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CT having escaped FL 🏳️‍🌈 Have a torti Cat named Harrowhark Clinical Psychologist specializing in SUD Rediscovering fun after grad school Love theme parks, Halloween, carnivorous plants Still 😷 My posts do not represent my employer

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Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · Nov 11

I guess we are doing intros here. I’m a clinical psychologist specializing in SUD. My page is a mix of all my interests and I refuse to make a solely professional page. Expect cat photos, plant photos, sci fi book recs, harm reduction, and me getting to rediscover my love of New England.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 1h

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.

I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.

Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 5h

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 23m

I love the episode of future man where they break into James Cameron’s home youtu.be/XYL82LwDtyg?...

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1h

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible
12 operations?
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 51m

Brett Kavanaugh should be made to talk to all 170 of them individually to get a sense of what a #KavanaughStop actually entails

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1h

You know what else affects sperm count and fertility?

Covid.

Yet these guys tell you it’s big big deal.

They make vaccines harder to access.

They tell people not to trust the experts.

Covid causes erectile dysfunction, low motility and declining sperm counts.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 1h

Yelling out, You got it buddy!! as this guy breaks open the pumpkin.

Also, watching this huge animal crack open a pumpkin the size of a wagon with his head, and I’m thinking, I bet he’s soft, I’d like to scratch his head.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 3h

Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾

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Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 11h

Harrow is upset I am working today because she just wants hugs all day

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Rayne Grimm ➡️Furpocalypse @raynegrimm.bsky.social · 1d

"Fascists are twelve" seems to be the evergreen statement as of late

If this is how they treat someone that everyone knows when the whole world is watching, well we already have seen how bad it is to those behind closed doors

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

“These kids just sit in foster care,” a family law attorney said, “because mom and dad are working at Subway and can’t afford a four-bedroom house.”

With @wabe.org
(Published April 2024)

When the Number of Bedrooms in a Home Keeps Parents From Getting Their Kids Back

Even after resolving other safety concerns, parents in Georgia can wait for months to be reunited with their children, often because of what advocates say are stringent requirements sought by the stat...

www.propublica.org

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Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 1d

Terrible timing that the new pokemon game releases the day I come back to work after my vacation

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Harrow had her annual vet check up and was told she’s a very healthy cat

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jean @jeanjauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky Season Reminder: Most "Halloween Black" food dye uses charcoal. Normally, it's safe to eat!

However:

Charcoal can NEUTRALIZE many types of medications!

If you're taking your meds (good for you!), make sure you consult your pharmacist to see if they might get neutralized!

Eat Safely!

a woman in a black dress is eating a cupcake

ALT: a woman in a black dress is eating a cupcake

media.tenor.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

can't deport them somewhere they want to go

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 2d

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 2d

Uni administrators and trustees: We need viewpoint diversity.

Professor, outside of class: Working class should organize to overthrow capitalism

Uni administrators and trustees: No, not THAT kind of viewpoint diversity

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 3d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 2d

I will say though I’ve always had a level of distrust of them because they sent me home with what turned out to be appendicitis.

Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 2d

This is horrifying. If Fenway is caving things are really bad.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

In the case of Mr. Cruz, we have a very literal "show me your papers" arrest.

He was chilling with a friend when ICE officers demanded to see his papers. He didn't have them on him, so they detained him and interrogated him. He was eventually released — but with the ticket.

Rueben Antonio Cruz was sitting with a friend in Rogers Park when ICE agents pulled up onto the street.
The immigration officers stopped their truck and went straight after them on Oct. 9, Cruz told the Tribune.
“They asked us if we have papers. I said I do but I don’t have them on me,” Cruz, a 60-year old man with heart problems originally from El Salvador, recalled in Spanish.
The agents stood Cruz up, put him in their truck, drove around in circles, and asked questions, he said.
Where was he born? What is his name? Who is his mother? Who is his father?
“I told them, they are dead,” Cruz said. The agents said they needed the information anyway so they could look him up in their databases. Eventually, the agents verified that he is, in fact, legally in the country. And they let him go.
But not before writing him a $130 ticket for not having his papers. Cruz’s friend, who is homeless, did not have legal status and was taken away by the feds.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3d

What I'd love people to take from the Portland Frog (and the other inflatable costumes) is both that wearing an inflatable costume to a protest can create cool viral visuals AND that you need to just try shit.

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Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 3d

Todays vibes

A selfie of me with a tortie cat resting on me

Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 3d

I am home. Harrow is being a Velcro kitty and getting tons of hugs.

Lee @zleeily.bsky.social · 3d

It’s validating that the report made it to the investigation step.