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Carol Johnson

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Diagnosed in days, not years: http://Uterinekind.com for "bad periods" #endometriosis #PMDD #PCOS #fibroids #adenomyosis #VWD #EDS #POTS Board Certified Patient Advocate Host: Hello Uterus podcast Former SiriusXM/ESPN Anti-racist #ERANow climbs🏔swims🌊

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · Jan 22

In case anyone would like to grab the archive of the reproductive rights website recently taken offline by...whoever is dismantling our health education tools, here it is:

web.archive.org/web/20250114... #medsky #obgyn

ReproductiveRights.gov - Know Your Rights: Reproductive Health Care

While Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion remains legal in many states, and other reproductive health care services remain protected by law.

web.archive.org

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 6h

Congratulations!!

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 7h

What’s a sign we should look for that AI is a disaster?

Oh! 👇🏻

The Verge @theverge.com · 16h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 7h

If Cujo was a cat

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11h

this is what RFK Jr. wants to replace your FDA-approved and inspected medicines with. he and trump want to get rich selling you lead-coated workout supplements

Zach Binney @binneyz.bsky.social · 16h

Is this a good time to remind everyone (as the article covers at length) that there is effectively no regulation by the FDA or any other government body of any supplement? And that the definition of "supplement" is very, very wide?

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 17h

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...

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 7h

Meanwhile, endometriosis research, which primarily impacts females, gets about $25M. 1 in 10 have it and it’s debilitating. Pain so bad she may pass out.

But since it only impact girls and women, why waste the money, says the patriarchy.

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 7h

Narrator: she looks like she did get ham tho

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 7h

Sam Altman plowing trillions into a s*x bot, meanwhile innovation in women’s health is still at the “sorry-gonna-have-to-amputate your bre*sts and uterus” to keep you alive bc we don’t invest sh*t into women’s health.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve been trying to get to Boston since 26 hours ago. I’m tired, cranky, hungry, thirsty.

And my last leg is…delayed.

Air travel in the US is officially sh*t. Just so so so bad.

However, every human has been fab.

United Airlines, your ppl rock.
Your policies suck.

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 16h

Not at all surprised.

Most of us see right through them, to their fascist core.

Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 16h

Anyone actually surprised? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 16h

Is it a man thing?
Why won’t they ever learn?
Trillions invested, so…porn it is.
Got to make money off AI somehow.
www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt...

ChatGPT to reduce mental health safeguards and let users make erotica

OpenAI will reduce the mental health safeguards built into ChatGPT and allow its users to create erotica, it has announced.

www.independent.co.uk

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Lee Marcucci, MD @skipmarcuccimd.bsky.social · 21h

Alaska needs help @wck.org. More than 1000 people in shelters as 15 ft sea surge has obliterated whole villages. SOS for Alaska.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Given the absolutely insane levels of disinformation and growing attacks on science and scientists, all scientists must be taught

- how to communicate effectively
- how to engage the public
- how to engage politicians and policy makers
- how to engage with the media
- how to counter misinformation

Quote by Paul Sutter which says "The public needs to see scientists as poeple, rather than simply sources of information"

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 1d

Ithaca College has the Rod Serling Archives. We studied his work when I went there. Not sure if they allow public tours, but I would think so. Worth a visit!

www.ithaca.edu/academics/ro...

Rod Serling Archives at Ithaca College | Ithaca College

The Rod Serling Archives are located in Ithaca College's library The Rod Serling Archives consist of television scripts, movie screenplays, stage play scripts, films, published works by Serling, unpro...

www.ithaca.edu

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Alicia Abbott @abbottalynn.bsky.social · 1d

Idahoans are happy to sign the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act initiative. Especially my neighbors in Bonner County after the loss of our labor & delivery unit.

People are angry about the harm the extreme trigger ban has caused. They want to go back to how it used to be. www.backtoidaho.com

Back to Idaho

We are gathering signatures for the Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act. For nearly 50 years, Idahoans had the personal liberty to make private medical decisions—including regulated access to abortio...

www.backtoidaho.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

⚠️ STATES, LOCALS, TRIBAL NATIONS, TERRITORIES ⚠️

HHS has eliminated EVERY SINGLE SAFEGUARD FOR DATA PROTECTION AT CDC. Giving data to CDC is no longer safe and puts your residents at risk.

Unless and until all CDC’s data protections are restored you should consider CDC a bad actor.

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 2d

Love how she’s showing that how successful business is conducted is a choice.

“I keep my side of the street clean…”

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 3d

We waste so much time wanging on about immigration being something that must be stopped, when the reality is we need it.

What if we spent the same amount of effort actually working out what we can do to encourage integration.

Treating them like enemies isn’t it
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

www.theguardian.com

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 3d

He’s thinking he wants to go visit his new friend, me. 😜

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 3d

Jane Goodall missed one when she ticked off her list of men who should be jettisoned off-planet: Peter Thiel.

Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 3d

Peter Thiel strikes me as a guy who somehow drove himself mad trying to come up with little quips for cocktail parties. If you pay attention to his political statements, they are all oft-repeated anecdotes and observations where the payoff is that he's actually quite clever.

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 3d

Exceptional? At pressing missile buttons? Genocide?
What exactly was so exceptional, Jared?

Gross.

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 3d

I could have an intellectual conversation with Pippin for about 400 hours. Gorgeous.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

Public health is not partisan. It is health for the public.

That means all of us.

Defend Public Health.

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Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile, in the US, Republicans are voting to cut clean energy projects.

Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 4d

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

eastangliabylines.co.uk

Carol Johnson @withloveperiod.bsky.social · 4d

That’s cool. And the program tagline is obv: Where does your wood come from? Hope they’re taking advantage of the buzz around Taylor Swift’s song Wood.

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Eric H Cline @digkabri.bsky.social · 4d

Look what arrived in the mail today! Hooray and congrats to Ken Feder! "Insightful, respectful, important, and a pleasure to read. It belongs on the bookshelf of every American," according to one archaeologist who blurbed the book. Get your copy today!

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