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Lisa Garbrick

@garblisa.bsky.social
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Retired ER doctor enjoying a regular bedtime and so very much more. I bike for transportation and community in Seattle. Got pretty good at making pizza last year; still learning spoon carving. Grandchild of immigrants.

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 3h
The timing of this raid and reports that a White House official was involved raise serious questions that should concern all Americans, regardless of political party.
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[MS] @rockoperapenguin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
5/X Most excess fertilizers polluting our waterways come from residential lawns. Most tire dust comes from the excessive amount of cars on the roads. Most of the blockages to fish passage are due to roadway culverts. Excessive sprawl is the main fish killer, not cutting down a few trees in Seattle.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Great stuff from the Telegraph. archive.ph/r2nTA
A 29-year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, said the high levels of unemployment were “noticeable” in the area.
“When you go into Somali town, as we call it, you just see people outside in the cafes,” she said, gesturing down the road, before adding: “It annoys me, they are loitering around and doing nothing.”
Addressing her own career path, the 29-year-old said: “I can’t work at the moment because of my mental health. Of course I want to work, I went to uni and studied English Literature for two years. I want to be a writer.”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 10h
I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h
listen i won’t shed a single tear for kim or any of the women who work for trump, but it remains interesting that only the women in his orbit suffer consequences for being pieces of shit
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 8h
About fifteen years ago I made the joke that everyone had to decide which tech corporation would own their data: Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Google. Now I know I was wrong, they all trade that data like Magic the Gathering cards
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 9h
I think it's bad that a South African Nazi can spend almost 300 million on the U.S. midterms (gift link).
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8h
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Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 20h
I watched a neighbor break theirs down and was shocked at how compactly it fit in a closet. Didn’t take up nearly as much space as I thought it would.
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Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The government of Ontario is set to begin the costly, destructive and, let’s face it, ill-informed plan to actually rip up millions of dollars worth of cycling infrastructure in the city of Toronto. momentummag.com/city-takes-t...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He also lost the Nobel Physics Prize, Chemistry Prize, Physiology or Medicine Prize, and Literature Prize.
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Trump rages over Nobel Peace Prize loss
The award went to former international judge and UN official Navi Pillay.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m finishing up a book about how the Civil Rights Division built itself up from nothing in the 1960s and it looks like that’s going to be something we have to do again soon
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good." 

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues  "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
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More silence

"Professor?"
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is shameful. The controversial Guinea-Bissau truck RFKJr wants to fund has been given ahead. Now a life saving vaccine will be deliberately withheld from newborns in a country where hep B is endemic
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
Car infrastructure make our world less walkable not just by taking up space, but by sapping the joy (and safety) from our environment.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
But the reason cars are easier and faster is not because cars are INHERENTLY easier and faster as a form of transportation. It is because we have built this place for cars. We can unbuild it, and step ONE in unbuilding it is imagining hard infrastructure that you can build around.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
lolsob
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Both can be true
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So the issue is “allow people to…“ which supposes an authority without naming one. Name it and then explain why Anthropic or any of the rest of them should have that authority.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s not socialism that they hate, it’s pluralism.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pay to play, baby...
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Triple vaccinations yesterday. Oof.
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Lisa Garbrick @garblisa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I make pizza for friends and neighbors once a week. It’s fun!
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is just kidnapping children
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This piece highlights something that doesn't get talked enough: Progressives should put forward a proposed set of rules for a new congress to facilitate defeating the far right and actually legislate.
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Biblioraptor, PhD @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
A close pass is a way to say you care more about 5 seconds than about the safety of other people 🚲
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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The driver who is both using this road all the time (and can confirm current conditions on it) and yet not using the road because there's too much congestion.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.
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Keith Snyder @noteoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There's not much better than riding with little ones.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
@cfiesler.bsky.social points out the resource asymmetry between one random Twitter user posting fake news vs a dozen legitimate news orgs having to write stories to rebut the lie.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
Kant’s Categorical Imperative includes the Formula of the Universal Law and the Formula of Humanity. Act as if your choice/act will be repeated by everyone; treat other people as an end not a means. AI is the perfect tool to violate both laws.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 03/10/2026
A negative externality is a shifting of costs. As the cost of a transactional communication shrinks to zero for a business they are incentivized to massively scale their funnel and so massively increase the time wasted by 99% of the recipients of a message. We only have 24 hours in a day.
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Earn @nregib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If this was from a movie that came out in 2016 set in future Trump’s America people would’ve called it alarmist and laughed but now it’s just life
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