Mother Bones

Simple sabotage field mammal. Un-Tied States of America. Online for news, social justice, and too much politics. Once upon a time I was online for science, psych, tech, cooking, critters, and creative stuff.
I boost a LOT-turn off my boosts if you hate that. No terfs, ACAB, no white supremacy, no antisemitism, no Islamaphobia. *Posts disappear in 1 week!*
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Content: SJW X PoopToot
Job: Counterculture Psychologist
Relationship: Tim (npub1qkr…a8y2)
Status: Chronically Fatigued

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2026-03-14 11:23:23 UTC

#Via Mark Chadbourn / chadbourn
5:09 AM · Mar 14, 2026
"A missile has hit the US Embassy in Baghdad."

2026-01-31 15:57:28 UTC

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#Via Miles Klee /milesklee
8:49 PM · Jan 30, 2026
"Musk has been spamming crap about SpaceX and Grok all day but now every single reply to any of his posts is someone calling him a pedophile. the stage has been set for something historic"

2026-01-31 15:53:27 UTC

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#Via Alejandra Caraballo
@npub1c2e…f4vl
9:50 AM · Jan 31, 2026
"Elon is still claiming this morning he never went to Epstein parties despite emails showing him begging to attend Epstein parties on his island."
https://www.404media.co/musk-to-epstein-what-day-night-will-be-the-wildest-party-on-your-island/
https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/990/518/344/467/394/original/631fca6a8a564429.jpg

2026-01-31 15:33:13 UTC

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#Via Kanna Banana / kanna-banana
9:15 PM · Jan 30, 2026
"it suddenly makes sense why all of them are so excited for a machine that writes emails"

2026-01-30 21:56:02 UTC

Bunch of Epstein file stuff also came out today while I was working, but I haven't sifted through it at all yet, and I need to go dig out the car before full sunset. It looks like a lot of links already over here.

2026-01-22 22:39:46 UTC

God DAMMIT

2025-08-24 01:46:24 UTC

#Via John Scalzi‬
@npub1x5s…fya8
August 23, 2025, 7:31 PM
"This feels like a spot of good news."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073807.htm

2025-07-15 02:55:16 UTC

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Everything imaginable. Privatizing schools & medical. Stealing people's data for sale, analysis, extortion. Cutting every normal gov't function to the bone. Black-hole level embezzlement. Giving unnecessary massive federal contracts to billionaires to do nothing. Literally selling off federal buildings!! Adding as many middlemen as possible into every grifting thefting interaction above. Exploitation and graft. Relentless pump-n-dump securities manipulations. Selling US info to Russia.

2025-06-29 17:57:17 UTC

It looks like there is a Desi wedding today in the event space of my apartment building. The food, furnishings, and family have been arriving all day. Now it looks like guests are starting to pull up. Looks like a very multicultural event!

2025-06-29 17:05:54 UTC

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I was hearing about it in January, but it was clear Americans weren't going to pay attention until it hit our shores.
But yes, I very clearly remember Kushner STEALING supply shipments from hospitals, ventilators, PPE, among a bunch of other democidal shenanigans, aimed at "blue" states AKA anywhere "urban." 😠

2025-06-14 03:44:25 UTC

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Remember, you don't need to use CV Dazzle to subvert facial recog:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/make_up_thwart_facial_recognition/

2025-06-14 02:38:31 UTC

Not bringing a sign, only a big marker to write "s" into all the signs where someone has written "facist"

2025-06-07 13:08:58 UTC

Omg can I please have ONE morning without loud construction vehicles and combustion-engine yardwork happening within 500' of my ears? 😩

2025-06-05 20:01:19 UTC

An oligarch slapfight is entertaining, but I am SO weary.
What I really want is accountability. Legal accountability!!

2025-05-27 02:51:44 UTC

Oh, am I so GLAD to see that US Institute of Peace got their gorgeous building back from the slavering covetous nincompoops of "doge."
It looks like the ruling was last week. But they're back in the building now and have restored the USIP logo (that was immediately torn down and wrecked).

