Laine Ballou
@laineballou.bsky.social
Trying my best. Probably failing. Really like to overuse the ❤️ button.
#ActuallyAutistic, AD(H)D, and oh good, early onset dementia now too, so if I misunderstand you, I'm sorry.
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They/them works too 🤷🏻♀️
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#ActuallyAutistic, AD(H)D, and oh good, early onset dementia now too, so if I misunderstand you, I'm sorry.
She/her
They/them works too 🤷🏻♀️
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Laine Ballou
@laineballou.bsky.social
· Nov 13
For new followers:
I don't post a whole lot because I don't have the energy to say stuff, even when I really want to, so instead I reskeet things that I think are helpful or positive.
I block follow farmers (people who follow thousands of accounts to get follow-backs).
I don't post a whole lot because I don't have the energy to say stuff, even when I really want to, so instead I reskeet things that I think are helpful or positive.
I block follow farmers (people who follow thousands of accounts to get follow-backs).
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Legal citizenship should be virtually effortless to obtain and near instantaneous to process, and should be paired with sweeping grants of asylum.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Legal citizenship should be virtually effortless to obtain and near instantaneous to process, and should be paired with sweeping grants of asylum.
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My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
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Ultimately I don’t care if Trump regularly deepthroats every dick in sight, and it’s disappointing but predictable that the momentary, giddy thrill of that unimportant plot point is dominating a story that’s really about the trafficking and rape of upwards of a thousand teenaged girls.
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Ultimately I don’t care if Trump regularly deepthroats every dick in sight, and it’s disappointing but predictable that the momentary, giddy thrill of that unimportant plot point is dominating a story that’s really about the trafficking and rape of upwards of a thousand teenaged girls.
Can I do TV shows instead? Mine are:
5. Buncha goofy weirdos solve crimes
4. Buncha goofy weirdos work at a place
3. Buncha goofy weirdos on a spaceship
2. Buncha goofy weirdos hunt demons or monsters or whatever
1. Buncha goofy weirdos do crime
5. Buncha goofy weirdos solve crimes
4. Buncha goofy weirdos work at a place
3. Buncha goofy weirdos on a spaceship
2. Buncha goofy weirdos hunt demons or monsters or whatever
1. Buncha goofy weirdos do crime
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
- Films from 1932 in which three chorus girl gold diggers who share a flat try to survive the Depression
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Can I do TV shows instead? Mine are:
5. Buncha goofy weirdos solve crimes
4. Buncha goofy weirdos work at a place
3. Buncha goofy weirdos on a spaceship
2. Buncha goofy weirdos hunt demons or monsters or whatever
1. Buncha goofy weirdos do crime
5. Buncha goofy weirdos solve crimes
4. Buncha goofy weirdos work at a place
3. Buncha goofy weirdos on a spaceship
2. Buncha goofy weirdos hunt demons or monsters or whatever
1. Buncha goofy weirdos do crime
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And if you want to read a holistic analysis of what physics is and could be, socially and politically, grab a copy of my first book, which won many accolades www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chand...
The Disordered Cosmos
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November 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
And if you want to read a holistic analysis of what physics is and could be, socially and politically, grab a copy of my first book, which won many accolades www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chand...
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This lady is not your friend.
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This lady is not your friend.
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Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
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Green sea turtles are making a comeback in the Pacific: nest counts on Australia’s Heron Island have risen, and populations across the Pacific now meet IUCN recovery thresholds, thanks to decades of protection, turtle-safe fishing, and community-led conservation.
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Green sea turtle saved from extinction in major conservation victory - Oceanographic
The green sea turtle has been rescued from extinction thanks to forty years of conservation and protection efforts, the IUCN has said.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Green sea turtles are making a comeback in the Pacific: nest counts on Australia’s Heron Island have risen, and populations across the Pacific now meet IUCN recovery thresholds, thanks to decades of protection, turtle-safe fishing, and community-led conservation.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Canada has made its national school food programme a permanent part of the federal budget. The initiative will provide healthy meals to up to 400,000 additional children while supporting local producers.
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Canada is learning how to serve up school lunches
Hold off on that bulk purchase of Lunchables...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Canada has made its national school food programme a permanent part of the federal budget. The initiative will provide healthy meals to up to 400,000 additional children while supporting local producers.
