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@defnotadino.bsky.social

your favorite neighborhood gem, leftist shrew and overall nightmare. hand-holder in your final moments. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

created June 13, 2023

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Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

100/65 🤘

4/9/2025, 4:07:09 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I actually take mine pretty regularly. Hypertension is the family curse but I stay in the 110s/60s *knocks on wood, crosses self*

4/9/2025, 3:17:07 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Well, this is actually how I meet a lot of my patients šŸ˜…

4/9/2025, 3:15:53 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

A Withering Heights movie with Margot Robbie and Jacob …Elordi (?right?)? Say less šŸ’ø

4/9/2025, 3:14:24 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

*sighs and goes and gets blood pressure cuff*

4/9/2025, 3:06:31 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

šŸ˜‘

4/9/2025, 3:05:44 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck that deflated football of a man. Hate his ass

4/9/2025, 3:03:34 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

You’re going to feel amazing.

4/9/2025, 3:02:37 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

uh

4/9/2025, 3:01:26 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Hopefully I’m hearing zebras when it’s just horses.

4/9/2025, 2:58:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

My face watching this 😲

4/9/2025, 2:58:11 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I have 3 bags in my pantry.

4/9/2025, 1:41:33 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Me too, never hoped I was wrong so much.

4/9/2025, 1:28:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Rae this is from two days ago

4/9/2025, 12:51:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

This is my oldest’s hair, he has the most perfect natural highlights I’ve ever seen. I have paid hundreds of dollars to try to mimic this and he just goes outside and gets this.

A photo of a blonde head. The hair ranges from from medium blonde to platinum, highlighted by the sun. It’s the perfect blonde.
3/9/2025, 10:57:02 PM | 19 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s like cartoonishly evil. If you write it into a story an editor would be like no, that’s TOO evil, no one’s going to believe that

3/9/2025, 9:29:06 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

does he think that Pritzker is somehow unaware that he’s a fat guy? come up with something clever or stfu

3/9/2025, 9:26:23 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Genuinely one of the most shocking things I’ve ever read.

3/9/2025, 9:23:20 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s so abysmal that it beggars belief.

3/9/2025, 9:12:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

issue all you want but I like politicians who fight, not politicians who capitulate to shiny right wing talking points

3/9/2025, 9:11:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Newsom throws trans people under the bus and sits down for fascist podcasts. He’s been a scourge on the unhoused. He’s an empty suit who allows the other side to set the conversation and responds but people have become fooled by thinking his trolling somehow makes up for how awful he is. So, take

3/9/2025, 9:11:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

RIGHT OH MY GOD

3/9/2025, 9:08:34 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m no longer easily shocked but my face was literally this the whole article 😨

3/9/2025, 9:08:17 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

RIGHT?? My god.

3/9/2025, 9:07:01 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly I forget that people actually believe in original sin.

3/9/2025, 7:59:56 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m speechless. What an evil, horrible, cruel person.

3/9/2025, 7:57:55 PM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK. Cindy Bi is a fucking evil, insane person. This is one of the most vile things I’ve EVER READ

3/9/2025, 7:57:00 PM | 25 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

why is this balloon-faced jigsaw looking trout talking about CHILDREN being evil

3/9/2025, 7:12:30 PM | 23 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

Awooooo (happy siren testing day)

3/9/2025, 6:02:48 PM | 62 9 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

why doesn’t this article cover why he looks like he ran full speed into a brick wall with his face

3/9/2025, 5:32:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

i love that they had to have him standing sideways to prevent everyone from finding out how he’s one of the craziest looking guys ever

3/9/2025, 3:40:22 PM | 2798 149 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Adam Conover (@adamconover.net) reposted

Just 6 years ago anti-vaxxers were a laughable fringe group. Now their victory is so total they're setting government policy. This is like if schools started teaching Flat Earth. A complete failure of education and science comms. Kids will die because we couldn't convince their parents of the truth.

3/9/2025, 5:13:44 PM | 1192 400 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how a lot of our patients come to us in hospice, and I’m always so sad when they get grifted in alternative medicine. Happens a lot.

3/9/2025, 5:16:38 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

I think this is an important thing to educate families about when they choose not to vaccinate. The treatment for both is supportive care, which means we’ll keep your symptoms at bay as much as possible but that’s…pretty much it.

3/9/2025, 4:49:08 PM | 31 8 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Faine Greenwood (@faineg.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

"The care robots themselves required care: they had to be moved around, maintained, cleaned, booted up, operated, repeatedly explained to residents... Indeed, a growing body of evidence from other studies is finding that robots tend to end up creating more work for caregivers.":

3/9/2025, 2:29:06 PM | 136 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I do. It’s so close.

3/9/2025, 4:44:09 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rudy Meyer (@rudyfunkmeyer.bsky.social) reposted

Protestors gathered near Annunciation Catholic School amid JD Vance’s visit to Minneapolis.

