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U.S. government has a duty to promote the general welfare. It's right there in the Constitution. #VoteBlue 🌊
It's almost like government regulation and health & safety inspections are good for people, and lack thereof is very bad.
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d agoI really feel like it should be bigger news that fibreglass is in IV saline bags in the US. This isn’t a situation where you might get a little sick. Fibreglass going directly into your veins will kill you. IV saline is used for almost every medical procedure. This is unconscionable:
Discworld QOTD, from Carpe Jugulum ‘“Repent!’” Nanny Ogg went on. “Repent? Me? Cheek! I can’t start repenting at my time of life. I’d never get any work done. Anyway,” she added, “I ain’t sorry for most of it.”’
Micah@rincewind.run · 2d agoDiscworld QOTD, from Night Watch
Started messing around with selling merch online. Buy my button! Proceeds to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
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When the type on the frozen pizza box starts getting too small to read, many people notice a certain change in their attitudes. This button sums that up. All proceeds to Dolly Parton's Imagination Lib...
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The good news is that almost everything is better than it was 40 years ago. The bad news is that almost everything is worse than it was 10 years ago.
"What are the peasants' demands?" the king asked. "Fair taxes, stronger rights, fewer privileges for nobles." "Bollocks! Send knights out to disperse them." "They have dragons, sire." "What?" "The dragons claim a more equal society is more stable and prosperous." "They hoard countries now?"
What's so hard about pulling a sword out of a stone? The real work's already been done. You ought to make yourself useful and find the man who put the sword in the stone in the first place, eh? Men at Arms
But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:
Lake Ontario ice update for August 27, 2026: 0% | No ice on this great lake today, but plenty of beautiful, sparkling waters.
Boycott Starbucks. Human dignity is more important than your coffee.
Truthout@truthout.org · 6d agoIn a first, Starbucks Workers United and its 12,000 members are calling for a boycott of the coffee chain, after spending nearly 5 years pressuring the company to negotiate a first contract since the first location unionized in 2021.
There’s already research connecting the Shingrix vaccine to a significantly reduced risk of dementia. Now it looks like it might also significantly reduce risks of heart attacks and strokes. NHS it at 65 in the UK but you can pay privately & get it from age 50 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds
Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication
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Ozymandias shoulda made two monuments so he could have told people to look upon his works ye mighty and de spare
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
Working women are frequently attested in the #Roman empire: the funerary stele of Sentia Amarantis depicts the deceased tapping wine from a barrel. She was an inn-keeper and died at the age of 45. The stele was set up by her husband. From Augusta Emerita/Mérida, 3rd c. AD. #ReliefWednesday 🏺 📷 me
telling that periodically someone would go "man dolly parton can't really be all that" and then they'd go look into it and come back with "actually she's even better than we thought"
Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown "FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals
Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on.
Mark your calendar! Mineral Cup begins September 1!
Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · last wk.What’s that? For #MinCup26, our 10th year of minerals battling it out for your affections, we drew from ANY year to pick our returning minerals? That’s a lot of joy and heartbreak from one little list! www.mineralcup.org/2026/mineral...
What’s that? For #MinCup26, our 10th year of minerals battling it out for your affections, we drew from ANY year to pick our returning minerals? That’s a lot of joy and heartbreak from one little list! www.mineralcup.org/2026/mineral...
Mineral List — Mineral Cup & Ore Cup
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What time is the partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28? Here's when to see the 96% 'blood moon' www.space.com/stargazing/l...
What time is the partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28? Here's when to see the 96% 'blood moon'
Don't miss the best lunar eclipse until New Year's Eve 2028. Here's when to look up to catch the deep partial lunar eclipse on Aug. 27-28.
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Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals
Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music “Chrysoprase had been a very quick learner when he arrived in Ankh-Morpork. He began with an important lesson: hitting people was thuggery. Paying other people to do the hitting on your behalf was good business.”