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Lauren (they/them)
@ickysquid.bsky.social
30’s, trans, tired
chronically ill
still COVID-ing
My desire to buy myself Healy’s is at odds with my understanding that if I got a pair I’d injure myself with them in about 2 seconds
May 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
To be clear, I love it.
My job is: what if a clock was also a janitor
February 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Water: famously, wet
February 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
My job is: what if a clock was also a janitor
February 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This is exactly the sentiment used to justify atrocity by despots for all of human history.
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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"From a health perspective it's terrifying. We're trying to stop this mountain scape and our native grasslands and the place we call home from becoming an industrial wasteland to coal development. You cannot reclaim a mountain. You cannot reclaim native grasslands. It's sad." #StopCoal #yyc #abpoli
A foreign billionaire & the provincial government vs Albertans, forced to make a stand AGAIN to prevent the defacing of our mountains & the poisoning of our drinking water. Rancher #LauraLaing on the fight to #StopCoal, #SaveOurMountains & #ProtectOurWater
#abpoli www.podcastics.com/episode/3436...
Ranching Against the Machine: Fighting Alberta's Zombie Coal Project
The Grassroots Movement to Protect Alberta's Mountains and Headwaters
www.podcastics.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Not only is he proposing rounding people up and putting them in camps but he’s also proposing to pay for it by introducing a national tax on cannabis, which apparently is a totally fine drug unlike Lexapro
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Moving house is a wretched business — but I did get to reorganize my tools and hardware box, so it’s not all bad
February 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Mando is truly a relatable king. I too am a gig worker with a bad back, a covered face, a deep dislike of fascists, and a soft spot for cute babies.
February 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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1. Protests have erupted at multiple hospitals across the United States that have decided to comply with Trump's executive order banning trans care under 19.

Now, a lawsuit challenges that EO.

Writer Mira Lazine writes about the importance of the protests.

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Protests Erupt Across US At Hospitals Complying With Trumps Unlawful Under-19 Trans Ban EO
Demonstrators argue that hospitals should stand as a bulwark against Trump and should care for all of their patients, rather than comply without a fight.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Today @thesicktimes.bsky.social: a deeply relatable story by @megkrausch.bsky.social about how people with Long COVID and those "still COVID-ing" are navigating friendships, five years into the pandemic. Featuring results of a survey of over 2500 people! thesicktimes.org/2025/01/30/t...
The “pandemic of abandonment”: Navigating friendships five years into COVID-19 - The Sick Times
Over the last five years of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many people have experienced significant changes and ruptures to their personal relationships. People with Long COVID and people taking COVID...
thesicktimes.org
January 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The new Glenbow Museum fascade looks like what if the Borg cube was designed by Apple
January 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Real talk
GEORGE LUCAS IN 1999: a trade embargo is going to spark the galactic reckoning and collapse

ME IN 2025: ah, okay
January 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Maybe a glimpse into a likely future for many of the data centres that exist just to burn red-hot 24/7, churning through data at maximum inefficiency to produce generative slop - the Greenridge crypto mining fossil gas plant is perpetually breaching its air quality permits

archive.ph/AklyB
January 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sunshine doesn’t cure depression but a sunny day in the winter goes a looong way to helping
January 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Telling unmasked colleagues to their face that it’s clear from their lack of mask that they don’t care if I live or die and watching them dissociate in real time would be funny if it wasn’t so bleak
January 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I can once again blast out every stupid thought I have, wonderful (I miss Twitter)
January 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM