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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

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laurgour.bsky.social @laurgour.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

There is no such thing as other people’s children.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

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Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I am going to comment to allow people to get vaccinated when they want/need to. I would encourage you to do the same. Even if you’re not going to get the booster, you should worry about people being able to choose medications and what’s right for them.

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laurgour.bsky.social @laurgour.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

@drjessigold.bsky.social thank you for this beautiful book. As a therapist who takes care of medical providers, therapists, and other helping professions we need more opportunities to acknowledge the toll of the work we do, and push the systems that we work within to do better.

My library borrowed copy of the book “How Do You Feel?” sits next to potted plants on a blue outdoor table.

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laurgour.bsky.social @laurgour.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I did not have it on our family bingo card to have a beautiful image of my husband Paraic, captured during the very dark days of the Covid lockdown when his lab pivoted to genetic transmission research, used today to document heartbreaking & infuriating cuts happening to NIH grants.

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Paraic Kenny @pkennylab.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Moody lab pic of me in a grim piece on this wrecking ball for biomedical research. To explain “indirects": If research is a restaurant, direct costs cover ingredients & cooks' wages. Indirect costs cover kitchen, light & heat, furniture, bookkeeper etc. Lose one, the other follows! wapo.st/3Q9DrIH

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