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Matt

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He/Him/SJW; Father, husband, feminist, roleplayer, aspiring woodworker. Hell, aspiring to be better at all five. Beer snob.

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Greg Pak's avatar 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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Laurel Krahn's avatar Laurel Krahn @windowseat.bsky.social
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I will never understand how people are so chill about getting SARS-CoV-2 or giving it to other people given any case (even an asymptomatic one) can lead to disabilities folks may have to deal with for the rest of their lives. The stakes are high! (Wear a freaking mask, keep up on vaccination, etc.)

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Ed's avatar Ed @notdred.bsky.social
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Looks like the movement to switch candidates is officially dead so you know what time it is — time to band together and drag our boy across the finish line by any means necessary

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Andrew D Thaler's avatar Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.

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Hard to argue for the existence of a loving all-powerful creator when ANY of its creations are able to maim or murder one another, especially at indiscriminate scale.

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Oh man, I never considered this. Every time I heard jokes about the Taco Bell "effect" I assumed it was just a little sprinkling of xenophobia. Never considered that as a vegetarian, my heavily bean-based diet might be giving me advantage on CON saves.

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I'm always so weirdly excited when I see board games randomly in the background of pictures.

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Jesse Berney's avatar Jesse Berney @jesseberney.bsky.social
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The lesson from France is that sometimes you have to hold your nose to defeat fascism. You can't beat it with your own ideological purity.

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One in 66 of Americans have COVID right now. Statistically many of them will end up with Long COVID and some of them will 'fall by the wayside' (such vile language from the nation's epidemiologist). Avoid crowds, wear a mask, meet outside, test often. Don't be the cause of suffering for others.

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Jennifer K.'s avatar Jennifer K. @pdxjenni.bsky.social
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We! Never! Stopped! Getting! COVID!!!! What the actual SHIT is this headline?????? There has never been a time, in the last 4.5 godforsaken years, when we didn't have people getting COVID!!!

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C.H. Romatowski's avatar C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social
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This from Mount Sinai really made an impression on me. Really smthg that even being sufficiently aware of symptoms as to report them on a questionnaire does not necc make a dent in ppl’s self-conception as unaffected by Covid—some so convinced of it that they offer to help research in that capacity!

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Matt's avatar Matt @whorrak.bsky.social
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If I remember correctly, the halo strap was an optional accessory.

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Jose Molina's avatar Jose Molina @josemolinatv.bsky.social
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In case you think Project 2025 doesn't affect you or anyone you know, the plan calls for doing away with Social Security and Medicare as we know them. This will 100% hit you eventually, and it will instantly take money out of your parents' and/or grandparents' pockets.

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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seriously I cannot get enough. cry more. cry harder. understand that as long as people draw breath the opposition to fascism is stronger than you. whatever your reasons for being a fascist, know every time that your gains will be short ones which you'll relinquish in tears every. fuckin. time

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My only issue is that for long term wear, the straps have to be set perfectly or I feel like it slowly slides up my chin. Still sealed but slightly uncomfortable.

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Courtney Milan's avatar Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
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ACAB. The penguins are innocent.

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Cunty McCuntFace 🍉 🇾🇪 🇸🇩's avatar Cunty McCuntFace 🍉 🇾🇪 🇸🇩 @ladysuckfist.bsky.social
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Honestly I've got nothing left to say that I haven't already been screaming into the void for the last 1,578 days

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin's avatar Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com
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A squire rushed in to the great hall.

"Someone," he shouted, "has taken the sword from the stone!"

The assembled knights halted their dinner.

"At last, a king?"

"Who?"

"I don't know," the squire said. "The sword is gone!"

Elsewhere:
"This," Indy muttered, "belongs in a museum.
#MicroFiction

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Bilbo Yaga 's avatar Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social
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Heat intolerance is a long covid symptom & side effect of many meds, from blood pressure to mental health meds… which are common post-covid needs. The rise of fascism during climate collapse & a covid surge is a real bad time to spread illness & disability. Wear an n95 in public. Resources in 🧵

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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I once wrote a fact check of a Morgan Spurlock book. He included what he said was a direct quote from the FDA that aspartame causes cancer. I checked the footnote. An FDA newsletter did publish that claim — but *only to specifically refute it*. That’s basically how Barrett quotes Madison here.

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wade of mutilation's avatar wade of mutilation @waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

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Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

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Andy Famiglietti's avatar Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.bsky.social
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The robot is not a bargaining unit member and must not be given bargaining unit work. Faculty unions should be looking over their contracts right now, figuring out exactly how to grieve or otherwise oppose the introduction of these systems.

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Jaunty Art's avatar Jaunty Art @jauntyart.bsky.social
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Saw this on mastodon and it is fantastic. AI in medicine

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Sarah J. Jackson's avatar Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social
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As the daughter of a Black Vietnam vet who suffered life long pain from a service related injury but was constantly turned away from care by the VA I can’t even bring myself to read this. My father eventually died of a treatable condition at 62 b/c he was sent home to take ibuprofen by a VA doc.

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Sardonicus 's avatar Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu
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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell

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Pantsly's avatar Pantsly @pantsawe.bsky.social
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We are in a summer wave right now, lots of people are getting it and maybe getting tested but then giving it to their family who doesn't go get tested since it's harder to get now. Stay safe, mask up!

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ryan cooper's avatar ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com
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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

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Ward Q. Normal's avatar Ward Q. Normal @wardqnormal.bsky.social
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My response when anyone asks me if I've seen the latest news:

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Steuard Jensen's avatar Steuard Jensen @steuard.bsky.social
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I watched for a couple of minutes, but Diana was lying still with her eyes closed to conserve energy (not asleep). She is smart and creative and cool, and long Covid is tragic and awful and still a thing you risk every time you're infected. These are the reasons I still mask most of the time.

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adi🍉's avatar adi🍉 @adigoesswimming.bsky.social
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What's the word for that? Huh. I wonder why they're not using the word for that…

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Matt's avatar Matt @whorrak.bsky.social
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I'm assuming the existing ones will still work

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AFAIK there is no time limit (beyond having to wait 10 seconds). Just need to "accept" (with no excuses appended) :)

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That's what I get for being a bard

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Taka Hanazawa's avatar Taka Hanazawa @takahanazawa.bsky.social
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POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

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