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Vicky Stein (agentredsquirrel)

@vicky.science.bsky.social

The friend you send bug pictures to. Also accepting dead-thing-on-beach pictures, dog pictures, and stories about your cats.

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A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

27.02.2026 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3983    πŸ” 796    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 0
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The ICE Contractor Down the Hall A tour through the Midtown intelligence firms and courier services that help keep the agency running.

This article details places that are letting ICE use them to help do their operations.

27.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

Hello! I’m the reporter who has been tracking citizens detained by immigration agents. And last night, I noticed something: A lot of them were at the State of the Union, including a number of whom I’ve written about.

Their stories should be known:

25.02.2026 23:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1064    πŸ” 483    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 16

They’re beautiful!!

23.02.2026 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a hand holding up a card that features a painting of a keenly focused black bird, probably a crow (?) against a moody brown background. Light on the bird’s feathers carves out each individual plume

Photo of a hand holding up a card that features a painting of a keenly focused black bird, probably a crow (?) against a moody brown background. Light on the bird’s feathers carves out each individual plume

Particularly in love with this beauty. Yayyyyy arttttt

22.02.2026 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a hand holding a brown paper-wrapped package tied with a piece of rough twine. The package has a business card taped to it, partially obscured by the twine but it features a painting of a wolf. In the background a window and a blue curtain in front of a blue sky

Photo of a hand holding a brown paper-wrapped package tied with a piece of rough twine. The package has a business card taped to it, partially obscured by the twine but it features a painting of a wolf. In the background a window and a blue curtain in front of a blue sky

🎢 These are a few of my favorite things! 🎢

(Just got a lil brown paper package tied up with string from @esthervanhulsen.bsky.social full of *gorgeous* bird art, congratulations to me and anyone getting mail from me I the next several months that will include the prettiest card!!)

22.02.2026 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Really glad my baby doesn’t develop language *before* learning to burp on her own, because I might have to restrain my fits of giggles and chants of β€œHell yeah! Hell yeah!” when we get a particularly tuneful belch out of her tiny little body

20.02.2026 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The firste parte of *Beowulf* ys prettye grippinge but the secounde parte doth dragon a bit

20.02.2026 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 605    πŸ” 79    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 3
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Erin thank you for asking lmao, I am launching a pint-glass-mediated native plant education project. I just got the glasses yesterday and delivered the first 17 cases today πŸ˜… they’re going to bars all over the city to try to reach people who would not seek at this kind of information online

20.02.2026 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 675    πŸ” 77    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 22
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Cambodian national dies in ICE custody in Indiana A detainee died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Indiana on Monday, with the cause of death under investigation, ICE said on Wednesday, marking at least the seventh death ...

A Cambodian man -- old enough to have survived Pol Pot genocide but too young to die -- is the 7th person to die in ICE custody this year.

A Cuban man died of asphyxia in Jan, with witnesses saying guards killed him. A Palestinian woman was shackled after a seizure.

www.reuters.com/world/us/cam...

20.02.2026 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 212    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 9

I ran out of interesting books in my middle school library so the librarian started teaching me to add things to the catalog and repair some of the older books with rickety spines. I like words and I don’t use genAI for anything.

19.02.2026 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

guys read this whole thread, I'm crying

19.02.2026 03:16 β€” πŸ‘ 324    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This fossilized vomit is older than the dinosaurs Vomit is grossβ€”but 290-million-year-old vomit is a scientific marvel

Please come on this journey with me, the journey of the 290-million-year-old barf, I promise we'll have fun: πŸ§ͺ www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...

18.02.2026 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 87    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

My very kind drivers ed instructor spent the first two lessons hyping up his son to me and then sent his son to teach my third and final lesson. I was 16. He was probably 25 and VERY embarrassed that his dad was trying to set us up via driving lesson meet-cute

I liked them both but not Like That

18.02.2026 04:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s EPA decided climate change doesn’t endanger public health. Evidence saysΒ otherwise. - High Country News Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts.