2025-05-07 01:40:36 UTC

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For God's sake bring DEI back to air travel 😰

2025-05-04 21:09:34 UTC

#Via Robert Downen
‪@robertdownen.bsky.social‬
May 4, 2025, 1:30 PM
"Pretty big news out of North Texas, the epicenter for far-right schoolboard takeovers: Yesterday, GOP in Tarrant County - a bellwether for the state - went 0-11 in the three largest towns; and seven school board candidates backed by the Christian nationalist Patriot Mobile PAC also lost."

2025-04-19 02:29:54 UTC

#Via Bruno J. Navarro / brunojnavarro
Apr 18, 2025, 10:29 AM
"A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train."
https://weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-new-america-federal-ice-agents.html?m=1

2025-04-16 02:21:52 UTC

"Multiple sources close to the tech entrepreneur said they believe the true number of Musk’s children is much higher than publicly known."
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c

2025-03-30 22:30:31 UTC

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Probably stuff like put you in solitary, starve you, torture you, cut off your commissary and any communications from loved ones, medically neglect you, have cellmates beat you up, and withold the tiniest little scraps of sanity.

2025-03-01 14:14:47 UTC

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I hope everybody's boycotting my country as best they can, are you??

2025-03-01 05:06:29 UTC

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#Via Taniel
@npub1skv…dfdf
Feb 28, 2025, 8:20 PM
"A Trump adviser said a Voice of America reporter was “treasonous.” Now the reporter has been put on leave, pending an investigation. @npub1akj…7u7q
And articles have been watered down to remove criticism of the president."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/business/voice-of-america-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0k4.1rLm.gTMqq72O5Ob2

2025-03-01 05:04:00 UTC

Did everyone see what happened to Steve @npub1akj…7u7q ?? 😧

2025-02-25 23:31:16 UTC

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"...deny visas to [trans women] during the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles – which will take place under Trump’s watch..."
The Olympic Committee needs to straight-up suspend my country from hosting.

2025-02-12 03:17:13 UTC

Via David Dayen
@npub178m…w32e
Feb 11, 2025, 9:10 PM
"Probationary employees with less than 1 year of service at CFPB have received termination notices, but they are so hastily done that they don't have people's names, job titles, or other information.
They literally say 'I am removing you from your position of [JobTitle]... effective [EffectiveDate]' "

2025-02-09 01:19:49 UTC

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For real 😩

2025-02-09 01:00:19 UTC

There's a lot of incredulity and outrage about how this administration is "governing" by destroying. But this administration does not intend to govern our country.
They want to dismantle it, strip it for parts, sell off the parts, starve and kill off everyone who is not "loyal."
Any universal supports will be redirected only to loyalists. All services limited to those who can pay.
It's still an outrage, but not at all inscrutable if we remember they do not want to govern.

2025-02-07 17:57:16 UTC

Via Marisa Kabas
@npub1cjh…ehvn
Feb 6, 2025, 10:30 PM
"The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply."

2025-02-05 13:59:00 UTC

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Via Aaron Huertas
@npub1t27…p47h
Feb 5, 2025, 8:21 AM
"Democratic officials and unions should remind federal employees: these guys are issuing illegal orders and conducting illegal activities. You can physically block them from accessing equipment. If you do so, if you are illegally fired, your representatives and your union will back you up."

2025-02-05 13:53:51 UTC

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Via Paul Cady/ paulcady
Feb 5, 2025, 8:29 AM
"It's too bad that Greyhound bus driver wasn't in charge of security."

2025-02-05 13:51:33 UTC

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Via Bruno J. Navarro
[@bruno_j_navarro](https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro )
Feb 5, 2025, 7:10 AM
" 'They apparently just sort of walked past security and said: "Get out of my way," and they’re looking for access for the IT systems, as they have in other agencies,' said a former Noaa official. 'They will have access to the entire computer system, a lot of which is confidential information.' "
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters

2025-02-05 00:20:35 UTC

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Via Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin
@npub16v7…wv22‬
Feb 4, 2025, 6:49 PM
"They are going to sell off government buildings for cash, just like other oligarchies."

