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Jackie M
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Can’t dance and afraid of karaoke machines
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Fair.
January 11, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Yay I found my bluesky login

yes I was too exhausted over the holidays to bother with the “I forgot my password” protcol
January 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
Is there no way to DM someone on this platform?
December 4, 2023 at 9:06 PM
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George Santos is filing ethics complaints against all his fellow GOP members as he’s on his way out. Hell hath no fury as a former drag queen turned fabulist con man scorned…
December 2, 2023 at 8:28 PM
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Every time I'm around a sysadmin talking about their job, I am convinced anew that the entire profession is made up of devout animists.
sysadmin here. key point in my job is to understand that computers are literally malevolent demon possessed boxes of evil that really are out to fuck you up. my job is to know the thousand ways to intimidate the fucking can opener with a wrench.
December 2, 2023 at 10:58 PM
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henrykissinger.rip HAS A GREAT LIST OF ORGANISATIONS IF YOU NEED ONE
November 30, 2023 at 2:04 AM
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HEY EVERYONE, TODAY IS A GREAT FUCKING DAY AND IT'S AN EVEN GREATER DAY TO DONATE TO ORGANISATIONS TRYING TO FIX THE VAST HORRORS OF US IMPERIALISM. DO IT IN THE NAMES OF EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT THAT MOTHERFUCKER KILLED.
November 30, 2023 at 2:03 AM
I used to be a person who never wished harm on anyone, even those who harmed me. Decades later, I wished that I could stop wishing harm on those who willfully harmed others.

Now I’m a person in a Walgreens, buying a celebratory pint of Cherry Garcia.
November 30, 2023 at 7:13 AM
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November 30, 2023 at 2:35 AM
#gymlog jogging, 1.5 miles. First run since it got cold, also first since I sprained the heck out of my ankle last month. Should have gone sooner, but depression.

Unfortunately jogginb is good for depression. Such a scam.

Dog: Sully

Temp: 72F
November 14, 2023 at 8:08 AM
Just a brief reminder that we are all standing around on the delicate thin frozen surface of a droplet of molten lava hurtling through space at a little over 2 million kilometers per hour.
October 27, 2023 at 2:01 AM
Sorry bluesky, but as part of my attempt to wean myself off Twitter, I’m probably going to start keeping my boring log of physical activity here.
October 9, 2023 at 2:03 PM
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KOSA looks to be every bit as bad as Charlie Jane says here; red state AGs will use it to silence *anyone* they don't like, but LGBTQ+ will take the brunt of it.

I just sent a note to my Senators and Rep using Resistbot - it was painless and only took a few minutes. Look it up!
October 4, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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My latest newsletter is about a piece of legislation that will make the internet much, much worse for all of us — unless we fight now.

buttondown.email/charliejane/...

(I wrote this before I got a positive covid test. Gonna go goof off now.)
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse
We've all watched in horror as red states have banned books in schools and libraries. We've seen teachers fired merely for reading a book about gender...
buttondown.email
August 22, 2023 at 8:47 PM
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Hey Long Covid sufferers:

I'm 6 weeks into a med called Guanfacine, used for TBI (traumatic brain injury) sufferers and used as a non-stimulant ADHD med (I can't have stimulants due to my heart), and it's helping noticeably with brain fog, and helping with executive function. A heads up :)
October 1, 2023 at 10:59 PM
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The Supreme Court is hearing a case next week about who can enforce the Americans with Disabilities Act

It's been flying under the radar, and I think that's a big mistake

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/aches...
Rights Without Remedies Might As Well Not Exist
In Acheson Hotels v. Laufer, the Supreme Court could further undermine this country's already shoddy system of civil rights enforcement.
ballsandstrikes.org
September 27, 2023 at 8:37 PM
Following in a recent tradition of injuring myself for my birthday, last night I sprained my ankle while walking the dog. Like, boy-howdy sprained-sprained.

Picture 1: what I saw. Picture 2: what was actually there. It’s like a 2” drop.

So for my birthday, I guess I’d like a bag of ice. 😭
September 27, 2023 at 5:19 PM
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So in the Gulf of Mexico context, removing defunct oil rigs actually destroys a lot of reef habitat & prized fishing sites. : /

And since these rigs are on the northern end of a lot of corals' range, keeping them in place (and cleaning up surrounding waters) can help species survive heat waves.
September 21, 2023 at 3:54 PM
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Ok so a couple weeks back I got to go on the coolest ag field trip of all time

"What if you could turn abandoned oil rigs into seaweed farms to clean up the Gulf of Mexico?"
September 21, 2023 at 3:45 PM
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I wrote about the right attempting to silence Anne Frank for much the same reason the Nazis tried to silence Anne Frank—bigotry, moral panic about sexual purity, a desire to keep marginalized people from existing in public. www.independent.co.uk/voices/anne-...
Censoring Anne Frank’s diary because of ‘sexuality’ is a smokescreen
There are efforts to silence Anne Frank now as she was silenced in the past
www.independent.co.uk
September 21, 2023 at 4:36 PM