Lielac
@lielac.bsky.social
She/they | Aspiring crazy cat lady | Cheerfully bad at video games | Highly Autistic Person | Won 0.0002% of a Hugo | Gayer than a tree full of monkeys on nitrous oxide
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Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Thinking of that time when my dad, himself a doctor, was thrown by a horse on a trail ride. Punctured his spleen, internal bleeding, got him to an ER just in time. He lived another 20 years. With two hours delay, probably wouldn't have.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
We rushed to *nearest* ER. Not comparison-shop for ER prices.
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It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
It's like they are actively trying to kill the tourist industry.
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Paige Thomas, 28 – who finally received her autism diagnosis last week after three years on an NHS waiting list – described the development as “in your face, Becky!”
See?! Autistic woman resists urge to wave diagnosis in face of everyone she’s ever had beef with
A newly diagnosed autistic woman has miraculously refrained from contacting everyone who’s ever misunderstood her socially, sources have confirmed. Paige Thomas, 28 - who finally received her autism…
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December 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Paige Thomas, 28 – who finally received her autism diagnosis last week after three years on an NHS waiting list – described the development as “in your face, Becky!”
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tl;dr: Disney went above and beyond for years, *well* past the legal standard and an absolute world leader at accommodation, but people are fucking assholes. But because of that history, even just pulling back to the legal standard feels like a betrayal.
December 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
tl;dr: Disney went above and beyond for years, *well* past the legal standard and an absolute world leader at accommodation, but people are fucking assholes. But because of that history, even just pulling back to the legal standard feels like a betrayal.
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This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This picture has been making the rounds again, and is being misidentified again.
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
This is a GOOSEFISH.
This is NOT a tasselled wobbegong shark.
It’s a great pic. I get why people are very excited about it. But it’s as easy to give it the right name as the wrong one.
fullfact.org/online/tasse...
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Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?"
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?"
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
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I am not the originator of this insight, but: we do not actually know what is ADHD and what is post-traumatic stress, because our society does not produce untraumatized people with ADHD.
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I am not the originator of this insight, but: we do not actually know what is ADHD and what is post-traumatic stress, because our society does not produce untraumatized people with ADHD.
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One issue I will be prescriptive about: the dictionary says so, so it's true
die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
One issue I will be prescriptive about: the dictionary says so, so it's true
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I keep seeing videos that are like "THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT/YOU DON'T WANT TO EAT/THIS IS WHERE IT REALLY COMES FROM" about food and i dont know how to explain to people the concept of "cooking is a transformational process that turns one thing into another"
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I keep seeing videos that are like "THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT/YOU DON'T WANT TO EAT/THIS IS WHERE IT REALLY COMES FROM" about food and i dont know how to explain to people the concept of "cooking is a transformational process that turns one thing into another"
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every time I see an A-list actor in an ad for some slot machine phone game, I think about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation doing advertisements is framed as basically the highest form of humiliation an actor could go through.
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
every time I see an A-list actor in an ad for some slot machine phone game, I think about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation doing advertisements is framed as basically the highest form of humiliation an actor could go through.
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I tried to make a joke about Ulysses but I just couldn't bring it home
I'd make a joke about Iphegenia, but I'm afraid it'd blow.
I had a joke about Jacob/Yisrael, but I really wrestled with posting it
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I tried to make a joke about Ulysses but I just couldn't bring it home
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It is FASCINATING to see all the ways in which needing healthcare, of any kind, is pathologized so that we just won't seek it at all.
(My attempt at a diagnosis ended with "You don't OBVIOUSLY have it, you need more sleep and a better calendar." I'm not trying again, not in the current atmosphere.)
(My attempt at a diagnosis ended with "You don't OBVIOUSLY have it, you need more sleep and a better calendar." I'm not trying again, not in the current atmosphere.)
December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It is FASCINATING to see all the ways in which needing healthcare, of any kind, is pathologized so that we just won't seek it at all.
(My attempt at a diagnosis ended with "You don't OBVIOUSLY have it, you need more sleep and a better calendar." I'm not trying again, not in the current atmosphere.)
