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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I test knit the #RibbonCandyHat for @hookmountainknits.bsky.social What a nice little scrappy project! The stripes only took a gram of yarn each. I added an 11th stripe to get the whole #ProgressPride flag in. Pattern releases on Sept 17. #knitsky #knitting 🧶

A handknit grey hat has textured stripes in the 11 colors of the Progress Pride Flag. It is displayed on a glass mannequin head in front of a blue background with puffy white clouds.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/03/2026

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

a chart showing rising energy consmption for all companie s bar netflix

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

THREAD: Whenever imperialist governments go to war, they become more authoritarian at home. That makes censorship bills like KOSA, ID checks, and attacks on Section 230 even more dangerous. Online protest, documenting war crimes, even news articles could be suppressed. www.badinternetbills.com

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Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 28/01/2026

The first time I remember praying for death I was 7 or 8 years old. The nuns said to offer my suffering up to Jesus. I had Crohn’s disease. Pediatric treatments existed, I never got them Part 1 of a series on why “parental choice” framing on vaccines is dead wrong 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/149300...

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My #berlinhoodedshawl by #mabulidesigns is HOTN. Design release Jan 31. #WIPWednesday as it needs to be blocked a tad larger. For my personal style, the original Berlin Hood (rainbow) wins, but this new open front version (red/grey) is great for neater hair or a more feminine style. #knitsky 🧶

My Berlin Hooded Shawl test hot off the needles. A red and grey striped hand knit hood with attached scarf is displayed on a denim mannequin. The hood and scarf are edged in squishy i-cord. The generous scarf wraps multiple times around the neck.

My Berlin Hood is hand knit in a rainbow striped yarn held with a thinner black yarn for a toned down marled look. The generous hood continues down into shoulders with front and back flaps, like a hooded dickie, all edged in squishy i-cord. It's displayed on a denim mannequin.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

That's what I'm supposed to be doing when the color inevitably chips off my clips! I'd stick the ball band in there, too.

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NPR @npr.org · 24/12/2025

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. n.pr/48VPxj2

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35 years after ADA, people with disabilities still find hotels unaccommodating

AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/12/2025

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Nazi rhetoric but “don’t call them Nazis”

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

So frustrating! My doc sent me for a brain MRI w/contrast for a bunch of new neuro symptoms. Imaging saw "headache" and decided I didn't need contrast. Then they found a tumor so I had to go back and do it with contrast like doc ordered in the first place. Maddening! I hope you get answers soon.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/12/2025

The Trump administration is going after the attorneys nationwide who protect and defend disabled people. This is a huge attack on civil rights. P&As do all sorts of often hidden work such as leveraging their position to get into immigration detention facilities on behalf of disabled detainees.

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Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments - KFF Health News

The Trump administration wants deep funding cuts for state-based legal services for disabled people, as rights advocates say the Justice Department pushed out many of its lawyers who worked on such is...

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 16/12/2025

I rescheduled the post I had planned for today. MukhammadAziz Umurzokov deserves to still be alive, passing his first classes at Brown. Failing that, he, at the very least, deserves to be remembered. www.patreon.com/posts/145949...

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I hope your surgery is successful and uneventful.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Another conversation just reminded me of another option. Is the tendon superficial, like in your wrist/elbow? There's a topical NSAID called Voltaren gel (diclofenac) that's safe for people who can't take it orally. It's for arthritis, but I've used it on angry tendons and even post-op inflammation.

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

👋 Breastfeeding & infant feeding expert here! All babies need safe, accessible nutrition. Most people already want to breastfeed and 84% start out doing so but can’t realize their goals. What we need are *policies* that make it possible to breastfeed for all who desire to do so and…

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

There are other less expensive brands out there. They're the most well known/research backed. I don't have standard arthritis either, but something in the RA/Lupus realm. I'm pretty sure chronic inflammation is chronic inflammation. But eating every 2.5 hours would make it a waste of money.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Yes. An ND had me start a supplement called Wobenzym. It's proteolytic enzymes that you take on an empty stomach, and they munch away the inflammation. For me, it was as effective as the Celebrex it replaced without the kicked in the kidneys feeling. Avoid with bleeding disorders.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics @ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Are you open to an OTC supplement suggestion?

