SpryOldLorax
@spryoldlorax.bsky.social
I speak for me: a Liberal, a Democrat, & a Sane person who believes in facts, reality, science, healthcare, & civil rights. I fight for a sustainable future.
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Ecosystems: Windows/Android
Languages: English/C#/SQL
Liberal AF
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Pronouns: he/him
Ecosystems: Windows/Android
Languages: English/C#/SQL
Liberal AF
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
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"Only waste travels from rich countries to poor, and the supply is endless." When journalist @alexclapp.bsky.social began exploring the waste trade, he found it resembled something he had written about before: the drug market.
Where Does Plastic And Other Trash Go After We Throw It Away?
A journalist traveled to five continents to learn about the afterlife of our trash, and why most “recyclable” plastic actually isn’t.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Only waste travels from rich countries to poor, and the supply is endless." When journalist @alexclapp.bsky.social began exploring the waste trade, he found it resembled something he had written about before: the drug market.
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Why do non-Americans who don't know how our government works insist on sharing their ridiculous ideas?
Without RCV, splitting the Democrats into a center-left party & a "progressive" party like the NDP would just split the Democratic vote & benefit the GOP who'd be able to win blue states/districts.
Without RCV, splitting the Democrats into a center-left party & a "progressive" party like the NDP would just split the Democratic vote & benefit the GOP who'd be able to win blue states/districts.
November 25, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Why do non-Americans who don't know how our government works insist on sharing their ridiculous ideas?
Without RCV, splitting the Democrats into a center-left party & a "progressive" party like the NDP would just split the Democratic vote & benefit the GOP who'd be able to win blue states/districts.
Without RCV, splitting the Democrats into a center-left party & a "progressive" party like the NDP would just split the Democratic vote & benefit the GOP who'd be able to win blue states/districts.
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l bet some of y‘all think Kristi is joking.
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
l bet some of y‘all think Kristi is joking.
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Nope.
The Republicans hid this on purpose for almost a year and the MSM missed it.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Well, we certainly know the media turns a blind eye to stuff when it’s a Republican 👇, but President Biden can release detailed medical reports for years saying he doesn’t have Parkinson’s and that describe in detail his foot issues since he broke it in 2020 and you still get media doing this.👇
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Well, we certainly know the media turns a blind eye to stuff when it’s a Republican 👇, but President Biden can release detailed medical reports for years saying he doesn’t have Parkinson’s and that describe in detail his foot issues since he broke it in 2020 and you still get media doing this.👇
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best analog/interpretive model to understand White House health care policy is a junkie in bargaining/negotiating/bullying for their next (LAST!) packet of smack/meth which will definitely DEFINITELY get them on the path to not being a junkie ANYMORE. With the meth being cutting people's coverage.
📣 Trump apparently set to reverse himself on #ACA tax credits...but with several poison pills included...
acasignups.net/25/11/24/tru...
acasignups.net/25/11/24/tru...
Trump set to reverse himself on tax credits...but with several poison pills included
Via Politico this morning, a mixed bag of good & bad news on the enhanced ACA tax credit saga today: The White House expects to soon unveil a health policy framework that includes a two-year extension...
acasignups.net
November 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
best analog/interpretive model to understand White House health care policy is a junkie in bargaining/negotiating/bullying for their next (LAST!) packet of smack/meth which will definitely DEFINITELY get them on the path to not being a junkie ANYMORE. With the meth being cutting people's coverage.
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They are killing us
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 AM
They are killing us
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Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
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This is the first time in history that the Jobs Report and the GDP Report have been canceled at the same time.
If they were good, Trump wouldn’t hide them.
It’s obvious that we don’t have a booming economy.
Many think that Trump’s economy is a bust.
If they were good, Trump wouldn’t hide them.
It’s obvious that we don’t have a booming economy.
Many think that Trump’s economy is a bust.
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
This is the first time in history that the Jobs Report and the GDP Report have been canceled at the same time.
If they were good, Trump wouldn’t hide them.
It’s obvious that we don’t have a booming economy.
