Lauren al-Ghaib
@whimsikal.bsky.social
Dissociating. Sci-fi & reality tv. 40+. 1922 🐩. Substack: Pink Parlance
Pretty sure it’s me except I’m pretty good at picking up social cues,actually extra sensitive. It’s an important survival tactic as a Black woman.
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Pretty sure it’s me except I’m pretty good at picking up social cues,actually extra sensitive. It’s an important survival tactic as a Black woman.
The seniors are up texting the holiday gifs
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The seniors are up texting the holiday gifs
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*unracistly!
If they built cities correctly we wouldn’t even need cars😩
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
*unracistly!
Some of the musicians that were ‘up and coming’ a decade ago never seem to have…came. I wonder what they do now.
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Some of the musicians that were ‘up and coming’ a decade ago never seem to have…came. I wonder what they do now.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
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I love that we have the Ballad of Elon and Meet Me Temecula as legit holiday traditions on the TL.
It’s like watching Die Hard, it never gets old and ya appreciate something else about it every time.
It’s like watching Die Hard, it never gets old and ya appreciate something else about it every time.
The way that Thanksgiving story opened the floodgates and that man had to delete his account
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I love that we have the Ballad of Elon and Meet Me Temecula as legit holiday traditions on the TL.
It’s like watching Die Hard, it never gets old and ya appreciate something else about it every time.
It’s like watching Die Hard, it never gets old and ya appreciate something else about it every time.
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What’s on his shirt?!
Ray J Claims He Had Sex With 10,000 People, Throws Party to Celebrate
Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/alex...
Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/alex...
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
What’s on his shirt?!
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Ray J is the Charlie Sheen for Black people.
Ray J Claims He Had Sex With 10,000 People, Throws Party to Celebrate
Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/alex...
Read more: www.complex.com/music/a/alex...
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Ray J is the Charlie Sheen for Black people.
I’m actually surprised but not too much. This is what deep structural racism looks like.
🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups
This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...
jamanetwork.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I’m actually surprised but not too much. This is what deep structural racism looks like.
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🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Payments to Physician Practices and Incentives to Serve Different Racial and Ethnic Groups
This study measures disparities across patient racial and ethnic groups in per-visit payment to physician practices from health insurers and other sources, adjusted for visit content, geographic marke...
jamanetwork.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services.
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients?
In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7)
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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My heart is with DC and our Afghan neighbors tonight
Stay safe friends
Stay safe friends
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 AM
My heart is with DC and our Afghan neighbors tonight
Stay safe friends
Stay safe friends
All Native fire crew 🗣️🗣️🗣️
In a fire station tucked just blocks from downtown Minneapolis, a crew of four is reshaping a narrative that predates them by generations: Who gets to be the one answering the call?
Minneapolis’ first all-Native American fire crew is redefining what public safety looks like
In a fire station tucked just blocks from downtown Minneapolis, a crew of four is reshaping a narrative that predates them by generations: Who gets to be the one answering the call?
www.mprnews.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:44 AM
All Native fire crew 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Bounce section in a Fred Hammond song >>>
a man is standing in front of a couch wearing a hat and a black sweater with a picture of a man on it
ALT: a man is standing in front of a couch wearing a hat and a black sweater with a picture of a man on it
media.tenor.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Bounce section in a Fred Hammond song >>>
when you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
when you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health
Fuck
every day a new heartbreak
long live Ben Shahn
long live Ben Shahn
Historic murals inside a D.C. federal building may face an uncertain future
NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to art historian Mary Okin about the significance and uncertain future of the historic murals painted inside the Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building in Washington, D.C.
www.npr.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Fuck
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I did give Taylor this advice. Please support her invaluable work, even if she's giving it all away for free. This is the public broadcasting model where you're still morally obligated to chip in.
i really have not wanted to make a patreon because i feel weird about it all and don't want to use it to like offer anything exclusive there but @wedge.live says i can just make it and forget it so
www.patreon.com/cw/TaylorDah...
www.patreon.com/cw/TaylorDah...
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I did give Taylor this advice. Please support her invaluable work, even if she's giving it all away for free. This is the public broadcasting model where you're still morally obligated to chip in.
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I’ve been noticing more and more media outlets simply referring to people who use they/them pronouns with…they/them pronouns, rather than prefacing their pronouns with an explanatory remark (“Kai, who uses they/them pronouns, said…”)
Yes to normalizing this pronoun use.
Yes to normalizing this pronoun use.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’ve been noticing more and more media outlets simply referring to people who use they/them pronouns with…they/them pronouns, rather than prefacing their pronouns with an explanatory remark (“Kai, who uses they/them pronouns, said…”)
Yes to normalizing this pronoun use.
Yes to normalizing this pronoun use.
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People kill me with "We don't call people liars"
Like, who exactly does that serve?
I'on know.
Liars?!
Like, who exactly does that serve?
I'on know.
Liars?!
a man wearing a hat and a necklace with the word duh on it
ALT: a man wearing a hat and a necklace with the word duh on it
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
People kill me with "We don't call people liars"
Like, who exactly does that serve?
I'on know.
Liars?!
Like, who exactly does that serve?
I'on know.
Liars?!
Are we ever getting that Marvin Gaye biopic?! Did I miss it?!
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Are we ever getting that Marvin Gaye biopic?! Did I miss it?!
African genetics pop out like
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
African genetics pop out like
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If you just wait… time and metabolism will give you a BBW
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you just wait… time and metabolism will give you a BBW
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“In Selma and San Juan.
Mozambique, Mississippi.
In Brazil and in Boston,
We carried it on.”
Assata Shakur
Mozambique, Mississippi.
In Brazil and in Boston,
We carried it on.”
Assata Shakur
“The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.
They lynch me now in Texas.”
- Langston Hughes, Negro (1924), lines 15-16
They lynch me now in Texas.”
- Langston Hughes, Negro (1924), lines 15-16
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“In Selma and San Juan.
Mozambique, Mississippi.
In Brazil and in Boston,
We carried it on.”
Assata Shakur
Mozambique, Mississippi.
In Brazil and in Boston,
We carried it on.”
Assata Shakur
Heavy D
Donald Glover.
Jamie Foxx.
John Singleton.
Cory Broadus.
Kid Cudi.
Sinbad.
We have to talk about blood clots and hypertension, stress and how it weathers us from the inside out, and how we push our bodies to their limits under capitalism despite the facts that we are not machines.
#BlackSky
Jamie Foxx.
John Singleton.
Cory Broadus.
Kid Cudi.
Sinbad.
We have to talk about blood clots and hypertension, stress and how it weathers us from the inside out, and how we push our bodies to their limits under capitalism despite the facts that we are not machines.
#BlackSky
November 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Heavy D