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jay marie 🏳️‍⚧️ abolish ice @jmawork.bsky.social · 13h

Knitted decorative gord season

My hand holding two small knitted pumpkins :)

"'We don't have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment, but we do know that she is alive right now and receiving life-saving medical care,' [attorney Randy Spivey] said." www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Christa Pike case: Pike alive but condition unknown, attorneys say

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 1h

being disabled fuckin sucks.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 3h

once again at "will my robovac finish with the kitchen before people show up at my apartment" lol

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

it’s good to remind people today we aren’t going to trauma-inform our way to “more humane” forms of caging and execution

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 17h

I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 15h

Woah. The Gov of TN has halted all executions in 2026. I would assume that means if Christa survives this, they at *least* won't be trying again for three months. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Gov. Lee orders review after botched Christa Pike execution: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She survived two lethal doses of pentobarbital on Sept. 30.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 16h

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 16h

"Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital," [her lawyers] said. "We have not been informed as to her condition." HER LAWYERS DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S STILL ALIVE.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 16h

"Executions don't just happen, you know, you have to manage them or else it's all very hurried and awkward and looks uncomfortably like a murder." --Daggerbound, T. Kingfisher

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 16h

No idea what the effects are of surviving a "lethal" dose of pentobarbital. Is she out of the woods, or still a chance she might be dying more slowly? Are there expectations of long-term effects to major systems or organs?

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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 16h

The appellate court system had stayed this execution today to allow for additional proceedings. John Roberts’s Supreme Court stepped in and said, “nah, kill her tonight.” This is the result.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 16h

Christa Pike received two lethal injections in Tennessee tonight. But it did not kill her. She is now receiving medical treatment (perhaps because the Court had to admit how badly they had fucked this up). Horrible all around. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...

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Christa Pike's status unclear after execution attempt: Updates

Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. She is scheduled to be executed Sept. 30.

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froglok.bsky.social @froglok.bsky.social · 17h

What I hate is how we as a society have continuously tried to hide the barbarism behind questionable claims of mercy. Moving from firing squad to gallows to electric chair to gas to this. It's not mercy for the condemned; it's mercy for us, making it easier to stomach and hand wave away.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17h

“I am not afraid to die. I’m only nervous about the process.” Just an unbelievable failure of governing and the legal system and basic decency.

Before learning Monday that Lee would not be intervening in her case, Pike wrote in a letter to NBC News, shared by her spiritual adviser:
"Whether my clemency is granted or not, l am at peace."
"I am not afraid to die," wrote Pike, who has been on death row for more than three decades. "I'm only nervous about the process."

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 17h

Lethal injections are basically random cocktails of chemicals selected by people with no medical training to make victims die without appearing to suffer. They are excruciatingly painful but contain paralytics so the victim cannot express their pain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirR...

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The False Evolution of Execution Methods

YouTube video by Jacob Geller

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 18h

This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 19h

update: it was okay. no harm was done. I got through it. 💖

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 19h

"At least two of the teenage occupants attended Edison High School in northeast Minneapolis." 😞

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 20h

leave it to Hegseth to downsize the military in ways I can't even be glad about smh

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

me in Partner's texts: "Thank you. I love you. Good luck on things. Talk to you later. 🫂💙" me to Partner in the group chat 3 seconds later: "fuck off, blocking you"

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's rare to find people like this ER doctor who can speak truth to your pain. And when you do... it's beautiful, but it hurts so much. It hurts the part of you that has always known you deserved to be treated this way, even as others made you believe you didn't.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Voltaireon - 5 caustic French philosophers in a trenchcoat @shaidorsai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.” - RAH

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

as a non-infosec person with many infosec friends: this sounds exactly right to me

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I want to tell my assistant to cancel all my plans so I can spend the day depressed and bedrotting. But I do not have an assistant, nor plans for the day, nor a job.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

fortunately, I finished off the bottle of terrible cherry vodka last night, so it no longer plagues my home. unfortunately, now I lack alcohol, and I would like to be noon on a Wednesday drunk.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did I just get back from a viewing at Bonhams auction house in NYC of cat-themed art? Why yes- yes I did. Did I take pictures, including of these Chinese ceramic cats from the Qing Dynasty? Also yes! Will I make a thread of some of them? Indeed I will, which will include...

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

- got drunk - posted about my cats - fell asleep early - woke up at midnight - took my evening meds - fought for my life on the toilet - took some tums - pet my cats a lot

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I climbed in bed. Oscar was yelling a little. Then he jumped on the bed and stared at me, wide-eyed. I was excited for our cuddles. But then I moved the comforter that he was on and he jumped off. Now he is wandering around trill-crying, convinced I no longer love him.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, size matters -- the size of your HEART What do you mean you haven't had an echocardiogram lately???

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am now drunk and upset and I would like to send a text dripping with vitriol but I am refraining.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I found out I have some family who live nearby. The patriarch of that family might remember playing with my grandma--his first cousin--in Wisconsin when they were young (he's seven years younger). However. When I say "nearby" ... They live in Edina 😩

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this is just to say I have eaten the thing you like not because I even like it but because I didn't want you to have any. I'm not sorry. fuck you.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

maybe the root of all my depression is that my parents didn't read frog and toad to me as a kid. maybe that would have fixed me.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

this season is hard every year. but every year, I get through it. I will get through this one, too.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

therapy today was basically "the leaves have changed slightly which means my brain has immediately jumped to NESTING and also HOLIDAYS ARE NEAR, LET'S PROCESS FAMILY SHIT, and I'm fucking sick of doing this every year" and my therapist being like "mhm yeah valid, and also those people suck"

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My grandma was a teacher, so she took care of my sister and I when we all had our summers off. She and my grandpa took us on many fun outings. This made my mom sad and jealous, because my parents couldn't afford to take us to places like that.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sigh. I managed to get through Balance of Terror by following along with a transcript I found online, but I need to just download some damn subtitles. The audio quality of TOS combined with my audio processing issues is just not working.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

good Scipio x Hannibal vibes (listen you can't blame me for thinking about Rome during a Romulan episode)

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have had multiple ~issues trying to watch Star Trek TOS, but I'm back at it tonight with Balance of Terror. ... or will be, once the latest ~issue resolves lol.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you wanna know something that keeps me up at night? so, I moved here for my cousin (maternal side). my grandma (paternal side) knew this, of course, and would always ask how that cousin was doing.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

/*we interrupt Prim's dopamine posts about their task list to bring you ✨️depression.✨️ we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. we will return to our regularly scheduled programming as soon as the brain chemicals allow.*/

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel like I need to start writing 10 lines a day of "your sister kept texting your husband after he admitted he had a crush on her. she never apologized. you deserve better." until I stop being sad that we aren't close lol.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

12 tasks completed (nice 🎉) out of 69 (nice 😏)

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I do plan on kicking ass today. I'm not planning on taking names, but I won't rule it out. And no, I don't have any bubble gum.

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prim @primordial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One item on my long to-do list was to make pumpkin bread. But Partner seems to be in a baking mood, so I will be getting lemon cupcakes shortly. Pumpkin bread can wait 💙

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Kisha Delain @skyintist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's a cozy grey foggy day, the trees are starting to turn. Last night the moon was so large and bright and we had mist drifting along all silvery along the marshes. Love this season

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