Almost Old 🙀
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Almost Old 🙀
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Almost old San Franciscan. I wish my cat didn’t play with orchids. 🏳️‍🌈
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This hits hard.
February 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.
February 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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In 2023, three states passed laws to prevent utilities from charging customers for lobbying, advertising, and other political influence activities. Customers have already saved hundreds of thousands of dollars.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/uti...
Colorado and Connecticut lowered utility bills by reining in lobbying
A handful of other states have introduced similar legislation with the aim of saving ratepayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
www.canarymedia.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.
February 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Do not mess with librarians. They let complete strangers borrow their books. For a living. Even the hardcovers. They are so much stronger than you know.
February 13, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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It gives me no pleasure to say she was right.
February 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin
December 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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January 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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So many have not learned them at all.
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The H5N1 risk continues to increase. New spillovers, more infections. The agencies running response are being dismantled & it seems like maybe some info about bird flu is in order.

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social asked me to write an explainer piece for @zeteo.com, so I did.
zeteo.com/p/how-to-pre...
How to Prevent a Bird Flu Pandemic
Leading virologist Angela Rasmussen breaks down everything you should know about the latest bird flu outbreak, including how worried Americans should be.
zeteo.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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We appear to have gained 500 followers in the past couple of hours, so here’s a picture of our store, the oldest mystery fiction bookstore in the world. We ship — mysteriousbookshop.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Studies show that cats can understand commands; they just choose not to follow them.

Happy Purrsday from the Queen of Selective Hearing. 💚😹
February 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Clearest image of Mars ever taken.
🔭 🧪
February 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM