Silly Oswald
@sillyoswald.bsky.social
Healthcare IT professional and part time projectionist.
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Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.
September 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.
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🚨Neighborhood Resource Alert:
Victims of shootings often require significant amounts of blood. Wooden Ship Brewing has a blood drive Wednesday 8/27 from 2-8pm and Friday 8/29 from 11-4pm with Memorial Blood Center.
Victims of shootings often require significant amounts of blood. Wooden Ship Brewing has a blood drive Wednesday 8/27 from 2-8pm and Friday 8/29 from 11-4pm with Memorial Blood Center.
August 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨Neighborhood Resource Alert:
Victims of shootings often require significant amounts of blood. Wooden Ship Brewing has a blood drive Wednesday 8/27 from 2-8pm and Friday 8/29 from 11-4pm with Memorial Blood Center.
Victims of shootings often require significant amounts of blood. Wooden Ship Brewing has a blood drive Wednesday 8/27 from 2-8pm and Friday 8/29 from 11-4pm with Memorial Blood Center.
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Have we talked about how Sweet Home Alabama is essentially a gender swapped Twister?
May 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Have we talked about how Sweet Home Alabama is essentially a gender swapped Twister?
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Green: I will suffer whatever the consequences are because I don't believe in the richest country in the world people should be without good health care. I stood up for my constituents then. I'm standing up for them now. I would do it again.
March 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Green: I will suffer whatever the consequences are because I don't believe in the richest country in the world people should be without good health care. I stood up for my constituents then. I'm standing up for them now. I would do it again.
Robots are famously emphathetic
March 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Robots are famously emphathetic
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I bet the Delta plane did that because someone forgot to put their phone in airplane mode
February 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I bet the Delta plane did that because someone forgot to put their phone in airplane mode
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If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.”
But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.
But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.”
But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.
But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.
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Quick reminder that #DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-qualified minorities could get hired instead of more highly-qualified white people, it was put in place to ensure lower-qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly-qualified minorities.
January 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Quick reminder that #DEI initiatives were not put in place to ensure lower-qualified minorities could get hired instead of more highly-qualified white people, it was put in place to ensure lower-qualified white people were not hired instead of more highly-qualified minorities.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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Keep fighting. Keep dancing.
January 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Keep fighting. Keep dancing.
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For profit insurance is immoral. Full stop. An insurers' job isn't to "protect from unnecessary care"; it is to pay for customers care. Every dollar of profit earned is a dollar that didn't provide care to the sick/injured. It is an evil industry captained by the soulless for the sake of the greedy.
December 12, 2024 at 2:15 AM
For profit insurance is immoral. Full stop. An insurers' job isn't to "protect from unnecessary care"; it is to pay for customers care. Every dollar of profit earned is a dollar that didn't provide care to the sick/injured. It is an evil industry captained by the soulless for the sake of the greedy.
31. But having Minneapolis and St Paul on there feels a bit like cheating.
Surprisingly, I have only been to 28 of these cities.
The average American has only been to 5 of these places, how about you?
The average American has only been to 5 of these places, how about you?
December 10, 2024 at 10:02 PM
31. But having Minneapolis and St Paul on there feels a bit like cheating.
"I get the least of you" is such a resonant gut punch.
December 10, 2024 at 6:11 AM
"I get the least of you" is such a resonant gut punch.
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They should make a movie about how society celebrates murderous folk heroes who simply turn out to be (allegedly) troubled loners.
Then they should make the sequel a musical for some reason.
Then they should make the sequel a musical for some reason.
December 9, 2024 at 6:43 PM
They should make a movie about how society celebrates murderous folk heroes who simply turn out to be (allegedly) troubled loners.
Then they should make the sequel a musical for some reason.
Then they should make the sequel a musical for some reason.