2025-02-05 00:04:00 UTC

Via Daniel Nichsnian
@npub1skv…dfdf‬
Feb 4, 2025, 6:32 PM
"new reporting that Elon is instructing GSA, the agency that manages government worksites, to terminate the leases for all (!) federal offices nationwide."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26

2025-02-04 19:02:34 UTC

Oh. Sweden. 😞🇸🇪 💔

2025-02-01 15:35:22 UTC

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Literally forgot I have blood/injection/injury phobia, the ONLY phobia that makes you pass out. 🙄
I've had enough exposure that having a medical professional do blood collection of whatever amount is fine now, but...this is a new event. 🤦🏻‍♀️
Also I could do this on someone else. Just not myself.

2025-02-01 15:32:11 UTC

Trying to learn how to use this complex little blood-testing device and I didn't realize the holdup would be that *I can't poke myself with the lancet*!

2025-01-20 04:03:10 UTC

I have work to do and want a movie on in the background. But funny or escapist stuff is too jarringly far from my mood, while dystopian stuff is too on-the-nose.
Turns out the only genre I can bear right now is WWII movies.

2025-01-19 18:40:19 UTC

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Sorry it's Amazon 😔

2025-01-19 18:35:22 UTC

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Thanks, I will be doing my research on those! And now you mention it, I have super high ceilings. 🤔 (And huge windows). It's an old building.

2025-01-19 18:08:23 UTC

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I'll have a lot of potential backup communication lines at that point.
Land line (still works when power goes down, at least until the conversion to fiber is completed), fax on the landline for printed material, (as long as I can power the machine), cell phone, mobile web, wired internet. And then hopefully radio.

2025-01-19 17:47:06 UTC

Yes I did break into my small savings from the past three years and ordered...a ham radio.
I have to focus my very limited time on getting my CEUs to renew my practice license this year, but hopefully I can also squeeze in the ham license. Before things really go to shit.

2024-12-06 14:19:26 UTC

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Interesting 🤔 I never knew that, I have the '70s-child impression of police dogs!

2024-12-04 14:47:00 UTC

Via Phil Lewis
‪[@phil_lewis_](https://newsie.social/@phil_lewis_ )
Dec 4, 2024, 9:09 AM
"The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was reportedly shot and killed in Midtown
'The shooting is being investigated as a possibly targeted hit, sources said.' "
https://pix11.com/news/crime/man-critically-injured-in-midtown-shooting-nypd/

2024-11-30 14:58:40 UTC

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I know the first part is right. And as one journalist pointed out, that can easily be accelerated by people asking him daily what Musk thinks about everything he mentions 😂
The second part I pray you are right 🤞🏻

2024-11-29 19:34:05 UTC

The problem with occupying any kind of privileged social identity is you're less likely to experience the consequences of your own actions, so you don't mature. In fact, the consequences of your actions are offloaded onto others in a subordinate status.
This is how we see middle-aged asses like Musk doing impulsive, ill-conceived adolescent crap that will OBVIOUSLY get others killed and no one is stopping them.

2024-11-27 17:01:37 UTC

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It really depended where you lived. I went to 23 different schools in the '70s and '80s between kindergarten and college, because I lived a whole lot of places.
As a child we had state or county funded clinics in some areas, not in others.
Later when I was on my own I usually had to rely on Planned Parenthood for basic things like antibiotics.

2024-11-27 16:32:50 UTC

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We also didn't have "urgent care" facilities for most of that time. You either had a primary care physician, or you went to the ER. "Urgent care" was created in response to that.
Very recently medical bills were classed as not counting against your credit score, I bet that part will be stripped away again.

2024-11-27 16:29:12 UTC

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I spent most of my life pre-ACA without health insurance, or only at intermittent times based on who I was working for. I didn't have health insurance the entire time I was in grad school. I didn't have it for most of my 20s and 30s. Which meant having to go to the ER when I had asthma. And then just never being able to pay for it.

2024-11-27 16:23:25 UTC

None of this is funny to me. I'm likely to lose my health insurance, which is no joke when you're heading into your 60s. And my kid may well lose theirs, if ACA is repealed and all these 18-26 year olds are kicked off their parents' insurance.

