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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 6h

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Are there any disability/human rights lawyers here near Waldorf, Maryland? I know someone who has a case against the gov. and needs representation.

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 12h

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many

Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 10h

There's Chicken Soup for the Soul and then there's Cream of Mushroom for the Existential Dread.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16h

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Exquisite. [slides "What A Wonderful World" onto record player]

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But I'm someone who was told, "you don't look like you're in pain," then home for over a week with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.

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diagnostics or treatment options approved, told they were just depressed or didn't handle pain well, and then a Dr brought up maid? I think my expression would burn a hole through the wall.

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and some patients will be put in very challenging situations in which they're told their circumstances are the best they can hope for/expect and that one option for them is maid. If I were sitting in an appt with a loved one who'd been dismissed, possibly misdiagnosed, having struggled to get...

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...let's start from the beginning, you deserve that." Delayed diagnosis/misdiagnosis have cost loved ones time, suffering, work. In one situation, one quick outpatient procedure was all that was needed, but took months of significant pain before being taken seriously. Add bias to delayed dx...

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care covered. There will be people who feel like they have no other options, who will feel like they're a burden, who will feel maybe even like they're being rational or objective, when what they ought to hear is, "I'm sorry the system has let you down; I'm sure your trust is low...

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between overextended, burned-out doctors, and private insurers or govt health services facing costs of covering healthcare - patients know when dr's have written them off, decided it's all in their head, when dr's are too busy for clinical curiosity, & patients know the time/battle of getting...

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With misdiagnosis/delayed diagnosis continuing to be quite common challenges, I'd love to see resources toward enhancing critical thinking/multidisciplinary insights in diagnostic process. Misdiagnosis of something excruciating like a spinal csf leak as migraine, then introducing topic of maid...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Once met a man who was pinned down by enemy fire for days during Battle of the Bulge and he still carried a card on which he'd written ideas for aesthetics and military branding. No he didn't, it was an old black+white photo of his commanding officer that he still carried in his wallet.

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Notable that this could be especially problematic for children with disabilities. Assets can disqualify you for critical social welfare benefits-including SSI and Medicaid.

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I've wondered how much might change if we could see one's handwriting. Maybe type flattens it all, cuing increased legitimacy or decreased authority by making it all visually uniform. And on social media-I don't even have to pay the discomfort fee of standing on a streetcorner to be heard.

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Exactly; thank you. Also, exposed sensitive data of Americans.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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No no, no no no. You didn't grow your American audience talking about "cookies," GBBO. We do know what biscuit week is.

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You people/people-adjacent life-forms need a picture of a cat. Luckily -

A tabby cat sits primly with front two paws propped on Human, looking thoughtfully into the middle distance with her beautiful light green eyes as she feels cuddly but not clingy.

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directions on spotty cell coverage. One person got mad when I couldn't give them directions. But they didn't know where on the highway they were so I didn't know whether or not they'd passed a particular exit!

And yes, for non-road-trips, you paid more attention and remembered directions better. But I think almost everyone had a memory of stopping to ask directions at some point. That was reeeal hit and miss lol. I worked at a car dealership while in grad school in 2000s. People would call to ask...

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Everyone had a paper atlas or map in the car. An atlas was nicer, folding maps is annoying. You knew about possible construction delays by reading newspapers, paying attention to local nightly news, talking to people in your destination, or not knowing and being delayed. ETAs were a broad window.

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I don't know why I get fundraising texts, I block them every dang time, but this recent example raised my eyebrow.

Fundraising text from president opens with [*READ AND THEN DELETE IMMEDIATELY*] followed by "A message from Trump's Oval Office just hit YOUR phone. Do NOT forward. Do NOT screenshot" followed by a donation link, reminiscent of Ralphie's decoder ring that spells out "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" in "A Christmas Story"

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The platform of which was instrumental in amplifying MeToo and before that Arab Spring.

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SAY THE WOODEN MARIONETTE IS A REAL BOY. BAPTIZE HIM. BAPTIZE HIM!

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RCC x UNESCO for the win. Meanwhile, artists sit up, sniff the air hopefully, ears twitching, wondering if this alliance comes with funding.

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Yeah the thing is, everyone uses "AI" to mean junk consumer-facing LLM products *and* machine learning tools used on specific data sets like a huge phage therapy databases or for unfolding complex proteins. Those are very different products/tools/uses. We can't keep calling it all one name.

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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go ahead. keep raining. i'll just eat even more grilled cheese and tomato soup

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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 01/10/2026

"Brother Birds, you should love and praise your Creator. God covered you with feathers, gave you wings to fly, and gifted you a kingdom of pure air. God cares for you without any worry on your part even though you neither sow nor reap." #SaintFrancisOfAssisi

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Asked about Germany’s far right and the rise of the AfD, Pope Leo XIV says mixing far-right politics with religion is “not an authentic expression of Christianity.” The Gospel calls us to understanding and compassion.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow MEOW meow meow meow

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Chris Polley @the-mirage-fades.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trying to imagine someone writing an anti-plagiarism think piece 10 years ago that is promptly found out to be plagiarized (and the author claiming a lack of awareness of the publication’s anti-plagiarism policy)

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 29/09/2026

Colleagues at Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian are all on strike today over job cuts. Please show your solidarity as they take to the picket lines to defend jobs and education.

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EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Different sides of the ocean, but I grew up in parsonage life and can't stop chuckling at this.