Lori
@loridak.bsky.social
Gardener, forager, creative, parent, partner, art therapist. Sometimes I make art. Hopeful universalist. Activism>doomerism. Focusing on my locus of control. No hate, but I unfollow furry content.
I make typos.
I make typos.
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Having Universal Basic Income would make it easier to walk away from terrible working conditions, abusive management, or, oh I don't know, refuse to follow illegal orders? Which is exactly why the people in charge don't WANT us to have UBI. A scared populace, a hungry populace, is easier to control.
December 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Having Universal Basic Income would make it easier to walk away from terrible working conditions, abusive management, or, oh I don't know, refuse to follow illegal orders? Which is exactly why the people in charge don't WANT us to have UBI. A scared populace, a hungry populace, is easier to control.
Is it too much to ask that I never get a polyester sweater again?
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Is it too much to ask that I never get a polyester sweater again?
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These anti-vaxxers will kill babies.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
To be very clear: Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the children who get it.
RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves
“Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”
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December 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
These anti-vaxxers will kill babies.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
It feels awful to be that blunt, but the stakes here are *babies dying of preventable diseases*.
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Childism is one of the most socially acceptable forms of dehumanisation.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Childism is one of the most socially acceptable forms of dehumanisation.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 2:51 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
🥲🥲🥰
God, I love Ny
and Chicago
And LA,
and Portland.
God, I love Ny
and Chicago
And LA,
and Portland.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
🥲🥲🥰
God, I love Ny
and Chicago
And LA,
and Portland.
God, I love Ny
and Chicago
And LA,
and Portland.
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If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.
Just unspeakable assholery.
Just unspeakable assholery.
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I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites
The Gallatin City-County Health Department has confirmed a second case of measles in Gallatin County, with the latest case identified on Dec. 1, 2025.This foll
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December 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
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Whatever you think about the downsides of the modern world, you can't deny that the bit where pretty much all the babies get to live is fucking awesome.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Whatever you think about the downsides of the modern world, you can't deny that the bit where pretty much all the babies get to live is fucking awesome.
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• Vaccines don’t cause autism.
• COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids.
• COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children.
The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters.
Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.
• COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids.
• COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children.
The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters.
Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.
December 2, 2025 at 12:44 AM
• Vaccines don’t cause autism.
• COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids.
• COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children.
The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters.
Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.
• COVID-19 vaccines aren’t killing kids.
• COVID-19 *is* the leading infectious cause of death in children.
The CDC & FDA have been taken over by wellness grifters.
Posting lies as “truth” doesn’t make them true—it makes them propaganda.
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No dogpiling but this is reflective of a much broader issue: Nobody needs to be perfectly correct for their mistreatment to be mistreatment.
"He's no angel" isn't an excuse for police brutality. "They're drug dealers" doesn't mean you can blow them up on a boat even if true". "He's a gang member"...
"He's no angel" isn't an excuse for police brutality. "They're drug dealers" doesn't mean you can blow them up on a boat even if true". "He's a gang member"...
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
No dogpiling but this is reflective of a much broader issue: Nobody needs to be perfectly correct for their mistreatment to be mistreatment.
"He's no angel" isn't an excuse for police brutality. "They're drug dealers" doesn't mean you can blow them up on a boat even if true". "He's a gang member"...
"He's no angel" isn't an excuse for police brutality. "They're drug dealers" doesn't mean you can blow them up on a boat even if true". "He's a gang member"...
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
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A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.
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The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
November 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The crisis isn’t refugees. It’s not that one person committed one tragic crime and killed one other person. The crisis isn’t that America’s 250-year old history of hosting immigrants turned out to be a mistake.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
The crisis is that STEPHEN MILLER, a hateful little maggot, controls the government.
I read this and assumed it was mostly sarcasm/satire. It is, right? Like, we do live in a society where we have to agree on the rules, but obvs, it's not lame if a judge found someone not guilty (and we should have juries)
Dude grandma made her choice - just like every suffragette and apartheid protestor. Judges won't save her, but it'd be lame civil disobedience if they did! Society isn't a superhero story - we all have to agree on the rules or we don't live in one. It's not about influence, it's about cooperation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I read this and assumed it was mostly sarcasm/satire. It is, right? Like, we do live in a society where we have to agree on the rules, but obvs, it's not lame if a judge found someone not guilty (and we should have juries)
I'm not nesting, I'm just obsessively sorting out and washing all the baby clothes. Just a baby clothes goblin over here, nothing to see...
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm not nesting, I'm just obsessively sorting out and washing all the baby clothes. Just a baby clothes goblin over here, nothing to see...
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It used to be the case that a mission of forming young people for leadership was understood to be exclusively aimed at boys. That's no longer true. Hegseth wants to get back something that can't be restored—the culture-wide assumption that power and influence should belong only to (white) men.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
It used to be the case that a mission of forming young people for leadership was understood to be exclusively aimed at boys. That's no longer true. Hegseth wants to get back something that can't be restored—the culture-wide assumption that power and influence should belong only to (white) men.
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(4/4) Human rights are universal. They are not tools for political convenience. They do not bend to ideology. And no administration can claim that equality, safety, and dignity are anything but fundamental rights. The world is watching. And history will remember where we stood.
November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
(4/4) Human rights are universal. They are not tools for political convenience. They do not bend to ideology. And no administration can claim that equality, safety, and dignity are anything but fundamental rights. The world is watching. And history will remember where we stood.
I supported the dems through a thoroughly depressing stint as the opposition party, but if they bail out the AI companies, I think that's it, I'm done.
November 25, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I supported the dems through a thoroughly depressing stint as the opposition party, but if they bail out the AI companies, I think that's it, I'm done.
I guess I'm just wondering if there will be any substantial fallout from the exposure of all those maga accounts as foreign influencers, or if we'll all forget next week and right wing normies like my parents will never even know
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I guess I'm just wondering if there will be any substantial fallout from the exposure of all those maga accounts as foreign influencers, or if we'll all forget next week and right wing normies like my parents will never even know
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(I do not think they should be bailed out)
November 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
(I do not think they should be bailed out)
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*They* can't afford to go back.
*We* can't afford to not barbecue them on sight.
*We* can't afford to not barbecue them on sight.
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
*They* can't afford to go back.
*We* can't afford to not barbecue them on sight.
*We* can't afford to not barbecue them on sight.
The world would be a much better place if more people felt empowered to tell the men in their lives to stop being such disgusting selfish pigs
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The world would be a much better place if more people felt empowered to tell the men in their lives to stop being such disgusting selfish pigs
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More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the AMA in December said that prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. And 8% responded that prior authorization led to a disability, birth defect, or death. #RSNA25
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After Series of Denials, His Insurer Approved Doctor-Recommended Cancer Care. It Was Too Late. - KFF Health News
Eric Tennant’s doctors recommended histotripsy, which would target, and potentially destroy, a cancerous tumor in his liver. But by the time his insurer approved the treatment, Tennant was no longer c...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
More than 1 in 4 physicians surveyed by the AMA in December said that prior authorization had led to a serious adverse event for a patient in their care. And 8% responded that prior authorization led to a disability, birth defect, or death. #RSNA25
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