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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We don’t hate insurance companies or the systems of medical care that cooperate with these wealth extraction models enough. Telling people they will be financially penalized for so much as uttering an inappropriate question is hugely consequential.

A letter from a medical clinic reading:

“ANNUAL VISIT: BEFORE WE GET STARTED TODAY
Your annual wellness exam is designed to focus on preventive care. If you bring up a medical concern(s) during today's appointment, you will likely receive an additional charge.
Examples include:
• Pelvic pain
• Irregular/heavy bleeding or Painful periods
• Menopause symptoms
• Depression or anxiety concerns
• Vaginal discharge or infection symptoms and Urinary symptoms
• New breast concerns
• Medication changes or new prescriptions
• Evaluation of any new or ongoing medical problem
• Procedures
You Have Options
If you have medical concerns today, your provider may:
• Address them during today's visit (which will likely result in an additional office visit charge), OR
Schedule a separate appointment if more time or evaluation is needed.
Please Note
Even a brief discussion of a medical problem may require:
• Medical decision making
• Additional documentation
• Orders for testing or imaging
• Medication management
These services are billed differently than preventive care and are determined by your insurance plan. Our goal is to provide you with the care you need while being transparent about possible charges.”

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Jessica Pickett @pickettjessica.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

PSA: there are literally no standalone measles vaccines currently manufactured or approved in any high income country

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I knew this because a hundred people have sent me this from tumblr. Congrats on your good grade Mattie :)

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Apparently if you find a tagged Horseshoe crab and report it to Fish and Wildlife they'll send you a certificate with info about your crab AND a pewter horseshoe crab pin! Keep your eyes peeled ••
Certificate of Participation
Coprative Honesbie Crab Tagding Program.
(Photo from the Nantucket Conservation Foundation).
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Good news! Getting a good grade in crab is normal to want and possible to achieve!

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

everything he's attributing to left wing terrorism is just stuff he and trump are literally doing, I think my head's going to explode

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/07/2026

Breaking news: The lining of the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool peeled in at least seven places along seams that were created when the material was applied, indicating likely problems in how it was installed, according to experts and a Post analysis.

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Reflecting Pool peeling likely caused by application flaws, experts say

President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.

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Chunch Bunkley @chunch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Meanwhile the Vlasic stork is silent.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Colorado wants people to report river otter sightings to track the population. One problem: People don't know what river otters look like. Hope this helps👇

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/04/2026

Fuck your chaotic news. I'm plover posting. 🪶

A Snowy Plover in the foreground with the sunset and the ocean in the background, the foreground was much darker in person, several months old

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Sparkle Pigeon @sparklepigeon.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I caught Emmy with the tiniest blep this evening.

A black cat with yellow eyes is in a gray cat bed with some towels looking over her left shoulder at the camera. Her little pink tongue is visible just a tiny bit. This is known on the cat section of the interwebs as a “blep.”

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HatboxApril on Bluesky Dot Com @hatboxapril.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

welp this is becoming part of my vocabulary forever

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

god, the last few days, i don’t think ive ever related to a movie character more than this one in this scene

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed, in a priest’s robes, looking anguished and panicked, saying “Well, somebody has to do something!”

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Jacquie (Postseason Edition) @lajacq.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My mood since the USAID nightmare

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We have the 25th Amendment for a reason.

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Katie @littlelistmaker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

He really thinks he's so clever seamlessly pivoting from war crimes to affordability. You can tell he really thinks he is nailing it rhetorically.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

[singing Radiohead's "Creep" as the gators emerge] "What the hell am I doin' here? I don't belong here"

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I love Woke Hospital Weekly, the show where every character is about to kill themselves

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 05/03/2026

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This in Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio by the way. Could not love this any more :)

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Elyse N, Ph.D. @elysen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

And there are researchers who study this topic, not suggesting I’m novel in suggesting this (quite the contrary). A systematic review in Frontiers in Psychiatry (Maguite et al., 2024) is a place to start.

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Elyse N, Ph.D. @elysen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

There is also an interesting conversation to be had about “theory of mind” and overlaps between psychopathy and neurodivergence/autism, without implying that ND folks are all sociopaths!