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#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Many countries are increasing their forests, especially China.
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China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990
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October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Many countries are increasing their forests, especially China.
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Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind. buff.ly/lH7h3BW
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Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B
In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for…
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October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Maldives eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B. No babies were born with HIV or syphilis in 2022–23, and hepatitis B has vanished among children. The WHO is calling it a “triple elimination,” the world’s first of its kind. buff.ly/lH7h3BW
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. buff.ly/tmtqu4s
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Indigenous guardians successfully keep extractives out of Ecuador’s Amazon forests
PAKAYAKU TERRITORY, Ecuador — Deep in the heart of Ecuador’s Amazon, where the Bobonaza River winds through ancient forests in Pastaza province, Sacha Gayas spreads out a hand-drawn map across her…
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November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
In Ecuador’s Pastaza province, the Kichwa community of Pakayaku has kept 400 km² of Amazon rainforest free from mining, oil and logging through a self-organised guardian force. buff.ly/tmtqu4s
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. buff.ly/1EpCowD
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Transplantation of chemically induced pluripotent stem-cell-derived islets under abdominal anterior rectus sheath in a type 1 diabetes patient
Chemically induced stem-cell-derived islets were transplanted beneath the abdominal anterior rectus sheath in one patient with type 1 diabetes, resulting in tolerable safety and promising restoration…
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November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. buff.ly/1EpCowD
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Thank you, soil bacterium.
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
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Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
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November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Thank you, soil bacterium.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
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Picture in your mind the world you’d love to see the children you know grow up to inherit. I know you can think of all the obstacles in the way of that world. I’m asking you to challenge yourself to think of ways through & around them. Because the absence of progress isn’t proof of impossibility.
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Picture in your mind the world you’d love to see the children you know grow up to inherit. I know you can think of all the obstacles in the way of that world. I’m asking you to challenge yourself to think of ways through & around them. Because the absence of progress isn’t proof of impossibility.
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
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Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
Alice could not eat food for years.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
And yet at Christmas she would bake cookies and mail them to me—such was her desire to provide care for the people she loved.
November 16, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
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The fucking irony of someone with “fix your hearts or die” in their bio making fun of the loss of a disabled elder to an infection after years of pleading for people to help keep her safe.
You know your hero David Lynch died alone because nobody cared to protect him from COVID, either?
You know your hero David Lynch died alone because nobody cared to protect him from COVID, either?
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The fucking irony of someone with “fix your hearts or die” in their bio making fun of the loss of a disabled elder to an infection after years of pleading for people to help keep her safe.
You know your hero David Lynch died alone because nobody cared to protect him from COVID, either?
You know your hero David Lynch died alone because nobody cared to protect him from COVID, either?
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maybe i’m naive but i think it’s kinda doomerism to always be saying this is gonna take decades to undo or you’ll be old or dead when it ends. first it doesn’t matter, plant trees you won’t live to sit in the shade of. second great change is capable of happening very quickly
November 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
maybe i’m naive but i think it’s kinda doomerism to always be saying this is gonna take decades to undo or you’ll be old or dead when it ends. first it doesn’t matter, plant trees you won’t live to sit in the shade of. second great change is capable of happening very quickly
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For anyone who hasn’t discovered this useful list:
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
For anyone who hasn’t discovered this useful list:
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For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 PM
For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper
For a chicken, finding a corn kernel or a grub in the ground must feel like finding a mini Snickers or a Sonic mint in the bottom of your purse. Except over and over again, like "hey, cool! Hey, cool! Hey, cool! Hey, cool!"
don't get mad at me for putting their food on the ground. they like it better that way
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
For a chicken, finding a corn kernel or a grub in the ground must feel like finding a mini Snickers or a Sonic mint in the bottom of your purse. Except over and over again, like "hey, cool! Hey, cool! Hey, cool! Hey, cool!"
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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It's why I think combatting despair and doomer narratives is important not just for its own sake (because we deserve better), but also for deliberately refusing to do this government's work for them.
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It's why I think combatting despair and doomer narratives is important not just for its own sake (because we deserve better), but also for deliberately refusing to do this government's work for them.