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Joanie

@creaturesrule.bsky.social

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New refugee from the wrong side of the tracks. 🚫DMs Retired Peds RN, Mom, Aunt, Grandmom. Clear seeing leads to right action, said by all the wise ones. Put dogs in all leadership positions. That would fix the world. ❤️✌️💙💙💙

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · Dec 3

Days gone by but still as crisp and clear in my mind as every winter morning feeding warm mush.

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 29m

🤗❤️✌️

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Patricia @pattidezgn4u.bsky.social · 1d

Who gives a rat's 🐀 arse what the Kremlin Annex says
Not me ✌🏽

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 3d

This is a REALLY good video that gets into the *specifics* of how AI is degrading our information environment and putting truth further out of reach for the average person / the population as a whole

🎃 🧟 Prof. Dr Beth Singler 👻 🎃 @bvlsingler.bsky.social · 3d

I walked into the lounge last night to find my teenage son watching this. We have long admired @kurzgesagt.org and found their videos to be extremely illuminating. But this one in particular I think is so important right now!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

www.youtube.com

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 55m

Thanks for sharing this. The data centers AI needs are horribly degrading the environment, polluting air, gobbling electricity…

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 1h

Please share far and wide.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 2d

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 1h

Nice shout out to London. ✌️

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

Today I arrived on the red eye to London Heathrow, took the Tube to my hotel, dropped my bags, hopped on a Lime Bike to cross town, recorded a podcast with New Scientist, then walked an hour (through Hyde Park) back to my hotel. This city is wonderful and I am so tired.

See you tomorrow, London! 😴

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 1h

And they thanked me, with tears in their eyes. Big, strong men!

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Guy Who's Trying ⁸⁶⁴⁷ @jacobgood.bsky.social · 1d

Now hold on. I love the idea of my $100 medication being free AND sent with a check for 400 dollars.

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Dan Thiell @danthiell.bsky.social · 1d

I hate when I've hit my deductible and my medication is merely free.

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 1h

😂

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 1h

😂😭😂

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

Every time he does this a calculator somewhere in the country spontaneously bursts into flames

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "We're gonna be reducing the cost of medicines by 100%, 200%, 300%, 500% and even more than that."

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 2d

In Trump's America, you're a hell of a lot more likely to lose your healthcare due to Trump's tax giveaways to billionaires, than because an emergency room doctor patched up an undocumented immigrant.

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats to the happy couple, Kenny and Unicorn! So fun 😁❤️
And fuck ICE

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 3h

Except Natasha was smart…..

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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🍁Dr. John E Rock @johnerock.bsky.social · 5h

Brilliant

Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 6h

Why can't we do that here?

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Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 4h

So unbelievable. I thought nothing would surprise me.
Wrong.

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 4h

Awesome! Do you ever video it to share? Besides riding a horse I have never had so much fun! Times stops and it’s just wow! I didn’t ski til I was almost 40. Couldn’t afford the trips.

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe rfk’s disinformation could be true just this once?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 4h

‘Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.’ Poe
Not quite accurate these days.
This thread is a good reminder.
Things are so weird…

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

This is AI.

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for this reminder. ✌️

Joanie @creaturesrule.bsky.social · 4h

Quick thinking!

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Activate Maine💪🗓️ @activatemaine.bsky.social · 1d

The NO Kings DAY
ECONOMIC BLACKOUT
October 18th
No shopping
No spending
Shut the Country Down
Stand in Solidarity

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