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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 8h

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 20h

I love students so much

On this day
7 years ago
Kerry
Oct 11, 2018
*student giving presentation on her work on a wildlife rescue team*
Student: manatees are really dangerous because they weigh 1000 pounds and lose all awareness of their surroundings when mating

Other student: *under breath* oh wow same

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 22h

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 19h

ty to the friend who sent $50! $225 to go

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 19h

hey yall! sry for not updating bc my Crohn’s has been flaring BAD but woke up to a nasty surprise - i have to find $375 for rent by 11:30AM TODAY. last week they gave me more time but it’s 11am.

help me stay off the street 🤪

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Silver the borzoi cuddling against my leg

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly I would have felt comfortable doing penicillin again but it gives me more nausea than amoxicillin so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 13h

I had strep on the 23rd, treated with penicillin, symptoms fully resolved for ~2 weeks, then I re-caught it from my kid. So she was thinking “within 30 days you have to add beta-lactamase coverage” and I was like “that’s for otitis media”

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 14h

nobody ever takes me up on my offer to culture the strep throat and coauthor a paper with me on the first-ever lab-verified case of penicillin resistance 😔

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 14h

the NP does get points for being willing to let me have the final say over the antibiotic though

she wanted Keflex and I wanted amoxicillin and she was like “sure, if the narrower-spectrum antibiotic that you picked doesn’t work that’s a you problem” (she did not say this but I read her mind)

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 20h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 14h

this location thinks I take a baby aspirin and a multivitamin with folate and that’s IT

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 14h

feel very vindicated in this decision by who my nurse practitioner was, she would have been overwhelmed and neither of us needed that

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 14h

it’s a long med list and I’m tired and none of it changes the clinical management of Strep Throat 2: Electric Boogaloo

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 14h

confession: I went to urgent care and they still had my med list from February 2022 and I didn’t update it with the MA

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21h

RFK fired the CDC official (w/decades of experience) leading the measles outbreak response. It's been decades since we've had such a large outbreak. And just to ensure they they can spread the measles outbreak even farther, they also fired the leadership for the center focused on immunization.

Figure showing the largest measles outbreak in the US in decades. There are over 1500 cases as of October 7 2025

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 17h

Ghost still needs a winter coat! There is one on his wish list, or if you can chip in $5 he can save up for one. It’s starting to get cold.

Ghost @carverredacted.bsky.social · 6d

Still need a coat because right now all I have is sweaters, a hoodie, and one ill fitting suit jacket.

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PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I googled “patron saint of frogs” for a bit and then immediately abandoned the bit because I would so much rather actually talk about St. Ulphia the 8th century hermit who cursed her local frogs for keeping her up at night and making her sleep through church

Her hermitage was located in a marshy wetland, inhabited by frogs whose loud croaking kept her up all night. One day, she was so tired that she slept through when Domitius knocked at her door, and he, thinking she had already gone on ahead, left without her. Legend states that Ulphia placed the frogs in the area around her under interdict as a result of their loud croaking, which kept her awake at nights.
A 19th century hagiographer noted that the frogs in the area around the oratory of Saint Ulphia were, indeed, very quiet. However, if these frogs were taken elsewhere, they became boisterous once again.
At the end of her life, she formed and directed a community of religious women at Amiens.
In iconography, she is depicted as a young nun seated in prayer on a rock with a frog in the pool near her.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 1d

CDC insiders say between 1,100 and 1,300 employees are being cut. Even government filings cite 1,100–1,200.

Entire programs may disappear.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 1d

the falconer? no, we haven't heard anything from him in a while. i'm hearing this for the first time. folks, our gyre is beautiful, some are saying the widest and getting wider. one of the widest ever, in terms of gyres.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

many ppl are saying - have you heard this yet? it’s true - many people are saying that life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. it’s true. you’re hearing it more and more.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

This is a land of wolves now? Wow. I didn’t know that. You’re just now telling me for the first time. The rule of law lived an amazing life. What can you even say?

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Ben Monreal @benmonreal.bsky.social · 2d

In the 1950s, National Geographic wanted Kodachrome nature photography that really popped in print. One trick was to put foreground subjects (hikers, etc.) in bright colors; it was called the "red shirt school". Dick Lasher's Pinto makes this the greatest red shirt school photo of all time.

Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 3d

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

(posts a chart showing prices on groceries are at the highest point in history) you fool. You rube! How dare you say grocery prices are high! You can clearly see the second derivative... bsky.app/profile/kevi...

kevinwglass.bsky.social @kevinwglass.bsky.social · 2d

Inflation for food was legitimately much worse between January 2021 and January 2024 than it has been for the last six months, that's why

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 2d

lesbian vampire who just goes around curing endometriosis by eating women out

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 3d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 2d

Ghost: “can you tell me what my labs mean?”
Me: *looks at labs for about 5 seconds* “Yeah they mean go to the ER right now”

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