly tilted towards the camera. Right: Black and white Holland lop in a "loaf" position with his head pressed against her back end.

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 28/09/2026

Megalodon is still alive clickbait is ahistorical both biologicaly but also sociologically. Because if Megalodon still existed, the whaling industry would have killed them all to protect whale carcasses for flensing, and the rest of them would have been hunted to extinction for shark liver oil.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So the key to being a good cat owner is letting your cat loose in a total unfamiliar environment full of coyotes. Got it. 👍

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OK so I actually read the pre-print. It's awful. You cannot have "pain" without a conscious experience! That's why they put you under anaesthesia when you have a painful medical procedure!

LLM pain?

In our framework, pain1
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Our concept of “pain” is related to what people ordinarily may call “suffering”. In ordinary language, “pain” is often used to refer to an unpleasant physical sensation or emotional experience, while suffering describes the broader state of distress caused by pain or other adverse experiences. However, there are also differences, which is why we use “pain” throughout. Most strikingly, suffering, unlike our notion of pain, plausibly presupposes conscious experience. This does not imply, by principle, that LLMs are capable or incapable of suffering, and some of the functional properties of the states we examine would in some views fall closer to suffering than pain. Establishing that is beyond our scope. We simply aim to consistently use one word for which we provide a definition instead of multiple nuanced synonyms. refers to a certain kind of internal state that is typically aversive and disliked by its subject; causally associated with behaviors such as avoidance, attempts to terminate or reduce the state, and disruption of normal reasoning or behavior. We use a wide notion of pain that includes not only physical pain but also, for example, emotional (grief) or social (humiliation) pain. However, we assume that pain is distinct from generic negative valence and from states such as fear, anger, or sadness. Our aim is to find a uniform representation of pain in LLMs.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can an AI feel pain? No, but I am in considerable pain right now, reading that title.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This narrative is part of a broader one that places the blame for pandemic risk on the Global South, and demands that they think less about how colonialism has entrenched poverty and denied them vaccines, and think more about how to responsibly manage their rainforests and wildlife populations.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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Dog Guy™️ @doggtism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We need to talk about how acceptable it has become to demonize and downright threaten veterinarians and staff.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NGL I'd trust a furry pilot over a non-furry pilot. Double that if they're an aeromorph. I guarantee that you're completely safe in their loving paws.

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Shellraiser B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects." - Alfred Kinsey

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Has a Frog a Soul?" Thomas Henry Huxley, 1870 "Has a Large Language Model a Soul?" Will Stancil, 2026

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Gory Thing @korybing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Did you even read the article or did you just read the headline and assume you knew what it meant” ok well I tried to read the article but it told me I had to subscribe because my “free articles” were used up despite never being to this site before and also it yelled at me for having an ad blocker

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

OK this is worse File:Neoteny Outtakes (4363707031).jpg

Creepy manikins with uncannily large eyes, red lipstick, pencil eyebrows, and blush

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wikimedia Commons is wild, yo. What the hell is the context??

A child (right, front) with medium length hair holding the forelimb of a giant grey rabbit (left, back). The caption says "BOY OR GIRL?"

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think there may be an imposter amongus

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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

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Chris MacQuarrie @cmacquar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

First detection of spotted lanternfly confirmed in Canada. inspection.canada.ca/en/plant-hea...

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Spotted lanternfly Spot it? Snap it, catch it and report it - inspection.canada.ca

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 14/09/2026

📝 New article on Our World in Data: Is organic farming better for the environment than conventional farming? One of the most common questions we’re asked about food systems is whether organic farming is better for the environment than conventional methods.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm going to start asking smartasses if they support human sacrifice. Seems like a pretty solid litmus test.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

remember when they shoved this genocide apologist in game of thrones and people bent over backwards to excuse it at the time

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Witchcraft seems to embody the shadow of kinship, the dark projection of our deeper anxieties about family and private life. The witch's familiar suckles on her blood just as a Christian drinks the milk of his livestock. Relatedness is facilitated through metabolic sharing of fluid substance.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rise and grind girls, we have a new way to become a sigmillionaire 🧚‍♀️💸✨

Credulity was also undermined by authors of comedies that, while not disowning the fairy tradition in general, hinged plots on impersonations of fairies and similar beings, such as bugs and goblins, by human beings, or on pretended conjurations of them. Sometimes this action is undertaken by villains, and sometimes by heroes and heroines, but the aim is always to persuade gullible victims to part with their wealth or act against their natural inclinations. Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Jonson's The Alchemist are the most famous of a series of these works.'™ As scholars of them have long recognized, they were accompanied by well-publicized instances of real confidence trickery in which criminals attempted to part victims from possessions or sums of money on the pretence of introducing them to the fairy queen, and sometimes the king as well, who would allegedly grant them riches or other favours. There are three such cases listed in pamphlets and legal records between 1595 and 1614 alone.” They must have further encouraged scepticism.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Not a big fan of human sacrifice, to be honest. Even less of a fan of when people lecture the future victims of human sacrifice about why the human sacrifice is good and cool, actually, because the Sun is really warm and shiny and how terrible it would be if it never rose again.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I went to the Redpath Museum at McGill earlier this week. Oldest museum in Canada. Incredible collection, beautiful Victorian architecture and design, extremely information dense.

Joy posing in front of a Gorgosaurus, giving the peace sign.

Joy standing overlooking the main hall, over the Gorgosaurus.

Exterior of the Redpath Museum, with Joy on its front steps.

Joy and a taxidermy lion taking a selfie together

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I said it before and I will say it again: if you have power over hiring decisions, hire transgender women! We need jobs to make rent and get health insurance! Most of the trans women I know are overqualified, underemployed, or unemployed. This is a systemic issue, but culture begins with you.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We had the opportunity to limit catastrophic damage to a 1.5 degree increase but that meant calling on the oil giants to do their part. Canada is now predicting a 3.5 to 5 degrees increase. That will spell the end of civilization. And we are still going all in on a $100 billion pipeline?

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Darkness is trying to grab a COVID-19 rapid test

Havana black rabbit facing away from camera standing on her hindlegs on top of a folded blanket reaching to a shelf with a box of rapid tests on it.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Leading a reading group on October 7th for The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams. I am excited about this one, seems like it will line up with my interest in Vegan and Feminist politics nicely. You can sign up for it here: mimbres.org/reading-grou...

Cover for the book: "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory" by Carol J. Adams. Features a cute naked girl with a cowboy hat saying "What's your cut?" with carcass diagram labels.

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