AlyO
@alyxiaoliviformis.bsky.social
Trying to do the next right thing.
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What an easy governing philosophy Republicans have. Just blame every problem on Biden, Democrats, and migrants. Then you never have to solve anything and can blame all your failures on other people. This is especially useful when you are grossly unqualified for your position.
November 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
What an easy governing philosophy Republicans have. Just blame every problem on Biden, Democrats, and migrants. Then you never have to solve anything and can blame all your failures on other people. This is especially useful when you are grossly unqualified for your position.
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Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Average healthcare costs in the US:
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
Giving birth? $18,000
Cancer treatment? $150,000
One month ICU stay? Between 30k and 150k.
That’s not including copays, deductibles, interest and all the other hoops you have to jump through.
Cost in Canada? $0.
Cost in the UK? $0.
Cost in Australia? $0.
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On this date in 1898 was the Wilmington insurrection, also known as the Wilmington massacre or the Wilmington coup. It is when a group of white supremacists overthrew the eleced municipal government in NC and killed numerous black citizens.
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
On this date in 1898 was the Wilmington insurrection, also known as the Wilmington massacre or the Wilmington coup. It is when a group of white supremacists overthrew the eleced municipal government in NC and killed numerous black citizens.
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i don’t play pundit and try to guess how stuff will play to voters whose politics generally make no sense to me, but if ending the shutdown was about the important business of getting SNAP benefits and air travel back online, it also rewards hostage taking in a way that seems pretty ominous to me
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 AM
i don’t play pundit and try to guess how stuff will play to voters whose politics generally make no sense to me, but if ending the shutdown was about the important business of getting SNAP benefits and air travel back online, it also rewards hostage taking in a way that seems pretty ominous to me
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As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
November 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
As long as NYT is asking “Did women ruin the workplace” can they also ask:
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
•Did men ruin safe workplaces?
•Did men ruin domestic safety?
•Did men ruin public safety?
•Did men ruin global peace?
Or is a clear “YES” to all these questions just too difficult for fragile men to accept—so NYT avoids it?🤔
This is awful. These Americans deserve to be honored! Restore the monuments and erect more. History is being rewritten and erased and it is fucking wrong!
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
This is awful. These Americans deserve to be honored! Restore the monuments and erect more. History is being rewritten and erased and it is fucking wrong!
I’m still on FB for the Marketplace a memories of past posts pop up that I still like reminisce about. This one popped up today and seems relevant to things I’ve felt throughout the year.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I’m still on FB for the Marketplace a memories of past posts pop up that I still like reminisce about. This one popped up today and seems relevant to things I’ve felt throughout the year.
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"Patriotism is loving your country all the time, and your government...when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Patriotism is loving your country all the time, and your government...when it deserves it."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
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When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
November 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits
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November 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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If you can’t find hope...be hope. Someone’s watching you for permission to keep going.
October 26, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If you can’t find hope...be hope. Someone’s watching you for permission to keep going.
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Thank you, Chicago.
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It's not "budgetary Twister," it's willfully violating Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution.
Just because President Trump chooses to ignore Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not mean that the NYT should pretend Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not exist.
Just because President Trump chooses to ignore Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not mean that the NYT should pretend Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not exist.
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
It's not "budgetary Twister," it's willfully violating Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution.
Just because President Trump chooses to ignore Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not mean that the NYT should pretend Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not exist.
Just because President Trump chooses to ignore Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not mean that the NYT should pretend Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 does not exist.
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The people guarding the US nuclear stockpile are being furloughed today.
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Federal agency overseeing US nuclear stockpile will furlough most of its workforce starting Monday | CNN Politics
The federal agency responsible for overseeing and modernizing the US nuclear stockpile will furlough the vast majority of its staff Monday as the government shutdown drags on, according to the Departm...
edition.cnn.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The people guarding the US nuclear stockpile are being furloughed today.
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
Meanwhile, Trump deemed those who helped him start trolling accounts on Bluesky and who disseminated his shitpost over the weekend essential.
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...
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My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance
October 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance
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People think if you’re disabled your family must support you
They don’t understand how many folks are on their own
How many have families who can’t support them for various reasons
Everyone deserves help
Having your basic needs met is not “frivolous”
Lacking family shouldn’t be a death sentence
They don’t understand how many folks are on their own
How many have families who can’t support them for various reasons
Everyone deserves help
Having your basic needs met is not “frivolous”
Lacking family shouldn’t be a death sentence
October 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
People think if you’re disabled your family must support you
They don’t understand how many folks are on their own
How many have families who can’t support them for various reasons
Everyone deserves help
Having your basic needs met is not “frivolous”
Lacking family shouldn’t be a death sentence
They don’t understand how many folks are on their own
How many have families who can’t support them for various reasons
Everyone deserves help
Having your basic needs met is not “frivolous”
Lacking family shouldn’t be a death sentence
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Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.
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Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Powerful sign at No Kings in Cleveland
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“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
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We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route
A thread…
You know what?
When the United States actually takes care of a of the people within its borders, I'll consider being respectful or grateful to this country. But for now, what I see is a country founded on multiple genocides doing its level best to either deny those genocides ever happened,
When the United States actually takes care of a of the people within its borders, I'll consider being respectful or grateful to this country. But for now, what I see is a country founded on multiple genocides doing its level best to either deny those genocides ever happened,
October 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A thread…
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Balance in life is BS.
To achieve almost anything, there are periods where you have to go all-in and singularly focus on one thing. That's fine.
The key is being able to step back when YOU choose to.
To achieve almost anything, there are periods where you have to go all-in and singularly focus on one thing. That's fine.
The key is being able to step back when YOU choose to.
October 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Balance in life is BS.
To achieve almost anything, there are periods where you have to go all-in and singularly focus on one thing. That's fine.
The key is being able to step back when YOU choose to.
To achieve almost anything, there are periods where you have to go all-in and singularly focus on one thing. That's fine.
The key is being able to step back when YOU choose to.