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Christi Garrett

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Lover of animals, books, the crackle you hear playing a record, and rainy days. Mostly optimistic, but it’s getting harder. Atheist. Progressive. Gamer. She/Her. I work in benefits.


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Dave Kellett's avatar Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social
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It is Bonkers McGlonkers that these two vehicles are only SIXTY SIX YEARS APART

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Jen Donohue's avatar Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social
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today is my NINETEEN YEAR anniversary working at my local library In honor of that, I ask you to get a card to your local public library today! If you ALREADY have a card to your local public library, check out their digital resources! Their summer programs! And yeah, they have books too.

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Chef Gaykwon's avatar Chef Gaykwon @gaykwon.bsky.social
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This guy was such a G for telling his evil wizard cyborg boss that his religion is bullshit during a work meeting.

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Feeling despair at the world and something that no bullshit made me feel a little better was giving ten bucks to support someone’s work on Patreon. Not that it’s a big deal but being able to go “oh I like this, I want more of this in the world” made me feel like I had .00000001% control of things.

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Christi Garrett's avatar Christi Garrett @christigarrett.bsky.social
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I’ll be voting for the ADMINISTRATION I want this November. It’s an easy choice for me. It’s not the facist one.

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Christi Garrett's avatar Christi Garrett @christigarrett.bsky.social
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Watching S3 of Bridgerton over again made me appreciate it even more. I also really appreciated several of the things they added from the book. Like, Lord Debling. He’s super. What a great character and plot device.

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Jack likes films #JoinAUnion's avatar Jack likes films #JoinAUnion @jacklikesfilms.bsky.social
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mixed weight couple that defied narrative conventions

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­         the                     ­                       postes's avatar ­         the                     ­                       postes @rem.postes.club
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a mixed-weight relationship would be most of them right. who weighs exactly the same as their partner does

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regular meghan 🫧 나영지 🍉's avatar regular meghan 🫧 나영지 🍉 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
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just read the phrase "mixed-weight relationship." think i'm gonna go stare directly into the sun until it sets, then i might wander barefoot into the woods and let whatever happens happen

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scott⚡️mccloud's avatar scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social
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I don’t know how many good days we have left, but I hope we can put them to good use.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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there are a lot of right wingers who want exactly this and SCOTUS has given the all-clear

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Emmett Macfarlane's avatar Emmett Macfarlane @emmmacfarlane.bsky.social
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We were worried SCOTUS would take America back to the 1950s and it's taken it back to 1775.

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maura quint's avatar maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.

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Mekka Okereke's avatar Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com
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Most *white* Americans. There is no country on earth that imprisons more of its population than the US. Prisoners disproportionately Black. The US leads the world in child executions. Not a typo. Disproportionately Black. Life expectancy for US Black folk lower than for Uighur Chinese. Not a typo

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Raywat Deonandan 's avatar Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social
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The word "teetotaler" comes from the letter "T", to suggest "Total" abstinence. It has nothing to do with tea, which is soundly disappointing.

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Christi Garrett's avatar Christi Garrett @christigarrett.bsky.social
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I’m really enjoying Derry girls. It’s funny and quirky. I think it also, somehow, expertly captures that feeling of life continuing to roll on while significant and horrible things are happening. The season one ending did that beautifully and it only took them a moment.

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Audley: leftover wizard's avatar Audley: leftover wizard @audleyzdarke.bsky.social
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From Franz Kafka's diaries.

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Christi Garrett's avatar Christi Garrett @christigarrett.bsky.social
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I have wondered why we don’t roll sexual harassment investigations into OSHA. They already have a fine and investigation process. It’s safety issue.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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john roberts would crumble into tears and dust at the first real television attack ad on him and i think dem aligned superPACs should at least do some focus testing on exactly that

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Someday a lot of people will claim not to have supported any of this and you need to survive to remember that they did

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, is now working for a police department in West Virginia

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A.R. Moxon's avatar A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Turns out it is hard to concentrate when you live in a fascist theocracy.

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snipy's avatar snipy @snipy.bsky.social
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Honestly it really is ok to let people have, say, 24 hours of existential despair before chiding against it.

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David M. Perry's avatar David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
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Reminder that there are five ways to address the current SCOTUS problem. 1. Impeach some justices 2. Impose term limits 3. Expand the courts 4. Pass legislation limiting court prerogatives 5. Keep winning the presidency for the next 16 years or so while periodically also holding the senate.

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Holy shit, the Supreme Court actually wrote that Trump telling Pence to claim the wildly unconstitutional power to single-handedly reject certified Electoral College votes, thereby overthrowing Constitutional democracy, can't be illegal because POTUS and VP talking about it makes it an official act.

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Christi Garrett's avatar Christi Garrett @christigarrett.bsky.social
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Yall need to be using alt text on these court docs.

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Nicholas Grossman's avatar Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Reminder: Trump pardoned literal war criminals. One's actions were so bad that some of his fellow SEALs testified against him, which pretty much never happens. And Fox News then treated the pardoned criminals as heroes. Thinking this every time I see "but the military won't follow illegal orders."

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Roxane Gay's avatar Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Michael 's avatar Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social
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presidents have immunity for "official acts" lmfao We. Are. Fucked.

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Anthea Butler's avatar Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social
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African Americans will tell you that this country has never been fully a democracy, and white people are about to find out how the little democracy left is about to go up in a puff of smoke should Trump get back in the White House.

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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I was trying to make a joke about all this but I’m gonna sit it out for a minute. This isn’t funny, fuck those guys

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executive editor, barbell quarterly's avatar executive editor, barbell quarterly @swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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Jenét Morrow's avatar Jenét Morrow @jenetallday.bsky.social
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Let's be clear, when mayors say they want to ban masks for "safety", they couldn't care less about public safety. What the mean is they want to see faces for surveillance purposes. They care about criminalizing your right to protest not your health or safety.

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Christi Garrett's avatar Christi Garrett @christigarrett.bsky.social
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Very cool. My entire skin texture changed in perimenopause, so I took a deep dive into beauty YouTube. Lots of good info there too on basics.

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Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder's avatar Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder @andycruns.bsky.social
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I’m now firmly of the opinion that a lot of the problems we’re facing in society right now could be cured by more art in schools, not less.

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John Rogers's avatar John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social
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UBI saves boatloads of public money. That should motivate certain types of people. But it’s also kind. Which fills those same people with a straight up berserker rage.

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Micah's avatar Micah @rincewind.run
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PrEP is one of the great miracles in the history of medicine and moving it to a twice a year shot will make it so much easier for people to use it's hard to articulate just how amazing it is that we moved HIV from a guaranteed death sentence to something people no longer have to experience at all

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Alexandra Manglis's avatar Alexandra Manglis @alexantra.bsky.social
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As someone who's born and raised in the MENA and I know heat: do not go outside during the hottest part of the day, do not go for a walk, do not decide to do DIY, do not do manual labor, just do not! You can weed your damn garden at 7pm. Go back inside, turn on the ac/fan, hydrate, eat popsicles.

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Matt Novak's avatar Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social
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“The officers told her to move or face arrest. Gillette, who’s now 51, had been sleeping outside near the Santee Drive-In and responded that she couldn’t leave without her walker. The deputies instead threw the walker away, along with the cremated ashes of her husband and son.”

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