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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 4h

Ooh! I could totally go to that!

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 4h

Connections
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 4h

Abolish the police.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 16h

Why are businesses against the bottle deposits? Because of the 10¢?

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 16h

Fun!

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tekla 💜✨ @tekla.bsky.social · 18h

this really is 80% of what they’re mad about, though. young people with progressive politics and funky queer-coded aesthetics - and in particular, young women who are opting out of heterosexual expectations.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 16h

I haven't thought about Lucy in years. Wow.

JOE DANTE'S INFERNO @oldtobegin.bsky.social · 21h

hey @squishythings.com we did it

a person posing in front of lucy the elephant

lucy the elephant, an elaborate roadside attraction, from the front

lucy the elephant, an elaborate roadside attraction, from the butt

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 20h

BRB, headed to r/RHOP to see the reaction.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 22h

“Real Housewives of Potomac” star Wendy Osefo and her husband, Eddie Osefo, were arrested Thursday in Maryland after being indicted by a grand jury for allegedly falsely reporting a home burglary and theft.

'Real Housewives of Potomac' star Wendy Osefo and her husband arrested on fraud charges

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the couple fraudulently reported a burglary and theft at their Maryland home.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 20h

Use the chapters to skip ahead to the hornet. The bees' behavior is mesmerizing.

kottke.org @kottke.org · 1d

I love the synchronized waves that these Himalayan giant honey bees use against their hornet predators. [youtube.com]

Bees vs Hornets: Nature’s Most Synchronised Defence System | BBC Earth

Hornets can overpower a single bee with ease, but facing an entire hive is a different story. The bees’ synchronised Mexican wave is a hypnotic display of unity and defence that keeps even the fiercest predators at bay. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub #Bees #Hornets #Himalayas Watch more:

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

What I'm asking archaeologist to do here is meet with a group of students who are 9 times out of 10 working on a robotics club project through First Lego League. These students will ask you a bunch of questions on a video chat, usually after school or during their lunch break. It's fun!

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

SquidFacts.net

a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 1d

Was he doubting that you were a Spud Stud™?

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 1d

Not that I know. Hunh.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 1d

I know nobody likes a braggart but I did visit two different Costco Gas locations in two different states today.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

This was a point of conflict for so many years between my East Coast ass and my Midwesterner husband. He thought the interruption was rude but I was like, I'm adding to what you're saying! And he just kept feeling disrespected, too bothered to enjoy to my enthusiastic engagement.

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2d

The politeness question also asks us to infer that the interrupter either doesn’t care what the speaker has to say or assumes they know what the speaker will say, but I find that more often than not, it actually indicates excitement or passion or deep curiosity about the topic being discussed.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2d

Still, the insistence that interrupting is always impolite doesn’t leave room for the nuances of banter, cadence, or the tendency of some people to monologue until they’re interrupted because they can’t break the chain of their own thought and need the conversation partner to do so.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

It is absolutely white supremacy that treats cooperative overlap as "wrong" or a threat while treating hostile, enforced silence as expected norm during a conversation — especially between friends or loved ones! So *many* of our cultures, and neuroatypical interactions, rely on overlap as support.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

Connections
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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

a woman is sitting on a couch making a funny face and pointing at something .

Alt: Maya Rudolph winking, blowing kisses, and doing heart hands

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 2d

I was speculating about custom freemotion quilting, ruler work, etc., not panto. Outlining each plate right inside the edge would be the most secure way of attaching them at the quilting stage.

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 3d

I'd probably fully secure them to the top before quilting (due to my own limitations) by gluing them down with Elmer's under the edges and straight/decorative stitching. If one were to rely on quilting only—which is valid!—they'd have to catch every edge pretty closely.

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Mary @marybadthings.com · 3d

Pray for Dolly Parton, y’all!! people.com/dolly-parton...

Dolly Parton's Sister Says She 'Was Up All Night Praying' After the Country Icon, 79, Postponed Shows amid Health Issues

Dolly Parton's sister is asking for prayers for the country icon a week after she postponed her Las Vegas residency due to unspecified "health challenges." "Last night, I was up all night praying for ...

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Sacha B @shouldhavezagged.com · 4d

Was wondering why the latest @yourewrongabout.bsky.social episode sounded familiar. It's because I heard the story on 'This Is Love' in August. I'll still listen to Blair tell Sarah about it!

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