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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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That’s what it is! I was trying to put my finger on what feels so wrong about threads and you’ve hit the nail on the head!
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them@verolynne.bsky.social |
222 followers 428 following 1406 posts
Librarian and nerd. Genderfluid bisexual. Settler in Treaty 4. They/them.
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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That’s what it is! I was trying to put my finger on what feels so wrong about threads and you’ve hit the nail on the head!
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Ah, FB memories serving up some winners. This is what an itemized $1,330,000 NICU hospital bill looks like (only 96 days to get there). The apple is there for scale. Here’s why I share it. Too many ppl don’t know abt lifetime caps and pre-existing bans. Bc the STILL-VULNERABLE ACA banned them.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Pre-existing conditions bans: insurers reserved right to limit a person’s insurability if they had certain illnesses prior to getting insured. You know what completely innocent NICU babies are? Giant clusters of pre-existing conditions. The most vulnerable, the most innocent, the most uninsurable.
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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Lifetime caps: some insurers would say that once a person had run up a (lifetime) bill of $2M or so, they were no longer insurable, kicked forever to Medicaid and Medicare. NICU nurses told me abt pre-ACA kids who would hit their lifetime cap before their first breath of fresh air.
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Dave Infante
@dinfontay.bsky.social
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this is a major problem with coverage of alcohol's public-health profile. i'm sympathetic to and interested in the case against the "red wine paradox" etc, but the relative scope of individual harm is often wildly out of whack with the outlet's framing, to no one's benefit.
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Schmutzie 🦉
@schmutzie.com
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"Todd Loewen, minister of Forestry, Parks and Tourism [in Alberta], said it's normal government practice to have someone with a vested interest in an industry oversee its regulation…" He receives dividends from a business that leads bear hunts. *gesticulates wildly at Boeing*
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Capital B
@capitalb.bsky.social
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Texas is subsidizing $10 billion worth of new fossil fuel plants, citing new demand caused by climate change and population growth.
But in reality, much of the new demand is coming from supercomputers for AI and crypto.
Guess where the new plants will be placed:
capitalbnews.org/crypto-minin...
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Paul Dechene
@pauldechene.bsky.social
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Oh man… so there is an infill development coming to Cathedral & commenters in their FB group are setting their fucking hair on fire over it. So far though, as far as i can tell, this pic of a pic is all anyone outside of immediate neighbours to the property have seen. /1 #yqrcc
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Tony Corsentino
@notalegalrecord.net
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Radical idea? Make cycling a viable option for people who -aren’t gearheads -don’t care about the “joy of riding” -aren’t aiming to set personal time trial records -prefer street clothes that are neither skintight nor the color of traffic cones -are conflict-averse -also like to drive
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The Intercept
@theintercept.com
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“Hundreds if not thousands of innocent people may currently be incarcerated" based on junk science, Sotomayor said.
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Shepherd
@neolithicsheep.bsky.social
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Old gay furries literally run the internet infrastructure and it would not surprise me to find out that a non-zero number of them are encouraging young gay furries in this kind of pursuit or indeed engaging in it themselves.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
@montereyaq.bsky.social
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Smooth moves and all the groves! Risso’s dolphins bear scars on their bodies from toothy social interactions with their own kind, and from the beaks and tentacles of their preferred prey, squid.
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Ro Salarian
@rosalarian.bsky.social
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A comic about disability and drugs in America for #disabilitypridemonth
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Louisa
@louisathelast.bsky.social
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This is so true. I’ll never forget in 2008, seeing a white supremacist crying on the news after Obama’s election. He said “we used to BE somebody.” They miss the days when the mere fact of being white made them “better,” more important, than everyone else
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Chris Ingraham
@cingraham.bsky.social
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It's 2016 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2017 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2018 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2020 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2024 and Trump has a new tone.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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lmao FUCK THIS. Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Just called my rep AGAIN to tell them to sign onto this. Every D in the House should be a cosponsor. Yes, it won't pass the R-controlled House, but we have to make this an issue.
Please feel free to call your own rep if you feel similarly! You can find them here: www.house.gov/representati...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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welcome to life under a fascist govt with no oversight
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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ahhh this is a great story. Classic Wiswell. Read it
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Republicans are literally running against democracy: www.al.com/news/2024/07...
