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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 4h

Whoa. I really thought this inhumane sack would outlive us all.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 18h

Good luck to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in tomorrow's NYC election!

Good luck to California in tomorrow's redistricting vote! @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 2d

This is so true. It's also true for our behavioral health professionals. They struggle day in and day out.

Who takes care of the people who care for us? Why do we expect superhuman resilience from these people?

Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 2d

Moral distress should NOT be seen as an occupational hazard of practicing medicine.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 2d

California!

Special election day is this Tuesday for Prop 50! That's 2 days from today.

Vote YES.

Fuck Trumpism.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 3d

I don't like being sick on Halloween. This is not fun. I demand my money back. 😭

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 4d

Merry Samhain, glorious folk!

a pumpkin with a face carved into it is lit up

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 5d

Witching.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 5d

Local duck pond at sunset. Sky, trees, and brush reflecting in the water. Low fountains on either side of a small island of trees and brush. It's calm. Geese, ducks, coons, and other such birds reside here, but they're not very visible in this specific shot.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 5d

Does the TV doctor not know the definition of the word "insurance"?

Also, I will just say that the new CMS communications and materials are lackluster, IMHO.

But, what do I know? "I am just a [local government worker], Jim, not a [federal regulator]." ✨

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 6d

Got tired of all the negativity all around.
Went rogue at work this morning. Getting good engagement and fun reactions 😁
#positivityintheworkplace
#goodtrouble
#resistanceisnotfutile
#givethanks
#bekind

Blank office wall of light grey with a simple wall clock showing about 10:35 in the morning. On the wall, there is a makeshift banner with a fall leaves border, saying "Wall of Thanks." Below it, there is an instruction sheet that's ot readable in the picture, but it just provides people with instructions on how to leave thanks for their coworkers. All around the wall, there are pastel coloured post-it notes that people had added to the wall. Since the time I took the picture, the number of notes has increased and continues to grow.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 6d

White rabbit has been rescued and is now safe. If anyone in the Simi Valley area is missing a white rabbit with red eyes that is litter trained, let me know.
#lostpet #simivalley

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

But, really, anyone missing a rabbit in 93065?
#lostpet #simivalley

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

"So she was considering in her own mind..., whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

Lots of passive aggressive things happening in the women's bathroom this morning. 🎪

Taped to bathroom stall: a red sheet with black text that reads "Please Make Sure EVERYTHING Flushes Before You Exit!" and a yellow sheet below that with red text that reads "This Includes SEAT COVERS! PLEASE Be Courteous of Others!" In this last sentence, "of" is crossed out with a black pen and "TO" is written below it.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

Had to leave the rabbit at the park. It was exceptionally skittish and stressed, munching on dried leaves. It will probably feed a cayote today.

a blue and white penguin standing in the rain with the word pengw in the corner

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

Gotta love it when the spouse's J-RPG pulls out an obscure vocabulary word. Today's gem?

*Obsequiously.*

Used in a sentence: "MAGA heeds Trump's words obsequiously."

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

But, really, anyone missing a rabbit in 93065?
#lostpet #simivalley

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

"So she was considering in her own mind..., whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 7d

"So she was considering in her own mind..., whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 9d

It's Halloween season: an excuse to misuse makeup like I'm 5.

A selfie of me bending down and looking very stern. I drew tribal-like lines and dots with black eyeshadow, red lip liner, and silver eyeliner on my face.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 10d

Love this tracker from UPenn. My favorite is the expense breakdown. USDA Farm Service spending is up 788.7% YTD. Farmers can STFU. TIPS interest is up almost 200% over the past 90 days, understandably. Wild data. Great charts. Props to econ/fin nerds. 👍

budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...

Real-Time Federal Budget Tracker — Penn Wharton Budget Model

The Real-Time Federal Budget Tracker reports the federal government’s daily cash operations, including daily spending, receipts, and deficits.

budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 11d

Happy birthday 🎉

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🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 11d

This tree likes to pretend we get fall in SoCal.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 12d

And, now, the project will cost more, too. Up by a smidge of a few dozen millions in just a couple of days.

I am so shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 14d

Aha, so, the new WH ballroom project has already grown in size from a capacity of 650 to 999 people, and the construction hasn't received all the approvals...

Just you wait. We'll end up with an ugly ass, half-built Trump Tower as the East Wing.

🤮

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 12d

I attended yesterday's LexisNexis Protege webinar. All I could think about as I watched Protege draft legal eagle documents was just how the Spreadsheet was supposed to revolutionise work and how much paper pushing we still do. AI is a glorified Spreadsheet iteration, not the cotton gin, people.

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 13d

"Now, I know this might sound crazy -
But I've smelled the plastic daisies,
And it seems we've found ourselves in Hell."

- Avenged Sevenfold, "Mattel," 2023

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 14d

I just have to say that I am exceptionally proud of Moldova's strides toward EU membership.

And, I also realized that my passport expired. 😂

🤘Joy 🇲🇩🇺🇦🦂🪄 @joylamb123.bsky.social · 14d

My least favorite part of grief is that it just doesn't end. Time does not heal like people say - it's a myth. I just go on and play pretend like the gaping hole isn't there.

Selfie of me, pretending like all's dandy.