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Estarianne

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Just your average middle aged mom but disabled and socialist. Anti-fascism, progressive politics, inclusive feminism, birds, psychology and neuroscience. Orange County, CA. pfp: @hayalah

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Bruce Willis developed frontotemporal dementia and aphasia was among his earliest symptoms. Robin Williams had the same type and depression was his. Dementia doesn't look a single way

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One of the things about dementia is that some types of dementia include as symptoms blindness to the changes. People with AD don't remember they forget things now. My dad doesn't have that, he's aware of every symptom.

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Obviously Joe Biden is having cognitive changes! But how fast they will progress and what the next steps are is something he needs a full medical team to evaluate and still might not know, my dad doesn't.

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Progressing lol I count on SwiftKey to change gibberish into words. Alzheimer's has a specific progression pattern but that doesn't define dementia.

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There's no one way dementia creeps up on you, because it can start in many different areas of the brain. My dad has balance issues. It's not starting or prrgrssibg like Alzheimer's, which my grandfather had.

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He also is a lot higher functioning when he's not tired! When he is tired he can't hold a conversation. He no longer can use his smartphone. He still remembers people but sometimes forgets events.

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There are people on here saying some bullshit about cognitive decline. My dad has cognittive decline, he's 6 years younger than Joe Biden. His first symptoms were difficulty with complex tasks and word finding.

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Same same.

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That's not a distinction. Trump never had reality testing and cognitive decline can look like a lot of things.

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Yeah I think the people she's unpopular with also don't like Biden.

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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.

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You know, I just want someone who can win lol

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They just think his ability to be an effective candidate is impaired. They feel like we need to win.

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I was surprised to find all my liberal friends want Biden to drop out because there's a lot of talk here like it's a) only people who don't like Biden (they all like him! And Kamala!) or b) it's only pundits (they are all pretty standard not terminally online Dems!)

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Spent 4 hours at the dmv, got home and got a last minute demand to sign 5 pages of documents before end of business day, was overtired, was mean to my husband for no reason, time to go apologize.

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Are the people who want Biden to step down the people who complained about Harris? I'm hearing a lot of people who voted for Harris in the primaries wanting her to be the candidate.

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Joe Katz's avatar Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

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I'm so bored of being lectured like I don't know what's happening lol.

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Torr Leonard 🧵's avatar Torr Leonard 🧵 @torrleonard.bsky.social
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Assholes:

"Abigail Disney, an heiress to the Disney family fortune, plans to withhold donations to Democrats until Joe Biden drops out.

Gideon Stein said he’s decided to pause planned donations of $3.5 million."

www.cnbc.com/2024/07/04/d...

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Dr. Lucky Tran's avatar Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.bsky.social
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The CDC has finally acknowledged that SARS-CoV-2 is not a typical “winter” respiratory virus, and COVID-19 is a threat that can surge throughout the year.

Source: www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

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Erin Rich's avatar Erin Rich @erinlrich.bsky.social
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For anyone like me who enjoys geeking out over behavioral tasks, our new paper is out! Also important implications for mechanisms of value-based decisions

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

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Oh, I thought they didn't :(. I remember something about releasing or relocating them.

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It's super weird that car insurance isn't all computerized now. LIke why can't I enter my son's information and find out how much my rates are going to go up online? Why do I have to talk to my agent?

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But they don't keep orcas anymore do they? What do they keep?

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Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli's avatar Brett "Solidarity 2024" Banditelli @banditelli.org
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This is a super complicated situation because the same local represents the San Diego Zoo, which is one of the few Good Zoos. As with miners, I support the workers, but we need to close Seaworld.

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Meaning in our 50s, not 50 people lol.

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Giving me sweets and letting me convince myself they are healthy is always a mistake.

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He developed a phobia of cars right before he turned 16 and overcame it only b/c he got in to UCLA and wanted to go to his dream school lol

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There was a well known science writer, in general 50 something people who have good jobs and donate to the party and the candidate.

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They are people who aren't very online, and their concern has nothing to do with "knowing he's unfit" and everything to do with his viability as a candidate for president. I was surprised that every single person at the BBQ thought he needed to drop out! They aren't all lawyers, btw

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ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻's avatar ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻 @pastures.bsky.social
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Congratulations to Algerians, who achieved independence 62 years ago today through peaceful protests, negotiations, and a UN-brokered peace deal with French settlers. Just kidding, they merked French occupiers by any and all available means and earned their freedom with blood and lead.

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ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻's avatar ستایشگر خیبر شکن 🚀🔻 @pastures.bsky.social
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Today I learned

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So "Democrats on Bluesky" is your focus group? Vs "the Biden supporters at the 4th BBQ?"

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Don't you read the polls? Most democrats didn't want him to run in the first place.

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Detritus Books's avatar Detritus Books @detritusbooks.bsky.social
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We are living in the funniest of all descents into authoritarian nightmare.

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Democrats want him to step aside, that's a pretty big deal

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.

AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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Like upper middle class lawyer types

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