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Chris

@snocats.bsky.social

Cats, bikes, skis, cameras, guitar, bass and stuff. Snowcat operator, fluent in Prinoth, conversant in Pistenbully.

created January 24, 2025

193 followers 256 following 404 posts

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Profile picture sascha benjamin cohen (@saschaben.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If this is at all correct, this is seriously messed up. And from the reporting it is hard to see this not having some real accuracy. Also, here is a link to the original report by Stateline: stateline.org/2025/08/31/f...

3/9/2025, 8:03:17 PM | 86 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mineral Cup #MinCup25 (@mineralcup.bsky.social) reposted

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 4: This match of heavy hitters is bound to end in heartbreak as classic #calcite faces off against futuristic #perovskite. We love them both, but only one can continue on to Round 2! Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

4/9/2025, 12:50:18 AM | 32 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

She’s always such a soulless ghoul

4/9/2025, 2:27:28 AM | 21 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

How incredibly on message for Don

4/9/2025, 2:24:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

So is she…

4/9/2025, 2:18:01 AM | 45 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

It has become a worthless participation ribbon.

2/9/2025, 10:21:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

He still looks dead.

2/9/2025, 10:17:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Yeah. Marry early, under prepared, probably under educated, and without a steady appropriate income. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

1/9/2025, 8:51:21 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mineral Cup #MinCup25 (@mineralcup.bsky.social) reposted

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 1: Hazardous (but useful!) #Chrysotile faces off against stunning gem #Pectolite. Do you pick the forbidden cotton candy, or the anti-pulverization beauty? VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Check RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

1/9/2025, 12:04:08 AM | 105 85 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Nash Is Here for It (@nashishereforit.bsky.social) reposted

The National Guardners

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1/9/2025, 2:14:00 PM | 9621 2602 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli (@banditelli.org) reposted

A lot of labor day messaging drives me up the wall because the annoying viral "thank a union" is sometimes updated to "don't just thank a union, form your own!" but no one has figured out a viral "demand the right to organize exists again" and IT'S MY JOB TO FIGURE THAT OUT and i still haven't.

31/8/2025, 6:08:42 PM | 43 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Kamil already beat him to that punch. Found the kid, gave him a hat and grabbed a photo with him.

1/9/2025, 4:46:10 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Took 2 (the wiki result could be ruled out as too vague to be useful) search results to learn… yeah that makes sense.

1/9/2025, 4:43:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Presidential Zombie.

1/9/2025, 4:39:54 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Martha Wells (@marthawells.com) reposted

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

1/9/2025, 4:12:57 PM | 838 591 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrea Junker (@strandjunker.com) reposted

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

1/9/2025, 4:14:05 PM | 2498 782 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Paul Cooper (@paulmmcooper.com) reposted

A thread-of-threads on my research into the ruined places of the world, the abandoned ruins of modernity, interesting historical knowledge I've come across, and strange parts of history I find fascinating.

The ruins of Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia. Photo credit: Uwe Schwarzbach
19/11/2024, 11:55:32 AM | 367 71 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil Plait (@philplait.bsky.social) reposted

The Rosette Nebula is a *magniifcent* example of a starbirth factory, and this gorgeous images shows it. But c'mon, you know me: there's a lot more going on here that I am happy to explain. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-narrow-v... 🔭🧪å

1/9/2025, 3:06:54 PM | 342 48 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Simms (@chrisnsimms.bsky.social) reposted

This is a great round-up of almost missed #science stories. Seems crazy that snails that can grow back their eyeballs and good evidence that the Turin Shroud is a medieval forgery didn't make the cut first time. A bizarre number of people still believe the shroud was wrapped around Jesus 🧪

1/9/2025, 3:15:54 PM | 7 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris Simms (@chrisnsimms.bsky.social) reposted

Every wondered how exactly magic mushrooms seem to help treat depression? The psychedelic compound psilocybin (found in the mushrooms) seems to remodel connections in the MOUSE brain and decrease loops linked to repeating negative thoughts. #medicine #health 🧪 www.newscientist.com/article/2494...

1/9/2025, 3:22:27 PM | 38 15 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

His ghost writers are working on it. They still haven’t mastered his “style”

1/9/2025, 2:53:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

No way he wrote that. It borders on coherent

1/9/2025, 2:51:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Lee doesn’t know when to STFU. He’s a penis. Useless most of the time.

1/9/2025, 2:49:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I thought we did. Facial hair, haircuts, hats, cars, and our taste (or lack thereof) in music… to start with. 😉

1/9/2025, 2:47:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Mike Lee embarrassing Utah. Again.

1/9/2025, 2:44:26 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social)

Sometimes you’re just a small gray bird screaming at the world.

