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@marlarkd.bsky.social
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Medical lab worker, follower of things sciency, naturey or otherwise interesting.

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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Max now wished he’d asked a few more questions before agreeing to be blindfolded - 14th century, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 8, f. 92r.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wow worse than the pandemic that broke people’s brains
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Nona Jabiznez @nonajabiznez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Making a decision to wait on these actions until after an election is a full out admission that they have no interest in following the actual wishes of the people. It's really disappointing that more of the folks who vote for them don't realize that. 
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also a general failure to punish anyone wealthy. At least a few members of our current administration should have been jailed long ago for their other crimes
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s always someone else who has to pay for their hubris
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🕸️🕷️SpiderPost🕷️🕸️(mortem), if clinically indicated @ridertoast.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That’s right Senator McConnell is back and ready to work! His skin is here and it’s filled with an entity that is also him just like the rest of us hard working Americans. Do not use flash photography please.
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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
lrt: i've talked about this before on here, but far right political movements are in fact intrinsically antisocial and criminal, and can prob be stopped in every country in which they're rising simply by enforcing existing law against them
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
You look like you’re your daughter.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Chrystia Freeland gives the US a reality check: "President Trump was elected not once, but twice, and that is causing a lot of Canadians to wonder if the United States can ever be trusted again." #cdnpoli
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Shambling Corpse of Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com · 10/09/2026
Judge: I want to make sure that the Attorney General and the Secretary of State understand that the law is that HB1 never went into effect? DA: *not a real answer*
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 04/09/2026
INVESTIGATION: Canada’s National Observer has discovered a network of deceptive, AI-generated websites promoting Albertan separatism. The websites, rather than targeting human readers, are targeting chatbots — trying to influence the answers they provide.
nationalobserver.com
A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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ProdigalHoosier @prodigalhoosier.medsky.network · 03/09/2026
Screenshot this at a time when I was struggling pretty hard to not fall apart. Came across it tonight & thought someone here might need it. ❤️‍🩹
nyancrimew reblogged twilight-sparkle-irl
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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago.

He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. 

They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing.

You've got to give these things time to set.

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Dawn Alene @dawnalene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To know Canada is to love Canada. Their ignorance is boundless. Also this 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/dawn...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We should have learned from Brexit; if you treat the propaganda and troll networks as a speech issue rather than a coercive and realtime security threat then the manipulation of the population will never end. Running factchecks isn’t enough; halting propaganda mills needs action.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Because pissing off the person you’re negotiating with always makes things work better
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is what happens when we don’t put pdf files in prison.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wonder if any of them won’t be surprised
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/08/2026
This landmark settlement is a powerful step toward holding Big Tech accountable. I applaud AG James for taking on corporate greed and fighting to put New York’s children first.
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Y. Mudpuppy @yehmenmudpuppy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Agree. We have to vote in massive numbers to fight against the cheating, gerrymandering, etc. It worked in Hungary.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And you could also attract cats! Win win really
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Considering they were probably the same age as the wife not sure what the flex is.
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W. K. @nocturnamine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
That's all good but when you have a debt you can be garnished there's a legal way to get money from people that owe. That needs to be pursued. Alex Jones should have to work at Arby's for the rest of his life while all his wealth goes to the victims.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Maybe they could make it so you don’t have to empty your phone to update the ios? Or nah.
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ice.cream.assassin (spooky edition) @icassassin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I really wish that when someone does the whole “Donald Trump is supersmart” thing that someone in the room loudly says “you know we can see and hear him right? He’s stupid as hell and it’s really, really, really obvious.”
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Ffs
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
It would be funny except it’s trashed everyone’s economy and a bunch of little kids are dead.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So one million out of 47 million. Maybe they should just let them go - clear out some rabble.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If only someone could have predicted this.
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Duaa Eldeib @deldeib.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...
propublica.org
Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 02/05/2026
Did you guys hear about Will Stancil leaking the Tinder ICE Honey Trap details just to take credit for the work done by women for months (ruining the entire operation by doing so)?
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I'm gonna need dedicated cafe staff to stop chasing me and asking me if something was wrong with the food. My dudes I have GERD sometimes I just can't eat the food. Don't make it awkward for me 😭
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Yes, we are the problem for having animosity toward an amoral, rapist pedophile criminal.
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“How many times have I told your brother not to eat the seeds because a plant will grow out of his stomach?!? Well, now look at the state of him!!” - 14th century, British Library, Royal MS 6 E VI/1, f. 47r
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Eh they can die on different days Im not picky.
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🔵 Blue Dot @akashaom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Check this out: Pope Leo and Cardinal Czerny
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘧 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵
In Passing

By Lisel Mueller
How swiftly the strained honey
of afternoon light
flows into darkness

and the closed bud shrugs off
its special mystery
in order to break into blossom

as if what exists, exists
so that it can be lost
and become precious
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
All according to plan. They'd rather buy the government than contribute their fair share.
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The Internet Referee @theinternetref.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Imagine being such a terrible person that the Pope publicly declares that even God won't listen to you. Yikes.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/03/2026
This story is insane. Married an American, arrested at her greencard interview, flown out of state, nearly killed multiple times when her diabetes was ignored and then mistreated. When she finally got out? Found out her credit card had been used illegally. www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-wo...
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San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody
Hanne Engan, whom ICE arrested at her green card appointment, said her diabetes quickly escalated while at Otay Mesa Detention Center due to medical negligence. Written by Kate Morrissey, Edited...
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Also for him to be calling anyone else “stupid” or “robbing us blind”…
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Shocking that they would fight back after being attacked
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is 100% true. Pay the TSA agents.
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I dunno hard to beat the Victorian dolls with the uneven eyes
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Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"If the person goes quiet, cannot speak or cry, or can only weakly cough, you want to start with five strong back blows first. With the person bent forward at their hips, deliver firm glancing blows between their shoulder blades using the heel of your hand up to five times."
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marlarkd.bsky.social @marlarkd.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
It is.
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