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Samara Jayne
@bettterlate.bsky.social
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Registered Midwife, settler, TTRPG enthusiast, leftist.

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bettterlate.bsky.social
Count your days Paramount Plus!!! Survivor Season 26 Episode 8 only 4 minutes long and now I don’t see the merge! Rude!
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
bettterlate.bsky.social
Delivered a beautiful baby so far this Xmas Eve. I wonder if there might be another before my shift ends at 8 AM! Never love missing the holidays with my family, but can’t complain when its to welcome new life and do my dream job.
December 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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ianfortey.bsky.social
If you take the Lord of the Rings as one movie, which you should, I think it stands up as the greatest movie ever made. No time for questions, I'm going on an adventure!
December 21, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
something that has brought me a great deal of peace in my life is my belief that it is not nor will it ever be my problem what my hair looks like from the back. that’s not part of my reality. it can’t affect me.
December 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
bettterlate.bsky.social
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Friendship double feature this Friday evening, enjoyed with a tortiere and a manhattan. 🤌
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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jfg.land
re: LLM answers at the top of search results — it's so funny that they put a little imp who lies to you at the gate to All Human Knowledge. Does Google think it's protecting the city of Thebes??
December 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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marshallb19st.bsky.social
The poster for Disney film Newsies with the title replaced by NUZZIES. A newsboy dances on a pile of newspapers much like Ryan Lizza is likely dancing on the corpse of Olivia Nuzzi's journalism career, perhaps.
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
bettterlate.bsky.social
I really appreciated this thoughtful piece which explains some of the willful misinformation coming from the US govt about scientific research.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Oct 1
Pregnancy is not a rare condition—millions of people get pregnant each year—yet those who experience it are frequently told that there’s not enough research to guarantee that a medicine is safe. Isn’t there a better way?
Why We Know So Little About Medicines During Pregnancy
Trump’s attacks on Tylenol come after decades in which many women were excluded from medical studies, which has created uncertainty about which drugs are safe.
www.newyorker.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.
September 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Y’all have covered everything else… I’m interested to know the parts of what he said you agreed with?
sallyjenx.bsky.social Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · Sep 13
I don't think it's simpering praise. He was an interesting man. I didn't agree with much that he said, but he was interesting and he was growing, and his death is a significant loss for those who believe engagement can help bridge disagreements.
notalawyer.bsky.social Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Sep 13
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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fleerultra.bsky.social
if someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death. Likewise, it's inaccurate to say they never called for it. bc I can parse language and understand how humans communicate
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
"The anti-vax movement isn’t simply a grassroots network of concerned parents. It’s an industry. It’s lucrative, selling supplements, e-books, courses and products." macleans.ca/longforms/co...
Confessions of an Ex-Anti-Vaxxer - Macleans.ca
I spent years spouting conspiracy theories about vaccines. Now, as measles rages in my home of Alberta, I’m trying to convince vax-hesitant parents to inoculate their kids.
macleans.ca
September 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
the first sentence is a Journey
September 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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aundriaparker.bsky.social
THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
fleerultra.bsky.social Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · Aug 12
in your opinion, completely subjective, no metrics and no judgment, what are the best written movies of all time? I don't care if you have never seen a screenplay in your life, just which story itself is the most moving and complete and perfect to you?
August 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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hern.bsky.social
Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do
August 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts.

Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
There is no such thing as liberalism — or progressivism, etc. There is only conservatism. No other political philosophy actually exists; by the political analogue of Gresham’s Law, conservatism has driven every other idea out of circulation. There might be, and should be, anti-conservatism; but it does not yet exist. What would it be? In order to answer that question, it is necessary and sufficient to characterize conservatism. Fortunately, this can be done very concisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone. Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism. No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get: The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
July 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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louisathelast.bsky.social
Might as well use this moment to share my chicken soup recipe again. Lately I’ve been modifying it for less starch— I just cut the potatoes. Still good!
Ingredients • 1 fully cooked rotisserie chicken, divided into two piles: meat, and everything else (bones, skin, etc). Don't be too precious about it - I usually leave a few scraps of meat on the bones and don't bother picking it off of the wings at all For the broth: • All of the bones, skin, etc • 2 carrots, roughly chopped • 1 large yellow onion, roughly chopped into a few chunks • 8 cloves of garlic • 2 Tbsp kosher salt • Freshly ground black pepper to taste • 26" or so sprigs of fresh rosemary • 2 tsp dried oregano • 1 tsp dried thyme • 1/2 tsp dried tarragon • 1 tsp dried dill • 2 bay leaves • Water, about 20 cups (see directions) For the soup: • The meat of the chicken, chopped into small chunks • 2 cups peeled and sliced carrot rounds (or half-moons if your carrots are thick) • 2 cups small-diced yellow potatoes (you can skip peeling these if you don't mind the skin) • 2 cups chopped green beans (sometimes I use green peas instead. Frozen is fine!) To add to the finished soup: • 1 |k box short dried pasta. I usually use ditalini, but other good options are rotini, macaroni, or really anything small enough to fit in a spoon • The juice of one lemon Directions 1. First, remove the meat from your rotisserie chicken. Put the meat aside in the fridge, and put the rest into the pressure cooker pot. 2. Add all of the broth ingredients to the pot, and then fill with water up to just under the maximum pressure line. It should be about 20 cups. 3. Cook at high pressure for two hours. 4. While the broth cooks, prepare your vegetables for the soup. Set them aside in the fridge with the chicken. Juice the lemon. 5. Toward the end of the two hours, boil well-salted water for the pasta in a large pot. 6. When the two hours is up, release the pressure on the pressure cooker. Once it's done releasing, pour the broth into a colander over a large bowl. Discard the solid food left in the colander, and rinse the pot. Then pour the broth from the bowl back to the pot. Taste it, and salt as needed. 7. Add all of the chopped vegetables and meat to the pot. Cook at high pressure for ten minutes. 8. While the cooker pressurizes, cook the pasta according to the al dente directions, then drain in a colander. Spray the cooked pasta with some spray oil and stir to coat it to avoid sticking (or drizzle with a little oil or melted butter, whatever you prefer.) 9. When the soup has finished cooking, release the pressure. Once it's done depressurizing, add the lemon juice to the soup and stir. Taste it again! 10. This point is important: keep the noodles and the soup separate, including as leftovers. This keeps the noodles from getting mushy. Dish yourself up as many noodles as you want into your bowl, and then add the soup. Enjoy!
June 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
bettterlate.bsky.social
I would have loved to spend Valentine’s Day with my husband for our first one married, but helping two families welcome new babies into the world comes a pretty close second. Also who knew Sugar We’re Going Down is the perfect pushing song?
February 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
bettterlate.bsky.social
My SIL maybe misread a blog, maybe just wanted us to exercise on our vacation, but I’m “27,000 steps and 250 flights of stairs in One Day” kind of tired after Montserrat. But worth it for the views.
December 20, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
Raw milk is cool if you want to do something dangerous with absolutely no benefit. All risk, no reward. Like trying to eat a campfire.
December 12, 2024 at 2:30 AM
bettterlate.bsky.social
“Its not for attention” she says, as she posts 3 times in a row
December 1, 2024 at 4:26 AM
bettterlate.bsky.social
I haven’t shouted into the ether in many moons
December 1, 2024 at 4:05 AM
bettterlate.bsky.social
How does one out of sync with posting start posting once again? Trying to look like a person for my future bsky pals…
December 1, 2024 at 4:05 AM