NatalieB
@nataliebirdbrain.bsky.social
NYC-based writer and nonprofit communicator. I'm proudly neurodivergent and profoundly liberal. I'm all about books, birds, movies, politics, being an auntie, and that ADHD life.
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New Substack about bra shopping, bodies, #adhd and the everyday indignities of womanhood: neurodiverging.substack.com/p/300-worth-...
$300 Worth of Closure
"It’s easier to say you don’t care than admit you don’t understand. The older we get, the more calcified our shame becomes."
neurodiverging.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New Substack about bra shopping, bodies, #adhd and the everyday indignities of womanhood: neurodiverging.substack.com/p/300-worth-...
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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The snide attacks against Zohran Mamdani for “making videos” during the NYC Mayor Debate is so fascinating to me?
What exactly are other politicians airing during their tv ads? Watercolor paintings? Woodcarvings? Haiku?
What exactly are other politicians airing during their tv ads? Watercolor paintings? Woodcarvings? Haiku?
June 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The snide attacks against Zohran Mamdani for “making videos” during the NYC Mayor Debate is so fascinating to me?
What exactly are other politicians airing during their tv ads? Watercolor paintings? Woodcarvings? Haiku?
What exactly are other politicians airing during their tv ads? Watercolor paintings? Woodcarvings? Haiku?
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“I don’t care who gave me what” has to be one of the worst debate lines I’ve ever heard
June 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
“I don’t care who gave me what” has to be one of the worst debate lines I’ve ever heard
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michael blake lowkey winning the debate
June 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
michael blake lowkey winning the debate
Zohran just said we need more staffers in our Walgreens and I thought I couldn't love him more.
June 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Zohran just said we need more staffers in our Walgreens and I thought I couldn't love him more.
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Debate moderator blaming increase in shoplifting (if that's an accurate stat) on "bail reform" instead of on unaffordable price increases on basic goods is certainly a choice.
June 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Debate moderator blaming increase in shoplifting (if that's an accurate stat) on "bail reform" instead of on unaffordable price increases on basic goods is certainly a choice.
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I just put on the debate. It's, uh, going well so far?
Cuomo says NYC defunded the police, a thing that literally never happened.
June 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I just put on the debate. It's, uh, going well so far?
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this mayoral debate is yet another example of 'old white men stay on topic and actually answer the goddamn question being asked challenge 2k25' and they're failing left and right 😒
June 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
this mayoral debate is yet another example of 'old white men stay on topic and actually answer the goddamn question being asked challenge 2k25' and they're failing left and right 😒
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Watching the nyc mayor debate and shouting “who is this nerd” at the tv every 10 minutes
June 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Watching the nyc mayor debate and shouting “who is this nerd” at the tv every 10 minutes
@schumer.senate.gov is complicit in the deaths of thousands of children in Gaza. Giving food to babies cannot possibly be anti-Semetic.
May 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@schumer.senate.gov is complicit in the deaths of thousands of children in Gaza. Giving food to babies cannot possibly be anti-Semetic.
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It's kind of impressive how perfectly Chuck Schumer is not meeting this moment. Like he brought in punch-up writers to heighten and refine how badly he's botching it.
March 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It's kind of impressive how perfectly Chuck Schumer is not meeting this moment. Like he brought in punch-up writers to heighten and refine how badly he's botching it.
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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.
February 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.
Amazing animated movie using an open source software!
How do you survive the end of the world? Oscar-nominated ‘Flow’ offers an answer—through the eyes of a cat.
An indie animated movie from Latvia with no humans or dialogue might be the best climate movie of the year.
grist.org/culture/flow...
#Oscar #Flow #Climate #Flood #Latvia
An indie animated movie from Latvia with no humans or dialogue might be the best climate movie of the year.
grist.org/culture/flow...
#Oscar #Flow #Climate #Flood #Latvia
How do you survive the end of the world? Oscar-nominated 'Flow' offers an answer—through the eyes of a cat
An indie animated film from Latvia with no humans or dialogue might be the best climate movie of the year
grist.org
February 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Amazing animated movie using an open source software!
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Coward.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has decided against removing embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office, Gothamist has learned: bit.ly/3QpvqzB
February 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Coward.
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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
February 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
February 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
My thoughts on #RFK, #ADHD meds and the dangers of stigmatizing mental health treatments: open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
Making America Sick Again
The Deadly Consequences of Stigma and Junk Science
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February 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
My thoughts on #RFK, #ADHD meds and the dangers of stigmatizing mental health treatments: open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...
Going after antidepressants, antipsychotics and ADHD meds isn’t just cruel—it will cause mass suffering and end lives.
The government, RJK Jr. said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”
RFK Jr. is already taking aim at antidepressants
The new HHS secretary has made baseless claims that the drugs are addictive and cause violent behavior.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Going after antidepressants, antipsychotics and ADHD meds isn’t just cruel—it will cause mass suffering and end lives.
@nytimes.com this is breaking news? Must we cover every single unhinged thing he says?
Breaking News: President Trump has suggested paving over the grass in the White House Rose Garden for a patio like the one he has at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump Considers Paving Grass at White House Rose Garden to Match Mar-a-Lago
The president has been discussing plans to rip up the grass in one of the White House’s most iconic locations and put in a hard surface to serve as a patio like the one at his Florida home and club.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
@nytimes.com this is breaking news? Must we cover every single unhinged thing he says?
Let’s bring back COVID that’ll be good for the economy…🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
President Trump ordered on Friday that federal funding be withheld from schools and universities that require students to be vaccinated against Covid, White House officials said, another step in the administration’s campaign against coronavirus vaccine requirements.
Trump Will Withhold Money From Schools That Require Covid Vaccines
An estimated 15 colleges still required Covid vaccines for students as of late last year. No states require K-12 students to get the shots.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Let’s bring back COVID that’ll be good for the economy…🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life
January 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We're finally dismantling the federal government! Sure hope it doesn't serve essential functions that I've taken for granted my whole life