Many think that Trump’s economy is a bust.
If they were good, Trump wouldn’t hide them.
It’s obvious that we don’t have a booming economy.
Many think that Trump’s economy is a bust.
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Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.
When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.
With @adn.com
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How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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13 is the right age to explain to your daughter that supply side economics doesn’t work.
Follow me for more parenting tips.
Follow me for more parenting tips.
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 AM
13 is the right age to explain to your daughter that supply side economics doesn’t work.
Follow me for more parenting tips.
Follow me for more parenting tips.
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No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 2:14 AM
No matter what you eat for the holidays, please never:
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
- comment on how much someone is eating
- comment on how little someone is eating
- comment on someone eating
This can be a major trigger for people with eating disorders. Plus it’s none of your business. Thanks!
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This is pretty much the only thing I have to be thankful for this week... but it's not nothing!
November 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is pretty much the only thing I have to be thankful for this week... but it's not nothing!
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Me. It's me. This is me.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Me. It's me. This is me.
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How do folks forget about Senator Grassley when they’re talking about politicians being too old for their jobs?
🗣️He’s 92 years old!!!
🗣️He’s 92 years old!!!
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
How do folks forget about Senator Grassley when they’re talking about politicians being too old for their jobs?
🗣️He’s 92 years old!!!
🗣️He’s 92 years old!!!
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I'll never get over the fact that this guy failed upwards and became the nation's top public health official. It's maddening. I never really thought of the neurodiverse as a distinct political constituency, but I think we might need to be to better push back against this firehose of disinfo. 8/x
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I'll never get over the fact that this guy failed upwards and became the nation's top public health official. It's maddening. I never really thought of the neurodiverse as a distinct political constituency, but I think we might need to be to better push back against this firehose of disinfo. 8/x
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Seriously, and I cannot emphasize this enough, fuck this guy. He's a modern day Josef Mengele. Neurodiversity is part of human biodiversity. Autistic traits were evolutionarily selected for. They exist in every population, which means they existed when our ancestors left Africa millennia ago 7/x
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Seriously, and I cannot emphasize this enough, fuck this guy. He's a modern day Josef Mengele. Neurodiversity is part of human biodiversity. Autistic traits were evolutionarily selected for. They exist in every population, which means they existed when our ancestors left Africa millennia ago 7/x
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There are many people in the ND community that either can't or don't feel comfortable speaking out about Kennedy, so i think it's incumbent on those of us who can to do so to help protect those of us who cannot. Our neurodiversity isn't our problem, our problem is this quack has so much power. 6/x
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There are many people in the ND community that either can't or don't feel comfortable speaking out about Kennedy, so i think it's incumbent on those of us who can to do so to help protect those of us who cannot. Our neurodiversity isn't our problem, our problem is this quack has so much power. 6/x
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I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I lived life as an autistic person for 41 years, and frankly it's wild to see someone who views your existence as a blight elevated to a position of such consequence. I generally see no reason to discuss being on the spectrum publicly, but I'll make an exception for this vile eugenicist. 1/x
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The upside of taxing the rich: 99% of us benefit
Downside: there is none
Downside: there is none
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The upside of taxing the rich: 99% of us benefit
Downside: there is none
Downside: there is none
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Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives.
She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM
She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Microbiologist Dr. Rita Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She is recognized for her study of global infectious disease spread through water sources. Her research on cholera helped save 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 lives.
She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM
She was the first female director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), 1998-2004. #WomenInSTEM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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A 60-year-old couple in Wisconsin could see their healthcare premiums go up by $30,000 next year. It's breathtaking.
Wisconsinites cannot afford for Republicans to fail to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Congress must get this done.
Wisconsinites cannot afford for Republicans to fail to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Congress must get this done.
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 AM
A 60-year-old couple in Wisconsin could see their healthcare premiums go up by $30,000 next year. It's breathtaking.
Wisconsinites cannot afford for Republicans to fail to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Congress must get this done.
Wisconsinites cannot afford for Republicans to fail to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. Congress must get this done.
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