You can go to the ACLU site and print pamphlets in Spanish to be passed out in Hispanic areas. I've been through ICE raids speaking fluent English. It's worse in Spanish. We have to protect these people now.

One thing to note here about long polio (aka poliomyelitis): initially, people will appear to recover. Appear: damage has been done, motor neurons destroyed; but the human body is resilient, other neurons take over. But they're not for long: these neurons are now overloaded, will die prematurely.

Fun polio fact: it is asymptomatic in 70% of cases. In 29.5% of the cases symptoms do appear, they are gastrointestinal distress, normal enterovirus stuff. Polio only displays neurological symptoms in 0.5% of cases. You don't remember polio, you only remember *longpolio*

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

“I’m quite the prize myself.”

me in my 20s: it’s saturday night! time to go get drunk and party!!! me in my 40s: ah, saturday night. time to enjoy an evening with my family and perhaps enjoy a drink or two me in my 8470s: huh. i think i might be god me in my 98580s: yep i’m god for sure

please donate what you can to sakher so he and his family can eat!

A very meaty Health Care, Inc. this morning from @bobjherman.bsky.social He points out that buried deep inside a Medicare proposal from last week, the government asks the public for feedback on what to do about a loophole that lets insurers pay themselves above the legal limit. Check it out: 🩺

date: I eat very little meat. me: You mean like mice?

do you have reservations? well, we would have preferred slightly better reviews but we're willing to give it a shot

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It’s been hard to have enough energy to post any personal updates, and it’s also felt like there isn’t much new other than the continuing saga of health awfulness and never ending crashes. But I’m still here. And Cheerio is keeping me company.

evil shit I've done today: 1. asked my friend when their birthday was 2. put it on my calendar with multiple notifications guess who just got cared about *BAM*

Copying over the first of many ADHD threads, which is the most useful one: "Oh fuck, I've been called out by enough posts/TikToks/memes, I think I'm ADHD, but what now?" First things first: You should know that there's an emotional part of this, and you're going to process both anger and grief.

Sister's dating a maga. So I decided to end any chance of bullsh*t at family dinners before it started. Setting the table I put an Alka seltzer tablet in his glass. Also had an empty pill bottle I put green jellybeans in. Everyone sits down, I pour the drinks. Him: why is my glass fizzing?

Illinois has put an end to the injustice of cash bail. And it’s working better than anyone expected.

I used to work so hard on Twitter to separate my little shitposter alt from my “professional” account and I just refuse to do it anymore you will get indigenous history and climate policy posts and posts about weed and vibrators, this is who I am

Why are they called ‘dry eye drops’ and not ‘moistyoureyeser’?

I'm sad that I missed the sale on fiber supplements but glad I didn't miss the sale on snap ware food storage containers well, I guess this is growing up?

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This is my periodic reminder to everybody who loses their appetite when they get stressed out to do whatever it takes to keep eating - set reminders, ask a trusted friend, whatever - because there have been years of downstream effects from my inadvertently collapsing my health in 2020 or so

📌 stitches sewing mending check the rest of the thread there's more awesomeness in the replies from sashiko @redshiftsinger.bsky.social

📌 embroidery sashiko mending scraps resource the mending Playlist of the green wrapper who is the creator mentioned in the post youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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does anyone have tips for mending/repairing/ stuffed animals or know great visible mending resources for clothes? I'm going to also look but if you have favorite accounts, books, resources that would be great

It's funny how "the internet is forever" only applies to certain things. An embarrassing moment from your life? Good luck getting rid of that completely. A movie or TV show? Sorry but that's been removed and if you try to put it back we will come at you with the full force of the law.

Stores that remove items on the brink of expiration, donate them to food banks and fill up the emptied shelf space with fresher inventory get more revenue from sales and earn higher profits.

Most Americans have had at least one unpleasant/scammy/actively horrible experience at a car dealership, and I bet it'd be surprisingly easy to convince them that car dealership owners should be driven into the forests with pitchforks

Whenever sales happen, how I wish Sony & Nintendo allowed gifting games from wishlists like Steam & Microsoft. What's the point in having wishlists on those platforms if friends can't peek in & randomly gift things by surprise?! LET ME SPOIL MY FRIENDS DANGIT *shakes fists in air at Sony/Nintendo*

Software makers need to sell new versions. We don't need to buy them. That's why so many of them are turning to subscription models: because we just wouldn't upgrade if they didn't.

This feels like a hilariously inept way to argue I am not supposed to criticize Christianity "just" because I and many of the people I care deeply about were harmed by it. Like, I think it would be extremely reasonable to conclude such a teacher is at minimum not particularly special or good, right?

Example: many of the people who got mad about being (rightly) called racist - often seemed to be a problem with the perceived binary of being a "Good Person" or not - racism is bad, and I'm a good person, therefore I can't be racist. Any suggestions to the contrary are nasty. No nuance/gray area.

specifically but also yes www.heraldscotland.com/news/2388475...

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I've seen some folks complaining about not being able to ship things for Christmas because of the postal strike. So, some thoughts: The posties need and deserve our support, and as always, every union win sets the bar for non-union employers and wages, so we all win in the end.

A third woman has died under Texas’ abortion ban as doctors reach for riskier miscarriage treatments www.texastribune.org/2024/11/27/t...

Porsha Ngumezi bled for hours in a Texas hospital. She was miscarrying, crying in extreme pain. Porsha was passing massive clots of blood as she lay dying, struggling to breathe. Porsha, a 23-year-old mother of two, eventually bled to death at Houston Methodist Sugar Land…

New research shows that extreme weather events (the sort fueled by climate change) can increase "divorce" rates in endangered, socially monogamous Seychelles Warblers. #ornithology

sitting in my nice car in my shades and clean clothes with shopping bags on the backseat, lamenting that my life is in danger while inside the giant concentration camp my country built people are being exterminated and deliberately starved

Bluesky is truly having an incredible run as Threads' head of product

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