Cookie Oh
@cookieoh.bsky.social
Spooky stuff, dark-dry humor, illustration, comix, weather/climate, health, hockey, and informatics.
She/her. Elder dork. Midwest city mouse: raised near MKE, made my home in CHI - southsider.
She/her. Elder dork. Midwest city mouse: raised near MKE, made my home in CHI - southsider.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
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Do not do this.
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Do not do this.
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“Pharmacists increasingly have less time to thoroughly examine patient profiles, catch potential drug interactions, think critically about dosing, or notice subtle discrepancies in a prescription. In many settings, there is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind.”
I'm a CVS pharmacist. My retail pharmacy colleagues and I face a crisis
“There is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind,” and that makes it harder to catch potential problems, a pharmacist warns.
www.statnews.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“Pharmacists increasingly have less time to thoroughly examine patient profiles, catch potential drug interactions, think critically about dosing, or notice subtle discrepancies in a prescription. In many settings, there is often less than a minute to review an order before falling behind.”
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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Okay gang, The Onion is 80 sign-ups away from our 60,000th print subscriber.
This would put us in contention for the Top 10 most circulated newspapers in the U.S.
So! We're giving our 60,000th subscriber a mystery box by our archivist as a nice lil thank you.
Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.
This would put us in contention for the Top 10 most circulated newspapers in the U.S.
So! We're giving our 60,000th subscriber a mystery box by our archivist as a nice lil thank you.
Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.
Join The Onion
Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Okay gang, The Onion is 80 sign-ups away from our 60,000th print subscriber.
This would put us in contention for the Top 10 most circulated newspapers in the U.S.
So! We're giving our 60,000th subscriber a mystery box by our archivist as a nice lil thank you.
Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.
This would put us in contention for the Top 10 most circulated newspapers in the U.S.
So! We're giving our 60,000th subscriber a mystery box by our archivist as a nice lil thank you.
Sign up now. I'd give it an hour.
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Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism
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I still want to, even though I'm old
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I still want to, even though I'm old
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everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW
Netflix Wins the Warner Bros. Discovery Bidding War, Enters Exclusive Deal Talks (Netflix offering $30 a share and a $5 billion break-up fee) www.thewrap.com/netflix-wins...
December 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
everyone needs to start pirating movies and TV shows again NOW
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The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
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If you happen to be looking for an alternative audiobook listening platform, there are many out there, including us at Libro.fm 👋
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If you happen to be looking for an alternative audiobook listening platform, there are many out there, including us at Libro.fm 👋
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
We aim to build community in many ways, including by supporting independent bookshops with every purchase you make—versus tearing communities apart.
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I wrote a newsletter memorializing the purple beech and talking about the bur oaks. I'm working on a more coherent look at the bur oaks and the original ecosystem of Hyde Park #chicago but this is just a celebration of some trees I like to visit. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
Bur Oaks and Old Friends
I decided to write about Bur Oaks and the ecosystem that once was here for the Hyde Park Herald because we lost one of my favorite trees this fall, so I thought I’d memorialize some others I love, the...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I wrote a newsletter memorializing the purple beech and talking about the bur oaks. I'm working on a more coherent look at the bur oaks and the original ecosystem of Hyde Park #chicago but this is just a celebration of some trees I like to visit. open.substack.com/pub/patricia...
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A good deal of life consisted of getting used to things.
—Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All
—Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 AM
A good deal of life consisted of getting used to things.
—Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All
—Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All
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The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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Just now. Chicago.
November 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Just now. Chicago.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
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Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Spiritualism skyrocketed in the US after its brutal Civil War killed roughly 750,000 people - and now in the wake of Covid’s million+ death toll, modern Americans are using ChatGPT to speak with the spirits. In this paper I will
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Hanging out in cemeteries is a Goth Kid rite of passage
Graceland Cemetery seems to have a few black squirrels now. On recent visits, I've seen two or three of them in various places.
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Hanging out in cemeteries is a Goth Kid rite of passage
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You’ll never guess what this post is about.
The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.
November 23, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You’ll never guess what this post is about.
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Stare into my dead, soulless eyes and be thankful. Also, here is a turkey butt. Happy thanksgiving! #thanksgiving #pumpkin #vintagegreetings #vintagecards #folklore #folkloring #autumn
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Stare into my dead, soulless eyes and be thankful. Also, here is a turkey butt. Happy thanksgiving! #thanksgiving #pumpkin #vintagegreetings #vintagecards #folklore #folkloring #autumn
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Not good folks, not good
Appeals Court Halts Sweeping Order that Restricts Immigration Agents’ Use of Force Around Chicago
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed to stay an order issued by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis that sought to rein in agents’ use of tear gas, pepper balls and other crowd control measures ...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Not good folks, not good
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What do we say when the government comes asking for data it's not entitled to? Fuck you, make me.
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
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The DOJ Subpoenaed Patient Info From a Gender-Affirming Care Clinic. It Fought Back.
A Washington judge quashed the Trump administration's attempt to subpoena patient information from the telehealth practice QueerDoc—but the fight may not be over.
www.autonomynews.co
November 19, 2025 at 10:15 PM
What do we say when the government comes asking for data it's not entitled to? Fuck you, make me.
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...
www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...