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fyrdrakken.bsky.social
I'm into knitting, cats, reading, sci-fi/fantasy, history, archaeology, healthcare, politics, tea, gardening. Deleted my Twitter a few weeks after the Muskrat bought it and went cold turkey on social media for a year or two. She/her.
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Newsfeed cleanser: Danuta was Polish born and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. 🙌♥️

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

I almost had a joke about Tantalus but I couldn't quite reach the punchline.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

It's fucking APRIL and parts of the state are already in the 90s.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

And now for something completely different, just because. youtu.be/gdVjVtpr55M?...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I’ve been reporting on health insurance denials for more than a year. Last fall, I stumbled across a lawsuit that, with interviews, revealed one insurers’ playbook of secret lists, special deals and lowball payments. 👇

submitted 18 hours ago • 12 comments

We watched people standing in line for 8-10 hours to vote in Georgia, so they made it illegal to give them water. They called in bomb threats to majority Black polling places. They did everything they could to suppress the vote. And then folks are out here like, "well Georgia voted for this lol"

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

I'm really just sharing this for two minutes of zen doggie massage.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Video of the aftermath of Israel bombing Al-Ahli Hospital again. For more information on Israel’s last big atrocity at Al-Ahli hospital, this is a recommended read: ararmaher.wordpress.com/2024/02/13/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is the point I keep making about Gen X and Boomers, especially those of color. The way Jim Crow, the War On Drugs & the AIDS crisis shaped the US needs to be studied

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

“Among the … tactics that he teaches, he says, none may be as important as finding your people: “Having a community is a powerful tool of resilience.”

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Can you remember the time when the Israeli authorities were outraged when we all suggested they'd bombed a hospital in purpose? And now we only ever even hear about these incidents from heartbroken Palestinians.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"oh no, this'll make the right wing mad!" Buddy they get into a frothing rage over like, cereal mascots and cartoon characters and the mere existence of gay people and what oil a French fry is cooked in and women knowing how to read, etc. They'll get mad anyway, no matter what. Tell em to fuck off

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Number one takeaway from the insane turnout at fight the oligarchy rallies, while chuck schumer cancels his little book tour and gretchen whitmer hides her face, is that there is zero constituency for bipartisanship

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

I've got a joke about Cassandra, but I already know you won't believe me if I tell it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Russian combat technologies in our beloved 'Ready for a war against NATO' segment: A tactical Oka car this time.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

Rich people in the middle of the pandemic: I’m sorry, we can’t clarify if it’s legal for people from developing countries to download and share articles on how best to treat COVID. That would threaten our entire infrastructure. Rich people when they want to steal it themselves: delete all IP law.

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

Oh, you want me to teach about the voice of Ella Fitzgerald? Here she is being booked at a Houston jail in 1955. The official charge was gambling, but she was really arrested for singing (with her voice) for a racially integrated audience. houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Yeah sooooo, about this. Once again Musk and his team have no idea what they're looking at when they find it. These fraudulent claims are there by design. It's actually part of the government's process of tackling fraud. @emmbadger.bsky.social explains ⬇️ (non-paywall version here archive.ph/m6Rxb)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

All of these spoke to me, deeply.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Look, Leo Ryan came to an unfortunate end when he went to Jonestown when no one else would to retrieve Americans who may have been brought there against their will. But Congress is off on the 14th, and I feel like going to rescue men in El Salvador is more important than Easter ham.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I generally try to avoid talking like a walk-on character in a Klingon-focused episode of Star Trek, but I cannot think of any better term than “dishonor” to describe this. They risked everything, first to help us, and then to escape a disaster we authored.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Feed cleanse from the Pacific Ocean 😍

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I need everyone to stop what you're doing and zoom in on the interior hand carved scrollwork on the top band. STARE IN AWE AT THE ARTISTRY.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments