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nancymittens.bsky.social

@nancymittens.bsky.social

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Fibercrafts, books. Still not much to say. Will block on vibes, still deciding about xylophones. Sometimes I take time to respond, because I am trying to be thoughtful. Has read but does not like Moby Dick. Still on Dreamwidth and Mastodon

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 6h

A small bright thing.

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 7h

Play is powerful. Toys let us model the world.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 6h

No.

He didn't "use the shutdown to do it".

He's pretending the Shutdown is the reason; when if there had been no shutdown he'd have done it anyway.

Pretending "it's the shutdown" is giving him cover for his lawless behavior.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

President Trump has used the shutdown to lay off thousands of workers and cancel an estimated $27 billion in funding for projects in Democratic cities and congressional districts.

How is this shutdown different from other shutdowns?

President Donald Trump has used the shutdown to make unprecedented changes to the federal government.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

I will probably be saying this for the rest of my life but I can’t imagine growing up now in a world where you have no idea if the information you encounter everywhere through photo and video is even real

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 9h

We'll work together with people it is MOSTLY SAFE TO WORK WITH.

When I say I will not vote for Governor Haircut for president, I am deadly serious, and it's because he's not safe to work with.

My main "purity test" is "do I think you willl turn around and stab me? The answer had better be no.

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 8h

Convert to office space? Maybe computer racks in the center with whatever other things that don't need sunlight?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 15h

I don't know that @cstross.bsky.social is right about the exact pivot, but we are certainly in the midst of a massive *set* of inflection points.

www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

The pivot - Charlie's Diary

I'm calling this the pivotal year of our times, just as 1968 was the pivotal year of the post-1945 system, for a number of reasons.

www.antipope.org

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 1d

Bats talkinge to each othir about a wilde partye and one of them ys lyke "and THEN thinges went all HUMANSHIT"

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 13h

I am so sorry your father needed yelling at. With all the crap around my parents, I did miss that one for politics.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 15h

so lemme get this straight, they bombed guys who were such evil drug smugglers that they had to drone them in international waters but then when they picked a couple up they flew them home at taxpayer expense?

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 14h

Dude! Like an owl?

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 20h

I don't usually do this but "Amal from Gaza" is pinging my spidey senses really hard, even before I blocked four of them in a half hour. I would be cautious.

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

mmm, not how I learned it. But the whack fol, etc. is the same.

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

Too rah loo rah loo rye aye...

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nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo! Go you!

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

I resent the airlines, not my fellow trapped humans.

nancymittens.bsky.social @nancymittens.bsky.social · 1d

I sent my Phileas to a cousin to sign her divorce papers.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1d

So A) Yikes
B) Good job, Boeing for getting the front glass right
C) YIKES

And an aside: anyone have any idea what the obviously added emoji paperclips in the twitter images are supposed to mean?

arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...