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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Good piece:
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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This is called forced expulsion and it is illegal
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Katie Tightpussy
@juicysteak117.gay
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patreon continually getting worse frustrates me greatly because it's literally a money printing middle-man service where all you've gotta do is keep the lights on and comply with banking laws, but instead they hoover up venture capital just to flail endlessly and make things worse for their users.
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Sage 🏳️⚧️
@trans.bsky.social
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The USA multiple times a year ever since Cuba became socialist in the 1960’s:
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Hey! Remember Republicans saying "Obamacare will make death panels to kill your grandma!"? Then you should probably go check out chapter 14 of the Project 2025 manifesto. Because every Conservative/Republican accusation is a confession.
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Jess Schomberg (they/them)
@schomj.bsky.social
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Long covid faq in video form from a public health / science communicator
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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Mari Ness, writer of things
@mariness.bsky.social
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Once again, I would like to thank our human ancestors for inventing cheese. And all the current humans who make cheese. And cheese.
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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that's such a happy puppy!
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Ryan Cordell
@ryancordell.bsky.social
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As I turn my attention to planning a fall graduate “Introduction to Digital Humanities” class, what DH scholarship published in the past 3-4 years would you insist should be included on such a syllabus?
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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The fun thing about racists who think Black people get handed jobs they don’t deserve is that they have almost always been handed jobs they don’t deserve
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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100% accuracy: “Open bargaining is good democratic hygiene, but it’s also a huge reality check on the way the world works. Few workers remain unmoved once they see how their bosses’ lawyer talks about them while rejecting a modest improvement to working conditions.”
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Daniel Roberts
@drobertsimg.bsky.social
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I just don’t understand how or why The NY Times would be so consistently sloppy, and yet always sloppy in a way that favors Trump. I cannot think of any reason why they would do that. I am stumped.
www.axios.com/2021/02/05/n...
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eli yudin
@eliyudin.bsky.social
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If this is carrots it might be the thing that finally breaks me
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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Apparently she was a spy when she was younger now... all the cartoon characters have been given back stories they reveal in conversations and stories
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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You're... against multilingualism because language learners annoy the fluent?
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Eric Muhr
@ericmuhr.bsky.social
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Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians -Nelson Mandela
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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folks, watch Leverage because it’s great and because it features one of the few truly aspirational fantasies we have left: watching rich assholes get their comeuppance
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KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter.com
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This is a fantastic piece on the catastrophically wasteful bullshit bubble of AI.
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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It came on in my showertime sea shanties so now I have Northwest Passage stuck in my head... 😒
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Alex
@alexamarchives.bsky.social
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The latter stings harder because things still matter
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Mx. Vero 🌹 they/them
@verolynne.bsky.social
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Is there a meaningful distinction between nihilism and doomerism?
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Jay Lionel
@jaylionel.bsky.social
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Disabled parking space in France…
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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This couldn't be better timed, since folks are feeling demoralized. Hard as it may be to believe, but politics can be good for mental health.
Authors Emily Amick and Sami Sage explain how in their new book. Check out my interview with Emily!
www.salon.com/2024/07/09/p...
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Void in a Cardigan
@jumbledcardigan.bsky.social
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Sad that crunchyroll won’t allocate staff the time and resources to be better mods and instead just got rid of comments. It doesn’t create a better environment if you get rid of the environment
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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No one involved in climate science or advocacy "needs to acknowledge" that mass extinctions result in new life millions of years later. They know that! They're trying to reduce human suffering, they're not confused about how geologic time works.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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Julie S. Lalonde
@julieslalonde.bsky.social
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If you're a parent who wants to protect your kids from sexual abuse, teach them : 1- The proper names of their body parts 2- The difference between a secret and a surprise 3- To prioritize their safety over notions of politeness 4- Teach them what a safe adult is - in detail
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Canadian Climate Institute
@climateinstitute.bsky.social
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Hotter days means lower labour productivity, more hospital visits, and higher excess deaths. Our report from 2021 on the health costs of climate change puts a dollar figure to some of these costs.
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D.N. Schmidt, Space Opera Author 🛸
@writepop.bsky.social
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Happy hundredth anniversary of this news headline from The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio. (July 9, 1924.)
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