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Ex and occasional Chicagoan. Healthcare -> critters -> books, movies, and graphic novels. I heart courtyard buildings.

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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 3h
Took me a minute to realize this was about a store that sells home goods, not a "Homegoods" store. "Why would Homegoods have anything that expensive?!"
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 3h
"But it's spicy like mustard!"
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 3h
WESTERN GENRE FICTION ABOUT COWBOYS EXISTS! AARRRRGGHH!!!
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 16h
There were actual plausible *reasons* for Meigs Field to go, though, and though evil, Daley was at least competent.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 16h
It would actually be hilarious if the supposed facility staff outed themselves as committing a grievous and malicious HIPAA violation on Megyn Kelly's show or whatever, even if they were completely mistaken about who was or was not in the facility.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I think I want this on a t-shirt
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It'd be great it AI deleted all medical debt over $1000 (Gotta leave something for John Oliver to erase through his church)
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Jesus Christ, they're going after the LIFEBOAT people? The people who rescue people from the water?!?! Absolute ghouls.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
How much debt does he owe to CTU? How much can they rely on him?
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh my
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They're the same picture
Over the garden wall frog in red hat and blue double-breasted cloak.Paddington Bear in red hat and blue double-breasted raincoat
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ah. American currency in the denominations of quarters or one dollar bills, perhaps?
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Have they watched "Over the Garden Wall"? At one point the frog is called George Washington and is wearing fancy old time clothes.
The frog receiving a record contract, surrounded by other frogs wearing 1800s clothes
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Postal museum possibly? Ol' George was on some stamps.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Scalping children's toys smh...
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Don't forget "The Strong Willed Child"!
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(To be clear it had been many decades since my dad hit one of us and he had become sweet and gentle since then. When he attacked caregivers we thought it was just because they were "strangers" in his house and he was scared. Then he attacked me with full recognition of who I was)
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
People realllly need to think about how "hitting is an appropriate way to control my child's behavior" is going to play out when that parent gets dementia. My dad hit multiple caregivers, including me. I knew the warning signs from childhood, they didn't.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
See also: bsky.app/profile/rabb...
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
EVERYONE should remember the Pearls and the children whose deaths they contributed to.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Next they're gonna try to legislate "force your adult child and their spouse to have children even though they adamantly don't want them, because you want grandkids" to capture the moderates.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Christa Pike is alive, conscious, and speaking after spending a week in a barbituate-induced coma from the state's badly botched execution attempt. If you want to know what the "severe damage" to her arms may look like, Google "barbituate blisters", but CW for gore. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
usual suspects
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yeah they changed the statute of limitations for CSA in Illinois largely because of this case.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 05/10/2026
Shocked and saddened to learn that Dennis Hastert had still been alive
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 06/10/2026
Once again remembering when a bunch of dipshit Hollywood liberals made a big-budget, star-studded movie about how this soulless fucking ghoul was some kind of a fucking shero
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That's not a bike.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Library AV selector and mine sure does!
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"many Amish people opt not to get vaccinated because they “don’t know what’s in it.” BECAUSE THEY LITERALLY DON'T HAVE THE VOCABULARY TO UNDERSTAND THE INGREDIENTS. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WORDS MEAN! THEY HAVE AN 8th GRADE EDUCATION AND NOT EVEN A GOOD ONE! (Sorry for yelling in your replies)
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reminder that the Amish only go to school until 8th grade and do not get much science education before then. They are profoundly ignorant. This is thanks to Wisconsin vs Yoder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiscons...
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Buy a copy for your local public library so hundreds of other people don't have to give Paramount money.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes, pharmaceutical companies based in the EU threatened to shut down export to the US entirely if they found out their drugs were being used for executions. Those companies don't just make pentobarbital, they make almost every medication we use. So some little compounding pharmacy does it instead.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All hail student journalism!
nytimes.com
Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oddly enough, that company isn't actually a compounding pharmacy and isn't licensed to make drugs for actual use, only as a reference sample to test other companies' drugs against. The state likely used a compounding pharmacy they're keeping secret.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hopefully her lawyer is able to get answers soon. I am not sure what her long term recovery will look like.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
is a less stressful process for the animal and allows them to slowly get drowsy and slip away. That takes about 30 to 45 minutes. The time from Christa Pike's first injection to when they halted the execution because she still had snoring respirations? About 30 minutes.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
45 seconds at the most. That she slowly progressed to snoring respirations indicates the drug was absorbed slowly by her body by a route other than IV. In cats or smaller animals, euthanasia is often done by injecting pentobarb into the peritoneum (abdominal cavity) where it absorbs slowly, as this
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
actually inject it in to her vein properly, because she said her arm felt strange. If the drug were just too weak, she would have been loopy quickly but wouldn't have had weird sensations in her arm. If the drug were the right strength and administered in her vein, she would have been unconscious in
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Prisons in the US can't legally buy pentobarbital from the manufacturers like vets and shelters can. So, they have it custom compounded by a compounding pharmacy in the US. There are quality control issues with this. It's possible that it was too weak, but I think it was more likely they didn't
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have euthanized hundreds of animals with pentobarbital. It sounds like they blew the vein or missed it entirely and were pushing the drug in to the soft tissue of her arm, not her vein. She asked if her arm "was supposed to feel this way". It is not. She shouldn't have felt numbness, tingling, etc
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Typically they have it compounded by a compounding pharmacy in the United States. There are quality control issues with that, but to me it sounds like they blew the vein and injected it into the soft tissue of her arm instead of into her vascular system.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They definitely blew that vein. "Is my arm supposed to feel this way?" means the pentobarb was infiltrating the soft tissue of her arm, not flowing through her veins like it was supposed to.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@samwitwer.bsky.social So, you're the new voice of the CSB...
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I very much did vote for Harris, and Biden, and HRC, and Obama. However, any gambler would look at the odds of a sitting VP getting elected and pick a different horse. People want change, not more of the same. Here's hoping for Vance 2028.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People didn't want Clinton's VP as president. People pretty much never want the sitting VP as president. Only one sitting VP has been elected president in the past century, and that was Bush 1. Only 3 others have been elected president in 250 years. It was a bad choice to run him.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Only FOUR sitting vice presidents have been elected to the presidency, only one of them in the last 100 years, and the was George HW Bush. Running a sitting VP for president is unlikely to be successful. People want change, not more of the same.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These people really need to look at how often sitting vice presidents have been elected to the presidency. It is...not very many, ever. Running the current vice president is a statistically bad choice.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a former student journalist at the Ohio State Lantern, where we routinely took heavy flak for holding truth to power, I couldn't be prouder. We HAVE to rebuild the watchdog press, and tear it away from the oligarchs who have smothered it. We're finished as a nation if we fail.
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
cornellsun.com
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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ROUSes? I don't think they exist @rabblerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No that is excellent parenting
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