Catblossom
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Hahahaha whew. The shingles vax was a ride, my arm swelled like a softball and I felt like mold for a week.
But shingles? I wanted to DIE. I have permanent nerve damage and lasting pain, 2 years on!
And that's nothing compared to a former coworker who got it on her face & lost part of her vision.
But shingles? I wanted to DIE. I have permanent nerve damage and lasting pain, 2 years on!
And that's nothing compared to a former coworker who got it on her face & lost part of her vision.
I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hahahaha whew. The shingles vax was a ride, my arm swelled like a softball and I felt like mold for a week.
But shingles? I wanted to DIE. I have permanent nerve damage and lasting pain, 2 years on!
And that's nothing compared to a former coworker who got it on her face & lost part of her vision.
But shingles? I wanted to DIE. I have permanent nerve damage and lasting pain, 2 years on!
And that's nothing compared to a former coworker who got it on her face & lost part of her vision.
Huh. None of *my* elders have been offered this standard of 'preventive care' - and they have Medicare + VA benefits, so *theoretically* their standard of care should be equivalent...
New — White House doctor's memo on Donald Trump’s recent MRI (which White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just called “preventative").
The memo says Trump's cardiovascular and abdominal imaging is “perfectly normal" and that "he remains in excellent overall health."
The memo says Trump's cardiovascular and abdominal imaging is “perfectly normal" and that "he remains in excellent overall health."
December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Huh. None of *my* elders have been offered this standard of 'preventive care' - and they have Medicare + VA benefits, so *theoretically* their standard of care should be equivalent...
Not that we need to justify our winter break re-watch, but there it is...
Nobody:
Me: LORD OF THE RINGS IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE THERE ARE ELVES.
Me: LORD OF THE RINGS IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE THERE ARE ELVES.
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Not that we need to justify our winter break re-watch, but there it is...
Yaaaay! Good news!
This was a garbage suit designed to have a chilling effect on labor organizers and it did not work!
California court tosses Wonderful Company lawsuit over farmworker unionization law
The Wonderful Company sued to overturn a farmworker unionization law, but a California appeals court found the lawsuit was premature. The company contends the law is unconstitutional.
calmatters.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Yaaaay! Good news!
So much this. Husband wanted to ditch the car & take transit after getting hit twice in 3 months on the freeway.
It was unworkable. We don't have reliable transit where we live, and that's wild.
It was unworkable. We don't have reliable transit where we live, and that's wild.
I know very few people who think the cost of public transit is prohibitive.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
It’s that public transit in the US is treated in most cities like the thing you slap on after the fact.
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
So much this. Husband wanted to ditch the car & take transit after getting hit twice in 3 months on the freeway.
It was unworkable. We don't have reliable transit where we live, and that's wild.
It was unworkable. We don't have reliable transit where we live, and that's wild.
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It’s an entire administration of people who wanted to be actors and rock stars but lacked the talent and charisma so they became fascists instead.
these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
It’s an entire administration of people who wanted to be actors and rock stars but lacked the talent and charisma so they became fascists instead.
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This observation remains undefeated
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This observation remains undefeated
Did my grandmother write his speech? 🙄
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Did my grandmother write his speech? 🙄
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At 2 am, my smoke alarm decided to sing the song of its people (aka low battery chirp). This morning, I discovered my ice maker is broken again. I get that mundane stuff breaks, but maybe the universe could pause that if we’re going to also have to deal with The Horrors™️ every single day??
November 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
At 2 am, my smoke alarm decided to sing the song of its people (aka low battery chirp). This morning, I discovered my ice maker is broken again. I get that mundane stuff breaks, but maybe the universe could pause that if we’re going to also have to deal with The Horrors™️ every single day??
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The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.
This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.
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Yesterday, President Trump tried to justify the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by saying "things happen."
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Yesterday, President Trump tried to justify the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by saying "things happen."
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
Today, Senate Republicans blocked a resolution that condemned his murder.
