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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4h

The modern GOP is just bad at running things. Modern conservatism as a whole - you can’t put a party that doesn’t believe in the very concept of a public good in charge of public goods.

Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 4h

This is delusional. You can't support a hospital on only an ER - they're not the profit center of a hospital! ERs take enormous charity care losses due to EMTALA and have to be cross-subsidized by more profitable service areas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 4h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Spamton Quotes @spamtonquotes.bsky.social · 1h

BELIEVE IT OR !!

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 7h

the fact that “having children” is the norm has caused a lot of harm. Not having children should be the norm, and then you only get them if you really want them

Shubbabang @shubbabang.bsky.social · 1d

The image is a six panel black and white comic

Panel 1- A small child is being told "You'll want kids when you're older!" The child responds with "I don't think so..."

Panel 2- The same child, now a teenager, is being told, "You'll change your mind when you're older." To which the teen responds, "I doubt that"

Panel 3- Now an adult, someone off screen asks them, "Aren't you thinking of having kids?" To which they respond, "Nope"

Panel 4- The same person, an older adult now, is being told, "better have kids soon, or it'll be too late!" to which they respond, "That's fine"

Panel 5- Now elderly, they are once again asked "Don't you feel like you missed out?" to which they say, "Still nope."

Panel 6- They are now in their death bed, clearly close to death. The nurse says, "Shame you didn't have kids, don't you regret it?" To which the person says "You know what just kill me already"

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 5h

a fascinating writeup on the making of a set of widely distributed IDF propaganda videos, specifically identifying assets they used. there's something incredibly unsettling about the creative ethos here. stolen assets. no actual intelligence information at all. just hubris and pure fabrication.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

Others assets came from scans made by the Scottish Maritime Museum of their boat-building workshop which was downloaded (via @sketchfab.bsky.social) and reimagined by the IDF adornments for underground missile factories.

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「 RHEL 」 @gaussbarrels.art · 9h

hello i’m maintaining as much calm as possible but my cat isn’t drinking water and is throwing up nonstop. i need at least 250 for an abdominal x ray and 90 for the appointment. i don’t know how much treatment is. i don’t know what else to do. my kofi and vgen are both linked in the original post

A plump brown tabby cat. She is very cute

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 4h

#RECALL: Tempo USA Recalls Ambiano Electric Pressure Cookers. The pressure-cooker lid can be opened before sufficient steam pressure has been released, causing hot contents to escape, posing a risk of burn injuries. 4 reports of severe burn injuries. Full notice: www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

Recalled pressure cooker model numbers: 98527 (6L-PC), 93550 (KY-318B), 96775 (KY-318A).

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

I would go further and say that everyone deserves basic necessities to live whether they have a job or not.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 4h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 4h

Portland you are cool

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 8h

"stop saying yuri"

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

I was told if I married a woman it would go away. Newsflash: it didn’t. It doesn’t work. It will never work. Full stop. Anyone peddling it deserves to have their licensure revoked and shamed.

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 12h

its amazing how red he can get

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sereni 🔪 @lottiesfolklore.bsky.social · 1d

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the aesthetic of the future

Kyle wolf
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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 17h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 23h

The condemnation has been uniform, broad & clear. He must go.

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary www.npr.org/sections/sho...

"As physicians committed to evidence-based care, we are alarmed by the direction of HHS under Secretary Kennedy."

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

www.npr.org

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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 1d

Sky News: 'Scientists develop first-ever blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The researchers, from the University of East Anglia, hope the breakthrough could pave the way for a similar test to diagnose long COVID'

news.sky.com/story/scient...

Scientists develop first-ever blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome

CFS is a disabling illness characterised by extreme fatigue that is not relieved by rest.

news.sky.com

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Kiwi-peep @kiwipeep.bsky.social · 3d

Spamton sleeping with his Tenna plush 😴💕

#spamton #deltarune

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Plus-Job9351 (birthday OVER) @plus-job9351.bsky.social · 4d

spamton 4 back for more
#spamton

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 17h

I honestly think Stephen Miller being such a shrill little bitch is a major obstacle to wearing down the people’s morale, people dont get intimidated into shutting up when Big Brother is furiously screeching that he’s not three apples tall

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sawyer 🌲🎃 @kagoutis.bsky.social · 15h

can we stop even jokingly referring to porn as sinful and just call it like virtuous instead. if you draw porn and post it you should be like im virtuous as fuck and youd be right

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17h

“At a recent trans rights conference in TX her assistant scheduled 30-min one-on-one chats w/any attendee who wanted, a process that brings her joy. She shows younger ppl what’s possible, that you can be a Black trans person who has no desire to conform to gender norms & can survive to be an elder.”

Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 17h

@samtlevin.bsky.social did a really lovely profile and interview with Miss Major in June of 2023:

"Her doormats say “Welcome bitches”, “Fuck off”, “Come back with a warrant” and “Home, where the ho & me come together”."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

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DragonRaiderX9 @dragonraiderx9.bsky.social · 19h

I think it's noteworthy that the people who say things like "we have to sacrifice some groups to save others" or whatever are never talking about themselves. They never suggest that they should take the bullet for others.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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