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Optimistic Doomer

@optimisticdoomer.bsky.social

Significantly insignificant in the world. Cat, dog dad.

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Optimistic Doomer@optimisticdoomer.bsky.social · 4h ago

Ok, but also how on earth do the zookeepers allow this situation to happen? This seems like extreme negligence.

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 4h ago

Three lions held at the Tokyo Zoo have died from heat stroke. Four lions remain so ill that they're unable to stand. The average heat index in Tokyo in July was 110°. And we are in just 1.4C of global heating. We are on track for 3C in my kid's lifetime. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...

In mid-July, the zoo's lions began exhibiting symptoms of appetite loss and reduced physical activity - possible symptoms of heat stroke. By July 22, 10 of the facility's 16 lions were showing such severe symptoms that they required treatment. Despite the zookeepers' efforts to cool the lions with sprayed water and to replenish lost fluids with intravenous drips, 3-year-old Mugi died on July 28, followed by 11-year-old Ichigo on July 31, then 15- year-old Ruena on Aug. 2. On Monday, the zoo said that four of the lions who had been unwell had shown signs of recovery, but that three remained so ill that they were unable to stand. "We are continuing to administer intravenous fluids, liver tonics, and vitamins, as well as treating their pressure sores," the zoo's statement said. According to Japanese meteorological authorities, the maximum daily temperatures in Tokyo averaged 90 degrees in the month of July. But when the month's average humidity level of 77 percent was accounted for, the average heat index, a measure of how hot it really felt, rose to over 110 degrees.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

We can't solve a housing crisis without building more housing. Today we broke ground on the Casanova Residence, which will soon be nearly 100 affordable and supportive homes with on-site services for New Yorkers. Every new home is a step toward a City that everyone can afford.

Mayor Mamdani stands at a podium next to Deputy Mayor for Housing Leila Bozorg.A construction worker in a neon green t-shirt and a white hard hat stands at the Casanova groundbreaking.
Pablo Torre@pablo.show · 7d ago

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Comfortably Numb@numb.comfortab.ly · last wk.

This entire administration is a bunch of lowlife soulless sociopaths. Every single cabinet member. Every single deputy and aide. If you willingly work for Trump you have no place in humanity.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last wk.

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A Brief Guide to “Mega Master” Hearings, the Engine Powering Trump’s Deportation Machine

The White House keeps finding new ways to push immigrants’ due process rights further out of reach.

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