Phira
@phira603.bsky.social
Formerly @phira from Twitter. She/her, USA. World's ending and stuff, but somehow I still have to shower and make dinner for the kids.
I've been SUPER struggling to fall asleep even though I'm exhausted. Mostly stress but partially heartburn. I had literally JUST fallen asleep when my 5yo woke up and came out to get me for [insert 5yo reasons]. Now it's almost 3am and I'm wide awake, vomiting, and debating calling in sick.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I've been SUPER struggling to fall asleep even though I'm exhausted. Mostly stress but partially heartburn. I had literally JUST fallen asleep when my 5yo woke up and came out to get me for [insert 5yo reasons]. Now it's almost 3am and I'm wide awake, vomiting, and debating calling in sick.
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Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
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Wakefield: Police Appeal to Public for Help Locating 60-Year-Old Woman Reported Missing - Norwood News
The NYPD is appealing to the public for help locating a 60-year-old woman who is reported missing from the Wakefield section of The Bronx.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Please share this. My mother has been missing since December 7th. She has severe dementia and we are just praying that she is found safely.
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A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
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Sask. woman considers MAID because she can't get needed surgery for rare disease | CBC News
For the past eight years Jolene Van Alstine has suffered from a rare form of parathyroid disease, normocalcemic primary hyperparathryroidism (nPHPT). It causes extreme bone pain.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 5:51 AM
A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead.
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere.
This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying
🧵
I posted this mostly jokingly but Google has been shockingly unhelpful. Does, uh, anyone actually know??
google "can you get a concussion from knocking skulls with a 5yo"
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I posted this mostly jokingly but Google has been shockingly unhelpful. Does, uh, anyone actually know??
google "can you get a concussion from knocking skulls with a 5yo"
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
google "can you get a concussion from knocking skulls with a 5yo"
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if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
December 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket
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I still wish this would enter the consciousness of the general public
December 8, 2025 at 4:42 AM
I still wish this would enter the consciousness of the general public
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Thread, long but very worth it.
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thread, long but very worth it.
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Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
December 8, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things
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This is an excellent and necessary use of Holocaust analogies.
Like, sometimes you should avoid Holocaust analogies. But not in this case. This is right on.
Like, sometimes you should avoid Holocaust analogies. But not in this case. This is right on.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany."
December 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
This is an excellent and necessary use of Holocaust analogies.
Like, sometimes you should avoid Holocaust analogies. But not in this case. This is right on.
Like, sometimes you should avoid Holocaust analogies. But not in this case. This is right on.
My lil baby was in his dance school's production of the Nutcracker today as a baby mouse, a snow flurry, and a farmer (watering the flowers at the start of their dance). He stole the whole show and was so so so cute.
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
My lil baby was in his dance school's production of the Nutcracker today as a baby mouse, a snow flurry, and a farmer (watering the flowers at the start of their dance). He stole the whole show and was so so so cute.
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Marvel could afford to just randomly send out a million dollar check to any one of the creators of multi-billion dollar franchises. And these artists deserve so much more than that.
Miles Morales co-creator Sara Pichelli says she does not get any royalties from the ‘Spider-Verse’ films, Insomniac games, or merch
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
"I don’t get anything … that's the saddest part of my life"
(via SiteJamesons | TW)
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Marvel could afford to just randomly send out a million dollar check to any one of the creators of multi-billion dollar franchises. And these artists deserve so much more than that.
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Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections Position Summary The Director o...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
Most public libraries are culling their physical media because it doesn’t circulate. If you want libraries to hold something, you need to check it out. Public libraries can’t just be warehouses for physical media you might want someday. Use it or lose it.
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚
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After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
After much research and development I have made an offline version of ChatGPT.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
Now you can save water and electricity while navel-gazing, and carry one of the world's most powerfully annoying AI chatbots in your pocket.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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News orgs must stress this in their coverage. The president does not have the power to overturn a constitutional right and the Supreme Court is behaving STRANGELY by taking up the question as a real controversy
Presidents can’t rescind birthright citizenship.
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December 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
News orgs must stress this in their coverage. The president does not have the power to overturn a constitutional right and the Supreme Court is behaving STRANGELY by taking up the question as a real controversy
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I had my students submit for extra credit a meme reflecting something they learned this semester, along with an accompanying paragraph connecting the meme to the course concept. There were some gems.
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I had my students submit for extra credit a meme reflecting something they learned this semester, along with an accompanying paragraph connecting the meme to the course concept. There were some gems.
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
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Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
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A gift for you: If you're a parent who is regretting letting the Elf on a Shelf into your home, here is a duty reassignment order you can show to your kids that the Elf was needed elsewhere. Printable png 8X10 300dpi so it can fit well on an A4 for non North American printers.
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A gift for you: If you're a parent who is regretting letting the Elf on a Shelf into your home, here is a duty reassignment order you can show to your kids that the Elf was needed elsewhere. Printable png 8X10 300dpi so it can fit well on an A4 for non North American printers.
Sometimes, you have to miss your work holiday party to take your child to a dance rehearsal, during which he has his second potty accident of the afternoon and then you have to take him home early.
December 5, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Sometimes, you have to miss your work holiday party to take your child to a dance rehearsal, during which he has his second potty accident of the afternoon and then you have to take him home early.
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I also think rigidly "biologically" defined gender is very useful for cis men who never want anyone to have an expectation that they could could change how they are cis men.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I also think rigidly "biologically" defined gender is very useful for cis men who never want anyone to have an expectation that they could could change how they are cis men.
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
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That's the part that sticks with me.
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
this is just murder, and pointless murder at that.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
That's the part that sticks with me.
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something.
Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!
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listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
listen
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply
I don't have any illusions about the United States military, what it does, or how many times this has happened before
but the fact that they sat there for 41 minutes, watched two scared, human beings desperately struggling to stay alive, and then murdered them has fucked me up so deeply