Small gray bird perched on a branch calling loudly to the world. image image
1/9/2025, 2:42:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Laurie Loves Data (@laurelann.bsky.social) reposted

The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years That's not good news Tariffs are taxes on Americans That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...

graph of tariffs collected over time
31/8/2025, 2:43:06 AM | 3946 1531 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sean Casten (@seancasten.bsky.social) reposted

Let's talk US immigration policy. As JD Vance admits to lying so he can gin up the xenophobes and the House GOP keeps bringing bills to the floor that claim to solve imaginary problems, we've got to understand the real data, and real issues. Thread:

1/10/2024, 4:10:20 PM | 44 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Monica H Green (@monicamedhist.bsky.social) reposted

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

30/8/2025, 3:04:44 PM | 540 307 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

This must be why he’s been spending his PTO.

30/8/2025, 2:43:56 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s a feature not a bug.

29/8/2025, 10:01:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

And golf free.

29/8/2025, 10:00:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Convict & send em to Utah. We still play that game. Neither would survive Gen Pop long enough to expend their appeals I suspect.

29/8/2025, 10:00:19 PM | 21 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Once again playing stupid games.

29/8/2025, 9:51:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Why defer the mandate just to let the clown show appeal. They’re going to regardless, so let’s get moving here.

29/8/2025, 9:49:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Pretty sure dood #1 turned off his body cam too.

29/8/2025, 9:26:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social)

What have I missed while playing with light?

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27/8/2025, 4:15:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

So much dignity.

25/8/2025, 2:55:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib.com) reposted

The Trump admin clawed back $62M in federal aid to bolster solar energy across Utah, derailing projects for rural towns, tribes and families.

25/8/2025, 12:30:11 PM | 384 167 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michael R Photography 🌿 (@msriffle.bsky.social) reposted

It's #BlueSkyMonday! This beautiful blue sky was photographed along with warm early morning golden light at a wildlife refuge near my house. Salt marsh vistas for days. #photography #bluesky #landscape #clouds #EastCoastKin #sunrise #goldenhour

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25/8/2025, 12:45:41 PM | 111 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.

25/8/2025, 12:46:06 PM | 405 112 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

If South Park didn’t already have all plot lines that they need, here’s another episode that basically writes itself.

25/8/2025, 2:37:58 PM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

He’ll have a boy friend in due time.

25/8/2025, 2:36:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

A stand out hack in a regime constructed of hacks (and substance abusers)

25/8/2025, 2:25:40 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I was unaware they still vetted Trump nominees

25/8/2025, 2:24:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior.bsky.social) reposted

sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-...

excerpt from here on AI, moviemaking, texas chainsaw massacre: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-friend-leatherface
25/8/2025, 1:01:42 PM | 82 7 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

They’re just waiting for the first anonymous ICE abduction team to take a casualty.

25/8/2025, 2:02:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

And you just know what would happen if gringos showed up to paint over those.

25/8/2025, 1:53:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

He doesn’t pay contractors

25/8/2025, 1:49:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

You’ve made a scary assumption. That being the existence of brain power

25/8/2025, 1:46:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I just came here ask about the the Epstein flies.. I mean Files.

25/8/2025, 1:45:40 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Of course they should be painted black. That way they will be harder to find in the dark… 😉😁😈

25/8/2025, 1:43:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NB LA CA (@nb-photo-bsud.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

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25/8/2025, 4:26:51 AM | 101 21 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

White union labor force.

25/8/2025, 1:40:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Pfftt I have grinders.

25/8/2025, 1:39:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As the quiet part is said out loud.

25/8/2025, 1:36:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NPR (@npr.org) reposted

At the International AIDS Society meeting this year, a young woman from South Africa spoke. She is the first Black woman from Africa to be potentially cured of HIV.

25/8/2025, 1:14:25 PM | 401 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

The Maxwell quote to close just reeks of dishonesty

25/8/2025, 1:24:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture @debbie156 (@debbie156.bsky.social) reposted

I am not a conspiracy monger, but I just want to point out that anyone that caused embarrassment to the royals are now deceased-Diana, Epstein, Virginia… I’m not saying there’s any there there, but it’s odd at the very least. Discuss amongst yourselves. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

25/8/2025, 12:18:01 PM | 290 117 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social)

A couple flower photos. Two states. Two days apart.

