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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 5h

It was a treat for you if you checked lol

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 5h

a cartoon bird is eating a worm in the dirt

Alt: A cute cartoon bird hugs a worm. In this metaphor, I am the bird, hugging my brain worm now that Emily solved it.

media.tenor.com

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 5h

Though this thread is dream content. Just like, weird word after werid word. Love.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 6h

I think it's tchotchke!

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Victoria McIntosh @vmcntosh.bsky.social · 7h

Reasons why I am not allowed to live in suburban areas: I see this, and even knowing they are dangerous murder machines, still think “kitty!”

Amanda Melin @amelinlab.bsky.social · 16h

Bobcat walked right across the road in front of me on my walk into campus this morning.

Oh, Canada! #urbanwildlife.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 1d

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.socia Fidel and your glorious #promptcombo #SimplePleasures. My second is from my collection "Othernesses":

Therapy

Listen, soft crash of my waves alter your brain patterns, feel my sand exfoliate, your skin as my unevenness makes floor walk harder, works your calves and thighs. A state

of meditation lulls, slows your heart beat, deepens your breath. My blue sky and sun shoot up your bodies feel good drugs, my heat and negative ions ensure reboot.

I massage the vagus nerve in your neck, enough for all this to happen. Watch fish in rockpools provide aquariums check your stress, rejuvenate a hug and kiss.

I'm health resort, recommunion, refresher, renewer, good reunion.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 6h

Trudeau is still living rent-free in the brains of the National Post's brass, clearly.

Justin Trudeau ‘just too vanilla’ for Katy Perry, says Canadian ‘super fan’ who voted Conservative
'To be honest with you, I think he kind of stole my thunder,' Braiden Palumbo said of the former PM

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 6h

Please help me spell the word that keeps coming into my brain as touchka but is not that, and refers to knickknacks. Oh god, IS it knickknacks? Brain fog is real yo.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 6h

Lucky you.

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Queen of Land @queenofland.bsky.social · 20h

ooooof. It's #portfolioday but very few are using alt-text so I don't feel the need to boost or reskeet any of it. A pity, and I get it - sometimes I don't have the energy.

But since Link is gone it's like y'all forgot yourselves.

So 1) bring Link back and 2) label your stuff so it can be shared

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

Great first step!

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

Being curious is the first step in discovering new possibilities. (It is hard to be curious when depressed...so take the windows when you find them).

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

This is in no way surprising if you've been paying attention, but if you aren't, this is going to be a shocker.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, unholy enshittification.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit

sumokirby (Chris) @sumokirby.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING (from October 3)
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

www.marketwatch.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 1d

The brother of federal Industry Minister, Mélanie Joly, is the president and CEO of Intelcom, a courier company that exploits subcontracted delivery drivers for pennies per package. It stands to benefit mightily from the dismantlement and privatization of public postal services in Canada.

The privatization crisis at Canada Post

Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the gov...

canadiandimension.com

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

Psst, alt text would be nice for such a joyful illustration.

(ALT TEXT A cute dog doing a cannonball into a pile of fall colored leaves, which are piled in the bottom half of the cover.)

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

The alt text on this makes it readable. (Thanks!)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mhairi Forrest🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social · 2d

alt text

On medical ideology and the production of docile doctors: The politics of care in an age of authoritarianism
Eric Reinhart
Independent Scholar, Psychiatrist, and Psychoanalytic Clinician, Chicago, IL, United States
ARTICLE INFO
Handling Editor: Susan J. Elliott
Keywords:
Ideology
Ethical disobedience
Moral injury
Burnout
Medical morality
Depoliticization
Health capitalism
Medical fascism
Social medicine
ABSTRACT
The United States is the only high-income nation that does not provide universal healthcare as a fundamental public service to its citizens. Instead, it uses public funds to prop up a for-profit health system that enforces thousands of preventable deaths each year. By fueling public distrust, inequality, and resentment, this has played a major role in the erosion of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism that is now posing direct threats to medical science and clinical care. To understand the persistence of this system despite the harm it causes requires an account of ideology within the U.S. medical profession and medicine's function as an ideological state apparatus and disciplinary training ground for neoliberal subject formation for both doctors and patients. By considering the wide-ranging effects of American medical ideology, its uses of morality, and the depoliticization of health and care it instills, this essay challenges the discourses of "burnout" and "moral injury" as explanations for growing demoralization among U.S. healthcare workers. Against this backdrop, the essay considers American medical training's relation to systems justification, the production of docile bodies and docile doctors, the suppression of dissent, and the political significance of immanent critique within medicine. It concludes with an argument for the construction of a new medical ideology organized around the principles of social medicine conjoined with applied practices of ethical disobedience, solidarity, and entwined clinical and political care.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 1d

Evergreen request.

Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 2d

Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to information, & you can even update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 2d

I spent a lot of the survey castigating them for NOT EVEN DEFINING AI and then asking about basic literacy. It's headshakingly bad.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Vought is a key figure in the world of Trumpism, with a rare – and dangerous – combination of ideological zeal and operative competence, a fully committed extremist causing massive harm to millions of people.

But if you only listened to The Daily, you wouldn’t get any of that.

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