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Cheryl
@cheryl-blue.bsky.social
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Well, it seems I'm still on this plane of existence! Disability rights stuff, fashion history. Cumbria (UK). Autistic. She, for the moment.
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jimmytwohands.bsky.social
THEY DID THE MEME
THEY DID THE FUCKIN MEME
Wapo or something screencap, picture of dipshits in maga caps and I think one of them is that Nick Fuentes jagoff LETTERS TO THE EDITOR As a conservative, I'm beginning to wonder: Are we the bad guys? (Nicole Hester/AP)
December 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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giantcatsdunbar.bsky.social
*ARCHIVE:

spotter: unknown;

replete GCOD on cats row leading down to old harbour; note children.

date: 1895-1916?
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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drjengunter.bsky.social
Why is it that when you have a chin hair and no access to tweezers you can think of nothing else?
December 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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sinycalbytch.bsky.social
Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie bc it includes a song with the lyrics, "your future is a horror story written by your crimes" & nothing says Christmas cheer more than that. Also Michael Caine deserved all the awards for that performance. Perfection. No notes.
December 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
cheryl-blue.bsky.social
Great, all the Duolingo stories are broken. Suppose I just... wait for them to start working again...
December 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @mikehoney.bsky.social for all the valuable COVID data he tracks. His work has become incredibly important for scientists and health professionals, and with so little data available now, it really matters for people who want to stay safe and informed.

www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Scientists rely on this COVID-19 data. It's made by a volunteer in Melbourne
Meet the Melbourne IT specialist who tracks "incredibly valuable" COVID-19 data in his spare time.
www.sbs.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
Source: ace-disgrace-on-the-case on tumblr
Source: ace-disgrace-on-the-case on tumblr There’s something so uniquely terrifying about memory issues. I feel like my self is slipping away from me. ace-disgrace-on-the-case - Here’s the thing I feel like a lot of folks don’t get: I’m not trying to forget what you said. Honestly, I really tried not to. I can’t control what I do and don’t remember—forgetting things just happens. It’s annoying for you, I know, but for me it’s distressing as hell and when you make a big deal out of it rather than just reminding me you make me feel ashamed. I’ll remember that, at least. It costs you nothing to be kind to people with memory problems. Please. It’s scary enough without people treating memory lapses as a personal failing.
December 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
cheryl-blue.bsky.social
Well, yeah. Now that it's clear AI is losing money, I think we need to give up the idea it was created out of greed. It was created to destroy truth. It's the new censorship.
katjathieme.bsky.social Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11d
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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paulaknight.bsky.social
Please sign and share to make healthcare settings safer for clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised and chronically ill people. Unless we want to live in a health supremacist society...?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

#ChronicIllness #Disability #PwME #LongCovid #Cancer #MEcfs
Petition: Review NHS policy on masks, safe air & ventilation to protect vulnerable
Vulnerable people — those with cancer, immune compromise, or chronic illness — should feel safe in NHS settings, not fearful. We’re calling for a 'do no harm' standard: an automatic right to treatment...
petition.parliament.uk
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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drjengunter.bsky.social
This is awful and I have so many questions. This man is not a doctor in Canada, and yet can run a medical esthetics spa with vaginal tightening. He is convicted of sexually assaulting SEVEN women in the clinic. Appeals. In on bail, and opened another clinic! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Vaginal tightening practitioner, serving 11 years for sexual assault, released from jail pending appeal | CBC News
Farshad Khojsteh Kashani, who was found guilty of sexually assaulting seven clients during vaginal tightening proceedures at his Burnaby spa, has been released on bail after putting up $150,000 in cas...
www.cbc.ca
December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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lucibee.bsky.social
"Living in darkness": #SeneddMEDebate shines light on Wales' "invisible" ME crisis.

#SevereME #MillionsMissing

nation.cymru/news/living-...
‘Living in darkness’: Senedd shines light on Wales’ ‘invisible’ ME crisis
Joe Woods Thousands of people in Wales are “invisible” to society and living behind blackout blinds – unable to bear light, sound or touch – the Welsh Parliament has heard. Plaid Cymru’s Adam Price sh...
nation.cymru
December 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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eadamson91.bsky.social
Putin: "We've taken Kupyansk"

Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
wartranslated.bsky.social WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 2d
Zelensky arrived in Kupyansk, which Putin claims is "under Russian control."
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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chronicillness.bsky.social
Source: bpdohwhatajoy on tumblr
bpdohwhatajoy on tumblr - Do you think the people so opposed to self diagnosis will ever understand that if doctors just fucking did their job, the rate at which people self diagnosed would rapidly decrease?
December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
cheryl-blue.bsky.social
When more than half the names are of fascists then that doesn't seem like an accident, does it.
criminalerin.bsky.social Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d
"The controversial Victims of Communism memorial in downtown Ottawa will no longer feature the names of specific individuals after federal officials determined a significant number could be linked to the Nazis."