The Republican party's refusal to stand up for a free & fair press endangers journalists worldwide.
Which is *terrifying* - because it's often nurses who save us from overworked doctors who are rushing & make mistakes, or who can't be bothered to listen.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
So we will have nurses who have no education and who are paid minimum wage...
Doctor Here 👋
-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.
- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.
- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!
#medsky #publichealth
-The Department of Education just said nursing is no longer a professional degree.
- #Nursing is one of the most important and respected professions. Our healthcare system depends on them.
- #Nurses save lives!! They must be respected as professionals!
#medsky #publichealth
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Which is *terrifying* - because it's often nurses who save us from overworked doctors who are rushing & make mistakes, or who can't be bothered to listen.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
Good nurses are absolutely the front and bottom line of medical care in this country.
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.
November 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the child I was at 15.
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
Additionally, they are cutting support for school libraries nationwide.
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
Not you? Your kid’s in AP classes?
Ask them about their relationship with ChatGPT. Better yet, look at their browsing history.
Professors are shouting that your kids cannot read and your local public school district won’t buy books or include them in the curriculum!!
Ask them about their relationship with ChatGPT. Better yet, look at their browsing history.
Professors are shouting that your kids cannot read and your local public school district won’t buy books or include them in the curriculum!!
November 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Additionally, they are cutting support for school libraries nationwide.
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
Does your school library have a credentialed librarian?
Is it open every day?
Do students visit every week?
Can they drop in to get a new book, or only go when their class does?
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It's in the fucking name. That it happens to so many of us that it's never just the one person who is harmed.
It's me, too.
It's me, too.
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."
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Do you want to see the best takedown of Megyn Kelly? Watch an actual 14 year old give an open message to Megyn about how horrible she is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTpjmpn/
Here’s a reminder from an actual 14 year old about what a child even IS. If adults are out here debating the “acceptable age” of abuse, then kids aren’t the ones who need to grow up. ✨sources✨ https:/...
TikTok video by eloise
www.tiktok.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Do you want to see the best takedown of Megyn Kelly? Watch an actual 14 year old give an open message to Megyn about how horrible she is. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMTpjmpn/
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our crossing guards do mission impossible and I am so thankful for all of them, but JFC the fact that we need "Guards" to simply ensure drivers don't run over school children?
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
our crossing guards do mission impossible and I am so thankful for all of them, but JFC the fact that we need "Guards" to simply ensure drivers don't run over school children?
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
This is what is so twisted about our auto obsessed culture that we don't even see how we've completely normalized this.
It super sucks. All the doctors are using them now & I really hate saying 'no, thank you' when I'm asked if it's ok for them to use assistive note-taking. I know they have a lot on their plates & I'm sure scheduling has tightened to 'allow' for the use of this new tech. But ew.
It's ok to say no.
It's ok to say no.
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It super sucks. All the doctors are using them now & I really hate saying 'no, thank you' when I'm asked if it's ok for them to use assistive note-taking. I know they have a lot on their plates & I'm sure scheduling has tightened to 'allow' for the use of this new tech. But ew.
It's ok to say no.
It's ok to say no.
By my calculations according to her Wiki article, Megyn Kelly has a daughter who's around 14/15.
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
By my calculations according to her Wiki article, Megyn Kelly has a daughter who's around 14/15.
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
I wonder how she would feel if her own daughter was subject to the attentions of a grown man.
Epstein & friends were/are child rapists. There's no weaseling that, nor excusing it 😡
Oh so *that's* why I got a 'your stars are expiring!!' email out of the blue 😹
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Oh so *that's* why I got a 'your stars are expiring!!' email out of the blue 😹
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
Suck it, Sbux. Pay your workers (and let them organize!)
Friends, don't cross those picket lines today. Make your coffee at home or try out someone else 💚
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
Ooh, but see...I just read this book 🙀
Ravi is in a cresty mood this morning! And showing off the multi-colored skin patch behind his eyes 💙🤍🧡
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ooh, but see...I just read this book 🙀