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Tiffany Bridge

@tiff.is
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Shouting, swearing, DC, WordPress, lifting, other duties as assigned. 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14h
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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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 30/09/2026
He just keeps threatening us with a good time…
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 29/09/2026
Reading a recap of how this Schmitt/Smith/Klobuchar went down and the whole thing reads like one of those clickbait stories on Threads where some smarmy asshole trying to get over on their wife gets bright low by their own paper trail. But it’s real.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 29/09/2026
It is! And it feels vitally important in this cultural moment. Hope you’re well, friend.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 29/09/2026
Oh, you know… looking for a job post-RIF, but enjoying all the extra time to make stuff with my hands. :)
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 29/09/2026
What the entire hell?! So sorry that happened to you, JZ…
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Transphobia is just sexism, hope all the TERFs who’ve supported ending my trans rights can go stare long and hard in the mirror, then get a good therapist.
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The GOP are genuinely evil. They do nothing but make the world worse for more people, especially the most vulnerable. There isn't a single unique value they hold that's morally justifiable or goes toward making humanity safer or kinder. I wish there was a hell for them to go to.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 27/09/2026
The live show made such an impression on me as a kid!
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 27/09/2026
Roc was a fantastic show.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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Ben Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Remember, it was this guy getting beaten up off U St that was the excuse for the National Guard’s deployment to DC.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 25/09/2026
It’s not a non-sequitur quip, it’s a highly localized reference.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 25/09/2026
Sssh, nobody tell that guy about the place in the basement of the Days Inn.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 24/09/2026
Ah yes, my middle finger sure did get a good workout in those days. My kid and I would bond over flipping them off on the Beltway… [wistful]
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump's efforts in DC are not to create a utopia of safety. They're building a dystopia of weapons, violence, and state control — trimmed in gold. From @hayesbrown.bsky.social:
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Opinion | Donald Trump dreams of a beautiful police state
Trump saying snipers and drones will be deployed at his 250 foot tall triumphal arch in Washington perfectly meld his aesthetics and violence
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 23/09/2026
The Diet Coke from the back of the fridge that’s so cold it turns into slush when I pour it over ice. 🤩😍🤩😍
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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 23/09/2026
Insane OP username pull but setting that aside yeah the one drum I refuse to stop beating, much to my boss's consternation (sorry James!) is that *everything needs to look and feel cool*. UX needs to be as viciously and ruthlessly optimized as performance, and right now it just plainly isn't, at all
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026
IT IS TIME. buff.ly/pykYN6f
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It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers
For the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 22/09/2026
I do not care for this idea. The whole point is privacy. I do not want anyone to be able to share my posts elsewhere.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 22/09/2026
This delights me.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 21/09/2026
The catch is I don't know if they do pediatric shots; my kid turned 12 last year so I just scheduled his shot for when he could get the adult one.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 21/09/2026
Nope! We walked up to the prescription drop-off window and asked if we could have flu/covid shots. I filled out some paperwork and then we just had to wait for the pharmacist to be ready.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 21/09/2026
As we enter another flu/COVID season, a reminder that you can get it as a walk-in at Costco and then they’ll sell you ice cream afterward. It successfully bribes my kid, maybe it will work for you.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 20/09/2026
I mean I think the KenCen/USIP stuff is about his fear of his own mortality and the desire to literally carve his name into the stones, but... yes, in general, I do need y'all to understand this. And then I need you to remember that people live here. A LOT of people.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 20/09/2026
No photo for the bot, but today drove past a trio of National Guard just standing, tightly clustered with their backs to each other, like at any moment somebody might sneak up on them. At 2:30 in the afternoon. On a quiet residential street.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NICU babies are the most vulnerable a human can be, and it seems almost quaint to say it now, but we are supposed to build societies where the most vulnerable can count on others to not let this happen
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
Update: the laundry automation was perfection. No clothes getting stinky in the washer. The only thing to watch is that it's really easy to double-tap the NFC if you aren't careful.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
Today I'm gonna test out my "tap the NFC on the washer and get a timer and a reminder that tells you to move the clothes to the dryer no matter where you are in the house" automation.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
Anyway, yesterday it told me to close the windows and set a reminder, and then I DID close the windows, and I CHECKED OFF the reminder, and I am ridiculously pleased about it.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
Because this is Bluesky, some of y'all are thinking "that's dumb, just go close the windows when you know it's going to get hot out" and I need you to know, from the bottom of my heart: Shut up, you don't know how my brain works.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
It's September, where part of the day is windows-open weather and part of the day is "oh shit I left the windows open and the AC is on" weather. So I made an automation on my phone that checks the weather hourly, and if the temp is above a certain number, it alerts me to go close the windows.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 18/09/2026
It has been helicopters over my neighborhood ALL DAY and if we are going to have to put up with this shit, It had better be Happening.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 17/09/2026
I do not endorse trying to keep wild animals as pets but WOW I bet those toe beans are adorable.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 17/09/2026
Looks like it wants ear skritches, tbh.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 17/09/2026
*spittake*
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
Because I don't have legacy corporate systems to work on anymore, I'm gonna fuck around and update to the new MacOS right away. I like to live dangerously.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
Yeah, telling my agent to skip the auto-generated notes, fetch the transcript, and write notes from THAT based on my priorities gave me better results, which then became part of the knowledge base about my work… a real flywheel effect.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
Man, if I was looking for a reason to delete all my socials and walk into the sea, tonight’s discourse really delivered.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
I’m taking C right before Christmas.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 16/09/2026
Same.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 15/09/2026
Sometimes we make butter chicken Mac and cheese, which is also delicious. The grilled cheese use has the benefit of being fast enough for weekday lunch.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 15/09/2026
We make it at home so purposely make a large batch.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 15/09/2026
The internet told me to use leftover butter chicken as a grilled cheese filling and it is a *fantastic* idea.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 14/09/2026
Oh hey, congrats! Love to see the new job sparkle on good people.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 14/09/2026
“Training wheels for investigative journalists” is the sickest burn I have read on this website today.
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 14/09/2026
Oh, will he be lying in state in the Capitol, then?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2026
"i will shoot myself in the gut if you do not let me cut off my dick!!!"
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Tiffany Bridge @tiff.is · 13/09/2026
Also the artists of the internet did not lie to me: 70% Isopropyl Alcohol IS great for getting acrylic paint/mediums out of brushes, random items of clothing...
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