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pluplubasch.bsky.social
power to the ice pick (Liz)
@pluplubasch.bsky.social
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Feminist killjoy and willful subject. Disability justice advocate (Public Health).😷Queer who refuses to assimilate.

Name’s Liz.

#AuDHD // pronouns she/they
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I need y’all to understand how little funding public health gets in the first place.
Questiin: amount of funding for public health historically • Overall growth, with a decline in public health's share: Total national health expenditures have risen dramatically, from $74.1 billion in 1970 to $4.9 trillion in 2023. However, public health's share of that spending has decreased, falling from a high of 3.18% in 2002 to 2.65% in 2014, and is projected to decline further. • Federal funding fluctuations: While the federal government allocates billions, funding for specific agencies has often been flat or decreased. For instance, core funding for the CDC between 2011 and 2021 remained between approximately $6.5 and $8 billion before recent increases and subsequent decreases. • Cuts to dedicated funds: The Prevention and Public Health Fund, established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), has been subject to significant cuts and redirection of funds to other legislative proposals, despite being intended to be a stable funding source. • State and local funding decline: Public health funding at the state and local levels has also been cut significantly, with a decline in per capita spending between FY 2008 and FY 2012
October 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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When my sternum cracked the first time I did this. I didn’t know it could crack!
Reclined Butterfly With Blocks
October 8, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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nicholas hoult as peter in the great. Being upset about beards too.
October 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Double Spider Man meme with Gavin and Trump pointing at each other.
August 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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I need to remember there’s a reason that I have @imanibarbarin.bsky.social ‘s t-shirt with, “what Imani said” on it. www.instagram.com/reel/DNomVFx...
Clip of Imani saying, “but it's not because you all think that the system is wrong..” 1/2 2/2 “you think it’s being weaponized against the wrong people.
August 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Purple graffiti on a window that says, “Capitalism is temporary DYKES are forever” followed by a love heart.
July 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Effulgent
A photo of “William the Bloody” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Spike as a human).
July 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Mood
USA flag hanging upside down and on fire.
July 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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While we are talking about Iran and peoples understanding of who lives there, I want to point this out.
へ But this ceremony is taking place in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a country that's a sworn enemy of the state of Israel, but home to what some estimates say is the second largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside of Israel.
June 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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They had a very public break.
Clip from Chris Hedges Wikipedia section named - Exit from the Times: “In 2003, Hedges gave a commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for Rockford College in which he criticized the ongoing American invasion of Iraq. 37) His speech was received with boos, and his microphone was shut off three minutes after he began speaking. 381|39 Hedges had to end the commencement speech short because of the various student disruptions, (401 which included an additional microphone cut, foghorns, 41) and chants of "God Bless America." [39] The New York Times criticized Hedges's statements and issued him a formal reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality". Hedges cited this reprimand as a motivation for resigning from the Times in 2005.(42] In 2013 he said "Either I muzzled myself to pay fealty to my career, which on a personal sense would be to betray my father, or I spoke out and realized that my relationshin with my emolover was terminal.”
June 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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And then him lol.
Man in blue shirt with brown hair looking distressed and disgusted at Jordan Peterson flailing.
May 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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The average American has three friends.
“Oooooh on the TLC Tip” album cover.
May 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Classic “are you winning son?” Meme but instead it says, “are you hanging in there friend?”
April 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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1) imagine seeing a garbage can instead of feeling awe. 2) I just had to look up the emissions. From the BBC:
Rocket engine exhaust contains gases and particles that can affect Earth's climate and ozone layer. On its web page under the title "Protecting our Planet" Blue Origin claims: "During flight, the only byproduct of New Shepard's engine combustion is water vapor with no carbon emissions." However, Eloise Marais, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality at University College London points out that water vapour too is a greenhouse gas and is a chemical that is not supposed to be in the upper layers of the atmosphere. "It alters the chemistry of the stratosphere, depleting the ozone layer, and also forms clouds that affect climate," she says. Experts say that as more rockets are launched, the risks of harming the ozone layer increases.
