Loren

@shambles.bsky.social

nonprofit comms, voter protection vol, NYC. win my heart with puns, locked tomb memes, and picket signs. she/her pfp: a half melted little mermaid candle. banner: a spoiled 9 rescue pup in a fetching bowtie. she appears to be lightly judging you.

Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

"An account with this avatar was blocked" post. You open it and it's a long forgotten picture of your grandmother as a younger woman. You must have been a child at that age. She looks happier than you ever knew her. You could not possibly have memories from that age. The TL refreshes and it's gone

All of this. Adding: HR is also code for the state. if you are an affluent man with inherited entitlement Mark describes here, you simply don’t encounter the state very often. Maybe the DMV. But most of these dudes work. HR translates state power by managing regulations and risk.

Mark Andrew Price@pricelaborecon.bsky.social · 4w ago

I don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

here’s a PSA that if you’ve ever gotten medical imaging done you can request a copy of the data from the hospital and extract a model of your own body parts to look at, or even 3D print. pretty useful if you’re in the market for contemplating your own mortality

a 3D model of my skull

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Kyle Cassidy@kylecassidy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.