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Outdoor Cats Are Using $500 Starlink Satellite Dishes as Self- Heating Beds

Smithsonian Magazine

Outdoor Cats Are Using $500 Starlink Satellite Dishes as Self-Heating Beds

The devices—developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX—have a warming feature to prevent snow buildup from disrupting the signal

"The devices—developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX—have a warming feature to prevent snow built up from disrupting the signal “Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days,” he writes in a tweet. Starlink is a satellite internet service created by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It currently has more than 1,600 satellites orbiting in space, with permission from U.S. authorities to eventually launch up to 12,000, reports the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt. Starlink satellite dishes have a self-heating feature to melt snow, which may be why cats are drawn to it, reports the Guardian. Engineers created this feature to stop snow from interfering with the signal, but can the dish handle a pile of felines? On Twitter, Taylor says five cats snuggling on his dish interrupts his video streaming and “slows everything down.” #Caturday

First they blame Boomers for Reagan. Then they call them "Leftwing." Then they discount all their "Lived Experience" that they purport to value so highly ... White Leftwing Boomers Kassandra Stockmann

White Leftwing Boomers

Many people have observed that a lot of those at the No Kings protests are white, left-wing Boomers.

"Many people have observed that a lot of those at the No Kings protests are white, left-wing Boomers. I don’t have demographic data to back this up, but based on my observations of Boomers in my friends and family circle, it does seem that this group is clinging the hardest and loudest to Wokeism and general left-wing derangement. I do have some Millennial friends who are still drunk on the Kool-Aid, but those who are tend to identify as some flavor of LGBT+ even though they are straight. They also tend to be rather mentally ill and comfortable sharing their struggles with mental illness, or their sheer inability to “adult”, on social media. By identifying into the LGBT+ community, they gained a lot of corrosive power that they are now grappling with losing. On the surface, this looks very different from the left-wing Boomers who are retired after having some career success, are generally well-educated, consider themselves allies of the LGBT+ community while not identifying as part of it, and who don’t air their dirty laundry on Facebook. Given that my dad is in this demographic of Boomers, this is the primary source of my frustration. Below are just my general observations of this group as I try to figure out their motivations for going down with a ship that to everyone else is obviously sinking. (Obviously, Boomers are a large demographic population, and this certainly does not apply to every or even most Boomers.) Protesting No Longer Works First, I share their concerns about Trump sending the National Guard unasked into liberal cities, and I don’t trust Trump. But I’m under no delusions that taking to the streets accomplishes anything productive other than making the people who participate feel good about their own sense of righteousness. Our society is so polarized that protesting is no longer a viable means of effecting change. By and large, it’s become a way to signal your politics. I think the people marching would be more effective if they sat down and listened with the intention to understand those of us who are disaffected by the left wing and to understand why they are hemorrhaging support. Rather than brandishing their righteousness they need to focus more on the hard work of looking inward and course-correcting. I also think that people on both the right and the left would do well to understand radicalization and how right-wing radicalism fuels left-wing radicalism, which in turn fuels right-wing radicalism, creating the nasty spiral we’re in. We need to learn how algorithms distort our perception of the world and how to be more savvy about our social media use and news consumption, etc. But hey, it’s easier and more fulfilling to march. There’s no heady sense of righteousness from realizing you were wrong about some things or under the sway of powerful algorithms. The Desire to be Relevant My parents were never introspective people. I don’t think that’s a Boomer trait, I think it spans generations. But I do see that with Boomers there seems to be a desperation to be seen as relevant and attuned to the up-and-coming generation in a way their parents weren’t. My grandparents held onto antiquated, racist ideas and were never comfortable with the gay rights movement. To be clear, my grandparents weren’t cruel people who used slurs, and they welcomed my husband, who is brown and the child of immigrants, into the family. They didn’t believe in segregation. But they would make remarks about white people being “normal,” as though other races weren’t, or they would downplay how bad Jim Crow was. Like many people my age, we loved them because they were our grandparents, even if we rolled our eyes at their perceptions of race issues. They were products of their time and couldn’t help it." #NoKingsProtest #DemExit #DumpTheDNC #ThirdPartyNow #2024Election #USPolitics #Green #Progressive #RadicalFeminist #Solidarity #FreeSpeech #SurveillanceState #StopSpyingOnUs #PeakTrans #TransCult #skeptic

