Virginia S. O'Possum
@virginiaopossum.bsky.social
Writer, weaver, amateur textile historian.
The dog is not in the room with me but she just sighed so loud from wherever she is that I guess I'd better go take her out.
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The dog is not in the room with me but she just sighed so loud from wherever she is that I guess I'd better go take her out.
The zany things we do to avoid being threatened with legal action.
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
The zany things we do to avoid being threatened with legal action.
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Wait—is there 3D printed chicken in Campbell’s soup? Do they have modern equivalents of replicators in there? I’ll buy MORE! Meat without butchery? Hell yeah!
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Wait—is there 3D printed chicken in Campbell’s soup? Do they have modern equivalents of replicators in there? I’ll buy MORE! Meat without butchery? Hell yeah!
I have been working on making 7 years of financial spreadsheets for the condo association. I've been working on it for more than 24 hours without sleeping at this point. And I am almost done, except I am off by 7¢. This morning I was off by over $400, so I have done some good sleuthing. But 7¢.
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I have been working on making 7 years of financial spreadsheets for the condo association. I've been working on it for more than 24 hours without sleeping at this point. And I am almost done, except I am off by 7¢. This morning I was off by over $400, so I have done some good sleuthing. But 7¢.
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"Vaccines are one of the most effective and life-saving interventions in the history of medicine and public health.”
-- MA Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD
www.cambridgepublichealth.org/public-healt...
@cambridgeday.com @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social #Massachusetts
-- MA Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD
www.cambridgepublichealth.org/public-healt...
@cambridgeday.com @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social #Massachusetts
MA Public Health Commissioner Condemns New Misinformation on the CDC Website - Cambridge Public Health Department
Massachusetts Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein rebuked the misleading information and false claims about vaccines that were recently posted on the CDC’s website.
www.cambridgepublichealth.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
"Vaccines are one of the most effective and life-saving interventions in the history of medicine and public health.”
-- MA Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD
www.cambridgepublichealth.org/public-healt...
@cambridgeday.com @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social #Massachusetts
-- MA Public Health Commissioner Robbie Goldstein, MD, PhD
www.cambridgepublichealth.org/public-healt...
@cambridgeday.com @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social #Massachusetts
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
TFW you decide you're not going to go to sleep and get up early to finish the task, but to have some more coffee and stay up to try to finish the task. I don't know; this seems like the way to go on this one.
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
TFW you decide you're not going to go to sleep and get up early to finish the task, but to have some more coffee and stay up to try to finish the task. I don't know; this seems like the way to go on this one.
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"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Folks, do you talk on your phones every waking minute? My downstairs neighbor does, and since her preferred mode of communication is complaint, it's this constant undercurrent of bad vibe. I mainly hear it when she's walking down the stairs, going to her car or sitting on the porch. Is this usual?
November 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Folks, do you talk on your phones every waking minute? My downstairs neighbor does, and since her preferred mode of communication is complaint, it's this constant undercurrent of bad vibe. I mainly hear it when she's walking down the stairs, going to her car or sitting on the porch. Is this usual?
Sometimes I wish I didn't serve as my own entire household staff. Especially on Sunday when I get to hear about what our corporate and government overlords have said on TV, while I am facing the prospect of deciding what cooking/cleaning/maintenance/car-related tasks I won't be able to do this week.
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Sometimes I wish I didn't serve as my own entire household staff. Especially on Sunday when I get to hear about what our corporate and government overlords have said on TV, while I am facing the prospect of deciding what cooking/cleaning/maintenance/car-related tasks I won't be able to do this week.
I think of things we could do to replace/supplement so many things that are being dismantled and then the expense and effort of building a whole shadow health, education and social services network sends me back to wanting to build a new federal government instead.
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I think of things we could do to replace/supplement so many things that are being dismantled and then the expense and effort of building a whole shadow health, education and social services network sends me back to wanting to build a new federal government instead.
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“a restoration team from Gaza's Ministry of Religious Endowments is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents — some nearly 700 years old — from beneath the rubble.”
The secret mission to save Gaza's historical artefacts
Palestinians scramble to save centuries-old books and manuscripts before they are lost
With a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, a restoration team is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents from beneath the rubble of a destroyed mosque.
www.rnz.co.nz
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
“a restoration team from Gaza's Ministry of Religious Endowments is painstakingly retrieving historical manuscripts, rare volumes, and archival documents — some nearly 700 years old — from beneath the rubble.”
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DOGE was also created to advance racism and white suprematism thru planned and systemic reduction of employment and opportunities for black women. And it was also wildly successful on this endeavor
bsky.app/profile/deva...
bsky.app/profile/deva...
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
DOGE was also created to advance racism and white suprematism thru planned and systemic reduction of employment and opportunities for black women. And it was also wildly successful on this endeavor
bsky.app/profile/deva...
bsky.app/profile/deva...
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All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
November 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter reut.rs/4abeTdx
Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
The Department of Government Efficiency claimed to have slashed tens of billions of dollars in expenditures, but it was impossible for outside financial experts to verify that because the unit did not provide detailed public accounting of its work.
reut.rs
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements
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In any other administration @repvindman.bsky.social’s accusation that the president had a corrupt & disgraceful phone call with MBS would be a massive scandal.
It still should be, despite the scandal-a-minute nature of this regime.
This transcript MUST be released.
It still should be, despite the scandal-a-minute nature of this regime.
This transcript MUST be released.
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In any other administration @repvindman.bsky.social’s accusation that the president had a corrupt & disgraceful phone call with MBS would be a massive scandal.
It still should be, despite the scandal-a-minute nature of this regime.
This transcript MUST be released.
It still should be, despite the scandal-a-minute nature of this regime.
This transcript MUST be released.
"After Musk bought Twitter, Davis and his wife, Nicole Hollander, slept in the San Francisco headquarters of the Twitter office with their one-month-old child while they helped Musk cut the social media company to the bone."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind
What really happened when he logged out of Washington.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
"After Musk bought Twitter, Davis and his wife, Nicole Hollander, slept in the San Francisco headquarters of the Twitter office with their one-month-old child while they helped Musk cut the social media company to the bone."
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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no countries should attend, double for the olympics
President Donald Trump's administration will not permit supporters from Haiti to enter the United States next summer after the nation qualified for the World Cup.
Donald Trump tells one nation's fans to stay away from World Cup in America
www.mirror.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:37 AM
no countries should attend, double for the olympics
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patreon.com/vaspider: words for $1+
Just wanna throw $$ at me? Cool!
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Venmo: @vaspider
CashApp: $vaspider
My words & art are my sole income. Thanks. :)
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November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Person who shared Part 2 as a Google Doc! Terrific embroidered patches! I just bought too many!
TFW you no longer trust Etsy sellers.
November 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
TFW you no longer trust Etsy sellers.
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This is absolutely appalling.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is absolutely appalling.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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