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fund research and clinical trials for infection associated chronic illnesses now, and furthermore provide clean energy-powered hotel cold on demand for free. medicaid, not medicare, for all. aspiring #burquesky member.
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okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 AM
okay folks, “government name” doesn’t mean “work for the government.” it is a slang term meaning “your full name”
why is it easier to imagine disbanding ice and dhs than it is to imagine a rebuilt nih that actually cares about iaccs 😓 this is actually irrational imo
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
why is it easier to imagine disbanding ice and dhs than it is to imagine a rebuilt nih that actually cares about iaccs 😓 this is actually irrational imo
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Celebrating the holiday season! ✨
Disco Jumpsuit
Mixed media on 12 x 12" board
2022
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#ArtAdventCalendar #artists #art #ArtLover #WeirdArt #holidays #painting #ArtOnBlueSky #ArtYear #BskyArt #BskyArtist #PDXArt
Disco Jumpsuit
Mixed media on 12 x 12" board
2022
Sold
#ArtAdventCalendar #artists #art #ArtLover #WeirdArt #holidays #painting #ArtOnBlueSky #ArtYear #BskyArt #BskyArtist #PDXArt
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Celebrating the holiday season! ✨
Disco Jumpsuit
Mixed media on 12 x 12" board
2022
Sold
#ArtAdventCalendar #artists #art #ArtLover #WeirdArt #holidays #painting #ArtOnBlueSky #ArtYear #BskyArt #BskyArtist #PDXArt
Disco Jumpsuit
Mixed media on 12 x 12" board
2022
Sold
#ArtAdventCalendar #artists #art #ArtLover #WeirdArt #holidays #painting #ArtOnBlueSky #ArtYear #BskyArt #BskyArtist #PDXArt
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From its establishment, DHS has always been empowered to violate our rights under the pretense of securing our safety. DHS's overbroad mission and unchecked power make it a danger to our communities.
We brought DHS into this world, and we can build a world without it, too.
We brought DHS into this world, and we can build a world without it, too.
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From its establishment, DHS has always been empowered to violate our rights under the pretense of securing our safety. DHS's overbroad mission and unchecked power make it a danger to our communities.
We brought DHS into this world, and we can build a world without it, too.
We brought DHS into this world, and we can build a world without it, too.
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Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"
I don’t get how Jenrick can actually believe that we should shrink the population and then start making more of our own things from pots and pans to what iPhones? How does he think that happens?
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Every interview with a right-wing politician is like: "Mr. Hitler is adamant: If we sacrifice enough children, Santa Claus will come back and deliver 5% GDP growth. But I have to ask him: Do you ever worry that your relentless advocacy for working folks offends the rootless cosmopolitan parasites?"
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I am trying this - not really looking to take over, just help and maybe have some influence - and I am finding the advice to be both true and not true. Yes they are grateful to have me, but it is also difficult and frustrating in ways that contradict the whole "one easy trick" thing.
December 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I am trying this - not really looking to take over, just help and maybe have some influence - and I am finding the advice to be both true and not true. Yes they are grateful to have me, but it is also difficult and frustrating in ways that contradict the whole "one easy trick" thing.
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my dad has started carrying his tribal ID to work because ICE is around all the time and he thinks he’s going to get deported
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
my dad has started carrying his tribal ID to work because ICE is around all the time and he thinks he’s going to get deported
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
then they were in the parking lot at his work this morning. two trucks of agents at 17th and Lake in mpls.
#LongCovid #mecfs folks is anyone interested in doing this? it won’t be related to chronic illness but this could be a way to help shape policy on an issue a lot us care about without leaving the house. it would involve 1) sending a scripted email 2) writing a letter to a local newspaper (with help
we need a campaign to get democratic representatives and senators to state their position on abolishing ice and then write letters to local newspapers about it.
before DHS.) I imagine that any real attempt to abolish ice by the democrats might be tied to additional funding for local police, but they will probably do that anyway.
abolishing ice feels like the most important medium term political goal.
abolishing ice feels like the most important medium term political goal.
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
#LongCovid #mecfs folks is anyone interested in doing this? it won’t be related to chronic illness but this could be a way to help shape policy on an issue a lot us care about without leaving the house. it would involve 1) sending a scripted email 2) writing a letter to a local newspaper (with help
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I’m just gonna keep saying “triple the NIH budget” until it sounds like common sense.
When I see losses like this, I’m so frustrated by what could have been. What if we did something as simple as tripling the budget for medical research like Dr. Williams himself did? Could he have been saved? And how many others like him?
A total tragedy. He developed a treatment that has proven life saving for so many patients with previously intractable depression, then himself succumbed to the same disease.
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...
Nolan Williams, Who Stimulated the Brain to Treat Depression, Dies at 43 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/h...
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’m just gonna keep saying “triple the NIH budget” until it sounds like common sense.
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We're not going to get better treatment for autoimmune disorders without grappling with shortcomings on women's health research historically.
December 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We're not going to get better treatment for autoimmune disorders without grappling with shortcomings on women's health research historically.
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Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar this is from a couple years ago. I do these textile things more as a form of drumming than trying to make art but I like the way the colours interact
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar this is from a couple years ago. I do these textile things more as a form of drumming than trying to make art but I like the way the colours interact
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Why not compose a shadow CDC, FDA, etc? It may not be able to stop these people from making absolute fools of themselves in front of the entire world but idk, can you imagine a future when it might be nice to have a repository of actual experienced experts, say for another appointee to draw on?
