Derek
@technoragamuffin.bsky.social
Radical acolyte of militant kindness.
Erstwhile bacchanalian.
Gassy, and mad about it.
Erstwhile bacchanalian.
Gassy, and mad about it.
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🧵Following months and months of reporting on the FDA’s oversight of foreign drug factories, our team @propublica.org published Rx Inspector - a tool that allows you to look up where your generics were made.
Here’s what it already taught me 🔽
projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
Here’s what it already taught me 🔽
projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
January 7, 2026 at 6:14 PM
🧵Following months and months of reporting on the FDA’s oversight of foreign drug factories, our team @propublica.org published Rx Inspector - a tool that allows you to look up where your generics were made.
Here’s what it already taught me 🔽
projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
Here’s what it already taught me 🔽
projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
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The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old
July 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The dumbest most boring and hateful losers stomping their feet and getting whatever they want is getting really really old
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Dreams finally came back online after 2 years of prolonged shutdown, but they are now exclusively terrible?
Brains, what bastards.
Brains, what bastards.
June 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Dreams finally came back online after 2 years of prolonged shutdown, but they are now exclusively terrible?
Brains, what bastards.
Brains, what bastards.
I guess one never expects to be, or intends on being, homeless.
June 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I guess one never expects to be, or intends on being, homeless.
Out of the frying pan and into the rotary kiln.
May 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Out of the frying pan and into the rotary kiln.
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homophobic pope is back. hopefully this deters youth from becoming devoutly religious
May 16, 2025 at 8:45 PM
homophobic pope is back. hopefully this deters youth from becoming devoutly religious
Saw someone misspelled "Turf War" as "Terf War" in a suggested news article. Now I've got a mental motion picture of Rowling and an army of jilted, transphobe, paperback ghouls, getting flattened by a brigade of punky, anthropomorphic, combat-booted hardcovers of The Feminine Mystique.
May 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Saw someone misspelled "Turf War" as "Terf War" in a suggested news article. Now I've got a mental motion picture of Rowling and an army of jilted, transphobe, paperback ghouls, getting flattened by a brigade of punky, anthropomorphic, combat-booted hardcovers of The Feminine Mystique.
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The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.
One volume level down, too quiet to discern what's being said on the podcast.
One volume level up, too loud to fall asleep to.
I need, like... podcast subtitles? But in dark mode. And beamed directly on to my eyelids. So I can read them with my eyes closed.
Or therapy. But that's expensive.
One volume level up, too loud to fall asleep to.
I need, like... podcast subtitles? But in dark mode. And beamed directly on to my eyelids. So I can read them with my eyes closed.
Or therapy. But that's expensive.
April 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
One volume level down, too quiet to discern what's being said on the podcast.
One volume level up, too loud to fall asleep to.
I need, like... podcast subtitles? But in dark mode. And beamed directly on to my eyelids. So I can read them with my eyes closed.
Or therapy. But that's expensive.
One volume level up, too loud to fall asleep to.
I need, like... podcast subtitles? But in dark mode. And beamed directly on to my eyelids. So I can read them with my eyes closed.
Or therapy. But that's expensive.
Even after all these years, every time a new Contrapoints video drops I rush to watch it because I know I'll be cackling like mad the entire way through.
She's just **so** god damn good at what she does.
She's just **so** god damn good at what she does.
April 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Even after all these years, every time a new Contrapoints video drops I rush to watch it because I know I'll be cackling like mad the entire way through.
She's just **so** god damn good at what she does.
She's just **so** god damn good at what she does.
When you hit the bottom of the kleenex box, so you have to abruptly stop sobbing and attempt to regain control of your emotions, before you're overcome by the various secretions of your own face.
Shrinkflation strikes again!
Shrinkflation strikes again!
April 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
When you hit the bottom of the kleenex box, so you have to abruptly stop sobbing and attempt to regain control of your emotions, before you're overcome by the various secretions of your own face.
Shrinkflation strikes again!
Shrinkflation strikes again!
"Don't forget: You're here forever."
April 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"Don't forget: You're here forever."
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When you see art as something to own instead of something to make, it follows that you’d love AI generated pictures
March 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
When you see art as something to own instead of something to make, it follows that you’d love AI generated pictures
This (Cosmopolitan?!) piece by a NYC journalist who chose to join conservative dating apps and date alt-right men to better understand them is both utterly wild and completely unsurprising. I know the NYC dating scene is just very different, but damn.
Fearless.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
Fearless.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating
There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?
www.cosmopolitan.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This (Cosmopolitan?!) piece by a NYC journalist who chose to join conservative dating apps and date alt-right men to better understand them is both utterly wild and completely unsurprising. I know the NYC dating scene is just very different, but damn.
Fearless.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
Fearless.
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
Inexplicably struck by a dorito druthers, of the sweet chili heat variety. As though bedeviled by the churlish spirits of every gatorade-guzzling, XBox Live-dwelling homophobe from the early aughts.
March 25, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Inexplicably struck by a dorito druthers, of the sweet chili heat variety. As though bedeviled by the churlish spirits of every gatorade-guzzling, XBox Live-dwelling homophobe from the early aughts.
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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Newly-elected Mark Carney removes disguise to reveal maniacal, laughing Trudeau
Mark Carney removes disguise to reveal maniacal, laughing Trudeau
OTTAWA - After winning the Liberal Party leadership race in a blowout victory, Prime Minister Designate Mark Carney removed his lifelike rubber mask to reveal that he had been current Prime Minister J...
www.thebeaverton.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Newly-elected Mark Carney removes disguise to reveal maniacal, laughing Trudeau
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New U.S. tariffs force Canada to use excess steel, aluminum in construction of 200 ft Mecha-Gosling www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/new-...
February 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
New U.S. tariffs force Canada to use excess steel, aluminum in construction of 200 ft Mecha-Gosling www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/new-...
For all the Canadians thinking that what's happened in the USA couldn't happen here, it's happening right now.
Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government
Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
Morning File by @timbousquet.bsky.social
Power Grab: Tim Houston is dismantling democracy in the birthplace of responsible government - Halifax Examiner
This is not about one election or another. Governments come and go, left, right, and centre. But never before have previous governments, even super-majority governments, made such radical changes in t...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
February 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For all the Canadians thinking that what's happened in the USA couldn't happen here, it's happening right now.
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Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
February 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize
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Saved from indoctrination by being clinically allergic to podcast/youtube voice
January 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Saved from indoctrination by being clinically allergic to podcast/youtube voice
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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
PSA:
When Harrison Ford, as his last defiant act of senior shenaniganry, throws hoary haymakers at all the neofacist "Top Men", drags the Ark of the Covenant out of that warehouse, and cracks it open on the steps of the capitol building in full view of the 4th Reich, remember to CLOSE YOUR EYES.
When Harrison Ford, as his last defiant act of senior shenaniganry, throws hoary haymakers at all the neofacist "Top Men", drags the Ark of the Covenant out of that warehouse, and cracks it open on the steps of the capitol building in full view of the 4th Reich, remember to CLOSE YOUR EYES.
January 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
PSA:
When Harrison Ford, as his last defiant act of senior shenaniganry, throws hoary haymakers at all the neofacist "Top Men", drags the Ark of the Covenant out of that warehouse, and cracks it open on the steps of the capitol building in full view of the 4th Reich, remember to CLOSE YOUR EYES.
When Harrison Ford, as his last defiant act of senior shenaniganry, throws hoary haymakers at all the neofacist "Top Men", drags the Ark of the Covenant out of that warehouse, and cracks it open on the steps of the capitol building in full view of the 4th Reich, remember to CLOSE YOUR EYES.