Andrea Velk Inktober Day 19: Arctic #Inktober2025Day19Arctic #Inktober2025Day19 #Inktober2025 #Inktober #WomensArt #WomensCreativity

REAL SUFFERING FOR A FAKE DICK The Misery of Phalloplasty. Karen Davis - You're Kiddin', Right?

REAL SUFFERING FOR A FAKE DICK

The Misery of Phalloplasty.

"It's beyond sadistic. It's evil." Reddit r/MtF u/ bitingonarose u/bitingonarose Buncke/Chen https://www.reddit.com/r/phallo/comments/1o2fg29/fistulas_at_10_weeks_post_off_rff "Hey everyone, I had RFF phalloplasty with UL, scrotoplasty, and vaginectomy with the Buncke clinic and Dr. Chen 10 weeks ago. Surgery went well overall, but I have some fistulas and still have the SP catheter. Around week 3, I developed wound separation at the base of my penis that turned into a fistula and another deeper wound separation at the vaginectomy near the anus. Both are still draining but improving. I failed my first voiding trial at 4 weeks post op (everything came out of the base). At week 6, it was about 70/30 from the fistula and tip. I flew back to see Dr. Chen for a new SP catheter and he gave me a small plastic tube to put in the tip once a day to dilate it. He said I’m one of the slower healers but there’s no infection. At week 9, I got 2/3 from the tip and 1/3 from a new fistula on the scar line halfway up my penis. This week, I did another void trial and it seemed worse than last time, like 70/30 from the tip and the fistula at the base but it burned and was painful. I noticed the last two voiding trials were really hard to get myself to start going because it hurt and was hard to relax. I’m going to try again next week. Overall I'm a bit down from feeling like I'm not making a lot of progress. I’m still propping because I’m more swollen at the tip than the base. It’s tiring dealing with bladder spasms and changing 4x4 gauze multiple times a day because of all the drainage. I don’t know if I need a fistula repair or not yet but that would be at 3-4 months post op. I’m also anxious about my penis looking smaller than I wanted but Dr. Chen said it should improve once the swelling goes down. I’m hoping to go back to work at 12 weeks, but I’m not sure I’ll be ready since I have a physically active job. I’m glad I had surgery but frustrated that I haven’t been able to enjoy having a penis yet because of healing. I'm wondering if anyone else has experiences like mine with healing slowly? Did you have to take off more time than you planned on?" #TIFS #InternalizedMisogyny #Lesbians #Freespeech #AbolishSexRoleStereotyping #TransCult #PeakTrans #PeakTrans #TransCult #GenderAtheist #GenderWooWoo #DropTheT #GetTheLOut #SexIsNotACostume #SexNotGender #SexMatters #MedicalQuackery #MedicalMalpractice #Pseudoscience #fraud #hoax #Skeptic #BigGender #GenderIndustrialComplex #TeamTERF #RadicalFeminism #RadFem