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Why not compose a shadow CDC, FDA, etc? It may not be able to stop these people from making absolute fools of themselves in front of the entire world but idk, can you imagine a future when it might be nice to have a repository of actual experienced experts, say for another appointee to draw on?
twitter now showing me exclusively vapid mean-spirited essentialist fake intellectual relationship/gender discourse instead of posts from people I follow
December 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
twitter now showing me exclusively vapid mean-spirited essentialist fake intellectual relationship/gender discourse instead of posts from people I follow
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"a sometimes bizarre utilitarian ideological movement that
can only be described as fluctuating between an obsession with mosquito nets, and a desire to make eugenics great again"
can only be described as fluctuating between an obsession with mosquito nets, and a desire to make eugenics great again"
Very effective at what they're doing, which has never been "altruism."
Learning so much about effective altruism this week!
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"a sometimes bizarre utilitarian ideological movement that
can only be described as fluctuating between an obsession with mosquito nets, and a desire to make eugenics great again"
can only be described as fluctuating between an obsession with mosquito nets, and a desire to make eugenics great again"
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One of the reasons Trump is in the White House is that people think both parties are equally corrupt. They're not, but statements like this make it really hard for people to see that truth.
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
One of the reasons Trump is in the White House is that people think both parties are equally corrupt. They're not, but statements like this make it really hard for people to see that truth.
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#ArtAdventCalendar 2025 Day 3
Trying to showcase as much variety as possible throughout the 24 days. So today I share one of my #alcoholink #art.
#artYear
#traditionalArt
Trying to showcase as much variety as possible throughout the 24 days. So today I share one of my #alcoholink #art.
#artYear
#traditionalArt
December 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
#ArtAdventCalendar 2025 Day 3
Trying to showcase as much variety as possible throughout the 24 days. So today I share one of my #alcoholink #art.
#artYear
#traditionalArt
Trying to showcase as much variety as possible throughout the 24 days. So today I share one of my #alcoholink #art.
#artYear
#traditionalArt
I think jasmine crockett running for senate would be hilarious (complimentary) and that she’s more likely to win statewide than the other candidates.
December 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
I think jasmine crockett running for senate would be hilarious (complimentary) and that she’s more likely to win statewide than the other candidates.
I don’t think an actblue scam candidate would have done as well as aftyn behn
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I don’t think an actblue scam candidate would have done as well as aftyn behn
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Sometimes I think about how much would be possible without this huge effort to tilt the scales in favor of the worst people
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Sometimes I think about how much would be possible without this huge effort to tilt the scales in favor of the worst people
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given these margins, we’ll probably win the house and the senate, so in my mind, the main obstacle to saving our democracy remains the senators fighting to keep the filibuster
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 AM
given these margins, we’ll probably win the house and the senate, so in my mind, the main obstacle to saving our democracy remains the senators fighting to keep the filibuster
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Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar takes us into February when the metallic gel pens my brother gave me for my birthday inspired this magical mushroom scene #SciArt
December 2, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar takes us into February when the metallic gel pens my brother gave me for my birthday inspired this magical mushroom scene #SciArt
I’ve seen at least a few stories about chronic illness running in families that are narratives of deep support and understanding but no stories about the other kind of experience you can have with this. I kind of want to write this myself but I also don’t wanna like…hurt anyone or really work on
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’ve seen at least a few stories about chronic illness running in families that are narratives of deep support and understanding but no stories about the other kind of experience you can have with this. I kind of want to write this myself but I also don’t wanna like…hurt anyone or really work on
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Some grassroots orgs doing badass work:
Little Cherokee Seeds: Language immersion for babies & mamas trying to create 1st language Cherokee speakers. littlecherokeeseeds.org
Four Mothers Collective: Tulsa-based org --opportunities 2 Native women artists. tvlsestudios.com/fourmotherscollective
Little Cherokee Seeds: Language immersion for babies & mamas trying to create 1st language Cherokee speakers. littlecherokeeseeds.org
Four Mothers Collective: Tulsa-based org --opportunities 2 Native women artists. tvlsestudios.com/fourmotherscollective
Little Cherokee Seeds - Cherokee Language Immersion Program
Little Cherokee Seeds offers mother-infant Cherokee language and culture immersion, fostering Cherokee communities rooted in language, values, and balance.
littlecherokeeseeds.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Some grassroots orgs doing badass work:
Little Cherokee Seeds: Language immersion for babies & mamas trying to create 1st language Cherokee speakers. littlecherokeeseeds.org
Four Mothers Collective: Tulsa-based org --opportunities 2 Native women artists. tvlsestudios.com/fourmotherscollective
Little Cherokee Seeds: Language immersion for babies & mamas trying to create 1st language Cherokee speakers. littlecherokeeseeds.org
Four Mothers Collective: Tulsa-based org --opportunities 2 Native women artists. tvlsestudios.com/fourmotherscollective
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Fantasy flying frog creamer, handbuilt stoneware.
#EastCoastKin #PottersOfBluesky #ArtAdventCalendar #AnimalArtTuesday
#ceramics #pottery
#EastCoastKin #PottersOfBluesky #ArtAdventCalendar #AnimalArtTuesday
#ceramics #pottery
December 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Fantasy flying frog creamer, handbuilt stoneware.
#EastCoastKin #PottersOfBluesky #ArtAdventCalendar #AnimalArtTuesday
#ceramics #pottery
#EastCoastKin #PottersOfBluesky #ArtAdventCalendar #AnimalArtTuesday
#ceramics #pottery
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“It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.”
- Pema Chodron
#ArtAdventCalendar #BlueskyArt #Mandala #BlueskyMonday #CutPaperArt
- Pema Chodron
#ArtAdventCalendar #BlueskyArt #Mandala #BlueskyMonday #CutPaperArt
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.”
- Pema Chodron
#ArtAdventCalendar #BlueskyArt #Mandala #BlueskyMonday #CutPaperArt
- Pema Chodron
#ArtAdventCalendar #BlueskyArt #Mandala #BlueskyMonday #CutPaperArt