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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · Nov 13

pinned posts are kinda new and I haven't yet found the spoons to write an <about me> post so for now, a quick guide for new arrivals wrt getting follow backs & engagement:

welcome! great to see you here 🥰

✅ include a profile pic even if it's just something fun like mine

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 14h

hth!

diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 15h

autism, adhd and ocd are arguably the most well-known types, however 'neurodivergent' itself is a (neutral) umbrella term for neurological functioning that is different to what's considered 'neurotypical'
some neurodivergence is innate (e.g. autism, adhd) but it can also be acquired (e.g. ptsd, tbi)

NEURODIVERGENT UMBRELLA
ADHD
BIPOLAR
DID & OSDD
ASPD
AUTISM
EPILEPSY
BPD
NPD
GAD
OCD
CPTSD
ABI/TBI
DYSLEXIA
TIC DISORDERS
HSP
DYSPRAXIA
SCHIZOPHRENIA
SENSORY PROCESSING
MISOPHONIA
HPD
DYSCALCULIA
PTSD
DOWN SYNDROME
DYSGRAPHIA
FASD
SYNESTHESIA
*NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST
www.vedexperienceeducator.com
livedexperienceeducator

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 23h

Cool? No.
Normal? Yep.

MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 23h

“The National Press Club of Australia lists 81 corporate sponsors on its website. Of those, ten are multinational weapons manufacturers or military services corporations, & another eleven provide services to the arms industry”. All cool & normal? #journalism #media michaelwest.com.au/weaponising-...

Weaponising media. National Press Club and its arms industry sponsors - Michael West

More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf.

michaelwest.com.au

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 16h

lol pleased to know I'm not the only one who feels compelled to do this 😁

diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · Jul 31

awh, loving these l'il guys 🖤
kinda expected to hear bat chirps and squeaks but as there wasn't any audio* my brain automatically added a soundtrack and I am therefore duty bound to share this haha

* I acknowledge that there may well have been audio but at a frequency beyond my puny human ears lmao

diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 17h

that's really helpful, tysm 🙏

diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 18h

'prude-splaining' is a new one to me!
however the OP isn't prudish: she was well-known for tweeting that she fingered a cadaver as part of her anatomy research, and openly discusses her own botched labiaplasty. trauma aside, her comments were transphobic so maybe 'terf-splaining' or 'cis-splaining'?

Jessica Pin @MediClit
Replying to @yourenotawoman
G spot is not a medical or anatomical term. It's just a name for perceived sensation, so no one can decide what it is.
I tried to finger one of our cadavers when no one was looking to figure out if it could be the clitoral body.

00:33 19/03/2021 Twitter for iPhone
Jessica Pin @MediClit
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With the first cadaver, I tried to stick my fingers in her vagina in order to assess relative location of clitoral body, but then it got too awk bc my dad was there, so I did not try again.
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Shirty 🍁 @whogivesashirt.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine telling someone in the 1970s that the NYT and WaPo are bending the knee to fascists while Glamour and Teen Vogue are the journalistic champions of human rights and democracy.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you’re all proud of yourselves, you have disgracefully sullied the good name of the renowned and respected Glamour Magazine Women Of The Year Award

Piers Morgan ®
@piersmorgan • 12h
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Nine biological men being declared 'Women of the Year' by Glamour magazine is beyond parody even by ludicrous woke virtue-signalling standards... and, I suspect, the beginning of the end for Glamour magazine.

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

<whatever the actual fuck trump might build looking better than an actual big pile of rubble> challenge...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

www.houstonchronicle.com

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

hah! notwithstanding I love discovering obscure words, so I'm happy 😁

diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

yes please! 🙏

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 3d

Someone asked me the other day*:

How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?

The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

related point: this isn't just a "US problem"

NIH cuts will also negatively impact health outcomes for those of us living outside of the US, especially people like myself who have chronic illnesses that are poorly understood and lack any effective treatments

NIH research benefits people worldwide!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

oh, are MAGAs of European descent getting all high and mighty about human sacrifice again?

did you know the ancient Gallic people of France once built racks for the bones of their defeated enemies that look a helluva lot like what the Mexica used to do

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Ribemont-sur-Ancre warrior bone drying structure

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

#GothBird, so yeah basically my favourite species 😁

diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

stealing that meme, ty!

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Betsy Hodges @betsyhodges.bsky.social · 2d

When I was mayor of Mpls, I was on the leading edge of something people didn’t want to name — a new wave of harassment toward women in public office.

New research shows women mayors face far more harassment and threats than men.

@politico story 👇
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Survey shows sharp gender gap in political harassment

Female mayors face higher rates of politically motivated violence and harassment, a new poll finds.

www.politico.com

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 1d

40 million users on halloween [takes a long drag on a cigarette] no way one of them isn’t a dracula

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diamond @diamondqc.bsky.social · 1d

I giggled, then immediately realised ummm I don't actually know what "internection" means 🫠
TIL!

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 3d

No media about this?

NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences

The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas

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4585 - Police and Counter-terrorism - INCIDENTS INVESTIGATED UNDER STRIKE FORCE PEARL

Latham, Mark to the Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Regional New South Wales, and Minister for Western New South Wales representing the Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism, and Minister for the Hunter
(1) I refer you to the answer provided to the recent Budget Estimates, on notice, by the acting Police Commissioner Peter Thurtell regarding serious attacks on people and property motivated by antisemitic ideology, such that, "Fourteen incidents were investigated under Strike Force Pearl which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffitti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses", and ask:
(a)
(b)
of these 14, how many were investigations of incidents that did not lead to any charges being laid? of the remaining (where charges were laid), how many were perpetrated by:

Iran or agents of the Iranian regime? other foreign agents?
people associated with and paid by organised crime figures?
(c)
Of those not covered by (a) and (b) (that is, were a product of genuine homegrown anti-semitic ideology), what was the nature of the incident and what criminal proceedings have been pursued by the NSW Police Force?
Answer -
I am advised that:
(1)
(a) All 14 incidents have resulted in charges being laid.
(b)
(i)
(ii)
Strike Force Pearl investigated 14 incidents which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses. The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to Iran or agents of the Iranian regime perpetrating these incidents.
Strike Force Pearl investigated 14 incidents which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses. The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to foreign agents perpetrating these incidents.

Answer received on 23 October 2025

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2d

ObPeriodicReminder: If you were born before 1982 and don't have conclusive, *documented* proof of getting 2 doses of MMR, get another dose unless it's counterindicated. The second dose wasn't added to the schedule until later and a lot of us never got the catchup dose.

Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely begging you to re-up your MMR & get your kids vaccinated if you can. Between this & Kennedy talking about breaking it up into separate vaccines thus providing opportunities for missed inoculations &, thus, increased infections, public health policy is not looking great, for the foreseeable

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

South Carolina schools recently sent home unvaccinated kids to stem a growing measles outbreak. It turned out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly spread it to their classmates for days.

That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

one of my favorite things about the twitter/bsky feud is when somebody runs back to twitter with screenshots of somebody posting cringe on here like "this is why I hate bluesky 🙄" and the guy posting cringe was today's main character and we all dogged on him so hard he deleted his account

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 2d

On our #LongCovid clinical trial launched today!
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/30/w... @julialmv.bsky.social @scripps.edu

We need more at-home clinical trials for Long COVID. Here’s how we designed the largest one yet. - The Sick Times

We are now recruiting for the Long COVID Treatment Trial-Tirzepatide (LoCITT-T), which participants can complete entirely from bed.

thesicktimes.org

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