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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Avoid all things addictive. Just stay far away. Don't try them even once. Addiction will utterly ruin your life. It is NOT worth it.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The argument Centrists yell at us every time -- Party Unity! You Must Help Us Win Against Scary Republicans! -- somehow never applies to *them* when an actually principled progressive wins the primary. Every single time, the Centrists betray us. Because they have no real values. Only greed.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Explain to me why Obama was a good president. He stabbed women in the back by refusing to fight for a national abortion bill. He broke his promises to close Guantanimo, obtain medicare for all, and stop wars. He bailed out the bankers who caused the fin crisis. He was the "deporter in chief." Etc.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Astrological bypassing is so gross. You are responsible for your choices. The planets could help with understanding what you're dealing with, and wisdom in how to do better, but they aren't scapegoats. Be an adult, own your shit.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

En route to Chicago for UAC! *nervous* Hope to see many of you there!

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Democrats supported all these wars as well. The 2 party system is a sham. They are all paid by the military industrial complex. We must get rid of corruption, or this will continue to happen.

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Iowa Time Bank @iowatimebank.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In response to recent national concerns about produce quality, we wanted to feature some of the produce and food available on Iowa Time Bank. Community networks like ITB are a great way to build alternative food systems. Sign up for Iowa Time Bank at www.RingsNetwork.org

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

She was. My kids got books from her Imagination Library program, and they were really great books. Rest her soul.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm so sorry. 🫂 I hope you can find the support you need to get through this.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm not generally a celebrity worshiper. But I will admit a tiny soft spot for Saint DP. I am participating in the nation's grief today. This is a good homage: www.patreon.com/LyzLenz/post...

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Beautiful trash | Men Yell at Me

Some thoughts about Dolly Parton, who died this week. And the Grim Reaper has some explaining to do, because this is unacceptable. Marketin

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Better than some I've experienced. He was trying to make small talk and ease into the conversation by referencing something from your profile, which is more than most guys I encountered on the app. I don't love small talk, myself, but I know that for some people it calms them down.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So embarrassing that they thought it would be a great idea to release these to the world, expecting us to be impressed instead of laughing hysterically.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@debtcollective.bsky.social why don't you answer messages? I'm trying to get involved, more than just signing up for a stupid email list. Are you doing anything besides messaging? Posting news about how messed up our PSLF program is does squat to fix it.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very few people resist technology per se. People can recognize when something is helping them, and when its not. They resist its EFFECTS, its implementation, and the distributions of its benefits. Please stop using that tired argument about people resisting progress. It's just plain wrong.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

And secondly, not wanting to lose one's source of income is hardly a trivial concern. It's, um... existential. Technology is supposed to be a tool that serves human needs, not the other way around.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A few examples: Furniture and clothing are shit today, because we have machines make them instead of people. The Industrial Revolution did directly lead to the Great Depression. And are we sure that pollution from oil is actually less harmful than horse manure?

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People who protest certain technologies usually are NOT just stubbornly clinging to the past. They usually have extremely valid concerns. Telling them they are just being stubborn is dismissive and intellectually lazy.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"People of every age have resisted technological progress, because they don't want their jobs to become obsolete. We will adapt, just like we always have." This is deeply flawed reasoning, in addition to being sociopathic. 🧵

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Kids, the internet didn't used to suck, promise. Search engines actually worked pretty well. Not everyone was trying to sell you something. They weren't shoving AI down our throats. You could talk to real people. There weren't ads everywhere.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I always assumed they were bots. If they were real people, wow, what a sad life.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm so grateful my family survived the past 2-1/2 years. There is still much growth to go, but we are through the worst of it. I feel my song starting to come back, slowly.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sounds delightful! I grew Cherokee Purples last year. They struggled to fruit, because we got too much rain... but the ones that did emerge were delicious!!

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We are a culture of mavericks! It has its pros and cons! :)

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Astrology publishing suffers from a serious deficit of editors.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I can't access that particular Lancet article, but a similar one by the same author earlier in the year probably embeds similar errors, recorded here weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/study-clai...

