@kristiblue.bsky.social
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An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down.
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
www.washingtonpost.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down.
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family.
A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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back in 1993 @tomtomorrow.bsky.social was mocking this same stupid proposal in one of his comics. some terrible ideas never seem to go away. (panel from the April 27, 1993, edition of This Modern World)
May 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
back in 1993 @tomtomorrow.bsky.social was mocking this same stupid proposal in one of his comics. some terrible ideas never seem to go away. (panel from the April 27, 1993, edition of This Modern World)
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this site used to be VERY FUNNY and I know we live in hell right now, but ALL Y’ALL NEED TO MAKE HELL FUNNIER OR WE WILL NOT MAKE IT AND I AM NOT KIDDING
I wish this site was funnier
March 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
this site used to be VERY FUNNY and I know we live in hell right now, but ALL Y’ALL NEED TO MAKE HELL FUNNIER OR WE WILL NOT MAKE IT AND I AM NOT KIDDING
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It was the “omg what now” of times, it was the “I swear we’re not all like this” of times
March 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
It was the “omg what now” of times, it was the “I swear we’re not all like this” of times
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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt
The guy who asked Zelensky if he owned a suit, Brian Glenn, is a reporter for the pro-Trump media network Real America’s Voice and also Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend. He got one of the rare Oval Office interviewer spots only after the White House blocked the Associated Press.
February 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." - Hannah Arendt
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“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”
Madeleine L’Engle might have been the first person to teach me that my anger was a superpower.
Madeleine L’Engle might have been the first person to teach me that my anger was a superpower.
February 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“Stay angry, little Meg,” Mrs. Whatsit whispered. “You will need all your anger now.”
Madeleine L’Engle might have been the first person to teach me that my anger was a superpower.
Madeleine L’Engle might have been the first person to teach me that my anger was a superpower.
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Vaccines are victims of their own success. These days, people think that the flu is like a bad cold, and that measles is a minor irritant. We haven't had a true flu pandemic since 1968, partly (largely?) due to the immense efforts to vaccinate as many people as possible. Here we go.
February 27, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Vaccines are victims of their own success. These days, people think that the flu is like a bad cold, and that measles is a minor irritant. We haven't had a true flu pandemic since 1968, partly (largely?) due to the immense efforts to vaccinate as many people as possible. Here we go.
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Planning for the flu vaccine takes about six months. A conference that is part of the planning process was just canceled by anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. Feel free to call and request it be rescheduled. 202.690.7000 is the phone number to call.
February 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Planning for the flu vaccine takes about six months. A conference that is part of the planning process was just canceled by anti-vaxxer RFK Jr. Feel free to call and request it be rescheduled. 202.690.7000 is the phone number to call.
I can’t decide whether this is a blessing or a curse sometimes
"The curse of reading, if you consume literature and history: suddenly you start having these prophetic visions that come true all the time, because you have accessed and consumed the shared wisdom of all the people who came before you."
@ologies.bsky.social podmom Jarrett with a doozy quote there
@ologies.bsky.social podmom Jarrett with a doozy quote there
January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I can’t decide whether this is a blessing or a curse sometimes
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As a general rule, I would reiterate/restate that most of how people act toward us has relatively little to do with us.
I remember in 2005 when Jude Law cheated on Sienna Miller with their nanny and I was like “what’s WRONG with him, Sienna is a CATCH” and my mom was like “it has actually nothing to do with her. there is just a certain type of man for whom nothing is ever enough”
I think about that like every day
I think about that like every day
What I can't get over is that these guys could get any physical gratification they wanted. They literally had to go out of their way to abuse people. It just feeds into my 2025 theme: fuck everything forever
January 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
As a general rule, I would reiterate/restate that most of how people act toward us has relatively little to do with us.
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Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits
Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits