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@diamondqc.bsky.social
· Nov 13
pinned posts are kinda new and I haven't yet found the spoons to write an <about me> post so for now, a quick guide for new arrivals wrt getting follow backs & engagement:
welcome! great to see you here 🥰
✅ include a profile pic even if it's just something fun like mine
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welcome! great to see you here 🥰
✅ include a profile pic even if it's just something fun like mine
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Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.
Why? It was hurting their profits.
They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.
Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.
Profit over people.
Why? It was hurting their profits.
They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.
Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.
Profit over people.
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.
Why? It was hurting their profits.
They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.
Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.
Profit over people.
Why? It was hurting their profits.
They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.
Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.
Profit over people.
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Let me know when you see it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Let me know when you see it.
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New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
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Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth dive into the significance behind #Frankenstein ’s extraordinary costumes, brought to life by costume designer Kate Hawley.
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth dive into the significance behind #Frankenstein ’s extraordinary costumes, brought to life by costume designer Kate Hawley.
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OMF's CRC at Montreal published a review paper on ME/CFS #genetics and #epigenetics. It provides an overview of the role of DNA in how likely someone is to develop ME/CFS (susceptibility) and in how #MECFS affects the body's function (pathophysiology).
📖 Read now: ow.ly/HjW650XpmeW
📖 Read now: ow.ly/HjW650XpmeW
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
OMF's CRC at Montreal published a review paper on ME/CFS #genetics and #epigenetics. It provides an overview of the role of DNA in how likely someone is to develop ME/CFS (susceptibility) and in how #MECFS affects the body's function (pathophysiology).
📖 Read now: ow.ly/HjW650XpmeW
📖 Read now: ow.ly/HjW650XpmeW
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Don Farrell asked why after all this time, the #NACC still hasn’t made any major findings of corruption.
“That’s an indication that the system is working. There is no corruption, & I say that's a good thing!”
Appalling response. It doesn’t even make sense. Makes my blood boil.
“That’s an indication that the system is working. There is no corruption, & I say that's a good thing!”
Appalling response. It doesn’t even make sense. Makes my blood boil.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Don Farrell asked why after all this time, the #NACC still hasn’t made any major findings of corruption.
“That’s an indication that the system is working. There is no corruption, & I say that's a good thing!”
Appalling response. It doesn’t even make sense. Makes my blood boil.
“That’s an indication that the system is working. There is no corruption, & I say that's a good thing!”
Appalling response. It doesn’t even make sense. Makes my blood boil.
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The 8 Dems who voted against ACA are embracing eugenics.
This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people.
Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance.
Many live in legislated poverty.
Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them
This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people.
Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance.
Many live in legislated poverty.
Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The 8 Dems who voted against ACA are embracing eugenics.
This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people.
Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance.
Many live in legislated poverty.
Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them
This decision will disproportionately harm disabled people.
Many Disabled people have pre existing conditions & won’t be able to afford insurance.
Many live in legislated poverty.
Guess we aren’t dying fast enough for them
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DHS/ICE used an Olivia Rodrigo song for a video on Instagram and after calling them disgusting, Olivia's team allegedly pulled the song for use on Insta so the video has no background music.
This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.
This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
DHS/ICE used an Olivia Rodrigo song for a video on Instagram and after calling them disgusting, Olivia's team allegedly pulled the song for use on Insta so the video has no background music.
This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.
This is the second time she's done this - previously it was a tiktok song.
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Anarchism: Doesn't Sound So Silly Now, Does It? An introduction
November 10, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Anarchism: Doesn't Sound So Silly Now, Does It? An introduction
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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Taking Caturday to the next level...
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Taking Caturday to the next level...
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“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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There’s a disturbing lack of outrage over ICE’s aggressive tackling and arrest of a non verbal autistic man in Chicago.
Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months.
Disabled lives matter too!
Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months.
Disabled lives matter too!
Disabled People are Being Mistreated in ICE Detention Facilities
Why is no one talking about it? Where's the media? Where's the public outcry? Another example of the pervasive nature of ableism and how society views disabled people as expendable.
www.disabledginger.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 AM
There’s a disturbing lack of outrage over ICE’s aggressive tackling and arrest of a non verbal autistic man in Chicago.
Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months.
Disabled lives matter too!
Just like the lack of outrage over Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held in solitary for months.
Disabled lives matter too!
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Offshore processing is a cruel and secretive policy built on corruption, cover-ups and lies. It tortures people, destroys lives and drains hundreds of millions in taxpayer money for nothing but harm. #60mins #nauru #auspol #albanese #60minutes
November 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Offshore processing is a cruel and secretive policy built on corruption, cover-ups and lies. It tortures people, destroys lives and drains hundreds of millions in taxpayer money for nothing but harm. #60mins #nauru #auspol #albanese #60minutes
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the nurses were sacked and are being prosecuted after speculating about imaginary Israelis to one person, who posted a video. The nazis making direct threats to Jews on the steps of parliament are not arrested, not investigated, not charged, and not prosecuted.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bankstown nurse sacked over viral video has charge of threatening to kill Israeli patients dropped
Sarah Abu Lebdeh yet to enter plea for other charges related to video in which she and a colleague allegedly said they would refuse to treat Israeli patients
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 AM
the nurses were sacked and are being prosecuted after speculating about imaginary Israelis to one person, who posted a video. The nazis making direct threats to Jews on the steps of parliament are not arrested, not investigated, not charged, and not prosecuted.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW police have extensive powers to stop nazi rallies and to criminalise nazis doing nazi things.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
NSW police accused of ‘sickening’ double standard over neo-Nazi rally as Jewish groups demand answers
Pro-Palestine and climate activists join Jewish voices criticising ‘entirely inconsistent police responses’ and ‘unfathomable approval’
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:11 AM
NSW police have extensive powers to stop nazi rallies and to criminalise nazis doing nazi things.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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7) So rather than providing social safety nets, illness benefits, and medical services to people who have suffering in their lives, psychology participates in this bureaucratic effort to avoid those commitments.
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
7) So rather than providing social safety nets, illness benefits, and medical services to people who have suffering in their lives, psychology participates in this bureaucratic effort to avoid those commitments.
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6) Psychologists and their psychiatrist cousins have been at the forefront of characterising unexplained illnesses as psychiatric problems.
This then becomes a political question as such explanations are popular among people who are concerned about spending money on disability.
This then becomes a political question as such explanations are popular among people who are concerned about spending money on disability.
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
6) Psychologists and their psychiatrist cousins have been at the forefront of characterising unexplained illnesses as psychiatric problems.
This then becomes a political question as such explanations are popular among people who are concerned about spending money on disability.
This then becomes a political question as such explanations are popular among people who are concerned about spending money on disability.
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5) Prof. Hughes then applies this to ME/CFS and medically unexplained conditions. The idea in psychology is that if a person cannot be established to be physically ill through some kind of biomarker, then it must be psychological.
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
5) Prof. Hughes then applies this to ME/CFS and medically unexplained conditions. The idea in psychology is that if a person cannot be established to be physically ill through some kind of biomarker, then it must be psychological.