Lurkeylootoo #twinja

Lurkeylootoo #twinja

@lurkeyloo.bsky.social

#twinja, reader of fantasy, history and memoir, trekkie, foodie, liker of academic content/ interesting feeds, lover of cats and other creatures

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When I say I love Cheesecake Factory, I mean this cat who was found malnourished and wandering through a Bay Area mall parking lot. Cheesecake Factory has since been rescued and nursed back to health. He's now healthy, vaxxed, & sweet, but still needs a loving home www.petfinder.com/cat/cheeseca...

42 year old woman who cannot afford to live will still vote Republican because she opposes abortion. These people are deranged. An issue which will not impact her life whatsoever is more important than affordable medication and her family's income. Gift article wapo.st/4z7LfPT

wapo.stThese Trump voters changed their minds — and are key to the midtermsAbout a fifth of those who voted for Trump in 2024 now disapprove of his performance. How they vote -- or whether they stay home -- will strongly shape the scale of Republican losses this year.

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Replying to @climatebrad.hillheat.com

The took place in July. In September, Virginia proposed that Microsoft pay a fine of $2.499 million "to recover the profit Microsoft gained by operating after exceeding its permit limits."

eponline.comVirginia Proposes Microsoft Settlement Over Data Center Generators -- Environmental ProtectionProposed terms include $2.4 million for air monitoring and $99,000 for Virginia’s Environmental Emergency Response Fund.

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My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

gadgetreview.comVirginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their HomesVirginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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Good morning, Georgia! A friendly reminder during early voting that it is illegal under state law to record marking your ballot in a polling place. This provision is important for election integrity. It deters individuals from intimidating others *and* helps prevent vote-buying schemes. Don’t do it!

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BASH: What's the crime? AG TODD BLANCHE: What's the crime? Well it depends. There *could* be a crime. But the real wrong here is that Alaskans are gonna be confused. BASH: The Alaskan Supreme Court ruled 4 months ago on this matter

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“Mr. Trump’s order to federalize the National Guard ‘exceeded the President’s statutory authority and encroached on Congress’s’ power, the ruling said, and was therefore unconstitutional.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

nytimes.comCourt Says Trump Violated Law in Los Angeles National Guard Deployment (Gift Article)The ruling, which comes as the midterm election nears, could make it more difficult for President Trump to seize control of the National Guard.

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This is a model for how you describe that ad in your lead. 👏 www.ms.now/news/amy-act...

Headlines that call it an “attack ad” featuring “Acton’s estranged mother” obfuscate the aberration. How about “Ramaswamy ad revictimizes Acton, who was raped as a child”? presswatchers.org/2026/10/depr...

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Replying to @propublica.org

The U.S. Postal Service has reduced mail pickup at some local facilities, which could affect when your ballot is postmarked. To find out whether your ZIP code is affected, use our lookup tool: www.propublica.org/article/mail...

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This is an open invitation to journalists to get inside this story & exactly what happened. It’s just enough out in the open that it may be possible. This initial story is pretty damning all by itself.

We have Greenland huh?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"

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In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

motherjones.comThe EPA is quietly killing its web archiveTens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump's climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

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Where does the buck stop?

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social

A highly regarded physician-scientist recommended by NIH Director to lead the agency’s mental health institute is no longer in the running. Instead, RFK Jr. favors a researcher who studies treating mental illness with diet—an approach advocated by some in MAHA. www.science.org/content/arti...

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i understand that this is literally a story about FEMA not doing it's job but, even in that context, the absolute clusterfuck at FEMA has been underreported. it's a nightmare over there and anyone with any institutional knowledge is already gone.

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My song “The Leopards Ate My Face” has pulled in millions of views, but I'm not the originator of this iconic phrase! Lucky for you I did brief musical history of the leopards meme along with a round up of some of it's most famous victims, in front of a LIVE AUDIENCE!

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"Yes, there is a possibility that the Creature could become uncontrollable, kill large numbers of people, destroy civilization, or otherwise bring about the end of human life as we know it. But it also has enormous potential benefits." buff.ly/VofUcqn

buff.lyWon’t Someone Please Stop Me, Dr. Frankenstein, from Building the Creature?“If I don’t build it, someone else will. And I would much rather that history’s first artificially created human being be the result of my painstaking resear...

OMG, appalling is the best word here.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

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It sounds like hyperbole to suggest the current administration WANTS measles to become common again but I can’t think of much they’d be doing differently if they didn’t want that. (I think some of them really are eugenicists who legit prefer disease spread to prevention; others just don’t care)

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

The CDC denied a request from California, Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and Washington to validate a high-volume measles test, citing “other priorities.” 🤨

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Replying to @ruinista.bsky.social

It's so weird that people with reality-distorting wealth traditionally would spend on things they thought were nice and admirable and would cause later generations to praise their name but for the last decade the people with reality-distorting wealth dream of being brutal post-apocalyptic warlords.

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“Don’t exceed this specific speed” was such a cowardly, responsibility-obfuscating way to disable Ukraine’s defenses without literally “turning off starshield” that it was hard to believe the Trump team knew enough to invent it. Makes more sense that it was Musk’s idea, which he then tried to hide.

Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦@angel-shalagina.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk personally proposed slowing down Ukraine’s Starlink access, and Trump agreed, The Telegraph reports, citing four sources. Musk reportedly later feared backlash from European customers and publicly denied responsibility, blaming the White House instead.

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Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Florida Freedom to Read Project@flfreedomread.bsky.social

Palm Beach pulled 1800+ titles from its school library collections because AI flagged them for review. Media specialists and principals must sign attestation forms verifying their libraries are compliant with vague law. None of this is normal. freedomtoreadproject.substack.com/p/when-ai-de...

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Replying to @sarah-philo357.bsky.social

Also, the video clip they keep sharing is from a 2018 local election. It’s not recent. It’s so misleading to share it now as if it’s current news and not just an example of possible calibration issues.

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As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

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republicans’ closing message could not be clearer: they are the party of pedophile rapists

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Would least to the daughter being preclude from serving on what fucking grounds? Misogynist pig.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"