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Interests include poetry, dogs, libraries, and surviving breast cancer!
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Here's your reminder that if you can't make your own serotonin and dopamine, then store-bought is fine! Destigmatize depression and the meds that help!

The good fight

The closing of #SNL50 was made all the more touching by Jane Curtin & Laraine Newman holding up a picture of Gilda Radner. Kudos to them.

Sometimes you get some kind of virus or bug and think you have the flu, but when you have the flu proper, you KNOW. I wasn't in the habit of getting a flu shot until I got it a few years ago, and I said, "Never again!" I always get mine in October/November now.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

I see people saying this sort of thing often, and quite frankly it makes me sad. The truth is, more people are making good adventure games now than were ever made during the “golden age” of the 90s. For example: 🧵

Passive aggressive work emails have always existed :)

This is Charlie. He has literal heart-eyes. 14/10 would be an honor to pet (IG: charlie.the.dalmatian)

Roses are grey, And violets are grey, Hello, this is dog, Please have a good day

I am so susceptible to any kind of stomach bug. I haaaaaate it. I think I turned myself inside out last night. 😫

This makes me happy!

No way to prevent these measles and tuberculosis outbreaks, lament states and provinces that have politicized masks, vaccines and any remaining voices of public health reason.

February Azure, Igor Grabar, 1904.

This may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we COULD ask Mothra for help

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...