Well yea lol no shit
Government retreats on Victims of Communism memorial names in aftermath of Nazi controversy
Names of alleged Nazi collaborators will no longer be featured on Victims of Communism memorial in Ottawa.
ottawacitizen.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
cheryl-blue.bsky.social
Oh!! Somehow I didn't realise it'd be like that. Imagine carrying the weight of all that cloth on your hipbones!!
December 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
found my new work email signoff
fuck-my-pissy.bsky.social 🦐 @fuck-my-pissy.bsky.social · 3d
sorry for ruining your entire life with my perfect and beautiful thoughts
December 11, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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ohshitcircuit.bsky.social
in case anyone was wondering wtf happened to @thelouvreof.bsky.social/Louvre of Bluesky: the creator got doxxed, bsky did nothing, and they decided to go out in a blaze of glory
A series of posts reading, from oldest at the bottom to newest at the top: alright well it's been 18 hours since the post with my name and address has been up and reported and it's still not down, so I'll probably just see if i can get this account permanently suspended for funsies now. Bluesky Head of Trust and Safety found attempting to fornicate with computer in San Francisco HQ In meeting with investors, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber announces $SKY, a cryptocurrency project utilizing users' posts
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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walkerbragman.bsky.social
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.

In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”

www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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bigstape.bsky.social
Or maybe I shouldn't renew my Australian visa
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 PM
cheryl-blue.bsky.social
The Autons are looking fabulous nowadays.
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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olivia.science
reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine:
"although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness."

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...
Although the twentieth century finds male practitioners firmly in control of formal Western medicine, women doctors and healers still have important inventions and innovations to their credit. For example, although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness. Women had discovered the mold’s usefulness centuries or perhaps millennia earlier (Halsbury 1971, p. 19; Raper 1952, p. 1), and one nineteenth-century Wisconsin woman, Elizabeth Stone, an early antibi otic therapist, specialized in treating lumberjacks’ wounds with poultices of moldy bread in warm milk or water: she never lost an injury patient (Stellman 1977, p. 87). In the twentieth-century development of the drug, it was a woman bacteriologist, Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin, who created the ultraviolet-mutant strain of Penicillium used for all further production, since it yielded nine hundred times as much penicillin as Fleming’s strain (Bickel 1972, p. 185; O’Neill 1979, p. 219).4 And as Howard Florey, leader of the British penicillin team, was quick to point out, it was Dr. Ethel Florey’s precise clinical trials that transformed penicillin from a crude some time miracle worker into a reliable drug. It was also a woman, Nobel laureate and X-ray crystallographer Dr. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, who finally deter mined the precise structure of the elusive penicillin molecule (Bickel 1972, p. 216; Opfell 1978, pp. 211, 219). Women were also involved in developing the sulfa drugs that preceded penicillin. For instance, it was a married pair of chemists, Prof. and Mme. Tréfouėl, and their colleagues at the Pasteur Institute in Paris who split red azo dye to create sulfanilamide (Bickel 1972, p. 50). At least two women have invented new antibiotics for which they receive sole credit. Dr. Odette Shotwell of Denver, Colorado, came up with two new antibiotics—duramycin and azacolutin—during her fi…
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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jimmfelton.bsky.social
I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future.

Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
My constituent, Amu, is on Day 40 of their hunger strike in prison.

Last month, I requested an urgent meeting with the Justice Secretary to discuss their wellbeing.

He has now officially declined my request.

What an absolute disgrace.
December 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned.

archive.ph/Tmthz
Father's anger at girl's potentially fatal testosterone dose The child, who was 15 at the time, was given the prescription by the private GenderGP clinic after one online counselling session He has lost contact with his daughter - he does not even know what she got in her GCSEs - and now that she is 18, he no longer gets court-ordered medical updates. In the final one he learnt that she was booked in for surgery imminently. Now he drives over with birthday presents but is not allowed in. He remembers the last time he saw her, after she had started taking testosterone. Looking at his photographs, he remembers dropping her home: "When she said goodbye, her smile was the same girly shy smile she had as a little girl. Somewhere in there is my daughter."
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM