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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 5m

Amie took this photo of the cat next door with my phone

The cat is like, who the hell are you buddy

A tortie mix (?) cat sitting on a cat bed in the window of the apartment next door, looking directly at the camera with a somewhat sour expression

Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 4h

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 4h

I need like 5-7 extremely silly/snuggly therapy dogs to swarm me, stat

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 13h

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6h

This whole thread.

Catastrophic insurance ONLY works if you have the money to save in an HSA so that if you do have a catastrophe, you can pay the incredibly steep deductible, and also so that you can cover the cost of preventative care yourself. Otherwise it can still bankrupt you.

Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 6h

The reality is that catastrophic insurance is in fact just paying for insurance AND paying for your care out of pocket in most cases. And making people avoid preventative care because of the cost is how you end up in that catastrophe.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know why some people struggle with the idea that other folks experience life differently. What you find tedious, someone else cherishes as ritual or routine. This is basic people stuff y’all.

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 15h

It’s been years since this happened tho, like the wire degraded

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes I would hear her say my name in my head out of nowhere, clear as a bell, and then she would call me 5 minutes later and ask if I was ok

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 15h

She always knows when I’m fucked up even if she doesn’t understand what she’s picking up anymore

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 15h

I called my mom and it was bad. I ended the call almost in tears but I tried really hard to hide it, and even through the dementia she caught my extremely tiny voice wobble when I said I loved her and she asked if I was crying and and I lied and said no

And that made me cry harder after I hung up

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

Friendsmo enged with Mist
EARNEST HOPE is my best triendl
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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 1d

I am officially out of steam and there is still so much to do

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 1d

I just wanna be doing this

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 1d

Sad, stressed, tired

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 1d

Back in Flatville. Time to do more unpacking and cleaning

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

It’s really cool that whenever men start doing the stuff women have been asking them to do forever — reading feminist literature, being in touch with fashion, listening to “girl music” — they are immediately excoriated on social media, often by women!, for being big shitty predator fakers

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Ghost Astrid @disastridf.bsky.social · 1d

I had a hysterectomy years ago and kept my ovaries and I still get mittelschmerz. I’m 47. My doc told me the egg gets released and just goes into the void. Is this ever gonna be forever