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Timeline cleanse

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I was a medic at the Santa Ana protests in OC today. I watched police fire tear gas, flash bangs, & rubber bullets into crowds of men, women, & children. Other medics and I were clearly marked with red crosses, and the police were targeting us. One of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen.

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Maybe this is the explanation for the random beep we've not been able to track down in the new house? xkcd.com/3100/

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Well, this is horrifying

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Lidl has frozen whole* sardines for $5/kilo and I am so psyched to put them on the grill tonight!!! * like, not gutted, which was a bit of a surprise and let me feel like a Real Hunter Gatherer™ ripping guts from tiny, bony fishes and then throwing them out under the bird feeder for the crows 🐟🐦

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Have a cheesecake photo of Cheesecake 🧡

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Saturday morning cartoons m.youtube.com/watch?v=OIqU...

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Tell me your pet's name with a gif:

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I encountered a 3-word horror story in the grocery ad today: Fiber One Donuts

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Here's your morning dose of cuteness. These fox kits had so much energy as they ripped around the hillside just before bedtime. For mom's sake, I hope they tuckered themselves out! #wildlife #foxes

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Good morning! On this day when the New York Times begins its podcast series on trans healthcare for kids, I wrote an open letter to my science journalism colleagues who work against trans healthcare in the name of our shared profession: galileospendulum.org/2025/06/05/o... Please read and share.

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This is a blessing on this curséd timeline

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Reminder: A party of one is still a party

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As a former therapist and educator of future therapists: The best that therapy can do for folks with external factors out of their control is to help them survive with as little harm as possible. Not thrive. Not heal. Just survive. It's better than the alternative, but it's not a solution.

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On one glorious morning, my childhood cat Alfred managed to get THREE breakfasts Also, INNOCENT

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Can confirm. Also, apologies to all the people who lived in houses after me 😂

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I have such a hard time believing all the reports of Trump voters regretting their votes, etc. They knew what they were voting for. They wanted it. They'll vote for this again in a heartbeat. They're only upset because it makes them look bad now. Nobody wants their crocodile tears now.

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so sad knowing they had to evacuate right after these were taken, but goddamn if these kids’ grad photos don’t go so fucking hard photographer: brandy bloxom brandybloxom.com

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Nebula would like to know why all of these people keep DOING things when she’s sleeping SHEESH

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Being trans and disabled in America feels like everyone leaving you behind to wait in the designated mobility-impaired rescue area at the top of the stairs in a burning building while the fire department--who don't know about the designated rescue area--tries to negotiate with the flames

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Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count. Many thanks to my BU colleague @brookeenichols.bsky.social for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science. 103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day

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Not Ducktavious! Lol. This is so wholesome.

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He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

submitted 12 days ago • 72 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this, but doing ketamine, shrooms, and ecstacy on a daily basis while wielding immense political power and a security clearance is bad on multiple levels, and saying so doesn't stigmatize reasonable uses of these drugs or get Musk off the hook for his behavior.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

I know far more about these people's sex lives than I ever want to know, and I have, as Pratchett says of Nanny Ogg, a mind so broad I could tie it under my chin

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I've had this conversation with family members about how I can no longer trust them and don't want to be around them because they voted for someone who is actively trying to harm me and my friends and they're all shocked Pikachu face that I think they're bad people for doing this

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Incredible work from everyone involved here

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Do you all want a story of trans / queer joy, found family, and community that will make you cry happy tears? You DO?!? HERE YOU GO! (TW: transphobia, but also healing) www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedd...

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I spent ten years attacking universities as illiberal and overly woke. Now that the Trump administration is using my rhetoric to destroy American science and higher education, I am horrified but not horrified enough to apologize.

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments

ADD a letter and ruin a movie Jurassic Parka

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Somewhere in an unpacked box in our house is our rechargeable lighter, which means that we will not be grilling today because I didn't realize this until it was just about time to light the charcoal By the time we go out it will be too late to start It's going to rain all day tomorrow headdesk

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Snorted so hard I scared the cat

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Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

ICYMI, Quirk Books is unionizing! And of course @rebeccagyllenhaal.bsky.social and I had to recreate a few communist propaganda posters to celebrate 🤝

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I mask so hard some days that I dissociate enough to mask my pain and dysfunction from myself and don't realize how bad it is until I'm safe enough to tune back in. I can do entire work days in this state, smiling and chatting with folks like nothing's wrong. It's not a strength, it's survival.

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This is true. But we also don’t complain because we don’t want to constantly be complaining. Who wants to live like that? Also this is so much our norm that pointing it out can sometimes feel like pointing out the fact that you’re breathing. But yeah, our disabilities are still real.

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