blaine
@jblainefoster.bsky.social
genetics BS ➡️ history MA ➡️ PharmD candidate | 🌈🏳️⚧️ | MECFS | 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸 | any/all
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this is true and dishwashers aren’t the only green thing that’s better!
see also: heat pumps
see also: heat pumps
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this is true and dishwashers aren’t the only green thing that’s better!
see also: heat pumps
see also: heat pumps
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Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
November 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.
thanks Brittany, this really resolves my concerns about whether Roblox has a problem with sexual content accessible to children
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 AM
thanks Brittany, this really resolves my concerns about whether Roblox has a problem with sexual content accessible to children
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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I have several small paintings in my shop, including framed pieces like this moody babe! These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas.
Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/low-...
#art #TraditionalArt #bsnm #SciArt
Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/low-...
#art #TraditionalArt #bsnm #SciArt
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I have several small paintings in my shop, including framed pieces like this moody babe! These are nice for gifting if you happen to be looking for gift ideas.
Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/low-...
#art #TraditionalArt #bsnm #SciArt
Tisha Mark ©2025, Low Autumn Evening, oil on gessobord, 8"x6"
Available:
tishamark.com/product/low-...
#art #TraditionalArt #bsnm #SciArt
Levi claims to have pooped in the potty at daycare and I regret to say I currently feel EXACTLY like a doctor who doesn’t believe their patient started exercising
November 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Levi claims to have pooped in the potty at daycare and I regret to say I currently feel EXACTLY like a doctor who doesn’t believe their patient started exercising
S-tier version of this was showing up to my PCP like “Yeah so I just thought this was kind of weird but [mutual doctor friend] said I had to tell you about it”
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
S-tier version of this was showing up to my PCP like “Yeah so I just thought this was kind of weird but [mutual doctor friend] said I had to tell you about it”
Americans: “Canadians are so nice”
Canadians:
Canadians:
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Americans: “Canadians are so nice”
Canadians:
Canadians:
Mamdani should send Trump one Phantom of the Opera Broadway prop per month with a little handwritten note and a Diet Coke, he’d have the Mandate of Heaven
November 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Mamdani should send Trump one Phantom of the Opera Broadway prop per month with a little handwritten note and a Diet Coke, he’d have the Mandate of Heaven
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omg I love it when a person doesn't know something and they ask!! Also I love a sui generis in the wild.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
omg I love it when a person doesn't know something and they ask!! Also I love a sui generis in the wild.
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Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Breaking: Administration officials working overtime to find turkeys with sexual assault and crypto scam convictions so the President can pardon them
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21 Nov 2025 -- US embassies being told to categorize things trans kids' gender-transition, DEI policies, and subsidizing abortion as human rights violations for State Dept's annual human rights report @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
US says countries with DEI policies as infringing human rights
US officials say the rules will stop "destructive ideologies" but others argue it is redefining human rights principles for Trump's goals.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
21 Nov 2025 -- US embassies being told to categorize things trans kids' gender-transition, DEI policies, and subsidizing abortion as human rights violations for State Dept's annual human rights report @rikiwilchins.bsky.social
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
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Media says articles can't presume intent in an article; but calling it a mistake DOES presume intent, positing the arrests are carried out in good faith in presumed accordance with the law.
Media presumes intent constantly. But it's always in an exculpatory direction.
Media presumes intent constantly. But it's always in an exculpatory direction.
Media has got to stop calling it a mistake when ICE nabs citizens. Just say what they did straight up. Why are you carrying water for them?
November 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Media says articles can't presume intent in an article; but calling it a mistake DOES presume intent, positing the arrests are carried out in good faith in presumed accordance with the law.
Media presumes intent constantly. But it's always in an exculpatory direction.
Media presumes intent constantly. But it's always in an exculpatory direction.
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Other series I want more people to read is @tkingfisher.com ‘s Sworn Soldier series.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
November 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Other series I want more people to read is @tkingfisher.com ‘s Sworn Soldier series.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
Yes yes it has trans rep and that’s cool but what’s COOLER is how the first book is a retelling of The Fall of the House of Usher and it fucks severely.
this is what every recording of my pre-T voice sounds like to me
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
this is what every recording of my pre-T voice sounds like to me
wait wait wait I’m sorry what was the sex pest’s name?
"A Regina police officer has pleaded guilty to using police databases to pursue intimate and personal relationships with women. [...] It's not clear how many people Semenchuk may have contacted."
Regina officer pleads guilty to using police databases to pursue women | CBC News
Sergeant Robert Eric Semenchuck remains suspended with pay, as required under the province's Police Act. He has pleaded guilty to breach of trust and unauthorized use of a computer
www.cbc.ca
November 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
wait wait wait I’m sorry what was the sex pest’s name?
about a year later one Friday night my parents were like “hey uhhh is there a party you could be going to or something” and I was like “??? what do you people want from me???” lmao
“all my friends are doing it” listen once when I was 15 a group of six boys and six girls wanted to see a PG-13 movie and I wasn’t allowed to unless we found one more friend to come along so it couldn’t be construed as a sextuple date
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
about a year later one Friday night my parents were like “hey uhhh is there a party you could be going to or something” and I was like “??? what do you people want from me???” lmao
Zoë is SO heartbroken that we won’t let her get Roblox but the problem is we both grew up Mormon so our tolerance for “my parents have forbidden me from the popular media all my friends are enjoying” is SO high
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Zoë is SO heartbroken that we won’t let her get Roblox but the problem is we both grew up Mormon so our tolerance for “my parents have forbidden me from the popular media all my friends are enjoying” is SO high
Found my doctors appointments got less frustrating once I started going in like “I really want to play badminton again 😢 but I can’t even push a cart around the grocery store 😢 and I’ve hit a wall where no matter what I do I can’t seem to increase my exercise capacity 😢 and it makes it hard to work”
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
November 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Found my doctors appointments got less frustrating once I started going in like “I really want to play badminton again 😢 but I can’t even push a cart around the grocery store 😢 and I’ve hit a wall where no matter what I do I can’t seem to increase my exercise capacity 😢 and it makes it hard to work”
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The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
“People who are performing these studies are extraordinarily ignorant, and their ignorance is dangerous,” said @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social. She and other experts agree these trials are a waste of $$ and will not advance our biological understanding of Long COVID. thesicktimes.org/2025/11/21/l...
Less than 20% of Long COVID trials involving exercise even mention post-exertional malaise - The Sick Times
An analysis by The Sick Times find that less than 15% of Long COVID clinical trials testing the benefits of exercise or cardiopulmonary rehabilitation measured post-exertional malaise, according to th...
thesicktimes.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The rationale behind these studies, Seltzer contests, is [that] “it presumes that the patient had never heard of exercise until a doctor told them [it] exists.”
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
Thanks to Simon Spichak for putting this idea into print. I've said multiple times in interviews that it's the strangest part... 🧵
highly recommend talking to your kids on a regular basis because a few weeks ago I mentioned Levi’s birthday and he was like “Yeah! And I’m gonna have a birfday party and my fwens are gonna be dere” and that’s how I learned I needed to plan a birthday party and send invites to daycare
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
highly recommend talking to your kids on a regular basis because a few weeks ago I mentioned Levi’s birthday and he was like “Yeah! And I’m gonna have a birfday party and my fwens are gonna be dere” and that’s how I learned I needed to plan a birthday party and send invites to daycare
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.