April 16, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Truly believe that Dean Spade can uniquely help us understand this moment. Administrative violence is an important way of looking at our system.
"The term "administrative violence" draws attention to the ways in which systems that organize our lives in seemingly ordinary ways - determining what ID we carry, what government records exist about us, how roads or schools or garbage pickup are organized - produce and distribute life chances based on violent forms of categorization. The entire framework of US administrative law is that we have agencies - whether it's the Department of Homeland Security or the Food and Drug Administration or the Environmental Protection Agency or the Bureau of Indian Affairs - run by experts. These experts invent and deploy categories that manage and sort people, substances, buildings, curricula, human capacities, diseases, financial instruments, streets, soils, vehicles, and more. These administrators need not be elected; the basis of their authority, and thus the authority of the administrative system, is neutral expertise. Critical movements have questioned the neutrality of those ways of knowing and the categories they produce, identifying white supremacist, ableist, colonial, and patriarchal norms." - Dean Spade, Toward a Critical Trans Politics: An Interview with Dean
April 9, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Fascinating.
A screenshot of the anti-DEI form’s cited legal underpinning; “The U.S. Department of Education will maintain the confidentiality of these submissions to the fullest extent permitted by law. The information requested on this form, and the associated evidence or documentation that you submit, is collected under Section 102 of the Department of Education Organization Act, 20 U.S.C. 3402; Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 2000d, et seq.; Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1681, et seq.; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. 794, et seq.; Age Discrimination Act of 1975, 42 U.S.C. 6101, et seq.; Title Il of the Americans With Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. 12131, et seq.; and the Boy Scouts of America Equal Access Act, 20 U.S.C. 7905.”
February 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Wrong again.
Some intersex people have both ovarian and testicular tissue, but they usually produce either eggs or sperm, not both. Explanation Ovotesticular tissue Some intersex people have both ovarian and testicular tissue, in the same gonad or in separate gonads. This condition is called ovotestis. Gamete production In most cases, people with ovotesticular tissue produce either eggs or sperm, not both. Sex development disorders Many chromosome configurations can result in disorders of sex development, including 45,XO (only one X chromosome) and 47,XXY or 47,XXX (extra sex chromosomes).
February 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Photo of an ACT UP Art Exhibition. I’ve zoomed in one a yellow poster that reads “MEN USE CONDOMS OR BEAT IT” in black block letters.
February 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Golden chihuahua wrapped up in a big blanket with only their head peaking out.
February 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Ignacio Martín-Baró was a real one. He may have been murdered but his legacy lives on through liberation psychology and theology.
Ignacio Martín-Baró smiling and waving in a black and white photo.
January 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Comfy queen
A golden brown chihuahua wrapped in a huge blanket. She’s wrapped herself in the pile so that only her cute lil face is out.
January 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Going into 2025 energy
I think it’s a tumblr post of tweet. Someone has responded to tumblr post. regina-bithyniae & Follow Sep 3, 2024 ... FESS HOLE Fesshole ® @fesshole Follow As a teenager in Neustrelitz (East Germany), I painted small stones purple and left them all over town. Did it for years. It drove the police and Stasi nuts. It meant nothing. It just felt good to do something they couldn't control or understand. 11:25 a.m. • 02 Sep 24 • 1.3M Views str-ngeloop Follow Dec 8, 2024 new years resolution 2025: do something they can't control or understand
January 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Don’t think I’ve ever posted a screenshot from him, but I saw this on Reddit earlier, and I can’t stop thinking about how many angles from which this is utterly ridiculous. But also, my first thought was bro wants to make us into french bulldogs.
Elon musk tweet, “There are certainly other factors at play, but heavy use of c-sections allows for a larger brain, as brain size has historically been limited by birth canal diameter”
January 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Day 16 of 20 #bookchalkenge 📚
The Power of Naming and Claiming Recovering the Sacred Winona LaDuke
January 3, 2025 at 4:59 AM