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Advocating progress on #PancreasCancer, #BRCA, support for carers. Partner survived #PDAC 8+ yrs at MSKCC. Law (JD); science, & the sea. #StandUpForScience #PancreaticCancer

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · Mar 11

The principle of Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 19h

And there were even more possibilities….lucky to have gotten 6/6.

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

In NYC, you see celebs quietly going about their lives. I remember Diane Keaton in particular, because she was just ahead of me on line to enter a cinema on 3rd Ave. Alone, gracious, kind, radiant. She did not go to the head of the line to be seated early — as many celebs do. This one smarts. RIP.

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

Show off!

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no!

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

True about the dog stories — usually involving mishaps. My dog Ernie got underfoot & tripped me twice whilst carrying fresh-out-of-the-oven pizza, & blueberry pie. They ended up on the kitchen floor & he dug right in, the little scamp. Twice in a long life (20 yrs) isn’t bad, & the stories survive!

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

So funny….was looking through Klimt art books yesterday.

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

Been there….thankfully only with gloves & shoes where ID/credit cards didn’t need replacement! But the gloves were a brand new splurge for me at the time — leather as soft as butter — the best I’d ever owned.
Hope your face has healed nicely!

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

If only your brain could take a little vacation.

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I had already eliminated what ended up being the second letter! A StupidSusanSaturday in the offing, I fear

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 2d

(Oh boy. Now I know what you’re talking about. What a shitshow)

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 2d

May I ask why you chose MRNA over PFE? I’m getting mine in a hour and it feels like eeny meeny miney mo….!

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 2d

“He feels compelled to raise alarms as loudly as he can.”

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JB Pritzker Has Had It With Democrats Who Won’t Stand Up to Trump

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 2d

I like to think of myself as data driven when it comes to these sorts of decisions. So frustrating

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 2d

Flu & covid vax day — & I’m still uncertain which mRNA to ask for. Do I wait for Novavax availability? Last year the other place was all atweet with knowledgable opinions; this year I‘m lost.

“One of those” plus the added idiocy of my 4th guess.

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 3d

Appointment for #Covid and flu #vaccines tomorrow. I had 5 (6?) Pfizers & then last year the #Novavax. Novavax is not yet available. Can anybody point me to a good scientific source for which one to choose this year? Do I wait for the Novavax or just get on with it & opt for #Moderna or #Pfizer?

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 3d

Was that only 6-7 months ago? It feels like a decade or two.….

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 3d

I got you 🙂.
And I hate autocorrect

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a daily effort to reconcile the topsy-turvy reality of J6 pardons, ICE brutality, Guard deployment, REFUSING TO SWEAR IN AN ELECTED MEMBER — and THEM calling US the insurrectionists. (How innocent to think I began using social media as a wee effort to raise PDAC symptom & funding awareness!)

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 3d

It does feel that way. I’m surpised you didn’t make the Wordlier choice.

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re headed to an airport, good luck.
Same grid again!

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 5d

Unfortunately they can and will do whatever the eff they want short term. But long term, the US Gov’t will be paying billions of $s in civil claims for the harms they have caused in violating/ignoring the law & the rule of law, including the people beaten to a pulp in immigration raids.

EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 5d

No surprise here. “Maximize pain” is what they do best. Maximizing pain is Donald J Trump’s job.

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White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 5d

Right?! Frustrating🤪

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 5d

A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote
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A Thing You Can Do Right Now To Help Protect The Right To Vote

The U.S.

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EssJay PURPLE PURPOSE @purplepurpose.bsky.social · 5d

There are 3 types of witnesses at Congressional hearings. Those who tell the truth, the gobbledygook gushers, & those who go on the attack. #PamBondi has mastered the art of the gobbledygook & the attack — all in an attempt at obfuscation, deflection, diversion. It’s actually making me sick 2 watch.