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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 39m

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume

Middle aged white woman dressed as Spock in a black-and-white photo.

Middle aged white woman dressed as Spockh holding up the 'live long and prosper' hand sign in a black-and-white photo.

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 3h

i don't get the desire to want to be "The Leader" of a household in the first place. it's not a corporation. 🙄 what's so wrong about sharing some roles, letting everybody doing what THEY'RE best at & know needs to be done, helping each other out, taking turns, seeking out actual experts when needed.

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 3h

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 3h

Burn it down.

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 3h

I simply cannot stand social media anymore. The sheer level of flat-out wrongness, inaccuracy and cognitive biases on parade is going to drive me *literally* insane. Not to mention the BLATANT propaganda and psyops.

What a goddamn garbage dump the internet has turned out to be.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 3h

The whole time you're using it you're saying to yourself, "Is this working?"

Kiva! @screadnareilige.bsky.social · 3h

hey shitheads check this out: chatcbt

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 7h

Aw, bummer. Thanks for sharing with your follows, though! 🙏

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 7h

Attention #austintexas - come to the launch of my debut novel, The Whole Enchilada, on 12/13. I'm co-launching with my friend and creative partner, @ileenieweenie.bsky.social who is launching her first boo, too!

📚 www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

#BookSky #WritingCommunity

Graphic advertising a book launch event for authors Daniela Quirke and Ilene Haddad on Saturday, December 13, 2025 from 1:00-3:00 PM at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin, Texas.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 20h

Playing it safe tonight after last night's hot and sour noodle reflux terror. Avocado toast it is.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 20h

I'll say it again:

We need to be establishing independent comms channels that are hosted on servers in other countries. Like, NOW.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 20h

This 'cease fire' is just so they can get in front of all the messaging/acquire legacy and social media, and clamp down on the ability of the people to share information so that next time, there will be no global pushback.

Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 22h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 1d

also!!! people keep skipping the most glaring thing to me?

that black people who go to the doctor are not taken seriously, are misdiagnosed, dismissed, ignored, gaslit

AND there are things that don't show up on the normal tests. it's not pushed for black people to have access to more tests

Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, this. Going for regular checkups/blood work is about detecting things that go wrong as early as possible so you have a better chance with intervention. You may not be able to avoid getting sick, but how quickly you identify a condition and start treatment impacts your likelihood of survival.

Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Going to the doctor does not keep you from having cancer. And some cancers just really don’t have symptoms until it’s too late.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. This. Mr. Q is not white *and* after he was diagnosed we discovered it's not only genetic within his family but heart disease is at epidemic levels among south Asians. His doctor should have been aware of this.

www.heart.org/en/news/2023...

Why are South Asians dying of heart disease? MASALA looks for answers.

MASALA, which stands for Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America, is a pioneering long-term study that's finding data and diversity in one of the country's fastest-growing popul...

www.heart.org

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

This happened last December. He would have died within a couple years if he hadn't had open-heart surgery.

What we've taken away from this is that we have to aggressively advocate for ourselves in the healthcare system, and while doctors are an essential part of the equation, they can be wrong.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

My husband had a quadruple bypass at 51 - and it was only because he pursued it and *convinced* his doctor he needed expensive testing. He had 80-90% blockage in all four arteries, and no one thought there was anything wrong with him til he did the coronary angiography, which, again, HE insisted on.

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sdy292.bsky.social @sdy292.bsky.social · 1d

I’m late 40’s & in, what I thought was, relatively good health. Nothing in my chart was alarming.
I was fatigued & wrote it off as “you’re getting older”. One day I had blood in my urine. In 2wks I was on a table opened & getting a kidney removed
Not once did I think I was walking around with cancer

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, this. Going for regular checkups/blood work is about detecting things that go wrong as early as possible so you have a better chance with intervention. You may not be able to avoid getting sick, but how quickly you identify a condition and start treatment impacts your likelihood of survival.

Oh hey Chels! @chelsisright.bsky.social · 1d

Right. Going to the doctor does not keep you from having cancer. And some cancers just really don’t have symptoms until it’s too late.

Big Lord Bunny @ceepain.bsky.social · 1d

That's exactly why I said the conversation has to be broader ... it ain't always folks not going to the doctor or not being on top of their health.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Welp.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

I really need to work on eating earlier. My habits are bad in this regard. I tend to eat around 8PM which is entirely too late for someone who goes to bed between 10-11.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

FOOLS!

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

Alt: Robert Redford with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods giving a knowing nod.

media.tenor.com

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

As a matter of fact...

pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 1d

Did you like Sinners? Do you like vampires and/or Black folk horror? Get yourself a copy of this. It's one of the best books I've read this year

P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

I woke up feeling like ass and it's been this way all day. I think my delicious hot and sour noodles aggravated by acid reflux and my sleep last night was bad. 😭 GETTING OLD IS STUPID.

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Daniela Quirke @danielaquirke.bsky.social · 1d

Physical books taste better.

buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

What's your totally ordinary opinion about books that you nonetheless find compelled to share when asked on a social media site such as this one for your most extreme/unhinged/hottest takes?

I'll go first: manga is popular among young people because manga often features young people.

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