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YakHappy

@yakhappy.bsky.social

5.8K followers 10K following 2.2K posts

Green thumb wearing, foul word swearing! Retired environmental engineer who worked to prevent pollution. Support democracy! No theocracy! No to Citizens United! No DMs. If your profile is naked, I won't be following back.

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YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · Apr 2

In case I wasn't clear, I will not respond to chat requests unless I know you. Please don't waste both of our times.

YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 8h

I loved Nancy Drew too, but I really loved Margarite Henry's horse books!

YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 11h

That reporter could not have asked that question in the US or if they worked for any MSM.

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Windy101 @windy101.bsky.social · 11h

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YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 11h

Dang! I want to be compared to a beluga!

YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 11h

I read that someone's calling the Portland protests "The Inflatada". I nearly spit out my coffee!

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America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 1d

Once upon a time in a country that's fading from our minds...

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YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 12h

The possibility that all childbearing women would have to wear one is deeply disturbing. I do not put this past the American Taliban aka Christian Nationalists.

YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 12h

Substitute Trump and Miller for Daly, and it's still relevant.

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YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that's the upside of this tech, but hooboy is it rife with the potential to detect pregnancy. That tech could be used to track women's reproduction and pregnancy termination, in a state or country where a woman has no right to choose. Just say no!

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Seaweed-based tablet transforms menstrual cups into tools for health tracking

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new menstrual health product designed to complement and enhance an existing menstrual cup that is safer, easier to use and more environmentally sust...

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YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 12h

How 'bout them Mariners? The drought is over! #mariners #refusetolose

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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 1d

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YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny, miniscule typeface, too

YakHappy @yakhappy.bsky.social · 1d

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A graphic: What Americans die from is one column, with heart disease and Cancer taking up half of the column, and terrorism at less than 0.001%. Three columns representing media coverage (New York Times, Washington Post and FOX News) of these causes of death, wildly skewed towards homicide and terrorism at over half the height of the columns.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 1d

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 2d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..