Mockingbird, MPH, CHES
@amockingbird.bsky.social
Public health, reproductive justice, big nerd about tv as health education. Fighting depression and anxiety with cats, bunnies, and raccoons. And being clever never got me very far. she/her
This is about Ireland, but I see the same problems for my parents in the US. And they’re complicated because even people like my dad who kept current with most tech will fall behind at some point, and it goes faster when your sight and/or hearing goes. A site redesign means he can’t find anything.
"Essential services are now digital by default, leaving many older people feeling locked out of their own lives."
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie/6864189
Opinion: We’ve grown far too comfortable excluding older people from the digital world
As more of our lives move online by default, digital ageism has quietly become one of the last unchallenged prejudices, writes Fiona Daly.
jrnl.ie
November 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is about Ireland, but I see the same problems for my parents in the US. And they’re complicated because even people like my dad who kept current with most tech will fall behind at some point, and it goes faster when your sight and/or hearing goes. A site redesign means he can’t find anything.
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An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants share.google/NFRbqbhMKBh9...
An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants
Many of David Drake's large vessels featured his signature and inscriptions, even though he created them during a time when literacy among enslaved laborers was illegal
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November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
An Enslaved Man Made Thousands of Ceramic Pots. Now, a Boston Museum Has Returned Two of Them to His Descendants share.google/NFRbqbhMKBh9...
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*taps microphone*
*inhales*
REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD
*inhales*
REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
*taps microphone*
*inhales*
REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD
*inhales*
REGULATIONS ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD
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TIL that Little Rascals, Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Betty Boop shorts air overnights on MeTV+.
How am I supposed to sleep when this is happening? #FilmSky
How am I supposed to sleep when this is happening? #FilmSky
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
TIL that Little Rascals, Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Betty Boop shorts air overnights on MeTV+.
How am I supposed to sleep when this is happening? #FilmSky
How am I supposed to sleep when this is happening? #FilmSky
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Dems just picked up a seat in Utah
Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Dems just picked up a seat in Utah
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This scared little dog who needed to be pulled out of the shelter bc she was shut down is morphing into a velociraptor. "How did you get on the counter?" "Get off the table!" "What's in your mouth?" "Don't herd me!" But also, "You're so beautiful." "I love your kisses." "You're a great dog!" 🧡💛🐕
November 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This scared little dog who needed to be pulled out of the shelter bc she was shut down is morphing into a velociraptor. "How did you get on the counter?" "Get off the table!" "What's in your mouth?" "Don't herd me!" But also, "You're so beautiful." "I love your kisses." "You're a great dog!" 🧡💛🐕
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Instagram has become a marketplace for neo-Nazis. Influencers are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and sell merchandise. Their content, drenched in antisemitism, misogyny, and racism, reaches millions daily. Meta knows it — but refuses to act.
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Instagram’s Antisemitism Economy
Instagram has become a marketplace for antisemitism. Influencers like Hayden McDougall, Dylan Shane, Jake Shields, and Myron Gaines are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the H...
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November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Instagram has become a marketplace for neo-Nazis. Influencers are using the platform’s massive reach to glorify Hitler, deny the Holocaust, and sell merchandise. Their content, drenched in antisemitism, misogyny, and racism, reaches millions daily. Meta knows it — but refuses to act.
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This is what I want to start emphazising more to our "leaders" in the United States Congress.
These people think they have a hard time now? Wait till people start putting basic facts together and realize what an obscenely gigantic role they are playing in protecting insurrectionists.
These people think they have a hard time now? Wait till people start putting basic facts together and realize what an obscenely gigantic role they are playing in protecting insurrectionists.
And I will add, the longer they continue this stupid game, the more and more criminal exposure they have to providing aid/comfort to insurrectionists, an extremely serious charge.
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
This is what I want to start emphazising more to our "leaders" in the United States Congress.
These people think they have a hard time now? Wait till people start putting basic facts together and realize what an obscenely gigantic role they are playing in protecting insurrectionists.
These people think they have a hard time now? Wait till people start putting basic facts together and realize what an obscenely gigantic role they are playing in protecting insurrectionists.
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hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
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#Tehran may be evacuated as #Iran faces worst drought in decades. Iran is seeing nationwide #water shortages with over 16 million people in danger of their taps running dry. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Tehran may be evacuated as Iran faces worst drought in decades
Iran is seeing nationwide water shortages with over 16 million people in danger of their taps running dry
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
#Tehran may be evacuated as #Iran faces worst drought in decades. Iran is seeing nationwide #water shortages with over 16 million people in danger of their taps running dry. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
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Played “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for a five year old girl, and she told me, “You know, I do”
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Played “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for a five year old girl, and she told me, “You know, I do”
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If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
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Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ladies, you do not need to get pregnant or become a tradwife. You need to unionize your workplace.
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Oh interesting - this bill would close a giant surveillance loophole for exactly 100 people and not for any of the other 340+ million people in this country.
Good thing Congress is getting back to the important business of governing!
Good thing Congress is getting back to the important business of governing!
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Oh interesting - this bill would close a giant surveillance loophole for exactly 100 people and not for any of the other 340+ million people in this country.
Good thing Congress is getting back to the important business of governing!
Good thing Congress is getting back to the important business of governing!
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Now a story: www.abc4.com/news/politic...
Just now: The plaintiffs who were arguing that Utah GOP's congressional map is illegal won in court.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
The judge orders one of the two maps submitted by the plaintiffs ('map 1') be used.
The ruling, if it stands, guarantees that Democrats will pick up a congressional seat in Utah next year.
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Now a story: www.abc4.com/news/politic...
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Boy you can just realllllllly fucking tell who's never had to get on the horn with an insurance company huh
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Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Here’s how a 50-year mortgage would work
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Daily bunny no.3135 found a cool pinecone
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Daily bunny no.3135 found a cool pinecone
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this is why both online communists and people like @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social are better allies right now than someone like angus king. it's painful to confront that reality but it is the reality and the sooner everyone accepts, the sooner we can build a better one and better future
i’m ready to look past differences and align with anyone who actually believes we are in an existential fight. unfortunately that doesn’t include significant number of elected democrats!!
November 11, 2025 at 3:23 AM
this is why both online communists and people like @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social are better allies right now than someone like angus king. it's painful to confront that reality but it is the reality and the sooner everyone accepts, the sooner we can build a better one and better future
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
I think dengue is racing up the outside
My money is on malaria
I'm honestly starting to think Americans are going to end the decade with either universal health care or malaria.
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I think dengue is racing up the outside
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It’s genuinely really wild to me that I periodically come across videos featuring this guy in my normie jiu jitsu Instagram follows, and yet all he seems to do now is interview white nationalists and neo-Nazis and tweet like this.
November 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
It’s genuinely really wild to me that I periodically come across videos featuring this guy in my normie jiu jitsu Instagram follows, and yet all he seems to do now is interview white nationalists and neo-Nazis and tweet like this.