Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Would you bring an iced coffee to an exorcism 16459576
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Went to vegan fest without any pepto in my bag 😖😩 who do I think I am?! A normie?! 001
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not really looking forward to another season of always being congested 🫠 020
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I can’t keep interacting with people who have no idea what they’re talking about but act like they’re experts! I can’t! I know that’s like the literal state of the world right but I can’t do it anymore! 010
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“…no one’s wearing masks, everyone seems to be in good shape…” Biden, 2022 “15 million Americans may have long COVID…almost certainly an undercount…cardiologist seeing new dysautonomia, endocrinologist seeing new metabolic disease, neurologist seeing unexplained cognitive complaints” Research, 2026cidrap.umn.eduLong COVID may affect 1 in 6 infected patients 05128
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ok forgot we could use the real stove lol, and thanks to the hand grinder I bought years ago I could still grind beans. And just when I sat down to drink my coffee the power came back lol 050
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Power is out, which means no coffee unless I go dig the camp stove out 😖 000
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/09/2026Always and increasingly relevant starter pack for your consideration: go.bsky.app/3w9a45V 47925
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 45788359
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Canadian study of nearly 9,000 adults looked at repeat COVID infections. Researchers found that people who reported having COVID at least twice had 76% higher odds of being diagnosed with a new health condition, across 21 conditions studied, compared with those who reported never being infected.medicaldaily.comAdults with Two or More COVID Infections Had 76% Higher Odds of a New Diagnosis in Canadian SurveyA Canadian survey tied repeat COVID-19 infections to 76% higher odds of a new diagnosis. Here is what it shows and what it cannot prove. 5346212
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026everything i have learned about ed sheeren has been against my will, but man every time a neutral ass bitch tries to say they are apolitical, there is always an abundance of examples of them being very political 😵💫 030
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026idk how to professionally say "he's crashing out" to my boss lol but i have sent a dozen emails to a coworker telling him he is not checking his work/sending duplicate work/wrong info and he just keeps going! go take a walk bro. stop sending emails man, the hole is too deep at this point 000
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it really sucks that so many remote job options went away because of the forced "covid is over" bs. i really wish my partner and i could find new jobs where we wouldn't have to mask all day if we are in an office/building, so the only real alternative is wfh at this point :( 020
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026A study using PET brain scans found people with Long COVID had significantly lower levels of VMAT2, a protein involved in dopamine signalling, compared with healthy people. Reductions of 16–20% were found in brain regions involved in motivation, movement, memory, planning and apathy. 10896325
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Trying to talk shit with my partner: Me: do you know who ed sheeren is? Him: no Me: do you know who Macklemore is? Him: I do not understand any of the words you are saying 😖 000
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026AT&T Stadium reportedly is one of the venues that opposed Macklemore being on Ed Sheeran's bill. Worth noting that AT&T is hosting Kanye West in November. 231700551
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise. 171008293
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i am literally so bad at choosing paint colors, what is this useless art degree even for lol. tried to get a light minty green and it is like neon aqua on the wall, whew! 030
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026i keep trying to make these fiber snacks people post on instagram and i just gotta quit lol, not one has been edible so far. i had high hopes for the espresso chia pudding lol 010
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Can’t sit for too long, can’t stand for too long, can’t walk for too long, can’t have a body for too long, can’t exist for too long. Just little chronic pain things 💫 020
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Created this for a reply on LinkedIn, but it applies pretty generally, so posting it here, too: 537287
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Not being able to stream anything without constant glp1 commercials is so exhausting 020
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026what if quit my job and worked overnight in a library instead jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/library...jobs.wisc.eduLibrary Access Services Specialist - Late Evening/Overnight - Madison, Wisconsin, United StatesCurrent Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:University StaffEmployment Ty... 010
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 01/09/2026my workplace will drive you to the brink and then when you finally lose it and send a coworker an email saying "WTF is he doing?!" that coworker will reply and CC the guy you're talking about and his boss. it's toxic all the way down 200
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A coworker tried to correct my use of the word "ode" and then realized she was wrong after asking chatgpt and told me "it's probably because you read a lot more than me". Idk maybe??? Why do I know what any word means?! But then later I was reading a book and "ode" was on page 2 😂 130
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026sorry i was weird and off-putting the last time we talked!! it’s just that that’s my truest, most fundamental nature 2184
