Barb M
@barb-emm.bsky.social
Trying to live in my heart, body, and the world all at the same time. It's not as easy as you think.
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If your response when people are killed by someone driving thru a celebrating crowd is to opportunistically make up facts about the driver to further your preexisting prejudices, instead of mourn the dead, your indifference to the lives of those killed means you have much in common with that driver.
January 1, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If your response when people are killed by someone driving thru a celebrating crowd is to opportunistically make up facts about the driver to further your preexisting prejudices, instead of mourn the dead, your indifference to the lives of those killed means you have much in common with that driver.
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Do you think they got the message?
December 13, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Do you think they got the message?
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Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process.
For $250. For her classroom…
For $250. For her classroom…
December 12, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process.
For $250. For her classroom…
For $250. For her classroom…
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The lawyer helping RFK Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
December 13, 2024 at 1:25 PM
The lawyer helping RFK Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
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For the next four years…
December 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM
For the next four years…
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5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV.
abcnews.go.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:19 AM
5th person to be cured of HIV
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
“Today, researchers announced the Dusseldorf patient still has no detectable virus in his body, even after stopping his HIV medication four years ago.”
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Sorry we’re not riding at dawn. We’re having coffee and catastrophizing the day at dawn. Then we’re doing Wordle. Then we’re doing 35 minutes of doomscrolling, then we’re taking the longest hottest shower, then we’re sitting on the edge of the bed staring at nothing for a while, THEN maybe we ride.
December 11, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Sorry we’re not riding at dawn. We’re having coffee and catastrophizing the day at dawn. Then we’re doing Wordle. Then we’re doing 35 minutes of doomscrolling, then we’re taking the longest hottest shower, then we’re sitting on the edge of the bed staring at nothing for a while, THEN maybe we ride.
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When I went through cancer treatment, my insurance ran from Aug-July. I did radiation from July-Aug and had to pay my out of pocket cap TWICE. I was lucky to have it but I asked the clerk what would happen if I didn’t have $12k. “Like the young woman just before you? She opted out of treatment.”
December 12, 2024 at 3:30 AM
When I went through cancer treatment, my insurance ran from Aug-July. I did radiation from July-Aug and had to pay my out of pocket cap TWICE. I was lucky to have it but I asked the clerk what would happen if I didn’t have $12k. “Like the young woman just before you? She opted out of treatment.”
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is no novice at the "pardon game." She asked for one after participating in a December 21, 2020 meeting at the White House to plot to pressure Mike Pence into overturning the election results.
December 6, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene is no novice at the "pardon game." She asked for one after participating in a December 21, 2020 meeting at the White House to plot to pressure Mike Pence into overturning the election results.
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The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
December 6, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The ACLU gets *zero* funding from the government.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
A bit disconcerting that the fellow tasked with reducing government funding doesn't know that.
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There is no need for a quippy caption with numbers like these:
- vasectomy appointments 📈 by 1,200 percent
- IUD appointments 📈 by more than 760 percent
- birth control implant appointments 📈 by 350 percent
- traffic to Planned Parenthood’s webpages 📈 by 1,000 percent for each
- vasectomy appointments 📈 by 1,200 percent
- IUD appointments 📈 by more than 760 percent
- birth control implant appointments 📈 by 350 percent
- traffic to Planned Parenthood’s webpages 📈 by 1,000 percent for each
Trump's climate and abortion policies have Americans flocking for vasectomies
Bookings spiked by 1,200 percent post-election, and IUD signups more than octupled.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:22 PM
There is no need for a quippy caption with numbers like these:
- vasectomy appointments 📈 by 1,200 percent
- IUD appointments 📈 by more than 760 percent
- birth control implant appointments 📈 by 350 percent
- traffic to Planned Parenthood’s webpages 📈 by 1,000 percent for each
- vasectomy appointments 📈 by 1,200 percent
- IUD appointments 📈 by more than 760 percent
- birth control implant appointments 📈 by 350 percent
- traffic to Planned Parenthood’s webpages 📈 by 1,000 percent for each
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This is not an apology. This is D'Souza doing what many on the right did when they said on 11/6 "Project 2025 was the plan all along." They are rubbing your nose in the fact that they lied successfully and now (they believe) there's nothing you can do about it.
Dinesh D’Souza, ’2000 Mules’ Director, Acknowledges the Film Was Flawed
The director, Dinesh D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, admitted that an analysis used to make claims about election fraud that were later debunked had been faulty.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:28 PM
This is not an apology. This is D'Souza doing what many on the right did when they said on 11/6 "Project 2025 was the plan all along." They are rubbing your nose in the fact that they lied successfully and now (they believe) there's nothing you can do about it.
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Meghan McCain calling Hunter Biden a "nepo baby" means she has thrown down the gauntlet: She is serious about challenging Donald Trump Jr for the sash at the "Least Self-Aware Person Currently Alive" pageant.
December 2, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Meghan McCain calling Hunter Biden a "nepo baby" means she has thrown down the gauntlet: She is serious about challenging Donald Trump Jr for the sash at the "Least Self-Aware Person Currently Alive" pageant.
Today’s Thoughtworm (tm): “Life is a whole journey of meeting your edge again and again. That’s where, if you’re a person who wants to live, you start to ask yourself questions like, “Now, why am I so scared? What is it that I don’t want to see? Why can’t I go any further than this?”’ —Pema Chodron
November 30, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Today’s Thoughtworm (tm): “Life is a whole journey of meeting your edge again and again. That’s where, if you’re a person who wants to live, you start to ask yourself questions like, “Now, why am I so scared? What is it that I don’t want to see? Why can’t I go any further than this?”’ —Pema Chodron
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If we going to have smart TVs, can we at least have keyboards and mice for them? Do I have to type everything in through a slow janky arrow button interface for the rest of my life like an idiot?
November 29, 2024 at 9:10 PM
If we going to have smart TVs, can we at least have keyboards and mice for them? Do I have to type everything in through a slow janky arrow button interface for the rest of my life like an idiot?
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This wrecks me—every single time.
November 29, 2024 at 12:49 PM
This wrecks me—every single time.
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Me: I cleared the table for dessert.
Her: Why did you leave these cranberries out?
Me: DON’T TOUCH THEM!!!
Her: What…Why???
Me: You have to let them linger.
Her: Why did you leave these cranberries out?
Me: DON’T TOUCH THEM!!!
Her: What…Why???
Me: You have to let them linger.
November 27, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Me: I cleared the table for dessert.
Her: Why did you leave these cranberries out?
Me: DON’T TOUCH THEM!!!
Her: What…Why???
Me: You have to let them linger.
Her: Why did you leave these cranberries out?
Me: DON’T TOUCH THEM!!!
Her: What…Why???
Me: You have to let them linger.
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Bland, unemotional replies to give someone trying to get your goat politically tomorrow that won't give them what they want. Each should be accompanied by a pleasant smile and followed by non sequitur.
November 27, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Bland, unemotional replies to give someone trying to get your goat politically tomorrow that won't give them what they want. Each should be accompanied by a pleasant smile and followed by non sequitur.
Current sitch. Yes, all of the Thanksgiving things still need to be done. 🤷♀️
November 27, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Current sitch. Yes, all of the Thanksgiving things still need to be done. 🤷♀️