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The Merry Sadist

@themerrysadist.bsky.social
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She/her. Instigatrix, artist, dominant, poly. 3x board certified ICU RN. Avatar from Vulvani under Creative Commons licensing. I lead a charmed life. Weird dog is my own. #Minnesota

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)
gothamist.com
Mount Sinai reaches deal with Trump DOJ to end gender-affirming care for minors
Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration.
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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
When asked if he was going to visit the crash site he said, ‘what site? The water? You want me to go swimming?’ This is one of the last pics of the young skaters who died. He’s a sociopath. Anyone who voted for this monster should be ashamed at best.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/11/2024
Mike Johnson including this in the rules package makes me believe he’s got the votes and that Republicans will indeed be moving forward to ban Sarah McBride from the bathroom. Republicans are handing framing on transgender rights issues to Dems on a silver platter. A colossal overreach.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 06/11/2024
A thought for those hoping Trump's second term won't be worse than his first: It will definitely be worse than his first. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
msnbc.com
Why the worst president ever will be even worse in a second term
I suppose some observers might think Donald Trump’s first term represented rock bottom. My advice for those thinking along those lines: Wait.
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
My favorite pic of Lucifer
Black and white photo of an ominous looking grey cat, lit from under like he’s getting ready to tell a scary story
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Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.
German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks to the German Parliament at the Kroll Opera House in favor of the Enabling Act, March 1933.
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 23/06/2024
This is EXACTLY the energy I want through my next several decades on earth
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Grey cat, with his tongue sticking out a little
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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 12/06/2024
Shamelessly pilfered from @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com on Insta: NYC libraries are facing a $58.3 million dollar budget cut that could force most branches to reduce service to just five days a week. On the Day of Action for Libraries, tell nycmayor & nyccouncil : #NoCutsToLibraries
investinlibraries.org
Day of Action for Libraries: #NoCutsToLibraries — Invest in Libraries
Your library and your community need your help! Our public libraries are facing a potential $58.3 million cut.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for: 1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;
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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Here is the link for contributing to Cobalt's family's medical expenses. Cobalt is a trans student from Hopkins (Minneapolis inner ring suburb) who was attacked at school 5/30/24. She required emergency care including dental work & facial reconstruction. gofund.me/12158e7e
gofund.me
Stand with Cobalt: Fund Her Medical Care, organized by Debbie Hahn Fisher
Cobalt Sovereign is a 17-year-old transgender student in Minnesota. She lo… Debbie Hahn Fisher needs your support for Stand with Cobalt: Fund Her Medical Care
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/06/2024
hey minneapolis: be on the lookout for a white guy driving a blue SUV with a bunch of free palestine stickers and Illinois plates. He was driving like a jackass and nearly hit me, so I flipped him off, and he proceeded to follow me to my next stop and blocked me in the parking spot.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 31/05/2024
Given the guilty verdict of President Donald Trump… A renewed call to investigate Trump’s fraud in Scotland | Susie Porter
bylines.scot
A renewed call to investigate Trump’s fraud in Scotland
New York civil case ruling of Trump Organisation fraud brings clear reason for a thorough investigation into Trump’s Scottish investments
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/05/2024
Breaking news: Donald Trump is found guilty in his N.Y. hush money trial, becoming the first ex-president convicted of a crime. Follow live updates: wapo.st/3X1Mu2Y
Guilty, Trump convicted in NY hush money trial
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
I want a line of fountain pen ink inspired by John Waters movies. Can someone get on that please? 😊
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
Art supply shop (Wet Paint, St. Paul, MN) is having their annual sidewalk sale. I only bought four fountain pen inks, three types of paper, and a few odds and ends. I got out of there cheap. (Guy in front of me spent just shy of $1,000.00)!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/05/2024
TIL the artist who did the most recent King Charles portrait also did one of George W. Bush that's a collage of ... porn magazines: www.manifoldeditions.com/jonathan-yeo...
manifoldeditions.com
Bush - Manifold Editions
Yeo’s series of portraits made from pornographic magazines was a sudden departure by Yeo from paint into collage as the portraits subverts the viewer’s expectations by using cut-up graphic imagery as ...
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 11/05/2024
Dinner tonight: freshly made strawberry rhubarb jam on toast. Dessert: rhubarb bars. So freaking happy right now.
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Even a “to-do” list looks better with a fountain pen.
“To-do” list written on white paper with a 1.1 stub nib. TWSBI Eco, Ferris Wheel Press “Stroke of Midnight” ink on paper that really doesn’t show the ink properly. Hence the need for paper at the art store.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
