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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂

@violetvolume.bsky.social

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Pittsburgh. she/her. we gladly feast on those who would subdue us. it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you follow me and I go to your profile and the only thing you post about is politics I probably won't follow you back. No offense intended, I just can't stomach a constant firehose of that kind of content.

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 17h

There is a very plausible theory that it was being exposed to lead as children that led to the peak serial killer era of the '70s-'80s.

I can't help but think about which kind of podcasts & influencers have made a career of peddling protein powder & supplements to men, & which kind of men listen.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 11h

so maybe you're a little stoned and you have your headphones on and you start drifting off and the next thing you hear is someone screaming THIS PLANE IS DEFINITELY CRASHING in your ears. that will wake you up music.apple.com/us/album/shi...

Shit Luck by Modest Mouse on Apple Music

Song · 1997 · Duration 2:22

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 33m

But we're supposed to see the video-game-boss-level kitted out federal mooks and not get scared. Because fear makes you guilty.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 16h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 34m

Been there. Ugh.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18h

"That’s the part of this video that remains so provocative. Not the suggestion of nudity, or even that there’s sex happening offscreen: the fact that it was designed for women."

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Why D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled’ Video Is Still Uniquely Provocative, Nearly Two Decades Later

The video for Dâ€™Angeloâ€™s â€œUntitled (How Does It Feel)â€ is famously simple: a man, nude as far as the edge of the frame sitting low on his hips, singing so passionately it seems like his inspir...

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Tim 🏒 🎃 @tim.ink · 17h

Animators from 90s: you know what rhymes with drama? Trauma. Kids love that shit.

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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 20h

The pivot from “I’m building god” to “I’m building a jerkoff tool” is pretty funny

Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December reut.rs/3J8NTAi

OpenAI to allow mature content on ChatGPT for adult verified users starting December

OpenAI will allow mature content for ChatGPT users who verify their age on the platform starting in December, CEO Sam Altman said, after the chatbot was made restrictive for users in mental distress.

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deadshock @debbshock.blue · 18h

dressing for the job I want

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 19h

oh yeah I mean let me win several million dollars first if we're granting wishes

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 19h

someone offer me a job where it's more money than I thought, more hybrid than I thought, and where I don't have to start until at least November 1st, preferably December 1st 😂

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 23h

Well that'll be fun

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

also write! write in the books you own! make marginalia! highlight! it's your book! do whatever you want!

🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

Two weeks! That's a long time to have a houseguest.

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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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🍂ruth bader yinzburgh🍂 @violetvolume.bsky.social · 1d

I'm here for it.

Ariel just telling him off to his face on his first episode of his comeback podcast was pretty embarrassing but I'm not sure he even knows it