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

So he's just advocating more of what we have now, promises of tax cuts and lower prices but actually only the ultra-rich get tax cuts and the rest of us get gaslit, but there's a D next to it so we take it with a smile?

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

If that means livable UBI and universal healthcare, I'd take it over the current disability scheme. But money doesn't undo racism, misogyny, transphobia, etc. Why can't we have both? We've got a whole year until midterms. Why not advocate for a good outcome instead of an incrementally less bad one?

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Sounds like an amazing start! 🤞

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Curious doctors who try to problem solve? Wouldn't that be nice.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 23/11/2025

The First Amendment protects our right to express ourselves, whether the Trump administration likes it or not.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

All this time I've been taking an expensive biologic drug with unpleasant side effects for my autoimmune connective tissue disease, but according to the NIH director I could have just bought some good shoes and walked it off to make myself less vulnerable in the next pandemic. We're so fucked.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

OMG. Not the same. Trump and Clinton are the same age, and a wealthy donor is not equivalent to a young intern.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I'm a big fan of Nourishing Meals for GF baking. Her Dark Teff Sandwich Bread is an amazingly reliable recipe that I've managed to pull off even when I mis-measured an ingredient and just added more water until the texture felt right. No weights, at least in version I have (it's been updated).

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Here's my test project, coincidentally in a similar color to the originals. These are so cozy in KnitPicks Upcycle Alpaca Sport. The simple textured pattern is very satisfying and makes it easy to count rows if you go on autopilot and lose track. #knitsky #knitting 🧶

A pair of handknit green fingerless mitts in a textured pattern have a rustic halo from the recycled alpaca yarn used. They're on an abstract blue/grey background.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Aunt is so much simpler than 2nd cousin once removed. This is the saddest attempt at a gotcha. 🙄 Plenty of people have their kids refer to their relatives and even close family friends as aunt or uncle.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 28/10/2025

Ms Rachel just called Andrew Cuomo a raggedy old racist bitch

Ms Rachel via Instagram:

I've eaten rice the way Zohran Mamdani does. A friend made me a meal years ago & showed me that way of eating rice. I thought it was cool.
Teachers in NYC teach students to be kind & respectful toward other students' cultures. It's one of our learning standards to help children feel proud of who they are.
It's disappointing that some adults can't model the same decency & kindness that students in NYC show every day.
They would rather model something none of our religions teach us - racism and attacking our neighbors instead of loving them.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo. zeteo.com/subscribe

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Of course she spews lies for an administration that spews lies. But can we just pause a moment appreciate how well this clip loops?

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Clearly a fate worse than death. Just bonkers.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

My first ND told me back in 2009 when I first got sick that low-normal was too low for B12, especially for someone like me with neurologic symptoms. Glad to see "real" science is catching up! scitechdaily.com/scientists-f...

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Scientists Found a Major Problem With Vitamin B12 Guidelines, and Your Brain Might Be at Risk

Low-normal B12 in older adults was tied to slower processing, cognitive decline, and brain damage. Scientists warn current requirements may be too low.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2025

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

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doctor eek (alt decorative ghost season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I think there's also an issue with writer's pay falling, so there's less time/inclination to actually research stuff.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Gee, I wonder which word did it?

Screenshot of the same post I'm replying to, but on Twitter, which has added a blue box "Visibility limited: this Post may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct.
Learn more"

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

It was never about antisemitism. This administration had used us as a kudgel against brown people, but Jews are about to get thrown under the bus like everyone else who isn't a cis het Christian nationalist white man. www.axios.com/2025/10/02/k...

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Kash Patel severs FBI's ties with the ADL

"This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs," Patel wrote on X.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Thank you. In the future, unless you're genuinely interested in buying someone's work, consider just complementing it without bringing money into the picture.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Not everyone can knit, and that's ok. I made it for myself, and shared it because I'm proud of my work. But if you'd really like to have it, I'm happy to sell it to you and make myself another. You estimated its value at $350-500. How about $400?

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

If you want to buy my sweater, be straightforward. Ask if it's for sale and either ask for a price or offer one. I'm not interested in a hypothetical conversation about selling my knitting.

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This was my first bulky garment and it went so fast. I have a fingering top coming up in my queue, and I hope my arthritic hands can get through it! 🤞

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I look forward to receiving that check in the mail!

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Ann G @anng27.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

It really was meant to be. 🤩

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