Laughingrat

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Still fifty rats in a trench coat, still they/them.

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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 02:58 UTC

I never thought I would read "Masks are proven to protect against the transmission of Covid-19 and other airborne viruses" in The New York Times but there it is. Thank you Violet Affleck. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/s...

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 11, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

Fascinating thread!

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Artologica @artologica.net
[ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 18:16 UTC

Science looks beautiful in purple and blue. Original watercolor paintings inspired by microbiology, neuroscience and genetics artologica.etsy.com 🧪🐡🧠🦠

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Silky Weineck @silkyweineck.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

Turkey momma and her brood settling in for the night yesterday. 🪶

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

Sure is!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:46 UTC

The Red Couch, with a Cat

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:43 UTC

Oh, is the aquarium one here? I always liked that. I follow the petting zoo one, that’s cute.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

Oh, yay! I had no idea this author had started posting here!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

You should tell her that she is a stinky animal, and then give her a little kiss to let her know she’s in disgrace. That always works on Hosta (it does not work on Hosta).

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:54 UTC

Oooof, how is she?

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:06 UTC

🤮

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 19:00 UTC

Chompé

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:38 UTC

If Bluesky really cared about you it would let me post today’s video of Hosta romping. Instead, you’ll have to make do with this photo of her awkwardly grooming herself.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:14 UTC

Saw my first Cybertruck AND my first Kennedy 2024 sticker in the wild this week, I’m hoping for a leprechaun next

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K. A. “Kick Åss” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

Your move, Hemingway

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Lilly ⭐️ @mothcub.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

I shall not be accepting any challenges at this time.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

Can you just leave the stuff in there to run when you have the energy? Seems like loading it up is an achievement as-is.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:50 UTC

It was a different assignment, which I fortunately found out before the class started. I was also incredibly incoherent, just absolute dogshit instruction delivery, those students deserved better.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:48 UTC

“Too many” is a very subjective standard!!!!!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:59 UTC

🧵

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:32 UTC

Just realized the prof whose class I’m teaching today may be the one who turned a kid loose with the research question “What are some benefits to imperialism?” Guess I better include a slide about what kind of questions are essentially unresearchable for the purpose of a 4 page undergrad paper

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 10:29 UTC

That’s Farts Johnson!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 02:53 UTC

Poor guy, hope you can both get some rest!

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 19:43 UTC

If we really want to know how to separate the art from the artist, we should ask whoever at Marvel dealt with Kirby's original pages between the 1960s and 1990s

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 15:08 UTC

I definitely didn’t get that Fargo was satire (is it?). Strangelove yes, but also the kind of satire that’s all too plausible. My friend and I watched it together for the first time, and afterward, she said in a quavering voice, “Can we watch something funny next?” I wholeheartedly agreed.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 13:43 UTC

Good luck to him. ❤️

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Blooms & Greens @bloomsgreens.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 05:09 UTC

🌱 Here is a fascinating ivory colored sweet peas showing purple outline on the petals’ edges. Goodnight!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:26 UTC

She didn’t want one after all. I reached into the box to point one out to her, so she bapped me soundly for putting my hands where she could see em. No claws, though, and that’s what we call growth. ❤️

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:24 UTC

Picking a toy from the toy box

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 03:22 UTC

Very cool!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:22 UTC

I’ve been trying to track down this book for sale or loan, but understandably it’s only held for in-library use at a few places, and I haven’t found it for sale anywhere.

search.worldcat.org/title/866366...

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:20 UTC

It’s wonderful how the media companies who assured us that they’re caring stewards of our cultural output keep doing both the dumbest and shittiest things possible. 🫠

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:18 UTC

Oh that’s fantastic news! I’ve only heard about it here and there so my impression has been that it was canceled.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:17 UTC

I always believed Grandma when she said we’re distantly related to Billy Ray Cyrus, but I guess there’s also proof. It annoyed her a great deal; she never liked his music.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:14 UTC

So naturally, that’s the one they just canceled, right?

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

The other day I was joking-not-really that if FDR ran today the media would be saying he’s incompetent to run because he’s disabled, and welp

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:38 UTC

Made another round of tzatziki, and since my sense of taste is working this time (it’s been off and on for years since I first got Covid), I can tell that it’s delicious, actually. The carrots I ate it with are flavorless though, so I’m just gonna put the rest straight into my face.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 16:01 UTC

Rejected Chuck Berry songs

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:30 UTC

Jesus fucking Christ. There’s literally no reasoning with this shit, and it’s so all-pervasive. So far I’ve been lucky with my current NP, who has the sense to assume that I know damn well I should exercise more and doesn’t give me shit about it. “Dangerous sedentary activity,” I s2g.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:25 UTC

Uncanny is a fantastic magazine!

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:24 UTC

Ha! Get stuffed, bastards! I had a doctor blithely, without *asking* me anything about what I eat, tell me to stop eating fast food. I told her (truthfully) that I eat it about twice a year; she said “Oh, I have it a couple times a week.”

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:19 UTC

And they’ve got “built-in AI technology,” because of course they do.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 15:17 UTC

It’s true. Not to mention the underlying beliefs that one’s body is other people’s business, that only certain bodies deserve medical care, etc. etc. etc.

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:44 UTC

Anyway I know which one of us was playing with their mom’s calorie counter and flipping through a book about sugar being bad at age three and exercising til they barfed at age six, and I guarantee it’s never the dipshit earnestly explaining to me that I’m going to die if I don’t eat more kale

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

One of the most bizarre, pervasive myths about fat people is that we’ve never heard about eating less and exercising, as if that’s not something dinned into everyone’s ears from all sides 24/7. It’s almost like bodies are more complicated than that, or something

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

Burning down the rainforests to tell people to eat vegetables and exercise

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 13:04 UTC

Thank god

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Laughingrat @laughingrat.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 10:12 UTC

That’s a really cool frog!

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Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 02:47 UTC

This is my theory about why so many people are getting so weird now

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