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3/9/2025, 4:32:56 PM | 62 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

protection. If the answer is no, you should get the vaccine so you don’t get the disease. Delaying vaccines only increase the likelihood that a child will contract and SPREAD the highly infectious diseases for which we vaccinate.

3/9/2025, 4:32:36 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

A good way to think about this is, would getting the disease be better than getting more than one vaccine at a time? If the answer is yes (if you’re a brain-worm addled grifter), you should get the vaccine instead because it exposes your immune system to a safer version of the disease to provide

3/9/2025, 4:32:36 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

What if my grandma had had wings and could fly. What if it rained cookies

3/9/2025, 4:28:26 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

a wild assertion that would be pretty obviously borne out in the DECADES of data we have; of course, we know that the existing schedule is extremely efficacious based on infectious disease tracking. also did you know that kids hate shots and combining them means fewer days you’re getting shots

3/9/2025, 3:56:16 PM | 34 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tom Wallach (@mdwallach.bsky.social) reposted

Just gonna note this has been studied, provided no benefit to immunity or outcomes, and is clearly linked with more medical trauma around vaccines.

3/9/2025, 3:06:02 PM | 70 19 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dr. Katharine Dickson (@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social) reposted

Every time I hear about the ā€œmale loneliness epidemicā€ or ā€œcrisis of masculinityā€ or whatever I feel the feminine scientific urge to drop the words ā€œthis is sexual selectionā€ into the chat

3/9/2025, 2:38:24 PM | 122 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

ā€œWhat’s it like having a hound?ā€ well-

3/9/2025, 2:59:36 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture cait (and adonis) (@cait.bsky.social) reposted

"oh, so you're saying--" no. i'm saying the thing i said, not the thing you made up. go back and read the thing i said

27/12/2024, 2:31:30 PM | 3610 569 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dan Yocum. Ugh. (@yocum137.bsky.social) reposted

50 million indigenous Native Americans would disagree. That’s the generally accepted number of people who lived here prior to 1492.

3/9/2025, 2:01:43 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing! Also sungolds are my current obsession.

3/9/2025, 1:22:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture June Martin (@theworldsgreatestwriter.com) reposted

I'm sorry to report that Laura Loomer has gotten her head stuck in a honey jar with, honestly, a pretty wide opening

3/9/2025, 2:22:54 AM | 153 18 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Ew!!!

3/9/2025, 12:33:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/9/2025, 4:08:53 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

The forecast for the next week. I’ll list the days, then highs/lows. Tuesday 75/55 Wednesday 63/43 Thursday 61/46 Friday 59/44 Saturday 63/43 Sunday 66/46
3/9/2025, 4:08:53 AM | 18 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Health Nerd (@gidmk.bsky.social) reposted

I find all of this longevity stuff wild. There are a small handful of things that you can do to extend your life. Mostly, it comes down to eating well, exercising regularly, not drinking alcohol, and not smoking. The rest is empty promises based on awful and sometimes fraudulent research.

3/9/2025, 4:02:09 AM | 110 23 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Lol I obviously missed the Scots part of Scots-Irish. But my broader point stands, it’s just all made up. And they seem to constantly rewrite history.

3/9/2025, 3:47:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

here. Once you’re in, you’re IN. But they’ll turn on you in a hot second to save themselves. I’m a perfect example! I’m white and have literally been called a slur when others found out I’m half Peruvian.

3/9/2025, 2:33:38 AM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

jesus their own examples aren’t even right, how’d it go for the Irish at first?? dumb fucks. Italians are continental Europeans, were they always part of this group? No, because race is made up and white supremacy is so pervasive it bleeds into every demographic

3/9/2025, 2:33:38 AM | 24 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

ā€œKeep a journalā€ I DO. It doesn’t count unless someone else also has to suffer through my worst thoughts and impulses.

3/9/2025, 1:48:05 AM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Two things. Also feeding my own ego with how clever I am.

3/9/2025, 1:43:35 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

real posters know that posting is for one thing only: staving off the brain worms

3/9/2025, 1:43:16 AM | 23 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Right. Real posters know why we post (no choice posters gotta post)

3/9/2025, 1:33:46 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I feel this was way more common than most people admit.

3/9/2025, 12:09:27 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Like this is kinda giving civil war, no?

3/9/2025, 12:08:34 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh okay thank you - I assumed as much and was wondering about how this works with state sovereignty???

3/9/2025, 12:07:10 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg you did??

3/9/2025, 12:06:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

hm I wonder if anything else is different in France vs the U.S.

2/9/2025, 11:16:09 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I mean genocide is kind of a big deal. Also I can hold more than one thought in my brain but then I’m built different

2/9/2025, 10:13:46 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

IANAL. How can one state send guardsmen to ā€œmanageā€ another state? Like if TX natl guard really is deployed to Chicago?

2/9/2025, 10:10:52 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Doordash Rendar (@cambrianera.radical.town) reposted reply parent

I understand that it's a joke but there are serious consequences for saying that the presidents peener is shaped like a spatula. It seems harmless but this is how conspiracy theories start! Like the theory that his winky is weird and flat like a masonry trowel.

