Rikibeth
@rikibeth.bsky.social
Not a mere Device. She/her.
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My auditory processing is crap even when I’m NOT trying to tune out whatever people on the bus are listening to WITHOUT HEADPHONES ES but what’s this about a DHS ma datory curfew in all states? Is this real or some alternate news confabulation?
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My auditory processing is crap even when I’m NOT trying to tune out whatever people on the bus are listening to WITHOUT HEADPHONES ES but what’s this about a DHS ma datory curfew in all states? Is this real or some alternate news confabulation?
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It’s incredibly sad, but I’m well into “sending people to Health Canada’s site for advice” mode.
Public health has saved more lives worldwide than probably any other intervention. Humble stuff like toilets and clean water and hand washing.
Public health has saved more lives worldwide than probably any other intervention. Humble stuff like toilets and clean water and hand washing.
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s incredibly sad, but I’m well into “sending people to Health Canada’s site for advice” mode.
Public health has saved more lives worldwide than probably any other intervention. Humble stuff like toilets and clean water and hand washing.
Public health has saved more lives worldwide than probably any other intervention. Humble stuff like toilets and clean water and hand washing.
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CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
November 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
CHRIS MURPHY: So what?
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Saw this on the other site and wanted to share it here. Furry artist ardwoof has been detained by ice for the last few weeks. here is the GoFundMe link their family/friends have set up to help with their legal fees:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-johan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-johan...
November 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Saw this on the other site and wanted to share it here. Furry artist ardwoof has been detained by ice for the last few weeks. here is the GoFundMe link their family/friends have set up to help with their legal fees:
www.gofundme.com/f/help-johan...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-johan...
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I’ve never hailed a Waymo but I have a sudden desire to make empty ones follow ICE around, park in front of them, just generally be in the way.
This is going to be fun! Has any of this people had a look at New Orleans streets and potholes?!?
Waymo is bringing its driver-less car service to New Orleans after a successful test run
Waymo tested its vehicles in the city in February and again in May.
www.nola.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I’ve never hailed a Waymo but I have a sudden desire to make empty ones follow ICE around, park in front of them, just generally be in the way.
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it's so disgusting to me that Elon Musk doesn't even know how to be rich.
quit spending all of your money on a weird statistical hallucination machine to make you feel good.
patronize a court of artists and commissioned great works from them you stupid fuck
quit spending all of your money on a weird statistical hallucination machine to make you feel good.
patronize a court of artists and commissioned great works from them you stupid fuck
November 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
it's so disgusting to me that Elon Musk doesn't even know how to be rich.
quit spending all of your money on a weird statistical hallucination machine to make you feel good.
patronize a court of artists and commissioned great works from them you stupid fuck
quit spending all of your money on a weird statistical hallucination machine to make you feel good.
patronize a court of artists and commissioned great works from them you stupid fuck
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“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
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In my lifetime we have gone from "do NOT mess with ouija boards" to this
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives
Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear suspended after it gave advice on BDSM sex and where to find knives | CNN Business
Sales of an artificial intelligence-enabled plush toy have been suspended after it was found that it engaged in conversation around sexually explicit topics and offered potentially dangerous advice.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
In my lifetime we have gone from "do NOT mess with ouija boards" to this
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A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
CDC.Gov Archive Index
With the Musk/Trump Administration bulldozing their way through seemingly every federal government website, teams of data analysts and archivers have been attempting to download and archive as much fe...
acasignups.net
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM
A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January:
acasignups.net/cdc-website
acasignups.net/cdc-website
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I would unironically love for the AAVE habitual 'be' to become a feature of standard English over time.
it is very useful and elegant compared to all the other ways you can express that idea in standard English
it is very useful and elegant compared to all the other ways you can express that idea in standard English
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I would unironically love for the AAVE habitual 'be' to become a feature of standard English over time.
it is very useful and elegant compared to all the other ways you can express that idea in standard English
it is very useful and elegant compared to all the other ways you can express that idea in standard English
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"A lack of public seating disproportionately impacts older adults and people with disabilities, who may need more frequent rest as they navigate the city," Elizabeth Abramson writes.
Opinion | A vibrant downtown needs places for people to sit
A lack of public seating disproportionately impacts older adults and people with disabilities, who may need more frequent rest as they navigate the city, Elizabeth Abramson writes.
bit.ly
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
"A lack of public seating disproportionately impacts older adults and people with disabilities, who may need more frequent rest as they navigate the city," Elizabeth Abramson writes.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
Fuck the CDC
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Fuck the CDC
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I can't believe I didn't think to repost this earlier!
my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute
November 20, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I can't believe I didn't think to repost this earlier!