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026a bunch of new books showed up in my LFL and they are all terrible lol, john mccain and a bunch of religious books 😖 i hope someone takes them quickly lol, they are really ruining the vibe 210
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's one (1) one flavor from one (1) brand Looks like some ink MIGHT have gotten into the product during handling, so they're recalling just in case. Let's keep in mind the Taco Bell principle on this one guys. "If a company proactively lets you know there MIGHT be a problem… that's a GOOD thing." 634783
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/08/2026New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.socialbuttondown.comSix Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI”How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will... 06028
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 28/08/2026This is literally the worst timeline. The freaking worse. 3349
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕 101957713
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Things you could do this week to honor the impact Dolly has had: *Donate to the Imagination Library or a local kids reading initiative *Read with a kid you care about *Support and protect LGBTQIA kids *Support a Black owned business *Schedule your vaccine appointments *Show up authentically as you 11439732
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...rollingstone.comTurning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination LibraryCore team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world. 128190498287
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton understood something that too many of my public health colleagues have not grasped: a good idea isn't sufficient — you have to sell it. So she got vaccinated in front of cameras, and literally begged her fans to not hesitate, to vaccinate — to a reworking of Joleneshouldntneedtobealawyer.comDolly Parton, Public Health Hero, Dies at 80 | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew CortlandDolly Parton donated $1M USD to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 2020 to fund the research that resulted in the Moderna mRNA vaccine 21223264
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 25/08/2026donating to the Imagination Library made me feel just a little bit better imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 112844
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"The hip fracture that shortens a woman’s life at 80 often has its invoice dated decades earlier, accumulated interest on a debt incurred when she was learning, at 11 or 22 or 35, that her body’s smallness was worth more than its strength." 110851
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Disco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I’m stocked in an indie bookstore!! If you’re in the US, you can order my queer dystopian horror book from Casa Luna Books, an online bookstore with a focus on diverse voices. Support an indie author and an indie bookstore at the same time! casa-luna-books.myshopify.com/products/thi...casa-luna-books.myshopify.comThis Is How The World Ends : Disco BarringtonRun the race. Or die. Britain is at war, isolated by a digital blockade. Dissidents run a deadly race for the public's entertainment, while the flood-ravaged country falls apart. The Cartwright family... 0126
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026i just want a job where i dont have to review a 10 page AI output that someone else prompted, is that too much to ask!?!?!? 010
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026you can tell me a book is good and that does not mean i will want to read it, sometimes the vibes are just off and the tbr is really long, like REALLY LONG. i'm a slow reader, i do not have the time! 020
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Finally got my author copies of the UK paperback of The AI Con, and they're even prettier in person! w/@alexhanna.bsky.social thecon.ai 823034
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 13/08/2026How does anyone go anywhere, looking at plane tickets and they’re a thousand dollars, cool cool cool I guess I will go back to never leaving my house 010
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/08/2026Progressive wins by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes Progressive loses by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes 9681100
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Mainstream dems pull off an "upset" also known as their usual tactics against progressive candidates- having the current Governor endorse Crowley and say Hong couldn't win, same old same old. They really are terrified of these progressive candidates 020
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026They're really scared of what Fran pulled off in a key state like WI. 0144
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026truly i try to mind my own business when i see someone at my little free library but this guy just stood at the library for a really long time and took a decent stack and i am just CHEESING with joy. yes i curated those books just for you and your kids sir! 110
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026sighhhh, that post Wisconsin election depression again 100
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Minestrone Monster @minstronemonster.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Saying it again: not everything is covid but it sure is bizarre how absolutely *nothing* is attributed to covid. Also btw the British Heart Foundation has had info on how covid affects the heart since at least 2023 04518
Reposted by taratearex 📚🌌Disco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I’m a transgender Brit and I have this to say to the British actors happily joining the trans-hating money train: Fuck off you greedy, two-faced, soggy biscuit tossers. Take your wands and your wizard hats and stick them up your arse. I hope a seagull eats your chips and then shits on your heads. 313439
taratearex 📚🌌 @taratearex.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Me: Sure wish I knew why I feel faint/lightheaded sometimes 🫠 Also me: oh yeah, I was supposed to go the faint and fall clinic and never did 🫠 000