meshell
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Baba jaga in the swamp. I knew you from that other place.
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· Sep 6
I just need a really good book. That’ll fix me.
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Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
Here's a good book on the skills I think will be useful to journalists and citizen-researchers of the future, written by my colleague @micahflee.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Today is a good day to pick up Micah's book. If you don't already have these skills, let me tell you they are going to be very useful in the near future.
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my unpopular opinion is that #adoption is not an alternative to abortion. And it is certainly not a solution to the lack of access to safe and affordable abortions. Compelling vulnerable people to relinquish their own children by ignoring their material needs is just another way to oppress them.
anyone who positions infant adoption as a poltical “safe zone” in the abortion wars is proposing to find common ground by standing on the necks of vulnerable and desperate pregnant people
December 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
my unpopular opinion is that #adoption is not an alternative to abortion. And it is certainly not a solution to the lack of access to safe and affordable abortions. Compelling vulnerable people to relinquish their own children by ignoring their material needs is just another way to oppress them.
Can anyone recommend me a contemporary doorstopper book (like ~ 500 pages) or something hefty?
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Can anyone recommend me a contemporary doorstopper book (like ~ 500 pages) or something hefty?
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
I’d like to read something massive (or a few somethings) until the end of the year.
I started looking at old biochem textbooks w/some fondness - please help me replace that with some fiction.
#booksky
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this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
December 20, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it.
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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According to “medical conservatives”, it’s “political” to criticize Bhattacharya in any way.
December 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
According to “medical conservatives”, it’s “political” to criticize Bhattacharya in any way.
I signed up for Consider This a while ago - it's a local news page that is run by one guy (who is also a professor of e-journalism, and a radio host) and it's often quite interesting to see what's going on.
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
Youth Wellness Hub opens and Nightstop program continues as services expand for young people in Northumberland - Consider This
One year ago, Rebound Youth Services launched a new program for homeless youth called Nightstop. The volunteer-based program
consider-this.ca
December 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I signed up for Consider This a while ago - it's a local news page that is run by one guy (who is also a professor of e-journalism, and a radio host) and it's often quite interesting to see what's going on.
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
consider-this.ca/youth-wellne...
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i’m honestly surprised some of the weirdos haven’t tried to relegalize indoor smoking
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 20, 2025 at 4:58 AM
i’m honestly surprised some of the weirdos haven’t tried to relegalize indoor smoking
Day 7 of tricking our cat into taking antibiotics - unfortunately he’s wise to me. Not even the churrus are completely doing the job anymore.
December 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Day 7 of tricking our cat into taking antibiotics - unfortunately he’s wise to me. Not even the churrus are completely doing the job anymore.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Buy now while there’s still money!
As the gift-buying reaches a fever pitch, consider the Southern Reach series for a loved one, friend, or even just the boss you hope to confuse long enough to quit on your own terms. Buy now while there's still money. Intros by Julia Armfield, N.K. Jemisin, Karen Joy Fowler, and Helen Macdonald
December 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Buy now while there’s still money!
Churros for hannuakah make a lot of sense and people should embrace that.
December 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Churros for hannuakah make a lot of sense and people should embrace that.
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"Died" is such a generic term though
Hear me out: guillotines
Hear me out: guillotines
December 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
"Died" is such a generic term though
Hear me out: guillotines
Hear me out: guillotines
A three word love story:
See you soon ♥️
See you soon ♥️
A three word love story:
I made cookies
I made cookies
A three word love story:
I got you
I got you
December 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
A three word love story:
See you soon ♥️
See you soon ♥️
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YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
On the third night of Hanukkah I realized I did not still have a stockpile of chocolate gelt.
You know a decade ago I made my own gelt, and wrapped it carefully in special foil. I’m absolutely not doing that this year.
You’ve come along way baby. 🙄
You know a decade ago I made my own gelt, and wrapped it carefully in special foil. I’m absolutely not doing that this year.
You’ve come along way baby. 🙄
December 17, 2025 at 3:27 AM
On the third night of Hanukkah I realized I did not still have a stockpile of chocolate gelt.
You know a decade ago I made my own gelt, and wrapped it carefully in special foil. I’m absolutely not doing that this year.
You’ve come along way baby. 🙄
You know a decade ago I made my own gelt, and wrapped it carefully in special foil. I’m absolutely not doing that this year.
You’ve come along way baby. 🙄
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The miracle was in the way the light lasted, not the weapons
December 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The miracle was in the way the light lasted, not the weapons
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i don’t think people understand the interconnection of the #adoption industry, child welfare systems, and the manufacturing of orphanhood. the overwhelmingly predominant cause children’s loss of family is not death but the state. most adoptees are people whose parents are dead *in law only.*
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
i don’t think people understand the interconnection of the #adoption industry, child welfare systems, and the manufacturing of orphanhood. the overwhelmingly predominant cause children’s loss of family is not death but the state. most adoptees are people whose parents are dead *in law only.*
Well, I think it’s safe to say that the speaker I was hoping would come to my bird club this year will neither respond to my email nor tell me they’re bailing.
I really appreciate busy people volunteering their time, but I wish that people could also just be honest about their ability to show up.
I really appreciate busy people volunteering their time, but I wish that people could also just be honest about their ability to show up.
December 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Well, I think it’s safe to say that the speaker I was hoping would come to my bird club this year will neither respond to my email nor tell me they’re bailing.
I really appreciate busy people volunteering their time, but I wish that people could also just be honest about their ability to show up.
I really appreciate busy people volunteering their time, but I wish that people could also just be honest about their ability to show up.
I'm so bored of people that are like "how could you not have known! fools!" beacuse people don't know stuff. Not everyone is eight steps ahead in cynical town.
Like, *I* personally have been in cynical town for a long time, but I'm not going to give people shit for not being as miserable as me.
Like, *I* personally have been in cynical town for a long time, but I'm not going to give people shit for not being as miserable as me.
December 13, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I'm so bored of people that are like "how could you not have known! fools!" beacuse people don't know stuff. Not everyone is eight steps ahead in cynical town.
Like, *I* personally have been in cynical town for a long time, but I'm not going to give people shit for not being as miserable as me.
Like, *I* personally have been in cynical town for a long time, but I'm not going to give people shit for not being as miserable as me.
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Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
December 12, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918
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1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government
Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.
dub.link
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
1/ The Carney government has fallen hard for AI hype, and it's endangering us all.
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
This unprecedented invitation of data-hungry tech execs inside our house (where all our confidential data is stored) is a disturbing betrayal of public trust.
dub.link/NDYvJU0
I derive an unhealthy amount of delight from tiny jam jars.
December 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I derive an unhealthy amount of delight from tiny jam jars.
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Me: I need you. I can’t go on without you. Why do you want to hurt me?
My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.
My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Me: I need you. I can’t go on without you. Why do you want to hurt me?
My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.
My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.