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SNAP's status post-shutdown from @tyjonescox.bsky.social:
"The public won’t soon forget that SNAP benefits were suspended, and they won’t like seeing more people lose their benefits permanently as the food assistance cuts in the Republican megabill get implemented."
"The public won’t soon forget that SNAP benefits were suspended, and they won’t like seeing more people lose their benefits permanently as the food assistance cuts in the Republican megabill get implemented."
Taking Away Food Assistance Puts the Trump Administration on the Wrong Side of History
The Trump Administration became so determined to deny people their SNAP benefits that it fought all the way to the Supreme Court, even though the funds were available and it had the legal authority to...
www.cbpp.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
SNAP's status post-shutdown from @tyjonescox.bsky.social:
"The public won’t soon forget that SNAP benefits were suspended, and they won’t like seeing more people lose their benefits permanently as the food assistance cuts in the Republican megabill get implemented."
"The public won’t soon forget that SNAP benefits were suspended, and they won’t like seeing more people lose their benefits permanently as the food assistance cuts in the Republican megabill get implemented."
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w... well I guess it’s time to get the purple parka out
The polar vortex is about to bring a wild weather pattern change | CNN
Over the next 10 days, scientists say, changes in the stratosphere will upend weather patterns and set the stage for a cold, snowy December across parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
www.cnn.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:11 AM
www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w... well I guess it’s time to get the purple parka out
GOOD
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
GOOD
WOOHOO, just spent the afternoon cleaning a friend’s apartment, one of HER friends paid for the session as a present
It’s so much more tidy and smells lemony fresh
Satisfying day
It’s so much more tidy and smells lemony fresh
Satisfying day
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 AM
WOOHOO, just spent the afternoon cleaning a friend’s apartment, one of HER friends paid for the session as a present
It’s so much more tidy and smells lemony fresh
Satisfying day
It’s so much more tidy and smells lemony fresh
Satisfying day
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"The more everything is based on big numbers and metrics and that's the only way things are considered good, I think pride in small things that don't scale is a really special, beautiful thing" (paraphrased)
It's so cool seeing businesses that really care about their craft and community
It's so cool seeing businesses that really care about their craft and community
I had the BEST time with the Curiosity Desk team at GBH scouring the North Shore for its greatest roast beef sandwiches. I hope I did the true beefers proud!!! 🫡
Comedian Josh Gondelman’s tour of Boston’s “Roast Beef Riviera”
YouTube video by GBH News
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"The more everything is based on big numbers and metrics and that's the only way things are considered good, I think pride in small things that don't scale is a really special, beautiful thing" (paraphrased)
It's so cool seeing businesses that really care about their craft and community
It's so cool seeing businesses that really care about their craft and community
Commuter rail masked selfie, earrings by @peculiarityshop.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Commuter rail masked selfie, earrings by @peculiarityshop.bsky.social
WOOHOO I just put a couple of friend/client HOME ADDRESSES in my contact list even though I “know” where they live because that lets me plot commute times
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
WOOHOO I just put a couple of friend/client HOME ADDRESSES in my contact list even though I “know” where they live because that lets me plot commute times
Magic sticky dots come through again
put a zit sticker on one last night and it’s nearly gone this morning
put a zit sticker on one last night and it’s nearly gone this morning
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Magic sticky dots come through again
put a zit sticker on one last night and it’s nearly gone this morning
put a zit sticker on one last night and it’s nearly gone this morning
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One of the biggest flexes I ever had was asking some junior financial analysts watching their phones on a bus if they needed $20. They said for what and I said headphones. They got so mad.
November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
One of the biggest flexes I ever had was asking some junior financial analysts watching their phones on a bus if they needed $20. They said for what and I said headphones. They got so mad.
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Yeah sorry seeing that Olivia Nuzzi was making songs about being "jailbait" at 16 and no parent stepped in, that she was scooped up by a MUCH older and MUCH more powerful man when she was concerningly young...
This seems like a much sadder story than the current discourse on it suggests
This seems like a much sadder story than the current discourse on it suggests
November 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Yeah sorry seeing that Olivia Nuzzi was making songs about being "jailbait" at 16 and no parent stepped in, that she was scooped up by a MUCH older and MUCH more powerful man when she was concerningly young...
This seems like a much sadder story than the current discourse on it suggests
This seems like a much sadder story than the current discourse on it suggests
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I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.