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Study Claims No Harm from Weight Cycling Part 3 - Conclusions

This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter. If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing!

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ah, whoops, they did disclose their conflicts. I can't access the full article, but when I went to the Science Direct version, it shows snippets:

FM has received fees for consultancy from AstraZeneca; and research support from the Novo Nordisk Foundation and Arla Food for Health. NS received fees for consultancy and giving scientific talks from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, and Sanofi; and received research support from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Sanofi.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Harms of weight cycling are well established. weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/the-harm-o... Weightloss shills are recently catching on that this is a talking point used by fat justice advocates, and are trying to create "studies" to refute it. ...

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Our brains always try desperately to maintain equilibrium for the worldview we have been taught. Prejudices are extremely difficult to eradicate, because of this. If someone is PAID to promote a worldview, it's even harder to get them to change.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Lead author, Faidon Magkos, has received millions of dollars from Novo Nordisk, which sells weight loss drugs and promotes diet culture. Hmm, he didn't mention that in his conflict of interest section. novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/new-... sciencenews.dk/en/what-you-...

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New research project will investigate the effect of sleep extension on body weight, metabolism and learning ability in children - Novo Nordisk Fonden

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

When you control for these factors, discrepancies disappear. Additionally, when data shows the opposite of diet culture narrative (thin=good), for example that fat people have lower mortality rates, they don't call it data. They call it a "paradox" that needs to be carefully magicked away.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

B) Weight cycling (lose-gain-lose-gain is harder on the body than remaining at a stable weight) C) Medical neglect (doctors often withhold medical care unless the patient loses weight. Meanwhile the patient's health deteriorates due to lack of care. Some doctors refuse to accept fat patients.)

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Depends what result you're looking at. Most discrepancies are better explained by: A) Stigma (all marginalized populations, whatever their weight, have worse health in general than people accepted by mainstream society)

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Weight loss researchers have been caught in extremely unethical practices. To name just one example, after they couldn't produce the results they wanted, they changed the focus of the study... 3 years and 55 attempts in. Many other examples here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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GLP-1 medications for weight-loss: a triumph of marketing over patient care

GLP-1 weight loss drugs are receiving an avalanche of positive press. From major media outlets to trade publications, clinical, policy, and lay audiences have been inundated with articles declaring...

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I have to tell myself constantly, since I am fighting society's constant pressure... Some days are harder than others. But I am learning to wear my body size proudly, live in it confidently, love it radically. There is nothing wrong with my body. The ancient goddess brings me a lot of comfort.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The "science" behind all the GLP studies is done by people with serious conflicts of interest. The "consensus" is steeped in diet culture, not objective. Fat is not deadly, even in higher amounts. Thin people get the same diseases fat people get.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I keep a replica of this statue on my desk, to remind myself that societal body standards have not always required women to viciously subtract themselves to death. The oldest known work of art we have is a plump, healthy, proud, beautiful woman! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_o...

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Venus of Willendorf - Wikipedia

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I get it. Being fat in a fat-phobic world is really tough. I struggle with it, myself. But these drugs are not here to help us. They are harmful. :( Regan has done amazing work in this field. Can't recommend her highly enough! weightandhealthcare.substack.com/p/glp-1-stud...

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GLP-1 Study is an EPIC Fail Part 1 - Authors and Methodology

Two Years After Stopping GLP-1s, Most Patients Sustain at Least Some Weight Loss by Bartelt et al.

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The weight loss industry creates, then preys upon, people's insecurities. :( GLP-1s are disastrous for long-term health. They are built on shoddy science, promoted by unethical practitioners, and protected by predatory structures. I recommend following Regan Chastain for excellent analysis

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Curmudgeonly Capricorn 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbystarlight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

No it's fine we love Mercury Rx I WANTED to wait 15 mins at the gas pump because the card readers were down and then go to the pharmacy only for them to be closed and then go back when they were open only to find out the doc forgot to send the script THIS IS FINE

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