2024-11-23 14:22:56 UTC

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Via David Burbach
‪@npub102g…0mfq
Nov 22, 2024 at 6:43 PM
"Vought has also emphasized the importance of speed and sheer shock. He claims to have a stack of EO ready to go. I halfway expect a Black Tuesday announcement over the news after noon on the 20th that all Feds are to report to a govt worksite NLT 9:00am the next day 21 Jan"

2024-11-23 01:07:20 UTC

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Via David Burbach
‪@npub102g…0mfq
11/20/24 11:15PM
"I hope fellow federal employees understand a Presidential EO banning telework is coming.
I'm serious, if your life is built around WFH assumptions for child care, transportn, etc, you need a contingency plan.
Remember the whole *point* of the telework ban is to get federal employees to quit--they openly say that!--so don't expect it to be very accomodative. We'll see how local implementation works but I suspect OMB/OPM guidance won't be pretty."

2024-11-23 01:01:04 UTC

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Via David Burbach
‪@npub102g…0mfq
Nov 20, 2024 at 11:11 PM
"It may seem like Elon and Vivek are bumbling around with DOGE but behind them Project 2025 is very real and intends to have a pile of Executive Orders and other key documents ready for Trump to issue when he takes office.
Including use of the US military to put down protests and arrest protestors."

2024-11-23 00:53:24 UTC

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Via Don Moynihan
@npub1zm2…azwy
Nov 20, 2024 at 9:17 PM‪
"Vought is a self-avowed Christian nationalist. He has pioneered the idea of using terror as a tool of governing, saying:
'I want to be the person that crushes the deep state' and
'I want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.' "
https://open.substack.com/pub/donmoynihan/p/governing-by-terror

2024-11-23 00:39:02 UTC

Via Don Moynihan
‪@npub1zm2…azwy
Nov 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
"Russ Vought has been nominated as Trump's budget chief. The Office of Management and Budget is incredibly important, and I have been tracking Vought for years, so here is a primer.
1. If you have heard the term "weaponization" of govt, you can thank Vought."
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-weaponization-of-government-trope

2024-09-13 23:04:54 UTC

In the drugstore looking at some nail polish as a little gift for my kid and WHAT. It's $10-$15 a bottle now?? 😵

2024-08-22 19:24:24 UTC

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Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted 😥
(*Okay well, at least closer to what I wanted! But I happen to know there are numerous CVSs in northwest PA 🤔)

2024-08-22 17:48:50 UTC

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No matter which browser I use, or what search terms, or how I phrase it, or even going in using UDM14, or what settings I just wasted my time by changing in the past 38 minutes, it only shows me local results.
I can zoom out and look at entire USA & there's only a little red bundle of results right around my town, unless I specify another town very specifically, & then only around that town.
I have found a lot of others complaining about this online too but no sound fixes

2024-08-22 17:34:28 UTC

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And yes I turned off "personalize results" and it still does it. And I always reject all "allow Google to use your location" at all times.

2024-08-22 17:27:31 UTC

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Not necessarily only CVS but many other things.
Anyway. It seems like most of the alternatives are simply direction maps or driving maps or topical maps, not something searchable in that way.
I am so sick of how we are now forced into this little corner to only do what a search engine WANTS us to do, which is always "go shop nearby" or "buy crap online." Period. Nothing else.
#SearchEngine #maps

2024-08-22 17:24:33 UTC

I've been trying to find an alternative to #GoogleMaps that is not just a direction-finder.
What I mean is, I am super frustrated with Google Maps because I can't make it show me things outside my local area (and I see that many others have had this same issue). This is even though I have NEVER let it "use your current location." So for example, say I want to see CVS locations in entire USA or even just in Pennsylvania.
No matter how I phrase it, it will ONLY show my locations in my county.

2024-08-20 22:41:06 UTC

Oh FFS.
Our COPIERS should be able to work without consulting the internet for permission. Our CARS should be able to drive without calling home on the internet.
These should be press a button / turn a key and it goes. Devices are becoming (more) monstrous.

2024-07-10 01:56:44 UTC

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See, I like black licorice too. Even the salted kind. It's ridiculous! :blobcatgooglyshrug:

2024-07-10 01:50:36 UTC

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Oh I'm sure it still is, I just happen to like both Vegemite and Marmite, against all human decency! 😂

2024-07-10 01:49:16 UTC

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Same with my Kiwi pals wayyy back in the day. The Pav-low-ver! 😄 (Okay, also the Vegemite.)