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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 1d

I might have to stop crocheting to read the new Pynchon

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon next to my current crochet project

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 3d

It might!!!

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 4d

good morning it’s day 2 ballon fiesta and the balloons are up today

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Annaplexis @annaplexis.bsky.social · 6d

🧶 How to knit knots
This is how to make a small bobble - or knot
I prefer to knit backwards rather than turn my knitting for knots and bobbles, but if you prefer you can do it the traditional way: kfb, turn, p2, turn, k2tog.

annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/close-gaps-p...
#knitting

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 11d

Woke up at 5am thinking THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHITE PEOPLE FOOD FOOD IS BAD (corporate foods replacing local cooking, food divorced from the growing process, convenience foods with chemicals that are bad for people, IBS food triggers = whiteness) AND THAT GASTRONAUTS EPISODE IGNORED ALL OF THEM

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 11d

season’s resolution: i have got to stop buying crochet patterns from young influencers because I’m insomnia scrolling crafting insta. I have been crocheting since 1998, I do not need a 36pg pattern that doesn’t have charts 🧶

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 14d

I found this discussion of Edogawa Ranpo and honkaku-ha (本格派), the "orthodox school" of "classical whodunnits” to be very interesting, though maybe not what you’re going for www.tumblr.com/soleminisanc...

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💬 7 🔁 3349 ❤️ 5117 · Ooooo, this conversation continues very interestingly with the Japanese literary equivalent -- honkaku-ha (本格派), the "orthodox school" of "classical whodunnits," which by def…

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 16d

www.acog.org/news/news-ar...

ACOG Response to Consensus Statement on Paracetamol Use During Pregnancy

ACOG and obstetrician-gynecologists across the country have always identified acetaminophen as one of the only safe pain relievers for pregnant individuals during pregnancy.

www.acog.org

nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 16d

acog put out a statement on this one in 2021 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paracetamol use during pregnancy — a call for precautionary action - Nature Reviews Endocrinology

A growing body of research suggests that prenatal exposure to paracetamol (APAP) might alter development and increase the risk of some reproductive, urogenital and neurodevelopmental disorders. This Consensus Statement calls for precautionary action, including a focused research effort, increasing awareness among health professionals and pregnant women and, whenever possible, minimizing use.

www.nature.com

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 17d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 16d

It is already so hard to get people to vaccinate their babies

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ACOG @acog.org · 16d

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 17d

Screencap from Taito NES video game Bubble Bobble. Text reads: "The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born! Now is the time of monsters! Good luck!"

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〽️ax krieger does the damn thing @maxkriegervg.bsky.social · 16d

re: the tylenol thing, i think we're gonna reach an inflection point soon where corporate america has to decide whether or not the current admin's conspiracy brain decision-making is dangerous enough to its bottom line to undermine it, or if kleptocracy will really pay them more

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 16d

I normally take ibuprofen for my assorted pains but now that I know tylenol is good for autism I may need to switch.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 19d

you know they make versions of the bible where they put Jesus’s words in red. like the things Jesus said matter a lot

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20d

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Anderson felt her bio was authentically her even if it was written by a chatbot. “My bio is 100 percent in alignment with my true personality,” she told me. “I don’t have a filter. I’m very witty. I’m full of personality.” Nor did she think using ChatGPT reflected the “bare minimum energy” she loathed. “It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good,” she explained. “I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I have to keep talking to it.” On the other hand, she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” “I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Sep 8

Happy 71st Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools.

She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama.

The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live With," depicting the event originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964, issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridge talking to President Obama as they look at Rockwell's painting when it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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nn @abigailnicole.bsky.social · 19d

2yo kicking the sides if her crib singing “twinkle…star….wanda…diamond” at 5:30am

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20d

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

RFK Jr.-Backed Vaccine Panel Advises Against MMRV Vaccine for Young Children

New members of a key committee tweak routine childhood vaccine guidance as some states and insurers go their own way.

www.wsj.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 21d

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

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DoctorWolfBoy @doctorwolfboy.bsky.social · 21d

Petition to start calling the middle of the night “dark noon”

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 20d

i would simply have preffered to not live in the time of monsters. Ideally the New World, maybe the Old World.

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