(My attempt at a diagnosis ended with "You don't OBVIOUSLY have it, you need more sleep and a better calendar." I'm not trying again, not in the current atmosphere.)
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“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“If it goes away when you take your meds it’s probably not a character flaw” is something I have to tell myself often.
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Heads up, if you use an Abbott FreeStyle continuous glucose monitor, visit www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.h... to see if your specific device is under recall
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Heads up, if you use an Abbott FreeStyle continuous glucose monitor, visit www.freestylecheck.com/us-en/home.h... to see if your specific device is under recall
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as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
Unsurprisingly, procrastinating all day has not made the thing I need to do spontaneously resolve itself. Maybe if I procrastinate another half hour it will?
December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
as usual this did not work, nor did "do something you want to do only slightly less than you don't want to do the thing", but "take your ADHD meds and finish the five-minute task you've been procrastinating on all day" remains undefeated as a tactic
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Read up and down the rant, but this is glorious and I want to send rahaeli a fruit basket now.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
I would have blocked you for that comment, too. I have only not blocked you now because I am serving as Krista's anger translator. Please develop at least one (1) other social media interest or hobby other than posting about US politics and at least one (1) additional frame of reference.
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Read up and down the rant, but this is glorious and I want to send rahaeli a fruit basket now.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
😭It was so beautiful 😭
Just get a hobby, folks. Just one. you just need one.
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People shouldn't have to protect their neighbors from being disappeared off the streets by masked and unidentifiable thugs, but the thugs aren't gonna stop, so the fact *so many* people are putting their bodies in between the thugs and their neighbors, all over the country, is beautiful.
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
People shouldn't have to protect their neighbors from being disappeared off the streets by masked and unidentifiable thugs, but the thugs aren't gonna stop, so the fact *so many* people are putting their bodies in between the thugs and their neighbors, all over the country, is beautiful.
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Abolish ICE straight to The Hague (yeah, yeah, I know), but the community response to their attempted "shows of force", in multiple cities, is genuinely giving me a glimmer of hope in all this.
1) legendary energy
2) you don't want to be passive aggressively chased through winter conditions by a Minnesotan, I hope they have nightmares 😂
2) you don't want to be passive aggressively chased through winter conditions by a Minnesotan, I hope they have nightmares 😂
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Abolish ICE straight to The Hague (yeah, yeah, I know), but the community response to their attempted "shows of force", in multiple cities, is genuinely giving me a glimmer of hope in all this.
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This hit me straight in the feels
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This hit me straight in the feels
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Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole."
billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
December 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Anne Boyer's "What Resembles The Grave But Isn't" is tattooed across my soul. "This is not your grave, get out of this hole."
billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
billmoyers.com/story/poetry...
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That’s why you need to identify it as propaganda - they want you to be afraid, but they’re guys you can beat. They’re guys you can chase out of your towns. Believing they’re implementing fascism and not just creating fascism-flavored content gives them power. Call it what it is and you deflate them.
Not near Miller's goals--thank god. But it reads cavalier when people are picked up and sent to torture prisons abroad. The regime is weak and also terrorizing people and their children.
December 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
That’s why you need to identify it as propaganda - they want you to be afraid, but they’re guys you can beat. They’re guys you can chase out of your towns. Believing they’re implementing fascism and not just creating fascism-flavored content gives them power. Call it what it is and you deflate them.
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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And phone call frauds often target seniors. Go after fraudsters and their methods.
If you shut down the people and systems, you protect the general public. And you’ll have side benefits of slowing down disinformation. Fraud spreads disinfo to make people susceptible. 3/2
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If you shut down the people and systems, you protect the general public. And you’ll have side benefits of slowing down disinformation. Fraud spreads disinfo to make people susceptible. 3/2
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December 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
And phone call frauds often target seniors. Go after fraudsters and their methods.
If you shut down the people and systems, you protect the general public. And you’ll have side benefits of slowing down disinformation. Fraud spreads disinfo to make people susceptible. 3/2
bsky.app/profile/nick...
If you shut down the people and systems, you protect the general public. And you’ll have side benefits of slowing down disinformation. Fraud spreads disinfo to make people susceptible. 3/2
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