Extreme heat, severe weather and air pollution are proven to cause negative health impacts.

17.02.2026 09:01 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy.

better not to use image generators at all.

17.02.2026 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 763    πŸ” 261    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
a slide with 3 pictures of schools with brightly colored murals stacked on top of one another under the words "Schools in service area". On the other side of the slide, a blank wall of a school under the label "Our partner"

a slide with 3 pictures of schools with brightly colored murals stacked on top of one another under the words "Schools in service area". On the other side of the slide, a blank wall of a school under the label "Our partner"

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help.

I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area.

But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

16.02.2026 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 209    πŸ” 113    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5

A reasonable guess but the puffins are Atlantic! So I was assuming the dolphins were too, but πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈπŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

Honestly I found the artist on Instagram, maybe I should just ask her…

14.02.2026 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re like some kind of snubfin/lag hybrid πŸ˜†

I saw a little gray baby beluga at the Vancouver Aquarium when I was a kid! Lost my dang mind. Someday I’ll see them in the wild 🀞🏼

14.02.2026 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a children’s book, Raffi’s Baby Beluga to be specific, illustrated by Ashley Wolff in a bright maybe gouache style. The image shows ice, an Atlantic puffin, a leaping beluga whale, and a group of five black, white, and gray dolphins with rounded faces

Photo of a children’s book, Raffi’s Baby Beluga to be specific, illustrated by Ashley Wolff in a bright maybe gouache style. The image shows ice, an Atlantic puffin, a leaping beluga whale, and a group of five black, white, and gray dolphins with rounded faces

Anyone know what dolphin species these are meant to be? I’m assuming they’re lags of some sort but am not super familiar with Arctic species! #marinebio #cetaceans

13.02.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

They look more like hourglass or white-beaked to me but I haven’t found any on a quick search that exactly match this coloration

14.02.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a children’s book, Raffi’s Baby Beluga to be specific, illustrated by Ashley Wolff in a bright maybe gouache style. The image shows ice, an Atlantic puffin, a leaping beluga whale, and a group of five black, white, and gray dolphins with rounded faces

Photo of a children’s book, Raffi’s Baby Beluga to be specific, illustrated by Ashley Wolff in a bright maybe gouache style. The image shows ice, an Atlantic puffin, a leaping beluga whale, and a group of five black, white, and gray dolphins with rounded faces

Anyone know what dolphin species these are meant to be? I’m assuming they’re lags of some sort but am not super familiar with Arctic species! #marinebio #cetaceans

13.02.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

13.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6745    πŸ” 1823    πŸ’¬ 98    πŸ“Œ 36
Cartoon. Person says to other person β€žWe invented a robot that answers questions.β€œ, adding, β€žwe just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a dayβ€œ. The other person asks β€žBut it answers the questions correctly?β€œ Person responds β€žOh my goodness, no. No no no no no.β€œ

By Aram J. French

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Cartoon. Person says to other person β€žWe invented a robot that answers questions.β€œ, adding, β€žwe just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a dayβ€œ. The other person asks β€žBut it answers the questions correctly?β€œ Person responds β€žOh my goodness, no. No no no no no.β€œ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

12.02.2026 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 12659    πŸ” 4122    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 61
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The Taken: Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents From Minnesota to Texas We document these patterns through the use of sworn declarations and court filings.

I just published:

The Taken
Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas

Documented through court records.

Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

11.02.2026 13:32 β€” πŸ‘ 666    πŸ” 437    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 22

"should the government kidnap 5 year olds and deport them? We asked seventeen ethics professors and they all just screamed"

08.02.2026 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1492    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 11

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

08.02.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 38100    πŸ” 14367    πŸ’¬ 1385    πŸ“Œ 747

!!

06.02.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ansel Adams in the age of ICE - High Country News Ansel Adams took one of his most famous nature photos while documenting the American citizens of Japanese ancestry who were imprisoned at Manzanar during World War II. Our country is both the darkness...

www.hcn.org/issues/58-2/...

06.02.2026 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

β€œIf I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again β€” this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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