Medusa’s Wink😉

Medusa’s Wink😉

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MSW & Public Policy
They/She 🏳️‍🌈♿️
#AuDHD (awkward and too intense)

Hollywood reject, NOLA swampgoblin ⚜️

Neurospicy social worker failing daily at retirement. Specialized in creativity and treating violence. Pissed off by oppression in general

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Taking my meds! If you've forgotten yours, this is a reminder! Hello!

Does linear time take a min to set in for other folks in the morning, or is it just me?

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All the best people have insomnia

What’s yours? My comic book shelves have a big, empty Gaiman shaped hole in them now, what should i fill that with? Besides, you know, sugar and angst

Preacher was great. Also prolly my favorite comic book.

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Proposed amendment to CA state constitution would remove requirement that incarcerated people work www.kqed.org/arts/1396262...

A Future Without Involuntary Servitude? In California, It's Long Overdue | KQEDwww.kqed.org California has the chance to repeal a direct remnant of slavery. Who could possibly be against it?

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Glad to be getting updated COVID vaccines, but this does not make sense. If they wanted to mitigate the summer wave, they needed to release updated vaccines in spring, not at the end of the summer when COVID spread is already huge.

The Covid-19 Summer Wave Is So Big, the FDA Might Release New Vaccines Earlywww.wired.com The latest Covid-19 surge reportedly has officials considering approval of the new strain-matched vaccine as soon as this week.

No kidding

A Massive New Study Suggests Getting COVID Might Really Mess With People’s Mental Health. "If you get seriously ill, you’re more likely to experience things like depression, PTSD, eating disorders, and self-harm, according to the research." Study: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... archive.md/pbBuT

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Instead of trying to "cure" or "fix" their neurodivergent son Ben, Tim and Gwen Walz love him exactly as he is, and want to give him the best chance of success. By @ericmgarcia.bsky.social. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The Walzes have been nearly perfect in talking about their neurodivergent son, Guswww.msnbc.com The Walzes’ words and their embrace of their son may seem utterly unremarkable. But that’s the point.

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New piece from me, about how the Democrats' pandemic denialism reached brave new heights at the superspreader DNC this week, celebrating their "victory" over COVID as a million Americans were infected each day in an August surge. t.co/xV07kYiHRM

The planet the Democrats live on sounds nicet.co With a million new COVID cases per day in the US, Democrats celebrate their "victory" over COVID at their massive indoor superspreader event with zero mitigations

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I love resharing this one with new followers!

Oh I LOVE sharing this one with new people! Did y’all know that, as a sweeping generalization, women don’t tend to get the midlife crisis? We actually get a midlife reprieve.

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oh, please don't touch those; those are load-bearing childhood psychological traumas

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I want to live in alex jones’ world where libs are driving mobile vasectomy and abortion trucks around. this is the kind of access we need to imagine, we can dream bigger and better

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NYT Fact Check: Starfleet, an organization that purports to champion the values of diversity and inclusion, constantly wars with the Borg, the most inclusive organization in the galaxy. Is this disqualifying hypocrisy? Maureen Dowd says yes.

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This is how it went for me, including losing the inhibition over transition

Oh I LOVE sharing this one with new people! Did y’all know that, as a sweeping generalization, women don’t tend to get the midlife crisis? We actually get a midlife reprieve.

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Are the 1000 people dead every week and 1.3 million infected daily—of which many will go on to develop Long Covid that brings disability, chronic illness and shortened life—really the back to normal you want? It’s not to late to mask and demand clean air from your workplace and govt ✊😷

Me: Wow, the CDC finally acknowledged 'elevated covid activity' during the largest ever return-to-school surge with over 1000 dead/week and 1.3M infected daily in the US [Hits command-F types "mask" delete types "prevent" pours pint glass of wine] www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-...

KP.3.1.1 is the Predominant Variant as COVID-19 Activity Increaseswww.cdc.gov COVID-19 activity continues to increase in many parts of the country with variant KP.3.1.1 as the pr

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Queer Temporality also plays a pretty big factor in when, if, and how we experience this as well. "Midlife" makes less and less sense as an idea the less your life fits the standard progression of work and relationship/family life.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (thanks @mitdasein.bsky.social)

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

@robertelee.bsky.social just checking in on ya

We’re discussing the so-called “midlife crisis” and what factors seem to complicate/mitigate it. I think this is really insightful. The more people lock in to an identity placed on them early in life, the harder “midlife” seems to be for them to navigate with resilience:

I wonder how much more pressure at the front end of the process influences people later on. If you're in high school but you can buy your friends beer or smokes without getting carded, you're committed to that look for a *while*. Super easy to get invested in an identity that you commit to for years

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midlife transitioners:

Oh I LOVE sharing this one with new people! Did y’all know that, as a sweeping generalization, women don’t tend to get the midlife crisis? We actually get a midlife reprieve.

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i feel like i've had this early and i LOVE this for me💅🏽

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I love that! For me I'm definitely living my best era right now!

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what about us (nonbinary people) what happens /gen

Oh I LOVE sharing this one with new people! Did y’all know that, as a sweeping generalization, women don’t tend to get the midlife crisis? We actually get a midlife reprieve.

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and the wild part is it's simply not true i am much hotter now than when i was younger

Y’all, it’s not so much a “men are doomed!” scenario. Don’t panic It’s more of a “society has been telling you as a woman that you have to meet all these superficial arbitrary standards, and as you age you will grow less and less desirable and happy. But maybe don’t worry so much about that” thing.

Why is everything being so loud today

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My brain every time I hear the word “policy”

The United States is the richest country in human history. We can always afford it. We simply choose not to.

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How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Findbuff.ly An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.

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This is an important message to remember when there’s so much of a tendency for other people online to attempt to define you in ways that are completely disconnected from your behavior. People make up a person to be mad at when nobody to get mad at exists right now. That person isn’t you.

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I'd really like every American who takes the existence--and inherent justice--of jails and prisons for granted to take a few minutes to examine the assumptions that inform those ideas and ask questions about whether and how the reality reflects them and what alternatives could look like.

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I’m sure I seem different because I’m less likely to acquiesce & accommodate, more vocal about what I want (and don’t want), less likely to make myself small or shape myself around the hard edges of other people. If that seems like a “crisis” I guess it’s on you to come to terms with that.

Oh I LOVE sharing this one with new people! Did y’all know that, as a sweeping generalization, women don’t tend to get the midlife crisis? We actually get a midlife reprieve.

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*Orcas silently slip beneath the waves* "Yeah. Tornado. And don't you fucking forget it."

billionaires keep getting swallowed by the hungry sea www.thedailybeast.com/us-partygoer...

Tech Titan Missing After Luxury Superyacht Hit by Tornadowww.thedailybeast.com One of the world’s largest sailing superyachts was caught in a storm along the beautiful Sicilian coastline near Palermo.