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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 8h

He was large, filled with blood, put me in a lot of pain, kept coming back but was ultimately benign… it kind of made me wonder… was Big my corpus luteum cyst?

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 8h

Now I have pain meds and a strict bed rest order so the SATC updates will be coming in fast and furious

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 8h

So late Monday night I went to the ER with sudden horrible abdominal pain, which turned into nausea… they put me on morphine (a first) and I got a CT scan while on morphine (also a first!) and turns out I had a ruptured ovarian cyst! Just like Miley Cyrus

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 23h

ladies i SCREAMED!

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 23h

Ok thank GOD they broke up but damn — Carrie really is the kind of girl who finally decides to confess she’s been cheating to her boyfriend and have a big messy emotional breakup on her friend’s LITERAL WEDDING DAY

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 23h

S3E12. I have to assume the music on this emotional wood shop scene is Aiden’s Official Theme in the SATC original score — porno music for Ewoks

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 1d

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 29d

bumping this map every time i see a bad rural take on here

@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · Sep 14

Endorsed by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural America is many places and many kinds of people. The @brookings.edu report linked below contains a good review of the racial/ethnic makeup of rural.
#PowerOfRuralCats
www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

A map of the US. Counties with large minoritized populations are shown Black populations are largely in the South, Latino in the West, AI/AN in Alaska and the upper Midwest, and Asian in Hawaii.

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 1d

I think it should go without saying that I fucking hate Aiden and he needs to go away ASAP so my girl can get back to an actual man…. The Marlboro Man

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

have been thinking of rewatching THE FIRST PURGE in light of the federal paramilitaries trying to instigate violence and provoke a reaction from americans

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 3d

Among other things one of the most arresting end credits sequences I’ve seen in a long time

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 3d

NO OTHER CHOICE. Bro

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 7d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 8d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 8d

I tell you things are so bad and hopeless right now but I simply can’t get enough of reading other peoples jokes about Taylor swift on the internet

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 8d

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

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Katie @katesofheaven.bsky.social · 8d

conservatives like to cite the 99% conviction rate japan has as proof that america is too woke on criminality, but the united states would also have a conviction rate above 99% if it were measured like japan's.

no, the issue is a broader need to leave behind those we deem too unfortunate to save

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 8d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 8d

IOWA CITY ~ I'm going to be hosting this allegedly whiskey-soaked evening of filmmaking war stories this Friday as part of the Refocus Film Festival ... stop by! 🤠 tickets.icfilmscene.org/websales/pag...

tickets.icfilmscene.org

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Caroline Framke @carolineframke.bsky.social · 9d

In my bid to rejoin the offline world, I've been teaching myself how to run, and it's been.....great?? Wild! To that end, I'm running a 5k this weekend, and am so close to hitting the goal if any of you would be so kind as to help this worthy cause: getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

UNRWA fundraiser for outreach in Gaza: currently $1,125 out of my $1500 goal raised

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 11d

"Now that Lana Del Rey, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan have had number one songs about being sexy, wearing no clothes, fucking..."

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like we're about 3 days out from Taylor Swift dropping a white-on-white Question For The Culture

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 13d

On balance I am Taylor agnostic — I find her to be objectively talented and insufferable with at least two Great Albums under her belt — but yesterday I was getting my nails done and they played both “Welcome to New York” and “ME!” In the 2 hours I was in the chair and I had to rethink everything

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 13d

Horrifying

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 13d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 13d

The sound of the saxophones coming in on Dirty Work is one of my favorite sounds/moments in music, and it also always gave me a real “PTA type of feeling” which I guess means something you drive and cry to in the valley at magic hour, anyway when that song hit in OBAA I gasped

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Emily Yoshida @emilyyoshida.bsky.social · 14d

It’s my last night of my 30s what should I do

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