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Lachesis

@lalalachesis.bsky.social

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writer, knitter, long covid, long hair, long story. she-her, vengeance paladin. recovering primary physician. preferential option for the queers. i actually follow a lot more ppl; they are in my list called "news."

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · Jan 5

intro: neither a bot nor ai nor here for self-promotion. blocking those who appear to be so. i pester about alt-text. antiauthoritarian. loves: scrub pants, disaster movies, bon bons, bon mots, dust motes, dad jokes, ambiguity, destabilizing metanarratives, yoga, color pattern knitting in the round.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 4h

stepping away from the heartache, i mean news, for a bit now

"in a prison 500 miles away from home with an unhealed broken foot (his mother said he hurt it prior to his detainment), sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket, and crying to his mother on the phone"

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 4h

I'm a scofflawbubu

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D.L. Mayfield (they/them) @dlmayfield.bsky.social · 6h

I don't have the energy to become Mike Johnson's worst nightmare but I do mention him in this most recent episode (he took his young daughter to a purity ball where she was dressed as a child bride and pledged her purity to him, not creepy at all): www.strongwilledproject.com/focus-on-the...

James Dobson’s Worst Nightmare Part 2 — Strongwilled

A history of James Dobson, his political movement, how his purity culture was pedophile culture, and how he supported Putin's rise to power in Russia.

www.strongwilledproject.com

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 6h

A $20 box of KN95s can keep you and your family off of GoFundMe trying to pass around a collection plate to pay for your $75,000 ventilator that your insurance doesn’t cover and the weeklong hospital stay that will bankrupt your entire family

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 5h

once again, "under 19" opens the door to restrictions for all adults (18+ in usa)

Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 6h

15 Oct 2025 -- Boston's famed Fenway Health, a mainstay of affirming and LGBTQ+ health care in a navy blue state, has buckled to Trump pressure and instead of fighting as others have done, announced will no longer provide GAMT to anyone under 19. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 5h

🔥💩🔥

Riki Wilchins @rikiwilchins.bsky.social · 6h

14 Oct 2025 -- CA Gov Gavin Newsom, still tacking right for 2028, vetoes bill passed by overwhelming majorities which would allow trans ppl to stockpile a year's GAMT in case of new fed restrictions, falsely claiming it would drive up health care costs. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Hi, it's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 6h

New protest sign just dropped

ANTIFASCIST LIKE MY DAD with a photo of my dad in his WW2 army uniform

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Nature @nature.com · 6h

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 5h

"& mister booking agent, please have mercy: don't book the jobs so far apart."
- 4% Pantomime, the band

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 5h

OOOOOAAAAAKS! <shaking fist>

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 5h

10/14/25 Consumer Reports list of high-lead-content protein powders, archived sans paywall:
archive.ph/cjsMR

archive.ph

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 1d

entartete kunst

1938: "...modernist art, including many works of internationally renowned artists, was removed from state-owned museums & banned in Nazi Germany on the grounds that such art was an "insult to German feeling" --wiki, degenerate art entry

Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 1d

"School administrators also took issue with an embroidery that read “Save the Children” and 'Abolish ICE' ... officials turned the fabric swatch so that the text was no longer visible and removed a sign informing visitors they could touch the artwork."

California School Shutters Exhibition After Altering "Political" Art

Pepperdine University abruptly closed the show as at least a dozen artists asked to withdraw in protest of what they called an act of censorship.

hyperallergic.com

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 1d

incroyable! ❤️❤️❤️

Rebecca Diamond ✡️🧶🇺🇸🇨🇦 @rebeccadiamond.online · 1d

Seriously, #KnitSky, if y'all haven't ever tried finishing needles, you're missing out! :D

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 1d

a personal fave
but
"ardent supporter of Joseph McCarthy"
yikes! wtaf (wiki)

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 1d

archived:
Coffee Is in Trouble
By Ellen Cushing
today, The Atlantic

"...coffee in the U.S. is nearly 40% more expensive than it was a year ago."

"We do not *need* coffee. But of course we need it..."

archive.ph

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 7d

It’s been five years since black squares got posted everywhere. If y’all were even halfway serious about listening & learning we wouldn’t be here.

Decolonize your mind. Decolonize your thinking. Maybe then, you’ll realize how gentle the criticism actually is.

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 3d

The crime the girl commits is to flee.

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

AND i also look out for my people & back them at all costs, forever. role modeling for the younger ones & the uncertain: only community/family can save us now, can save ME now, too. only community/family can carry us, when our spirits break.
circle those wagons & never give up, fams. injuries ahead.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

& that's how "x injured" can = "x homeless/ mentally ill/ addicted" unlucky bystanders who end up immersed in street violence, infectious diseases, & terror.
so. for all these "x injured" former babies, schoolkids, hopefuls, romantics, optimists... i mean

as former MD to medical indigents, i pray.

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

& gun injuries can = dependence on tech like colostomy, urostomy, prosthetics, mobility aids that are pretty hard to maintain when you now live in your car or in a shelter bc you're now functionally unemployable & your governor declined to prioritize public health insurance & social service funds
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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

just a reminder. when it says, "x killed & x injured," it doesn't mean the "injured" got off easy.

gun injuries can = permanent disfigurement, life limiting disability, severe chronic pain requiring non-benign interventions, multiple surgeries +/- complications, in/adequate rehabilitation,
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 3d

Fluster Coping

United States, Social Security Death Index

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Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

isn't this how squid game started

Lachesis @lalalachesis.bsky.social · 3d

at first i thought it said "the potty nature of who he is" & thought, right on ma'am