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Elyse N, Ph.D. @elysen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

As someone with a Ph.D. who studied psychopathy and also has read it in French and English (though long before the grad degree), I agree. Doesn’t read as sociopath to me. Could be read as neurodivergence, could be read as commentary on absurdity of human actions.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The thing about Camus' The Stranger is I can't help reading Meursault as neurodivergent rather than sociopathic as some have found him. When he reluctantly justifies the murder, he tries to explain that he was overwhelmed by the Sun. The sensory overload was described in minute detail. Microessay?

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KFF @kff.org · 20/02/2026

⚡ KFF’s Latoya Hill explains how new data showing declines in use of early prenatal care, particularly among people of color, points to widening disparities in maternal and infant health. #QuickTake on.kff.org/3MVuOn3

KFF graphic featuring a quote from Latoya Hill, senior policy manager with KFF’s Racial Equity and Health Policy Program. It says, “While the exact reasons for the recent declines in early prenatal care use are not known, disparities in maternal and infant health reflect underlying inequities in insurance coverage, access to care, and social and economic factors. Overall, Hispanic, Black, AIAN, and NHPI people are more likely to be uninsured compared to White people, and these gaps will likely widen due to expected losses in Medicaid and ACA Marketplace coverage under the 2025 reconciliation law.”

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Dread VanVleet 🎃🕷️ @velodus.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I hope you've all been keeping up with the saga of Punch-kun, and I hope you also know that Punch-kun got hugged by the adult monkey Onsing today.

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

How's your day going, Trump? Oh:

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

👇🏻

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

weird random tariffs that were probably generated by Grok and included an island only populated by penguins, we barely knew ye

stupid president holding up his stupid tariffs chart

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Elyse N, Ph.D. @elysen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Apfelschorle is amazing, I don’t blame you

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 07/02/2026

A couple of weeks ago @sesmith.lol demanded I capture baby harbor seal activation noises and I failed until about 20 minutes ago FREAKING ADORABLE! Bonus western gull in pursuit. 🦭 🦑 🪶

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/02/2026

I'm home now, which means its time to edit baby harbor seal pictures!

A mama harbor seal looks at their pup and they appear to have a smile, their faces are about an inch apart

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/02/2026

Great job everyone!

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 07/02/2026

Good morning from the harbor seal factory! We got several working harbor seal families ready to challenge the establishment! Here you can see a mother teaching their baby about the union. Get em started young! #UnionsForAll #SealSky 🦭 🦑

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

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Health Advice From A.I. Chatbots Is Frequently Wrong, Study Shows

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is part of a pattern that is impeachable: Trump cuts previously appropriated Congressional funds, but only to states led by Democrats (California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota).

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 09/02/2026

What this ad doesn’t show: Ring also rolled out facial recognition for humans. I wrote to them months ago about this. Their answer? They won’t ask for your consent. This definitely isn’t about dogs—it’s about mass surveillance. x.com/Phil_Lewis_/...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026

Dr Oz defends his comments saying kids should work right out of high school & older Americans should put off retirement to help pay down natl debt: "If we make our people healthier, they'll want to participate in life. You shouldn't work longer bc you have to. You should work longer bc you want to."

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Andrew: weird and loud @ak0.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The fact that New York has a baby podium but there are not more baby press conferences is deeply silly.

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Misha Tri-Flow Glow @spoketension.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Death Camp For Cutie over here

a shopping mall emo/indie kid who is somehow also an ICE thug

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 28/01/2026

Dogs pass a kind of mirror self recognition test, but for smell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 28/01/2026

In the late 1800s, when people started using the word "donate", it made some folks mad. The word is a back-formation of the word "donation" and was seen as a degradation of English. www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The president is setting up his own slush fund with oil money stolen from a foreign country.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Sanctuary policies are legal. The Supreme Court has been clear for decades that the federal government cannot commandeer state or local governments to enforce federal immigration law. This isn’t “playing with fire.” It’s constitutional law.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hilariously, a coyote walked behind a San Francisco reporter as she was doing a segment on the mountain lion. 🤣

Francis Wang in brown wool wrap holding mic with coyote in left hand side of screen behind her on street.

Banner reads LOOK BEHIND YOU
COYOTE WALKS THROUGH FRANCIS WANG'S LIVE SHOT

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