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Andrea BoBandrea

@abobandrea.bsky.social

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she/her. queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill, disabled human. realist. nice is different than good.

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · Dec 4

It is going to continue becoming increasingly important for you to understand and internalize that nice is different than good.

The sooner you get there, the better for us all.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1h

a strong case could also be made that if you were confused by why Bill and Ted would cast themselves in WAITING FOR GODOT, you might also not fully understand Bill and Ted

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2h

a strong case could be made that in fact, by selecting this play for themselves to star in, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter have demonstrated that they understand WAITING FOR GODOT better than anyone else alive

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 4h

Today is an appropriate day, for better or worse (as it were), for this lovely small poem to show itself to me

Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 6h

Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

I forget what I wanted to
mean to you.
I forget what I
meant to give to you, that I haven’t.

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 4h

OP image w alt text:

Acyn
@Acyn

Noem: One of the individuals we arrested recently was the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa and we're hoping as we go after her and prosecute her, we'll get more and more information about the network and how we can root them out and eliminate them from the existence of American society
[C-SPAN video of Trump and Noem]

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 4h

Any other musical theatre nerds in here?

(OP alt text in reply)

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 4h

Well shit. They're discontinuing the K Health app, which is a literal lifesaver for folks (like me) who are un/underinsured and/or need access to telehealth and promptly. Shit.

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 5h

They're too busy to fix it what with all the time spent harassing and banning folks for championing their app and wanting it to live up to the standards they promised, I guess 🤷‍♀️

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 5h

(Ofc video alt text still doesn't work 👎)

Alt text: Screen recording of a post by @philipmarks87.bsky.social with his chalk drawing of swirling autumn leaves immediately followed by my post about being something like happy that it's finally fallish outside

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 5h

Timeline serving it up right:) 🍂

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 5h

Something like happy

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 9h

Idc it's finally fallish 🍂

(Ok, I do care a painful lot about everything everywhere all at once, but still: IT'S FINALLY FALLISH 🍂)

White woman with long brown hair in a low side pony, wearing red glasses, a rust colored t shirt and faded black overalls

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 9h

Sniffing contentedly at the wind

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 9h

Progressive lenses, baby! ✨️

Daisy @daisy91.bsky.social · Jan 31

I’m at my sexiest when I have to put my reading glasses on to sext.

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undead girlfriend @hausofholes.bsky.social · 9h

come hold me before I disappear

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 9h

Idc it's finally fallish 🍂

(Ok, I do care a painful lot about everything everywhere all at once, but still: IT'S FINALLY FALLISH 🍂)

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 10h

a woman in a red shirt is writing on a blackboard that says ' arithmetic ' on it

Alt: Clip from A Christmas Story of the teacher writing "A+++" on the chalkboard

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 10h

No one is a single-issue voter. All that's really meant by that is that one has minimum moral standards, and many politicians aren't meeting them, so a moral check is an important first test.

Opposition to "purity tests" is an opposition to moral minimums, and it's how we got immoral leaders.

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Trans Moleman, Street Estrogen Junkie @transmoleman.bsky.social · 11h

Also: why on earth would anyone fight for someone who doesn't have their back? Imagine being in the trenches in World War One and your buddy goes "hey just so you know I will totally leave you to die if it wins us the war" like, that doesn't make you utilitarian it makes you a mercenary of lives

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11h

So many people think that "ah you can't really tell an AI wrote this post or not!" is a gotcha.

Ok, let's say you're right. But if your post is shaped like an AI post, and your thoughts are shaped like AI thoughts, then the fact that there's no difference reflects rather poorly on you.

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 11h

I feel like this is one of those "that which can be destroyed by the truth should be" situations, no?

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 11h

(This is NOT a dunk on OP) I need folks to understand that there are people who want others to get sick & they want those who are very sick to die. This is eugenics & it was built into the very foundation of our society.

This is why you don't go along with leaving *anyone* to "fall by the wayside."

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12h

Even aside from being obviously morally correct it’s way more cost effective and leads to a better time for everyone!! Like I get that there are (bad) people who derive life satisfaction from being wealthier than everyone around them but I don’t think anyone wants everyone around them to be sick!

Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 11h

Not everyone, just those who they think deserve it. Because eugenics.

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 13h

Lyme, ME/CFS, endometriosis, long COVID, coeliac disease, adenomyosis, fibromyalgia & all the other conditions where there's actually nothing wrong with us, but we just enjoy pretending to be ill. For fuck's sake. It's like we've regressed to the 1960s when my mum was accused of being a malingerer.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21h

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 12h

Is that a weird thing to do? I smile at babies (and toddlers/kids) everywhere. Oh well, add it to my list, I guess 🤷‍♀️

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 13h

Hey, anyone in media want to chat about #AfterTheFeast [*waggles eyebrows*]??

(Yes, of COURSE I will come on your podcast with 12 listeners.)

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 8d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

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Andrea BoBandrea @abobandrea.bsky.social · 12h

They're doing a fascism and I still gotta pay my bills but I can't pay my bills because they shut down the government doing a fascism

Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 13h

They're doing a fascism and i still gotta pay bills.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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