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voiceofobrien.bsky.social @voiceofobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Birthday to my bestest, truest pal, @samriegel.bsky.social !!

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 2d

Here they are! They seem a bit pricey but might be worth giving a try?

www.jellydrops.ca

Jelly Drops Canada: Candy To Support Hydration | Official Website

Jelly Drops are award-winning candy to boost hydration. Invented for people with dementia & now enjoyed by anyone wanting to increase water intake.

www.jellydrops.ca

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 2d

My lips are sealed

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 2d

Yes you’re right. My papa is in hospital so they’ve got him on IV fluids, but I’ll check them out for when/if?? He goes home. My nana on the other side of the fam also has dementia so might be useful for her, too.

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve heard of gummy candies they make that are specifically for hydration for patients with dementia. I’ll see if I can find a link for you!

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, Ellie was correct. My grandfathers are both called Papa and my grandmothers are called Nana. We’re descended from Brits (actually my dad’s parents came over from England on a boat in 1949)

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 3d

Great fit, and also very cool hallway!

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 3d

Last night a bunch of stuff/news hit at once. Primarily that my papa is in the hospital due to dehydration. He’s 95 and has advanced dementia so it’s not really a surprise, but it’s still hard.
At 39 I still have 4 living grandparents and I know that’s super unusual and very lucky.
I’m still sad.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 4d

Those look damn delicious. Love you, friend.

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 4d

1000x yes but only if you hold me when I get scared too 🥺

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 5d

i made it into the newspaper again

One user who posts under the name Katie Tightpussy speculated that Bluesky leadership has come to loathe “having a large social media app that they never wanted” and suggested that they spin it off so they can return “to Protocol Land where they never have to think about the opinions of plebeians ever again.”

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Phoenix (no follow4follow here, thx) @thephoenixpath.bsky.social · 5d

Looking for any kind of help. After tomorrow, my gas tank will be on E. I just need to make it to Friday - $50 would be golden.

Phoenix (no follow4follow here, thx) @thephoenixpath.bsky.social · 7d

Welp... got my car insurance paid, but could use a small boost to put gas in the tank so I can make it to the next paycheck.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and if you can't help monetarily, a share is also very much appreciated! 💜💜

ko-fi.com/thephoenixpath

Buy thephoenixpath a Coffee

Become a supporter of thephoenixpath today!

ko-fi.com

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Mouse, of the Tiny Chaos variety @tinychaosmouse.bsky.social · 5d

Psssst.

heeeeey.

drink some water and take your meds.

OR I WILL SCHNIFF YOU.

a photograph of a siamese coat pet rat with many whiskers, showing off his little pink nose and his teeth [also known as "teef"]. His name is Chestnut, and there isn't a single thought between his ears.

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 5d

So glad you’re ok, and the pilot, too! A close family friend of ours who was a helicopter pilot with decades of experience died in a crash about 10 years ago. It was devastating. So glad this had a happy ending!

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Pixie @chaospixiemagic.com · 5d

If I sell TWO SETS of dice, I can put a partial payment on the Apple Watch that I really need for monitoring my chronic illness symptoms 🤞🏻

www.chaospixiemagic.com/product-page...

Shards of the Sea | Chaos Pixie Magic

www.chaospixiemagic.com

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 5d

I would not have understood it even a few months ago! It’s fascinating and super complex stuff 🥰

✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 6d

This is (half of) what we are doing in Molecular Biology this semester. It’s fascinating to learn about and cool as hell to actually make happen. I fucking love science. 🧬🧫🥼🧪

A graphic explaining the basic steps of creating recombinant DNA in a lab.
Isolation of DNA by cell lysis
Cutting of DNA with restriction endonucleases
Ligation of DNA into a plasmid vector (edited bacteria cell)
Introduction of recombinant DNA into a host cell
Selection of transformed cells using antibacterial growth medium on plates
Cloning and expression of the gene by culturing

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Thot Leedurr @docdre.distributedblackness.net · 7d

Wanna contribute to BlackSky? Here’s your chance:

https://opencollective.com/blacksky/contribute/backer-59760/checkout?interval=month&amount=7&name=&legalName=&email=

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 7d

Much obliged for the translation 😂

✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 7d

That would be a hard no from me 😅😴

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✨Leah✨ GreenLeafGeek @greenleafgeek.bsky.social · 7d

I’m in Canada

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 8d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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