FFS Friday: Keira Knightley

FFS Friday: Keira Knightley

October 17, 2025

"FFS (Female Free Speech) Friday honors women and girls who are speaking out about the harms that “gender identity” poses to women and girls as a sex class. FFS Friday posts are free and shareable. I typically do my best to use these pages to celebrate relatively unknown women who are just finding their voices to speak out. I make exceptions, however. I have occasionally celebrated well-known women like J.K. Rowling or anonymous women. Today’s FFS Friday celebrates the British actor Keira Knightley, who, according to The Telegraph, “has just shown how the trans mob can be beaten.” Keira Knightley isn’t having it. Knightley has agreed to be the voice of Professor Umbridge in Audible’s new Harry Potter: The Full Cast Audio. She was asked, “Are you aware that some fans are calling for a boycott, given J.K. Rowling’s ongoing campaign against trans people?” This was her response: I was not aware of that, no [sarcastic expression on her face]. I’m very sorry [arms crossed, sarcastic expression remaining]. [Outright laughter]. You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to figure out how to live together, aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. So I hope that we can all find respect. Some TERFs think she didn’t go far enough; that her response should have been a more full-throated defense of J.K. Rowling. Fair enough. I thought it was great. This is Keira Knightley basically saying, “What a load of rubbish,” and unapologetically laughing about the absurdity of the question. This was her, saying, “Grow up, trans activists. Get a grip.” Predictably, the “trans” mob went berserk, even for that very mild statement by Knightley, calling on all of us to live together with our different opinions, because they read her sarcastic expression and her laughter in the same way that I did. From Yahoo Entertainment: Several users on X expressed disappointment over the actor’s demeanor. @StopTweetingMia said, “I think I was far too charitable when I originally just read the quote because I didn’t expect her to say it LIKE THAT???” Meanwhile, @hopeurloveslike commented, “oh all of my love and respect for Keira Knightly VANISHED. why the F*CK are you laughing at trans people losing their rights???” Others focused on the implications of her “live together” remark. @BenLeiker wrote, “asking any marginalized group to ‘live together’ and ‘respect’ those that want them banned from public life or erased from existence is the language of the oppressor.” They called her a TERF. One person said “very much disgusting to have the privilege of ignoring minorities hardships and laugh about it.” I have never met Keira Knightley and don’t expect to. But now she has my profound respect. She has, in the words of The Telegraph, “shown how the trans mob can be beaten.” Well done, Keira Knightley. Today’s FFS Friday is for you." Archived: https://archive.ph/yfhDk #TeamTERF #Freespeech #Censorship #SayNoToSelfID #No2SelfID #NoSelfID #Skeptic #LetWomenSpeak #OccupyWoman #GetMenOut #HoldTheLine #KeepWomensSpacesSingleSex #WomanFace #AbolishSexRoleStereotyping #RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Feminism #Feminist

OpenAI’s Porn Pivot Is Problematic But Lucrative, Parmy Olson Says Bloomberg Television #AIPorn #PornCulture #MaleSexualDepravity #RadFem #RadicalFeminism #feminist #Feminism #MaleSexualPoltics

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"Alert Kitty" Patricia Lee Christensen #Caturday #CatArt #Inktober2025

Tawnee Wadsworth Inktober 2025 Day 12: Sting #Inktober2025Day11Sting #Inktober2025Day11 #Inktober2025 #Inktober #WomensArt #WomensCreativity

Tracy Lynn Molina is a Pretendian. She wants to be the TRAntifa Shame-person. She's out of her mind. View quoted note →

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Talk - John Judge - The 9/11 Omission Report: What the Commission Didn't Report #911 #September11th2025 #CIAMisconduct #FBIMisconduct #DeepState

#September11th #911

🤮 GAG WARNING! 🤮 "Everything these Troons dish up is even more batshit than the last helping, but I've gotta give it to this one - 'Bog Troon' is new. Anywhere, here's a Bog Troon I've now named Gollum. He's going to tell you how he feels when you play along with his delusion." Holly Grayle @HollyGrayle

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Holly Grayle (@HollyGrayle) on X

Everything these Troons dish up is even more batshit than the last helping, but I've gotta give it to this one - 'Bog Troon' is new. Anywhere, he...

#MaleSexualDepravity #TransvesticFetishism #YWNBAW #WomanFace #NotYourFetish #GenderBlackFace #NotYourCostume #AGP #Autogynephile #Autogynephilia #PeakTrans #TransCult #GenderAtheist #GenderWooWoo #DropTheT #GetTheLOut #SexIsNotACostume #WomenDontHavePenises #AntiMAP #KeepWomensSpacesSingleSex #SexNotGender #SexMatters #AntiKink #AbolishSissyHypnoPorn