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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 3d

Man, Catholics just have really high highs and really low lows. (This is obviously the former.)

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3d

“A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center three days ago and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.” www.ncronline.org/news/activis...

Activists in Chicago, barred from giving Communion to ICE detainees, plan next actions

A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.

www.ncronline.org

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 3d

The Right Words is a luxury of those who don’t have much skin in the game. Those who do tend to be more focused on “What do you believe and what are you willing to do about it” than “What do you call it.” This is a general principle that applies outside of this specific context as well.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 3d

I agree that liberal Zionists being dismissive of Palestinians can be a problem but do you find in general that it’s Palestinians that are super insistent on people identifying as anti-Zionists? Because that’s not been my observation or experience. Generally speaking, being super obsessed with

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 3d

The question is not “Is the movement worse than the institutional embrace of genocide,” it’s “Is the current movement worse than a better version of the movement that would more effectively be able to challenge the institutional embrace of genocide.”

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 4d

That was my first thought. I’m not aware of routine sperm analysis being done on teenagers.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

Oh yeah, I agree! I just also find it frustrating that it’s been decided that every American is either that rural Ohio farmer or a gender studies professor at UC Berkeley when neither of those people are particularly representative.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

Or any number of mid-sized, uncool cities full of normies who are all turning out for protests.

*Okay, there’s a lot wrong with the Bay Area but that’s another conversation…

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

Thing is, Ohio has places like Columbus and Cleveland, which are also cities and also blue and also had/will have protests. There’s nothing wrong with the Bay Area but it’s weird when people act like that’s a typical urban area when there are many more like Cleveland. Or Sacramento. Or Milwaukee.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

It can also make communication harder if someone has to speak in something other than their native language. To me it makes sense to require masking in public areas and leave it to the discretion of provider and patient in the privacy of an exam room.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

“Disabled people,” the symbolic bludgeon wielded by the Extremely Online seem to have almost no relation to disabled people, the actual human beings that live in and navigate the real world.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

Asymptomatic transmission happens but is less common than symptomatic transmission. Being outside vs. inside does not eliminate but does reduce risk. Some of this is just the reality of living in a world with communicable disease. We are always balancing caution with other priorities.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

True, although I think there’s also kind of a point being made there about family curses, which the show (and Bob-Waksberg in general) is obsessed with. At any rate, it works for that purpose.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

It’s such a great spoof of the male antihero phenomenon though, especially the fawning reviews lol.

I didn’t realize you were in the process of watching it. It really does stay good until the end.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 5d

IIRC she very much does mind. At minimum she certainly expressed some impatience and exasperation with everyone wanting to talk to her about her body and not her character in the Mad Men era. Even though IMO she gave one of the best performances of one of the most interesting characters on the show.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

That may be true but I think a lot of people also care about men’s wellbeing. And that isn’t bad! And Americans in general are very atomized and lonely and that is worth talking about. It’s just that it matters for everybody, not just men.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t know. Lonely single woman are less likely to have children, which is certainly a concern of the same people preoccupied with male loneliness. It’s that that their proposed solution there seems to be coercion, rather than supporting women in finding personal fulfillment.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, I know! Just “yes, and”-ing. 😉

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

Like, how do you think it makes a woman feel to constantly hear that a woman can always get a man when she doesn’t have a man and would like one? “You must really be beyond the pale if you can’t even do this thing ANY WOMAN can do.” Would you talk about it?

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

I think the “women can always get a man” talk is another reason we don’t hear about female loneliness. It’s not just that women’s feelings aren’t valued, it’s that it’s shameful to even admit loneliness when it’s essentially an admission of profound undesirability to the point of social deviancy.

Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 6d

“But women can always get a man if they just lower their standards!”

Cool story bro. You lower yours first.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

It’s insane that this loophole exists butI certainly don’t expect anything to be done about it now, given that the kinds of crooks and scammers it enriches are running the country.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

they’re not even checking to make sure that they contain any of the ingredients advertised. And I feel like every time anyone does a “we tested all these brands of supplement X” thing, they find out that a whole bunch of them aren’t even what they’re claiming to be at all.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

We really should talk about this more. Any discussion of the value (or lack thereof) of a supplement should always foreground the fact that, in the US, anything classified as a supplement (as in neither a food or a drug) is essentially unregulated. Not only is nobody checking on things like lead

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6d

i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold

Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area.

There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance.

Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs.

Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.

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Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

Aren’t they all eating raw liver instead of protein powders? (Or maybe they’re just saying they are).

Lydia “Massive Prideful Female” @petticoatshrink.bsky.social · 6d

Tbf that sentence *could* describe an OCD theme but it could describe other things too. But certainly it’s irresponsible to make no attempt at disaggregating those different things.