Orange coneflower A pair of Plumaria blossoms
25/8/2025, 3:25:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Space Telescope Science Institute (@stsci.edu) reposted

Take a look at some of the nebulous gas clouds the James Webb Space Telescope has observed in its three years of science operations. #NASAWebb Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI. 🔭 🧪

24/8/2025, 7:28:25 PM | 117 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leah Shaffer (@leahshaffer.bsky.social) reposted

First thing on their list was to gut medical science research, All research really. And they have succeeded. Until we start putting balls to the fire, these few individuals will continue their destructive spree. 🧪

24/8/2025, 7:32:34 PM | 31 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Quanta Magazine (@quantamagazine.bsky.social) reposted

The 6th busy beaver number is so big that even if you somehow carved a digit into every atom in the cosmos, you’d run out of atoms before making any measurable progress. www.quantamagazine.org/busy-beaver-...

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24/8/2025, 8:04:02 PM | 74 25 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Institute of Art and Ideas (@iai.tv) reposted

“Our universe was reborn from the death of the universe before it.” | iai.tv/articles/the... We think of the Big Bang as the beginning of time and space itself but @samwoolfe.bsky.social proposes a cyclic model that suggests our Big Bang was not a unique event. #philsci ⚛️ 🧪

23/8/2025, 2:01:43 PM | 19 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I note the highlighted passage states she never saw “The President” she intentionally does not name Donald J Trump.

23/8/2025, 3:17:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m with you, i smell sampling bias or error.

23/8/2025, 3:14:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

This. I used to read for hours at a time, now I have the attention span of a gnat on speed. I disappoint myself. Yet, here I am device in hand…. 🙄

23/8/2025, 3:12:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Shocked? Not so much. Disappointed in the extreme? Hell yes.

23/8/2025, 3:11:00 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Stooped in to say this.

23/8/2025, 3:09:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

There is a Nuremberg in Pennsylvania for historic continuity

23/8/2025, 3:07:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I am aware the Apple Tim kowtowed to, but I’m no5 in a finically position to retool.

23/8/2025, 2:57:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m an Apple driver on Apple silicon, and I salute you.

23/8/2025, 2:56:05 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

It must be a lawyer thing that makes him feel powerful.

23/8/2025, 2:53:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Also, which department, or branch “owns” that 10% and what does that give We The People?

23/8/2025, 2:52:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

How is this even remotely legitimate? Who composed the drivel in the post?

23/8/2025, 2:50:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Insta Science (@instascience.bsky.social) reposted

A microscopic Tardigrade (water bear), walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, they can survive decades without food or water and can survive in direct exposure to space.

23/8/2025, 12:51:26 PM | 5463 1040 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Waddle away, but yes your premise holds.

23/8/2025, 2:45:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m sure the contract gets paid out regardless since I’m sure Presidential Meddling wasn’t a conceived condition of breach or failure to compete. He certainly is an idiot.

23/8/2025, 2:41:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

He won’t solve it, as witnessed by his structuring of the meetings. He’s not there to do the hard part. He just parachutes in at the end for a victory lap.

23/8/2025, 2:34:23 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m in construction. Our digital comms sound just like you’d expect. Mostly in English but some jobsite Spanish is involved.

23/8/2025, 2:25:52 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files

23/8/2025, 2:51:50 AM | 27779 10554 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted

The numbers are in. The new maps republicans just passed in Texas reduce Hispanic Texans to one-third of a white person and Black Texans to one-fifth of a white person.

21/8/2025, 12:12:31 AM | 4969 2788 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Tariffs, of course.

21/8/2025, 12:09:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They’re… what? .. it’s on the tip of my tongue.

20/8/2025, 8:40:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Apparently the same guy shills for Trump launching these real estate “probes”

20/8/2025, 8:38:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I missed the outro. Caught up now, I get it.

20/8/2025, 8:28:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Surfline man needs a resurgence

20/8/2025, 5:14:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Again.

20/8/2025, 5:04:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Utah east.

20/8/2025, 5:03:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Vance is a weirdo. He’s stupid too.

20/8/2025, 5:02:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hell no. Just going by reports. 🤢🤮

20/8/2025, 4:53:22 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He smells like ass..

18/8/2025, 4:40:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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TACO

18/8/2025, 4:35:57 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Carefully opening the sleeve, putting it on your turntable and recording it to cassette, to reduce the wear on the vinyl. After, back into the inner sleeve (or a fancy archival sleeve), back into the cover and then a vinyl cover to protect the album art. I still have a couple crates like that.

18/8/2025, 4:31:59 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

Cover Art for the win. Roger Dean’s Yes covers were the finest.

18/8/2025, 4:24:25 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fairly certain I saw Russia also uses vote by mail..

18/8/2025, 4:15:13 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have one of those too.. I never let the mid 80’s Bridgestones go.

18/8/2025, 4:10:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

South Park probably has an entire season worth of material already.

18/8/2025, 4:08:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Chris (@snocats.bsky.social) reply parent

I’ve stopped hitting my dropper thinking… yeah that. 😉

18/8/2025, 4:04:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Oops 7/5

18/8/2025, 3:51:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view