@Liberalibrarian.bsky.social 💙 Retired librarian. ☮️ 🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇺🇦 The Hippies should have won. Artwork by Jim Williams 1959-2013
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My dad was a geologist who worked in the wilderness areas of the Rocky Mountains. He was kicked by a horse, developed clots in his leg. During a bout of phebitis while he was in hospital, one broke through those already in his lungs, slipped past his heart and caused a stroke.
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A blood clot in the leg is no joke. A piece of it can break off and get into the pulmonary arteries around your heart, cause a heart attack, to subsequently collapse & drop dead on the spot. Flying should be prohibited until the clot it's properly treated. He could have died~
Eagles QB Jalen Hurts is expected to be sidelined for multiple months after new imaging over the weekend found several blood clots in his lungs.
Hurts is now on blood thinners and should have no long-term effects. But it’s unlikely he plays again this season.
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I make the hypothesis that because of fire our evolution follows a path other mammals didn’t. It is well established that fire changed our bodies and social structures, I am saying that it also changed our relationships with emergency cascade defences. This little known 1…
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There's a particular habit worth watching: a steady commentary on how foolish other people are. The waiter, the colleague they've never met, the stranger crossing the road. It can sound like confidence. Often it's something else.
A person who needs to feel smarter than everyone can't rely on their own achievements to prove it, because achievements are occasional and comparisons are constant. So they generate comparisons on the spot. Every stranger becomes evidence of their own superiority, and the evidence has to be refreshed all day.
If you live with this, you may find it tiring without knowing why. You're the audience for a performance that never ends, and you're also learning, moment by moment, where you'd fall if the judgment turned toward you.
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Being put down in front of other people lands differently than a private criticism. The room becomes a witness, and the joke or the correction often has a point to make to everyone watching.
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“I live with pain every single second of every day… It never stops… It’s exhausting. Living with #chronicillness… not everyone will understand… I always feel like hell, but some days are just worse than others.” buff.ly/PfFfJIv @invisiblymeblog #chronicpain #spoonie
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🤔 Could this have started with a cleat injury, with prolonged air travel contributing to clotting risk? Absolutely.
But we live in an era of repeated exposure to an airborne virus known to increase thrombotic risk, yet somehow EVERY explanation is acceptable except COVID.
ABC: Anything. But. COVID.
BREAKING: Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts likely out for season after blood clots found in lungs and leg.
nbcnews.com/sports/nfl/eagle…
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In nearly every facet of life the template has been set at “psychopathy.” Look at the traits of psychopathy, from a big picture perspective. Lack of empathy/remorse (it’s not personal, it’s business), superficial charm (confidence), pathological lying (so much so that it’s - 1…
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Bullies on the internet are not going to be able to shame me into silence over domestic violence. When I was being abused, I gained clarity and strength through promising myself that, if I escaped, I would help other victims/survivors.
Part of this "help" is educating people about domestic violence, including the nature of narcissistic/psychopathic abuse, a type of abuse that is not well understood by the public.
Another part of this "help" is letting victims/survivors know they are not alone. Abuse carries with it a lot of shame. False arrests--which occurred in my case-- increase this shame and keep victims even more trapped.
I don't have the biggest platform in the world, but I do have one. I also have the right kind of temperment to speak out. Finally, many victims cannot speak out because they have children with their abusers or are otherwise constrained.
The more you try to shame me, the braver I will become. Why? Because publicly shame-silencing one victim/survivor has the impact of shame-silencing even more victims and survivors.
I have been anti-bully my whole life and domestic violence only strengthened my resolve. Internet bullying strengthens it further.
So you can keep trying, but it won't work.
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When I say I haven’t been sick in years because I mask, people will say that’s not normal. Then I tell them my cousin died from covid LAST YEAR, before he was even 30, having been previously healthy & they can’t explain to me how THAT IS CONSIDERED NORMAL, but me masking is not!!
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RT @caslernoel: Trump appoints RFK Jr to a task on women’s health, you know the guy whose wife killed herself when she found his diary of a…
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump did this as much as Putin.
They are all psychopaths and murderers.
Elon owes SpaceX to Putin. Trump has been a Russian puppet for more than 40 years. They are utterly compromised. They should all be captured, put on trial, and punished together.
A horrific Russian strike in the Kharkiv region. A “shahed” struck people directly – in a park near an ordinary café. Pure atrocity. Six people were killed, including children. A little girl was killed in a stroller – her name was Angelina, she was just over a year old, born in August 2025… Her mother’s name was Inna. She died in the hospital… Another girl who was killed was 11 years old. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Another 14 people were injured, including six more children.
I am grateful to everyone who supports Ukraine under these circumstances and helps us shoot down “shaheds,” shoot down missiles, and stop Russian assaults. These are horrific photos, but behind them are shattered lives and the truth about this war. Lives must be protected. Ukraine needs air defense. You can't think about making money with Russia as long as it continues its asinine war. We ask that sanctions on Russia stay in place as long as the killings continue. We ask America to be strong, and we ask it to apply the Lindsey Graham law. We ask Europe to continue its support. We ask that everything possible be done to bring peace and guarantee security. Ukraine wants peace. It is Russia that has insisted on continuing the killing all this time. The world has enough strength to stop the war. That strength must finally be used – against the murderers.
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how can an avoidant spend the entire beginning of a relationship convincing you to lower your guard, only to spend the rest of it acting like you broke into their fucking house 🤔
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As president, Jefferson spent long hours collecting mammoth bones from all over the world. Believing that it was impossible for species to go extinct, he made the Louisiana Purchase in part because he thought the interior of the continent might conceal live mammoths. “There is surely space enough,” he wrote, “for elephants and lions, and for mammoths and megalonyxes.” Lewis & Clark brought back over 300 fossil bones from Big Bone Lick in Kentucky, which Jefferson pieced together in the “bone room” of the White House.
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My N’ex is EXTREMELY involved with our kids. It stems from his need to control. From the outside, he looks like a great parent. Yet my kids are filled w/ anxiety when they transition back to me. & my 9yo says he has nightmares there & “feels really scared” at dads but not moms 🚩
You can’t be a good dad and an abusive partner.
Dr Emma Katz is clear: the problem is the abuser. Coercive control harms children psychologically even when no one is hit. Impacts continue after separation. “Bad partner, good dad” is an outdated myth.
Courts and social workers still force contact while children come home distressed. Research shows the most common outcome when contact stops is children ending up happy and safe.
This is the system failure I write about.
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📕Book: The System Is The Weapon
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