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Laura Dell
@lauredhel.bsky.social
Boorloo. Crochet, cats, chickens, the occasional rant. Yarn dragon. Disabled. Soapmaking, cheesemaking, gin, coffee, books. Medicine, linguistics, lefty as f*&k. She/her.
How's that gutting of the CDC and food safety regulations working out?

www.nbcnews.com/health/recal...
ByHeart baby formula recalled amid 10-state outbreak of infant botulism
Thirteen babies have been hospitalized with the illness, which can be fatal, federal heath officials said. No deaths have been reported.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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My social life to this point would have been so, so much easier if there were Legos every bar, good going Portico Brewing
October 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
People! I'm crocheting a table centre and need colour advice.

Natural, Terracotta, and Avocado are locked in. What to use for a fourth? Bark, Bottle, Grape, or Rose?

#crochet
October 9, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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My kid’s dental appointment is actually literally at 2.30 and I feel like we are a punchline to a dad joke
September 22, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I've only seen snippets of the Charlie Kirk fascist memorial rally celebration funeral gala mourning festival fireworks party

But it's really fucken weird
September 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
September 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Alleged texts in which he allegedly confirms.
Tyler Robinson indictment has now been filed, including texts in which he confirms the bullet etchings were all just a "big meme": www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
September 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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A TikTok video that appears to show gigantic crowds at an Australian anti-immigration protest has signs of being an AI creation.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fa...
Fake video showing massive March for Australia crowds was created with AI
A TikTok video that appears to show gigantic crowds at an Australian anti-immigration protest has signs of being an AI creation.
www.aap.com.au
September 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I sent an email this afternoon to the reporters of that Wall Street Journal article asking them to change the headline and body of the article to confirm trans people had nothing to do with the motives of the assassin. No response. Instead, WSJ posted an editor's note and kept the headline. Classy.
September 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article
September 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The Groyper Wars
September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The US mainstream media desperately needs to find some commenters younger than whatevertf-this-is *waves hands* to talk about internet radicalisation, meme culture, gamer culture, groypers, black-pilling, and so on.
September 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I keep humming "the sun'll come out tomorrow"

youtu.be/ZLfe_aVpSXE?...
DAVE (1993) - Tomorrow
YouTube video by Faith !
youtu.be
August 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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So many many months ago, a bidder in this charity auction won the custom crocheted blanket item I offered. She gleefully selected her colors and then showed extraordinary patience as I blew multiple aspirational completion dates.

But it's done and ready to ship.
August 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Whether Trump's dead or not is one question. Another one is: if he's sick enough that he shouldn't be operating heavy machinery, should he really be in charge of the nukes?
August 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Trump has entered a quantum super position and is both alive and dead until we open the box.
a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field with the words whats in the box behind him
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a field with the words whats in the box behind him
media.tenor.com
August 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Social media posts are falsely claiming Australia has funded Hamas to the tune of $130 million, but this figure represents humanitarian aid for Gaza and Lebanon.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/no...
No, Australia has not sent $130m to Hamas
Social media posts are falsely claiming Australia has funded Hamas to the tune of $130 million, but this figure represents humanitarian aid for Gaza and Lebanon.
www.aap.com.au
August 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The WA measles outbreak has blown out to 13 cases, with widespread exposure sites.

PLEASE get your vaccines up to date, and wear a respirator in public spaces if you can't do so (eg if immunocompromised), and if you're at all unwell.

www.health.wa.gov.au/News/2025/pe...
Measles alert July and August
Two locally acquired cases of measles, and one case of measles in a returned overseas traveller, have been identified in WA.
www.health.wa.gov.au
August 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
If you like rectangular shawl patterns, and don't mind puff stitches, you should check out the GenmaichaTea shawl pattern. #crochet
August 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It's been a while since I woke up to the political shit hitting the fan in Australia, but here we are. First time post-WWII that we've expelled an ambassador

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Australia expels Iranian ambassador after ASIO says it directed antisemitic attacks
Iran was behind at least two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil, ASIO believes.
www.abc.net.au
August 26, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Sadly I could not, in conscience, apply to a women's fellowship that explicitly excludes trans women. :-(
August 21, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Men: "waah my male loneliness epidemic"

The same men: whatever this is:
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
August 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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The growing array of queer takes on Jane Austen in YA: bookriot.com/lgbtq-ya-jan...
Queering Jane Austen In YA Literature
Read your way into some of the best recent LGBTQ+ YA retellings of Jane Austen.
bookriot.com
August 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM