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@thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social

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poetry, dad jokes, gaming, music, disability stuff 👩‍🦽 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 IG: @thebodyreclaimed

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · Jun 1

Haven't posted any poetry in a while. A recent favorite from a slam competition earlier this year:

'song of samsara'

This one gets intense, yall. But if there is one guarantee in life, it's that you will suffer.

#slampoetry #spokenword #spokenwordpoetry

song of samsara - 03-02-2025 @ the writer's den RVA

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 2d

Spanberger is doing great keeping her cool. WE-S is embarrassing herself.

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 2d

sweet baby jesus

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 3d

Can't wait to buy all of those cheap goods I wouldn't be able to afford after AI destroys my job

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 5d

Licensing boards should not allow therapists to provide conversion therapy. Certainly not social work boards.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Most studies have found conversion therapy to be ineffective as well as harmful for LGBTQ+ youth.

A Colorado therapist is arguing that a state law banning the therapy infringes on her free speech. https://wapo.st/3KvupX7

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 5d

AI is the number one reservation I have when I think about teaching. I don't know if I have the patience.

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 6d

Yes. Horror =/= extreme violence and gore

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 7d

*screaming* there is nothing spooky about hot weather

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 7d

it's gonna hit eighty degrees today. this is bullshit 🎃

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 7d

With the 4k re-release, today we R all Mr Gay

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah I think this older NES box is an exception, avoiding the word cartridge was an early part of their marketing strategy after the Atari crash

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 7d

The authentic box this is imitating surprisingly does have that exact language. The Nintendo logo font is the only glaring problem, it's otherwise pretty accurate.

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 7d

My guess is it's just a reproduction box in an effort to sell a console as being CIB

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 10d

y'all know about ENM but wait until you try EM (ethical monogamy). it's this thing where you only date and fuck one person in a committed relationship at a time.

i can't help it, im a rebel.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11d

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained.
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 10d

They saw the government shutdown and wanted in on the action

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 11d

So the complete opposite of supply and demand. Great.

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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 11d

Honest ignorant question, why does the increased power demand of a single location raise the cost of power for everyone?

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12d

just guess

cait (and adonis)
@cait.bsky.social
i'm sorry to say this but if you send me a tiktok of a person telling a story into the camera for 3 minutes i'm not fucking watching it. just in general ever. people need to start typing things up again because i can read so much faster than you can talk and i'm not wasting my precious time on this
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amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 11d

It certainly sounds more like something you would expect to hear if we were badly losing a war with another country.

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, no

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 11d

Hearing Turnstile on the local mainstream rock station, immediately followed by Mumford and Sons is infinitely stranger than Knocked Loose being on Kimmel.

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 12d

in other news, Max is now HBO Max

amber nelson @thebodyreclaimed.bsky.social · 13d

Also, confirmation that this is the same DK from DKC, so if Cranky Kong is the OG from the arcade (heavily implied in DKC) then Pauline is probably a descendant of the original Pauline (her grandmother she keeps referencing?).