2/9/2025, 9:48:25 PM | 7 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) reposted

If it’s under Title 32 authority, the Texas guard remains under state control. That would mean that one state is deploying armed forces into the territory of a non-consenting state. And that’d clearly be a violation of the principle that states are co-equal, territorially limited sovereigns.

2/9/2025, 9:50:11 PM | 4181 1335 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

2/9/2025, 8:20:30 PM | 30763 8012 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

So you’re in favor of your city being occupied by hostile forces?

2/9/2025, 10:05:04 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85.bsky.social) reposted

Idk man, i kinda think the next Dem president needs to absolutely break the Republican governments of Texas and Florida in particular bc this shit shoulsnt be viewed as anything other than a hostile act against Dem states from the Republican governors of those states that cannot go unanswered

2/9/2025, 8:39:40 PM | 328 79 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

In Chicago.

2/9/2025, 10:02:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Just read that Pritzker thinks the TX natl guard is already at the naval base there ready to deploy.

2/9/2025, 10:02:21 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Heather Cherone (@heathercherone.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Pritzker: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."

2/9/2025, 8:15:18 PM | 2294 466 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

this is so fucked up.

2/9/2025, 10:00:11 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) reposted

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

2/9/2025, 8:19:15 PM | 12807 3621 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Ugh.

2/9/2025, 9:25:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing.

2/9/2025, 9:10:13 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!

2/9/2025, 8:28:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

Interested to see what happens in Chicago. Newsom is a troll, all hair and teeth and nothing substantive. Pritzker is a bulldog.

2/9/2025, 8:27:44 PM | 37 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."

2/9/2025, 8:15:50 PM | 3217 1003 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mayor Howard Vander (@mayor.bsky.social) reposted

i remember watching a bunch of episodes of Intervention and like every other dude got hooked on oxy after being injured in an ATV rollover, hence why I'm not into either opiates or all terrain vehicles

2/9/2025, 8:25:08 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Good god!! That has to be incredibly rare.

2/9/2025, 8:25:02 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) reposted

Pritzker on Trump's plan for Chicago: "Unidentifiable agents in unmarked vehicles with masks are planning to raid Latino communities and say they're targeting violent criminals."

2/9/2025, 8:13:47 PM | 2665 796 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg but you look so fresh and amazing!!!

2/9/2025, 8:19:53 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Childbearing is physically dangerous & painful for women; childrearing is an exhausting, degraded, isolating, and impoverishing endeavor that annihilates women’s other opportunities & goals. When women are free, they choose fewer children. There is no way to make them have more that is not violent.

2/9/2025, 4:33:57 PM | 1078 191 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Moira Donegan (@moiradonegan.bsky.social) reposted

The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.

2/9/2025, 4:30:37 PM | 2297 329 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

posters gotta Poast!!!

2/9/2025, 8:17:18 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dex Anderson (@dexanderson.com) reposted

is crime actually up or are you just seeing more of the kind of people you think don't belong in your spaces and you just assume it means crime is up

2/9/2025, 8:10:26 PM | 372 75 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Here’s a photo of it for those who are curious. I have outlined the margins with a sharpie to keep an eye on it. It’s hard to tell in the picture, but it’s palpable for about 2-3 cm past the visible bump.

A photo of my dog Jasper, from above (dorsal?) and very zoomed in to just posterior to his collar. His fur is shaved around a raised bump, which ranges from pink to black in pigmentation. There is a small amount of exudate coming from the posterior end of the wound. You can also see his soft tan undercoat and some of his rough black waterproof coat. His thick teal collar is just above the wound.
2/9/2025, 8:01:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I’m not a vet or vet tech, but I do see a lot of cutaneous malignancies. We won’t know for sure til the 24th, but I wanted to share because…idk. It feels less scary when you share.

2/9/2025, 7:54:01 PM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social)

I’m actually not one to catastrophize, shockingly. I’m very grounded and realistic. I’m prefacing with that because I’m very concerned that Jasper’s wound is actually a high grade mast cell tumor, which has a poor prognosis (we have always agreed we would not put a dog through chemo).

2/9/2025, 7:54:01 PM | 14 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Omg I love him. He looks like a muppet

2/9/2025, 7:42:58 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

this is so funny 😭

2/9/2025, 7:01:56 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jorvorskie Layne's (@jorvorskielaynes.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

I think the president's new green ribbon is rather fetching

2/9/2025, 6:51:33 PM | 220 17 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

This is so interesting!

2/9/2025, 7:00:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Mmm yes I love that he loves them but also, can I have one

2/9/2025, 6:55:24 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!! I stared at them for a long time too, so pretty.

2/9/2025, 6:54:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

Thank you!

2/9/2025, 6:54:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture gem (@defnotadino.bsky.social) reply parent

I would love to eat them, however my oldest kid literally sneaks outside and picks and eats all the cherry tomatoes on a daily basis. I only got these because we were gone for a week. 🄓

2/9/2025, 6:33:46 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view