M. H. Cranberry
@mhcranberry.bsky.social
New Englander, puzzle-doer, art lover, health policy researcher, friend to animals, trivia nerd, and enjoyer of many things, including jokes.
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M. H. Cranberry
@mhcranberry.bsky.social
· Dec 29
Margaret: Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret
God: Fuck
God: Fuck
I need to make this into a poster for my wall.
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I am just going to come right out and say this, although it may be disturbing to some and shocking to others:
I believe that some posts on social media contain inaccurate information.
There. Now it's out there in the world. If I am a pariah, so be it.
I believe that some posts on social media contain inaccurate information.
There. Now it's out there in the world. If I am a pariah, so be it.
March 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I am just going to come right out and say this, although it may be disturbing to some and shocking to others:
I believe that some posts on social media contain inaccurate information.
There. Now it's out there in the world. If I am a pariah, so be it.
I believe that some posts on social media contain inaccurate information.
There. Now it's out there in the world. If I am a pariah, so be it.
Anyone else tossing and turning tonight with Swan Lake stuck in their head?
January 31, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Anyone else tossing and turning tonight with Swan Lake stuck in their head?
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
It's gross and if you use this word I would walk away from a conversation with you. Trying to be edgy and badass. Ugh.
I can't wait for the world to circle back around and find out how impactful and effective kindness can be. I mean, less clout and attention, but very impactful.
I can't wait for the world to circle back around and find out how impactful and effective kindness can be. I mean, less clout and attention, but very impactful.
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
It's gross and if you use this word I would walk away from a conversation with you. Trying to be edgy and badass. Ugh.
I can't wait for the world to circle back around and find out how impactful and effective kindness can be. I mean, less clout and attention, but very impactful.
I can't wait for the world to circle back around and find out how impactful and effective kindness can be. I mean, less clout and attention, but very impactful.
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i think we should go back to the early/mid- 2000s trend of randomly posting song lyrics that could just be ones you like or could have some vaguely ~deep~ meaning for a current life situation
October 28, 2024 at 1:37 AM
i think we should go back to the early/mid- 2000s trend of randomly posting song lyrics that could just be ones you like or could have some vaguely ~deep~ meaning for a current life situation
I'm real close to this myself. Things are hard enough without everyone else's opinions to take in. There's a lot more anger than I think is good for my brain.
Ok well I’m done with social media for a while I think. That didn’t take long.
January 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I'm real close to this myself. Things are hard enough without everyone else's opinions to take in. There's a lot more anger than I think is good for my brain.
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And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
January 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
By telling truth: tell truth and shame the devil.
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One foot in front of the other folks. It's the only way. The universe acts in mysterious ways & these fuckers won't get away with it.
January 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
One foot in front of the other folks. It's the only way. The universe acts in mysterious ways & these fuckers won't get away with it.
There's so much in us that no one, no matter how powerful, can reach or change unless we let them.
January 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There's so much in us that no one, no matter how powerful, can reach or change unless we let them.
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While you're honoring MLK, jr. today, give a moment for all the other Civil Rights Movement heroes who don't get their own day.
January 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
While you're honoring MLK, jr. today, give a moment for all the other Civil Rights Movement heroes who don't get their own day.
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I just don't have it in me to muse philosophically about the days to come but I also have no interest in hopelessness or despair. I'm just gonna keep carrying on, watch out for my own and count the days to the mid terms. Protect your mental health. This place is becoming a trauma vortex
January 20, 2025 at 3:25 AM
I just don't have it in me to muse philosophically about the days to come but I also have no interest in hopelessness or despair. I'm just gonna keep carrying on, watch out for my own and count the days to the mid terms. Protect your mental health. This place is becoming a trauma vortex
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Soothing ocean noises, y’all. Soothing ocean noises. 🌊🌊🌊
January 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Soothing ocean noises, y’all. Soothing ocean noises. 🌊🌊🌊
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Get ready for a possible big influx of new users here due to the TikTok ban and the inauguration. And also a big influx of bots and scammers. Some possibly helpful reminders/tips: gregpak.net/2024/12/20/b...