"Hundreds of new books featuring characters of color and LGBTQ+ themes were found by the trash at a Staten Island elementary school." In boxes designated “not approved,” books bore Post-It notes: "teenage girls having a crush on another girl in class" and “negative slant on white people.”
gothamist.com
Books on Black history, immigration found in trash by Staten Island school, sparking investigation
Sticky notes on the books discarded from the elementary school detailed apparent concerns about the contents.
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Watching Paddington, at 9pm (as one does while on vacation) and I just realized it’s Oceans Eleven for kids. (Or Mormons, as it’s airing on BYU-TV)
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
“The arrest was the beginning of a more than 24-hour ordeal in the criminal justice system at a time when Ms. McClure was in desperate need of medical care. Her lawyers said she was left lying in her own urine on the floor… as jail employees, apparently dismissing her as being drunk, taunted her.”
nytimes.com
Officers Charged Her With Drunken Driving. But Her Brain Was Bleeding.
Nicole McClure said she spent hours in a jail cell, enduring taunts, until a delayed medical check revealed that she had a life-threatening problem with her brain.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
The playbook they ran against abortion is now being run against gender-affirming medical care and will be used against birth control. Oklahoma just proposed a bill to limit IUDs this week. You need to defend trans people's health care like your birth control depends on it.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
A Utah high school athlete needs police protection after a state school board member publicly singled out and suggested the student was transgender, followed by threats from her followers on social media
sltrib.com
Utah school board member Natalie Cline questions high school athlete’s gender, causing social media uproar
A Utah school board member started a social media firestorm when she publicly accused a high school athlete of being transgender with no evidence. She later apologized — but not before many commenters personally attacked the player, and the lawmaker who wrote the state’s anti-transgender athlete bill also weighed in possibly in violation of her own measure.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
“Hospitals acquired by private equity saw a 25% uptick in adverse events compared with controls… The findings add to an accumulating body of literature underscoring the harm that occurs when financial investors take over health care providers — not only hospitals, but nursing homes, hospice care”
statnews.com
Complications spiked 25% in hospitals bought by private equity
Adverse events at hospitals like falls and infections spiked 25% after private equity took over, a new study found.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/01/2024
Want to help the brave baby-drowners of Texas protect the Sacred Border against the federal government, so they can drown even more babies? Fill out this volunteer form with accurate and correct information today! tmd.texas.gov/operation-lo...
tmd.texas.gov
Operation Lone Star border support mission
Operation Lone Star integrates TMD with the Texas Department of Public Safety to deploy border security assets to high threat area to deny criminal organizations the ability to illegally move drugs an...
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Since Texas banned abortions with no exceptions for rape or incest, 26,313 Texans have become pregnant from rape. That’s roughly 1,644 rapes resulting in forced pregnancy a month. Family court then traps victims with their rapists. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
houstonchronicle.com
More than 26K rape-related pregnancies estimated after Texas outlawed abortions, new study says
More than 26K rape-related pregnancies estimated after Texas outlawed abortions, new study says
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Absurdly cruel. About 1/3 of my (cis, het) patients go by names “not on their birth certificate”. But we all know the laws don’t refer to that.
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The Merry Sadist @themerrysadist.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Happy Caturday
Black and white image of a grey cat, only the front of him visible, as he is snuggled on a lap covered with a black and white striped blanket.
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Phenom-Enna (dir. Dario Argento, 1985) @hiddenbonusnoise.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
And there it is, the fucking end game. Proposals to legally ban trans women from anything that can be defined as female space, plus trans kids to be denied all medical intervention and recognition of their social transition
Sccreenshot from a news story in the Independent. The text reads: "Liz Truss will introduce a draft law to ban biological males from entering single-sex spaces and prevent children from attempting to change gender.

The former prime minister, who spent just 49 days in office, was among 20 MPs selected to bring forward a Private Member’s Bill – a process that allows backbenchers to introduce a new law separate from the government’s legislative agenda.

Aides said Ms Truss will use the opportunity this week to propose a Bill ensuring single-sex spaces are protected in law by preventing transgender women, who have transitioned from being a male, from accessing areas like female toilets and changing rooms.

The draft law would also prevent under-18s from accessing hormone therapy and block the state from recognising social transitioning by those under the legal age of adulthood, a source close to Ms Truss said."
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11/11/2023
At the time of writing, our staff are witnessing people being shot at as they attempt to flee the Al-Shifa hospital. MSF urgently reiterates its calls to stop the attacks against hospitals, for an immediate ceasefire and for the protection of medical facilities, medical staff and patients.
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