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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 8h

i swear to god i read a skeet thread about city of oakland official falsely reporting the health of city’s investments. now i can’t find it.

bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 12h

once again i spoke too soon. instead of sending in a new version of the script they just sent a script for hydrocortisone cream.

ya know.

for my ALLERGIC REACTION.

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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 13h

i sent a not so nice message to them and a couple hours later got a text from cvs about a new script so that’s good.

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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 16h

also get this: my doc left lifelong and i’m mid rash reaction to a med so i messaged my gyn (also at lifelong) and apparently she’s gone too.

the assistant was like “i can get you an appt next wednesday, instead of the one you have next thursday, if you need to be seen sooner”

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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 17h

omg i thought i was the only one who’s done that

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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 18h

I SPOKE TOO SOON they lost the referral that was sent two weeks ago.

how?

because they use a pile of paper faxes to track referrals.

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 18h

WHY WOULD ANYONE BE SCARED? THIS IS NORMAL!

“nimrod campbell and the laboratory of yakub” in indiana jones font

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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 18h

hallelujah my derm’s office got new staff who maybe won’t lose every single thing in the world. (i used to have to watch the dude input my appt because he’d messed up appts twice in a ROW when i made them over the phone)

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Polly @pollyphemeus.bsky.social · 20h

please. Please youtube. Please I'm fucking begging you. I don't care where my mouse is positioned. Or what's "highlighted" I just want up down to adjust volume. Left right to adjust timestamp on the video. And spacebar to pause unpause. That's it. Give me some damn consistency FFS

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Dr Amber, esq. @ambertutorslaw.bsky.social · 19h

I’m just a legal tutor

Standing in front of @lizdye.bsky.social and @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

Asking them to make a “Justin Baldoni teaches us civil procedure” supercut of Law and Chaos pods….

(Law students, it’s learning through snark!!)

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 20h

Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

bit.ly

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 1d

The entire proposed Highway 37 Solano-Marin super bridge is estimated to cost $11 billion, all to replace an existing road between a couple of suburbs. And it's proposed at 114 feet wide.

For comparison, the Golden Gate Bridge is 90 feet wide.

Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 1d

Caltrans has released a cross section for the ultimate (raised viaduct) version of SR-37.

Now maybe I'm just being paranoid, but if you were building a road that you planned to keep at 4 lanes wide, I don't think it would look like this.

Cross section of 114' wide bridge structure with each direction having a 12' outside shoulder and a 10' inside shoulder.

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Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · 1d

My spiciest take on the Highway 37 bridge is that while most political will for it has been coming from Solano, it's Marin that needs it and should pay for it. Of 189,000 workers living in Solano, only 8,000 go to Marin or Sonoma.

It'd cost a whole lot less than $11B to attract new jobs to Solano.

map of commute patterns, showing 109,059 workers who live and work in solano, plus 75,812 workers who commute out, to the following counties

Contra Costa 19504
Napa 11850
Alameda 10315
San Francisco 8974
Sacramento 5287
Marin 5272
Yolo 5087
Sonoma 3780

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 1d

I know there's a lot to keep up with but someone has ALREADY been killed by ICE in Chicago, its not a theoretical question, and folks are dying in ICE detention and being disappeared constantly, when you say "someone's gonna get killed" youre actually washing the blood from their hands 😘✌️

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 1d

it's still happening in la, by the way. like not to be that guy. but it increasingly happening elsewhere doesn't mean it stopped here

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Tracey Helton Mitchell MPA @traceyh.bsky.social · 1d

Doomscrolling reaching epic levels not seen since early Covid lockdown

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bday oct 9! queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 1d

i’m dying to know which specific cheesecake experienced changed you from ALWAYS to 99% of the time

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

In case this is too wordy: FREE JEWELRY and/or GLASS CABOCHONS and/or GAME TOKENS for TRANS PEOPLE in the UNITED STATES who can't afford it but would like some. Tomorrow, 9AM Mountain.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

I am doing a round of We Want You To Have This TOMORROW MORNING at 9AM mountain time. If you are trans in the US and want a gift from my shop but cannot afford it, or if you have a trans loved one you would like a gift for, I will have 20 available. Details in thread. nora.jewelry/pages/we-wan...

We Want You To Have This: Jewelry Gifts For Trans People

Requests for gifts are now closed! They will open again at 9AM Mountain Time (Denver) Wednesday, October 8th. The following round will be on Saturday, October 25th at 9AM. Just looking for the forms?...

nora.jewelry

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 1d

I've done this to this crowd with great effects. If you get into a camera shot wearing something obscene it ruins some turd's chance at lying through their teeth on the six o'clock news

RDS (formerly shawphd) @rds773.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we need more costumed protesters

Hard to cosplay as a badass when a giant frog or a dino or a big pink pig is waving its arms and thrusting its pelvis at you

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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