Bluesky hygiene and safety - Greg Pak
In the weeks since the election and in the midst the giant surge of new accounts on Bluesky, I’ve seen multiple people talking about bad vibes on the site due to the questionable online behavior of so...
gregpak.net
January 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Get ready for a possible big influx of new users here due to the TikTok ban and the inauguration. And also a big influx of bots and scammers. Some possibly helpful reminders/tips: gregpak.net/2024/12/20/b...
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The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop.
I want our World Wide Web back.
I want our World Wide Web back.
😍 home.
January 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
😍 home.
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the incredible thing about US exceptionalism is that the people who think there's no better place on earth and the people who think everywhere else is better at everything are both basically adherents to the exact same mindset, just from opposite sides
lol I'm sorry, but the idea that Chinese groceries are "high quality" is fucking hilarious. China has a famously bad food storage chain and the Chinese press and public are full of constant complaints! Food poisoning/diarrhea are so common that they're a regular work excuse.
Because the US gov't has spent 30 years telling us how horrible China is, but....their groceries are cheap, high quality, and plentiful (they're eating lobster and crab on a Monday at lunch, not an anniversary dinner). Their jobs provide incredible, varied, healthy lunches and an hour to eat them..
January 14, 2025 at 6:50 PM
the incredible thing about US exceptionalism is that the people who think there's no better place on earth and the people who think everywhere else is better at everything are both basically adherents to the exact same mindset, just from opposite sides
This is true of so many of us and so many of life's hardest journeys.
LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.
January 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is true of so many of us and so many of life's hardest journeys.
Why has it become socially acceptable to discuss your prediction of the downfall of American civilization as part of like, casual small talk before meetings? Can we all calm down please? I'm just trying to get through my day.
January 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Why has it become socially acceptable to discuss your prediction of the downfall of American civilization as part of like, casual small talk before meetings? Can we all calm down please? I'm just trying to get through my day.
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Read more about why RFK Jr’s opinions about biomedical research are egregiously wrong in last week’s edition of ImmunoLogic:
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/no-rfk-jr-...
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/no-rfk-jr-...
No RFK Jr., you can't "pause" infectious disease research to focus on chronic disease
Anyone who doesn't understand the intricate connection between infectious and chronic illnesses is wholly unqualified to lead our largest health agency.
news.immunologic.org
January 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Read more about why RFK Jr’s opinions about biomedical research are egregiously wrong in last week’s edition of ImmunoLogic:
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/no-rfk-jr-...
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/no-rfk-jr-...
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Waterloo Sunset - still a flipping brill love song to London.
January 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Waterloo Sunset - still a flipping brill love song to London.
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please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
December 31, 2024 at 7:27 PM
please enjoy this "vintage movie poster" I saw in a dream which was so funny to my subconscious that I immediately woke myself up to write it down for later
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"We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe."
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
December 30, 2024 at 3:24 AM
"We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe."
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
—Jimmy Carter's message to the cosmos on the Voyager Golden Record
I need to make this into a poster for my wall.
Margaret: Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret
God: Fuck
God: Fuck
December 29, 2024 at 5:23 PM
I need to make this into a poster for my wall.
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The more I think about this and ‘Yeah, right, there was a HOLE in the ozone layer’ the more I get mad about the deliberate erasure of two concrete ways human beings worked together to fix real problems.
And I haven’t had coffee yet.
And I haven’t had coffee yet.
It didn’t live up to the hype BECAUSE of the years and billions of dollars devoted to preparation. I am indignant on @wing2j.bsky.social’s behalf.
December 29, 2024 at 12:17 PM
The more I think about this and ‘Yeah, right, there was a HOLE in the ozone layer’ the more I get mad about the deliberate erasure of two concrete ways human beings worked together to fix real problems.
And I haven’t had coffee yet.
And I haven’t had coffee yet.