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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 4h

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Rx Opioids Are Not a Cure… and Neither Is Anything Else — Pain News Network

By Neen Monty They deliver it like it’s some kind of mic drop. “Opioids are not a cure,” they say. But here’s the important thing: Almost nothing in medicine is a cure. Insulin doesn’t cure di...

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 4h

The suburb where I grew up has a bodega-ish store, and I’m not sure how they stay in business. I only rarely see people going there. (It’s NJ, so I wouldn’t be entirely surprised to find the answer is mob-related. There have been a few “How do they stay open?” places with that answer.)

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 4h

There were plenty of them in DC and New Orleans. Not so many in Cincinnati, but I've seen a few.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 4h

I've lived in DC and New Orleans, and both had convenience stores that sold hot food. I haven't seen it as often in Cincinnati, but there are some.

Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 4h

I'll agree with this take -- plenty of cities have stores like bodegas, but people saying they're just like gas station stores or 7/11 are wrong.

Victory Over the Sun @hrtraulsen.bsky.social · 6h

just bc this discourse has happened before and I wanna get my take on the record AND with the caveat that I am not traveled well enough to in any way speak authoritatively but! as an idiot on the internet - bodegas are *not* simply convenience stores, they are *not* specific to ny but are distinct..

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 7h

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 4h

I heard it before the internet, but I don't remember it being "the" word for them until more recently. (One example: In the Heights does use "bodega," but it's just referred to as "the store" much more often.)

Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 4h

I once tried to explain this whole online argument to my dad (born and raised in Manhattan, now living in the suburbs.) He suggested Kim's Convenience as a non-NYC example of basically a bodega.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 6h

Great reporting from Canada on school options (or lack thereof) for disabled Jewish kids; I can definitely say this is also a problem in the US.

Professor Power @powerofacademe.bsky.social · 6h

The second Jewish day school we tried, told me that they could "not support" my son going into grade 4, which is how we wound up in public school. Outcomes/'performance' for students from day schools are amazing - because the high needs kids are pushed out along the way. thecjn.ca/news/why-don...

‘Why don’t they want me?’ Families say neurodivergent kids are falling through gaps in Jewish day schools

Day schools say they don't have the same resources as public schools to meet the needs of every child.

thecjn.ca

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 7h

Among much else, that's not how fractions work.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 7h

There are at least three or four possible tribes just in India.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 7h

Bodies are very often stupid.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 9h

There was a guy for a while who ran in every election on the The Rent Is Too Damn High Party.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently most states used to do it that way, but NY and Connecticut are the only ones left. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elector...

Electoral fusion in the United States - Wikipedia

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 10h

In this election, the Working Families Party listed the Democratic candidates for most of the city-wide positions, but has their own candidates for some of the smaller district races.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 10h

It's basically that each party gets to list who they endorse. It's mostly used for "I want to vote for this person, but I don't support the larger party, so I'll vote for them under the minor party that also endorsed them."

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 10h

Each state runs their own elections and sets their own rules for them, so we've got fifty different systems which each have their own quirks. NY is weirder than most, but pretty much every state has something that'll look weird to people from other states.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 10h

Right. They’re just added together for him, because the Mamdani listed by the Democrats and the Mamdani listed by the Working Families are in fact the same person.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 10h

The way ballots work in NY is weird, but it’s the way that they’ve worked for years.

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 11h

these people are just pathologically stupid

@SethGRosenberg
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My experience voting in NYC:

1. No ID required
2. Zohran on the ballot twice in the top row
3. Eric Adams, who dropped out to avoid splitting the vote, still on the ballot
4. Cuomo in the bottom right corner, 2nd row

@fresco_inferno
in ny state multiple parties can endorse same candidate, which is why a candidate can appear twice. only one registered party that appears

@SethGRosenberg
A logical system would be you vote for a person + party, so all votes for Zohran #2 would go towards the 2nd party

I asked, and of course, if you vote for Zohran #1 or Zohran #2, they're added together for the Democrats

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 11h

But you can only vote for one candidate. So there are two different boxes that you can fill in that would be counted toward Mamdani, but you can only pick one of them.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 11h

It’s a weird thing specifically in New York elections: if a candidate is put forward by two different parties, they’ll be listed twice, because each party gets a column to list their picks. I haven’t seen any other states do it that way, but any who’s voted in NY before would be familiar with it.

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Jenni Tabler @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 14h

The faculty who say we should use AI to grade/give feedback because it's a way for us to "reclaim our time."

Line in the sand.

It isn't our time. It's theirs. If you have such little respect for your students and their time, quit.

Disrespectfully, the rest of us.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 12h

My targeted ads seem to think that I’m homeschooling a bunch of kids, and that I want to dress the girls in ruffles all the time. (I am an educator, but I have no kids, and I hate ruffles. I shopped for some presents for my little cousins and confused the algorithm.)

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 12h

Most recent numbers say 4.5 million, but roughly that, yeah.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 13h

And that same article claimed that bagels were invented in New York, because the first mentions of bagels served with cream cheese and lox were from NY.

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Callalily @callalily57.bsky.social · 13h

I do remember seeing one article that claimed invention, but that one was absurdly specific at defining “falafel” as specifically “falafel served in pita with this particular assortment of toppings, the combination of which isn’t often found outside Israel.” I haven’t seen it elsewhere.

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