Kirby
@kirbytheawsum.bsky.social
Vermiculture worm mom. Public Healther. International politics & law follower. Art & music appreciator. Community cheerleader. Baggage mostly religious but not angry, just disappointed. Opinions my own.
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The United States scored a 58 — higher than countries like Russia, China and India, but still in failing territory along with them. https://bit.ly/4rsze4u
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The United States scored a 58 — higher than countries like Russia, China and India, but still in failing territory along with them. https://bit.ly/4rsze4u
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
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Voice From the Inside: A Celebration of PJP Writers & Five Years of Impact.
Event Details
Who: PJP alumni, readers and supporters, PJP team (including the co-founders)
When: 4-5 p.m. ET, Dec. 8, 2025
What: A celebration of PJP writers and five years of impact
Where: Virtually via Zoom
RSVP ⤵️
Event Details
Who: PJP alumni, readers and supporters, PJP team (including the co-founders)
When: 4-5 p.m. ET, Dec. 8, 2025
What: A celebration of PJP writers and five years of impact
Where: Virtually via Zoom
RSVP ⤵️
Voices From the Inside: A Celebration of PJP Writers & Five Years of Impact
Celebrate five years of powerful storytelling with Prison Journalism Project as we honor the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated writers.
celebrationofpjpwriters.eventbrite.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Voice From the Inside: A Celebration of PJP Writers & Five Years of Impact.
Event Details
Who: PJP alumni, readers and supporters, PJP team (including the co-founders)
When: 4-5 p.m. ET, Dec. 8, 2025
What: A celebration of PJP writers and five years of impact
Where: Virtually via Zoom
RSVP ⤵️
Event Details
Who: PJP alumni, readers and supporters, PJP team (including the co-founders)
When: 4-5 p.m. ET, Dec. 8, 2025
What: A celebration of PJP writers and five years of impact
Where: Virtually via Zoom
RSVP ⤵️
Holiday's stress me out because I'm about to get gifts from (and have to buy gifts for) people who barely know me that reflect how little they know me when what I need right now is new wooden spoons and underwear.
And I rather acquire those on my own, thanks.
And I rather acquire those on my own, thanks.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Holiday's stress me out because I'm about to get gifts from (and have to buy gifts for) people who barely know me that reflect how little they know me when what I need right now is new wooden spoons and underwear.
And I rather acquire those on my own, thanks.
And I rather acquire those on my own, thanks.
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Indeed.
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Indeed.
Tori Amos' Strange Little Girls has been speaking to me the past few years as observations on masculinity I'm now old enough to get.
Yes, even I Don't Like Mondays.
More art than album.
Her cover of '97 Bonnie & Clyde, is still terrifying (DV warning).
Yes, even I Don't Like Mondays.
More art than album.
Her cover of '97 Bonnie & Clyde, is still terrifying (DV warning).
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Tori Amos' Strange Little Girls has been speaking to me the past few years as observations on masculinity I'm now old enough to get.
Yes, even I Don't Like Mondays.
More art than album.
Her cover of '97 Bonnie & Clyde, is still terrifying (DV warning).
Yes, even I Don't Like Mondays.
More art than album.
Her cover of '97 Bonnie & Clyde, is still terrifying (DV warning).
If there are other families like mine, this question may save many a Thanksgiving dinner table.
I figure Ken Burns has one, maybe two big documentary series in him before he fully retires. What do you think they should be? My votes include Football, Hip-Hop, World War 1, Reconstruction (though Skip Gates did this one well), Iraq/Afghanistan, 19th Century Expansionism.
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
If there are other families like mine, this question may save many a Thanksgiving dinner table.
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a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 PM
a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation.
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch.
So who could you support?
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This got little attention at the time, but has become more relevant by the day …
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
The hate crime charge against Alexa Wilkinson for photographing vandalism of the New York Times building is a dangerous precedent, no matter what you think of Wilkinson.
