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“Facts are not repealed by a refusal to face them.” —William Catton.
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Just curious if the Bluesky Safety team is going to evenly apply their guidelines?
Department of War “To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs—we will kill you.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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This showed up today in my feed.

Maybe just say your feelings are hurt when someone calls you naive instead of using the same old accepted trope that people who hurt your feelings are mentally ill and that mentally ill people always deserve violence at the hands of healthcare workers. 1/
“Anyway calling a complete stranger ‘sweet summer child’ should trigger a specific kind of wellness check where a paramedic shoves you in a locker”
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Jon Snow the snowshoe cat (blue eyes wide staring intently with pale pink nose sealpoint ears and patch swooping down over the right eye rest of fur white) peering over the sofa seat.
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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I’m assuming leach attacks in Australia look more like
From the movie Love and Monsters. In scene on left a giant crab that has captured a man by his leg in one of its front claws and is holding him 10ft or more up in the air in front of him opening a giant maw with fangs presumably planning to pop him in its mouth.
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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RTing with alt text because this is a happy cartoon:
4 panel cartoon. Panel One: an egg with a beanie, gold jacket and black pants walking along a sidewalk with a smile and fallen leaves on the ground. Panel 2: same egg kneeling down with a pink sweater on smiling while carving a pumpkin. Panel 3: same egg in a comfy chair feet up on a footstool pink sweater and blanket over his legs. Cat curled up in a soft bed in front of him. Both in front of a lit fire in the fireplace and egg is reading a book smiling. Panel 4: egg is back outside in his grey beanie and gold jacket smiling and reaching up to pick apples off a tree. He has a basket of apples slung over his other arm. Caption: Humpry Dumpty had a great Fall.
October 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Copy of original image of white text black background and close cropped photo of the David Graeber speaking in front of a podium microphone: Alt text: Austerity was never really an economic policy: ultimately, it was always about morality. We are talking about a politics of crime and punishment, sin & atonement. The message was that we were guilty of having dreamed of social security, humane working conditions, pensions, social & economic democracy.
September 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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I mean, I laughed.
February 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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You’re not feeling the need for “thoughts”?
Julia Louis Dreyfus as VP Selina Meyer in the TV series “Veep” she’s standing behind her desk US flag behind her gesturing to her two aides facing her saying “he’s got a thoughts and prayers template.”
February 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I think eugenics has never really fallen out of favour. Tuskegee syphilis study, residential schools and birth alerts in Canada - all well within living memory as just 2 examples. All of us have existed our entire lives in bio-capitalistic darwinism. Quote: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Ultimately therefore, a disability-ethics perspective offers a palliative for the often ill-considered, and potentially dangerous, application of bio-capitalistic darwinism in medicine and bioethics. After two centuries, the time has come to sever the threads that bind us to this primitive and narrow view of evolution and to recognise that the process of selection is often far from natural.
February 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Well it’s not a show it’s a movie but it’s comforting to me at least.
The movie Arrival. Scene where Amy Adam’s character Louise is in the giant pod desperate to have the heptopod alien explain the word “weapon.” In the scene the surviving heptopod is moving towards her. It has seven legs and resembles a giant squid. It stand about 4 stories high. Louise has her back to the camera facing the approaching heptopod. The scene is almost black and white due to a heavy smoke/fog atmosphere.
February 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The permademia.

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December 27, 2024 at 4:58 AM
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Not sure why the gif isn’t functional.
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December 20, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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Grover the muppet as Super Grover with his metal helmet and cape bowing repeatedly to an imaginary audience saying “thank you, thank you”
December 20, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Nerd in me: truly fascinating. But the oracle in me:
Matrix movie character the Oracle in a green floral dress cigarette in hand sitting at a kitchen table - kitchen style 1950/s with green wallpaper and green counter top with cookies and bread in breadbox in background. She’s looking up at the character Neo (off screen) saying “And I hate giving good people bad news.”
December 13, 2024 at 5:20 AM
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Gotta catch up on following others.
Young man looking a bit crestfallen waving his hands in a bit of a shrug saying “I’m behind. I’m way behind my peers.”
November 16, 2024 at 3:05 AM
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Close up of a large golden brown maple leaf on the grass with a few other similar smaller leaves surrounding it and beads of frozen water scattered on the surface of the leaf.
November 16, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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Patient zero attended a wedding with a known case of measles according to those with inside connections. Details below from: crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2024/...
Local health officials have declared an outbreak of measles in Zone 3 of New Brunswick Province, with a total of 25 cases reported Oct. 1-Nov. 9. This is compared to the 12 confirmed measles cases reported in Canada in 2023. The Zone 3 region includes Fredericton and parts of the upper Saint John River valley. Health officials urge the public to ensure they are protected against measles through vaccination if they have not been previously infected. This report represents the most complete data available as of Nov. 12.
November 12, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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HT Dr Tara Moriarty at covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard...

Canadian COVID Forecast:
Nov 9-22, 2024
SEVERE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK
VERY HIGH: NL
HIGH: none
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 31 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Visual rendering of the text in the post for the Canadian hazard index by province.
November 12, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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“The best mark is often a person to whom the possibility of a con never occurs, simply because he thinks he is too smart to be tricked. Medical practice is like this. Many doctors know nothing about advertising, salesmanship, or public relations. They believe these are jobs for people who could not get into medical school. This is probably why they are so easily fooled.
November 9, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Hunter Moon from last night.
Moon low in sky about 30 minutes after rise over horizon and a black silhouette rooftop and chimney stack in lower half of photo and various curly queue clouds white from the reflection of the full moon and dark blues and greys in the centre of the clouds. Moon is in the centre of the photo resting on one of the cloud strings it’s very bright and halo effect around the edge. Top of sky is the dark blue of twilight.
October 30, 2023 at 12:54 AM