Journalist or not, photography isn’t a hate crime
Gatekeeping over hate crime charges misses the forest for the trees
freedom.press
November 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This got little attention at the time, but has become more relevant by the day …
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
Criminalising the documentation of events is a direct attack on press freedom, and it puts journalists - including nyt journalists - at grave risk
Is the @nytimes.com backing this prosecution?
A natural extension to how in the first Trump admin, where they tried to remove references from sexual & reproductive rights & gender from UN agreements. And signed on to a nonUN "geneva convention" put together by "pro-family" christian nationalists.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A natural extension to how in the first Trump admin, where they tried to remove references from sexual & reproductive rights & gender from UN agreements. And signed on to a nonUN "geneva convention" put together by "pro-family" christian nationalists.
This looks so cool and is happening in Baltimore!
Thrilled to announce that the annual Graphic Medicine conference will be held in Baltimore, at Johns Hopkins University, on July 23-25, 2026.
We're now seeking submissions on the theme "Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure!"
www.graphicmedicine.org/2026-gm-conf...
We're now seeking submissions on the theme "Drawing Perspectives: Health Graphic Narratives Under Pressure!"
www.graphicmedicine.org/2026-gm-conf...
2026 GM Conference: Call for Submissions! | Graphic Medicine
The 2026 Graphic Medicine Conference in Baltimore, MD is now taking submissions for talks, presentations, and more.
www.graphicmedicine.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This looks so cool and is happening in Baltimore!
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this could mean several different things, none of which are reassuring
![“The question is, is it legal just to kill the guy if he’s not threatening to kill you and you’re outside an armed conflict? There are people who are simply uncomfortable with the president just declaring we’re at war with drug traffickers,” said a former senior official familiar with the debate.
“Internally, a lot of people are treating this like the rendition program,” the former official said. “It’s one thing to get rid of [Iraqi dictator] Saddam Hussein or [Libyan autocrat] Moammar Gaddafi for counterterrorism reasons. This is different.’’](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:maiw2rfujepnphhrejytvuu5/bafkreiecj776a2owo634tm7djoq4xyfwoteenbzzind7uxqlvnfkfiak7u@jpeg)
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
this could mean several different things, none of which are reassuring
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Under the radar, Google has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models.
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Under the radar, Google has added features that allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models.
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Relatedly: hire more religion reporters.
Please.
I'm begging you.
Please.
I'm begging you.
Okay that's four stories with my byline on them today can i go to bed now
November 21, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Relatedly: hire more religion reporters.
Please.
I'm begging you.
Please.
I'm begging you.
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Not that he cares about facts, but 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or fall within an exempt category, and thanks to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (🤮), immigrants generally have to wait 5 years to enroll in Medicaid.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
Secretary Kennedy, speaking to a bipartisan group of governors, has mixed up Medicare and Medicaid, and implied the people who will lose the latter are either unauthorized immigrants, dual eligible, or people who “don’t want to get a job.”
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Not that he cares about facts, but 92% of Medicaid recipients are working or fall within an exempt category, and thanks to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (🤮), immigrants generally have to wait 5 years to enroll in Medicaid.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
RFK Jr. is making shit up.
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Came out 2 weeks ago and I still dont understand why it isn't bigger news.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
Jeffrey Epstein Helped Israel Sell a Surveillance State to Côte d’Ivoire
Leaked emails show the details behind talks between Cote d’Ivoire and Israel shepherded by Ehud Barak and Jeffrey Epstein
www.dropsitenews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Came out 2 weeks ago and I still dont understand why it isn't bigger news.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-ep...
I am a verbose MF, but I swear none of the GRAs I work with read emails.
Its four bullet points long. Read the damn email!!!
You gonna make me schedule a meeting to walk you through four GD bullet points?
Its four bullet points long. Read the damn email!!!
You gonna make me schedule a meeting to walk you through four GD bullet points?
a woman is screaming in a black and white photo with the words `` internally screaming '' .
Alt: a scene from a black and white movie with a woman staring intensely and seething with rage and the words `` internally screaming '' .
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I am a verbose MF, but I swear none of the GRAs I work with read emails.
Its four bullet points long. Read the damn email!!!
You gonna make me schedule a meeting to walk you through four GD bullet points?
Its four bullet points long. Read the damn email!!!
You gonna make me schedule a meeting to walk you through four GD bullet points?
The French version of MeToo was "Balance ton porc" (Out your pig).
In telling a women "Quiet, Piggy", Trump is reminding people that he is, in fact, the pig.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7R...
In telling a women "Quiet, Piggy", Trump is reminding people that he is, in fact, the pig.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7R...
Angèle - Balance Ton Quoi [CLIP OFFICIEL]
YouTube video by Angèle
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November 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The French version of MeToo was "Balance ton porc" (Out your pig).
In telling a women "Quiet, Piggy", Trump is reminding people that he is, in fact, the pig.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7R...
In telling a women "Quiet, Piggy", Trump is reminding people that he is, in fact, the pig.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi7R...
I spent so many hours in my day trying to compose thoughtful profiles for online dating.
Here to find I only needed one line...
Here to find I only needed one line...
Do you live somewhere with nationalized healthcare??
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I spent so many hours in my day trying to compose thoughtful profiles for online dating.
Here to find I only needed one line...
Here to find I only needed one line...
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Central PA/ PA dutch has different version of Indian Corn Pudding that uses dried sweet corn and not cornmeal (Shout out Hanover's John Cope's). It was a favorite of mine at every community picnic. More side dish, less dessert. www.northcentralpa.com/features/coa...
Cope’s Dried Sweet Corn – A Thanksgiving Icon
In The Anthracite Coal Region and throughout Pennsylvania, we hold tradition in high esteem, particularly when it comes to our holiday meals. When families and friends sit down to celebrate
www.northcentralpa.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Central PA/ PA dutch has different version of Indian Corn Pudding that uses dried sweet corn and not cornmeal (Shout out Hanover's John Cope's). It was a favorite of mine at every community picnic. More side dish, less dessert. www.northcentralpa.com/features/coa...
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As @lastweektonight.com covered tonight, local public media stations across the country are in crisis. You can help out by going to adoptastation.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 AM
As @lastweektonight.com covered tonight, local public media stations across the country are in crisis. You can help out by going to adoptastation.org
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Don't forget their regular use of prison labor, including forcing some women to live on-site in a prison labor camp during the pandemic!
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a4...
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a4...
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Don't forget their regular use of prison labor, including forcing some women to live on-site in a prison labor camp during the pandemic!
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a4...
www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a4...
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‼️Margarita Robles denuncia un ataque de Israel contra cascos azules españoles de la ONU en Líbano
Margarita Robles denuncia un ataque de Israel contra cascos azules españoles de la ONU en Líbano
La misión de paz de Naciones Unidas en Líbano ha pedido a Israel que cese los ataques, mientras que el Ejército israelí se ha justificando diciendo que confundió a los cascos azules por "sospechosos"
www.eldiario.es
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
‼️Margarita Robles denuncia un ataque de Israel contra cascos azules españoles de la ONU en Líbano
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The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion.
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justice’s website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion.
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...
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The last line of this segment—after Rhea describes working from 2am to 8pm—is a gut punch.
Koppel: "Could you work any harder?"
Rhea: "If I could, I would."
If you'd like to help her family directly, Rhea shared her Chime ($Rhea-Connell) and Zelle ([email protected])
**updated with Zelle**
Koppel: "Could you work any harder?"
Rhea: "If I could, I would."
If you'd like to help her family directly, Rhea shared her Chime ($Rhea-Connell) and Zelle ([email protected])
**updated with Zelle**
November 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The last line of this segment—after Rhea describes working from 2am to 8pm—is a gut punch.
Koppel: "Could you work any harder?"
Rhea: "If I could, I would."
If you'd like to help her family directly, Rhea shared her Chime ($Rhea-Connell) and Zelle ([email protected])
**updated with Zelle**
Koppel: "Could you work any harder?"
Rhea: "If I could, I would."
If you'd like to help her family directly, Rhea shared her Chime ($Rhea-Connell) and Zelle ([email protected])
**updated with Zelle**